The Homol'ovi region of northeastern Arizona was home to a dense prehistoric population with strong, archaeologically-visible ties to the Hopi Mesas. As an ancestral Hopi residential area, this region is an important part of the Hopi cultural landscape utilized contemporarily by Hopi people for religious and resource procurement purposes. However, while previous research indicates that the Cottonwood Wash drainage formed an important component of the Homol'ovi landscape, the archaeology of the wash and its adjacent uplands is poorly understood. This research adopts a two-pronged approach to assessing the efficacy of GIS analysis for interpreting the spatial distribution of archaeological sites within the Homol'ovi landscape. The deductive approach draws on principles of cultural landscape theory to construct a descriptive model of dimensions of Hopi land use on the basis of ethnographic documentation and Hopi traditional history. This model is applied to a database composed of survey data collected from the Cottonwood Wash vicinity and data from the Homol'ovi Research Program's survey of Homolovi State Park. The model is then operationalized through GIS analysis of site distributions, and the efficacy of the model for predicting the location of different types of prehistoric land use is evaluated. The second, inductive, approach examines site distribution relative to patterns of visibility and movement in the Homol'ovi region and identifies areas for the refinement of spatial data associated with shrines and petroglyphs in the region. On the basis of this two-pronged approach, a research strategy iteratively incorporating deductive and inductive analyses, coupled with the use of participatory approaches, is recommended for future research.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of History. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-129).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of History. / Electronic thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-129). Also available in print ed.

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Switch-Reference (SR) is a phenomenon in which the coreferentiality of two (or more) subjects in a complex sentence is indicated by a morphological device. The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss recent work which deals with SR within the Government and Binding Theory, and propose an alternative analysis to it. The framework I will adopt for such an alternative analysis of SR is Categorial Grammar. A basic notion underlying Categorial Grammar is that an expression is divided into a functor and an argument, and each functor and argument are further divided into a functor and an argument until the division reaches to an undividable element. Given the assumptions that a functor and its argument must be compatible and that a functor has some subcategorization properties, I argue that "Agreement" phenomenon (subsuming agreement and disagreement) can be handled insightfully. Furthermore, I propose that such a treatment of "Agreement" can be extended to SR systems in general if we consider the "same subject" and "different subject" phenomena as cases of agreement and disagreement, respectively. I claim that a composite in which a SR morpheme appears forms a functor which takes another composite as its argument, and that the relation between the functor and its argument and the relation between some parts of the functor and its argument are characterized as "agreement" or "disagreement": The functor and the argument must be compatible as assumed above, and the nature of compatibility (whether "agreement" or "disagreement") is controlled by the subcategorization properties of the SR morpheme associated with the functor (i.e., if "same subject", the relation is agreement, and if "different subject", it is disagreement). By treating SR in this fashion, I intend to provide a unified analysis for apparently different SR systems in three diverse languages, namely, Tairora, Hopi, and Warlpiri.

Coal-fueled energy development in the Southwest has resulted in a controversy over claims of environmental damage and spiritual and social disruption to the Native American inhabitants of the region. Development has been supported through estimates of the economic benefits that will accrue to the Hopi and Navajo through the planned development. This research has developed a modeling approach to systematically and rationally assess the impacts of energy development on the Hopi and Navajo Tribes. The model incorporates a simulation technique that describes the Indian social systems over time with and without energy development. The variations within the system without energy development and with various levels of development allow insights into impacts. Computer control allows the model to consider many different decisions relative to energy development, and incorporated graphics allow for efficient and fast impact interpretation. The results of the model indicate that proposed impacts on the Native Americans have been exaggerated. Neither the economic impacts nor spiritual disruptions claimed are seen to occur. The model is seen to be a valuable tool for systematic analysis and the presentation of social impact information.

This study is about the impacts of the transportation of low level radioactive waste (LLRW) on American Indians. The terms American Indians, Native Americans, and Indians are used interchangeably throughout this report to refer to people who are members of tribes in the United States. The information contained in this report is valuable to non -Indian individuals, communities, and governments as well as to the tribes and the U.S. Department of Energy/Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV) for which it was prepared. Many of the individuals who agreed to participate in this study asked if their non -Indian neighbors were also being given the opportunity to share their views and perspectives on the transportation of LLRW near and through their neighborhoods. Although this study was designed to include only Native Americans, it can serve as a model for additional studies in non –Indian communities. American Indian tribes have a unique status as sovereign nations within the U.S., and this study was designed to address that relationship.This study includes an assessment of social and cultural impacts. One type of impact assessment concerns the estimation and communication of risks associated with potentially dangerous technologies or substances. Such an assessment, a technological "risk assessment," is generally conducted by natural or physical scientists and focuses on the probability and magnitude of various scenarios through time (Wolfe 1988). The specialists who conduct the assessment believe their estimates reflect the "real risks" of a technology or project because the estimates were made using scientific calculations. This study is not a risk assessment. Instead, this study pays attention to the public perceptions of impacts and risks. Like other social scientists, the researchers and American Indian partners who designed and conducted this study focus on public perceptions and frame the discussions in terms of locally defined values and concerns.This study involves 29 tribes and subgroups and is therefore very complex. Every effort has been made to present information systematically to help the reader make sense of what is being presented. Information about the tribes is presented in the same order throughout the report.

abstract: This dissertation analyzes the fourteenth-century English and nineteenth-century Hopi experiences with the unwelcomed traveler of disease, specifically the Black Death and the smallpox outbreak of 1898-1899. By placing both peoples and events beside one another, it becomes possible to move past the death toll inflected by disease and see the role of diseases as a catalyst of historical change. Furthermore, this study places the Hopi experience with smallpox, and disease in general, in context with the human story of disease. The central methodical approach is ethnohistory, using firsthand accounts to reconstruct the cultural frameworks of the Hopi and the English. In analyzing the English and Hopi experiences this study uses the Medicine Way approach of three dimensions. Placing the first dimension approach (the English and the bubonic plague) alongside the third dimension approach (the Hopi and smallpox) demonstrates, not only the common ground of both approaches (second dimension), but the commonalities in the interactions of humans and disease. As my dissertation demonstrates, culture provides the framework, a system for living, for how individuals will interpret and react to events and experiences. This framework provides a means, a measure, to identify and strive for normalcy. There is a universal human drive to restore normalcy after one's world turns upside down, and in seeking to restore what was lost, society undergoes transformation. Disease creates opportunity for change and for balance to be restored. This study concludes disease is a catalyst of change because of how humans respond to it. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation History 2014

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:36:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6746.pdf: 3524209 bytes, checksum: e93b9b23b623e1bcdadfafe90b8bf13b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-26 / This study aims to contribute to the discussion about the influence of today's technological devices, as well as the cultural entertainment industry by way of amusement parks, in this research, Hopi Hari and its educational laboratory (LEd), as "the ferret education" formal. It is in this complex relationship, which develop many variables, we try to penetrate to obtain information that could indicate how is the co-optation of students for the consumption of entertainment goods, and, through the cultural industry advertising, schools are invited to join these mechanisms disguised as culture, with the convincing element the idea that distraction learning occurs in a more efficient and enjoyable way. For both draw on a field of research that tried to investigate how this co-option in relation to students from a public school and a private of São Carlos, São Paulo State. Our analysis relied mainly on studies done by Critical Theory of Education and the ideas of his classic representatives as Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin and others, as well as their more contemporary representatives. The thematic approach was configured into four main chapters: the first sought to emphasize the origin of amusement parks, as well as the influence of the cultural products of the entertainment industry in the human experiences; in the second chapter we emphasize the relationship between the culture industry, schools and parks, highlighting the educational training offered by the Hopi Hari park for teachers in order to bring their students; the third was sought to understand how is the logic of fun as promoting public and private, and the consequences in the training process and the virtual explosion in concentrated distraction; the fourth chapter made the analysis of data obtained in field research as a subsidiary of our hypotheses regarding the concentrated distraction that occurs in the parks as opposed to attention and concentration as necessary requirement acquisition of knowledge. / O presente trabalho busca contribuir para a reflexão acerca da influência dos aparatos tecnológicos da atualidade e da indústria cultural do entretenimento pela via dos parques de diversão. Para tanto, nessa pesquisa, analisamos o Hopi Hari e seu laboratório educativo (LEd) como furão da educação formal. É nessa relação complexa que se desenvolvem muitas variáveis, nas quais tentamos penetrar para obter subsídios que pudessem indicar como se dá a cooptação dos alunos para o consumo dessas mercadorias do entretenimento. Por via da propaganda da indústria cultural, as escolas são convidadas a se juntarem a estes mecanismos disfarçados de cultura, tendo como elemento de convencimento a ideia de que na distração a aprendizagem ocorre de forma mais eficiente e prazerosa. Para alcançarmos os objetivos propostos, realizamos uma pesquisa de campo a fim de investigar como se dá essa cooptação de alunos em relação a uma escola pública e outra privada da região de São Carlos, cidade do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Nossas análises se apoiaram principalmente nos estudos feitos pela Teoria Crítica da Educação e nas ideias tanto de seus representantes clássicos; como Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin e outros; como nas de seus representantes mais contemporâneos. A abordagem temática se configurou em quatro principais capítulos: no primeiro deles buscamos enfatizar a origem dos parques de diversão e a influência dos produtos da indústria cultural do entretenimento nas experiências humanas; no segundo, procuramos enfatizar as relações entre a indústria cultural, a escola e os parques, destacando as formações pedagógicas oferecidas pelo parque Hopi Hari para professores com a intenção de que estes levem seus alunos ao parque; no terceiro, buscamos compreender como se dá a lógica da diversão como promoção do público e do privado, as consequências disso no processo formativo e a explosão virtual na distração concentrada; no quarto e último capítulo, fizemos a análise dos dados obtidos na pesquisa de campo, como subsidiária de nossas hipóteses em relação à distração concentrada que ocorre nos parques em detrimento da atenção e concentração exigidas pela aquisição da aprendizagem.