Siting the Literature Review: Dialogues on the Location of Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lia Ruttan
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 103-120
Description
Explores a preferred research process that involves dialogue with community members, on location, in order to learn and see the research community in a more realistic way.
Six Boruca Tales
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan J. Gordon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 1-2, 1980, pp. 51-95
Description
Looks at narrations recorded by Constenla Umaña while interviewing Doña Isolina de Gonzalez and Don Espiritu Santo Maroto. Text of stories in Spanish and Boruca.
Six Pawnee Crania: Historical and Contemporary Issues Associated with the Massacre and Decapitation of Pawnee Indians in 1869
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Riding In
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 101-119
Description
Study takes a broad look at the nature of Indian-White relations in the late 1860s in an attempt to understand why the Pawnee incident, near Mulberry Creek, took place.
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-'95
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Description
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Primitive Trephining in Peru by Manuel Antonio Muñiz, M.D. and W. J. McGee
The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas
Tusayan Snake Ceremonies by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Sixteenth-Century Tusayan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Henry F. Dobyns
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 187-200
Description
Author examines multiple archival sources to develop a more accurate understanding of Hopi communities in the mid 1500s.
See also:
Albert H. Schroeder's critique: "Comments on Henry Dobyns' 'Sixteenth-Century Tusayan'."
Henry F. Dobyns's response: " Superhuman Hearing, Superhorses, and Miraculous Maize."
Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Wesley Powell
Description
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia by William H. Holmes
A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament by William H. Holmes
Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices by Cyrus Thomas
Osage Traditions by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey
The Central Eskimo by Dr. Franz Boas
Sketch of the Life of John Tanner, A Famous Manitoba Scout, A Border Type
Articles » General
Author/Creator
George Bryce
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 30, Series 1, April 26, 1888, p. [?]
Description
Biography of a man who was kidnapped as a child and raised by the chief of the Ottawas. Some events recorded to have happened may be questionable.
Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians
Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v.7 pt.1
Social Organization and Ritualistic Ceremonies of the Blackfoot Indians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Clark Wissler
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 7 (p. 1-64).
Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cole Harris
BC Studies, no. 115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism, Autumn/Winter, 1997/1998, pp. 45-82
Description
Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.