Notes from a miner's canary : essays on the state of Native America / Jace Weaver.

A leading scholar takes on a variety of contemporary issues as they relate to Native Americans.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weaver, Jace, 1957-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2010.
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Social conditions. Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. Indians in literature. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights. Indians in literature Indians of North America > Social conditions
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Table of Contents:

More light than heat : the current state of Native American studies
Notes from a miner's canary : natives and environmental justice
Hope is a thing with feathers : Indian as icon
The American Indian land case : Choctaw nation v. Cherokee nation
NAGPRA and the return of the repressed
Turtle goes to war : of military commissions, the Constitution, and American Indian memory
Pilgrimage trails and migration traditions : foregrounds and backgrounds to the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2
Of trembling gods and moon-eyed people : ruminations on the limits of ethnography
Telectroscopy : searching for the ancestral Puebloans
When the demons come : (retro)spectacle among the savages
A lantern to see by : survivance and a journey into the dark heart of Oklahoma
The adamant of time : Native American land, architecture, and ethics
but I'll give you my chili recipe
Blackface, redface, and the yellow peril
The mystery of language : N. Scott Momaday, an appreciation
Empires, no matter how gained : unmasking the barbarism with a human face
Not bereft : a story of Cherokee survivance.

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