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Prehistoric Settlement of Western Missouri During the Mississippian Period
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Description
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Detail discusion of the archaeological record of three phases or complexes--(1) the Steed-Kisker phase; 2) the Nebraska phase of the Central Plains tradition, and 3) the Pomona variant--found in the Kansas City vicinity, circa AD 900-1500. The author concludes that the groups occupying the Kansas City region during the Mississippian period, while influenced by settlements in the Mississippi Valley, had a stronger relation with the Central Plains group. "It is contended that those groups occupying the Kansas City vicinity during the Mississippian period, including Steed-Kisker, were derived from indigenous populations that were influenced by, but not derived from Mississippian centers to the east."
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Date
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2007-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Selling the 'Noble Savage' Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845
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This study is partly about the American artist George Catlin and his white contemporaries who promoted a mythical image of Native Americans for profit. Their story is relatively well known to historians and other scholars. The added dimension in this narrative is a group of Indians--the Iowas--the 'commodity' that Catlin and others peddled to the public. Article is illustrated with many of Catlin's paintings.
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The European Revolutions of 1848 and Antebellum Violence in Kansas
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Description
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The subject of the article is violence and a constrast between the revolutions in Europe during the mid-19th century and the border warfare as seen on the Kansas and Missouri border prior to the actual Civil War. The author states that the violent events here changed how Americans felt about European violence. During this period of time, "developments concerning slavery effectively reversed assumptions about the distance of European violence from America's political culture". The author further states, "the Civil War, the most violent event in American history, would, when it came, be an ultimate American response to the 1848 upheavels and repressions of Europe".
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Date
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2005
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Our Indian Ambassadors to Europe
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Description
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Article about diplomatic visits, for political purposes, of American Indians to Western European nations, especially France and England in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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1928-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Grand Central Station
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Description
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Photo and caption about the "Grand Central Station" located "for several decades" from the 1890s at 2nd and Wyandotte Streets "on what became the Kansas City Southern Lines."
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Date
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1979
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Central Lights: Histories of Central Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Excerpts from the book with the same title, this article highlights early members of Central Presbyterian Church, including Walker and Mary Hickman, George and Elizabeth Davis, Rebecca Metcalf, Mary Hale, C. M. and Marye E. Root, Jane Boarman, Abaline Norton, Maria Gilham, Martha Shouse, William and Ruth Allen, John and Elizabeth McCoy, Charlotte Campbell, Samuel Platt, and Eliza Hopkins.
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Date
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2003
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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