Stories
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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How Californian dairy farmers stole a way of life
When European settlers drained a beautiful Californian lake to provide dairy grazing, the lives of nearby Native American peoples changed out of all recognition. But recent rainfall is strengthening hopes of a return to the old ways.
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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
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Lost tribes.
Date: 1996- Books
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A view of the American Indians: their general character, customs, language, public festivals, religious rites, and traditions: shewing them to be the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The language of prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America / By Israel Worsley.
Worsley, Israel, 1768-1836.Date: 1828- Books
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The ten tribes of Israel historically identified with the aborigines of the western hemisphere / By Mrs. Simon.
Simon, Barbara Allan.Date: 1836- Books
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An historical account of the ten tribes settled beyond the River Sambatyon in the East; with many other curious matters relating to the state of the Israelites in various parts of the world / Translated from the original manuscript and compiled by M. Edrehi.
Edrehi, Moses.Date: 1836- Books
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Accounts of the ten tribes of Israel being in America; originally published by R. Manasseh ben Israel. With observations thereon, and extracts from sacred and profane, ancient and modern history, confirming the same; and their return from thence about the time of the retur of the Jews. By Robert Ingram, A.M. Vicar of Wormingford and Boxted, Essex.
Ingram, Robert, 1727-1804.Date: [1792]