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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
NATIVE AMERICAN AND ALASKAN NATIVE YOUTH SUICIDE
Title
NATIVE AMERICAN AND ALASKAN NATIVE YOUTH SUICIDE.
Creator
Yurasek, Emily, Reyes-Foster, Beatriz, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Indigenous populations in the U.S. have been suffering from a youth suicide epidemic for decades. The epidemic and risk factors associated with it can be connected to the mistreatment of Native Americans throughout history which has caused their communities to suffer from numerous inequalities such as poverty, inadequate housing, loss of land, and destruction of culture. Using the concepts of biopolitics, post-colonialism, and structural violence, I argue that the social and political...
Show moreIndigenous populations in the U.S. have been suffering from a youth suicide epidemic for decades. The epidemic and risk factors associated with it can be connected to the mistreatment of Native Americans throughout history which has caused their communities to suffer from numerous inequalities such as poverty, inadequate housing, loss of land, and destruction of culture. Using the concepts of biopolitics, post-colonialism, and structural violence, I argue that the social and political institutions forced upon Native American communities have led to increased alcohol and drug abuse, poverty, and disempowerment, all important factors that aid in the youth suicide epidemic. I also suggests that preventative programs not only focus on suicide but other risk factors involved such as alcohol and drug abuse.
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Date Issued
2014
Identifier
CFH0004592, ucf:45230
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004592
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
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
friend of the Seminole
Title
A friend of the Seminole.
Creator
Walsh, George Ethelbert, Caswell, Edward C., David C. Cook Publishing Co., PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
The fictional adventures of two boys in southwestern Florida and the Seminole Indian they befriend.
Date Issued
1911
Identifier
AAB6355QF00001/18/200505/17/200722050BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FCLA url 20050425xOCLC, 60544775, CF00001707, 2582870, ucf:18973
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001707.jpg
"You Have Guns and So Have We...": An Ethnohistoric Analysis of Creek and Seminole Combat Behaviors
Title
"You Have Guns and So Have We...": An Ethnohistoric Analysis of Creek and Seminole Combat Behaviors.
Creator
Lawres, Nathan, Howard, Rosalyn, Barber, Sarah, Walker, John, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Resistance to oppression is a globally recognized cultural phenomenon that displays a remarkable amount of variation in its manifestations over both time and space. This cultural phenomenon is particularly evident among the Native American cultural groups of the Southeastern United States. Throughout the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries the European and American states employed tactics and implemented laws aimed at expanding the geographic boundaries of their respective states into the...
Show moreResistance to oppression is a globally recognized cultural phenomenon that displays a remarkable amount of variation in its manifestations over both time and space. This cultural phenomenon is particularly evident among the Native American cultural groups of the Southeastern United States. Throughout the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries the European and American states employed tactics and implemented laws aimed at expanding the geographic boundaries of their respective states into the Tribal Zone of the Southeast. None of these groups, however, sat passively during this process; they employed resistive tactics and strategies aimed at maintaining their freedoms, their lives, and their traditional sociocultural structures. However, the resistive tactics and strategies, primarily manifested in the medium of warfare, have gone relatively unnoticed by scholars of the disciplines of history and anthropology, typically regarded simply as guerrilla in nature. This research presents a new analytical model that is useful in qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing the behaviors employed in combat scenarios. Using the combat behaviors of Muskhogean speaking cultural groups as a case study, such as the Creeks and Seminoles and their Protohistoric predecessors, this model has shown that indigenous warfare in this region was complex, dynamic, and adaptive. This research has further implications in that it has documented the evolution of Seminole combat behaviors into the complex and dynamic behaviors that were displayed during the infamous Second Seminole War. Furthermore, the model used in this research provides a fluid and adaptive base for the analysis of the combat behaviors of other cultural groups world-wide.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004280, ucf:49532
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004280
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
Pioneering in the southwest
Title
Pioneering in the southwest.
Creator
Holt, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Autobiography of the author and his adventures in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
Date Issued
1923
Identifier
AAB6339QF00001/18/200508/04/200516257BfamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FCLA url 20050302xOCLC, 60545028, CF00001694, 2580797, ucf:17346
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001694.jpg
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
STORY LINES: MOVING THROUGH THE MULTIPLE IMAGINED COMMUNITIES OF AN ASIAN-/AMERICAN-/FEMINIST BODY
Title
STORY LINES: MOVING THROUGH THE MULTIPLE IMAGINED COMMUNITIES OF AN ASIAN-/AMERICAN-/FEMINIST BODY.
Creator
Choudhury, Athia, Park, Shelley, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
We all have stories to share, to build, to pass around, to inherit, and to create. This story - the one I piece together now - is about a Thai-/Bengali-/Muslim-/American-/Feminist looking for home, looking to manage the tension and conflict of wanting to belong to her family and to her feminist community. This thesis focuses on the seemingly conflicting obligations to kinship on the one hand and to feminist practice on the other, a conflict where being a good scholar or activist is directly...
Show moreWe all have stories to share, to build, to pass around, to inherit, and to create. This story - the one I piece together now - is about a Thai-/Bengali-/Muslim-/American-/Feminist looking for home, looking to manage the tension and conflict of wanting to belong to her family and to her feminist community. This thesis focuses on the seemingly conflicting obligations to kinship on the one hand and to feminist practice on the other, a conflict where being a good scholar or activist is directly in opposition to being a good Asian daughter. In order to understand how and why these communities appear at odds with one another, I examine how the material spaces and psychological realities inhabited by specific hyphenated, fragmented subjects are represented (and misrepresented) in both popular culture and practical politics, arguing against images of the hybrid body that bracket its lived tensions. I argue that fantasies of home as an unconditional site of belonging and comfort distract us from the multiple communities to which hyphenated subjects must move between. Hyphenated Asian-/American bodies often find ourselves torn between nativism and assimilationism - having to neutralize, forsake, or discard parts of our identities. Thus, I reduce complicated, difficult ideas of being to the size of a thimble, to a question of loyalty between my Asian-/American history and my American-/feminist future, between my familial background and the issues that have become foregrounded for me during college, between the home from which I originate and the new home to which I wish to belong. To move with fluidity, I must - in collaboration with others - invent new stories of identity and belonging.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFH0004200, ucf:44974
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004200
Wild sports in the South; or, The camp-fires of the Everglades
Title
Wild sports in the South; or, The camp-fires of the Everglades.
Creator
Whitehead, Charles E. (Charles Edward), PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
A collection of tales about hunting and interactions with indians in Florida during the middle of the Nineteenth Century.
Date Issued
1860
Identifier
AAB6340QF00001/18/200508/04/200516448BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, huc3090202, FCLA url 20050420xOCLC, 60544644, CF00001695, 2581474, ucf:24945
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001695.jpg