On August 27, 2007, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an
earlier district court ruling that sport climbing on a Washoe Indian sacred site in western Nevada must cease....
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The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of painthe blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair....
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Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid and semiarid rangelands between the Sierra Nevadas, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains....
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On a dusty spring morning in the middle of the Great Depression, a hungry drifter named Chester dropped from a boxcar and ran smack into the Wilson family, who hired him to slop their hogs and proceeded to turn him into their private buffoon....
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During the past two decades, literary issues like multiculturalism, gender, borders and border crossing, and the development of personal, cultural, and alternative identities have become increasingly important....
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Ott provides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community.
The commune of Sainte-Engrāce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provences in France....
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In less than a century, the American West has transformed from a predominantly rural region to one where most people live in metropolitan centers....
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