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Power and Progress on the Prairie

Governing People on Rosebud Reservation

By: Thomas Biolsi

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Power and Progress on the Prairie

Governing People on Rosebud Reservation

By: Thomas Biolsi

A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota The Rosebud Country, comprising four counties in rural South Dakota, was first established as the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1889 to settle the Sicangu Lakota. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, white homesteaders arrived in the area and became the majority population. Today, the population of Rosebud Country is nearly evenly divided between Indians and whites. In Power and Progress on the Prairie, Thomas Biolsi traces how a variety of governmental actors, including public officials, bureaucrats, and experts in civil society, invented and applied ideas about modernity and progress to the people and the land. Through a series of case studies—programs to settle “surplus” Indian lands, to “civilize” the Indians, to “modernize” white farmers, to find strategic sites for nuclear missile silos, and to extend voting rights to Lakota people—Biolsi examines how these various “problems” came into focus for government experts and how remedies were devised and implemented. Drawing on theories of governmentality derived from Michel Foucault, Biolsi challenges the idea that the problems identified by state agents and the solutions they implemented were inevitable or rational. Rather, through fine-grained analysis of the impact of these programs on both the Lakota and white residents, he reveals that their underlying logic was too often arbitrary and devastating.

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1452956286

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Deadliest Enemies

Law and the Making of Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation

By: Thomas Biolsi

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Law and the Making of Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation

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Thomas Biolsi's study traces the origins of racial tension between Native Americans and whites to federal laws themselves, showing how the courts have created opposing political interests along race lines.".

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Univ of California Press

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Power and Progress on the Prairie

Governing People on Rosebud Reservation

By: Thomas Biolsi

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Governing People on Rosebud Reservation

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Organizing the Lakota

The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations

By: Thomas Biolsi

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Organizing the Lakota

The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations

By: Thomas Biolsi

In 1933 the United States Office of Indian Affairs began a major reform of Indian policy, organizing tribal governments under the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act and turning over the administration of reservations to these new bodies. Organizing the Lakota considers the implementation of this act among the Lakota (Western Sioux or Teton Dakota) from 1933 through 1945. Biolsi pays particular attention to the administrative means by which the OIA retained the power to design and implement tribal "self-government" as well as the power to control the flow of critical resources—rations, relief employment, credit—to the reservations. He also shows how this imbalance of power between the tribes and the federal bureaucracy influenced politics on the reservations, and argues that the crisis of authority faced by the Lakota tribal governments among their own would-be constituents—most dramatically demonstrated by the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation—is a direct result of their disempowerment by the United States.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816518858

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9780816518852

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Resistance and Revitalization

By: Thomas D. Hall,James V. Fenelon

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Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Resistance and Revitalization

By: Thomas D. Hall,James V. Fenelon

The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization. Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon demonstrate how indigenous peoples? movements can only be understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global and historical forces. The authors show that indigenous peoples have been resisting and adapting to encounters with states for millennia. Unlike other antiglobalization activists, indigenous peoples primarily seek autonomy and the right to determine their own processes of adaptation and change, especially in relationship to their origin lands and community. The authors link their analyses to current understandings of the evolution of globalization.

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Routledge

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1317257618

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Skull Wars

Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

By: David Hurst Thomas

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Skull Wars

Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

By: David Hurst Thomas

The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal reparation law, which gives tribes control over remains in their traditional territories. In this new work, Thomas charts the riveting story of this lawsuit, the archeologists' deteriorating relations with American Indians, and the rise of scientific archeology. His telling of the tale gains extra credence from his own reputation as a leader in building cooperation between the two sides.

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Basic Books

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0786724366

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Applied Cognitive Task Analysis in Aviation

By: Thomas L. Seamster,Richard E. Redding

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Applied Cognitive Task Analysis in Aviation

By: Thomas L. Seamster,Richard E. Redding

Due to the requirements of automatic system design, and new needs for the training of complex tasks, Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) has been used with increasing frequency in recent years by the airline industry and air traffic control community. Its power is reflected in the literature on professional training and systems design, where CTA is often cited as one of the most promising new technologies, especially for the complex cognitive tasks now confronting those working in aviation. The objective of this book is to bridge the gap between research and practice, to make what we know about CTA available to practitioners in the field. The book focuses on cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence analyses of aviation tasks. It is designed to help readers identify and solve specific design and training problems, in the flight deck, air traffic control and operations contexts. Distilling experience and guidelines from the best aviation cognitive analyses in accessible form, it is the first comprehensive volume on CTA, and is written for practitioners of cognitive analysis in aviation. It provides an overview of analyses to date; methods of data collection; and recommendations for designing and conducting CTA for use in instructional design, systems development, and evaluation. The first part of the book provides the principles and foundations of CTA, describing traditional approaches to task analysis and ways that cognitive analyses can be integrated with the analysis and development processes. The next part details how to: select the appropriate method or methods; determine job tasks that can be trained for automatic performance; extract knowledge structures; analyse mental models; and identify the decision-making and problem-solving strategies associated with experienced job performance. The authors also describe when to use and how to design and conduct a cognitive task analysis; how to use CTA along with traditional task analysis and ISD; and how to use CTA in training program development and systems design, as well as in personnel selection and evaluation. The current demand for cognitive analyses makes this a timely volume for those in aviation and, more generally, the industrial development and training communities. Readers will find this a thorough presentation of cognitive analyses in aviation and a highly usable guide in the design, implementation and interpretation of CTA. The book will be useful to instructional developers, aviation equipment and systems designers, researchers, government regulatory personnel, human resource managers, instructors, pilots, air traffic controllers, and operations staff.

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1351957708

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Standing Ground

Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850–1990

By: Thomas Buckley

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Standing Ground

Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850–1990

By: Thomas Buckley

This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its central theoretical trope. Buckley places himself in conversation with contemporary Yurok friends and elders, with written texts, and with twentieth-century anthropology as well. He describes Yurok Indian spirituality as "a significant field in which individual and society meet in dialogue—cooperating, resisting, negotiating, changing each other in manifold ways. 'Culture,' here, is not a thing but a process, an emergence through time.

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Univ of California Press

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0520936442

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Deadliest Enemies

Law and the Making of Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation

By: Thomas Biolsi

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Law and the Making of Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation

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The Ironies of Citizenship

Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries

By: Thomas Janoski

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The Ironies of Citizenship

Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries

By: Thomas Janoski

Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization, or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by the literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with the usual immigration theories and proposes an approach over centuries and decades toward explaining naturalization rates. First, it provides consistent evidence to support the long-term existence of colonizer, settler, non-colonizer, and Nordic nationality regime types that frame naturalization over centuries. Second it shows how left and green parties, along with an index of nationality laws, explain the lion's share of variation in naturalization rates. The text makes these theoretical claims believable by using the most extensive data set to date on naturalization rates that include jus soli births. It analyzes this data with a combination of carefully designed case studies comparing two to four countries within and between regime types.

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1139491091

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History is in the Land

Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley

By: Thomas John Ferguson,John Stephen Colwell-Chanthaphonh

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History is in the Land

Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley

By: Thomas John Ferguson,John Stephen Colwell-Chanthaphonh

ArizonaÕs San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological values of this extraordinary region by combining archaeological and historical sources with the ethnographic perspectives of four contemporary tribes: Tohono OÕodham, Hopi, Zuni, and San Carlos Apache. Previous research in the San Pedro Valley has focused on scientific archaeology and documentary history, with a conspicuous absence of indigenous voices, yet Native Americans maintain oral traditions that provide an anthropological context for interpreting the history and archaeology of the valley. The San Pedro Ethnohistory Project was designed to redress this situation by visiting archaeological sites, studying museum collections, and interviewing tribal members to collect traditional histories. The information it gathered is arrayed in this book along with archaeological and documentary data to interpret the histories of Native American occupation of the San Pedro Valley. This work provides an example of the kind of interdisciplinary and politically conscious work made possible when Native Americans and archaeologists collaborate to study the past. As a methodological case study, it clearly articulates how scholars can work with Native American stakeholders to move beyond confrontations over who ÒownsÓ the past, yielding a more nuanced, multilayered, and relevant archaeology.

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0816525668

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Long Term Human-Computer Interaction

An Exploratory Perspective

By: Richard C. Thomas

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Long Term Human-Computer Interaction

An Exploratory Perspective

By: Richard C. Thomas

Although machine interfaces have been made much easier for novices to learn, still very little is known about how users progress from novice to expert performance. This volume is based upon the results of one of the largest continuous field studies ever performed in human-computer interactiona seven year study involving 4,000 students at Sydney University. The results will be valuable to software developers and researchers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447115481

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Organizing the Lakota

The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations

By: Thomas Biolsi

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The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations

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Memoirs of the Life Times and Writings of Thomas Boston of Ettrick

By: Thomas Boston,John m'Neilage

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Memoirs of the Life Times and Writings of Thomas Boston of Ettrick

By: Thomas Boston,John m'Neilage

This book offers a captivating autobiography of Scottish divine Thomas Boston. With details of his spiritual awakening, his service within the church and the theological controversies he faced, readers will gain a deep understanding of his life, times and writings. A must-read for anyone interested in theological history or Scottish culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Clarence Thomas

A Biography

By: Andrew Peyton Thomas

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Clarence Thomas

A Biography

By: Andrew Peyton Thomas

First full-length biography of Thomas explores the controversial Supreme Court justice's rise to the nation's highest court.

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Conversations, Discussions And Anecdotes Of Thomas Story

By: Thomas Story

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Conversations, Discussions And Anecdotes Of Thomas Story

By: Thomas Story

Conversations, Discussions And Anecdotes Of Thomas Story has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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Power and Progress on the Prairie

Power and Progress on the Prairie

Deadliest Enemies

Deadliest Enemies

Power and Progress on the Prairie

Power and Progress on the Prairie

Organizing the Lakota

Organizing the Lakota

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Skull Wars

Skull Wars

Applied Cognitive Task Analysis in Aviation

Applied Cognitive Task Analysis in Aviation

Standing Ground

Standing Ground

Deadliest Enemies

Deadliest Enemies

The Ironies of Citizenship

The Ironies of Citizenship

History is in the Land

History is in the Land

Long Term Human-Computer Interaction

Long Term Human-Computer Interaction

Organizing the Lakota

Organizing the Lakota

Memoirs of the Life Times and Writings of Thomas Boston of Ettrick

Memoirs of the Life Times and Writings of Thomas Boston of Ettrick

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas

Conversations, Discussions And Anecdotes Of Thomas Story

Conversations, Discussions And Anecdotes Of Thomas Story

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