This dissertation examines Spanish treatment of subject Muslims (Moriscos) as a model for the assimilation and acculturation of Amerindians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It gives particular emphasis to formal, institutional roles of the government and Church in…
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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 …
Louise Erdrich is an award-winning Anishinaabe-American author, whose works of fiction have attracted a significant body of scholarly interest. To date, her output of children's fiction has received comparatively less critical attention. This thesis is the first study to conside…
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…
Administrators at Sherman Institute, an off-reservation Indian boarding school in Riverside California, used Indian children as marketing pawns in order to bolster the school's credibility when it opened in 1902. Enlarging the school's credibility was meant to garner political s…
The main purpose of this study is to prove that the view on the American Indians, as it is presented in the plays, is determined by two dissimilar sets of values: those related to Christianity and those associated with democracy. The Christian ideals of mercy and benevolence are…
Over the decade spanning the 1830s, the Flathead tribe of Montana, on four separate occasions, sent representatives to St. Louis in search of black-robed priests and teachers. In the controversy surrounding the object of that visit, whether for the "Book" or for the "Black Robes…
Native Americans and Chinese ethnic minorities have long history and unique cultures. I studied educational history of Chinese ethnic minorities in China. It is commonly accepted in China today that the overall treatment and educational level of Native Americans in the US is bet…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…