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…
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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…
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 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 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 …
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…
While there are several studies of the relationships and influences between American male photographers and writers, this study examines the lesser known and understudied collaborations and connections between early, twentieth-century American women photographers and writers, be…
American high school, collegiate, and professional sports teams use Native American mascots and insignia. Oftentimes, the usage of these mascots has sparked intense debates about whether or not images schools and teams use are racially insensitive. Universities and professional …
Postmortem punishment is defined as the mutilation of the body after death or the refusal of culturally prescribed burial rites to punish violations of civil, moral, cultural, or religious law. The use of postmortem punishment in British history evolved with colonization of the …
Loss of culture, land, and dismantling of self have resulted in long lasting historical trauma in Native Americans. The trauma continuum has led to health disparities that are viewed today. Depression and suicide are highly ranked in the Native American population, and suicide i…
Cooperative Extension, the United States Department of Agriculture’s educational outreach program, is found in nearly 100% of US counties, but can only be found in a tiny percentage, less than 10%, of Indigenous communities (Brewer, Hiller, Burke, & Teegerstrom, 2016; NCAI, 2010…
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 …
“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…
Each state in our union has a unique history and story as it plays into the formation of the United States; one of the unique and historically relevant narratives to United States is that of Oklahoma. The state of Oklahoma has gone through a multitude of changes over the last se…
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…
This is a public history study of statues and monuments, and the stories they commemorate. “Teedyuscung, a Man, a Statue” examines, specifically, Native American statue and monument commemorations. I begin with the Tedyuscung Statue in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley. In exami…
This study addressed Native American students’ perceptions of their educational experiences, 142 years after the first federally-run, off-reservation Indian Boarding School opened, and their perceptions of how university staff, faculty, and administrators could better serve Nati…
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…