Recent Dissertations

February 2005

Brown, Francis Lee. “Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Development of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy.” PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2004.

Cosgrove, Sondra Kae. “Biology, Culture, and Environment: The Struggle for Hegemony in Arizona.” PhD diss., University of Nevada, 2004.

Davidson, Bonita Marie. “Comparability of Test Scores for Non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal Students.” PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2004.

Hernandez, Rebecca Sarah. “Past is Perfect in the Present Tense: Exhibiting Native America in Museums and Culture Centers.” PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2004.

Johnson, Pamela Jo. “The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on American Indian Infant Death.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2004.

Kamata, Jun. “Coalition Building for Indigenous Justice: American Indian Sovereignty and Struggles in Ward Valley, California.” PhD diss., University of California, 2004.

Kinnahan, Thomas P. “Framing the View: The Western Landscape and Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Expansion.” PhD diss., West Virginia University, 2003.

Lee, Lloyd L. “21st Century Dine Cultural Identity: Defining and Practicing Sa’ah Naaghai Bik’eh Hozhoon.” PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2004.

Rice, David A. “Mediating Colonization: Urban Indians in the Native American Novel.” PhD diss., University of Connecticut, 2004.

Taylor, Christopher Alan. “An Approach to Diabetes Prevention among Native Americans in Oklahoma.” PhD diss., Oklahoma State University, 2004.

Thomas, Matthew M. “Where the Forest Meets the Farm: A Comparison of Spatial and Historical Change in the Euro-American and American Indian Maple Production Landscape.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2004.

Troutman, John William. “Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890–1935.” PhD diss., University of Texas–Austin, 2004.

March 2005

Blackbear, JoLee Webb. “Experiences of American Indian Students: The Impact of the Michigan Indian Leadership Program.” PhD diss., Michigan State University, 2004.

Cerveny, Lee K. “Tourism and Transformations in the Alaska Frontier: A Study of Tourism Growth and Its Effects on Three Southeast Alaska Communities.” PhD diss., Syracuse University, 2004.

Cheng, Sheng Yao. “The Politics of Identity and Schooling: A Comparative Case Study of American Indians and Taiwan Aborigines.” PhD diss., University of California, 2004.

Cook, Robert Allan. “Upper Mississippian Village Structure and Formation: Spatial Analysis of Sun Watch, a Fort Ancient Site in Southwest Ohio.” PhD diss., Michigan State University, 2004.

Ettenger, Kreg Todd. “Siipii, Uuchii, Minishtikw, Istchii: Development, Conflict and Local Knowledge in Eeyou Istchee, Northern Quebec.” PhD diss., Syracuse University, 2004.

Finger, Roland Patrick. “Native Americans and Manifest Domesticity.” PhD diss., University of California, 2004.

Geddes, Jacqueline L. “Good Supervision as Experienced by Advanced American Indian Doctoral Students: A Phenomenological Study.” PhD diss., Washington State University, 2004.

Gupta, Pallavi. “Stealing the Horses: The Representation of Non-Natives in Native Canadian Literature.” PhD diss., Dalhousie University, 2004.

Jacob, Michelle Marie. “An Embodied Social Problem: Understanding Diabetes on an American Indian Reservation.” PhD diss., University of California, 2004.

Lackenbauer, P. Whitney. “Vanishing Indian, Vanishing Military: Military Training and Aboriginal Lands in Twentieth Century Canada.” PhD diss., University of Calgary, 2004.

Myers, Donna J. “Salt Pork and Roastin’ Ear: Food and Cooking in a Yuchi Community.” PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 2004.

Richland, Justin B. “Arguing with Tradition in Hopi Tribal Court: Interaction, Ideologies, and Interpretation in American Indian Jurisprudence.” PhD diss., University of California, 2004.

Rine, Holy Anne. “Intercultural Contact and the Creation of Albany’s New Diplomatic Landscape, 1647–1680.” PhD diss., University of New Hampshire, 2004.

Sherwood, Andrea Rae. “Neuropsychological Test Performance among Navajo Native Americans: A Normative Sample.” PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2004.

Stinson, Lori Guenthner. “An Exploration of Native Nurse Leadership: Stories of the People.” PhD diss., University of Idaho, 2004.

Sullivan, Sharon L. “Drama by Contemporary Native American Women.” PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2004.

Vaughan, Margaret Ann Mortensen. “How Can You Love the Wolf and the Eskimo at the Same Time?: Representations of Indigenous People in Nature Magazines.” PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2004.

Wahpeconiah, Tammy J. “This Once Savage Heart of Mine: Rhetorical Strategies of Survival in Early Native American Writing.” PhD diss., Michigan State University, 2004.

Walker, Robert S. “Evolution of the Human Life History: Ontogeny and Behavior in Two South American Indigenous Populations.” PhD diss., University...