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Item Self-Knowledge of First Nation Adolescents Attending High School with a Student Residence(2023-05) Ford, MartiThis study aims at describing the self-knowledge of students and their ongoing development as Anishinaabe (Ojibway), Ininiw (Cree), Oji-Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, or mixed Indigenous nation adolescents who left their homogenous home communities during a crucial time in their social, emotional, and cultural development to attend high school. The study utilizes literature from different sources to incorporate studies on the traditional upbringing of First Nations youth, the connection between adolescence and First Nations youth, and the aspect of Kiskenimisowin (self-knowledge). The study adopted a phenomenological case study approach informed by principles of Indigenous methodology. The study found that students who participated brought with them the Indigenous knowledge and practices they learned from their communities. Their selfknowledge of being Ininiw, Anishinaabe, Oji-Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, or mixed Indigenous Nation was exhibited through the importance of family, connection to the land, and their need to care and give back to their communities. Many First Nation communities continue to practice traditional culture and values. Students learn them from their families or, if the families do not practice their culture, learn in the community at gatherings or while in school. The study includes appendices featuring letters, IRB correspondences, and questions informing the dissertation attached. It also includes recommendations for future research in the field of study.Item Things Fall Apart: Decapitation and the Quest for Certainty in Early Modern English Literature(2022-05) Price, LauraThis project considers the motif of decapitation in Early Modern English literature as an embodied metaphor for the quest for certainty. By investigating decapitation as a physical manifestation of the disintegrative and reintegrative process of the quest’s narrative structure, this project examines how Early Modern authors use the motif of decapitation as a way to work out, through an embodied metaphor, what it means to face, wrestle with, and ultimately come to terms with uncertainty. The texts that form the basis for this study include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Sir Philip Sidney’s Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, and William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. The recurrence of decapitation in these texts emphasizes the physicality of the knower and the physical dimension of the effect that knowing has on the knower. By associating the disintegrative and reintegrative nature of the quest for certainty with decapitation, these authors insist on an intimate relationship between the physical and the intellectual, the embodied experience and the epistemological process. Ultimately, this project contends that the consistent restoration of head and body is indicative of an Early Modern desire to find stability in the midst of upheaval, while remaining honest about the limitations of that stability.