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Archaeological study of Indigenous pasts has been characterized by a focus on objects over people. This study attempts to humanize the past by illuminating human agency in the human-dog relationship through a case study of dog health and diet during the Late Ceramic period (ca. …

Literature on the southern Philippines region of Mindanao has a longstanding gender gap, with relatively little attention paid to the role of women either in history or in the contemporary era, despite international and national concern about gender in the recent peace process i…

Millions of people globally are dependent on customary and commercial use of wildlife. Many Australian Aboriginal communities aspire towards developing natural resource-based enterprises. However, a unique combination of historical, legislative and institutional factors makes th…

This thesis explores “the new imperialism of exploitation as development” (Spivak 1999) in the post-independent Philippines. In examining the Philippines' positioning in specific circuits of global capital, economic development is considered as industry, cultural practice, desir…

This study used the assimilation model to elaborate the continuing bonds model of mourning. According to the continuing bonds model of mourning, immigrants dealing with the loss of their native culture incorporate elements of this culture (i.e. their families, friends, identity,…

Nigeria has greatly evolved as an intercultural society given her history of colonization, the influence of foreign religion (Christianity and Islam, primarily) and the impact of globalization. Africa had her socio-cultural practices and art idioms before these foreign influence…

Areas often called food deserts are sites that overlap physically and metaphorically with Black food geographies. Black feminist and womanist perspectives offer valuable insights when developing an understanding of these spaces because of the socio-historical construction of foo…

Indigenous languages are windows into a myriad of worldviews (Simpson, 2011). They are repositories of botanical, environmental, and kinship knowledges, and, perhaps more importantly, are central to Indigenous identity (McCarty et al., 2018). As W̱SÁNEĆ, Quw’utsun, Líl̓wat and Git…

The struggle that Southern Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) face to get recognition for their Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and sociocultural diversity, and to ensure their needs, livelihoods, and rights is an issue still awaiting to be properly addressed b…

In this research, I examined the trade of shell wampum beads with the Dutch and how the trade facilitated the creation and maintenance of social memory among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I used ESRI ArcMap 10.8 to map the frequencies of wampum at late sixteenth and seventeenth…

Westerners have long imagined, represented, and treated islands around the globe as “natural laboratories” given their perceived geographic isolation. It was on islands that colonizers first conducted “experiments” in imperial expansion via the establishment of plantation econom…

The Columbus memorial in Syracuse, New York was erected in the early 1900s by Italian-American immigrants who hoped for inclusion in the American master narrative. Indigenous peoples, on the other hand, have long recognized Columbus as a slave trader and as the person who instig…

The French presence on the Upper Ohio during the Seven Years’ War was secured by their alliances with local Indigenous nations and bolstered by a resilient logistics network. With Lenape, Shawnee, and Mingo combatants leading offensives against the Middle Colonies and the Illino…

The Schuylers, a wealthy, prominent New York colonial family, have been the subject of much scholarly debate about their expressions of identity. Although the family emigrated from Holland in the 1600s, many scholars argue that they chose to display a British rather than Dutch i…

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in order to build a common language, or discourse, for the diagnosis of mental health disorders. First, the critical historical tracing of the DSM examines…

Indigenous cultural safety education is crucial to achieving greater health equity for Indigenous Peoples (Browne et al., 2016) by helping counsellors recognize the social, historical, political, and economic context of contemporary Indigenous wellness experiences (Ramsden, 2002…

The rural-urban divide is discussed between scholars (Pew Research Center, 2018), politicians (Siegler, 2020), and everyday Americans (Badger, 2019). Those in urban blue states (majority voting Democrat) blame those in rural red states (majority voting Republican) for being raci…

Ramona's Marriage Place and the Home of Ramona, now respectively referred to as Casa de Estudillo and Rancho Camulos, are two locations that are widely considered to be representative of California history and heritage. However, these two homes have histories themselves that rep…

This dissertation demonstrates how Chamoru history is rooted in mobility, yet waves of colonization within the Mariana Islands have also heavily dictated the ways and places our people move and migrate. I utilize my theoretical concept, Chamoru diasporic routes, to examine Chamo…

Theatre and Performance Studies have studied the ways in which theatre and performance act as auxiliaries of hegemonic state power at least since Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed explored the ways in which classical Greek dramaturgy coerced its audiences into pro-state behavior. …