American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 180-196
Description
Author examines and discusses the narrative of a civilization—the Moundbuilders of America—that inhabited the Mississippi River valley prior to contemporary Indigenous peoples.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Province by William Henry Holmes
The Siouan Indians: A Preliminary Sketch by W. J. McGee
Siouan Sociology: A Posthumus Paper by James Owen Dorsey
Tusayan Katcinas by Jesse Walter Fewkes
The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 by Cosmos Mindeleff
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling
Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička
Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by Edwin Thompson Denig, edited by J. N. B. Hewitt
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 77-106
Description
Highlights that communalism is found in households with highly developed social hierarchies, as opposed to households where social hierarchies were less developed.
Information on the: Tlingit, Haida, Eyak, Northern Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, Sami, Chukchis, Dolgans, Gilyaks, Kamchadals, Ostyaks, Samoyeds, Ipiutak, and Inuit.
Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 308-319
Description
Author articulates the problematic roots of anthropology as salvage ethnography. Discusses the discipline's contemporary relationships with Indigenous peoples in the context of a tribal college library.