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Boat-Shaped Artifacts of the Gulf Southwest States.- J.T. Patterson.

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Description
From foreword: "This paper will deal with the boat-shaped artifacts and certain other more or less related problematic forms from the Gulf Southwest states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. They have been alluded to... as "prehistoric objects of polished stone having somewhat the shape of a canoe, the use of which is unknown." Included are numerous illustrations of boat-shaped artifacts.
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Bois Flottés et Archéologie de l'Arctique: Contribution à la Préhistoire Récente du Détroit de Béring

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claire Alix
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, Art et Représentation / Art and Representation, 2004, pp. 109-132
Description
Argues that the driftwood found in Arctic archaeological sites has not been adequately analyzed and that a database should be developed to improve interpretation of wood remains.
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Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of Native American Human Remains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Gulliford
Public Historian , vol. 18, no. 4, Representing Native American History, Fall, 1996, pp. 119-143
Description
Discusses the history of collecting skeletal remains and associated objects for study or display purposes and the Indigenous movement to have scientific or cultural institutions return them to their nations for proper funeral and burial rights. Looks at the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and similar State-enacted legislation.
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Dinwoodie
Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 229-232
Description
Book review of: Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects edited by Russell Thornton.
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Book review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ron Welburn
Wendy G. Teeter
Steven D. Gomez
Donald L. Fixico
Stephen Wall
Gregory R. Campbell
Gus Pànthái:dê Palmer
Martha J. Macri
James Mackay
Anthony K. Webster
Rebecca Tsosie
Anya Montiel
Maria Williams
Kevin J. White
Sarah Deer
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 3, 2009, pp. 111-165
Description
Book reviews of 20 books: The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan. Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology edited by Stephen W. Silliman. Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit by John H.
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Barnett Richling
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 172-174
Description
Book review of: Ancient People of the Arctic by Robert McGhee.
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Book Review Essay: From Stories to Material Culture: European Scholars in the Arctic

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Claire Alix
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 365-374
Description
Essay containing reviews of: Where the Echo Began: and Other Oral Traditions From Southwestern Alaska by Hans Himmelheber. Deering: A Men's House From Seward Peninsula, Alaska by Helge Larsen. Nunguvik et Saatut: Sites Paléoeskimaux de Navy Board Inlet, île de Baffin by Guy Mary-Rousselière.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jane Griffith
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2011, pp. 196-198
Description
Book review of Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario by Michelle A. Hamilton.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rodolfo Pino
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 386-388
Description
Book review of: Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times by Olive Patricia Dickason. For this article scroll down to Page 386.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bethany R. Berger
Ted Jojola
William C. Meadows
Joshua Piker
Margaret Noori
Brad Montgomery-Anderson
John K. Donaldson
Edward W. Huffstetler
Carla Mulford
Elizabeth Archuleta
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books: American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen. Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anthony K. Webster
Raymond I. Orr
David Kozak
T. Chris Aplin
Natchee Blu Barnd
Joyotpaul Chaudhuri
Victoria Bomberry
Carol Zitzer-Comfort
Michelene Pesantubbee
Ervan G. Garrison
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
Description
Book reviews of 20 books: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton. The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas. Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris. Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden. First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland. Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anna L. Lawson
American Ethnologist, vol. 23, no. 1, February 1996, pp. 148-150
Description
Book reviews of: Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology edited by R. Layton, Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions edited by R. Layton, and Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity edited by S.J. Shennan.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Stuart Baldwin
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 188-190
Description
Book review of: Rio del Norte: People of the Upper Rio Grande From Earliest Times to the Pueblo Revolt by Carroll L. Riley.
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Boulder Effigy Monuments in the Northern Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Kehoe
Alice B. Kehoe
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 72, no. 284, April-June 1959, pp. 115-127
Description
Description and discussion of human and other effigy sites.
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Bridging Indigenous Studies and Archaeology through Relationality?: Collaborative Research on the Chignecto Peninsula, Mi'kma'ki

Alternate Title
Bridging Indigenous Studies and Archeology through Relationality?: Collaborative Research on the Chignecto Peninsula, Mi'kma'ki
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle A. Lelièvre
Cynthia Martin
Alyssa Abram
Mallory Moran
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2020, pp. [171]-195
Description
Uses research performed in Nova Scotia to discuss the ways that the two disciplines can contribute each other to create reciprocal improvement and understanding on both sides.
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Buffalo Narrows Digs Up It's Past

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Department Of Northern Saskatchewan
Graham Guest
Description
Dr. Jim Millar, an archaeologist from the University of Saskatchewan, believes people have been living in Buffalo Narrows for anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 years.
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The Buffalo People

Alternate Title
The Buffalo People: Pre-contact Archaeology on the Canadian Plains
E-Books
Author/Creator
LIz Bryan
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Building a Bridge to Cross a Thousand Years

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothy Lippert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 431-440
Description
Author describes the dual identities that artifacts hold: archaeologic subject and cultural object. Addresses how American archaeologists are forced by repatriation legislation to address these issues and to consult and collaborate with Indigenous peoples to bridge the gap between these perceptions of artifacts.
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Bundjalung Settlement and Migration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret C. Sharpe
Aboriginal History, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 101-124
Description
Looks at reconstructing migration and social contact patterns using language and archaeological, geographical, ethnohistorical and ethnomusical data.
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A Burial Cave in the Western Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dixie West
Christine Lefèvre
Debra Corbett
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2003, pp. 70-87
Description
Reports on a human burial at the rear of this cave 1,200 to 800 years ago, as well as more recent temporary uses dating to 390 years ago.
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Butchering and Stone Tool Function

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phillip L. Walker
American Antiquity, vol. 43, no. 4, October 1978, pp. 710-715
Description
Experiments regarding obsidian tools with different edge treatment for meat processing.
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By Way of Introduction from the Pacific Northwest Coast

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yvonne Marshall
World Archaeology, vol. 29, no. 3, February 1998, pp. 311-316
Description
Introduction to papers collected for publication using a theme of interpersonal relations to explore a new social archaeology.
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