Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
the giving of the tattoo
Cabinet Card of an American Indian Giving a White Man a Tattoo via Anonymous Works brilliant.
Filed under: art, United States | Closed
paradoxes of iroquois passports
From the pen of Felicia Fonseca, via Associated Press The team has maintained that traveling on anything other than an Iroquois-issued passport would be a strike against the players’ identity. But the British government wouldn’t budge in denying team members entry into England without U.S. or Canadian passports, keeping the Iroquois Nationals from competing at […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Political developments, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
teeming perilous hordes of carp
The discourse of foreign species management, and all its bells and sparkles: wading through it is as fun as it is disturbingly eery. SERENA DAI and JOHN FLESHER, ‘Single Asian carp found near Lake Mich’. ass. press. CHICAGO — An Asian carp was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the […]
Filed under: Canada, media, Political developments, Quote, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Jennifer A. Hamilton, Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts. New York: Routledge, 2009. The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
scs flyer
Be a friend: print out one of our flyers and stick it up in your faculty or department wall.
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Jean M. O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing […]
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curiosities
via Historical Indulgences via otisarchives medical museum
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The fuel-sucking RV – a direct descendent of the Conestoga wagon and voortrekker kakebeenwa – celebrates a hundred years in 2010. The formula hasn’t changed much: hop in, traverse the ’empty’ wilderness, pull up at that piece of untouched beauty (or national park), inhale ‘unbreathed’ air.
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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press, 2010): Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative […]
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