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Facebook as a Tool in Mvskoke Language Learning and Use
(2017-05-12)
This paper explores and discusses the various factors in which Indigenous language learners obtain and interact with their heritage language. Specifically, the role of Facebook in language learning and use is analyzed. The ...
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 ...
Beyond Black and White: Native American Representation in Mainstream Media
(2016-05-13)
The media has the ability to shape public opinion and influence policy direction. The case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl gained national attention as the ‘Baby Veronica’ case. The outcome of this particular custodial ...
AN UNJUST LEGALITY: THE SETTLER COLONIZATION OF HAWAI’I, TOLD THROUGH THE BLOUNT REPORT OF 1893
(2018)
The Blount Report of 1893 is a comprehensive exposé of the American-led overthrow of Hawai’i’s Queen Lili’uokalani and subsequent seizure of the Hawaiian government. Ordered by President Grover Cleveland and composed by ...
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 ...
Global Indigenous Diaspora: An International Comparison of Nation-Based Recognition, Tribal Membership, and Aboriginal Rights
(2017-12-15)
Nation-states often tell their Native populations who can and cannot be considered Indigenous. Two important tools of sovereignty are now, and have been for some time, Federal Recognition and Tribal Membership. Federal ...
The Myths and Institutional Structures that Maintain Settler Colonialism in the United States
(2016-08)
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This paper examines the phenomena of settler colonialism. Building on the existing literature that has examined settler society through various independent lenses, this paper examines the linkages between them. ...
Finding the Chahta in the Choctaw: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Chahta People and Western Education
(2017-05-12)
This thesis looks at the experiences of Chahta students at Choctaw Academy and
Spencer Academy in the late eighteenth century, into the nineteenth century. Through
the documentation available in the Western History ...
Examining Historical Issues Pertaining to San Carlos Apache Tribal Identities Through Peoplehood
(2017-05-12)
Over the course of record regarding Apache history in the United States, there has been little attempt to specify the groups of Apache peoples within the traditional homelands of the Apache residing in the Southwestern ...