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Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture /

Colwell, Chip 1975-

Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Colwell. - 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.

9780226298993 (cloth : alk. paper)

2016036898


United States. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.


Indians of North America--Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Material culture--United States.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--United States.
Cultural property--Repatriation--United States.
Museums and Indians--United States.
Anthropological museums and collections--United States.
Archaeology--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Anthropological ethics--United States.

E98.M34 / C65 2017

973.04/97

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