Grave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and displayed by Europeans and Americans. Anthropologist Kathleen S. Fine-Dare focuses on the history and culture of both the impetus to collect and the movement to repatriate Native American remains. Using a straightforward historical framework and illuminating case studies, Fine-Dare first examines the changing cultural reasons for the appropriation of Native American remains. She then traces the succession of incidents, laws, and changing public and Native attitudes that have shaped the repatriation movement since the late nineteenth century. Her discussion and examples make clear that the issue is a complex one, that few clear-cut heroes or villains make up the history of the repatriation movement, and that little consensus about policy or solutions exists within or beyond academic and Native communities. The concluding chapters of this history take up the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which Fine-Dare considers as a legal and cultural document. This highly controversial federal law was the result of lobbying by American Indian and Native Hawaiian peoples to obtain federal support for the right to bring back to their communities the human remains and associated objects that are housed in federally funded institutions all over the United States. Grave Injustice is a balanced introduction to a longstanding and complicated problem that continues to mobilize and threatens to divide Native Americans and the scholars who work with and write about them.
ICON is a five-level integrated skills series that prepares students to express themselves naturally in English. The ICON series grew out of in-depth research into effective language teaching and learning techniques. From this research, the series has distilled a set of core activities that create successful learner interaction in the classroom. The series is designed to support students and teachers in both large and small classes. This workbook is designed to accompany the beginning level student book.
When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation -- lives in an old country church just outside Louisville, Kentucky. Next door is an old graveyard that she was told had fallen out of use. In this marvelous new collection, this turns out not to be the case as the poet's fascination with the "neighbors" brings the burial ground back to life. Driskell frequently strolls the cemetery grounds, imagining the lives and loves of those buried beside her property. These "neighbors," with burial dates as early as 1848, inspire poems that weave stories, real and imagined, from the epitaphs and unmarked graves. Shifting between perspectives, she embraces and inhabits the voices of those laid to rest while also describing the grounds, the man who mows around the markers, and even the flocks of black birds that hover above before settling amongst the gravestones. Next Door to the Dead transcends time and place, linking the often disconnected worlds of the living and the deceased. Just as examining the tombstones forces the author to look more closely at her own life, Driskell's poems and their muses compel us to examine our own mortality, as well as how we impact the finite lives of those around us.
Say goodbye to LonePine, Wyoming, a typical small town in the American west with typical small town problems - romantic intrigues, warm beer and vampires. When Lizzie goes missing on their wedding night, Tucker is forced to team up with his bloodthirsty Russian nemesis to find answers. Crashing through cowboy country, the vampire spirit world and wrecked salmon canneries, they confront an evil more ancient than even the undead - human greed - twisting science into something terrible. Can there be a happily-ever-after for a cowboy and vampire, or is their unusual love just a delusion? Time to cowboy up! This is the third book in The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection.
East West is a four-level, four-skills series that emphasizes speaking and listening skills. It is based on a carefully organized syllabus that integrates grammatical, functional, topical, and situational content and follows a gradual progression. Natural language is used throughout, with high-interest continuing stories and Culture Capsules that introduce aspects of American life. Each unit of "East West features a conversation introducing the teaching points, a speaking section aimed at developing accuracy and fluency, a section devoted to listening and reading skills, and a language checklist that summarizes all the new language covered. The "Workbooks provide a wide range of writing activities related to the oral skills developed in the "Student Books. The interleaved "Teacher's Books include step-by-step teaching suggestions and additional activities, as well as background information on grammar and usage, vocabulary, culture, and pronunciation. Answer keys and tapescripts are also provided. The Cassettes contain the opening conversations and task-listening sections from the "Student Books.
East West is a four-level, four-skills series that emphasizes speaking and listening skills. It is based on a carefully organized syllabus that integrates grammatical, functional, topical, and situational content and follows a gradual progression. Natural language is used throughout, with high-interest continuing stories and Culture Capsules that introduce aspects of American life. Each unit of "East West features a conversation introducing the teaching points, a speaking section aimed at developing accuracy and fluency, a section devoted to listening and reading skills, and a language checklist that summarizes all the new language covered. The "Workbooks provide a wide range of writing activities related to the oral skills developed in the "Student Books. The interleaved "Teacher's Books include step-by-step teaching suggestions and additional activities, as well as background information on grammar and usage, vocabulary, culture, and pronunciation. Answer keys and tapescripts are also provided. The Cassettes contain the opening conversations and task-listening sections from the "Student Books.
East West is a four-level, four-skills series that emphasizes speaking and listening skills. It is based on a carefully organized syllabus that integrates grammatical, functional, topical, and situational content and follows a gradual progression. Natural language is used throughout, with high-interest continuing stories and Culture Capsules that introduce aspects of American life. "East West Basics was created to meet the needs of the beginning student. It features opportunities for personalization, built-in recycling and review of new language, and clearly-stated teaching points. The "Workbooks provide a wide range of writing activities related to the oral skills developed in the "Student Books. The interleaved "Teacher's Books include step-by-step teaching suggestions and additional activities, as well as background information on grammar and usage, vocabulary, culture, and pronunciation. Answer keys and tapescripts are also provided. The Cassettes contain the opening conversations and task-listening sections from the "Student Books.
East West is a four-level, four-skills series that emphasizes speaking and listening skills. It is based on a carefully organized syllabus that integrates grammatical, functional, topical, and situational content and follows a gradual progression. Natural language is used throughout, with high-interest continuing stories and Culture Capsules that introduce aspects of American life. "East West Basics was created to meet the needs of the beginning student. It features opportunities for personalization, built-in recycling and review of new language, and clearly-stated teaching points. The "Workbooks provide a wide range of writing activities related to the oral skills developed in the "Student Books. The interleaved "Teacher's Books include step-by-step teaching suggestions and additional activities, as well as background information on grammar and usage, vocabulary, culture, and pronunciation. Answer keys and tapescripts are also provided. The Cassettes contain the opening conversations and task-listening sections from the "Student Books.
East West is a four-level, four-skills series that emphasizes speaking and listening skills. It is based on a carefully organized syllabus that integrates grammatical, functional, topical, and situational content and follows a gradual progression. Natural language is used throughout, with high-interest continuing stories and Culture Capsules that introduce aspects of American life. "East West Basics was created to meet the needs of the beginning student. It features opportunities for personalization, built-in recycling and review of new language, and clearly-stated teaching points. The "Workbooks provide a wide range of writing activities related to the oral skills developed in the "Student Books. The interleaved "Teacher's Books include step-by-step teaching suggestions and additional activities, as well as background information on grammar and usage, vocabulary, culture, and pronunciation. Answer keys and tapescripts are also provided. The Cassettes contain the opening conversations and task-listening sections from the "Student Books.
This volume publishes the results of the rescue excavations along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth, and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, the Roman colony, and a Christian town.
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