United States Government

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1938.

Website created as an educational tool for teaching about the history, culture and language of the Métis and Ojibwe people through stories and other information.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

Gives an overview of American paleontology relationship with Native American Reservations.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Nebraska, 2010.

American History Thesis (M.A.)--Emporia State University, 1993.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

History/Museum Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Oklahoma, 2010.

Discusses how the Mexican-U.S. border has impacted this bi-national group's perceptions of identity and transnational relationships by looking at the experiences of ceremonial leader José Matus.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

Analyzes content of New Reclamation Era and Reclamation Era magazines published by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation between 1924 and 1942 to show how it promoted settler narratives around waterways, their damming and diversion, and completely ignored the presence of the Indigenous population. Contrasts this to treatment of the subject in Lawney L. Reyes’ B Street and James Welch’s Winter in the Blood.

Book review of: Documents of Native American Political Development: 1500s to 1933 edited by David E. Wilkins.

American Studies and Ethnicity Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2011.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--American University, 2002.

Reports on the lack of a reparations program for indigenous peoples in the United States.

Looks at structural and cultural violence against American Indian women. Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth College, University of Massachusetts, 2011.

Argues that the Canadian experience of joint government/church involvement in residential schools proves the validity of American policy of separation of church and state, and the court decisions which upheld it.

Looks at the Senaca's resisting the Indian Removal Act by requesting aid through the US government. However, as this article discusses, these requests served to both fight against their own displacement and strengthen their own claims of sovereignty.

Focuses on the Anishnaabe and changes they made in their negotiation tactics, away from a process dependant on ceremony, formal rhetoric and consensus decision-making, in order to remain on their land.

Expresses hopes that the Alcatraz occupation created a consciousness that would reach into the lives of Native American youth and perhaps white Americans.

Examines the 1988 U.S. Indian Gaming Regulatory Act as a vehicle for self-government; also argues that there is a need to look at pathological gambling behaviour in the state.

Article discusses the different understandings of property and ownership that exist in United States law and in the treaties with Indigenous peoples; examines the different implications of property rights and how they are exercised with regards to mineral rights and hunting and fishing rights.

Reports on U.S. Office of Indian Education grants to train 16 qualified people to become teachers and administrators.

Found that the number of people with diabetes increased as the percentage of patients receiving foot, eye and dental exams decreased.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2005.

Discusses satisfaction with community response to needs of persons with disabilities and compares response groups. Suggests empowerment is from local level up because solutions are driven by the people.

[Political History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

Applied Economics Thesis (M.Sc.)--Montana State University, 1992.

Republished from Trahant Reports, March 6, 2017.

Examines the discourse around two different contested pipeline projects; discusses rhetorical elements including the difference between “claimed” and “government sanctioned” spaces, and whether the perspectives are consistent with or counter to mainstream perspectives. Highlights the differences in worldviews, understandings of cause and effect, and conceptualizations of time and space and the role these differences play.

Publication of paper presented at Western Social Science Association 2018 Meeting, American Indian Studies Section; compares energy efficiency of the home-building materials and techniques of the Navajo Nation with those of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Public and Indian Housing. Argues for federal policies and programs that incorporate local Indigenous knowledge.

Considers the issue of repatriation of human remains as an ethical/cultural conflict within the field of archaeology; discusses means of resolving this conflict based in negotiation and mutual respect; concludes that archaeology must “change the way it does business,” and presents a course for this change.

Analyzes the relationship between ethnicity and gender in two peripheral contexts, among Basotho women of Lesotho and Navajo women of the American Southwest.

Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2011.

Book review of: Exiles and Pioneers by John P. Bowes.

Examines the new codes for different ethnic groups in the Medicare database and concludes that coverage is incomplete and biased.

Indigenous Nations Studies Program Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2008.

Overview of workshop discussing Native American traditional justice practices and the federal efforts needed as support. Lists goals and discussions from four panels.