Colonialism, boarding schools, loss of culture and the pressures of modern society have helped contribute to feelings of hopelessness and have caused generations of trauma, post-traumatic stress and other suicidal behaviors. These intense issues have . . .

This study aimed to examine the incidence of osteoarthritis in adult individuals from the Arikara Native American population. Samples from pre-contact, contact, and post-contact periods were broken down by sex and age to test the hypothesis that osteo . . .

Archives are critical sites for investigating intersections in contested history, for mapping the social and material landscape upon which humans engage with one another—violently, unsteadily, compassionately, creatively—and for expanding the depth of . . .

Bioarchaeologists have used fluctuating asymmetry to compare the levels of environmental stress a skeletal population may have encountered during life. Fluctuating asymmetry is traditionally scored on the dentition, though recent studies have also exa . . .

This thesis research examines diabetes as one playing field on which Native groups and individuals reposition and reassert identity by simultaneously exploiting the language and premises of biomedicine to frame and to inform traditional Native concept . . .

Lack of a culturally relevant education in a southern California community demonstrates the need to determine best practice criteria to improve outcomes for Native American high school students, who are suspended more than peers and score well below d . . .

In this project, I examine texts created by three contemporary Native North American writers, Cherokee author Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, Kickapoo artist Arigon Starr’s Super Indian: Volume One and Volume Two, and Blackfeet novelist Step . . .

This thesis explores the novels Winter in the Blood by James Welch (Blackfeet/ Gros Ventre), Ghost Singer by Anna Lee Walters (Pawnee/ Otoe-Missouria), and Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling (Salish). My analyses of these novels focus on representation . . .

Off-Reservation / Urban American Indian people are haunted by multi-generational historical trauma that carries over into generations of today. Through governmental termination and forced assimilation practices, families were torn apart, and parenting . . .

A sample of sixteen homicides occurring in Humboldt County, California was used to compare the Times-Standard’s treatment of homicides in 1982, 1995, and 2009. The sample examined eight homicide cases involving a Native American victim or suspect and . . .