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A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States—and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory
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Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from
The Accordion in the Americas
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Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas
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The effects of colonization on the Indigenous peoples of the Américas over the past 500 years have varied greatly. So too have the forms of resistance, resilie