When the St. Louis Exposition opened in 1904 it became host to the largest gathering of the world's Indigenous peoples to that date. However, questions about how Native peoples understood these transnational Indigenous interactions have remained largely out of the realm of academic inquiry-a fact often attributed to the "absence" of primary sources. This article counters such assertions by prov...

In Figure 1 we show an example of the need to collect the multi-label ML-CUFED dataset with because of albums with ambiguous or multiple event types. The two albums in Figure 1 are both labeled as birthday events in CUFED, but they can also fall into the category of casual family/friends gathering. These two event types are not mutually exclusive. Moreover, intuitively, we would consider the al...

Ten thousand years ago human societies around the globe began to transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. By 4000 years ago, ancient peoples had completed the domestication of all major crop species upon which human survival is dependent, including rice, wheat, and maize. Recent research has begun to reveal the genes responsible for this agricultural revolution. The list of genes t...

For centuries indigenous peoples have been identified with subsistence economies, meaning that productive activities were mainly intended to satisfy local needs. Even when other pursuits such as production for the market, trading and migrant wage or contract labor was present, hunting, gathering and cultivation for subsistence would ensure the survival of local territorial units, be they famili...

Over an eight-year period, the authors conducted focus groups in six Alaska Aboriginal communities. They sought information about traditional ways of caring for the dying, current values and preferences surrounding death, the kind of support caregivers need, and how a palliative care program could assist families caring for loved ones in the community. Focus groups are a standard qualitative re...