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National Park Service: environmental impact statement (EIS), 265 ;

general management plans (GMPs), 265 -265;

reconstructions, 261 -262

Native Americans: and alcohol use, 140 -142;

early trade with Europeans, 103 -105;

effects of participating in trade, 150 -131;

formation and loss of shared humanity with Europeans, 221 -223, 251 -252;

meaning of trade objects to, 132 ;

role of tobacco in rituals, 138 -140;

susceptibility to European disease, 104 -105;

tradition of shamanistic ecstasy, 140 , 141 -142;

use of beads, 153 . See also Plains Indians; specific tribes

Navajo: change in relations with Mexico, 120 ;

Navajo sing, 82

Neoteny, human, 23 , 83 , 170 , 249 ;

and ancestor veneration, 23 , 83 , 164 , 246 -247, 281 -282;

and ritual, 24

New Guinea: "Big Man" system, 84 , 220

New Mexico Territory, 55 ;

adoption of culture of modernity, 18 -19, 128 , 219 , 252 ;

destruction of existing social order, 128 -129;

effect of Native Americans on colonization, 9 -11;

U.S. attempts to secure, 223 -232;

welcome of trade with Americans, 117 -119;

withdrawal of Mexican army, 15 , 160 -162

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1 , 38 , 163 , 178

Nihilism, 37 -58

Nineteenth century: breakdown of value and belief systems, 217 ;

fraternal organizations, 211 -212, 216 ;

struggle for identity in, 215 , 217

Nobel, John, 1 -2

Nostalgia: for Native American culture among Anglo Americans, 85 -88;

for paradise, 63 -64, 82 -83, 84 -85;

for past worlds, 39 -40;

ritual as expression of, 24 -25