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'Indian Blood' or Lifeblood? An Analysis of the Racialization of Native North American Peoples: Author: Ferguson, Laura Kathryn; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Native American Studies; Abstract: The racialization of Native Americans has distorted their individual and collective identities. As a mechanism of Western imperialism, "race" has contributed to their dispossession, disintegration and deculturalization. Racialized oppression continues at federal and tribal levels through the usage of racial terminology and in blood quantum policies, leading to the fragmentation, marginalization, stigmatization and alienation of Native individuals. As such, race and blood quantum pose a threat to the survival of tribes. Tribes have within their means indigenous alternatives to race an...; Download File | View full details

Tonto and Tonto Speak: An Indigenous Based Film Theory: Author: Miller, Heather Anne; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Native American Studies; Abstract: Although there are works on Indian stereotypes in Hollywood films, there has been no work critiquing these misrepresentations from an indigenous based perspective and theory. Moreover there is almost no significant work on films written, directed and produced by Native Americans. I fill this void by constructing a Native American film theory that addresses the issues raised in American Indian film from an Indian perspective. The main inspiration for this project stems from Native American literature. After reading Native American literary theory and taking a Native American literature class, I...; Download File | View full details

Words, Wounds, Chiasms: Native American Health Care Encounters: Author: Lande, Nancy Carol; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Native American Studies; Abstract: My research explores the theme of the production and reception of intercultural mis/communications between Indians and non-Indians as expressed through linguistic narratives in the material setting of health care facilities on Indian reservations in Montana. My thesis focuses on how the objectifying discourse of Western practices of biomedicine are taken for granted and impede doctors abilities to actually communicate with Native American patients about their health care by exploring sociolinguistic disparities that are revealed through personal interviews. Since the doctor-patient relationshi...; Download File | View full details