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Interpreting Settler Infrastructure In Stevens County, Minnesota: Gager's Station And The Post Dakota-Us War Of 1862 Frontier, Mitchell Kane Hancock
Interpreting Settler Infrastructure In Stevens County, Minnesota: Gager's Station And The Post Dakota-Us War Of 1862 Frontier, Mitchell Kane Hancock
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022
Gager's Station is a little known, but formative settler infrastructure project from the 1860s in west-central Minnesota. Gager's Station was situated along both an important military supply route, and lands of significant importance to the Indigenous people of the area. Gager's Station bears several similarities to the scout camps and civilian defense forts in the broader Fort Wadsworth network that provided civilian defense to new homesteaders following the Dakota-US War of 1862. Fort Wadsworth served as another goal post in western expansion of the United States. Further, the networks of forts that supported it appeased the anxious settlers who feared …
Ethnographic Moment: Navajo Nation Changing Racial Terminology In Response To Black Lives Matter Protests, Dani M. Austin
Ethnographic Moment: Navajo Nation Changing Racial Terminology In Response To Black Lives Matter Protests, Dani M. Austin
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
"Given Navajo Nation debates about changing racial terminology in response to Black Lives Matter protests, I will argue that modification of Diné Bizaad (Diné Bizaad means Navajo Language) is a progressive and positive shift. Language is constantly changing across social groups and time. From generation to generation, words take on different meanings. Words are invented and acquired from a variety of sources. Furthermore, unused words can expire from everyday usage. How do shifts in language occur?"
Chinese Export Porcelain: Similarities And Differences Between Independent Nations, Australia And The United States Of America, Erica Selly
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
This paper examines various archaeological sites from both Australia and the United States in order to compare the early consumption of Chinese Export Porcelain; how the amounts of porcelain found on site reflected wealth and status in both nations, and differences in preferred design.
Sagas And Artifacts: How Tales From The Past Help The Interpretation Of Archaeological Remains, Bridgette Hulse
Sagas And Artifacts: How Tales From The Past Help The Interpretation Of Archaeological Remains, Bridgette Hulse
Honors Capstone Projects
I argue that historians and archaeologists should consider the Viking perspective in the form of sagas when analyzing Viking activity in England, in tandem with the Anglo-Saxon record. This way, it is possible to garner a more complex understanding of the past, as scholars can take both the Viking and Anglo-Saxon view in account in order to complete the picture. In addition, this allows archaeologist to interpret Viking artifacts from a Viking cultural perspective, not the Anglo-Saxon perspective. This removes a middle-man from the analytical process and allows archaeologist to consider what would be closer to a primary source on …
Views On Identity And Services: English-Speaking Morris Residents Consider Latino Immigration, Christina Nyquist, Hannah Wahstrom
Views On Identity And Services: English-Speaking Morris Residents Consider Latino Immigration, Christina Nyquist, Hannah Wahstrom
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2016
According to the US Census Bureau, the Latino population of Stevens County increased by almost 300% from 2000 to 2010. Previous research in the Morris community focused on the concerns of the Latino population and education staff at Morris public schools. This project examines the perspectives and experiences of English-dominant Morris residents, particularly civic leaders and business owners, to better understand how they view their communities and the changes taking place. Our project conducted 15 semi-structured interviews where questions focused on how participants understand their own identities, their knowledge about and interaction with the Morris Latino population, and the challenges …
The Impacts Of Agriculture On Small Mammals In Prehistoric Southern Arizona, Laura Borkenhagen
The Impacts Of Agriculture On Small Mammals In Prehistoric Southern Arizona, Laura Borkenhagen
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2016
Agriculture was first introduced to the Tucson Basin of Arizona during the Formative period (also known as the Early Agricultural period) around 2000 BC. During the Classic period (AD 750–950), the later Hohokam people developed large-scale riverine irrigation systems. Despite the size and numbers of excavations that have been conducted at Hohokam sites, it is still unclear when the Hohokam developed a sedentary lifestyle and the degree to which they impacted the environment around them. One way to answer these questions is to look at the effects of human activity on animals, particularly whether anthropogenic environmental changes established new ecological …
The Native American Organic Garden: Using Service Learning As A Site Of Resistance To The Boarding School Tradition, Donna Chollett
The Native American Organic Garden: Using Service Learning As A Site Of Resistance To The Boarding School Tradition, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
As educators, we owe it to our students to enable them to transgress structural impediments and to create sustainable alternatives from the margins of the industrial agro-food system. Policies of assimilation, allotment, and enclosure of the Native American commons and ecosystems brought devastation to Native cultures. Dependence on government commodities replaced Native food sovereignty and contributed to malnutrition, obesity, and diabetes as diets responded to corporately produced and processed foods. Young people often feel disempowered and ask how they might confront such formidable forces as corporate control of our agro-food system, destruction of natural resources, and threats to human health. …
Renegotiating Gender And Class In The Berry Fields Of Michoacán, Mexico, Donna Chollett
Renegotiating Gender And Class In The Berry Fields Of Michoacán, Mexico, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
This article examines the renegotiation of gender and class in a rural Mexican community where economic crisis in the sugar industry led foreign agribusinesses to promote blackberry and raspberry production for export and hire primarily women as berry pickers. Analysis focuses on the transition from a sugar economy where mostly men worked in the cane fields to non-traditional agricultural exports when women entered agricultural waged labor in unprecedented numbers. This restructuring of the regional economy raises important questions regarding the marginalization of differentiated subaltern groups and the nature of new sets of power relations between transnational agribusinesses, berry growers, and …
Reflections On Reflections: Dialectical Commentaries On Gender And Class In Ntae Production, Donna Chollett
Reflections On Reflections: Dialectical Commentaries On Gender And Class In Ntae Production, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
No abstract provided.
"Like An Ox Yoke": Challenging The Intrinsic Virtuosity Of A Grassroots Social Movement, Donna Chollett
"Like An Ox Yoke": Challenging The Intrinsic Virtuosity Of A Grassroots Social Movement, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
Since the 1980s, neoliberal globalization fostered an upsurge of grassroots social movements in Latin America that sought alternatives to increasing poverty and social exclusion. Social movement scholars often interpret these movements as morally noble models of democracy given their claims to social justice and equity. My research examines the forced seizure of a closed Mexican sugar mill and establishment of a cooperative, worker-run factory by a grassroots movement whose cultural politics aimed at creating more democratic processes. Yet in 2009, after 11 years of success, movement leaders declared the mill bankrupt and shut it down. The façade of unity presented …
From Sugar To Blackberries: Restructuring Agro-Export Production In Michoacán, Mexico, Donna Chollett
From Sugar To Blackberries: Restructuring Agro-Export Production In Michoacán, Mexico, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
In recent years, economic crisis in the sugar industry and the closure of an important sugar mill in Michoacán, Mexico, have fostered the entry of transnational agribusinesses that contract with local growers for blackberry production. Land concentration is under way as wealthy growers rent ejido (agrarian-reform) land to grow berries and small-scale growers shift to less capitalized berry production or migrate out of the region. An analysis of the impact of this transition, part of the globalization of the agro-food system, on campesinos, workers, and their communities reveals that a general improvement in the economy has been accompanied by increased …
Ritual And Ceremony In A Contemporary Anishinabe Tribe, Julie Pelletier
Ritual And Ceremony In A Contemporary Anishinabe Tribe, Julie Pelletier
Faculty Working Papers
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of Social Justice: From Global Transformation To Local Resistance, Donna Chollett
In Defense Of Social Justice: From Global Transformation To Local Resistance, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
The global transformations that enveloped Latin America over the past decade resulted in uneven consequences for diverse social groups. Scholars witness an increasing tension between a macroeconomic agenda concerned with profitability and local community access to employment and sustenance. As neoliberal reforms intensify Latin America's integration into the world economy, they may adversely impact local communities. Should local people lose their ability to obtain basic rights, will they be able to effectively challenge the neoliberal model? In the absence of more adequate attention to social justice, it is probable that occurrences of local resistance in defense of these rights will …
Global Competition And Community: The Struggle For Social Justice, Donna Chollett
Global Competition And Community: The Struggle For Social Justice, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
The above two quotations embody disparate worldviews with regard to the neoliberal project that has enveloped much of Latin America in the past decade. Globalization intensifies the region's integration into the world economy through neoliberal reforms such as market opening, privatizations, and rationalization of production. These reforms are transforming rural societies, raising important questions concerning policies that selectively favor new strategies for capital investment and production oriented toward market expansion, as they marginalize surplus workers and "inefficient" forms of production. This paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the contradictions brought about by globalization and local people's struggles to …
Culture, Ideology, And Community: The Dynamics Of Accommodation And Resistance To Restructuring Of The Mexican Sugar Sector, Donna Chollett
Culture, Ideology, And Community: The Dynamics Of Accommodation And Resistance To Restructuring Of The Mexican Sugar Sector, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
Neoliberalism has provoked profound and diverse consequences for rural Mexico, escalating the agricultural crisis for producers and workers in various sectors. Against this context, recent improvements in the sugar sector raise interesting questions about its relative economic success under the neoliberal paradigm. This article contrasts two cane zones--one that experienced economic recovery and another affected by abandonment of the sugar mill--to argue that in the interstices of modernizing neoliberalism, cane growers and mill workers who were subjected to politics of exclusion struggle to ensure the survival of their culture, community, and economic livelihood.
Restructuring The Mexican Sugar Industry: Campesinos, The State, And Private Capital, Donna Chollett
Restructuring The Mexican Sugar Industry: Campesinos, The State, And Private Capital, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
Under the new agrarian policies and economic rules of Article 27, implemented in January 1992, the customary patters of political patronage and loyalty in the countryside no longer operate as before. Campesions now are challenged to think and act like entrepreneurs who assume investment risks in order to successfully participate in competitive markets. But most possess neither the economic resources nor worldviews to be the “campesino entrepreneurs” sought by the government or by the leaders of the Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC) and the Confederación Nacional de Productores Rurales (CNPR), the two campesino confederations affiliated to the ruling PRI. This contradiction …
State Divestment, Reprivatization, And Peasants: Dialectical Transformations Within The Mexican Sugar Sector, Donna Chollett
State Divestment, Reprivatization, And Peasants: Dialectical Transformations Within The Mexican Sugar Sector, Donna Chollett
Anthropology Publications
The last decade has seen a critical reassessment of the role of the state in economic development, accompanied by substantial economic restructuring of Third World economies. One of the most profound manifestations of this transformation is the process of privatization. The sale of Mexico's state-owned sugar mills to private capital marks a historical turning point for the sugar sector and provides an opportunity to analyze the impact of privatization on rural communities, as peasants adjust to the changing structure of production and renegotiate their relationship with the Mexican state and the reprivatized sugar mill. The research examines reprivatization through a …
Natural And Anthropogenic Forces Acting On A Forest Lake, M. C. Whiteside, M. B. King, K. Pulling
Natural And Anthropogenic Forces Acting On A Forest Lake, M. C. Whiteside, M. B. King, K. Pulling
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABS1RACT-Lak~ Itasca, Minnes~ta is located within one of the more popular state parks. Since the turn of the centmy, loggmg, fire protection, and development within the watershed have put modest pressures on the ecosystem. The presence of the University of Minnesota's Biological and Forestry Station on the lake has encouraged research in this region. Consequently there are numerous research reports and papers which are available _at the station's library. We examined data collected over the past 25 years to see if we could detect changes ~~ the lake. We detected no changes in phytoplankton, macrophyte, zooplankton, or zoobenthos com~urnues, but …
A Method For Investigating Tv Effect On Passivity-Activity Of Crees, Gary Granzberg
A Method For Investigating Tv Effect On Passivity-Activity Of Crees, Gary Granzberg
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
With the recent rise to prominence of materialistic emphasis in anthropology, there has been a corresponding development of new methodology. An example is presented here of how new methodology can be applied to the study of a Cree Indian community in Canada. This study examined the effect of television on the passivity-activity dimension in development of children.
Political Entrenchment In An Ojibwa Wild Rice Economy, Robert Jarvenpa
Political Entrenchment In An Ojibwa Wild Rice Economy, Robert Jarvenpa
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABSTRACT - Immunity from both state ricing regulations and the competition of white harvesters characterizes the protective legal niche occupied by Ojibwa Indians who gather wild rice in the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota. Since 1937 the economic benefits of the Rice Lake rice beds have become restricted to an increasingly exclusive membership of socially and genetically interrelated harvesters from several nearby Indian communities. It appears that this relatively favorable political-economic situation has enhanced the sensitivity of Rice Lake harvesters to current ricing problems encountered by Indians throughout northern Minnesota, and the institution of a rice auction has …
The Littlefork Burial: New Light On Old Copper, Jack Steinbring
The Littlefork Burial: New Light On Old Copper, Jack Steinbring
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
A richly furnished child burial of late Old Copper affiliation in Northern Minnesota is described. The mortuary offerings include a pair of large, decorated bone harpoons, and a pair of diagnostic Old Copper projectile points attached to dart shafts. The primary burial is flexed in a shallow pit with evidence of red ochre. Typological comparisons suggest a tentative date of 1,000 to 750 B.C.
Feudalism, Estate, And Prebendalism In "Pre-Modern" Korea, Han Gu Kim
Feudalism, Estate, And Prebendalism In "Pre-Modern" Korea, Han Gu Kim
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
This paper analyzes three phases of feudalism in Korea. First, the genesis of Korea's feudalism, which developed from the end of the ninth century to the late fourteenth century. Secondly, the continuum of feudalism in Korea, which the author believes stemmed from power conflicts among the elite and the ensuing decline of the Silla dynasty. It is noted, also, that Korean feudalism has been transformed gradually from a decentralized form to a centralized one. Thirdly, structural distinctions are noted between the above two sub-types of feudalism. The analysis indicates that centralized feudalism has been characterized by absolute monarchism and various …
Birch Lake Burial Mound Group, Elden Johnson, Martin Q. Peterson, Jan E. Streiff
Birch Lake Burial Mound Group, Elden Johnson, Martin Q. Peterson, Jan E. Streiff
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Five small prehistoric burial mounds located near Birch Lake on Prairie Island in Goodhue county of southeastern Minnesota were excavated in 1968. The secondary burial of adults in shallow pits and unaccompanied by mortuary offerings follows widespread prehistoric patterns in the upper Mississippi valley. The mortuary pottery vessel buried with the single primary burial suggests construction of the mounds during the period of initial Mississippian cultural intrusion, perhaps shortly after 1,000 A.D.
Analysis Of Unmodified Stone Materials From The Cambria Site, Charles R. Watrall
Analysis Of Unmodified Stone Materials From The Cambria Site, Charles R. Watrall
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Analysis of the stone materials from the Cambria Site reinforces cultural implications about the site made on formal artifact analysis alone. Secondly, the paper illustrates a simple means of analysis to gain vital information on archaeological site culture history.
Naming Practices In South America, John Bregenzer
Naming Practices In South America, John Bregenzer
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
On the basis of previous investigation of modes of address and social structure, this study attempts to show that certain naming practices in South America are related to indicators of a postulated individualism-communalism continuum of the societies. The results suggest a relationship between some naming practices and a continuum based on mean size of the local community.
An Aspect Of Linguistic Change In Ojibwa, Priscilla Copeland Reining
An Aspect Of Linguistic Change In Ojibwa, Priscilla Copeland Reining
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABSTRACT-Using linguistic data derived. from the Red Lake Ojibwa, the paper examines the process of borrowing in languages of different types, English and Ojibwa, as exemplified by the words moccasin and shoe.
The Sins Of The Roman Fathers (With Pedigree Chart), Rhoda Lindsay
The Sins Of The Roman Fathers (With Pedigree Chart), Rhoda Lindsay
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABSTRACT-The Roman line of emperors, known as the Julian Claudian line, is traced from its ambitious beginnings through all its aberrations to the reluctant suicide of Nero and the end of the line.
The German Paradox (A Problem In National Character), Robert F. Spencer
The German Paradox (A Problem In National Character), Robert F. Spencer
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
ABSTRACT - There has been considerable argument since World War II over whether the concept of a national character, such as might distinguish the Germans, the Japanese, the Russians, or any other contemporary national group, has any reality in fact. The present paper, operating on the assumption that there is a distinctive German character, one essentially different from that of the English, the Italians, the French, or the Russians, seeks to show, in terms of the processes of culture defined by anthropology, where German uniqueness lies. This, it is contended, rests not so much in factors of native psychology and …
A Preliminary Report On The Excavation Of Two Late Middle Woodland Mounds In Northwestern Wisconsin, Leland R. Cooper
A Preliminary Report On The Excavation Of Two Late Middle Woodland Mounds In Northwestern Wisconsin, Leland R. Cooper
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
A preliminary report of the excavation of two mounds located in a group of 52 in Burnett County, Wisconsin. Analysis of the data demonstrates a close generic cultural relation to data gathered at Minnesota sites. Carbon 14 dates place the existence of this culture well within the chronological position of the Late Middle Woodland period.
Modern Pottery-Making In San Anton, Mexico, Gordon J. Hadden
Modern Pottery-Making In San Anton, Mexico, Gordon J. Hadden
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
The principal contemporary pottery-making techniques which are recognized for the Mexican area are; handmodeling, building, molding with convex molds, molding with concave molds, molding with concave "vertical halves" molds, modeling with revolving "moldes," and wheel-throwing (Foster 1955: 3) . We can attribute this diversity of pottery-making techniques to the blending of pre-Conquest native practices with those of the postConquest Spanish.