[Review of] H. Henrietta Stockel. Women of the Apache Nation: Voices of Truth

At a time when books about Native American women need to provide the reader with unromanticized images of strong women in their own right, Stockel’s book, Women of the Apache Nation, succeeds only partially. The sixty-two page historical introduction and the two shorter introductions to the Mescalero (New Mexico) and Fort Sill (Oklahoma) Apache, while important to situating the women’s narratives that follow, are flawed by inaccuracies, overly dependent on secondary sources, and replete with unnecessary references to historical male figures and male relatives. Stockel, for example, incorrectly uses the term ”Western pache” which does not include Mescalero or Fort Sill (cf. Keith Basso, “Western Apache,” in Handbook of North American Indians. Vol 10. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1983, 462-488). The photos enhance the narrative; a map would have been helpful. The writing is personal, but for this reviewer, overly sentimental

Little Chris

Fiction by Sandra McBet

[Review of] Bunny McBride. Women of the Dawn

McBride\u27s book explores the disastrous effects of colonization on four courageous and idiosyncratic American Indian women of the Wabanaki tribes of the North Atlantic coast that include Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi\u27kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot. The women considered are unrelated except by place, circumstance, and first name -- all are named Molly. Their brief biographies span four centuries

Alien Registration- Mcbeth, Jonathan (Millinocket, Penobscot County)

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Native American Oral History and Cultural Interpretation in Rocky Mountain National Park

From the document: The original design of this project was as an oral history. Indeed, in my proposal I stated that “Native Americans who retain the stories, recollections, and remembered traditions of their individual tribes and cultures are rapidly disappearing.” And while I thought I might discover existing memories or stories about the region, it was clear from the beginning that recollections specific to locales within the Park and surrounding area did not exist. Indigenous peoples were separated from these homelands by the 1870s and the last recorded date of hunting and/or camping in and around the Park area was 1875

Managing chronic widespread pain in primary care : a qualitative study of patient perspectives and implications for treatment delivery

Funding The MUSICIAN trial was supported by an award from Arthritis Research UK, Chesterfield, UK. Grant number: 17292. The funding body approved the design of the study. They played no role in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data or the writing of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

A Study of the Molecular Basis of Microvariants at the FGA and D21S11 Loci Used in Forensic DNA Testing

Microvariant alleles, defined as alleles that contain an incomplete repeat unit, often complicate the process of DNA analysis. Understanding the molecular basis of microvariants would help to catalogue results and improve upon the analytical process involved in DNA testing. The first step is to determine the sequence/cause of a microvariant. This was done by sequencing samples that were determined to have a microvariant at the FGA or D21S11 loci. The results indicate that a .2 microvariant at the D21S11 locus is caused by a -TA- dinucleotide partial repeat before the last full TCTA repeat. The .2 microvariant at the FGA locus is caused by a -TT- dinucleotide partial repeat after the fifth full repeat and before the variable CTTT repeat motif. There are several possibilities for the reason the .2 microvariants are all the same at a locus, each of which carry implications on the forensic community. The first possibility is that the microvariants are identical by descent, which means that the microvariant is an old allele that has been passed down through the generations. The second possibility is that the microvariants are identical by state, which would mean that there is a mechanism selecting for these microvariants. Future research studying the flanking regions of these microvariants is proposed to determine which of these possibilities is the actual cause and to learn more about the molecular basis of microvariants