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Arctic Origin and Domestic Development of Chinook Jargon
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch
Beaver, Bison, and Black Robes: Montana's Fur Trade, 1800-1860
Discusses how the demand for beaver pelts brought about a new economy, the shift from hunting beaver to hunting bison, and the impact of missionaries.
Chapter from Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes..
Bering Sea and Arctic Coast Eskimos of Alaska
Christopher Columbus and Bartolome de Las Casas: Worshipping Christ Versus Following Jesus — Spiritual Roots of Their Twin Christian Legacies
"Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America: Complicating Contemporary Attributions."
The French Half-Breeds of the Northwest
Content and language reflect the attitudes of the times.
Forms part of Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... for the Year 1879.
See pages 309-328.
From the Minnetarees to the Shoshonees
Goodbye, Columbus: Take Two
Compares the treatment of the "discovery" of North America in two children's books: Encounter by Jane Yolen and A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King.
Excerpt from A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.