Colorado

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1991.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1983.

Comments on the role that visual imagery plays in the construction of culture.

Highlights the contributions John Gritts has made towards changing the history of Indian education.

Study evaluates the five week Nizhoni Academy, which is designed to improve students' success at the post-secondary level. Includes literature review.

Story based on relocation of the Navajo to Fort Summer in 1863. In 1868 they were allowed to return home to reservation land in Four Corners County.

Ethnic Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Colorado State University, 2011.

Explains that paleolithic assemblages also occur in the McKean complex. Adding information to the article in Vol. 51, No. 2 (Apr., 1986) at pages 338-341.

Physical Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1982.

Discusses the activities of the Rocky Mountain Quality Improvement Center (RMQIC) project which was designed to prevent removal and out-of-home placement of children who have become involved with the child welfare system due to parental substance abuse and child neglect.

Authors describes the Diné system of clans and kinship, and suggest that rooted as it is in an ethic of universal relatedness, it might hold solutions for dealing with environmental and political instability.

Gallery in Avon, Colorado offers paintings, bronzes, jewelry, pottery and photographs for sale.

Examines the claim that evidence of the Folsom complex was found in California.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling The Acoma Indians by Leslie A. White Isleta, New Mexico by Elsie Clews Parsons Introduction to Zuñi Ceremonialism by Ruth L. Bunzel Zuñi Origin Myths by Ruth L. Bunzel Zuñi Ritual Poetry by Ruth L. Bunzel Zuñi Katcinas by Ruth L. Bunzel

Discusses Earth Guardians, the organization devoted to youth environmental activism, and their current work advocating for a statewide ban on fracking in Colorado. Highlights activist, Xiuihtezcatl Martinez.

Story of the Hantavirus illness, outbreak, deaths, and media attention in the summer of 1993 among the Navajo of the Four Corners (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah).

American Civilization Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2001.

American Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2002.

Describes the annual retreat of a culturally relevant leadership program that empowers young leaders to inspire positive development in their communities.

An examination of the not well documented use of tattoos by female students attending schools in the South West. Discusses why, how and what the tattoos represented for the Indigenous students.

Describes the Ute version of the dance, which originated with the Arapaho.

Book review of: Jackfish by Sarah Felix Burns.

Jicarilla Apache legend told by a medicine man living on a reservation in northwestern New Mexico in 1897.

Looks at the US Army's war against the Navajo, from 1863 to 1868, that saw the Army holding many Navajos at Fort Summer, New Mexico.

Looks at the impact of alcohol and mental disorders on the Indian Health Service tracked by chart reviews.

Explores the significance of discovering four meteorites in an old camp site in eastern Colorado and western Kansas.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Colorado State University, 2011.

Looks at recommendations made by participants in a National Eye Institute survey on educating those at risk of diabetic retinopathy.

Overview provides data on the ethnographic history of the Rocky Mountain National Park region, identifies specific physical, cultural, and spiritual resources within the Park region, and discusses legal, management, and consultative processes.

An investigation into Navajo burial sites and cultural practices. However, due to a lack of data for comparison the author also notes the need for more archeological work in collaboration with the Navajo Nation.

Looks at Navajo photography from a Navajo’s point of view, both as subject and as photographer.

Examines the three reasons behind the conversion of the Navajo, or Diné, to the little-known eastern religion in the early 1960s.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.16 (p.433-450 , 1 map).

Discussion of site dating from around 6500 B.C. which contains a bone-bed of almost 200 bison.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Maryland, 2015.

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

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

Book review of: Rance Hood: Mystic Painter by James J. Hester and Rance Hood.

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

Explores the meaning and implications of ledger drawings made by Aboriginal men in the late nineteenth century within the context of the book culture.

Background history about the creation of the Navajo Community College (NCC). The colleges creation represented to people the establishment of a cross-cultural brokerage intended to overcome assimilationist tendencies.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2000.