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  • "No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

    Creator:
    Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
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    Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
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    : Signature redacted for privacy. Deanna M. Kingston Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the

  • "They said I would never amount to anything" : the life of a Kootenai woman

    Creator:
    Wheaton-Abraham, Jyl M.
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    There is a fundamental distortion in our understanding of Native people, especially Native women. This distortion is rooted in imperialism and the colonization of Native lands and has created a dominant/subordinate relationship between Non-Native/Native people. Anthropological life history research has traditionally reflected this relationship. As a Native woman, the author...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jyl M. Wheaton-Abraham for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

  • Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Bustamante, Stephanie
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    East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
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    Resisting Kayla ………………………………………. 50 An Act Of Destruction? ………………………………. 52 Conclusion

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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  • Gods and knickknacks : the American adoption of Asian religious items

    Creator:
    Jameson, Tamsyn L.
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    This thesis contains the cultural biography of Buddhist and Hindu items in a small college town in the United States. It explores different factors that have led to the availability of these items here, what attracts Americans to them, and the meanings they give these items. Semi-structured interviews were conducted...
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    Gender Female M ale Age Groups 20-35 35-50 50-65 unknown

  • ¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

    Creator:
    Fisher, Nicholas A.
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    What does comida rica mean? In this thesis, I explore the meanings of comida rica, sana, and de nuestra tierra through the discourses, practices, and kitchen geographies in six urban, highland households in the Ecuadorean Andes. This research, as part of a larger investigation carried out by a team of...
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    with poverty, low food security, and recent experiences of physical abuse (Hackman et al. 2016

  • Foodways at Fort Yamhill, 1856-1866 : an archaeological and archival perspective

    Creator:
    Eichelberger, Justin E.
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    Fort Yamhill, located in the eastern foothills of the Oregon Coast Range near modern day Grand Ronde, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in March 1856 as part of a three fort system to guard the newly established Coast Reservation and to provide a Union presence in the state...
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    of Private William M. Hilleary, Company F, 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry (who severed at the post

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    that no identity exists in a vacuum. Paula M. L. Moya describes the ways that identities are both

  • Fortunate son

    Creator:
    Bernard, Sean
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    The narrator of Fortunate Son is Jake, a 21 year-old who has recently arrived in Tucson, Arizona, after the death of his mother. He's spent his entire life on the road with his mother, possibly followed and antagonized by his father, whom Jake has never seen. He has come to...
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