South Dakota

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 1974.

Comparison of Paiute Ghost Dance with that of the Sioux.

Investigates literature-based assumptions about gifted Native American youth with input from educators on the Navajo, Standing Rock and Red Lake reservations.

Presents updated interviews originally conducted in 2012, offering a glimpse of how communities are using traditional foods as a way to promote a healthy lifestyle, share cultural knowledge and reclaim a local food system.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2000.

Letter from the Govenor of South Dakota to Bill Bradley addressing and outlining reasons why the Sioux Nations Black Hills Act should not be put forward and passed.

Digital collection of 188 photographs taken between 1887-1892 by John C. H. Grabill.

Attempts to describe structural patterns in Lakota calendar (lunar) system pictographic records and argues they are inherently more of a sacred text than actual historic texts.

Focuses on oral traditions within families and presents a story of a Dakota family's struggles during their removal following the 1862 United States Dakota Conflict in Minnesota.

Discusses how guar (industrial crop) cultivation and processing has the potential to provide higher paying jobs and help build the economy of the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Leadership Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2009.

Health Education and Recreation Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2002.

Investigates the history behind the Black Hills land dispute between the residents of South Dakota, the United States government and the Sioux Nation.

Film about conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, the history behind them and photographer Aaron Huey's efforts to bring to the attention of the American public. Premiered at ShortsFest, Seattle International Film Festival 2012. Duration: 14 min.

Looks at the education system, at the turn of the century, through the eyes of Charlie Twist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who enrolled in the Rapid City Indian School in 1909.

Discusses the attempts to obliterate the Lakotah language and the importance of preserving it as part of the culture.

Discusses the need for culturally responsive care for American Indian Elders.

Study looked one predominately White institution lacking Native American organizations and found that increased social interactions had a positive impact on grades, but reduced graduation rates.

Comments on a program, involving teachers, parents and students, designed to increase the reading proficiency of children on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Legal history of gambling, the passing of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and why the United States has a problem with the management of Native American gaming.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples and Collaborative Stewardship of Nature by Anne Ross, Kathleen Pickering Sherman, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Henry D. Delcore and Richard Sherman. Review located by scrolling to page 169.

Family and Consumer Sciences Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 2010.

Overview of the Institute of American Indian Studies founded in 1955 at the University of South Dakota.

Highlights potential problems and pitfalls which foreign policy analysts and practitioners should be aware of when seeking to learn from and about Indigenous diplomacies.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997.

Discusses the roots of conflict in the institution of tribalism and postulates this was a precursor to later conflict with the settlers.

Article details the contents of an interview conducted by Devon A. Mihesuah with Denise and Deborah Maloney-Pictou, the daughters of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and a Mi'kmaq-Canadian who was found murdered in 1976 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The has been much speculation surrounding her death and in relation to the 1972-73 Takeover of Wounded Knee, FBI/AIM involvement, and the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Utah State University, 1997.

Comments on a student production, Wojapi, a show inspired by Sesame Street, which features Lakota words and promotes Lakota language, culture and values.

A history of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs' investigation into the Ghost Dance prophet Jack Wilson in the late eighteenth century. The investigation was filled with miscommunication, disinterest and confusion regarding the Ghost Dance and the identity of the "Indian Messiah".

Study concludes that multiple Paleoindian point types occurred simultaneously on the central and northern Great Plains.

Book review of: Lakota Culture, World Economy by Kathleen Ann Pickering

Comments on a language preservation project created by a man who wanted to keep histories, stories and genealogies recorded for generations to come.

Author reflects on the international legal standards regarding the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty of Black Hills between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.

Presents the postpositions of the Lakota language.

Book review of: Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women edited by Karl Markus Kreis.

English Thesis (M.A.) Tarleton State University, 1997.

Description of the transition to reservation life faced by the Plains Sioux.

Looks at coverage in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times of happenings in North and South Dakota for one month prior to and two weeks after the leader was shot and killed.

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

Liberal Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Christian University, 2013.