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2025

As the United States Senate debated the ratification of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Federalists argued against the acquisition that would double the size of the United States. Delaware’s Senator Samuel White, along with other Federalist opponents of the Louisiana Purchase, favored American access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans, but he questioned the need for such a “new, immense, and unbounded world.” According to White, it would only be a matter of time before American citizens would enter Louisiana and thus distance themselves by two or three thousand miles from the country’s government, becoming alienated from the eastern United States.3 Similarly, Rufus King, who served as American foreign minister to Great Britain at the time, expressed concerns that Louisiana would be “too extensive” to govern effectively.4 On

2025, Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology

The Ayers Rock site (CA-INY-134) was excavated around 1962 by the Archaeological Survey Association
(ASA), and the collection is curated at the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, CA. An analysis of the
collection was published by Whitley et al. in 2005. We re-analyzed the collection and conclude that the loci
have quite different occupation histories, spanning the Paleoindian Period to proto-historic; the west end
of Locus 1, near the “monolith” (the huge boulder referred to as Ayers Rock), had a strong Pinto Period
occupation, and a physically disjointed area of the locus was used lightly in the Haiwee and Marana
Periods. The other two loci do not have a Pinto component but were used in the Newberry through protohistoric
periods. We also found the site to have a previously unrecognized Paleoindian component.

2025, Educational Theory

In this essay Justin Pack responds to Vine Deloria, Jr., and Daniel Wildcat's call to “indigenize education” by exploring what that entails both in his own life and for his teaching. Recognizing the power of place in Native American metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics is essential to the project of indigenizing education, according to Pack. He recounts how reading Deloria and Wildcat's Power and Place: Indian Education in America as a graduate student radically changed his perception of and relation to place, instilling in him the insight that knowing the history of a place is key to gaining a sense of one's connection to place. This realization, in turn, influenced Pack's approach to teaching. He came to understand that passing his changed perception and experience of place along to his students helped their development of critical thinking skills by exposing them to a metaphysics radically different from Western epistemology and ethics and by opening a path for t...

2025, Cogent Social Sciences

The illicit tobacco trade accounts for 10% of the global cigarette market and results in US$31 billion in lost tax revenues annually. Despite legal prosecution of tobacco companies, and the introduction of new policy responses, the trade has reached an all-time high. Previous research documents how transnational tobacco companies have sought to influence government responses to the illicit trade in various countries through multiple means, including influencing of news media framing. This paper extends this analysis to Canada where the illicit trade is particularly problematic in scale and political complexity. Articles in Canadian newspapers, published from 2010-2015, were systematically searched (n = 177) and analysed to identify dominant frames, frame sponsors and policy positions related to the illicit tobacco trade. The results show that the most common frames present the issue in ways favourable to the industry. The most common non-governmental sponsors of these frames frequently have links to the tobacco industry, which are rarely disclosed. Findings indicate the need for Canadian media to be critical in its use of data sources amid industry efforts to shape public policy, and the importance of reframing policy discussions in public health terms based on independent evidence.

2025

This article reviews the literature on culturally responsive schooling (CRS) for Indigenous youth with an eye toward how we might provide more equitable and culturally responsive education within the current context of standardization and accountability. Although CRS for Indigenous youth has been advocated for over the past 40 years, schools and classrooms are failing to meet the needs of Indigenous students. The authors suggest that although the plethora of writing on CRS reviewed here is insightful, it has had little impact on what teachers do because it is too easily reduced to essentializations, meaningless generalizations, or trivial anecdotes-none of which result in systemic, institutional, or lasting changes to schools serving Indigenous youth. The authors argue for a more central and explicit focus on sovereignty and self-determination, racism, and Indigenous epistemologies in future work on CRS for Indigenous youth.

2025

RESUMEN: Durante el periodo bajomedieval, las monarquías europeas y la castellana en particular asistieron a una “revolución” fiscal en consonancia con el proceso de formación del “Estado” moderno. En dicho marco, la monarquía se... more

2025

As I am writing this, it is the 100th anniversary of my father's birth, my spiritual father's birth. Robert E. Gard-the man who taught me what matters most. I am sure that he celebrated both his birthday and Independence Day sitting with his own father on the front porch of their farmhouse in Iola, Kansas-the fields defining heaven as they listened to the wind in the corn. Bob knew, as he would often say, that "Where tillage begins, art follows." I was 21 when we met. I was a student looking for summer work. I found him standing in a long box car of an office in historic Ag Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus. He looked like Abraham Lincoln. The job that I was seeking had already been filled, but he asked me to sit and tell him something of my story. Yes, I grew up in the oldest town in Wisconsin, De Pere. The parish of my boyhood was founded by the Jesuits in 1671. I loved to wander through the village listening to people's stories. I guess Bob saw in me a younger, kindred spirit. He hired me, then and there, to be his assistant and we began what would be more than twenty years of adventures. Roles would change, but our work remained the same. Bob Gard could find the intimate space in anyone's heart. We traveled the back roads of Wisconsin doing research for the many books we worked on together. We also taught workshops-how to make art from the experiences of day-to-day living. Bob taught me about indigenous art, grassroots art. He awakened more hearts than anyone I know. I remember vividly a winter night in a small town, a gathering of folks in a church basement-a woman had been waiting a lifetime to be encouraged to tell her story. She did so simply, plainly, powerfully. The walls disappeared. Write, draw, paint, act, sing, dance-change the face of America! Tell a story-your story. Before you is Robert E. Gard in his own words. Oh, the experience you Preface viii will have! He was our 20th Century Whitman. He knew what matters most in life-the commonplace given meaning in its telling. Bob had his voice as you have yours. His legacy is rooted in you giving voice to yours.

2025

Indian youth, buffering the effects of traumatic events on later pathology. Buffering hypotheses are commonly analyzed using an interaction term in multiple regression. This paper uses both regression and Analysis Of Variance to test whether enculturation buffers or reduces the effect of exposure to traumatic event on behavioral health outcomes in a sample of 401 American Indian youth. Significantly, cultural factors may not be buffers of traumatic events. Analysis Of Variance adds additional information revealing that the cultural factor tested corresponded to increased symptoms, and that exposure to traumatic events increases total symptoms in both high and low enculturation groups.

2025, The Claremont Review of Books

The manifold contradictions of identity politics invite us to look beyond the misleading kumbaya rhetoric and examine its actual goals. There is one question in particular the identitarians are careful to avoid, as it goes to the heart of their project. Identity politics has identified the most privileged, bigoted, and therefore problematic identity groups, who together prop up the oppressive American regime: whites, but also men and the non-LGBTQ (i.e., straights and so-called “cisgender” people who believe their biological sex aligns with their identity). These oppressor groups intersect to produce the straight white cis male, who is blamed for almost all of the world’s ills. Identitarian social justice, like all forms of justice, demands the guilty be punished. What, then, is to be done with this
Great Straight White Cis Male Satan and the defining elements of his identity?

2025, Who Rules?: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

To the casual observer, the professed goals of contemporary identity politics appear unassailable. Who, after all, wouldn't want to build a more inclusive democracy? How could anyone oppose granting rights to the oppressed, the marginalized, and the stigmatized? As a student once asked me, incredulously, "Isn't it better to love than to hate?" The appeal of identity politics is further reinforced by its powerful morality tale. After confronting us with the injustices visited upon women, black people, homosexuals, and any other number of victimized identity groups, social justice arbiters then claim for themselves the exclusive mantle of justice. On the one side are the baddies who are at best unaware of America's structural inequities and their own unearned privilege, or at worst just plain bigoted. On the other side are the good guys, the identitarian coalition of the "woke" and the "oppressed" fighting for social justice. You're either a racist or an anti-racist. Tertium non datur. Cracks, however, soon begin to appear in the colorful mural of identity politics. The progress of social justice, it turns out, always comes at the expense of certain core natural and civil rights. Freedom of association had to be sacrificed to end discrimination. Free speech will suffer the same fate if hate speech is to be eradicated. As will due process rights for men accused of rape if #MeToo has its way. More "rights" for more people, it turns out, also means fewer rights for some people. The language of love and inclusion is particularly deceptive in that it gives cover to a deeply intolerant mindset. Like all ideologues, identitarians brook no

2025, Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey

Excavations at the Havens Site in the Herbertsville section of Brick Township, Ocean County, New Jersey identified a Middle Woodland period Fox Creek Phase cultural occupation component in an east Jersey section of the Outer Coastal Plain. This ephemeral, seasonal site, with previously unreported large Fox Creek Phase occupations in central New Jersey along the South River, a drainage of the Raritan River, helps establish a broader array of such cultural phase occupations in New Jersey. This site and the area near the South River also yielded argillite Petalas blade caches and Abbott Zoned pottery, material indicative of fish processing centers and ceremonial activities.

2025, The AAG review of books

2025, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

A long tradition of scholarship has centered Eadweard Muybridge in Amer-
ican film and photographic history. Despite that centrality, Muybridge’s
photography of the Modoc War, a campaign to exterminate and relocate the
Modoc people, has received scant attention. Drawing on recent historical
scholarship on the Modoc War, this article revisits Muybridge’s photographs
of the war to consider their vision of California’s Native people and their
ancestral territory and argues that Muybridge’s stereographic images laid the
generic groundwork for the Western genre’s settler-colonial imagination of
the nineteenth-century West.

2025

The Northwest Coast tribes were divided into three groups: the northern (Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida), central (Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Bella-Coola), and southern (Coast, Salish, and Chinook). The northern tribes had a matrilineal clan... more

2025, NEL WEST. ATTRAVERSO LE MONTAGNE ROCCIOSE, IL SUD-OVEST, I DESERTI DELLA CALIFORNIA MERIDIONALE. I ediz., Publisher: Amazon KDP

IN THE WEST. ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE SOUTHWEST, THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Denver, the capital of Colorado, "gateway" to the Far West

2025, Shadow in Scorpio

Art catalogue 2024.

2025, East-West Cultural Passage

This article aims to explore the transformative potential of community-specific Indigenous theatre in reshaping socio-political and ecological landscapes, with reference to Alaxsxa | Alaska (2017) by Ping Chong + Company, one of the most prominent companies of the New York City theatre scene of the past fifty years. In conversation with recent theoretical and practice-oriented accounts of ecodramaturgy, the following analysis proposes: (1) to document the agenda of community engagement undergirding the play's development, production, and reception, drawing on ethnographic material; (2) to clarify its contributions to developing an Indigenized perspective on Alaska's history, with a focus on the impact of ecological disasters on its human and more-than-human worlds; and (3) to outline the afterlives of the project, particularly in and for Alaska Native communities, while reflecting on the broader implications of this legacy for contemporary ecologies of performance.

2025, Americanía. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos

En el presente artículo se revisan los principales elementos arquitectónicos y el trazado urbano que caracterizaba a los pueblos de misión establecidos a las orillas del río Marañón, por los padres de la Compañía de Jesús, entre los años de 1638 y 1767. El complejo misional de Maynas era administrado por la antigua provincia jesuítica del Nuevo Reino y se encontraba en la jurisdicción de la Real Audiencia de Quito. Más allá de su finalidad espiritual, se pretende analizar a las misiones jesuíticas como complejos urbanos en donde se conformaron elementos arquitectónicos relevantes para la autonomía misionera. Gracias a la revisión de algunas crónicas, diarios e informes escritos por distintos misioneros de la región, como Francisco de Figueroa, Pablo Maroni y Manuel Uriarte, podemos encontrar el registro de esta arquitectura misionera.

2025

The Athapascan-speaking people include the Navaho (or Dine), the Western Apache, and the Jicarrila Apache. They arrived in the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 A.D. The Navahos were relative newcomers to the region, not arriving in great... more

2025, Intersticios. Revista sociológica de pensamiento crítico

There is a strong controversy of how disability should be understood and if the models suggested in the minority world can or should be used in other places. Is the social model as relevant to the disabled people in the majority world as it is to disabled people in the minority world? It is exactly part of this controversy that we will try to examine in this paper. This article will begin by defining key concepts relevant to the discussion and following that it will address issues and questions raised by critics of the social model and some answers to them. First, we will examine whether the dominance of the minority world has resulted in a "colonization" of ideas and practices on the majority world (including the social model approach). Secondly, reference will be made to the social model of disability, and whether it is or is not ignoring what impairment means for disabled people in the majority world. Thirdly, an analysis of whether it is relevant to apply the social model of disability in the majority world; is the issue of poverty forgotten? Is survival a first priority for disabled persons in some places? A brief analysis of the links between poverty, impairment and disability will be presented.

2025, Intersticios Revista Sociologica De Pensamiento Critico

2025, Indigenous Archaeologies, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 39.2

As the first of its kind, volume 39.2 of the Archaeological Review from Cambridge brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous archaeologists, a bioarchaeologist, a museum curator and a community leader from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa and the USA to discuss the multiple forms of Indigenous Archaeology. From reconnecting with Ancestors, to conceptualising Indigenous relational archaeology, applying Indigenous ontologies, and approaching Cultural Resource Management Archaeology through anti-colonial lenses, Indigenous Archaeologies highlights the work that has been and needs to be done to centre Indigenous communities in archaeological research about their Ancestors.

2025

"Native Nations: A Millenium" in North America is a highly-acclaimed account of Native-American history over a one thousand year period. It has won both the prestigious Bancroft History Prize awarded by the American Historical Association... more

2025

, one of the most popular contemporary Native American texts, is often classified as "postmodern writing" or "postmodern Native American writing." However, in this novel Erdrich also reworks and adapts postmodern conventions to attain the postcolonial effect of hybridity and antiimperial translation, affirming Owens's statement that "contemporary Native American authors are requiring that the readers cross over the conceptual horizon into an Indian world" (1998: 20). The novel's composition exhibits distinctive features of the postmodern style. Its events, which stretch from 1934 to 1984 and are scattered about anachronistically in fourteen individual chapters, impede narrative symmetry and extend, as Gleason puts it, "in all directions at once" (70). Flashbacks, repetitions, and an accumulation of narrators-from those in the first person singular to those in the first person plural, as well as omniscient narrators-additionally loosen the narrative linearity and unity of the individual chapters and the novel as a whole. These characteristics also indicate the postmodern procedures of discontinuity, permutation, contradiction, and even excess (cf. Lodge 273-283), since the same events are often fractured into several narrative angles and, as Silberman contends, a main hero or focalizer does not exist (104). Besides, the narrators' accounts often contradict each other or are incomplete. Lulu, for example, refuses to reveal Moses' real name: "He told me his name. I whispered it, once. I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive" (82). Similarly, Lipsha will not answer the question of whether Gerry really killed the state policeman: If I tell you he said no, you will think he was lying. You will think a man don't get two consecutive life sentences for nothing beneath the U.S. judicial system. You'll keep thinking that, too, unless you happen to rub against that system on your own. Then things will astonish you. I promise they will. If I tell you he said yes, and relate to you how it all happened, it might get used against him. I'm sorry but I just don't trust to write down what he answered, yes or no. We have entered an area of too deep water. Let's just say he answered: "That's the penetrating mystery of it. Nobody knows." (364) Multiperspectivity (Boyne and Rattansi 7), as well as the removal of the omniscient narrative center, are the main characteristics of the postmodern plot (cf. Scheffel 76; Hassan 40, 160), which "begins where the whole ends" (Welsch 26). 1 Though, the meaning

2025, COMPANION BOOK di NEL WEST. CONQUISTADORES, ESPLORATORI, NATURALISTI, ARCHEOLOGI, ETNOLOGI ALLA SCOPERTA DELL’OVEST

Ecco ora una delle figure più grandi, che impreziosiscono il mio "campione". Ancora adesso riesce a commuovermi e ad emozionarmi ogni volta che ne rileggo qualche sua frase. È George Catlin, un appassionato cantore dei Sioux, dei Pawnee e dei Potawatomi, come di tutte le altre, tante, tribù da lui incontrate. Un pittore-etnografo, che ha speso la sua intera vita per cercare di difendere e far conoscere ai bianchi il mondo in rapida scomparsa degli indiani d'America. Superando ostacoli e pericoli d'ogni tipo in battello, su carri, a cavallo, in canoa e a piedi, Catlin per otto lunghi anni si spinse oltre l'immaginabile e il consentito. In terre dove solo l'esercito osava muoversi in armi. Lasciando luoghi e territori relativamente "sicuri", poiché da più tempo colonizzati, ha aperto una via maestra di conoscenza transculturale verso l'ignoto etnografico. Nel tempo Catlin sarebbe stato in grado di avvicinare una quarantina di tribù. Sia occidentalizzate, come quelle che vivevano nei pressi di forti o degli insediamenti dei bianchi, sia che non avessero mai visto, prima d'allora, un uomo bianco.
Here is one of the greatest figures, who embellish my "sample". Even now he manages to move me and excite me every time I reread some of his sentences. He is George Catlin, a passionate cantor of the Sioux, the Pawnee and the Potawatomi, as well as of all the other, many, tribes he met. A painter-ethnographer, who spent his entire life trying to defend and make known to white people the rapidly disappearing world of the American Indians. Overcoming obstacles and dangers of every kind by boat, wagon, horse, canoe and on foot, Catlin for eight long years pushed himself beyond the imaginable and the permitted. In lands where only the army dared to move with weapons. Leaving relatively "safe" places and territories, since they had been colonized for a longer time, he opened a main road of transcultural knowledge towards the ethnographic unknown. Over time Catlin would have been able to approach about forty tribes. Either Westernized, such as those who lived near forts or white settlements, or those who had never before seen a white man.

2025, Humanities

The way literature scholars read now has been under scrutiny for over a decade. The same long decade has seen an explosion in experimental literatures that make reading in the literary-critical sense a matter for poets: a poet's hybrid, whose disturbance of genre is claimed by publishers as the writing's main attraction. This paper explores the disturbance of literary criticism in the work of contemporary North American poets, Maureen N. McLane and Lisa Robertson. Asking how these poets read now, the paper argues that an exchange of powers between analysis and performance reorients criticism toward a hybrid 'dramatic' mode, activist in its sensibilities and committed to a redistribution of agencies by style and form. Far from deepening the divide between creative and academic criticism, these poets model the significance of composition, prosody, and voice for critical writing of all kinds.

2025, Éditions l'Harmattan, Paris

Analyse du point de vue sociohistorique des facteurs, modalités et conséquences de la rencontre, entre la fin du XVIe siècle et la fin du XVIIIe siècle, entre des Indiens accablés par les cataclysmes de la colonisation et des prêtres qui... more

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2025, Challenging Reading: English-Language Education with Children and Teenagers

University of Münster, Germany, 11 March 2016.

2025, Вопросы подводной археологии

The paper presents a study of the role of maritime adaptation at different stages of the development of the Central Andes region. The importance of marine resources, which has repeatedly become the object of close attention of archaeologists, was especially emphasized in the publication of M.E. Moseley and his theory of the maritime foundations of the Andean civilization (MFAC). Here, it is proposed to trace the history of archaeological research aimed at understanding the place of maritime adaptation in the history of the region. Also presented is a comparative analysis of two scenarios for the development of pre-Columbian societies of the late Preceramic Period, which has hardly been considered before, based on materials from two coastal regions of Peru – northern and southern

2025

This study presents an analysis of early researches of the pre-Columbian past of South America, which preceded the development of archeology on the continent. Significant is a brief essay on scientific stereotypes, in the context of which... more

2025, Applied Sciences

A previously buried paleosol was found on the continental shelf during a study of sea floor scour, nucleated by large artificial reef structures such as vessel hulks, barges, train cars, military vehicles, etc., called "scour nuclei". It is a relic paleo-land surface of sapling-sized tree stumps, root systems, and fossil animal bone exhumed by scour processes active adjacent to the artificial reef structure. Over the span of five research cruises to the site in 2022-2024, soil samples were taken using hand excavation, PONAR grab samplers, split spoon, hollow tube auger, and a modified Shelby-style push box. High-definition (HD) video was taken using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and diver-held cameras. Radiocarbon dating of wood samples returned ages of 42,015-43,417 calibrated years before present (cal yrBP). Pollen studies, together with the recovered macrobotanical remains, support our interpretation of the site as a freshwater forested wetland whose keystone tree species was Taxodium distichum-bald cypress. The paleosol was identified as an Aquult, a sub-order of Ultisols where water tables are at or near the surface year-round. A deep (0.25 m+) argillic horizon comprised the bulk of the preserved soil. Comparable Ultisols found in Georgia wetlands include Typic Paleaquult (Grady and Bayboro series) soils.

2025, Latin American Antiquity

Archaic period hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created complex rock art murals containing elaborately painted anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures. These figures are frequently portrayed with dots or lines emanating out of or into their open mouths. In this article, we discuss patterns in shape, color, and arrangement of this pictographic element and propose that artists used this graphic device to denote speech, breath, and the soul. They communicated meaning through the image-making process, alternating brushstroke direction to indicate inhalation versus exhalation or using different paint application techniques to reflect measured versus forceful speech. The choices made by artists in the production of the imagery reflect their cosmology and the framework of ideas and beliefs through which they interpreted and interacted with the world. Bridging the iconographic data with ethnohistoric and ethnographic texts from Mesoamerica, we suggest that speech and breath expressed in the rock art of the Lower Pecos was tied to concepts of the soul, creation, and human origins.

2025

Although put in terms of “civilizing” the Plains Indians, American policy toward them consisted of a series of broken treaties, destruction of their economic base, repression of their culture, and restriction to smaller and smaller reservations. The Lakota headmen Red Cloud and Sitting Bull represented two different stances in regard to this policy; Red Cloud being willing to settle down on the reservation and Sitting Bull resisting and fighting. General George Armstrong’s effort to return the followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to the reservation, led to his defeat and death at the Little Big Horn tributary of the Yellowstone River, by an overwhelming force of Lakota who had gathered for the annual Sun Dance ceremony. Sitting Bull fled to Canada, but the depletion of the buffalo herd forced him and his followers to return to the United States and surrender. Sitting Bull became something of a celebrity, traveling with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show for a season.
At the low point of their history when poverty and starvation had become rampant and unethical Indian agents had cheated them out of their promised annuities, a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance spread from Nevada to the Great Plains. The Ghost Dance was a revitalization movement that combined elements of traditional Lakota ceremonies and a distinctly Christian belief in the Second Coming of the Messiah. In this regard, it was not unlike the pre-millennial beliefs of the Mormons who had migrated to the Great Basin. Whereas the Mormons were a sect that became a church, i.e., the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LSD), the Ghost Dance was mistaken as a war dance. The United States government sent the Seventh Cavalry (the same unit that had been defeated at Custer’s Last Stand), which resulted in the Massacre at Wounded Knee. The injustice the Wounded Knee Massacre was passed down in Lakota oral tradition, and it became the rallying point for the Red Power Movement in the 1960s. The main lesson to be learned from this today is to understand that peoples threatened with cultural extinction throughout history often develop revitalization movements. Such is the case with Muslim fundamentalists around the world today. While these movements can result in violent extremism, we must not make the mistake of suppressing all manifestations of revitalization movements. As the philosopher George Santana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

2025

This paper examines the construction of Hope Leslie as a powerful and persuasive young woman in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's historical novel Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in Massachusetts. Through her moral clarity, eloquence, and strong will, she also explores how Hope's relationships with influential male figures, such as Mr. Fletcher and Governor Winthrop, are impacted by her appeals, and how she navigates the challenges posed by deceitful characters like Sir Philip Gardiner. The analysis highlights the capacity of female virtue and reason to shape male behavior positively, while also acknowledging the persistent threat of exploitative masculinity in the narrative.

2025

I convey gratitude to the Native researchers who have become before me, those who contributed to changes in perceptions to more positive ones, and those who catalogued the often difficult and painful stories of our ancestors. My friends at OSU, whom I have long referred to as my PhD buddies, have provided ongoing support without which I would not have finished this project. Thank you to Kelli Carney, Sherri Been, Valarie Farrow, LaKrisa Walker, and others who have been there for suggestions, as sounding boards, and for the occasional kick in the butt when needed. I also appreciate Oklahoma State University for providing me with a summer fellowship, assisting me so that I could make one last trip to North Carolina for data collection and allowing me time to focus on this project. While many other friends have been supportive, and I thank them, I would like to express my particular gratitude to Rita Bunch, who was my wonderful boss during much of the doctoral journey, and Sherry Holcomb, my friend upon whom I could always depend to answer any questions related to Cherokee language or tradition. My colleagues with whom I now work have also provided much-needed support and encouragement; I am fortunate to work with such amazing and dedicated educators. Although there are many more whom I should show appreciation, I conclude with my family. My husband, Brian, has been incredibly patient throughout this lengthy process, and my kids, Cassandra, Alysa, and Colton, did not give up on me. My mother expressed her pride and support for what I was doing. I love and appreciate them all, as v Acknowledgements reflect the views of the author and are not endorsed by committee members or Oklahoma State University. well as my many other family members, both via blood and via marriage, who have supported me throughout my educational odyssey.

2025

During a 30 - year period numerous schools were visited to present an introduction to the subject of geology together with a donation of samples to the school plus free samples to each student. There was a need for science awareness in... more

2025, La “Società dei Cannibali”: gli Hāma'tsa [Kwakiutl, British Columbia, Canada] The "Society of Cannibals": the Hāma'tsa [Kwakiutl, British Columbia, Canada]

BOOK: VIAGGIO ATTRAVERSO L'INSIDE PASSAGE, NELLA TERRA DEGLI INDIANI DEI TOTEM E DELL'EX AMERICA RUSSA. SULLA COSTA DEL PACIFICO DELL'AMERICA DI NORD-OVEST, TRA COLOMBIA BRITANNICA E ALASKA
CHAPTER La "Società dei Cannibali": gli Hāma'tsa (Kwakiutl, British Columbia, Canada]
November 2021
In book: JOURNEY THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE, IN THE LAND OF THE INDIANS OF THE TOTEMS AND OF THE FORMER RUSSIAN AMERICA. ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH-WEST AMERICA, BETWEEN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA Publisher: Amazon KDP

2025, Land

El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico, USA, is a landscape of significant cultural and geological importance, characterized by extensive lava flows, caves, and cinder cones. Despite its harsh terrain, El Malpais holds deep cultural and spiritual meanings for Native American communities, including the Acoma, Zuni, Laguna, and Navajo tribes, whose cosmologies and histories are interwoven with this landscape. Employing a mixedmethods approach combining ethnographic fieldwork with comparative literature studies, this paper documents how these Indigenous groups perceive and interpret interconnected geological features as sacred and meaningful parts of their ancestral heritage. The findings reveal that volcanic landscapes are central not only to cultural origin narratives but also to ongoing rituals, resource use, and pilgrimage practices. This interconnectedness is exemplified by the cultural links between El Malpais and adjacent Mount Taylor, highlighting how geological features form a unified sacred geography. This study positions El Malpais as a culturally animated landscape, where Indigenous epistemologies and spiritual relationships with volcanic landforms challenge conventional notions of geoheritage and call for relational, community-informed approaches to heritage management.

2025, Stop Yapping and be Abolitionist

This paper critiques the epistemic and political implications of non-Native feminist engagement with Indigenous thought, particularly in the context of critiques of the carceral state.

2025

Apache Stronghold argued competently and forcefully to protect Oak Flat with US “religious freedom” laws. The claim of US “ownership” of Oak Flat was central to the decisions against “religious freedom”. This post looks at the claim that... more

Apache Stronghold argued competently and forcefully to protect Oak Flat with US “religious freedom” laws.
The claim of US “ownership” of Oak Flat was central to the decisions against “religious freedom”.
This post looks at the claim that Oak Flat is “owned” by the United States.

2025, Human Plant Entanglement: Thinking With Plants in the Anthropocene

This volume has been meticulously organized into three distinct sections, namely: “Human-Plant and Territoriality”, “Human-Plant and the Literary”, and “Human-Plant and Transfiguration.” Each of these sections holds significant importance... more

2025, Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (JLIC)

This article examines John Valadez and Cristina Ibarra’s 2008 documentary The Last Conquistador as a lens through which El Paso—“the Last Conquistador’s” modern-day eponymous city—unwittingly exposes its own myth of unity. Taking up Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar’s notion of the “paradigmatic city,” the study argues that the film derides El Paso’s attempt to present itself as a model of national cohesion. Through a spatial triptych—(1) the Anglo elite atop their symbolic hill, (2) the Acoma Pueblo community on its reservation frontier, and (3) the muted Mexican-American working class in the downtown core—the documentary reveals the city’s underlying ethnic fractures. Ultimately, The Last Conquistador reframes public commemoration as a site of contested memory and challenges the methodological nationalism that equates local identity with national harmony.

2025, Forma: revista d'estudis comparatius: art, literatura, pensament

When sculptor John Houser obtains funding from the El Paso City Council in the late 1980s to complete an equestrian statue of the controversial conquistador Juan de Oñate, a wave of anger and hurt from Native American communities floods... more

2025

The history of the displacement of the Plains Indian tribes was more complicated than the above account. The introduction of the horse by the Spaniards and of guns by the French in the fur trade created a rivalry between Great Plains tribes over hunting territories resulting in the displacement of some tribes by other tribes (See, The Great Plains Tribes: Section A Cultures). These rivalries continued with the displacement caused by the American expansion onto the Great Plains in which some tribes, such as the Shoshone, Pawnee, and Crow, sided with the Americans against their historical tribal enemies, the Dakota Sioux, the Cheyenne, and the Arapaho.

2025

The introduction of the horse by the Spaniards and of guns by the French in the fur trade created a rivalry between Great Plains tribes over hunting territories resulting in the displacement of some tribes by other tribes. These rivalries continued with the displacement caused by the American expansion onto the Great Plains in which some tribes, such as the Shoshone, Pawnee, and Crow, sided with the Americans against their historical tribal enemies, the Dakota Sioux, Oglala Sioux, the Cheyenne, and Arapaho.

2025, Revista Internacional Magisterio, No. 127

Resumen de los puntos centrales abordados en un simposio coordinado por el autor junto con Ana Carolina Hecht y Martha Corrales, en el marco del VI Congreso Internacional de la Red FEIAL, en la Universidad del Cauca, Colombia, los días 12... more