In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural history museum is attempting to decolonize, they must do …
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“Indigenous students around the world have demonstrated a lack of academic achievement and enthusiasm for school in its conventional colonial form” (Singh & Reyhner, 2013, p. 37). This reflects a relationship divide between students and school, i.e., Native history and culture w…
My dissertation explores the interactions, relationships, and bonds among women across race and class in the greater San Diego area, including what is now Riverside County. Under Spanish, Mexican, and American colonization, settler and native women played pivotal roles, especial…
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…
This qualitative research study explores the meanings of Eldership and eldering in a local urban Native American community in the Greater Boston Area. Studies regarding older Native Americans often use “older adult” and “elder” synonymously. By relegating aging to simply a “chro…
This dissertation project is an Indigenous autoethnographic study of my own family’s story of survival through the Native American boarding school system. The creation of this document is in part an academic exercise, but also an effort to reclaim pieces of my family’s experienc…
This thesis is a criticism of chroniclers. As is said at the end of the introduction, this research not only criticizes poor investigative work (whether it be intentionally malicious, or simply lazy) from the past, but also reinforces a standard of expectation for those who wish…
This thesis examines the role played by America and its native inhabitants in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. It begins by examining the large collection of travel books written by explorers to the new world in Locke's library. Locke uses the information from these sou…
This qualitative Indigenous Research Methods study aimed to better understand how the Northern Arapaho tribe perceives disability. Four Northern Arapaho Elders residing on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming completed in-person interviews guided by a set of open-ended question…
For centuries Native American communities have been subjected to persistent oppression. The effects of the historical events of colonization have transcended generations and continue to affect the lives of the current generation, removed from direct exposure to the traumatic eve…
The concept of love has been largely ignored in academic literature outside of the dominant Western cultural narrative, and in particular as it relates to sexuality and intersectional identities of Two-Spirit people and communities. Two-Spirit literature continues to be an emerg…
In this work, I examine representation of Native American masculinity in the American film industry. The American film industry began just over a century ago, and one of its earliest subjects was the Native American. Throughout its history, the American film industry has maintai…
A prediction of the mitochondrial genetic paradigm is that some forms of chronic degenerative disease will be due to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations (Wallace, 1992a). To investigate this possibility, my research had two related goals. The first was to characterize the natura…
Native Americans in the United States are a population that experiences diabetes at much higher rates than any other racial group. Health disparities in this population are well documented, but existing standardized data do not include information related to a Native American ex…
The American Western narrative has historically not had time for ghosts. In its dominant historical form, the Western prescribed a white, male, civilizing discourse while acting as the “nation-building” narrative for the United States. Especially in the latter context, the genre…
This qualitative action research study pertains to the intergenerational parental disconnect observed in interviews conducted with Northwestern Native Americans. The objectives of this study were to explore the current parental bonding and attachment processes, to understand if …
In the current climate of American Indian culture in the United States, the impact of the internet on powwow music and the electronic sharing of music has superseded the more traditional sharing of music in Native cultures. Due to the unique history of American Indian cultures, …
The Matachines dance of New Mexico is a marginal survival originally from the Iberian Peninsula, where its ancient roots extended to the Roman sword dances and rain rituals of Islamic North Africa, and is related to the English Morris dance. Fragments of the Matachines' ancient …
This dissertation examines the Native American response to Christianity as a central aspect of cultural contact resulting from the European conquest of North America. From the earliest literary responses Native writers utilized the European Christian paradigm as the ground from …