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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has brought together in this volume, with appropriate explanatory materials, selections from the published and unpublished writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing.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] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle

David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a classic First Amendment case (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of the conflict, the book is written in a lucid style