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American Indian Homicide; A County Level Analysis Utilizing Social Disorganization Theory Revisted
Title
American Indian Homicide; A County Level Analysis Utilizing Social Disorganization Theory Revisted.
Creator
Ward, Kayla, Reckdenwald, Amy, Gay, David, Corzine, Harold, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Lanier and Huff-Corzine's (2006) article (")American Indian Homicide: A County-Level Analysis Utilizing Social Disorganization Theory(") has been referred to as a highly influential piece of literature on American Indian homicide. The study looked at American Indian homicide victimization incidents by county between 1986 and 1992 in the continental United States using the framework of social disorganization theory. Despite the violent crime drop in the 1990s, little research exists that...
Show moreLanier and Huff-Corzine's (2006) article (")American Indian Homicide: A County-Level Analysis Utilizing Social Disorganization Theory(") has been referred to as a highly influential piece of literature on American Indian homicide. The study looked at American Indian homicide victimization incidents by county between 1986 and 1992 in the continental United States using the framework of social disorganization theory. Despite the violent crime drop in the 1990s, little research exists that examines current dynamics of American Indian homicide. This study provides an updated replication of Lanier and Huff-Corzine (2006) by examining the impact of social disorganization on American Indian homicide victimization between 2006 and 2012. Results differ from Lanier and Huff-Corzine (2006). Reasons for the different outcomes are explored and implications for future research are discussed.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005902, ucf:50865
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005902
Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War
Title
Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War.
Creator
Settle, John, Murphree, Daniel, Crepeau, Richard, Larson, Peter, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study examines in depth the most common interpretation of the opening of the Third Seminole War (1855-1858). The interpretation in question was authored almost thirty years after the beginning of the war, and it alleges that the destruction of a Seminole banana plant garden by United States soldiers was the direct cause of the conflict. This study analyzes the available primary records as well as traces the entire historiography of the Third Seminole War in order to ascertain how and why...
Show moreThis study examines in depth the most common interpretation of the opening of the Third Seminole War (1855-1858). The interpretation in question was authored almost thirty years after the beginning of the war, and it alleges that the destruction of a Seminole banana plant garden by United States soldiers was the direct cause of the conflict. This study analyzes the available primary records as well as traces the entire historiography of the Third Seminole War in order to ascertain how and why the banana garden account has had such an impactful and long-lasting effect. Based on available evidence, it is clear that the lack of fully contextualized primary records, combined with the failure of historians to deviate from or challenge previous scholarship, has led to a persistent reliance on the banana garden interpretation that continues to the present. Despite the highly questionable and problematic nature of this account, it has dominated the historiography on the topic and is found is almost every written source that addresses the beginning of the Third Seminole War. This thesis refutes the validity of the banana garden interpretation, and in addition, provides alternative explanations for the Florida Seminoles' decision to wage war against the United States during the 1850s.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005710, ucf:50116
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005710
ATTAINMENT OF DOCTORAL DEGREE FORAMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE WOMEN
Title
ATTAINMENT OF DOCTORAL DEGREE FORAMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE WOMEN.
Creator
Hanna, Rosalin, Boote, David, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population is challenged with diverse learning styles, high-risk behaviors, low economic status, low enrollment predictions, lower total education achievement, or lower graduate level higher education. However, AI/AN doctoral degree recipients may be successful due to diverse sources of support. Data from 1992 to 2002 SED was analyzed using Chi square tests to observe the trends of the total number of AI/AN women receiving doctoral degree compared to...
Show moreThe American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population is challenged with diverse learning styles, high-risk behaviors, low economic status, low enrollment predictions, lower total education achievement, or lower graduate level higher education. However, AI/AN doctoral degree recipients may be successful due to diverse sources of support. Data from 1992 to 2002 SED was analyzed using Chi square tests to observe the trends of the total number of AI/AN women receiving doctoral degree compared to trends to African-American/Black, Hispanic, Asian, White, Other / Unknown women doctoral degree recipients. A two-way contingency table analysis was conducted to compare the difference in the total number of AI/AN female doctoral degree students with female doctoral degree recipients in other races. The Asian, White, and Other/Unknown were found to be significant in total number of doctoral degree recipients when compared to AI/AN population from 1992 to 2002, year to year. In a follow-up pair wise comparison conducted to evaluate these differences between consecutive years for the groups only the Other/Unknown category was significant. In addition, each race experienced a decline in the total female doctoral degree recipients during 1999 to 2002. However, the AI/AN female doctoral degree recipient group experienced the most drastic decreases, - 26.9 percent from 1999 to 2000. More AI/AN women are enrolled in colleges however they may be inadequately prepared to progress to doctoral programs due to poor availability of sources of support. Therefore, a survey questionnaire was designed to provide descriptive information on sources of social, emotional, academic, and professional support that was available for AI/AN women doctoral degree recipients. On the survey sources of social, emotional, academic, and professional support during graduate school were asked to be selected from: Committee Chair, Committee Member, Graduate Faculty, Graduate Colleagues, Other Faculty, Spouse/partner, Family, Employer, Friend, Tribal Group, Elder, Mentor, or Other. All sources of support that applied were selected, as well as, top three main sources. Forty-six surveys were completed, and the most frequent source (91 percent) and most common primary source (41 percent) of support selected for survey respondents was their Committee Chair. The survey data analysis offers observations of frequencies of this scarcely studied population.
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Date Issued
2005
Identifier
CFE0000548, ucf:46436
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000548
RELIGION AND IDENTITY FORMATION:A CROSS NATIONAL COMPARISON OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN INDIA & THE USA
Title
RELIGION AND IDENTITY FORMATION:A CROSS NATIONAL COMPARISON OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN INDIA & THE USA.
Creator
Sukumaran, Niyatee, Berman, Steven L., University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
With the exception of a few studies (Leak, 2009; Fulton, 1997), psychological research on religion has not been studied from an Eriksonian identity status perspective (Erikson, 1959; Marcia, 1966). Further, EriksonÂÂ's (1963) concept of identity appears to be inherently individualistic and may be conceptualized differently in Eastern/Asian cultures (Cloninger, 2008; Paranjpe, 2010). This study aims to understand the relationship of religiosity and quest to identity...
Show moreWith the exception of a few studies (Leak, 2009; Fulton, 1997), psychological research on religion has not been studied from an Eriksonian identity status perspective (Erikson, 1959; Marcia, 1966). Further, EriksonÂÂ's (1963) concept of identity appears to be inherently individualistic and may be conceptualized differently in Eastern/Asian cultures (Cloninger, 2008; Paranjpe, 2010). This study aims to understand the relationship of religiosity and quest to identity development across two cultures: USA and India. A total of 326 undergraduate students (mean age= 19.47, sd= 1.58) participated from two urban colleges in Mumbai, India (n= 159) and one in Orlando, USA (n= 167). All participants completed a battery of measures, including the measure of Religiosity, Quest Scale, Identity Distress Survey, and Ego Identity Process Questionnaire. Our first hypothesis was confirmed that females would have greater religiosity as compared to males amongst the Indian and USA sample. The second hypothesis was also confirmed that the USA sample would be found more among the achieved and moratorium ego identity statuses as compared to the Indian sample, who would be found more frequently in the foreclosed or diffused ego identity statuses. Although the USA sample was found to be significantly higher in identity exploration, the Indian sample was found to experience greater identity distress. Finally, our third hypothesis was partially confirmed in regard to religiosity, as it was not differentially related to identity variables in both the Indian and USA groups. However, religious quest was differentially related to the identity variables, in that it was related to identity distress in the USA sample, but not in the Indian sample.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003499, ucf:48953
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003499
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE EXECUTION OF THE UNITED STATES INDIAN POLICY
Title
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE EXECUTION OF THE UNITED STATES INDIAN POLICY.
Creator
Lewis, Daniel, Sacher, John, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This work investigates the American-Indian policy between 1790 and 1810 through the vehicle of the American government, focusing on the ÂÂ"white, sincere, religious-minded men who believed intensely in both American expansion and positive relations with the Indians.ÂÂ" While Indian reaction comprises an important piece of the native-white cultural encounter in the West, this study questions if scholars have the ability to address this problem in more than...
Show moreThis work investigates the American-Indian policy between 1790 and 1810 through the vehicle of the American government, focusing on the ÂÂ"white, sincere, religious-minded men who believed intensely in both American expansion and positive relations with the Indians.ÂÂ" While Indian reaction comprises an important piece of the native-white cultural encounter in the West, this study questions if scholars have the ability to address this problem in more than a very general way. In truth, each tribe was unique and different in their reaction to white legislation and settlement. There was no pan-Indian movement against settlement, and for the same reason, there is no pan-Indian history. However, it is possible to write of the white Americans as more of a single entity. They were closely united both in outlook and in goals. They had a single program which they meant to apply to all the Indians. This work will attempt to assess the piece of this policy regarding the fur trade and the Northwest. This study also links the Republican policies of Thomas Jefferson with the platforms of his federalist predecessors. Thorough investigation reveals choices in Western settlement were made by both government officials and settlers. Settlement of the Western frontier did not follow a predetermined path; private settlement and frontier violence were not predestined. Many junctures existed where it could have shifted. Lewis and Clark can be used as a case study with which to assess Jeffersonian policy. First, the men followed direct orders from Jefferson, instructed to act as the ÂÂ"forward voiceÂÂ" of his anticipated policy. Second, the men recorded almost the entirety of the voyage, and thoroughly captured the initial contact between whites and natives. Moreover, this contact occurred in region without previous contact with whites. As such, the Lewis and Clark expedition affords a unique opportunity to eliminate some of the inherent biases which were amassed during the colonial period of contact, both with the British and the American colonies.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003004, ucf:48350
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003004
THE TAÍNO ARE STILL ALIVE, TAÍNO CUAN YAHABO: AN EXAMPLE OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
Title
THE TAÍNO ARE STILL ALIVE, TAÍNO CUAN YAHABO: AN EXAMPLE OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY.
Creator
Cintron, David, Corzine, Jay, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Definitions and boundaries of race and ethnicity are socially constructed. They are malleable inventions created by the negotiation of ascribed ideas from outside groups and asserted notions from the inside group's membership. The revitalization of Taíno identity and culture within the Puerto Rican and related communities is a classic case example of this negotiation. Although objective conditions exist to recognize the descendants of these Caribbean aboriginals as an identifiable...
Show moreDefinitions and boundaries of race and ethnicity are socially constructed. They are malleable inventions created by the negotiation of ascribed ideas from outside groups and asserted notions from the inside group's membership. The revitalization of Taíno identity and culture within the Puerto Rican and related communities is a classic case example of this negotiation. Although objective conditions exist to recognize the descendants of these Caribbean aboriginals as an identifiable group, their identities are contested and sometimes ridiculed. Even though Taíno heritage is accepted as an essential root of Puerto Rico's cultural and biological make-up, this group has been classified as extinct since the early 16th century. This thesis analyzes the official newsletters of the Taíno Nation of the Antilles--one of the leading organizations working for revitalization. The content of this material culture was dissected and organized into rhetorical categories in order to reveal patterns of endogamic assertions of race and ethnicity. This thesis will provide a descriptive analysis of the Taíno Nation's rhetorical process of convincing the world that they do in fact exist.
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Date Issued
2006
Identifier
CFE0001325, ucf:46988
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001325
Florida under four flags
Title
Florida under four flags: Indian legends : Ormond.
Creator
Boyd, Marie E. Mann, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
A brief history of Florida under Spain, England, and France and a collection of anecdotes regarding Florida Indians, plus short histories of Ormond and Daytona Beach. Includes six pages of advertising by Ormond businesses from the period.
Date Issued
1920
Identifier
AAC3716QF00001/26/200703/28/200716420BnamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2007-01-29, FIPS12127, FCLA url 20070314xOCLC, 99663298, CF00001736, 2701885, ucf:20702
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001736.jpg