Browsing by Subject "Native American"
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Neshnabe treaty making : (re)visionings for indigenous futurities in education
(2016-05)This work questions if there is a need for a Native-controlled school in central Oklahoma and evaluates what can be done to improve educational opportunities for Native students (particularly through a Native-controlled ... -
Staged encounters : Native American performance between 1880 and 1920
(2010-08)This dissertation explores the unique political and cultural possibilities that public performance held for Native American activists and artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Not only did these ... -
Stoking the fire : nationhood in early twentieth century Cherokee writing
(2012-05)My research builds upon interdisciplinary trends in Native scholarship emphasizing tribal-specificity; attention to understudied periods, writers, and texts; and a political commitment to engage contemporary challenges ... -
“Woven alike with meaning” : sovereignty and form in Native North American poetry, 1800-1910
(2017-07-20)The story of American poetry has developed alongside the idea of America itself, becoming almost synonymous with national sovereignty projects in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time the figure ... -
"You heal the spirit" : Anishnabe adaptations to historical loss and trauma
(2015-08)Native American and Indigenous populations around the world face disproportionately higher rates of disease and mortality. There are many nuanced factors that contribute to this, but a common underlying theme is that they’ve ...
