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Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) published "" in Evidence: The Uses and Misuses of Data â€” the latest issue in Transaction of the American Philosophical Society. Barron's chapter analyzes a historical case in which the ideas of an anthropologist were taken up by others — particularly U.S. government officials — for unforeseen ends. By historicizing the conditions under which Edward Spicer developed his portrayals of the Yaqui Indians, the chapter shows how an attempt to contest essentializing depictions of Native history during the 1970s was, ironically, operationalized by the federal government in the 1990s to undermine the Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s effort to exercise their rights as a sovereign people.