American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 67-80
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Comments on the importance, necessity and viability of an Inuit literary history and the discusses the role the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) can play in its sucess.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 547-548
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Book review of: Landscape Travelled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene Indians) by Rodney Frey in collaboration with the Schitsu'umsh.
Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.
Essay from: Around and About Marius Bareau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture edited by Lynda Jessup, Andrew Nurse and Gorden E. Smith. Discusses Barbeau's ethnographic filmmaking of Aboriginal life from a variety of different perspectives.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 144-147
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Book review of: Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader by William Berens ; as told to A. Irving Hallowell ; edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown & Susan Elaine Gray.
Montana Nineteen Eleven: A Professor and His Wife Among the Blackfeet
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Jay Hansford C. Vest
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall, 2008, pp. 541-543
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Book review of: Montana 1911: A Professor and His Wife Among the Blackfeet edited by translation from Dutch by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar with contributions by Alice Kehoe, Inge Genee, and Klaas von Berkel.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008, pp. 128-145
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Looks at the unique perspective of Northern Archaic settlement patterns, land use and the large number of prehistoric tent ring sites in the central Brooks Range, Alaska.
Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 4, 2008, pp. 413-426
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Looks at three schools of international art scholarship and their relevance to Australian Aboriginal art from remote communities: primitivism, histories of ornament, and aesthetic theory.
BC Studies, no. 160, The Middle Fraser, Winter, 2008/2009, pp. 127-128
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Book review of: The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories by Edward Sapir.
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Includes two groups: Chugach Eskimos of Prince William Sound and the Kodiak Eskimos of Kodiak Island and adjacent islands.
Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2008, pp. 35-44
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Chronicles the life of Tasmanian woman who was born before European colonialism took place. By the time of her death fewer than 50 traditional Tasmanians remained.
Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 129-170
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Looks at how Sol Tax incorporated action anthropology, through conventional tactics, into his goals of challenging the United States government policies and also challenged assimilationist ideals found in both science and politics.
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 387-407
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Studies population trends, using archaeological settlement remains and methods developed in recent research on Iroquois cultures, to create a model of two precontact Native American populations and show the effects of European contact.
Journal of Military History, vol. 72, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 71-104
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Examines the cultural significance of scalping among the Pawnee Indians, who lived in Nebraska and Kansas until their removal to Oklahoma in the 1870s.