This thesis tells the stories of settler colonialism and iron mining as coinciding and contingent upon one another: iron mining in Minnesota was not possible …
Motivated by a desire to assess both the positive and negative cultural legacies of classical Hollywood cinema, this thesis focuses on a genre descendant of …
This thesis answers the following two questions: How was peonage defined? How did this definition reverberate throughout the American legal and legislative systems? The answers …
In the first half of the twentieth century, the canned salmon industry brought Asian migrants and Northwest Coast Native peoples together in fishing and canning …
This dissertation is a study of how literature, intellectual culture, and spirituality scripted the early encounter between English colonists and the Powhatan people of Tidewater …
“Reproducing Resistance: Gendered Violence and Indigenous Nationhood” tells the story of the extraordinary violence indigenous women confront across the U.S.-Canada border. This violence takes many …
In Native New England, the struggle to demonstrate "community" is a necessary, but fraught, enterprise in Native groups' fights for social and legal recognition. Groups …