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Tables of Contents for Skull Wars
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xiii
Vine Deloris, Jr.
Prologue: A History Written in Bone
xvii
Part I NAMES AND IMAGES
Columbus, Arakawa, and Carobs: The Power to Name
3
8
A Vanishing American Icon
11
18
Part II NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENTISTS
The First American Archaeologist
29
7
A Short History of Scientific Racism in America
36
8
Darwin and the Disappearing American Indian
44
8
The Great American Skull Wars
52
12
The Anthropology of Assimilation
64
7
The Anthropologist as Hero
71
6
Collecting your Fossils Alive
77
14
Is ``Real History'' Embedded in Oral Tradition?
91
11
The Perilous Idea of Race
102
21
Part III DEEP AMERICAN HISTORY
Origin Myths From Mainstream America
123
10
The Smithsonian Takes on All Comers
133
6
Where are all the Native American Archaeologists?
139
6
Breakthrough at Folsom
145
12
Busting the Clovis Barrier
157
10
What Modern Archaeologists Think about the Earliest Americans
167
10
Part IV THE INDIANS REFUSE TO VANISH
``Be an Indian and Keep Cool''
177
9
An Indian New Deal: From Absolute Deprivation to Mere Poverty
186
12
The Red Power of Vine Deloria, Jr.
198
11
Legislating the Skull Wars
209
16
Part V BRIDGING THE CHASM
Tribal Affiliation and Sovereignty
225
14
Speaking of Oral Tradition
239
15
An Archaeology Without Alienation
254
14
Epilogue
268
9
Acknowledgements
277
2
Endnotes
279
18
Literature Cited
297
21
Index
318