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White Cherokees on Red Earth: Blood and Belonging
(2021-12-17)
In this thesis, I address White Cherokee identity, the historical trajectory it emerges from, and some of its political consequences. White Cherokee identity comes from social arrangements, place relationships, and ...
Grassroots Ethnonationalism: Serbian Ethnonationalism and Heritage (Re)production Through Folklore and Ethnomusicology
(2022-05-13)
This essay explores the relationships between ethnic nationalism and folklore and ethnomusicology through a particular case of Serbia. My research is informed by personal experiences and interviews as well as participant ...
The St. Johns River: An archival project investigating interior occupation of the St. Johns River Region by Native Americans during the Colonial Period
(2021-05-14)
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My project focuses on studying burial mounds along the St. Johns middle valley during the Colonial Period, ca. 1500-1845CE. Currently, little is actually known regarding the interior of the St. Johns or which ...
Place, Space, and Community in the Spiro Region: A Multi-sensor Geophysical Survey of the Brackett Site (34CK43) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma
(2020-05)
The Brackett site (34CK43) is a Harlan Phase (A.D. 1050-1250) single mound site located at the confluence of the Illinois River and Baron Fork Creek in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The site also had seven house-like structures ...
Digging Deep into the Summer Activities at Bull Creek (34BV176): A Late Paleoindian Site in the Southern Plains
(2022-12-16)
The Bull Creek site (34BV176), located along a tributary of the Beaver River in the Oklahoma Panhandle, belongs to a short list of late Paleoindian open-habitation camps. Events at Bull Creek are superimposed on one another. ...
Interpreting Land-Use During the Late Paleoindian Bull Creek Occupation on the Southern Plains
(2021-05-14)
The Bull Creek late Paleoindian archaeological site (34BV176), located along a tributary of the Beaver River in the Oklahoma Panhandle, is among the few known earliest human occupation sites on the Southern Plains. Located ...
The Roles of Bedrock Mortars in Rockshelters of Eastern Oklahoma
(2022-05-13)
Rockshelters form an important part of the archaeological landscape. Rockshelters served a number of purposes, and in pursuit of those purposes they could be altered or adjusted. A prominent example of these rockshelter ...
Settling in at the Cross Bar Ranch: Antelope Creek Settlement Patterns and Distributions in the Texas Panhandle
(2022)
Previous research conducted by Dr. Christopher Lintz into the settlement patterning of Antelope Creek groups in the southern Great Plains found that those settlements could be typified according to their site function, and ...
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
(2020)
Transnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines ...
An Archaeological and Historical Examination of the Sulphur Fork Factory, 1817-1822
(2023-05-12)
The United States Indian Factory System, an early experiment in public enterprise, was a late addition to the North American Fur Trade phenomenon. Created by an act of Congress in 1795, the factory system established a ...