Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact 1555913881, 9781682752418, 1682752410

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Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
1555913881, 9781682752418, 1682752410

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Table of contents :
Front Cover
Title Page
Half Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Behind the Buckskin Curtain
2. Science and the Oral Tradition
3. Evolutionary Prejudice
4. Low Bridge-Everybody Cross
5. Mythical Pleistocene Hit Men
6. The Corpora Delicti and Other Matters
7. Creatures Their Own Size
8. GeomythoJogy and the Indian Traditions
9. Floods, Lakes, and Earthquakes
10. At the Beginning
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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