Educational website focuses on the photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis. Contains links to thumbnail images with notes, lesson plans, slide show and kit manual.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
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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.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 61-65
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Review essay of: The Choctaws in Oklahoma by Clara Sue Kidwell and How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield.
Looks at the history, artistic and cultural value of Alutiiq masks, and discusses some of the challenges for future masters to carry Alutiiq traditions forward.
Comments on the benefits that are a result of academics and endangered language communities working together.
Anthropology and Linguistics paper (B.A.)--Bryn Mawr College, 2009.
Futures, vol. 41, no. 1, Futures of Indigenous Knowledges, February 2009, pp. 13-23
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Looks at the challenges facing the growth of research incorporating indigenous knowledge (IK) and recommends the continued promotion of a holistic approach.
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 77-106
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Highlights that communalism is found in households with highly developed social hierarchies, as opposed to households where social hierarchies were less developed.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 89-112
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Seeks to uncover paradoxes within the Hopi epistemology, arguing that in confounding Euroamerican efforts to "know", the Hopi can claim their rights to sovereignty and political self-determination.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 93-102
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Argues that there were eight themes in the story of Alcatraz which anthropologists ignored, and these are: self-determination, unity, equal educational opportunity, cultural revitalization, mutual assistance, changes to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ecolog, and the land base for Aboriginal self-sufficiency.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 169-199
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Analyzes the sociopolitical implications of disinterring bodies in order to put them on display, and discusses the responses of various writers to such issues. The article includes a comparison of display cases in museums, that house Native American bones, to that of zoos.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 55-65
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Discusses the gathering, organized by San Marocs librarians at California State University, of secondary information on Luiseño artifacts and information from a variety of museums, libraries, and private collections.