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Abenaki, 104
Abert, J. W.: "Journal from Bent's Fort to St. Louis in 1845," 91 , 97 , 175 , 275
Adair, Mary, 139
Adobe Walls, 94
Aldred, Alexandra, 266 , 274 -277
Alienation: on American frontier, 2 , 7
and attraction to religious ritual, 6 -7
Alott, Gordon, 259
Althusser, Louis, 105
Alvarez, Manuel, 128 , 203 , 208
American Fur Company, 27 , 96 , 202 , 203
trade with Plains Indians, 109 , 111
Ancestors: ritual reenactment of actions, 24 , 138 ;
veneration as result of human neoteny, 23 , 83 , 164 , 246 -247, 281 -282
Anglo-Americans: alienation, 6 -7;
conflict with Native Americans in Southwest, 31 , 234 -238;
evangelical religiosity, 6 -7, 4 -9;
mythology of entrepreneur, 197 ;
mythology of the West, 86 ;
nostalgia for Native American culture, 85 -88;
trading practices, 28 -29, 144
among the sub-proletariat, 55 ;
among those excluded from high-grid, low-group societies, 46 -47
Anthony, Scott J., 238
Anthropology: cognitive, 70 -71
Mescalero, 81
acquisition of horse, 109 ;
alliance with Cheyenne, 109 ;
ancestral home, 107 ;
benefits of trade with Bent & St. Vrain, 121 ;
difficulty adapting to sedentary. life, 234 ;
disenfranchisement by Treaty of Fort Wise, 232 ;
early resistance to American traders, 11 , 13 , 116 -117;
1863 delegation to Washington, 234 -235;
fictive kinship relation to Bent's Fort traders, 14 , 155 ;
hostility toward Anglos after Sand Creek, 31 ;
intertribal conflict of 1850s, 229 -230;
middleman role in southwestern trade, 111 , 155 ;
relocation to Oklahoma, 16 , 31 , 243 ;
Siberian ancestry. of, 65 ;
trade with Pueblo, 109 ;
Treaty of Fort Laramie, 227 -228
Archaeology, 56 -62;
and language, 60
Arikira, 116 ;
Treaty of Fort Laramie, 227 -228
Armijo, Manuel, 15 , 161 -162, 210
Assiniboin, 142 ;
Treaty of Fort Laramie, 227 -228
Auguste, Charles, 199
Australian aborigines, 76
Axis mundi, 3 -4, 25 -27, 71 , 72 , 282 -283;
Sun Dance pole as, 25 -26