Plateau Indian

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Introduction
Traditional culture
- Language
- Trade and interaction
- Settlement patterns and housing
- Subsistence and material culture
- Political organization
- Kinship
- Childhood and socialization
- Belief systems
Cultural continuity and change
- The 19th century: syncretism and disenfranchisement
- The 20th century: regaining sovereignty

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