Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
- ISBN-10
- 022629899X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226298993
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-08
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- Chip Colwell, John Stephen Colwell
Description
Introduction -- Resistance: war gods -- Only after night fall -- Keepers of the sky -- Magic relief -- Tribal resolution -- All things will eat themselves up -- This far away -- Regret: a scalp from Sand Creek -- I have come to kill Indians -- The Bones Bill -- We are going back home -- Indian trophies -- Ac.35b -- A wound of the soul -- Reluctance: killer whale flotilla robe -- Masterless things -- Chief Shakes -- Johnson v. Chilkat Indian Village -- Cranes' last stand -- The weight was heavy -- Our culture is not dying -- Respect: Calusa skulls -- The hardest cases -- Long since completely disappeared -- Unidentifiable -- Their place of understanding -- Timeless limbo -- Before we just gave up -- Conclusion
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