American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 99-114
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Findings indicate relatively diverse backgrounds with little gene flow between the two groups, each presumably having arisen from relatively distant common ancestry.
American Anthropologist, vol. 118, no. 1, March 2016, pp. 159-161
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Book reviews of: Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast by Kristin L. Dowell and Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture edited by Joshua A. Bell, Alison K. Brown and Robert J. Gordon.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
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Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 524-541
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Author suggests that based on evidence, ritual cave use was associated with new social institutions being created and the beginnings of horticultural economics.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 36-69
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Addresses how Western educated people can learn from Indigenous ways of knowing and telling through the practice of listening and writing in alternative ways.
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 478-497
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Evidence studied contends that the lone pine tree theory which symbolically connects physical with spiritual, cannot be supported and should be dismissed.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 2, 2016, pp. 81-92
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Analyzes archival material written at first contact in an attempt to reconstruct how Aleutians might have used spiritual beliefs to safeguard themselves during encounters with potentially aggressive or violent strangers.
Early American Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2012, pp. 685-698
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Book reviews of 4 books:
Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature by Jim Egan.
So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James R. Fichter.
Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World edited by Wayne E. Lee.
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild.