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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 ...
Identifying Geophysical Patterning Along the Landscape of the Silver Glen Springs Archaeological Complex
(2019-05-10)
The Silver Glen Springs Complex (SGSC) is a collection of archaeological sites that has been thus-far defined by the terraforming regime of shell mounding conducted by fisher-gatherer-hunters that created many monumental ...
Language Revitalization Through Pawnee Music
(2016)
Pawnee music has always been a crucial component in the lives of the Pawnee people and have been a source of comfort to those who have needed it. Traditional songs give Pawnee people a sense of identity lacking because of ...
Perception, visibility, and intervisibility in the late Archaic landscape of the Black Mesa region of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado
(2023-05-12)
Phenomenology, as an interpretive framework centered on perception and life experience, aids archaeologists in understanding past human relationships with landscapes and their features. In the Black Mesa region of Cimarron ...
Petrographic Quartzite Source Discrimination in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Implications for the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers
(2016-05-14)
Recently (Pitblado et al. 2008, 2013), an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists collaborated to develop a protocol for sourcing quartzite in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado where archaeological assemblages ...
Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music
(2016-12)
This project examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America through the completion of an in-progress book. ...
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 ...
American Indian painters of Oklahoma : artistic negotiation in the twentieth century.
(2005)
This work discusses the emergence of easel painting as an art form in Oklahoma American Indian communities and the commoditization of American Indian art during the twentieth century. The lives and art of five Muscogee ...
Healing a fractured spirit: indigenous use of the sweat lodge for the healing of depression
(2020-05-08)
In this ethnographic study, I use my personal life experiences to explain the use and healing properties of the Native American sweat lodge. I look into sources of mental trauma common in Native communities such as historical ...
A Ceramic Analysis of a Caddo Village Site in the Northern Caddo Frontier: An Archaeological Investigation of the School Land I Site (34DL64) in Delaware County, Oklahoma
(2023-12-15)
School Land I was a Spiroan Caddo village site positioned near the northern periphery of the Caddo cultural area in present-day northeast Oklahoma. This site was excavated in 1939 and 1940 as a salvage attempt to gather ...