Recent Dissertations

June 2009

Aquash, Mark. "Decolonization and First Nations control of education." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2008.

Berndt, Christina Gish. "Kinship as strategic political action: The Northern Cheyenne response to the imposition of the nation-state." PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2008.

Bohaker, Heidi Rosemary. "Nindoodemag: Anishinaabe identities in the eastern Great Lakes region, 1600-1900." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2006.

Cypher, Kimberly Anne. "The impact of the least restrictive environment for American Indian high school students on an IEP." PhD diss., Capella University, 2008.

Dumas, Ashley Ann. "The role of salt in the Late Woodland to Early Mississippian transition in southwest Alabama." PhD diss., University of Alabama, 2007.

Gavigan, Shelley Ann Marie. "Criminal law on the Aboriginal plains: The First Nations and first criminal court in the North-West territories, 1870-1903." SJD diss., University of Toronto, 2008.

Gilmore, Kevin Philip. "The context of culture change: Environment, population, and prehistory in eastern Colorado, 1000 B.C.-1540 A.D." PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2008.

Grant-Costa, Paul Joseph. "The last Indian war in New England: The Mohegan Indians v. the Governour and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, 1703-1774." PhD diss., Yale University, 2008.

Harvey, Douglas S. "Theater and empire: A history of assumptions in the English-speaking Atlantic world, 1700-1860." PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2008.

Hicks, Sarah Lynn. "Determinants of and variation in large foundations' grant making to Native America." PhD diss., Washington University, 2008.

Hogg, Wendell Blaine. "Teacher's perceptions of First Nations, Métis and Inuit students in Alberta." EdD diss., University of Montana, 2008.

House, Susan. "Perceiving leadership within a tribal organization: A study of leaders of a Native American tribe." PhD diss., Capella University, 2008.

Jackson, Florida J. "The comparison of reading comprehension using dual language, full immersion, and sheltered English immersion instructional programs for Navajo students." EdD diss., Arizona State University, 2008.

Johnson, Nalo M. "The history of the founding of the Legal Rights Center: A study in coalition between the black and American Indian communities of Minneapolis." PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2008.

Katz, Maria. "An investigation into the use of retention as an intervention strategy for struggling students as measured by student success on FCAT in Seminole County." PhD diss., University of Central Florida, 2008.

Kelly, Linda. "Experiencing higher education in Louisiana through a Native American lens." PhD diss., University of Louisiana, 2008.

Leibowitz, Rachel. "Constructing the Navajo capital: Landscape, power, and representation at Window Rock." PhD diss., University of Illinois, 2008.

Macfarlane, Heather. "Road work: Theorizing the road trip narrative in Anglo-phone, Quebecois and Indigenous literatures in Canada." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2007.

Mair Tiessen, Melissa Shannon. "Collective control, cultural identity, and the psychological well-being of northern Manitoba Cree youth." PhD diss., University of Calgary, 2007.

McCleary, Timothy Paul. "Ghosts on the Land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) interpretations of rock art." PhD diss., University of Illinois, 2008.

Motes, Kevin Daniel. "The nation must change: Socio-cultural acclimation and instantiations of ethnic identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1830-1907." PhD diss., University of California, 2008.

Murray, Keat. "Dissembling gentlemen and pretended purposes in the early republic: Constructing Indians and gentlemen in the writings of John Heckewelder and James Fenimore Cooper, 1760-1830." PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008.

Parrish, Mark Stephen. "Counseling Native Americans: Clinician's perceptions of counseling competencies and characteristics essential to working with Native American clients." PhD diss., Auburn University, 2008.

Rodriguez, Roberto Garcia. "Centeozintli: Sacred maize. A 7,000 year ceremonial discourse." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, 2008.

Scott, Christopher E. "An investigation of the impact of speaking the Lumbee Dialect on the academic achievement and identity development of Native American college students." PhD diss., University of North Carolina, 2008.

Smith, Keith Douglas. "An Indian is almost free as any other person: Exclusionary liberalism, surveillance and indigenous resistance in southern Alberta and the British Columbia interior, 1877 to 1927." PhD diss., University of Calgary, 2008.

Stromme, LuAnn J. "Patterns of grievance in Native American families with fetal/infant/child death." PhD diss., North Dakota State University, 2007.

Turner, Jennifer Louise. "From savagery to slavery: Upper Louisiana and...