Winyan okodakiciye and Indigenous women led collectives and organizations play a vital role in our communities and movements. This dissertation examines the ways winyan okodakiciye work to address the community impacts of settler colonialism, colonial patriarchy, violence and hi…
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The impact of social networks and relationships on health outcomes has been acknowledged and studied within the concept of “social capital” in the field of public health for over two decades. To date, however, few research studies have included Indigenous peoples, and even fewer…
Statement of Problem: The current educational structure in the state of California continues to be outdated and in need of a modification to conform to classroom demographics. According to the California Department of Education, recommendations have been presented to the State B…
This study addresses how hunter-gatherers provision themselves when they have a large, dense population and are faced with constraints like small territories and reduced mobility. These conditions were present in the Sacramento Valley, California at the end of the Late Period (1…
This project deals with the politics of image and the organization of the visible through the colonial gaze. It intervenes in the discussions of representation and power distribution that have already been central themes in Colonial Studies, but it does so from the perspective o…
By the turn of the twenty-first century, toleration of cultural difference or multiculturalism, broadly defined, became a hallmark of liberal democratic countries. As the first country to declare multiculturalism national policy in 1971, Canada became a world-renowned example. O…
Indigenous social movements began proliferating across Latin America in the late 20th century. Since then, scholars have focused analyses on the factors shaping indigenous movement-state dynamics, with little consideration for how these interactions impact the larger indigenous …
Pensacola archaeological culture and Pensacola ceramics have been understudied in the Pensacola Bay region of northwest Florida. This research serves as a stepping stone to applying a relatively new absolute dating technique known as Blue Light Optically Stimulated Luminescence …
Purpose. The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to develop and implement an accessible, culturally sensitive educational intervention, a brief PowerPoint presentation designed for healthcare providers and staff of the Sells Hospital ED who provide care to membe…
Background: Historical and contemporary trauma among Native Americans is linked to disparate health outcomes across the lifespan including the very recent coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Early and prolonged exposure to positive family-child engagement activities and the na…
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…
The community of the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú in northern New Mexico has strong connections to their heritage and identity to their land grant and surrounding landscape. Abiquiuseños request an examination of the material culture found atop their most prominent land grant la…
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…
The inadequacy of contemporary Indigenous housing has been recognized worldwide from historical problems related to colonization, dispossession, and resettlement. Indigenous housing on reservations is often substandard which meets the minimum regulations for low-income housing, …
This article explores the complex mental state the Tohono O'odham called nodagig. In contemporary society, nodagig came to mean dizziness and is associated with drunkenness or sexual promiscuity. Traditionally, through sex or drugs, tribal members accessed this "dizzy" state dur…
There is an extensive and complex history of agricultural and educational systems within the United States. Indigenous peoples maintained highly developed agricultural systems prior to colonization. After colonization, Indigenous and European systems converged in a battle of pow…
A recently discovered mound (Mound E) at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians (22AD501, the Fatherland Site) dates to the Foster phase of the Mississippian period (1300–1500 CE). This new chronology is stems from analysis conducted on ceramic assemblages from Robert S. Neitz…
The purpose of this thesis is to understand the impact of urbanization on the domestic lives of people at the site of Río Viejo in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico during the Terminal Formative period (150 BCE–CE 250). This thesis will present the data generated from excavations directed …
Papakū Makawalu (PM), a methodology developed in 2005 by Dr. Pualani Kanahele Kanakaʻole, is rooted in a Hawaiian worldview of akua – the elemental energies of our environment. Kanakaʻole, of pure Hawaiian ancestry, is the daughter of renowned kumu hula (hula instructor) Edith K…