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Water and Heritage: Sustainable Alternatives Based on the Worldviews of South American Communities
Blue Papers, 2023 Water has a central position in the cosmovision of Native peoples in Brazilian culture. In the Andes, water is sacred and revered. However, in South America, colonial practices and the advance of agriculture and farming following industrialization has ...
Vera Margarida Lessa Catalão +1 more
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Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2015 South America has a complex demographic history shaped by multiple migration and admixture events in pre- and post-colonial times. Settled over 14,000 years ago by Native Americans, South America has experienced migrations of European and African ...
Julian R Homburger +12 more
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Genetic variation and population structure in native Americans. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2007 We examined genetic diversity and population structure in the American landmass using 678 autosomal microsatellite markers genotyped in 422 individuals representing 24 Native American populations sampled from North, Central, and South America. These data
Sijia Wang +26 more
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Identity Crisis as the Main Motive of Contemporary Native American Literature [PDF]
Future Human Image, 2021 This research offers a linguacultural analysis of the main ideas and goals of institutions for the preservation of the culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of America, through the publication of relevant research in thematic journals and ...
Sergii Rudenko, Yaroslav Sobolievskyi
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Association between gene methylation and experiences of historical trauma in Alaska Native peoples
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Background Historical trauma experienced by Indigenous peoples of North America is correlated with health disparities and is hypothesized to be associated with DNA methylation. Massive group traumas such as genocide, loss of land and foodways, and forced
Mary P. Rogers-LaVanne +12 more
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On the Civilization of the Native Peoples of America [PDF]
Scientific American, 1884 n ...
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Dance to the Two-Spirit. Mythologizations of the Queer Native
Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2018 In 1998, the American anthropologist Will Roscoe referred to pre-colonial North America as “the queerest continent on the planet” (Roscoe 1998, 4), expressing a more universally accepted idea that before settlers arrived in North America, Indigenous ...
Marianne Kongerslev
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Land, 2023 We analyzed, from a cultural astronomy perspective, the relationship between the orientations of five mound sites and different astronomical events in the lowland region of Uruguay.
Camila Gianotti +4 more
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Journal of New Librarianship, 2023 The purpose of this article is to document an investigation into the unique book classification system developed by the Pacific Northwest Indian Center (PNIC), also known as the Museum of Native American Cultures (MONAC), which operated from the mid ...
Rose Sliger Krause
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A paleogenome from a Holocene individual supports genetic continuity in Southeast Alaska
iScience, 2023 Summary: Many specifics of the population histories of the Indigenous peoples of North America remain contentious owing to a dearth of physical evidence.
Alber Aqil +7 more
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