Ever since European settlers stumbled upon the eighteenth-century mounds; explanations and interpretations of them – often ridiculous and seldom Native American – have appeared as sober scholarship. Today; the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) has intensified the debate over who «owns» the mounds – modern descendants of the Mound builders or Western archaeologists. Native Americans; Archaeologists; and the Mounds is the first cogent look at all the issues surrounding the mounds; their history; their preservation; and their interpretation. Using the traditions of those Natives descended from the Mound Builders as well as historical and archaeological evidence; Barbara Alice Mann placed the mounds in their native cultural context as she examines the fraught issues enveloping them in the twenty-first century.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is mostly interesting because of the insight into small ...By Edith A TrimmerThis is mostly interesting because of the insight into small slave holding families. A thesis of this book is that white women were also victims of a paternalist society to a similar but lesser degree but than those held in slavery. Her accounts of slave resistance assume that the white and literate women were right in their judgments of slave actions which are represented as manipulative rather than resisting the conditions of slavery. Accounts of white women are taken as fact1 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Slaves in MissouriBy BKMy guess is that the author had little to write about with full accuracy -- especially because the slaves themselves were held to illiteracy. Nevertheless; the story was interesting in all the information that was available to the author. (DO NOT PUBLISH MY REAL NAME.)3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Slavery in the Show Me StateBy Jim SchmidtA slow start but a great middle makes this highly recommended reading - Although the author indicated in her introduction that the book was not intended as a general history of slavery in Missouri; as a relatively new resident to the state; I found the first chapter a good primer on the early history of MO; esp; as regards slavery - from the French "habitants" of the 1700s to the veritable flood of Upper South migrants in the early 1800s. The second chapter was an interesting look at daily life in mid-1800s Missouri white homes: child-rearing; marriage; education; sickness and death; but except for a few cases (treatment of the enslaved by children of their masters; interesting commentary on probate records of slaveholding families); she did not make a convincing argument that small-slaveholding families' experience was any different than a typical non-slaveholding family's; or for any typical Victorian-era American family. However; the book really hits its stride in later chapters; with a close and interesting examination of nearly every phase of slave/slaveholders life - birth; death; marriage; divorce; healthcare; leisure; schooling; religious practice; punishment; reward; murder; runaways; abolition; enlistment in the army; emancipation; and more. It made an excellent companion to Randolph Campbell's "An Empire for Slavery;" which I've also read; as a state-focused (Missouri vs. Texas) "micro-history." The scholarship is thorough - excellent use of manuscript material and her use of United States Colored Troop (USCT) pension records is especially interesting. The maps and data tables are informative. The bibliography will make a great guide for further reading on my part. Highly recommended.
