Anthropology as a science grew out of needs of colonizing countries to gain more information about the frontier. The United States in the early 19th
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Native Kinships and Wealth among the Middle Chinookans
Native kinships are incredibly complex. They do not follow the nice neat patterns of kinship that Americans have adopted from their European ancestors. Native peoples
The Trail of Broken Treaties Redux
Vine Deloria, Jr. famously penned a book, the Trail of Broken Treaties in response to over 150 years of the United States breaking its agreements
A Startling History of the Cascades Indians, 1855-1862
On March 26, 1856, a year after the Willamette Valley treaty is negotiated (Jan. 22, 1855) there is an uprising on the Columbia near the
People of the Mammoth Steaks and Giant Sloth Flanks
It is a fact that the majority of archaeologists have been male. The fact is that their work has worked to bias much of our