Utah

The authors examine the campaign, local media coverage, and the exit poll of the 1994 Navajo presidential campaign and election offer analysis of the even and its significance.

Results from an interview study of eleven women enrolled in a Master of Social Work program in Utah.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

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

Discusses how war changed Native American lives and taught them to walk successfully in two worlds.

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

Highlights of speeches by Morris Thompson (Bureau of Indian Affairs), Chief Dan George (poet, actor), and Deana Jo Harragarra (Miss Indian America XXII) at Brigham Young University.

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.

Comments on the similarities and the differences between various ceremonies and the blending of the past with the present.

Author details the process of engaging local nations and communities in the planning and development of a United States National monument.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1980.

Historical background on the creation of the Southwest-Indian image and on Navajo Country tourism.

Discusses how home and community gardening among the Navajo community plays an important role in diabetes care and intervention.

Combines stories, from three key sources, to highlight Shoshone athletics from 1903 to 1929.

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.

Examines the writings of Brigham Young to reconstruct some of the epidemiological events that affected Indigenous people in what is now Utah while was being colonized.

Looks at the Mormon belief that they have a special responsibility for the welfare and conversion of American Indian peoples.

The Eighth Annual Report of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners includes reports of living conditions on reservations; correspondence and transcripts of meetings between government officials and Aboriginal chiefs and officials; and lists of Indian Agencies with names of tribes and agents. Includes a map of the Nex Perce Indian Reservation located in present-day Idaho.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 2010.

Disputes commonly held archaeological theory of self-sufficiency in the Southwestern communities.

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 the messages conveyed by Native American Indian youth against assimilation, discrimination and their hopes for cultural equity.

Looks at Gladys A. Reichard's book Dezba: Woman of the Desert, a fictional novel based upon her work among the Navajo, which discusses the struggles of a "traditional" mother.

Describes two distinct versions regarding this belief system, Tipi Way and Sioux Way, practiced by the Gosiute.

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).

Examines Father Harold Liebler's Episcopalian (Anglican) mission to the Navajo in Utah and the blending of Navajo and Episcopalian values.

Reports the use of salted grasshoppers as food at Lakeside Cave over the last 5000 years.

Hydrology and Water Resources Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 1994.

Discusses the voluntary foster-care program which places adolescents with Mormon families for a period of one year with the option to return each fall. Towards Anthropology / Archaeology Thesis (B.Sc.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.

Investigates the use of the sovereignty argument in the Goshute nuclear waste proposal debate.

Metalinguistic commentaries about the complicated speech environment for Navajo children assimilated into the public school system.

Addresses the effects of the post 1930's modernization of the Navajo nation on the Navajo youth and elderly.

Reports on the cultural and linguistic barriers encountered by Navajo interpreters during the informed consent process and makes suggestions for adapting it to minority populations.

Summary of results of a study conducted using a representative sample from the Navajo Reservation.

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

Study performed to assess the viability of replacing milk with a traditional ingredient when making meals for seniors eating group meals.

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.

Profiles activities of two post-secondary students. The discussion includes motivations, tactics and what can be learned by other Indigenous student activists.

History Thesis (M.A.)--San Diego State University, 2011.

Examines how the trading post culture was selectively chosen by the Navajo as a means of enriching their lives without sacrificing cultural integrity.

Study found no significant correlation between involvement in traditional culture and lack of academic achievement.

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.

Examines findings dealing with prevalence and prevention of chronic diseases, clinical treatment services and health promotion.

First hand accounts describe the devastating effects caused by the forced destruction of tribal livestock

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

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2000.