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American Indians and the Mass Media
American Indians and the Mass Media
by Meta G. (edt) Carstarphen
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Mention “American Indian,” and the first image that comes to most people’s minds is likely to be a figment of the American mass media: A war-bonneted chief. The Land O’ Lakes maiden. Most American Indians in the twenty-first... (read more)

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People of Substance: An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
People of Substance: An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
by Carlos David Londono Sulkin
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People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves 'People of the Center. ' Carlos David Londono Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating... (read more)

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People of Substance: An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon (Anthropological Horizons)
People of Substance: An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon (Anthropological Horizons)
by Carlos David Londono Sulkin
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People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves 'People of the Center. ' Carlos David Londono Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating... (read more)

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The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
by Daniel Francis
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First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day. Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental... (read more)

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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
by Christina Snyder
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Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder... (read more)

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The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
by Mike Burns
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Mike Burns--born Hoomothya--was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre in Arizona. One of only a few young survivors, he was... (read more)

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Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
by Laura E. Matthew
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Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja,... (read more)

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Discovering Totem Poles: A Traveler's Guide
Discovering Totem Poles: A Traveler's Guide
by Aldona Jonaitis
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Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of visitors to Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska. Discovering Totem Poles is the first guidebook to... (read more)

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Dakota Women's Work: Creativity, Culture, and Exile
Dakota Women's Work: Creativity, Culture, and Exile
by Colette A. Hyman
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A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women. Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, made them almost four decades after the U.S.&ndash... (read more)

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Mississippi's American Indians (Heritage of Mississippi)
Mississippi's American Indians (Heritage of Mississippi)
by James F Barnett
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The full story of the state's once thriving and diverse American Indian... (read more)

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Mississippi's American Indians
Mississippi's American Indians
by James F. Barnett
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The full story of the state's once thriving and diverse American Indian... (read more)

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Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association (Women, Gender, and the West)
Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association (Women, Gender, and the West)
by Valerie Sherer Mathes
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Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the WNIA devoted seventy years to working among Native women. Bucking societys narrow sense of womens appropriate sphere, WNIA members across the U.S. built homes, missionary cottages, schools, and chapels, and sponsored... (read more)

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Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage #18: Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900-1600
Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage #18: Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900-1600
by William C. Foster
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Climate change is today's news, but it isn't a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and... (read more)

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Climate and Culture Change in North America Ad 900-1600
Climate and Culture Change in North America Ad 900-1600
by William C. Foster
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Climate change is today's news, but it isn't a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and... (read more)

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Haida Culture in Custody
Haida Culture in Custody
by Mary Lee Stearns
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Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives
Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives
by Tom D. Dillehay
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Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote
Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote
by Daniel McCool
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Those of Distant Campfires: The Unconquered Seminoles
Those of Distant Campfires: The Unconquered Seminoles
by Sandi Towers
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