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An Epic Battle Over A Rock, Steve Hartman

Indian Head Rock Project

CBS article on the legal dispute over the Indian Head Rock on March 28, 2008.

Fight Over Boulder Known As Indian Head Rock Is Escalating, Associated Press

Indian Head Rock Project

Article submitted by the Associated Press on the legal implications associated with the removal of Indian Head Rock from March 13, 2008.

Grand Jury To Hear Evidence In Rock Fight, Kenneth Hart

Indian Head Rock Project

Article in the Ashland Daily Independent on the legal dispute over Indian Head Rock, published on March 7, 2008.

Between States, Hard Feelings Over A Rock’S Place, Dan Barry

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the New York Times on the dispute over Indian Head Rock from February 11, 2008.

Aging And Inflammation In Two Epidemiological Worlds, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking, Caleb Finch, Eileen M. Crimmins

ESI Publications

Humans evolved in a world with high levels of infection resulting in high mortality across the life span and few survivors to advanced ages. Under such conditions, a strong acute-phase inflammatory response was required for survival; however, inflammatory responses can also promote chronic diseases of aging. We hypothesize that global historical increases in life span at older ages are partly explained by reduced lifetime exposure to infection and subsequent inflammation. To begin a test of this hypothesis, we compare C-reactive protein (CRP); levels in two populations with different epidemiological environments: the Tsimane of Bolivia and persons in the United States. …

Kentucky's Feathers Ruffled Over Boulder, Jim Siegel

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Columbus Dispatch on the dispute over Indian Head Rock from January 30, 2008.

'Indian Head' Boulder Sparks Kentucky-Ohio Rift, Joe Biesk

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Ahsland Daily Independent on the political backlash of the removal of Indian Head Rock from January 28, 2008.

Lawmaker Wants Rock Returned To Ky. Claims State Was 'Raided' To Get Boulder, Joe Biesk

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on January 28, 2008 related to the removal of the Indian Head Rock.

Kentucky Legislature Hr12 08rs, Kentucky State House Of Representatives

Indian Head Rock Project

Kentucky State House bill HR12 08RS condemning the removal of Indian Head Rock from the Ohio River on January 22, 2008.

Comments On The Portsmouth “Indian Head” Rock, Robert F. Maslowski

Indian Head Rock Project

Report issued by Robert F. Maslowski on the history of Indian Head Rock and its status as an "object of antiquity" and relation to Portsmouth, Ohio.

An Analysis Of The Face Of Indian's Head Rock, Fred E. Coy Iii

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in volume 13, no. 1 (2008) of the Eastern States Rock Art Research Association Newsletter by Fred E. Coy III on the history of Indian's Head Rock.

Sandstone And Chisel: Three Historic Ohio "Indian" Rock Carvings, James L. Murphy

Indian Head Rock Project

Article by James L. Murphy on the Indian Head Rock published in the Ohio Archaeologist volume 58, Number 4 (2008), pages 4 to 9.

Indian Head Rock After Cleaning, Unknown.

Indian Head Rock Project

Indian Head Rock after cleaning circa 2008.

Photograph - Indian Head Rock, 2008, Unknown.

Indian Head Rock Project

Photograph of Indian Head Rock circa 2008.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 8: Religious Life At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 8.

Written documents indicate that the Jesuit priests settled among neighboring Native American groups and were successful at creating some converts at the St. Joseph mission.

Photograph - Indian Head Rock, 2008, Unknown.

Indian Head Rock Project

Photograph of Indian Head Rock circa 2008.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 7: Public Archaeology At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 7.

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project practices community service learning.

One of the main goals of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project is to incorporate the local community in all aspects of the archaeological enterprise in the investigation.

Ohio General Assembly H.R. No. 137, Ohio State General Assembly

Indian Head Rock Project

Bill passed by the Ohio State Assembly declaring that the Indian Head Rock was historically associated with the City of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Comments On The Portsmouth “Indian Head” Rock, James L. Murphy

Indian Head Rock Project

Report issued by James L. Murphy on the history of Indian Head Rock and its legitimacy as a "object of antiquity".

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 3: Change And Continuity At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 3.

At Fort St. Joseph, evidence points to many instances of cross-cultural exchange between the French fort inhabitants and neighboring Native American groups such as the Potawatomi, Miami and Sauk.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 5: Project History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 5.

Investigations at the long lost fort were begun in 1998 by WMU archaeologists.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 1: What Is Archaeology?, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 1.

What is Archaeology and Historical Archaeology?

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 2: Fort History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 2.

The French established Fort St. Joseph in 1691 in present day Niles.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 4: Commercial Activities At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 4.

Fort St. Joseph was an important link in the chain of frontier outposts that marked the far reaches of New France and facilitated the fur trade between the French and Native Americans in the Western Great Lakes region.

Archaeology, History And Activities At Fort St. Joseph 6: Military Presence At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 6.

From 1691 to 1698 and from 1717 to 1761, French military personnel occupied Fort St. Joseph to defend the site's strategic position on a major trade route near the portage between the St. Joseph and Kankakee rivers, while maintaining alliances with friendly Native American groups to facilitate the trade in furs.

A Transnational Conversation On French Colonialism, Immigration, Violence And Sovereignty, Miriam Ticktin, Ruth Marshall, Paolo Bacchetta

Publications and Research

This conversation was transcribed from a panel discussion that took place at The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXII, “Fashioning Citizenship: Gender and Immigration,” held on March 24, 2007 at Barnard College.

Dialogue As Performance. Performance As Dialogue, Laura Lynn

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation is an arts-based qualitative study in Leadership and Change that describes the qualities of dialogue revealed through the felt experience of Native and non-Native American music composers engaged in a dialogue through music composition. The fifteen co-collaborators who participated in the study range in age from three-years-old to elders. The study is theoretically embedded within Performance Studies, Dr. Carolyn Kenny’s music therapy model Field of Play, and aesthetic philosophy. Methodologically, this work is expressed through performance ethnography and autoethnography and privileges textual and non-textual modes of account including photographs, video excerpts, poetry, and music manuscript. The text is …

Group Works To Raise Historic Indian's Head Rock From River, Steven Shaffer

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch on the removal of Indian Head Rock from October 2, 2007.

Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.

Indian Head Rock Project

Removal of Indian Head Rock on September 9, 2007.