History

Integrative Biolog

The History of UT's Herbaria

Integrative Biolog

[Review of] Jesse Green, Ed. Zuñi: Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing

Jesse Green, a professor of English at Chicago State University, has brought together in this volume, with appropriate explanatory materials, selections from the published and unpublished writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing. The collection deals with several things: autobiographical materials (about 120 pages); description of Zuñi life and beliefs (about 220 pages); and materials about the relation between Zuñi and White America (much of the autobiographical section, a brief description of visits to the East by several Zuñi, most of the brief foreword by anthropologist Fred Eggan, and much of Green’s more than 60 pages of introductions.) The volume is handsomely illustrated, with six photographs and over 60 drawings of aspects of Zuñi and its life; it also has maps of Zuñi and the Southwest and a selected bibliography which is evenly divided between works by or about Cushing and works about Zuñi. Unhappily, it does not have an index

[Review of] Russell Thornton. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492

A sociologist, Thornton has written a thorough and balanced demographic account of Native American societies in what became the United States from before the arrival of Europeans to the present

[Review of] American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Vol. 7, No. 1 (1983)

Indian water rights is the subject of most of a Special Water Rights Issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, published by the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles. The issue provides valuable materials on this issue, although it is marred by frequent typographical errors (e.g., consistently spelling McCarran wrong in the key article)