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Title: Carmen Juárez Juárez oral history interview, September 6, 2002
Creator: Juárez Juárez, Carmen, 1958-
Date Created: 2002-09-06
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration, Immigrants--Social conditions, Latin Americans--Ethnic identity, Hispanic American families, Biculturalism, Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs, Indigenous peoples
Description: Maria del Carmen Juarez Juarez, known as "Carmen," discusses her experiences in the United States after emigrating from Irapuato, Mexico around 1987. Ms. Juarez talks about her perspective on differences between Latin American and American culture...

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: 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: Genocide Activism: Generational Interpretations within African American and Native American Organizations, 1948-1978
Author: Marlowe, Kathryn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples
Description: This thesis is a comparative analysis of Native American and African American activist strategies from the immediate post-WWII era to the height of the Civil Rights Era using a term I call "genocide activism." Genocide activism is when a group or ...

Title: Isaac, Welch [1] oral history interview 1997-08-30
Creator: Isaac, Welch
Date Created: 8/30/97
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Cherokee Indians
Description: He discusses Cherokee identity and traditions that he inherited, as well as issues surrounding his race during the 1960s and 1970s. He also describes his experiences fighting in the Vietnam War, on one hand noting that he was in his "element" amon...

Title: Isaac, Welch [2] oral history interview 1998-19-07
Creator: Isaac, Welch
Date Created: 1998-19-07
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Cherokee Indians
Description: He talks about the importance of maintaining a strong Cherokee bloodline and even discusses the new biotechnological advances of mapping out the human genome as a means to preserve the pure Cherokee bloodline for the future. Isaac discusses the di...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 1, 2021 May 12
Creator: Windmeyer, Shane L.
Date Created: 2021-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Greek letter societies, Intersectionality (Sociology), College students, LGBTQ+ people, Gay activists, NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Indigenous peoples
Description: Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, founder and executive director of Campus Pride (a leading national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment fo...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 2, 2021 May 27
Creator: Windmeyer, Shane L.
Date Created: 2021-05-27
Subjects--Topical: LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous peoples, COVID-19 (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects
Description: In this second interview, Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, founder and executive director of Campus Pride (a leading national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a sa...

Title: Shane L. Windmeyer oral history interview 5, 2022 August 30
Date Created: 2022-08-30
Subjects--Topical: Two-spirit people, Gay activists, LGBTQ+ people, Indigenous peoples, COVID-19 (Disease), College students
Description: In this fifth interview, Shane L. Windmeyer, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, LGBTQ+ campus pioneer and civil rights champion, author and editor of numerous LGBTQ+ college related books, founder and executive director of Campus P...

Title: Swimmer, Amanda [1] oral history interview 1995-10-13
Creator: Swimmer, Amanda
Date Created: 10/13/95
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Cherokee Indians
Description: Swimmer describes her family background and life on the reservation, as well as her involvement with the Oconaluftee Indian Village where she worked for 35 years. Despite depravations during childhood, Swimmer sees the past as preferable to the fu...

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...

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...