Indigenous Studies: Recent submissions
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Toward Alaska Native research and data sovereignty: Observations and experiences from the Yukon Flats
(SAGE Publications, 2023-05-02)Indigenous Peoples research and data sovereignty is of paramount importance to a healthy relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the research enterprise. The development of Indigenous methods and methodologies lends ... -
Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands
(SAGE Publications, 2023-05-03)It is challenging to understand the full and detailed story of Native People’s lands in the United States. In this article, we contend that reliable and accessible data regarding Native People’s lands complicate and ... -
Indigenous research sovereignties: Sparking the deeper conversations we need
(Sage, 2023-05-23)This article seeks to spark a conversation and further debate through the 15 papers and 3 commentaries comprising this special issue entitled “Indigenous Research Sovereignty.” By inviting the authors to publish in this ... -
The Bat Creek Stone: The Little Stone With a Big Story
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This paper tells the story of the Bat Creek Stone and its dynamic role in science, Cherokee history and culture, and the exercise of tribal sovereignty. Starting with a historical overview of the BAE archaeological dig on ... -
Trusting the Culture in our Food: Overcoming Barriers for Sustainable Indigenous Foodways
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)In this thesis I delve into the world of traditional, Indigenous agricultural practices. My goal is to examine how these traditional practices of small community-style gardens can help various populations of modern Indigenous ... -
Who We Were, Is Not Who We Are: Wa.zha.zhe Representations, 1960-2010
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)My thesis examines whether the over-use of outdated descriptions of Osage Indians contributes to the perpetuation of stereotypes through an examination of the relationship between the historical and anthropological texts ... -
Power in Meaning: Changing Indigenous Museum Collection Narratives
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)New Museum Theory is successful not only in creating space for Native voice(s) at the Spencer Museum of Art through the exhibition, Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place, but also in beginning a new chapter for ... -
A Critical History of Colonization and Amerindian Resistance in Trans-Appalachia 1750-1830: The Proclamation Wars
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)A careful examination of events in Colonial Trans-Appalachia the region geographically encompassed by territories west of the Appalachian Mountain Range and east of the Mississippi River at the time of the French and Indian ... -
Constructing Indianness in Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Film critics consistently note two prominent features of The Exiles as its visual style and its drunken Indians. It has been called one of the greatest films ever by or about Native people, even author Sherman Alexie has ... -
The Importance of Historical Trauma & Stress as a Factor in Diabetes and Obesity Prevention among American Indian Adolescents
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)For the last forty years, the federal government and tribal governments have developed and administered programs to lower the obesity and diabetes rates among American Indian populations. Despite these joint efforts, a ... -
The Legacy of Unjust and Illegal Treatment of Unangan
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This thesis discusses the relocation of Unangan during World War II, and the effect that it had on them. It uses personal interviews and secondary sources to provide the Native American and scientific communities with ... -
Watershed Restoration through Culture-Based Education and Community Outreach
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)In this thesis I will examine the relationship between watershed restoration and my own traditional teachings. One of my goals is to demonstrate how understanding Indigenous ways of knowing can help others understand the ... -
Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation
(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2011-09)This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven ... -
Commemorating Israel, Forgetting Palestine: Representation and Remembering in Dispensational Discourses
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)In recent decades, significant bodies of research have emerged with regard to understanding (a) Indigenous identities as "glocal" expressions (e.g., Minde 2008; Niezen 2003; Bigenho 2007), (b) Christian Zionism (e.g., Ariel ... -
Kitchen Table Discourse: Negotiating the “Tricky Ground” of Indigenous Research
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HOME IN THE CHOCTAW DIASPORA: SURVIVAL AND REMEMBRANCE AWAY FROM NANIH WAIYA
(University of Kansas, 2011-07-31)This thesis analyzes oral histories collected from Choctaw people since their displacement away from Nanih Waiya, to look for an understanding of Home and the formations of Home that have enabled Choctaw identities over ... -
Indigenizing the Future: Why We Must Think Spatially in the Twenty-first Century
(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2006-03-01) -
The Bases Are Loaded: American Indians and American Studies
(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2006-03-01) -
"Handicapped by distance and transportation": Indigenous Relocation, Modernity and Time-Space Expansion
(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2006-03-01)