17th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference
Honors 499C/D: Historic and Contemporary Issues of American Indians and Tribes: History, Policy, and Law. Professor Kathleen A. Brown-Perez
Location: Room 162, Campus Center
Date: Family, April 22, 2011
Senior Honors Thesis Defense Schedule (10:40 to 3:00)
Session 1 – 10:40 to 11:25
Caitlin Daley – American Indian Reservation Schools: The Achievement Gap
Carol I. Huben – The American Indian Mascot
Sarah E. Stone – American Indian Education: How Assimilation Decreases Retention
Session 2 – 11:35 to 12:20
Rebecca L. Reddish – Government Defining a People: The Structural Violence Embedded in the Federal Acknowledgement Process
Jessica E. Arthur – Inequalities Embedded in the United States Legal System through the Lens of Tribal Governments
Francine M. Miranda – A Vanishing People: The Systematic Destruction of American Indian Identity for the Sake of American Manifest Destiny
Lunch – 12:20 to 1:20
Session 3 – 1:20 to 2:05
Ian A. Russell – Dunmore’s War and its Implications for White-Indian Relations
Liana Roach – American Indians and the Environment
Holly S. Sprague – Unjust Compensation: Grand Coulee Dam, Indian Claims, and the Colville Nation
Session 4 – 2:15 to 3:00
Talia L. Nelson – Historical and Contemporary American Indian Injustices: The Ensuing Psychological Effects
Kelli A. McCarty – Doomed to be Barren: Sexual Violence and Sterilization of American Indian Women in the United States
John E. Collins – The Prevalence of Diabetes and Alcoholism in Indian Communities
Denise M. Pollock – Protecting Alaska Native Women from Sexual Violence by Strengthening Tribal Courts and Government
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