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Cashing In On Indian Casinos: The Impacts Of "Off-Reservation" Casinos On Sovereignty, The Gaming Industry, Surrounding Communities, Reservations, And Tribal Identities, Adam D. Bubb

American Studies ETDs

This study examines the impacts of four tribes, the Forest County Potawatomi, Sault Ste Marie Chippewa, Mashantucket Pequot, and Florida Seminole, and their alternative methods to acquire and participate in off-reservation gaming. The case studies provide geographical and situational examples on how the changing tribal gaming market is reshaping and redefining the boundaries of sovereignty on and off of tribal lands and non-tribal lands. Each case study provides a detailed history of the tribe and their gaming experiences. Through the use of a cultural site analysis, each tribe's on and off-reservation gaming facilities were examined to measure the economic and …

Sacrilege In Dinétah: Native Encounters With Glen Canyon Dam, Sonia Dickey

History ETDs

This dissertation spotlights indigenous encounters with Glen Canyon Dam and places Native peoples, especially the Diné, at the center of the dam story. In doing so, it exposes the façade masquerading a less pleasant and creditable reality surrounding the dam than historians have conventionally offered. Considering traditional knowledge; relationships to homeland; pivotal moments in Navajo history, such as the Long Walk and the Bosque Redondo and the stock reduction of the 1930s and 1940s; as well as mid-century Navajo Tribal Council concerns, this study uncovers a multifaceted story of water and energy development in the Southwest. In this version, the …

Social Science Division Meeting Minutes 08/18/2011, Social Science Division

Social Science Division

No abstract provided.

Interview With Karl Mattson, August 17, 2011, Karl Mattson, Michael J. Birkner

Oral Histories

Karl Mattson was interviewed on August 17, 2011 by Michael Birkner about his life and professional experiences and his connections with Gettysburg College.

Length of Interview: 94 minutes

Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4^th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search

New Academic Leadership In Place For Start Of Academic Year, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2011

• Debra Boyd, acting vice president for academic affairs, hopes to focus on sustainability and program innovation in the coming year, as well as the full implementation of the University-Level Competencies.
• Incoming freshmen also will be the first class fully engaged in the Global Learning Initiative.

2011-2012, Collin College

Course Catalogs

Contains information on courses and class descriptions as well as campus resources at Collin College.

Eng 2011g-002: Literature, The Self, And The World, Tim Engles

Fall 2011

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture, Michael Loudon

Fall 2011

No abstract provided.

School Deans, Department Chairpersons, And Program Directors 2011-2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

Chairs and Program Directors lists

No abstract provided.

2011 Summer Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 2010-19

The program for the Portland State University 2011 Summer Commencement ceremony, held on August 13, 2011.

Rabbi Joshua Stampfer and Peter W. Stott received honorary degrees from PSU President Wim Wiewel and Provost Roy Koch; Kirubel B. Mersha delivered the student address.

Genomic Evidence For An African Expansion Of Anatomically Modern Humans By A Southern Route, Silvia Ghirotto, Luca Penso-Dolfin, Guido Barbujani

Human Biology

There is general agreement among scientists about a recent (less than 200,000 yrs ago) African origin of anatomically modern humans, whereas there is still uncertainty about whether, and to what extent, they admixed with archaic populations, which thus may have contributed to the modern populations’ gene pools. Data on cranial morphology have been interpreted as suggesting that, before the main expansion from Africa through the Near East, anatomically modern humans may also have taken a Southern route from the Horn of Africa through the Arabian peninsula to India, Melanesia and Australia, about 100,000 yrs ago. This view was recently supported …

Paternal Genetic History Of The Basque Population Of Spain, Kristin L. Young, Guangyun Sun, Ranjan Deka, Michael H. Crawford

Human Biology

This study examines the genetic variation in Basque Y chromosome lineages using data on 12 Y-short tandem repeat (STR) loci in a sample of 158 males from four Basque provinces of Spain (Alava, Vizcaya, Guipuzcoa, and Navarre). As reported in previous studies, the Basques are characterized by high frequencies of haplogroup R1b (83%). AMOVA analysis demonstrates genetic homogeneity, with a small but significant amount of genetic structure between provinces (Y-short tandem repeat loci STRs: 1.71%, p 0.0369). Gene and haplotype diversity levels in the Basque population are on the low end of the European distribution (gene diversity: 0.4268; haplotype diversity: …

Diversification Within The Mexican Vole (Microtus Mexicanus) And The Role Of Post-Pleistocene Climate Change, Dolly L. Crawford, Jerry W. Dragoo, Felisa A. Smith, Andrea N. Chavez

Western North American Naturalist

To examine the partitioning of genetic variation within the Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus), we analyzed variation within the cytochrome b (cytb, ca. 953 bp) from 44 samples of the Mexican vole from the mountains of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Phylogeographic analyses demonstrated strong support for a western clade and an eastern clade, corresponding to the Sierra Madre Occidental and mountains of the southwestern United States (western clade) and the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierra Madre del Sur (eastern clade). Levels of genetic distinctiveness among vole populations in Mexico and the southwestern United States support …

The Age Of Lawfare, Dale Stephens

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Semiotics, Habitus And Music In The Transmission Of Tibetan Culture In Toronto, John Robertson

Masters Theses

This ethnographic study explores the role of music in cultural transmission in the Tibetan community of Toronto, Canada. Beginning with an integration of Peircian semiotics, Bourdieu's habitus and musical semiosis, I then identify certain non-Tibetan cultural elements being encountered by those in the Toronto community which are potentially creating cognitive structures foreign to those which have their generative principles in pre-exile Tibetan past, and the ways in which Tibetans are transmitting (to varying degrees) cognitive schemata which identify these non-Tibetan elements and protect against their appropriation. After exploring elements which are not Tibetan, I turn to those which are: a …

Principles Of Successful Civic Engagement In The National Park Service, Molly Russell

United States National Park Service: Publications

Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................4

What is ‘civic engagement’ and what does it mean for the National Park Service?....................... 7

Cuyahoga Valley National Park example ......................................................7

What does civic engagement look like in the National Park Service? ...... 8

Strategy: Collaborative Interpretation...............................................8
Alcatraz Island .............................................................................9
Olympic NP .....................................................................................9
Bandelier NM ...............................................................9
New Bedford Whaling NHP.....................................................9
Strategy: Collaborative Planning and Decision-Making ...............................10
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.........................................10
Kalaupapa NHP............................................................10
Atchafalaya NHA.........................................................................10
Strategy: Creating Relevant and Effective Programming..............................11
RTCA......................................................................................11
Congaree NP...................................................................................11
Great Smoky Mountains NP...........................................................11
Strategy: Collaborative Resource Preservation and Conservation ......................12
Blue Ridge Parkway ..........................................................12
National Capital Parks-East...............................................................12
Grand Canyon …

Interview With David Milholland, Part 1 (Audio), Heather Oriana Petrocelli

Center for the Moving Image Oral Histories

Heather Petrocelli interviewed David Milholland at the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon on his involvement with the Center for the Moving Image.

David Milholland is a filmmaker, author, and co-founder of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission.

The Murray Ledger And Times, August 10, 2011, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

‘Hearing The Country’: Reflexivity As An Intimate Journey Into Epistemological Liminalities, John Bradley

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

Concurrent Sessions Block 3

Investigating The Origin Of Coprolites From Three Great Basin Caves, Chelsey Vandrisse, Duane P. Moser, David Rhode

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

The study of coprolites (mummified feces) is a relatively new endeavor, which enables investigations of the health and diet of ancient people and provides some of the oldest evidence to date for the human habitation in North America (2). In this project, 18 coprolites were examined from archeological digs at three Great Basin caves: the Bonneville Estates Rockshelter (UT), Hidden Cave (NV), and Top of the Terrace Rockshelter (UT). The main objectives were: 1) to verify human origin through the presence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and 2) assuming human origin, characterize intestinal microflora of Native Americans prior to European contact. …

A Genre-Specific Study Of English And Persian Newspaper Editorials / Alireza Bonyadi Babaee, Alireza Bonyadi Babaee

Student Works (2010-2019)

Newspaper editorials constitute a part of media discourse, which is an extremely important field of research in intercultural rhetoric analysis. The interface between the linguistic analysis of newspaper editorials and teaching of English as a foreign/second language is also a relevant issue in language teaching. Thus, drawing on the theory of inter-cultural rhetoric analysis and considering the important role of newspaper editorials in shaping public opinions, the present study aimed at conducting a genre-specific analysis of newspaper editorials culled from the editorials of the English newspaper, The New York Times, and those of Persian newspaper, Tehran Times. Addressing different discourse …

The Holistic Complementary Structure Of Western Bio-Medicine And Traditional Healing And Achieving Complete Health, Candace Gail Oubre

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Achieving complete health requires a deep understanding of complementary cultural competency sensitivity between physician and patient. This may include but is not limited to access to preventative health care resources, access to health educational resources and access to cultural healing resources, for example, shamans, Ayurvedic physicians, and herbal healers. Advocates of cultural competency emphasize great importance on knowledge of the patients' cultural background; however, the transcendence of this knowledge can be explained further through complementary cultural competency sensitivity. This is when the cultures of the physician and patient complement each other in terms of understanding what is in the patients' …

Aboriginal Languages Reclamation: Countering The Neo-Classical Onslaught., Kevin Lowe

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

Concurrent Sessions Block 1

Study Abroad And The International Curriculum: Assessing Changes In Intercultural Competence, Susan G. Sample

McGeorge School of Law Global Center for Business and Development Annual Symposium

No abstract provided.

The Possibility Of Buddhist Virtue: A Christian Response, Jonathan Royce Pruitt

Masters Theses

The heart of Buddhism is ethics. This is evident even in the legendary accounts of the Buddha's life. The Buddha first encountered the problem of suffering after he finally escaped the isolation of the palace he had grown up in. His father, a powerful ruler, wanted to force his son into a life of politics and war. He had been warned that if his son was exposed to the kind of life people experience every day, a life marked by suffering, that his son would likely become a great teacher instead of a ruler. However, despite his father's best efforts, …

Accounting Hall Of Fame: Reed Karl Storey, Remarks, Citation And Response, Denver, Colorado, August 8, 2011, American Accounting Association, The Ohio State University

Accounting Hall of Fame Brochures

No abstract provided.

Exploring Hamilton And Raglan, Maya Chong

2011-12 Postcards

Postcard from Maya Chong, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 6, 2011, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Nadine Allan-Vaught, Sue Gibbs, Kelsey Henretta, Gabriel Lonsberry, Helmut Mehlhorn, Felicia Walker, and Allison Zangari; Outstanding Graduate - Emily Tocci

Disturbance And Its Effects On Archaeological Significance And Integrity, Jason Alan Kennedy

Theses and Dissertations

Significance and integrity are key concepts for archaeology, and how they are judged is determined by an archaeologist’s perceptions of disturbance. This thesis explicitly considers these concepts and how they relate to evolutionary theory and National Register eligibility. A site with known disturbance was chosen to determine whether it could be judged significant assuming that there was no disturbance. Controlled surface collection, magnetometer survey, excavation and landowner interview data were used to determine whether what made the site significant had been lost due to disturbance. The results indicate that the co-mingling of occupations in the plow zone normally would have …

Were They Or Weren't They? A Study Of Possible Sedentariness Using Faunal Indicators At A Coastal Thom's Creek Site (38ch1693), Lauren Lowrey Alford

Theses and Dissertations

Site 38CH1693 is a coastal site located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Thom’s Creek ceramics place the site in the Late Archaic/Early Woodland Period and radiocarbon dating corroborates this, placing the features present between 3650 and 3950 BP. Faunal analysis was undertaken to assess seasonality in order to understand the occupations that occurred at the site. Faunal seasonality, botanical seasonality, and sedentariness indicators are used to determine the sedentariness of the site. The presence of certain marine fish species is one of the most important seasonality indicators used. It is determined from the available evidence that at least one short-duration, …