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Title: Commercializing craft : Native American artistry at residential schools within the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
Author: Schutt, Jaden
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Off-reservation boarding schools, Indigenous arts
Description: My thesis specifically focused on federally instructed and federally implemented Native American art at residential boarding schools from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Specifically, I analyzed the evolution of the Native art cu...

Title: The contextual characteristics of violent crime against Native American women
Author: Stanley, Michelle A.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Violent crimes
Description: National surveys, reports, and research articles have indicated that Native American women experience some of the highest rates of violence compared to women from other racial or ethnic groups in the United States. Despite these findings, there is...

Title: Civilizing paternalism : Mill, autonomy, and Indian assimilation policies
Author: Lee, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, North America, Assimilation (Sociology), Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Description: John Stuart Mill, a Western philosopher of the Enlightenment period, argues that paternalism is an infringement on an individual’s autonomy. Although Mill argues as such, Western powers have been observed to exercise paternalism by way of imperial...

Title: The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
Author: Kane, Sean
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Despite the plethora of works on the American Revolution and the Cherokee, few scholars have placed the Cherokee within the context of the Revolution. This thesis explores the often overlooked history of the Cherokee during last quarter of the eig...