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Author Weaver, Jace, 1957-

Title Notes from a miner's canary [electronic resource] : essays on the state of Native America / Jace Weaver.

Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010.

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Description xvii, 461 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0826348742 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826348746
9780826348753 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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