Browsing Master's Theses by Subject "Native American studies"
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Antiseptic Humor : Using Comedy To Confront Realities And Refute Stereotypes In The Works Of Sherman Alexie
(East Carolina University, 2015)Sherman Alexie, a Native American author of poems, novels, plays, and film uses humor to expose and to explore lingering cultural stereotypes affecting people of Native American ancestry. These stereotypes often conflict ... -
Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and the Story of the Catawba Nation
(East Carolina University, 2012)The Catawba Indians, in order to maintain their own identity as an "other" culture, utilized a course of acceptance and collaboration with the Euro-American majority that came to surround them, while ultimately developing ... -
From Exclusion to Inclusion : -- A Shift in the Perception of Native and Asian Americans through Graphic Stories: A Comparison of Political Cartoons from the 1800s to Trickster, American Born Chinese, and Level Up
(East Carolina University, 2015)By comparing political cartoons from the late 1800s to graphic novels published in the 21st century, one can trace the changes in social acceptance of Native and Asian Americans and examine the role tricksters hold in ... -
Historical Trauma in Native American and Jewish Literatures
(East Carolina University, 2012)Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart defines historical trauma as the "collective emotional and psychological injury both over the life span and across generations, resulting from a cataclysmic history of genocide" (Ottenbacher ... -
Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
(East Carolina University, 2014)The enslavement and persecution of African and Native peoples has been occurring in the U.S. since the 1600s. There have been justifications, explanations and excuses offered as to why one race feels superior over another. ... -
A Mortuary Analysis of the Structure 7 Cemetery at Town Creek, a Mississippian Site in the Piedmont of North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2013)Town Creek is a prehistoric Native American site in central North Carolina. The Mississippian period occupation, from about A.D. 1150-1350, saw the most intensive use of the site. The community transformed from a residential ... -
NAGPRA's Impact on North Carolina and the Southeast : Research on the Research
(East Carolina University, 2010)This thesis researches the impact of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) on academic bioarchaeological research in the southeastern United States and North Carolina. Scholarly journals, ... -
Prehistoric Ceramics from the Barber Creek Site (31PT259), Greenville, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2011)This is a study of the prehistoric pottery from the Barber Creek site located along the Tar River drainage in Greenville, North Carolina. Stratified archaeological remains are present in a one meter deposit of sand spanning ... -
REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN CHARACTERS IN STEPHENIE MEYER'S TWILIGHT SAGA
(East Carolina University, 2011)This thesis looks at Native American portrayals in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. How the Quileute people are portrayed in the series affects readers' perception of the real Quileute tribe. I argue that while ... -
SHERMAN ALEXIE'S RESERVATION : RELOCATING THE CENTER OF INDIAN IDENTITY
(East Carolina University, 2010)Indian reservations are territories within the United States recognized by the federal government as land reserved specifically for American Indians. Indigenous communities still referred to as tribes have some autonomy ... -
WEAPEMEOC SHORES : THE LOSS OF TRADITIONAL MARITIME CULTURE AMONG THE WEAPEMEOC INDIANS
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Weapemeoc were an Indian group of the Late Woodland Period through the Early Colonial Period (1400 A.D.-1780 A.D.) that went through significant cultural change as they were displaced from their traditional maritime ...