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The Promise And Reality Of Indian Self Determination, Patricia Hornback Jan 1996

The Promise And Reality Of Indian Self Determination, Patricia Hornback

Faculty Publications - George Fox Digital

The Indian Self Determination Act was first ratified November 4, 1975, has brought about many social and economic changes for the Recognized Native American "Indian" Tribes of the United States. With this Act, the Department of the Interior, Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, officially recognized the right of organized "Indian Tribes" to be sovereign nations. This recognition created the opportunity for Native American Tribes to develop their own system of government, which included criminal and civil justice systems, social welfare programs, free practice of cultural and religious rituals, and the ability to contract with businesses in the private …


Richard Ronan, Jane Vanstavern Jan 1996

Richard Ronan, Jane Vanstavern

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

The new world, the new times, the new peoples, the new vistas, need a tongue according . . .
—Walt Whitman

Richard Louis Ronan was a poet, playwright, and ikebana flower designer who lived in San Francisco with his partner, Bill Pittman, during the 1980s. He died of AIDS in 1989 at age 43, having produced six collections of poetry, seven plays, and several unpublished manuscripts. He received not only a Dodge Foundation Grant to teach poetry but also, while studying at Berkeley, the Emily Cook and Eisner Prizes. His versatility did not prevent him from excelling in several poetic …


Janet Campbell Hale, Frederick Hale Jan 1996

Janet Campbell Hale, Frederick Hale

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

In the early 1970s, at an early stage of the “Native American Renaissance,” a period that witnessed a recrudescence of tribal literary efforts, historical consciousness, and demands for civil rights, Janet Campbell Hale quietly began to make her mark on the Native American cultural landscape. A young member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe, she was then residing in the San Francisco area and had written a novel for adolescents titled The Owl’s Song, which inaugurated a noteworthy career in ethnic fiction and has gone through many printings. Like most other Native American authors, Hale has not been highly prolific …


Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 17 (1996), Virginia Gunn, Tracy Barron, Jill Sutton Filo, Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Susan Price Miller, Pat L. Nickols, Rebecca A. Ries Jan 1996

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 17 (1996), Virginia Gunn, Tracy Barron, Jill Sutton Filo, Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Susan Price Miller, Pat L. Nickols, Rebecca A. Ries

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

Nancy Riddick's Quilts: Autobiographical Statements by Cassandra Stancil Gunkel

Carlie Sexton and Her Quilt Pattern Business by Susan Price Miller

Ruby Short McKim: The Formative Years by Jill Sutton Filo

Quilting Imagery in the Writings of Rachel Field by Tracy W, Barron

Stitched in Place, Stitched in Time: Relationships of Quilts, Quiltmaking, and Landscape by Rebecca A. Ries

Contributors

In Memoria: Natalie Youngquist and Eva Earle Spruiell Kent (d. April 20, 1996)

Index


The Diary Of Bishop Dan T. Muse, Dan T. Muse, Harold Paul Jan 1996

The Diary Of Bishop Dan T. Muse, Dan T. Muse, Harold Paul

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

The diary of Bishop Dan T. Muse, a Pentecostal Holiness minister and Oklahoma District Overseer for the Pentecostal Holiness Church, chronicling his early ministry August 27 1919-May 11, 1919 These are the notes from his diary compiled by ORU professor and historian, Harold Paul. This pamphlet was published by the Holy Spirit Research Center in 1996. 16 pp.


Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Chadwick Ross Jan 1996

Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Chadwick Ross

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.


Seeking The Chameleon: The Influence Of Native Rhetoric And The Oral Tradition On Native American Literature, Christine S. Brown Jan 1996

Seeking The Chameleon: The Influence Of Native Rhetoric And The Oral Tradition On Native American Literature, Christine S. Brown

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

This project seeks to explore the impact of rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature by demonstrating that unique features are evident as a direct result of this influence. Characteristics which have functioned to preserve their culture (e.g.; the morphogenetic nature of Native mythology, the reverence for the Storyteller, and the "Chinese box" structure of organization in storytelling itself, etc.) are illustrated by the works of such Native authors as Leslie Marmon Silko and Paula Allen Gunn. The manner in which Native authors have utilized modem technology and the "rhetorical or dialogic style" of writing is emphasized to …


Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer Jan 1996

Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer

Institute for the Humanities Theses

In 1871, Anna Cogswell Wood and Irene Kirke Leache founded a school for girls in Norfolk, Virginia which had a profound influence on the community. The Leache-Wood Seminary became Norfolk's center for cultural pursuits. After the death of Irene Leache in 1900, Annie Wood established a memorial to perpetuate her friend's interest in literature, music, art, drama, and spiritual studies. Wood began a number of cultural programs which grew to shape the cultural life of the town in remarkable ways, leading directly to the Virginia Symphony, the Norfolk Little Theater, the Irene Leache Memorial, the Norfolk Society of Arts, and …


Dictionary Catalog Of The Collection Of African American Literature In The Mildred F. Sawyer Library Of Suffolk University, Edward Clark Jan 1996

Dictionary Catalog Of The Collection Of African American Literature In The Mildred F. Sawyer Library Of Suffolk University, Edward Clark

Clark Collection Publications

No abstract provided.


"Maybe I Have Character Too": Reconsidering Bernard Malamud's Seductresses, Jeff Vande Zande Jan 1996

"Maybe I Have Character Too": Reconsidering Bernard Malamud's Seductresses, Jeff Vande Zande

Masters Theses

Over the span of Bernard Malamud's career, a more than subtle difference is evident between the seductress of his first novel and his subsequent novels. Since Malamud has been accused by some critics as depicting one-dimensional women, I analyzed the metamorphosis of the author's seductress characters to determine whether the change lends a better understanding to the relationship between Malamud and his female characters. I used Jung's theory of the mother archetype and his understanding of the Lilith legends to analyze the role of each seductress.

In The Natural, the seductress is one-dimensional and plays a destructive role in …


James Welch's Winter In The Blood: Thawing The Fragments Of Misconception In Native American Fiction, Mario A. Leto Ii Jan 1996

James Welch's Winter In The Blood: Thawing The Fragments Of Misconception In Native American Fiction, Mario A. Leto Ii

Masters Theses

The conventional scholarly view of Native American literature asserts that Native authors often portray their characters as alienated and despairing individuals that are incapable of attaining the means for dispelling those negative feelings. As a result, the characters are presumably destined to forever wander the barren reservation, unable to grasp their fleeting cultural traditions or the modern Euroamerican way of life. James Welch, with his novel Winter in the Blood, challenges that stereotypical scenario by allowing his nameless protagonist to discover a previously unknown link to his traditional Blackfeet heritage. Through the knowledge of his ancestors and the unconscious …


[Introduction To] All Over The Map: Rethinking American Regions, Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, Peter S. Onuf Jan 1996

[Introduction To] All Over The Map: Rethinking American Regions, Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, Peter S. Onuf

Bookshelf

Even as Americans keep moving "all over the map" in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do these places—these regions—come from? What makes them so real? In this groundbreaking book a distinguished group of historians explores the concept of region in America, traces changes the idea has undergone in our national experience, and examines its meaning for Americans today.

Far from diminishing in importance, the authors conclude, regional differences continue to play a significant role in Americans' self-image. Regional identity, in fact, has always been fed by the very forces that …


Economic Interdependence Along A Colonial Frontier: Capitalism And The New River Valley, 1745-1789, B. Scott Crawford Jan 1996

Economic Interdependence Along A Colonial Frontier: Capitalism And The New River Valley, 1745-1789, B. Scott Crawford

History Theses & Dissertations

Historians have generally placed the beginning of capitalism in the United States in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. This assumes that the industrialization of the New England states fostered in a modern economic environment for the country as a whole. However, evidence of modern economic principles existed on the Virginia frontier as early as the mid-eighteenth century. As frontier settlers aspired to emulate eastern society, they not only sought to recreate a lifestyle similar to the one they left behind, but also set up similar governing practices, which in turn created social stratification similar to that which existed in the …


Eldorado: The Poes In Norfolk, Myreen Moore Nicholson Jan 1996

Eldorado: The Poes In Norfolk, Myreen Moore Nicholson

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best known Americans in the world, as a great poet, literary critic and essayist, and innovator of the analytic detective story. Yet he basically remains his own best mystery. Major cities have monuments to him. This creative work's object is to show that Norfolk, Virginia, was central in his life and art. In fact, the theatre company with which his actress mother, Eliza Arnold Poe (and her friends, the Sullys), was longest affiliated, was headquartered there. Edgar's sister Rosalie was born in a house on Brewer Street. Times and the circumstances of Poe …


John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1995/96, John Muir Center For Regional Studies Dec 1995

John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1995/96, John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

John Muir Newsletter winter 1995-96 university of the pacific volume 6, number 1 HOW I FOUND SMOKEY JACK'S CAMP AND TWENTY-HILL HOLLOW ByRobert Bauer (Editor's note: When not raising turkeys, Robert Bauer is a graduate student in anthropology at California State University, Stanislaus, working on a master's thesis that places Muir and his work in the context of the land and people of the Sierra foothills between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers.) John Muir first came to eastern Merced County in 1868 by a circuitous route. Following a botanzing trip through Florida and Cuba, he was taken with a fever …


Community Pride Reporter, 12/1995, Community Pride Reporter Dec 1995

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1995, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.


American Irish Newsletter - December 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec Dec 1995

American Irish Newsletter - December 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Community Pride Reporter, 11/1995, Community Pride Reporter Nov 1995

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1995, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.


American Irish Newsletter - November 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec Nov 1995

American Irish Newsletter - November 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Civil Society And Congregations As Public Moral Companions, Gary M. Simpson Oct 1995

Civil Society And Congregations As Public Moral Companions, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

In the midst of this morally charged situation might not Christian congregations hear again the call to a public vocation? As we ponder this prospect, two questions will guide our inquiry. First, where might Christian congregations locate a space in which they might attend to the public moral meaning of everyday rage? That public space, which we will explore, is “civil society.” Second, how can this public space of civil society be accessed so that its moral possibilities can be maximized? We will explore “communicative moral practice” as the best model for accessing the moral possibilities of civil society. What …


Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.16, No.9 (October 1995), Northern Lambda Nord, Dick Harrison Oct 1995

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.16, No.9 (October 1995), Northern Lambda Nord, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

No abstract provided.


American Irish Newsletter - October 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec Oct 1995

American Irish Newsletter - October 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Maine Speakout Communique, Vol.1, No.1 (October 1995), Madeleine Winter, Maine Speakout Project Oct 1995

Maine Speakout Communique, Vol.1, No.1 (October 1995), Madeleine Winter, Maine Speakout Project

Maine Speakout communique (1995-1997)

No abstract provided.


Reckon. Volume 1, Numbers 3. Fall 1995., University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture Oct 1995

Reckon. Volume 1, Numbers 3. Fall 1995., University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Reckon

Includes interview and photographs of Larry Brown by Tom Rankin, as well as an excerpt of Brown's novel Father and Son.


Vol. 15, No. 4 (1995), Peter Stoicheff, William E. Strickland Oct 1995

Vol. 15, No. 4 (1995), Peter Stoicheff, William E. Strickland

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.


News On Tap (Autumn 1995), Eve Cimmel, The Aids Project Oct 1995

News On Tap (Autumn 1995), Eve Cimmel, The Aids Project

News on TAP (1995)

No abstract provided.


Community Pride Reporter, 10/1995, Community Pride Reporter Oct 1995

Community Pride Reporter, 10/1995, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.


Matlovich Society (Autumn/Winter 1995), Matlovich Society Oct 1995

Matlovich Society (Autumn/Winter 1995), Matlovich Society

Matlovich Society (1991-1997)

No abstract provided.


Southern Register. 1995.4 (Fall 1995), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture. Oct 1995

Southern Register. 1995.4 (Fall 1995), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture.

Southern Register

No abstract provided.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 1, Joan Saverino, Joseph Bentivegna, Nicholas V. De Leo, Catherine Cerrone, Janet Theophano Oct 1995

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 1, Joan Saverino, Joseph Bentivegna, Nicholas V. De Leo, Catherine Cerrone, Janet Theophano

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• "Domani Ci Zappa": Italian Immigration and Ethnicity in Pennsylvania
• A Study of the San Cataldesi Who Emigrated to Dunmore, Pennsylvania
• A Look at the Early Years of Philadelphia's "Little Italy"
• "An Aura of Toughness, Too": Italian Immigration to Pittsburgh and Vicinity
• Expressions of Love, Acts of Labor: Women's Work in an Italian American Community