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Title
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The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
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Caption
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Debra Magpie Earling, a member of the Confederated Shalish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, created this artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition to represent the hardships brought upon Native American cultures by colonialism. The cultural importance of the plains bison and the effects of its near extermination from the American West is reflected in both Earling’s poetry and the materials used to construct the book—it’s printed on smoked buffalo rawhide cover paper with trade beads and rifle shell cartridges adorning the spine. Earling writes, “Only a few photographs document the extermination of the bison and the hunter’s struggles against starvation. Instead, as if to marginalize the dying cultures, countless images survive that depict the arrival of the mining spectator, soldier, cowboy… all that followed to give us a thorough and close-up look at the noble savage-free territory of post-bison civilization.”
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Creator
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Debra Magpie Earling and Peter Rutledge Koch
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Date Created
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2010
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Publisher
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Editions Koch
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Place of Publication
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Berkeley, California
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Rights
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In Copyright
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Rights Holder
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Debra Magpie Earling and Peter Rutledge Koch
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Bibliographic Citation
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Debra Magpie Earling and Peter Rutledge Koch. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. Berkeley: Editions Koch, 2010. Presses K769ealo
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Filename
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exh-vanishing_Earling_001.jpeg
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exh-vanishing_Earling_003.jpeg
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exh-vanishing_Earling_004.jpeg
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Case Number
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Causes and Consequences of Extinction
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Item Number
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2
