Cognitive explorations into metaphor and metonymy
The author presents a study of the life of the Dakota Sioux, written in 1944, that describes their origins, language families, culture, and unique kinship system that defined them as a people.
This dissertation furthers Fairholm's (2004) research on leadership perspectives within a different cultural context than has been previously studied by other researchers. Using the five leadership perspectives in Fairholm’s (2004) Leadership Perspectives Model (LPM), this resea…
Landscape influences various areas of the Oceti Sakowin such as their history, community, spiritual belief, sovereignty and natural resources. However, their land, the center of who they are, continues to be affected by capitalistic methods of production. Because the American go…
This dissertation examines the impact of military tradition among Native Americans, embracing many of the twentieth-century wars but with particular emphasis on Vietnam. In total over 42,000 Native Americans served in Vietnam. For the majority of this dissertation, I have center…
The United States has a tradition of spawning innovative religious groups. When exceptional religious groups offensive to mainstream society have developed in areas thoroughly settled or controlled by effective state or local law enforcement agencies, mainstream society has ofte…