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  • Recent Dissertations
  • Jonathan Erlen and Jay Toth

April 2008

Bates, Denise Eileen. "Up from obscurity: Indian rights activism and the development of tribal-state relations in the 1970s and the 1980s Deep South." PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2007.
Bitsoi, LeManuel Lee. "Native leaders in the millennium: An examination of success factors of Native American males at Harvard College." PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Cain, Melanie Joy. "An examination of the psychological and cultural factors related to alcohol use in American Indian people." PhD diss., Oklahoma State University, 2007.
Carroll, Kristen Jean. "Place, performance, and social memory in the 1890's Ghost Dance." PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2007.
Dobbs, Gladys Rebecca. "The Indian Trading Path and colonial settlement development in the North Carolina Piedmont." PhD diss., University of North Carolina, 2007.
Dunn, Robert A. "Fever, firepower, and flood: The transformation of the Missouri River bottomlands in the Dakotas, 1804–2005." PhD diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2007.
Dupres, Christine Joy. "Learning what it means to be Indian: The role of performance and genre in cultural renewal within the Cowlitz Indian Tribe." PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Edwards, Mark MacDougall. "Improving education through dialogue and oral tradition: Bridging colonization and cultural difference between Okanagan students, parents, community and non-Aboriginal school leaders." PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2007.
Fair, Ronda S. "Social networks and knowledge systems among the Caddo and Delaware of western Oklahoma." PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 2007. [End Page 591]
Ferreira, George A. "Participatory video for policy development in remote Aboriginal communities." PhD diss., University of Guelph, 2007.
Guilmino, Adam J. "Influential factors affecting the career success of professional Northern Plains Native American males: A qualitative study." PhD diss., University of North Dakota, 2006.
Hamrick, Patricia Rosa. "Coping response of Cherokees with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: A phenomenological study." PsyD diss., Lady of the Lake University, 2007.
Ho, Lara S. "Diabetes prevention in northwestern Ontario First Nations: A multi-institutional program to improve diet and increase physical activity." PhD diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
Innes, Robert Alexander. "The importance of family ties to members of Cowessess First Nation." PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2007.
Kaulaity, Marlinda. "Writing beliefs among Navajo college freshmen." PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2007.
Kollmann, Dana Denise. "Life and death in the eastern woodlands: A bioarchaeological synthesis of seven Late Woodland period mortuary sites in Maryland." PhD diss., American University, 2007.
Lajimodiere, Denise K. "Ogimah Ikwe: Native females and their path to leadership." EdD diss., University of North Dakota, 2006.
Lopez, Jessie Whitehorse. "Treatment alliance with Native American psychotherapy clients." PhD diss., Fielding Graduate University, 2007.
Makes Marks, Luan Fauteck. "Natures of the sacred: On Native North American sacred lands and places." PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007.
Makley, Matthew Stephen. "These will be strong: A history of the Washoe People." PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2007.
Means, Jeffrey D. "From buffalo to beeves: Cattle and the political economy of the Oglala Lakota, 1750–1920." PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 2007.
Mt. Pleasant, Alyssa. "After the whirlwind: Maintaining a Haudenosaunee place at Buffalo Creek, 1780–1825." PhD diss., Cornell University, 2007.
Moore, Ellen K. "Navajo beadwork: Building with light." PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2007.
Nakamura, Naohiro. "Managing cultural representation: Ainu and First Nations museums in Japan and Canada." PhD diss., Queen's University, 2007.
Precht, James H. "The lost tribe wanders no more: Indian gaming and the emergence of Coushatta self-determination." PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2007.
Rahemtulla, Farid. "Design of stone tool technology during the Early Period (ca. 10,000–5,000 BP) at Namu, central coast of British Columbia." PhD diss., Simon Fraser University, 2006. [End Page 592]
Rawlings, Tiffany A. "Faunal analysis and meat procurement: Reconstructing the sexual division of labor at Shields Pueblo, Colorado." PhD diss., Simon Fraser University, 2006.
Roanhorse-Dineyazhe, Maxine. "Recruitment in an American Indian teacher education program: The deciding factors." EdD diss., Arizona State University, 2007.
Roberts, Christina Ann. "The truth to be told: Trauma and healing in selected writing by contemporary North American indigenous women." PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2007.
Roy, Susan. "Who were these mysterious people? The Marpole Midden...

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