Connecticut

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2011.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003.

Author looks at her formative years, living with her parents and living in a Children's Home. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 115.

Comments on an early Iroquois corn husk doll dating from the 1850-75 period.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite by Francis La Flesche Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine by Frank G. Speck Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary by Frank G. Speck Picuris Children's Stories by John P. Harrington and Helen H. Roberts Iroquoian Cosmology - Second Part by J. N. B. Hewitt

Looks into the question of whether profits from Native American gaming helped to establish or expand Native American museums and cultural centers as venues for cultural self-representation. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.

Author reminisces of growing up on a reserve in Connecticut.

Discusses the Indian Wars of the seventeenth century in New England, including casualty estimates.

Author examines the financial successes the Pequot nation has achieved through the Foxwood Casino and other ventures; considers the strategies used by the nation and how those strategies have allowed for success.

Describes a casino manager's efforts in dealing with Type 2 diabetes and promoting positive lifestyle changes for himself and his employees.

As tribal historic preservation officer for the federally unrecognized Brothertown Indian Nation, the author uses their own personal experience of attempting repatriation of a pipe under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to discuss the process to prove connection, justify legal status according to federal criteria, and how their recognition status was exploited by the museum community.

Argues that a closer look at humour, in the work of Rowlandson, provides readers with a greater understanding of the Algonquian side of early cross-cultural relations and reveals the ways in which cultural discomfort and disharmony are not rare, but rather integral concepts for early American identity.

Looks at the promotion of home-building programs on reservations, from the white imagination to the realities of tribal life, by examining instances of attempted domestic reform.

Discusses the history and policies of Moor's School, an institution founded by a Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock in 1754.

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

Looks at the sermon delivered at the execution of Moses Paul. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Description of the migrations of the Wapanakamikok or Eastern Land People and the Algonkian family dialects, which have gradually changed from village to village.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2010.

A biographical look at the life and literacy work of one of the first Indigenous writers Samson Occom.

Analyzes the autobiography A Son of the Forest in terms of the author's references to the reservation and what this says about the tribe's political identity and sovereignty.

Provides case updates from various states.