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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 ...
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, ...
Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Film Festivals: A Case Study on The Native Crossroads Film Festival
(2019-05-10)
This thesis is an ethnographic documentation of the Native Crossroads Film Festival, an annual multi-day cultural event in Norman, Oklahoma that features a selection of indigenous films. I argue throughout this thesis that ...
Repurposing the Comparative Method for Pawnee Language and Dialect Revitalization
(2016-08)
A member of the Caddoan language family, Pawnee is a nearly extinct language with few living fluent speakers. However, there is an active, community-led revitalization movement. Community members involved in revitalization ...
Remembrance and Perseverance in History of the Native American Church in Oklahoma
(2019-05-10)
In this thesis, I examine the concepts of Native sovereignty, authenticity, (invented) tradition, indigeneity, and cultural heritage as these are applied to the context of the Native American Church (NAC, Peyotism, or the ...