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A genre of survivance: narrative criticism of boarding school stories
(2020-05-08)
Using narrative rhetorical analysis, this thesis examines two popular American Indian autobiographies to analyze the rhetorical impact. By applying Frye's genre theory, I argue that American Indians surpass genre conventions ...
Comanche Food Attitudes
(2019-05-10)
Food has always been important to societies and cultures from everyday life and over generations. Yet, very few societies still eat the same way that they did 500 years ago. Today, indigenous people are challenged by settler ...
American Indian Access to Health Care Services in Oklahoma Post Affordable Care Act
(2016-12)
The American Indian health system is difficult to navigate. American Indians have historically had a high rate of being in poverty, being uninsured, and poor access to care. Oklahomans overall also have a high uninsured ...
IRO TŲWAHI WISAHMA NĄHA: THE SEVENTH GENERATION, UNDERSTANDING JIWERE LANGUAGE STATUS AND RECLAMATION THROUGH COMMUNITY INPUT
(2019-12)
Although several scholars have focused their work on Jiwere (Otoe) and related dialects of Chiwere, no published descriptions have come directly from members of the speech community themselves. This lack of self-determination ...
Decolonizing the Indigenous Language Classroom: A Heteroglossia of Ideological Shift in Indigenous Language Revitalization
(2017-05)
This thesis examines the language ideologies of three Native American language instructors at the University of Oklahoma, looking specifically at the way these ideologies are seen in their pedagogical methodologies. This ...
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TRIBAL GAMING ON NON-NATIVE COMMUNITIES IN OKLAHOMA USING L.O.S.T. DATA
(2017-05-12)
Econometric analysis of tribal gaming on non-Native communities in Oklahoma. The study utilizes Local Option Sales Tax data as the outcome variable in a difference-in-difference model to analyze gaming impacts. Ten case ...
“The modern frontier”: Oklahoma settler memory in the mid-twentieth century
(2023-05-12)
In 2020, the Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau launched the “Modern Frontier” campaign to attract tourists, residents, and businesses to Oklahoma City. Surveying the history of what became the state of Oklahoma ...
Ittibaapishiꞌat Ittachapa: Chickasaw and Choctaw Relations in Indian Territory, 1839-1856
(2022-05-13)
My thesis explores the relations between the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations from 1839 to 1856. In 1839, the majority of Chickasaws were living in Indian Territory under the Choctaw Nation tribal government and in 1856, the ...
The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)
In 1974, the Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma sterilized forty-eight Native American women in the month of July alone. Most of these women were in their twenties. This is a staggering number ...
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
(2016-05-13)
Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ...