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What the Lens Captures: Women and Indigenous Photography in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
No full textIt is well known that by the turn of the century, male photographers, such as Edward S. Curtis were taking documentary photography of what they considered a vanishing race. However, this is only part of the story of Indigenous photography. White women also participated in photography: Some as a hobby and others professionally. Photography was not exclusive to Euro-Americans either, but a way in which Indigenous people photographed themselves and their communities. Far from disappearing, Indigenous people resiliently survived, and utilized photography in their own way. Rather than photographs illustrating a disappearing act, Indigenous photography depicts autonomy and strength. It was not all men either who took up a camera to capture Indigenous sitters. White women also played a role in the history of photography and Indigenous photographs. Even Indigenous women themselves took photographs and experimented with photography. This thesis offers an analysis of Indigenous photography taken by three women photographers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this study I investigate the way two white women portrayed and interacted with Indigenous communities through photography, and how an Indigenous woman utilized photography to capture her own Indigenous community. The primary sources of investigation are photographs taken in the 1890s and 1900s created by the three women photographers of Indigenous peoples, landscapes, buildings, and Euro-Americans in Idaho and a rural community of Cherokee in Oklahoma. By arguing that these photographs stand as evidence of Indigenous knowledge of and interaction with photography and women’s participation in photographing Indigenous peoples, I demonstrate that Indigenous photography by women and by Indigenous women are taken for reasons that differ from not only each other, but also their male contemporaries. This thesis is organized around three case studies of women photographers that took photographs of Indigenous peoples. Benedicte Wrensted, a white woman from Pocatello, Idaho who took some of the only known nineteenth century photographs of Shoshone-Bannock, was a professional with her own studio. She illustrates a white woman making photography her career, and photographing Indigenous people, because they were her clients. E. Jane Gay, another white woman who photographed the Nez Perce while the Dawes Allotment Act (1877) was being implemented with an agenda toward assimilation policy. Finally, Jennie Ross Cobb, a Cherokee woman from Oklahoma who took amateur photographs of her Cherokee community with no government agenda or paying clients to influence her photography. Their photographs allow for a look at how women photographers both white and Indigenous participated in Indigenous photography and how their photography connects to the larger scope of scholarship within visual history.masters, M.A., History -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2021-0
“Until You do Right by Me, Everything You Even Think About Gonna Fail:” an Investigation Into the Macon Georgia Black Ancestors Buried Within Muscogee Nation Ceremonial Homelands who are Lost due to the Trauma of the Western Gaze
No full textThis thesis discusses the relationships of misplaced ancestors of perceived African ancestry and the Muscogee Nation's ancestral lands in Middle Georgia. These ancestors were excavated from Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (OMNHP) almost 90 years ago (1930s and 1940s) in what is still considered the largest archaeological dig in U.S. history. They presently exist in a state of flux as they are held within the Smithsonian complex, considered unworthy of return for reburial. This thesis follows their afterlife in archives across three institutions across these 90 years that they have been disturbed from their journey. The objective here is to ask who and by what process can we investigate and decide contested identities of people who cannot self-advocate and how can we incorporate descendant-stakeholder oral histories and community wishes into how these misplaced ancestors are memorialized and treated? I develop their stories by utilizing the archaeological record, the documentary archive, and oral histories from descendant and stakeholder communities to better inform how archaeologists may begin to understand these people in an effort to repatriate people who are not so easily identifiable. In this way, the project makes efforts to decolonize the field of archaeology and the Academy as a whole.masters, M.A., Anthropology -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2021-0
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADVANCED PRIVACY-AWARE IOT FORENSICS PROCESS MODEL
No full textInternet of Things (IoT) technologies sense people private information posing a new level of threat to individuals’ privacy. Conventionally, consumers have to take some actions to put their privacy at stake, but IoT devices are collecting people’s private data without them even noticing. Similarly, when investigating compromised IoT technologies, practitioners have to recover those private information from IoT devices, for evidence; mostly also without the consent of consumers. Digital forensics tools are capable of retrieving data the user considers not present in devices. This leads to a controversial debate on the need for strong privacy measures in the context of IoT forensics. This research aims at finding solutions to this highly fundamental issue that exposes user sensitive information that may go up to threatening lives of the IoT users. In this research, to explicate the problem more technically, a running example that maps the ISO 20137 standard to the IoT ecosystem is presented in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, a set of requirements that have to be fulfilled by IoT forensics models to preserve user privacy is presented. In Chapter 4, an IoT forensics model is developed by combining features in existing models proposed for different digital forensics domains. Finally, in chapter 5, a searchable encryption scheme that preserves user privacy throughout the process of IoT forensics is proposed.doctoral, Ph.D., Computer Science -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2021-0
Apparel Design Students and Motivations for Creativity: An Explanatory-Sequential Study Using Cognitive Orientation Theory
No full textThe US apparel industry is lacking in skilled workers familiar with technology, and there is a gap between what is taught in post-secondary schools and what is needed on the job. Minimal research is available to guide the apparel design educator and even less regarding apparel technologies. Apparel design students are expected to produce creative outputs during their academic careers and as apparel industry employees. Using Cognitive Orientation theory, this study determined what motivational constructs contributed most to motivations for creativity among apparel design students. Specifically, it investigates apparel design technology students’ perceptions of internal and external motivations for creativity constructs, and the relationship of those constructs to creative outputs. Using an explanatory-sequential study design, the Cognitive Orientation Questionnaire for Creativity (COQ-CR) survey was used to capture a general picture of apparel design student perceptions of motivations for creativity followed by interviews with apparel technology design students. The COQ-CR was also administered to related disciplines of interior design and costume design. A correlational explanatory design correlated apparel design technology student COQ-CR scores with final project creativity scores obtained through the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT). Descriptive analysis of the COQ-CR was used to determine which constructs contributed most to motivations for creativity for each design discipline group. Using a constructivist paradigm, interviews were analyzed for themes which were then grouped into categories. COQ-CR and CAT scores were correlated using the Spearman Correlation Coefficient. Results indicate that apparel design students are motivated equally by internal and external factors and identified three themes and a belief construct that contributed most to COQ-CR scores. Apparel, interior, and costume design groups scored similarly. Three relatively strong correlations with large effect sizes were found between COQ-CR construct scores and creativity scores. These results suggest that by leveraging innate constructs that are already part of the apparel design student motivational make-up that design project output may be more creative with less coaching from the instructor. Careful selection of project types and goals that relate to these motivational factors that are already valued by the apparel design student could support better project engagement in pursuit of a creative outcome.doctoral, D.Ed., Curriculum & Instruction -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2021-0
Label-free, Isothermal DNA-DNA Strand Displacement Amplification: Application in Bioanalysis
No full textDNA is not just a carrier of genetic information, it is also a chemical. It is a molecule with certain properties, a specific arrangement of atoms, and a commercialized chemical synthesis pathway. DNA is widely used, manipulated, and well-studied in bioanalysis. For instance, the current diagnostic assays for the SARS-CoV-2 virus rely upon DNA-based bioanalysis. At a fundamental level, DNA-based bioanalysis takes the advantage of Watson-Creek base pairing. Adenine pairs specifically with thymine, guanidine pairs with cytidine. This pairing is cooperative and specific. DNA is held together by many weak hydrogen bonds only when sequences are complementary. Together with the advance of many detection systems, enzymes, small molecule dyes, DNA-based bioanalysis is a diverse and demanding research field in chemistry. We used these advantages to develop enzymatic and non-enzymatic reactions for cost-effective, label-free, isothermal detection. Two isothermal systems, entropy-driven amplifier (EDA) and strand displacement amplification (SDA), are developed to detect physiologically important miRNAs. This thesis includes three research chapters and one review.doctoral, Ph.D., Chemistry -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2021-0
Latah Credit Union. Potlatch Branch
No full textPhotograph of Potlatch Branch of the Latah Credit Union