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Dew Line Passage: Tracing The Legacies Of Arctic Militarization, Stacey A. Fritz

Anthropology

Grounded within the context of modern American militarization, this dissertation is a descriptive, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic study focusing on the impacts and legacies of the development, implementation, and decommissioning of the western sector of the Distant Early Warning radar line (DEW Line) in northern Alaska and Canada's western Arctic. Understanding the localized social and environmental impacts of global militarization is a critical task for anthropology and one that coincides in the North with the need to gather histories from Inuit perspectives. This study's purposes are to elucidate how the global phenomenon of modern militarization penetrates and brings about change in …

Skin Drums, Squeeze Boxes, Fiddles And Phonographs: Musical Interaction In The Western Arctic, Late 18th Through Early 20th Centuries, Paul R. Krejci

Anthropology

This dissertation explores the nature of early globalization in the Western Arctic with a focus on musical interaction between indigenous and foreign populations during the late 18th through the 20 th centuries. The region experienced an unprecedented amount of cultural contact represented by various cultural groups including Native Alaskan, Canadian, Chukotkan, European American, African American, Latin American, Asian American, Oceanic peoples and others. Numbering in the thousands, natives and non-natives developed continuous and long-term relations working as explorers, whalers, traders, missionaries, miners, hunters, trappers, seamstresses, educators, law enforcement officials, and scientists. The Western Arctic's ethnically diverse population, relatively harsh physical …

An Etymology For Galiyao, Gary Holton

Alaska Native Language Center Faculty

No abstract provided.

Ways To Help And Ways To Hinder: Climate, Health, And Food Security In Alaska, Philip A. Loring

Indigenous Studies

This dissertation explores various ecological, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and biophysical dimensions food security in Alaska. The context for this work is dramatic climatic change and ongoing demographic, socioeconomic and cultural transitions in Alaska's rural and urban communities. The unifying focus of the papers included here are human health. I provide multiple perspectives on how human health relates to community and ecosystem health, and of the roles of managers, policy makers, and researchers can play in supporting positive health outcomes. Topics include methylmercury (MeHg) contamination of wild fish, the impacts of changes to Alaskan landscapes and seascapes on subsistence and commercial activities, …

Science Education In Rural America: Adaptations For The Ivory Tower, Gregory S. Van Doren

Indigenous Studies

This thesis illustrated what can happen when academic culture disconnects from the cultures surrounding it. It showed that formal school environments are not always the best places to learn. A discussion of the debate between coherence and fragmentation learning theories illustrated academic chasms and a mindset that science education must originate from within ivory towers to be valued. Rationales for place-based science education were developed. Two National Science Foundation initiatives were compared and contrasted for relevance to Native Science education (a) Informal Science Education and (b) Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities. A National Science Foundation instrument, known …

Niugneliyukut (We Are Making New Words): A Community Philosophy Of Language Revitalization, April Gale Counceller

Linguistics

The Alutiiq language on Kodiak Island (Alaska) is severely threatened, with only 37 resident speakers. The Alutiiq communities of Kodiak are engaged in a multifaceted heritage revitalization movement, which includes cultural education, revitalization of arts, and language revitalization. The language revitalization effort includes education, materials development, documentation, and terminology development (creation of new words) as a means of making the language more viable. The Kodiak Alutiiq New Words Council began in the fall of 2007. This language revitalization strategy is new to the Alutiiq community, and little research has been done on Alaska Native or Indigenous terminology development as a …

Regulating Hunting: Subsistence And Governmentality In The Central Kuskowkim Region, Alaska, Susan B. Vanek

Anthropology

This paper explores the expansion of the state into formerly ungoverned aspects of life through an examination of one particular episode of intervention, that of moose hunting regulation in the Central Kuskokwim region of Alaska. As in most struggles over wild resources in the state, subsistence is a central organizing template. Local hunters residing in the villages of Aniak and Crooked Creek, interviewed for this work, identify themselves under the label of subsistence in opposition to others, often called "sport hunters". The felt presence of the state in this and other rural areas of Alaska has increased throughout the 20th …

Imaging And Imaginings Of Hawaiianness In The Contemporary Hawaiian Islands, Ashley Meredith

Anthropology

The desire for the Hawaiian Kingdom to be restored and recognized as a nation-state has been a common interest among Hawaiians since the illegal United States occupation in 1893. However, colonial induced turbulence, caused by annexation, statehood, an early 20th century ban on Hawaiian language and cultural activities, the 50 percent blood quantum rule, and tourism, have had a profound impact on perceptions of Hawaiianness and Hawaiian identity and unity. With this historical backdrop, the thesis presents an analysis of the role and impact of the visual landscape in the construction and maintenance of individual and group identity in Hawai`i. …

Chancellor's Report 2010-04, John Pugh

Chancellor's Report

No abstract provided.

Agroborealis, Vol. 41, Number 1 (2010), School Of Natural Resources And Agricultural Sciences

Agroborealis

[Geography] -- AMSA: the future of arctic marine shipping: With more shipping traffic in the north and greater marine access due to the retreat of Arctic sea ice, the Arctic states needed to develop a strategy to protect the maritime Arctic, its people, and the environment -- [Forest Sciences] -- Changing the forest and the trees - Is it climate?: Sunspots, sun cycles, El Ninos, La Ninas, atmospheric oscillations, greenhouse gases: climate change has begun to affect the boreal more than any other forest region. / Glenn Patrick Juday -- One Tree in the Tanana Valley: Take one entire tree, …

Gpsa Council Meeting, 4/17/2010, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, April 16, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

April 16, 2010, Ohio University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ohio University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees.

Eighteenth Annual Student Research And Creative Activities Symposium - April 16, 2010, Symposium Steering Committee

Student Research and Creative Activities Symposium 1993-2018

Participants - College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Management, College of Education, Graduate College, University Honors Program, McNair Scholars Program

Crusader, April 16, 2010, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Holism And Human History, Martin Zwick

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

This paper uses a systems-theoretic model to structure an account of human history. According to the model, a process, after its beginning and early development, often reaches a critical stage where it encounters some limitation. If the limitation is overcome, development does not face a comparable challenge until a second critical juncture is reached, where obstacles to further advance are more severe. At the first juncture, continued development requires some complexity-managing innovation; at the second, it needs some event of systemic integration in which the old organizing principle of the process is replaced by a new principle. Overcoming the first …

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Apr 15, 2010, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Humanitarian Mine Action Training Mission To Sri Lanka, Amy Crockett

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Starting in August 2009, Sri Lanka received much-needed aid from the United States to address its vast mine/explosive remnants of war contamination. With the provision of training and equipment to the Sri Lanka School of Military Engineering, the citizens of Sri Lanka’s Northern province are slowly returning to their communities.

Letter, Norine Noonan To Faculty, April 15, 2011, Norine E. Noonan

About: Office of Academic Affairs

Spring letter to the faculty from the Regional Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Noonan touches on the following areas: Distance Learning Course Development Program; Accreditation update; the budget; Multipurpose Student Center, Campus Activities Center and Harbor Hall; new academic programs; kudos; transitions; Research Month; Semi-Annual Finals Week Cookie Bake Extravaganza; and commencement.

The Pan American (2010-04-15), Brian Silva

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 66, No. 25

The Alestle - Vol. 62 No. 30 - 04/15/2010, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 62 No. 30

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for April 15-21, 2010. Vol. 85, No. 2.

Liberal Arts Books On Demand: A Decade Of Patron-Initiated Collection Development, Part 1, Judith M. Nixon, Kristine J. Anderson, Robert S. Freeman, Jean-Pierre Herubel, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, Suzanne M. Ward

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The Purdue University Libraries was an early implementer of purchasing rather than borrowing books requested through interlibrary loan. This pioneering user-initiated acquisitions program, started in January 2000 and called Books on Demand, is managed by the interlibrary loan unit. Now that the program has reached its tenth year, the authors revisit their initial 2002 study to analyze books purchased in the six top subject areas across the whole decade. Subject librarians in their review of the liberal arts titles selected found that the books were appropriate additions and that these titles expanded the cross-disciplinary nature of the collection. The Books …

The Cowl - V. 74 - N. 20 - Apr 15, 2010

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 74 - Number 20 - April 15, 2010. 36 pages.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes - 04/14/10, Janet Shields

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate minutes for the 04/14/10 meeting.

Prospectus, April 14, 2010, Sean Hermann, Merry Thomas, Chuck Shepherd, Tara Moon Christopher, Rachael Johns, Shagun Pradhan

Prospectus 2010

FEDERAL WORK STUDY PROGRAM FUNDS EXHAUSTED FOR SPRING SEMESTER; Is Parkland prepared to assist the disabled in case of an emergency?; Surge in campus hate crimes challenges notion of a post-racial America; Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird; Fantastic, fun and not too far away: The top five summer music festivals you need to see; Parkland Event: Typeface documentary premier; Earth Week celebrations: What to know about upcoming events; How Washington is spending your taxes in 2010; Wrong man convicted even though ‘everybody did their best’; Prospectus Pick: Meeting People is Easy; Give a Hand: Help a Student in Need; …

Student Scholars Day 2010, Grand Valley State University

Student Scholars Day Archives

No abstract provided.

Honors Convocation (Program 2010), Illinois Wesleyan University

The Kemp Foundation's Teaching Excellence Award Ceremony Programs

No abstract provided.

Effective And Economical Outreach And Evangelism For The Small To Medium Church, Stanley Wayne Kesler

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Pastors of small to medium size churches face a dilemma. Without exception, when asked in what areas they feel inadequate, inevitably one of the prominent deficiencies mentioned is outreach and evangelism. Many feel like they cannot compete with big-budget, high-attendance churches. Honest appraisal shows that most are facing attendance patterns that are declining or flat. Faced with the current economic depression, many churches experience a decrease in giving, and salaries, benefits and programs are either frozen or cut. What's a pastor to do?

The purpose of this project is to provide pastors of small to medium size churches with not …