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Author: Charles E. Hilton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139992104 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 333
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On the edge of the Arctic Ocean, above the Arctic Circle, the prehistoric settlements at Point Hope, Alaska, represent a truly remarkable accomplishment in human biological and cultural adaptations. Presenting a set of anthropological analyses on the human skeletal remains and cultural material from the Ipiutak and Tigara archaeological sites, The Foragers of Point Hope sheds new light on the excavations from 1939–41, which provided one of the largest sets of combined biological and cultural materials of northern latitude peoples in the world. A range of material items indicated successful human foraging strategies in this harsh Arctic environment. They also yielded enigmatic artifacts indicative of complex human cultural life filled with dense ritual and artistic expression. These remnants of past human activity contribute to a crucial understanding of past foraging lifeways and offer important insights into the human condition at the extreme edges of the globe.
Author: Lael Morgan Publisher: University of Alaska Press ISBN: 1602230218 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 306
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At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near his native village with an atomic blast. Art and Eskimo Power chronicles the life of this influential and artist, editor, and founder of the Tundra Times--under whose leadership the newspaper helped to organize Alaska's native people to press their aboriginal land claims before Congress, which ultimately led to their being awarded over $1 billion and 40 million acres.
Author: Alice Beck Kehoe Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351219960 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 914
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Written in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians as "a people with history" and not as primitives, covering current ideological issues and political situations including treaty rights, sovereignty, and repatriation. A must-read for anyone interested in North American Indian history. This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking approach to the history of the native peoples of North America (including Mexico and Canada) and their civilizations.For Native American courses taught in anthropology, history and Native American Studies.
Author: Roderick Sprague Publisher: Northwest Anthropology ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 104
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Cultural Ecology in the Canadian Plateau, Gary B. Palmer Units of Culture and Units of Time: Periodization and Its Use in Syntheses of Plateau Prehistory, Barbara Bicchieri Form and Function in Alaskan Eskimo and Indian Musics, Thomas F. Johnston Perceptions and Images of the Wild Man, Gordon R. Strasenburgh, Jr.