Interview with the authors of a book, Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture and Language researched over 35 years, about the language, culture and history of the Nooksack indigenous people .
Duration: 38:30.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 4, Winter, 1996, pp. 35-36
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Book review of: The Northern Copper Inuit by Richard G. Condon, Julia Ogina and the Holman Elders.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 35.
Traces the history of a one-hundred-year-old caribou skin men's dancing garment (kapitaq) from the moment the caribou was killed, through construction of the garment by an Inuinnait woman, its acquisition by the museum, loan to Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye for use in her stage performances, and finally back to the museum's cold storage.
History research essay towards a Master of Arts.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Writing about (Writing about) American Indians, Winter, 1996, pp. 41-47
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Article examines, compares, and critiques different stereotypes of Indigenous peoples that were promoted by social scientists and the tourism and film industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer-Autumn, 1996, pp. 563-593
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Author examines the work of the anthropologist Charles Hudson, discussed his writings about the spiritual practices of the Southeastern Indigenous peoples in the United States generally, and about those of the Cherokee people specifically.
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.
Speaker discusses the history of the relationship between the disciplines of anthropology and natural history, and the treatment of American Indians as specimens and a "vanishing" race.
Duration: 26:23.
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.