California

Book review of: Abalone Tales by Les W. Field, Cheryl Seidner, Julian Lang, Rosemary Cambra, Florence Silva... [et al.]

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 26.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 1997.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 23, (pp297-332).

Focuses on the unacknowledged or unrecognized bands or tribes, especially in California, and their legal rights of repatriation that are enforceable through the courts.

Argues that more attention should be paid to cross-genre nature of Indigenous creative production. Focuses on the recurring single frame cartoon "Acorn Soup" featured in the journal as an example.

Book review of: Across a Great Divide edited by Laura L. Scheiber, Mark D. Mitchell.

A multi-module training curriculum to address the challenges and barriers facing Two-Spirit people in Native communities.

Describes the finding and dating of the oldest human skull of the New World from Calaveras County, California.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2003.

Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.

Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.

Argues that the founder of California Indian Studies was also an important ethnographic photographer.

Discussion on the linguistic imperialism of purism and monolingualism; and looks at the ideological transformation needed to preserve, revitalize, and reclaim heritage languages.

Book review of: An American Genocide by Benjamin Madley.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2013.

Discussion of "place" being incorporated into people as in Leslie Marmon Silko's and N. Scott Momaday's novels. Alcatraz, for example, became a "place of cultural emergence" though the process of reciprocal approriation.

Discusses how American Indian academic programs have survived and continue to grow.

Reflects on the first 40 years of years of ethnic studies at UCLA.

Descriptive study to assess knowledge level possessed by urban subjects residing in Southern California; includes literature review, statistics on incidence and prevention and treatment programs.

Reviews some of the historical background and contents of the collections contained in the Lowie Museum at the University of Berkeley in California.

Discusses how vitamin D helps fend off germs and helps fights the tuberculosis (TB) germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Book review of: Antigua California by Harry W. Crosby.

Part of: University of California publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp71-138).

Uses the concepts of identity, practice and context to explain archaeology of persistence and challenge the thinking about the effects of colonialism in coastal California.

Article describes an Archaeological field school project for graduate students in which the authors provided instruction on methods and practices; discusses how the project promotes a framework of decolonization through community collaboration and cultural integration.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 29, (pp1-28).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 25, (pp289-414).

Describes the legal dispute, which began in 1952, involving water rights of Native Americans situated on the Colorado River basin.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992.

Looks at the journal by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed recounting colonial contact between whites and Indigenous people in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09.

Redating of the Laguna and Los Angeles skeletal remains by accelerator mass spectrometry.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Fullerton, 2001.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 2, (pp105-164).

Forms part of Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v.17 (p.1-32).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 24, (pp291-324).

Public History Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Sacramento, 2009.

Examines the historical interplay and influences between different powwow groups and styles and how this changed the traditions.

Author discusses his experience in working with the Hopi tribe, and the development of culturally sensitive dispute-resolution services and legal systems.

Discusses how war changed Native American lives and taught them to walk successfully in two worlds.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2014.

Uses U.S. census data and linear regression model to predict per capital income and house hold income for Hawaiians and compares information to U.S. census data in California.

Study monitoring residents living next to an inactive mercury mine in Clear Lake, California found results consistent with other studies; also considers protective public health measures.

Short story.

Book review of: Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 78.