Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity PDF
Preview Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity
Table of Contents Praise Title Page A NOTE ABOUT HUMAN REMAINS Foreword PROLOGUE: A HISTORY WRITTEN IN BONE Part I - NAMES AND IMAGES Chapter 1. - COLUMBUS, ARAWAKS, AND CARIBS: THE POWER TO NAME LOS INDIOS NOBLE ARAWAKS AND BLOODTHIRSTY CARIBS Chapter 2. - A VANISHING AMERICAN ICON “PLAYED-OUT IDEAS” GO OVERBOARD WITH THE TEA PATRIOT CHIEFS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC THE AMERICAN MELTING POT THE WAR OF 1812 AND REMOVAL THE INDIAN WARS A PROGRESSION OF IMAGERY Part II - NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENTISTS Chapter 3. - THE FIRST AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST JEFFERSON DEFENDS THE AMERICAN VIRTUE DIGGING FOR INDIAN ORIGINS Chapter 4. - A SHORT HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM IN AMERICA THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF SKULL SCIENCE SKULL SCIENCE AND INDIAN POLICY Chapter 5. - DARWIN AND THE DISAPPEARING AMERICAN INDIAN “REAL INDIAN PEOPLE BOTH HAD—AND HAD NOT— DISAPPEARED” GENERALIZING THE IROQUOIS THE RISING TIDE OF SOCIAL DARWINISM LUBBOCK’S PRE-HISTORIC TIMES Chapter 6. - THE GREAT AMERICAN SKULL WARS THE GILDED AGE OF NATURAL HISTORY “LET ME HAVE THE BODIES OF SOME INDIANS” “IT IS MOST UNPLEASANT WORK TO STEAL BONES. ...” Chapter 7. - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASSIMILATION “A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE OF PUBLIC OUTRAGE AND SCIENTIFIC THEORY” STRONG PAPER TO PROTECT OUR HOME Chapter 8. - THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS HERO THE CUSHING EXPERIMENT AT ZUNI Chapter 9. - COLLECTING YOUR FOSSILS ALIVE “I BEG TO SUGGEST THAT YOU BRING BACK A MIDDLE-AGED ESKIMO” “SO ONE DAY WE ALL SAILED AWAY” MINIK “VISITS THE (SUPPOSED) GRAVE OF HIS FATHER” LAST OF A VANISHING SPECIES “THE MOST UNCIVILIZED, UNCONTAMINATED MAN IN THE WORLD TODAY” “SAY FOR ME THAT SCIENCE CAN GO TO HELL” Chapter 10 - IS “REAL HISTORY” EMBEDDED IN ORAL TRADITION? “THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF A VANISHING PEOPLE” “ACCORDING TO THE CANONS OF ABORIGINAL RATHER THAN A SCIENTIFIC LOGIC” PHYSICS ENVY: A LARGER BOASIAN AGENDA INSIDER VS. OUTSIDER PERSPECTIVES LOWIE ON ORAL TRADITION Chapter 11. - THE PERILOUS IDEA OF RACE THE RACIAL DETERMINISM OF HRDLIČKA AND HOOTON STEPHEN JAY GOULD TAKES ON MORTON RACE AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETHICS SOME PROBLEMS WITH FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY PROBLEMS WITH THE C-WORD Part III - DEEP AMERICAN HISTORY Chapter 12 - ORIGIN MYTHS FROM MAINSTREAM AMERICA A RACE OF (NON-INDIAN) MOUNDBUILDERS THE RED SONS OF ISRAEL WANDERING CELTS THE ARIZONA AZTECS ACROSS THE BERING STRAIT Chapter 13 - THE SMITHSONIAN TAKES ON ALL COMERS AN EMERGING EUROPEAN STONE AGE WHY NOT AN AMERICAN PALEOLITHIC? Chapter 14 - WHERE ARE ALL THE NATIVE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS? Chapter 15. - BREAKTHROUGH AT FOLSOM GEORGE MCJUNKIN’S BONE PIT “SOMETHING IN THE NATURE OF AN ANTICIPATED SURPRISE” “AND THE DURNED THING IS RIGHT BESIDE A BISON RIB” “DR. HRDLIČKA WAS NOT HAPPY” “IN MY HAND I HOLD THE ANSWER ...” THE PALEOINDIAN SEQUENCE AT BLACKWATER DRAW THE CLOVIS-FIRST HYPOTHESIS Chapter 16 - BUSTING THE CLOVIS BARRIER FIRST EXPLORATIONS HIGH PROFILE SKEPTICS “THE CLOVIS CURTAIN HAS FALLEN” REVISITING MONTE VERDE Chapter 17. - WHAT MODERN ARCHAEOLOGISTS THINK ABOUT THE EARLIEST AMERICANS THE ICE-FREE CORRIDOR CLOSES A PALEOLITHIC FRENCH CONNECTION LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES MOLECULAR ARCHAEOLOGY Part IV - THE INDIANS REFUSE TO VANISH Chapter 18 - “BE AN INDIAN AND KEEP COOL” “A REAL AMERICAN IF THERE EVER WAS ONE” INDIANS DISCOVER TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA “AT HOME ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BUCKSKIN CURTAIN” INDIANS AS TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURE BROKERS THE POWER OF INDIAN COSTUME Chapter 19. - AN INDIAN NEW DEAL: FROM ABSOLUTE DEPRIVATION TO MERE POVERTY PUEBLO INDIANS TAKE ON WALL STREET COLLIER HUMANIZES THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY REINFORCED AND REDEFINED THE TERMINATION BACKLASH: FROM AMERICAN INDIANS TO INDIAN AMERICAN Chapter 20 - THE RED POWER OF VINE DELORIA, JR. DID CUSTER DIE FOR YOUR SINS? RED POWER ON ALCATRAZ DO THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS HONOR INDIAN PEOPLE? REFUSING TO WALK THE BERING STRAIT AND NARROW Chapter 21. - LEGISLATING THE SKULL WARS “I AM A FUTURE ADULT MEMBER OF THE OMAHA TRIBE...” THE PASSAGE OF NAGPRA THE BONES GO HOME THE PUEBLOS RETURN TO PECOS THE NEW YORK ESKIMOS RETURN TO GREENL AND WHO’S GOT ISHI’S BRAIN? Part V - BRIDGING THE CHASM Chapter 22 - TRIBAL AFFILIATION AND SOVEREIGNTY DETERMINING CULTURAL AFFILIATION WHAT’S AN INDIAN? WHAT’S AN INDIAN TRIBE? KENNEWICK MAN REVISITED DOES KENNEWICK MAN THREATEN TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY? UMATILLA SOVEREIGNTY AND TREATY RIGHTS A BACKLASH AGAINST SOVEREIGNTY Chapter 23. - SPEAKING OF ORAL TRADITION IS ARCHAEOLOGY A REAL SCIENCE? ARCHAEOLOGY REDISCOVERS ITS HUMANISTIC ROOTS HIDATSA ORIGINS: CONVERGING TRIBAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIEWS MOUNT MAZAMA: CAN ORAL TRADITION SURVIVE FOR 7,500 YEARS? A SPECTRUM OF ORAL TRADITIONS SEEKING COMMON GROUND Chapter 24. - AN ARCHAEOLOGY WITHOUT ALIENATION THE POWER OF HOME: WE WERE, WE ARE, WE WILL BE DIGGING AFOGNAK THE MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT: REBUILDING WHAT WAS TAKEN AWAY EPILOGUE Acknowledgements ENDNOTES LITERATURE CITED INDEX Copyright Page PRAISE FOR SKULL WARS: “From page one, Skull Wars is a book you can’t put down—packed with fascinating, shocking, controversial and moving stories that present a sweeping picture of American archaeology and anthropology at its best and worst. It is beautifully written, impeccably researched, completely engrossing, and one of the best books on archaeology I have ever read.” —Douglas Preston Author of Cities of Gold and Thunderhead “Skull Wars is a very good piece of historical investigative journalism and ethnography that chronicles the rise of antagonisms between Indian, Anthro and Bureaucrat tribes. It will outrage the radicals on all sides and give solace and direction to those seeking solutions.” —Don D. Fowler Mamie Kleberg Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology University of Nevada, Reno “Thomas has taken a very important issue and dissected it brilliantly for the general reader. His story and his message—that we need to face history honestly and listen to each other carefully—should be read by everyone who believes that science can serve humanity. He has done a great service to the cause of cross- cultural understanding.” —Fred Hoxie Swanlund Professor of History University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign “Hurray for David Hurst Thomas’s Skull Wars! It is at once meticulously exact in the information presented, skillful in its narrative, and written in good, eloquent prose. A book, not a mere treatise, its moral purpose is to induce respectful and therefore productive relations between Thomas’s fellow archaeologists and the descendants of their subjects.” —Roger G. Kennedy Director Emeritus of the National Museum of American History, former Director, National Park Service, and author of Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson “Skull Wars is not just a good book but a great book: well-written, interesting, and evenhanded. Thomas does a fantastic job of showing how good research can be done in collaboration with the Indian community.” —Clark Larsen Amos Hawley Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Skull Wars holds a mirror up to the archaeological community. By helping us see ourselves as we are, Thomas’ book will help us understand the sometimes awkward and contentious, but potentially enriching, relationships that can and must be forged between Native Americans and archaeologists.” —David J. Meltzer Southern Methodist University “Skull Wars treads on delicate and controversial historical ground avoided by many scientists. With characteristic and refreshing frankness, David Hurst Thomas explores competing visions of the early American past and points the way to a new scholarly world where archaeologists do not necessarily call the intellectual shots. This extraordinary and important book is bound to send shock waves through the halls of academe.” —Brian Fagan Author of The Great Journey and Floods, Famines, and Emperors “An outstanding scholarly study of the root causes of the distrust between archaeologists and Native American groups. ... [An] important piece of work.” —Library Journal “Thorough, detailed, important and well documented.” —The Seattle Times “The ancient history of America is being rewritten, and David Hurst Thomas has written a report from the front lines.” —Insight
Description:The list of books you might like
