Category Archives: NAGPRA

Organic vs. Conventional Food: No Difference

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

Media folks are buzzing this week over a Stanford study about the nutritional differences between organic and conventional foods. The study found almost no differences.

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Indian as Suitcase

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

As I was preparing for this week’s campus-wide lecture, I realized the histories and narratives of Indians in North America are like the content s of a suitcase.

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Skulls and Baseballs

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Cynthia Coleman Emery

I started thinking about bones when grad student Erin Dysart Hanes and I began following the news coverage of Kennewick Man.

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