Thesis (D. Min)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-151).

Thesis (D. Min)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-151).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-165)

Thesis (D. Min)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-151).

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-80).

This dissertation examines the creation and performance of expressive vocal practices by Eastern Cherokees as they seek to revitalize the Cherokee language in North Carolina in the Eastern part of the United States. The Eastern Band of Cherokee of Indians is facing the impending loss of its heritage language due to a community-wide shift to English. To combat this loss, the community now operates a Cherokee language immersion school, New Kituwah Academy. This dissertation is based on ethnographic and linguistic data collected during the researcher’s five years as the music and art instructor at New Kituwah. Indigenous epistemologies of language and poetics are brought into discourse with methodological and analytical approaches in ethnomusicology and linguistic anthropology. Performative vocal practices are processes through which Eastern Cherokee speakers negotiate what it means to be “modern Kituwah citizens.” Contemporary Cherokee voices emerge from the ambiguities of poetic “language play” in speech and song. “Voice” is both a metaphorical representation of a Cherokee sovereign and an actual materiality produced by embodied, speaking, and singing subjects. The translation of new popular song texts into Cherokee is likewise explored as “working” or “playing” with language. Translation is a poetic process imbedded within broader socio-cultural systems of meaning and perception (ontologies). Translation and vocal play destabilize semantic connections and open up the possibility for alternative interpretations and meanings; they allow for sovereignty to flourish as Cherokees reimagine and reshape themselves and their world.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / UMI #: 3217055 -- T.P. verso. Advisor: Victoria-Maria MacDonald, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis examined the rhetoric and discourse of the elite political actors in the Cherokee Indian Removal crisis. Historians such as Ronald Satz and Francis Paul Prucha view the impetus for this episode to be contradictory government policy and sincere desire to protect the Indians from a modernizing American society. By contrast Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green, and William McLoughlin find racism as the motivating factor in the removal of the Cherokee. In looking at letters, speeches, editorials, and other documents from people like Andrew Jackson, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Elias Boudinot, and John Ross, this project concluded that the language of civilization placed the Cherokee in a no-win situation. In internalizing this language, the Cherokees tacitly allowed racism to define them as an inferior group to Anglo-Americans. In the absence of this internalization, the Cherokee Indians surely would have faced war with the United States.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 2000. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-250).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Victoria-Maria MacDonald, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed <date>). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 143 pages. Includes bibliographical references.