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Legislative calendar
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ISSN: 03644111 Year: 1992 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O.,

Destins croisés : cinq siècles de rencontre avec les Amérindiens
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ISBN: 2226059687 9232027836 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris : Albin Michel,


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Indians of the southeastern United States in the late 20th century
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ISBN: 0585201110 9780585201115 0817305343 9780817305345 Year: 1992 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, embracing a brief view of the Civil War.
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ISBN: 0585358761 9780585358765 0803281803 Year: 1992 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press


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Mississippian village textiles at Wickliffe
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ISBN: 0817383638 0585232180 9780585232188 9780817383633 0817305920 9780817305925 Year: 1992 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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Because textiles rarely are preserved in the archaeological record outside of deserts and permafrost areas, in many regions of the world very little is known about their characteristics, functions, production technology, or socioeconomic importance. While this fact is also true of organic fabrics produced during the Mississippian period in southeastern North Anerica, a wide variety of Mississippian textiles has been preserved in the form of impressions on large pottery vessels. From attribute analysis of 1,574 fabrics impressed on Wickliffe pottery sherds and comparison of the impres

Countering colonization : Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900
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ISBN: 0520075579 0585081417 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

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Publisher description: With Countering Colonization, Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far from being passive observers without regard for status and autonomy, these women were pivotal in their own communities and active in shaping the encounter between Native American and white civilizations. While women's voices have been silenced in most accounts, their actions preserved in missionary letters and reports indicate the vital part women played during centuries of conflict. In contrast to some Indian men who accepted the missionaries' religious and secular teachings as useful tools for dealing with whites, many Indian women felt a strong threat to their ways of life and beliefs. Women endured torture and hardship, and even torched missionaries' homes in an attempt to reassert control over their lives. Devens demonstrates that gender conflicts in Native American communities, which anthropologists considered to be "aboriginal," resulted in large part from women's and men's divergence over the acceptance of missionaries and their message. This book's perspective is unique in its focus on Native American women who acted to preserve their culture. In acknowledging these women as historically significant actors, Devens has written a work for every scholar and student seeking a more inclusive understanding of the North American past.

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