American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 485-491
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Authors offer a critical commentary of Bejamin R. Kracht’s application of a “communitas” model to the Kiowa Gourd Dance in his article, “Kiowa Powwows: Continuity in Ritual Practice.”
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 33, no. 3, July 2011, pp. 267-287
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Discusses how the founder of Carlisle Indian Industrial School manipulated coverage of the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee to further his own agenda of eliminating the competition in the Catholic contract schools.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 5-41
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Discusses the conflict between anthropologists & archaeologists and Indigenous peoples on the rule for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains in the possession or control of museums or Federal agencies.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 30, no. 4, Therapeutic Use of Hallucinogens, October-December 1998, pp. 333-341
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Discusses four perspectives of psychotherapy; the western paradigm, the shamanic rituals of divination, folk religious ceremonies and "hybrid" rituals.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2011, pp. 372-393
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Examines the romanticism and primitivism that plague Native American studies by looking at Hopi Indian religion and how they deal with the problem of evil.
Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 15, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 133-138
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Looks at the concept of one medicine, the relationship between the doctor and horse in the Cheyenne, and the intimacy between people and their horses in the Navajo or Apache.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 56-74
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Discusses how "Blood Run" exposes the limitations of repatriation legislation, most significantly, how NAGPRA's current definition of American Indian identity falls short of sovereign tribal conceptions of identity and tribal responsibility for the repatriation of ancestral remains.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 850-878
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Examines Indigenous ceremonial practices, government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances, and cultural notions about what constitutes "religion".
Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, vol. 34, no. 1/2, Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation, Winter/Spring, 2011, pp. 97-126
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Reports on the way Jesuit missionaries heard, recorded and reported the beliefs of the Wendat (Huron) people and how this may have shaped the context of the translations.
Looks at design on memorial give away from the Nez Perce reservation. General discussion about bags using elk and flora patterns. Includes photographs.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2011.
Discusses works by Susan Power, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, Anna Lee Walters, Louis Owens, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 386-392
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Author describes the process of gaining and using ritual knowledge in a Hopi context; examines some of the misunderstandings created by anthropologists about those who hold ritual knowledge.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 16, no. 4, Special issue: Materializing identities, December 2011, pp. 416-428
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Examines the conflicting ways in which artifacts and cultural heritage of First Nations are understood and how contradictory positions are to be reconciled.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 415-431
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Study defines the cultural values and symbols of the Snoqualmie people and then uses the maintenance of these cultural pieces to evaluate the resistance of the Snoqualmie to assimilation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 433-456
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Article explores the phenomena of cultural resilience and resistance to assimilation on the Grand Ronde reservation, additionally considers those settler practices that were adopted and the cultural hybridity that came of that space.