The Xinkan language family is the only pre-colonial, non-Mayan language group in Mesoamerica. This is a truly multilingual dictionary, offering forms, functions, and information in four Xinkan languages (Chiquimulilla, Guazacapan , Jumaytepeque, and Yupiltepeque), Spanish, and English, alongside brief grammar sketches in both English and Spanish. ......
Revealing Pawnee history through archaeology and oral tradition From approximately 1750 to 1803, Riverbend City was occupied by the Kitkahahki and other South Band Pawnees. Identified through oral tradition and genealogical research, Riverbend City refers to a significant Pawnee community living along a bend of the Dirty Water (Republican) River ......
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978 at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ......
On the anniversary of the 1925 lynching of Robert Marshall, a Black itinerant coal miner, Gerlach said, "We cannot undo the past, but we can acknowledge past injustices and make commitments to work toward a future filled with understanding and respect for all people." Justice Denied: Lynching in Utah, 1849-1925 is his life's attempt at historical ......
On the anniversary of the 1925 lynching of Robert Marshall, a Black itinerant coal miner, Gerlach said, "We cannot undo the past, but we can acknowledge past injustices and make commitments to work toward a future filled with understanding and respect for all people." Justice Denied: Lynching in Utah, 1849-1925 is his life's attempt at historical ......
A data-rich reassessment of prehistory on the California coast Patterns in Purisimeno Prehistory on the California Coast draws on the author's 24 years of archaeological research at what is now Vandenberg Space Force Base. During this time, Clayton G. Lebow directed excavations at more than 250 sites using consistent field, laboratory, and ......
A memoir of exile, love, and the search for home Born into a Muslim family from a small Lebanese village, Moudi Sbeity came of age at the intersection of war, displacement, and difference. Queer, with a stutter, and often on the margins of belonging, Sbeity survived the conflicts that fractured their homeland and family before arriving in Utah as ......
Explore Bryce Canyon with those who know it best Beneath Bryce Canyon's crockery rim, slender hoodoos blaze red and gold while bats wheel through dusk and a vast desert sky unfurls its stars. The Bryce Canyon Reader invites visitors, scholars, and armchair travelers alike to experience this singular landscape through the words and images of ......