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Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology
Making Lamanites
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any modern ecological problems—rainforest destruction, decreasing marine harvests, and fire suppression—are directly or indirectly anthropogenic. Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology contends that we can learn important lessons by studying long-term human and nonhuman influences on biota and ecosystems. The focus of this volume is on the North American faunal record, arguing that conservation biology and wildlife management cannot afford to ignore zooarchaeological research—the identification and analysis of faunal remains recovered from archaeological deposits. From this perspective, we can begin to understand biogeographic dynamics and behavioral patterns that are invisible to researchers who study living organisms over just a small span of years. Paper 978-1-60781-571-6 $25.00s
Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000 Matthew Garrett
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rom 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left reservations to live with Mormon foster families. The Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP) emerged in the mid-twentieth century, championed by Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, and aligned with the then national preference to terminate tribal entities and assimilate indigenous peoples. But as the national paradigm shifted to selfdetermination, critics labeled the program as crudely assimilationist and colonialist and Red Power activists organized protests. Some ISPP students, like Navajo George P. Lee, fiercely defended the LDS Church before native peers and Congress. Later, a new generation of church leaders quietly undercut Indian programs, leaving many of its former participants with a sense of confusion and abandonment. Making Lamanites traces student experiences within contested cultural landscapes to reveal how and why many of these Native youth adopted a new notion of Indianness. Paper 978-1-60781-569-3 $29.95