New Mexico

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University College London, 2019.

Examines the partner learning process for mathematical skills by sixth grade children of Mescalero Elementary School.

Paper argues that the Navajo never had much, if any, input into their image presentation within photography and discusses the implications of this lack of input.

Discusses the duel challenge of photographing Zuni religious ceremonies and how old photos now pose a new set of challenges to museums and archives, namely accessibility, privacy, and artist/owner rights.

Summarizes a study which determines what some of the factors are associated with achievement levels.

Results suggest a more comprehensive survey is required. Generally, students acquired information from school, electronic and print media sources before substance use.

Discusses the establishment of annual conferences to encourage further education that involve high school and college students.

Study conducted in 1986 & ‘87 interviews participants in 13 Navajo communities about spaces that are sacred or important to the people in those communities. Research was done to determine which sites should be the focus of the Navajo Nation’s Historic Preservation Department.

Considers differences in science education between Navajo students and that of the dominate culture.

Discusses the creative aspects of Blackhorse Mitchell’s use of Navajo English in Miracle Hill, as well as Mitchell’s own discussions of what he was attempting to do in the poem The Drifting Lonely Seed.

Literary criticism article in which the author examines the Silko’s novel and its relevance to Laguna narratives of land, territory, resistance, and cultural survivance.

Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.

Study consisted of literature review, visits to Indian police departments and the Indian Police Academy in New Mexico, a two-part survey administered to Indian police departments, and site visits to four reservations.

Provides demographics for cities, towns and states within the Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area. Data source: 2010 Census.

Overview of the issues, summary of current research and practices, relevant data, and definitions of related terms.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2002.

Looks at the connection between clay and people.

[History?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2002.

Analysis of pre-Columbian towers or isolated structures, including Mesa Verde, McElmo, Hvenweep, Gallina and some in Navajo territory.

Program created to aid Navajo students whose first language is not English and enhance their language, motor, and conceptual skill development.

Study found the prevalence and incidence of disease in the sample population to be higher than those in both the general US population and other Native Americans.

Study suggests finding may be attributable to culture, tradition and lifestyle differences including greater inactivity and obesity rates.

Looks at events and responses within two tribal communities in New Mexico and Alaska which experienced clusters between 2009 and 2011.

Examines the cultural and social accuracy of two Native American picture-books.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1969.

[Archaeology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

Very brief article discusses the protection of sites sacred to Indigenous people in the United States. Access through table of contents.

Reviews the history of uranium and discusses efforts for compensation.

Discusses the issues associated with cultural value and imaging of Pueblo potteries and Pueblo women.

Book review of: Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico by Tracy L. Brown.

Looks at the Pueblo of of Acoma in Valencia County located 7500 feet above sea level on top of a mesa.

Examines the relationship between pottery and Pueblo culture.

Book review of: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by Andrew L. Knaut.

Discusses Pueblo culture's central role in the establishment of the internationally known artist and writer colony established in the area.

Book review of: The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians by Richard H. Frost.

Discusses the cultural dislocation and identity confusion created by the imposition of one culture on another. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Comparison of reading levels to grade levels in New Mexico high schools.

Looks at a Cochiti potter-turned-fashion designer whose clothing expresses pride in his Pueblo heritage.

Discusses the cultural and historical background of Pueblo Indians and U.S. relations, the reasons for the trip to Washington, and key aspects of Pueblo identity and ethnicity.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2005.

Results of survey investigating why people stay or leave the Navajo Indian Health Service area.

Examines the effects of cultural theft that infringes upon religious rituals and ceremonies within Native American cultures.

Examines common experiences and uncovers forces at work in the process of capitalist development in both countries.

Discusses the shades of color in Hopi pottery and the different firing techniques that produce various colors.

Discusses how Indigenous people are using screen media in the Navajo language to recuperate their own collective stories and histories.

Comments on early twentieth century Native American artists and their paintings.

Study analyzes 24 years of US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data (1991-2015) from eight states to examine the degree to which Indigenous people are overrepresented in the lower paying, less desirable, non-managerial, public sector positions in local and state government bureaucracies and underrepresented in the more desirable, better paying, managerial positions.