Living in multiple worlds has forced me to view the world using multiple lenses. From my adoptive parents, I am from three distinct communities: Native America, Arab America and America. From my birth parents, a world of the unknown, the unspoken. The title, RELATIONS, becomes t…
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In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. Orphaned when her family was killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her cap…
The current study seeks an understanding of the Native American boarding school experience within the contemporary historical period of 1945 to the present. Boarding schools are implicated as a major influence in the destruction of indigenous cultures and the transmission of int…
The question of French literature’s portrayal of the environment has been widely debated in the ecocriticism field, with scholars such as Douglas Boudreau and Marnie Sullivan arguing that ecocriticism is predominately focused on literature written in English. In order to further…
The Sego Exchange is a virtual Omeka exhibit exploring the cultural interaction between the Mormon pioneers and the Native Americans of Utah. The exhibition uses the sego lily as an introduction to this exchange but contends that beyond the sego lily, Native Americans in Utah sh…
There is a growing trend within museums today to become a space geared toward social activism. Their attention to connecting with their communities and seeking avenues of implementing new ways of knowing and doing aims to steer away from museums’ historic Eurocentric roots, dece…
Native Americans featured prominently in the letters and military communications of revolutionary Georgians. Georgians called them friends and brothers during treaty talks, “savages” in appeals to the Continental Congress, and honorable and virtuous people when discussing the Na…
At the turn of the twentieth century, Native Americans engaged in the debates surrounding U.S. global imperialism and actively participated in the expansionist project overseas. As Americans likened the nation’s foreign imperial subjects to non-Native conceptions of “the Indian,…
This thesis will be discussing how Native Americans on the Northern Plains, defined as the present-day states of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana, used trade and trade goods to gain power and influence within the region. It seeks to look beyond the furs, ho…
“‘The Indians Say’: Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of North America, 1722 to 1848” examines the issue of evidence and credibility within natural history by following the circulation of Indigenous testimony through Anglophone networks of scientific knowledge product…
The Book of Mormon, first published by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830 in Palmyra, New York, draws upon colonial and antebellum biblical hermeneutics and nineteenth century myths of the origin and fate of an ancient American civilization of Mound Builders to construct a textual image …
The Windover archaeological site (8BR246) is one of the few mass pre-historic burial sites in North America. The 168 skeletonized men, women, and children were interned in a peat bog accompanied by cultural materials such as bone and stone tools, textiles, flora, and fauna. This…
American Indigenous populations, American Indians (AIs), and Alaska Natives (ANs) have experienced historically traumatic events over the past 500 years, and Native Hawaiians (NHs) over the last 240 years from contact with Europeans, and the subsequent colonization, and appropri…
Through a comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land with attention to how politics influence literary production, I examine the process by which settler societies transform theological narratives into national histories to justify their occupation of for…
This dissertation examines the interventions of Native American writers D'Arcy McNickle, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale into a history of representations of "Indians." Representations--artistic, scientific, and political--have influenced conceptions of an A…
This thesis examines the ways in which socio-cultural depictions of Akimel O’odham veteran Ira Hayes have changed over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Captured in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic 1945 photograph as one of the six Marines who raised the A…
America’s whaling industry serves as a microcosm of the interaction between white settlers and people of color, as well as the effect of that interaction on both groups. As an enterprise that brought great wealth to many, it also provides an opportunity to explore the realities …
Throughout history, Native American people faced constant rejection of their cultural values through assimilation. Education and boarding school were the main tools utilized to strip Native American people of their cultural identities. It can be argued that this continues today …