Pan-Indianism

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 2004.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2006.

Looks at the "Great Message" of the Iroquois, Peyotism in the Plains and Shakerism in the Pacific Northwest, to explain the reformation movement.

Authors offer a critical commentary of Bejamin R. Kracht’s application of a “communitas” model to the Kiowa Gourd Dance in his article, “Kiowa Powwows: Continuity in Ritual Practice.”

History Thesis (M.S.)--Utah State University, 2016.

Book review of: Border Crossings by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews.

Article examines the representations of Comanche religious practice in ethnographic writings from the early 1800s into the 20th century. Discusses the portrayal of the Comanche as skeptics or as a people without a cohesive religion.

An examination of Tecumseh travels to southern and western America unite all the tribes to resist further loss of Indigenous land.

Article examines the formation of pan-Indigenous or pan-Indian identity while considering the factors of political, economic, and ethnic marginalization. Considers different 20th Century pan-Indigenous organizations in the context of ethnic process theories.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1998.

Introduction to special issue featuring articles on what is going on in the Indian world of 1965.

Book review of: Indian Country by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.

Research focuses on inter-tribal transmission of traditional knowledge and amalgamation with Mi’kmaq identity.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arkansas, 2015.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2005.

Book review of: Justice for the Cree by Roger McDonnell.

Author explores the role that powwows play in intertribal social culture, discusses the ritual of such events, and the elements of shared musical and dance traditions among Southern Plains Peoples. Focuses on the Kiowa and their engagement in the powwow events since the 1870s.

Gives some context behind the rise of Pan-Indianism in part due to the divide between urban and reservation American Indians struggling between spiritual and communal connection and learned white individualistic industrial activity.

Examines the NAC, the beliefs of Native Americans in regards to the use of peyote and psychopharmological data about peyote cactus.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montreal, 2011.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2011.

Overview of the social movement promoting unity among American Indian groups.

The exploitation of Indigenous spiritual traditions described in context of New Age movement as a "consumerist movement."

Describes challenges encountered in maintaining the culture, tradition and identity in the face of pan-Indian iconography.

Argues that the publication mirrored the attitudes of mainstream society in it's idealized version of the past and promotion of assimilation as "progress", but its founder displayed little understanding of issues confronting traditional Native Americans. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Examines traditional Native American healing and ceremonial psychoactive agents and how colonization has contributed to substance abuse.

Discusses contemporary icons such as "dream catchers".

Art Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2010.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2000.

Author examines the narratives and discourses surrounding different Indigenous prophets and warriors; argues that the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred breaks down in consideration of Indigenous leaders.

Book review of: Uniting the Tribes: The Rise and Fall of Pan-Indian Community on the Crow Reservation by Frank Rzeczkowski.

Book review of: Uniting the Tribes by Frank Rzeczkowski.