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Morgan, Rachel

Summary: "Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 MOR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 MOR

Vaughn, Bill

Summary: "Between 1859 and the 1960's missionaries and the U.S. government operated more than five hundred assimilation centers. Their ostensible goal was to solve the "Indian problem" by transforming Indigenous children into English-speaking Christians who could hold down a job or run a farm or manage a household. But as the government finally admitted, the real objective was to steal tribal land. Most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books

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