Oklahoma

Looks at Poolaw's technique of dramatically posing subjects which he gained through film-making experience and provides an overview of various photographs taken.

Offers an overview of the contours of tribal official immunity in federal, state and tribal courts.

Presents an analysis of the exception made for Indigenous languages in the amendment to the state constitution.

Reports on two colleges that have been accepted into the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) and discusses the criteria necessary to be accepted.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

Discusses how the resurgence of the Stomp dance, a Native American religious and social dance, is keeping the Eastern Woodlands tribes alive and well. Access through table of contents.

Compares oral accounts of the battle in Oklahoma by the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache to non-Indian historical description.

Study investigates the perceptions concerning their fathers from selected adolescents enrolled in Chilocco Indian School, Kay County, Oklahoma.

Discusses the views of participants in a summer residential enrichment program.

Synopsis of results of study to determine whether positive emotions such as hope and optimism mitigate thoughts of suicide. Used group of college students from Oklahoma as sample.

Article uses archival and ethnographic evidence to examine land tenure within a southwestern Oklahoma county; examines how the system created to protect the rights of Indigenous landowners actually functions to redirect access to the land, to the economic benefit of non-Indigenous ranchers and farmers.

Looks at two instances in which the Department overrode community concerns: closure of two off-reservation boarding schools and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.

History of Native American settlements in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the impact of the Indian Removal Act of 1883 when discussed in relation to Native American assistance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Book review of: Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian by Shirley A. Leckie.

Proposes culturally appropriate methods of communication in order to improve the participation rate in programs.

Looks at designs and construction of bags made by Apache groups in the early twentieth century and sold in Oklahoma. Includes photographs.

Use of the peyote plant among the Kiowa, Kickapoo, Shawnee and Wichita of Oklahoma.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2004.

Cover artist for the issue articulates the inspiration for his illustration.

Looks at a holistic model of assessment to evaluate language revitalization program developed by the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Chapter from Nurturing Native Languages edited by Joh Reyhner, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Roberto Luis Carrasco and Louise Lockard.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2000.

Discusses the impact on retention when students experience a clash between their cultural beliefs and the system in post-secondary institutions. Author conducted survey of 101 first-year students enrolled at University of Oklahoma in 1975 to test this theory.

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

Discusses the connection between the Chickasaw people's relationship with water and efforts at resource management and themes in the novels Mean Spirit, Power, Solar Storms, and People of the Whale.

Looks at the newspaper The Indian Chieftain's role in the formation of Native American identity.

Study probes the correlations between blood pressure and risk factors in a predominantly American Indian school district.

Description of Rainy Mountain School as well as students' memories of their experiences at the school.

Contends that students who were involved with the Healthy Kids Project showed high rates of excess weight, with American Indians and African Americans at the greatest risk.

Book review of: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan.

Book review of: Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs by Thomas Henry Tibbles.

Highlights of the author's childhood memories.

Looks at Lotsee Patterson's determination to obtain federal grants that would allow her to open local tribal libraries, thereby setting the groundwork for many more across the United States.

Discusses the play, published in 1936, which centered around culturally displaced mixed-blood youths in Oklahoma

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Memphis, 2009.

Book review of: Capture These Indians for the Lord by Tash Smith.

Book review of: Capture These Indians for the Lord by Tash Smith.

Examines the relationship between work, profit, and the land in Mean Spirit; and invites the reader to think and act on the issues, such as the health of our culture and our physical world. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2001.

Discusses the history & conditions of boarding schools and the impact on Native children.

Discussion of the Gourd Dance experience in southwestern Oklahoma among the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, and Chirichaua Apache.

A historical perspective on the boarding school experience.

Study compared 72 Cherokee students to 72 Anglo-American students enrolled in public elementary schools; looked at age and sex trends, cross-cultural differences in cooporative and competitive behaviour, and how those behaviours might affect academic achievement.

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

Looks at the historiography of the Cherokee Nation.

Comments on role women play in removal, how removal affected their lives, and questions whether their views differed from those of men.

Looks at photographs taken by W. P. Bliss at Fort Sill in the late 1870s.

Author discusses their experience of visiting the National Museum of the American Indian during its inaugural week.