American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 397-399
Description
Book review of: A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England by Frank Waabu O'Brien (Moondancer) and Julianne Jennings (Strong Woman)
Author speaks about the six determinants of form, Native societies and traditional dwellings. Uses examples from book produced in collaboration with architect Robert Easton.
Duration: 52:14.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, 1995, pp. 211-214
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Presents a letter, protesting the nonrenewal of Morris Swadesh's contract by the City College of New York in 1949, signed by the chief of the Mowachat band. Morris Swadesh, who taught people how to write their language (Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka), was much appreciated by the Aht people, thus his nonrenewal caused great concern.
Discusses the linkage between the frontier culture and alcohol abuse, and the higher rates of consumption among Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals in Alaska and Northern Canada.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 259-261
Description
Book review of: History of the Ojibway People: Its History and Construction by William W. Warren, edited and annotated with an introduction by Theresa Schenck.
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 313-336
Description
Documents the role of Danish painter and traveler, Emilie Demant (later Demant Hatt) who encouraged Johan Turi to write the narratives and provides explanations of Sámi culture and beliefs.
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.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 65, no. 3, Fall , 1995, pp. 403-444
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Results of a ethnographic study on the lives of Navajo youth, describing the racial and cultural struggle between Native American Indians and non-Native Americans.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 341-360
Description
Author (an Anthropology Professor) attempts to define contemporary Indigenous identity in the Southwestern United States from an ethnographic perspective.
Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 129-170
Description
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
Description
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.