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"A fast and exciting read. . . . This survey of Owsley's career will appeal to both science and legal buffs." --Publishers Weekly
The story of the Smithsonian's brilliant forensic anthropologist and the 9,000-year-old skeleton that sparked his landmark lawsuit against the U.S. government
When he is not studying ancient skeletons, Doug Owsley is enlisted by the State Department and the FBI to identify remains. He has worked on some of the most notorious...
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In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places-whether real or imagined-and how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. Johnson engages with works...
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This amazing book chronicles the adventures of Thomas Polywetewa, a young Hopi boy who lives on the Hopi reservation in Northern Arizona. Partially based on a famous Hopi story by Edward Kennard, the story describes the battle to save a Hopi village from plunder. The book explores many aspects of the wonderful culture of the Hopi tribe. Young Thomas is intent on learning everything he can about the "Hopi Way" from his grandfather, the most important...
4) Pocahontas
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Pocahontas, a young Indian princess follows the lives of a family of beavers. When white hunters come on the scene Pocahontas goes to father, the chief, for help.
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