Pennsylvania

Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth A. Fenn
Journal of American History, vol. 86, no. 4, March 2000, pp. 1552-1580
Description

Discusses the controversy over whether the British general deliberately distributed blankets infected with smallpox as a method of decimating the population of Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo Indians surrounding Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania during Pontiac's War.

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Can a Myth Be Astronomically Dated?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Henige
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 127-157
Description
Barbara A. Mann and Jerry L. Fields argue that a solar eclipse occurred when the Haudenosaunee Iroquois League was founded. Mann and Fields date this occurrence to August 31, 1142.
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Clovis Counterrevolution

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eliot Marshall
Science, vol. 249, no. 4970, New Series, August 17, 1990, pp. 738-741
Description
Controversy among anthropologists and archaeologists regarding the date the Americas were first populated.
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Cultural Passport: Demystifying Traditional Indian Music

and Art

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Esha Zaveri
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 2, 2016, pp. 102-111
Description
Briefly discusses exhibition of Warli art called Birth of the Painted World and the activities of the Society for Indian Music and Arts (SIMA) at Pennsylvania State University.
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A Drum Speaks: A Partnership to Create a Digital Archive Based on Traditional Ojibwe Systems of Knowledge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy B. Powell
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, vol. 8, no. 2, September 21, 2007, pp. 167-180
Description
Describes a project named “Gi bugadin-a-maa goom (‘To Sanction, To Give Authority, To Bring to Life’)" undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,and discusses questions which arise when digitization takes place.
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The Experience of a Native American English Professor in Central Pennsylvania

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anonymous
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 412-415
Description
Author describes their personal experiences with profound ignorance towards Indigenous peoples and systemic anti-Indigenous racism at the small exclusive college at which they are a non-tenured member of the faculty.
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Five Pre-Clovis Sites That Won't Go Away

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Science, vol. 249, no. 4970, New Series, August 17, 1990, p. 740
Description
Brief descriptions and locations on a map of pre-Clovis sites in North and South America.
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Forty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926

E-Books
Author/Creator
J. Walter Fewkes
Description
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-Naming Rite by Francis La Flesche Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine by Frank G. Speck Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary by Frank G. Speck Picuris Children's Stories by John P. Harrington and Helen H. Roberts Iroquoian Cosmology - Second Part by J. N. B. Hewitt
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The Founding of the Carlisle Indian School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert L. Brunhouse
Pennsylvania History, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1939, pp. 72-85
Description
Dated version of the history of school reflects attitude of the time.
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Gotlieb Adam Steiner and the G.A. Steiner Museum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maurice L. Zigmond
Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter, 1979, pp. 322-330
Description
History of the basketry collection and an inventory divided by tribe.
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"Group of Canadian North west Indians"

Images » Photographs
Description
An image of a large group of Aboriginal people posing for the photograph. They wear a mixture of traditional and western clothes. The picture was taken on open prairie and there are two teepees in the background. Colours have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process. There is some correspondence on the back, and the postcard is postmarked 11 July 1911.
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An Indian Boy's Story

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ah-nen-la-de-ni (Daniel La France)
The Independent, vol. 55, 1903, pp. 1780-1787
Description
Author, who was born in 1879 and began attending the Hampton Institute in 1892, relates his experiences before, during,and after his time at the residential school.
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Invisible Indians: Native Americans in Pennsylvania

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Minderhout
Andrea Frantz
Human organization, vol. 67, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 61-67
Description
Study project on Native peoples forgotten history in the state, the government's official denial, and their efforts to get state recognition.
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League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or, Iroquois

E-Books
Author/Creator
Lewis H. Morgan
Herbert M. Lloyd
[Ely S. Parker]
Description
Ha-sa-no-an'-da, Ely S. Parker, a Seneca, co-researched this work, presented in three parts: Structure of the League; Spirit of the League; and Incident to the League. "A new edition, with additional matter, edited and annotated".
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Migration in Prehistory: The Northern Iroquoian Case

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dean R. Snow
American Antiquity, vol. 60, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 59-79
Description
Explores the argument in favour of migration in the development of Northern Iroquoian culture in northeastern North America and examines the history of the controlling model that has dominated regional archaeological interpretation for the past half century.
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Pax Lenape: The Peaceable Kingdom of the Pennsylvania Indians

Alternate Title
Papers From the American Indian Studies Section at the 2006 Western Social Science Association
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dawn Marsh Riggs
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the Lenape philosophy of sovereignty and land ownership during the colonial period, and discusses the diversity of principles regarding European and Indigenous perceptions of land use and governance. Access through table of contents.
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Pueblo Pottery in the Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Expedition, vol. 36, no. 1, March 1994, pp. 51-57
Description
Brief description of the five collections that form the bulk of the Museum's Southwestern holdings: Hazzard-Marta Collection: Relics from the Cliffdwellings The Donaldson Collection: Into the Pueblos The Wanamaker Expedition: Staying Ahead The Gottschall Collection: Commerce and Collecting The Stephens Collection: An Artist's Eye
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The Revolutionary War and the Indians of the Upper Susquehanna Valley

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter C. Mancall
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 39-57
Description
Studies how the mixed-tribe Native American community's economies were destroyed during the war, resulting in their complete dislocation from the region.
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Through a Glass Darkly, Colonial Attitudes toward the Native American

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Axtell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1974, pp. 17-28
Description
Focuses on conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples of New England, and the justifications used to condone acts such as the bounty placed on scalps.
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Through the Eyes of Louis Shotridge: Sharing Alaska’s

Native Tlingit History: A Digital Archive Project at Penn

Alternate Title
Libraries without Borders: Navigating towards Global Understanding
World Library and Information Congress ; 74th, 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lucy Fowler Williams
David McKnight
Description
A look at the Louis Shotridge collection; Louis Shotridge, also known as Stoowukháa (c. 1882-1937), was from the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and worked for the Penn Museum as Assistant Curator from 1915-1932. This paper also discusses decisions made concerning the information architecture and metadata standards used in developing the website.
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Treaty with the Delawares : 1778

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of the United States
Description
Transcript of the written Treaty between the United States and representative of the Delaware Nation, concluded on September 17, 1778.
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Tribalography: The Power of Native Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
LeAnne Howe
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 14, no. 1, Fall, 1999, pp. 117-125
Description
Comments on the Native Women Playwrights conference held March 18-20, 1999.
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