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Identified Indian Objects: An Examination of Category

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca S. Hernandez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 121-140
Examines the use of language in the identification of Native American artifacts and the stereotypes that are perpetuated by their usage.
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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Janet G. Brashler
American Antiquity, vol. 69, no. 1, January 2004, pp. 166-167
Book review of: Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg.
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Introduction

Alternate Title
Material Culture in Flux
Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darcy N. Edgar
Robert K. Paterson
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [1]-2
Introduction to special issue consisting of papers delivered at a conference held May 20-21, 1994 entitled Material Culture in Flux--Repatriation of Cultural Property.
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Keres: Endgendered Key to the Pueblo Puzzle

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Miller
Ethnohistory, vol. 48, no. 3, Summer, 2001, pp. 495-514
Examines how the distinctive and regionally overwhelming native priesthoods provide a direct link between the Keresan Pueblos of today and their ancestors.
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Maria and the Ukok Princess: Climate Change and the Fate of the Altai

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gleb Raygorodetsky
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Author describes travels in the Altai, the landscape, people, history and culture, and challenges of preservation of sacred sites due to climate change.
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Mitochondrial Haplogroup M Discovered in Prehistoric North Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ripan S. Malhi
Brian M. Kemp
Jason A. Eshleman
Jerome Cybulski
David Glenn Smith
Scott Cousins
Harold Harry
Journal of Archaeological Science , vol. 34, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 642-648
Presents evidence of mitrochrondrial DNA of the haplogroup M, a group that is common in East Asia, but had never before been reported for Indigenous populations in North American. Estimates put the time frame at about five thousand years before present.
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Modelling Paleoindian Dispersals

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Steele
Jonathan Adams
Tim Sluckin
World Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 2, October 1998, pp. 286-305
Discusses a simulation model of human migration based on climate conditions during the late glacial period, 13,000-11,000 BP.
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NAGPRA as a Paradigm: The Historical Context and Meaning of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 2011

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomaira Babbit
A brief history of Native American Indian and United States relations; examines the similarities between the historical experiences of Native Americans and Palestinians; and discusses the movement to recover the objects and remains of their ancestors.
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The Nature of Thule Eskimo Whale Use

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allen P. McCartney
Arctic, vol. 33, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 517-541
Study shows bowhead whales were hunted during A.D. 1000-1300 in the Canadian Arctic.
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A New Paleo-Indian Site in the State of Maine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Michael Gramly
Kerry Rutledge
American Antiquity, vol. 46, no. 2, April 1981, pp. 354-361
Tools are identical to those of the Debert site in Nova Scotia.
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On the Biological Affinities of People of the "Lappish Parishes". A Craniometric Analysis of the 17th-Early 19th Century Population of Alozero, Karelia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
V. I. Khartanovich
I. G. Shirobokow
Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia , vol. 40, no. 2, June 2012, pp. 141-152
Uses cranial traits to examine immigration from central Finland, predecessors of Karelians, and possible links to modern Sami.
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A Paleo-Indian Bison-Kill in Northwestern Iowa

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George A. Agogino
W. D. Frankforter
American Antiquity, vol. 25, no. 3, January 1960, pp. 414-415
Describes Simonsen site that was radiocarbon dated at about 6000 B.C. and had artifacts similar to other sites in Iowa and Nebraska.
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A Paleo-Indian Butchering Kit

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hallett H. Hammatt
American Antiquity, vol. 35, no. 2, April 1970, pp. 141-152
Report of a cache of chopping tools and blades made of flint found near Anadarko in southwestern Oklahoma.
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Paleo-Indian Tool Types in the Great Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Henry T. Irwin
H. M. Wormington
American Antiquity, vol. 35, no. 1, January 1970, pp. 24-34
Discusses changes in tool types and defines the different kinds of complexes.
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A Paleoeskimo Occupation on Southern Banks Island, N.W.T.

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles D. Arnold
Arctic, vol. 33, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 400-426
Studies the Lagoon site in the lower Masik River valley which contains artifacts that support a different theory about typological-historical frameworks.
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Paleoindian Aggregations on the Great Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack L. Hofman
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 13, 1994, pp. 341-370
Analysis of the evidence for group gatherings or aggregations in the archaeological record.
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