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Tribal Tourism Development on American Indian Reservations in the Western United States

Creator:: Browne, Rita-Jean
Abstract:: In their search for viable economic development opportunities, many American Indian tribes have focused their attention toward tourism development on their reservation lands. In many cases, the greatest potential for economic development and attracting income to the reservations lies in tourist trade. Although tourism may not be a tribe's primary...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: TRIBAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN

Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Creator:: Kirkpatrick, Kristin A.
Abstract:: Franz Boas collected anthropometric data on approximately 15,000 people from over 200 Native American tribal groups between 1888 and 1902. Twelve basic measurements were taken: standing height, shoulder height, height to digit III, arm span, sitting height, shoulder width, head length and width, face height and breadth, and nose height...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Traditional Medicine and Self-Determination in Resolving Mental Health Problems Among Southwest Oregon Native Americans

Creator:: Otis, Alison Taylor
Abstract:: Native Americans in southwest Oregon are a heterogenous group comprising one-quarter of the state's total Indian population. Despite their notable size, Native Americans in this six county area are either ineligible for, or inaccessible to, federally sponsored Indian health facilities available to Native peoples elsewhere. Research was conducted over an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: determine the prevalence of Na- tive American mental health problems, rates of service utili- zation, and

An ethnographic crossing : voices from the Latino community in Yamhill County, Oregon

Creator:: Nicklous, Nan Gilmore
Abstract:: Changing demographics in Oregon, accompanied by a rising Latino population, serve to dispel myths that we live in homogeneous, monolithic communities. Migration studies indicate migration is reshaping communities, contributing to ethnic diversity thus challenging our notion of identity and culture. Through the medium of oral histories and ethnography, this study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . This study also investigates the ways in which the participants interpret the American dream

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

Creator:: Michael, Elva Olson
Abstract:: Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin AN ABSTRACT CF THE THESIS OF Elva

Architectural crusades : a comparison and interpretation of French cathedrals and American mega churches as cultural catalysts and material culture

Creator:: McKenzie, Karen and McKenzie, Karen E.
Abstract:: The Gothic cathedrals of France arose in a particular social and political environment, and the material culture, the structures themselves and their contents, bear witness to those realities even today. In addition, the cathedrals themselves were catalysts for cultural change. They encouraged urban growth in a country that had previously...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: : A Comparison and Interpretation of French Cathedrals and American Mega Churches as Cultural

Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

Creator:: Browning, Richard L.
Abstract:: Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Today (New York: North American Congress on Latin America, 1979) 130, 139-42. 28Cockcroft 148-49

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Creator:: Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
Abstract:: Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: FRONTIER CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION On the North American mining frontier, which extended over time from

Prehistoric Culture Diffusion in the Gran Chichimeca

Creator:: Lee, Eugene C. (Eugene Carlton)
Abstract:: The Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the thirty-eighth parallel in the north, thus embracing northern Mexico and the American Southwest. The rise of the great mesoamerican civilizations to the south of the Gran Chichimeca and the consequent pressure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the

Nine native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Cervantes, Willan A.
Abstract:: The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American

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Tribal Tourism Development on American Indian Reservations in the Western United States

Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Traditional Medicine and Self-Determination in Resolving Mental Health Problems Among Southwest Oregon Native Americans

An ethnographic crossing : voices from the Latino community in Yamhill County, Oregon

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

Architectural crusades : a comparison and interpretation of French cathedrals and American mega churches as cultural catalysts and material culture

Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Prehistoric Culture Diffusion in the Gran Chichimeca

Nine native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

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