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“Whoz Ya People?”: Defining Lumbee Citizenship And Belonging In The 21St Century, Timothy Blake Hite

Theses and Dissertations

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is a state-recognized tribe with an estimated 60,000 citizens. From 2018-2020, the tribe closed their enrollment office so that the tribe could reexamine enrollment policies, particularly the criterion for appropriate contact with the tribal homeland. During this closure, the tribe was continuing its long journey for federal recognition, with a bill passing the U.S. House of Representatives and receiving support from then President Donald Trump and current President Joseph Biden. During the summer of 2021, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the tribe’s enrollment department, located in Pembroke, NC, to answer the question of how …

Minority Health Disparities: The Case Of The American Indians, Lawrence M. Schell

Campus Conversations in Standish

In this presentation, Dr. Lawrence Schell talks about how globally, aboriginal populations have been in great decline, demographically and culturally. American Indians continue to be the poorest and the least healthy population within the borders of the United States. They are the most severe victims of health disparities in the US. Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations (https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/disparities/). Health disparities result from multiple factors, including poverty, environmental threats, inadequate access to health care, individual and behavioral factors, educational inequalities, …

A Cautionary Tale: Examining The Interplay Of Culturally Specific Risk And Resilience Factors In Indigenous Communities, Melissa L. Walls, Les B. Whitbeck, Brian E. Armenta

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Efforts to build empirical evidence for the protective effects of Indigenous cultural factors on psychological health have yielded mixed findings. We examine the interplay of previously hypothesized culturally relevant risk (discrimination, historical loss) and protective (spiritual activities) factors among Indigenous people. The sample includes 569 Indigenous adolescents (mean age = 17.23, SD = 0.88; 51.0% girls) and 563 Indigenous adult caregivers (mean age = 44.66, SD = 9.18; 77.4% women). Our central finding was that indigenous spirituality was associated with poorer psychological outcomes across several domains (depressive symptoms, anger, anxiety, somatization, and interpersonal difficulties), but observed effects were attenuated once …

Creating Space For An Indigenous Approach To Digital Storytelling: "Living Breath" Of Survivance Within An Anishinaabe Community In Northern Michigan, Brenda K. Manuelito

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

As Indigenous peoples, we have a responsibility to our global community to share our collective truths and experiences, but we also deserve the respect to not be objectified, essentialized, and reified. Today, we are in a period of continual Native resurgence as many of us (re)member our prayers, songs, languages, histories, teachings, everyday stories and our deepest wisdom and understanding as Indigenous peoples--we are all “living breath” and we are “all related.” For eight years, Carmella Rodriguez and I have been nDigiStorytelling across the United States and have co-created over 1,200 digital stories with over 80 tribes for Native survivance, …

The Journey Of A Digital Story: A Healing Performance Of Mino-Bimaadiziwin: The Good Life, Carmella M. Rodriguez

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Indigenous peoples have always shared collective truths and knowledge through oral storytelling. Just as we were born, stories are born too, through our sacred “living breath.” We live in a time where stories travel far, beyond our imaginable dreams, and can have an influence on anyone who hears them. In the present-day, we have an opportunity to combine personal stories with digital technology in order to share one of our greatest gifts with each other--our experience and wisdom. For eight years, Brenda K. Manuelito and I have been traveling across Indian Country helping our Indigenous relatives create nDigiStories for Native …

Analysis Of Residue In Pipes That Were Smoked By Prehistoric North American Indians In The States And Portions Of Canada East Of The Mississippi, Tommy Charles

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Ancient Gardening In South Carolina: 10,000 B.C. To A.D. 1685 - 2000, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Archaeology Month Posters

This poster was released in conjunction with South Carolina Archaeology Month, September 8-October 7, 2000.

Grounds For Argument: Local Understandings, Science, And Global Processes In Special Forest Products Harvesting, Thomas Love, Eric Jones

Faculty Publications

In posing the question "Where are the pickers?", Love and Jones suggest that the shifting paradigm in forestry is real and that academia is not leading the shift. Love and Jones illustrate the emergence of special forest products' legitimacy in competing uses of forests with their experience and research in mushroom harvesting in the Pacific Northwest.

Under The Dome - May 1995, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Handed On: Folkcrafts in Southern Life.....p. 1
Sea Island Series/Africa Series.....p. 2
This is Not an Endowed Chair.....p. 2
Collections.....p. 3
Security/Computer Manager Joins McKissick.....p. 4
Membership Coordinator Retiring.....p. 4
Students Are at the Hub of McKissick.....p. 4
Elegant Egg Invitation Wins Awards.....p. 5
Docents Honored.....p. 5
Handed On: Folkcrafts in Southern Life.....p. 6
Child Alert! Are You Ready for Summer?.....p. 8
McKissick Concert Series - Don't Miss It!.....p. 8
Jane's Journeys.....p. 9
Jane's Journeys II.....p. 10
General Information.....p. 11

Notebook - January-December 1978, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Notebook

Contents:

Preliminary Report - Hull Construction Features of the Brown's Ferry Vessel.....p. 1
Report on Excavations at the Buie Mound, Robeson County, North Carolina.....p. 30

Excavating The Fortified Area Of The 1670 Site Of Charles Towne, South Carolina, Stanley South

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Church In Indian Adjustment, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

Prepared for the National Council of Churches to help the church evaluate the modern mission effort among American Indians

American Indians And White People, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

Written by Rosalie Wax and R.K. Thomas, this paper is an attempt to describe what happens when American Indians and white people meet in the course of their day-to-day activities. Subsequently published in Native Americans today: Sociological Perspectives. Ed. Bahr, Chadwick and Day. San Francisco, Harper & Rowe, 1972.