Native American Studies category: 1415 books
In Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project,...
History Is in the Land
Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Arizona’s San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological...
Hopi Basket Weaving
Artistry in Natural Fibers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
"With the inborn wisdom that has guided them for so long through so many obstacles, Hopi men and women perpetuate their proven rituals, strongly encouraging those who attempt to neglect or disrespect their obligations to uphold them. One of these obligations is to respect the flora and fauna...
Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means...
Universities and Indian Country
Case Studies in Tribal-Driven Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The book describes the “nation-building” strategy by which an increasing number of Native communities have set about reclaiming powers of self-determination, strengthening their cultures, and developing their economies. A piece of this movement has been the establishment of new models for tribally-driven...
by James McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"If his sense of justice had led him to fine discrimination in these matters, the [Native American] would long ago have made an attack on the national Capitol." So wrote Indian Inspector and former agent for the Sioux, James McLaughlin, in 1910. Long used as a source for scholarship on the Battle...
Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories
Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as “Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,” the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations...
Inventing the Savage
The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal;...
Animal Energies
Interpreting the Messages and Warnings of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Find life guidance from the powerful ancient knowledge of animals.
In many Native American traditions, animals are considered to be our older, wiser brothers and sisters. Their behavior can help us better understand ourselves, heal old wounds, adapt to new situations, or warn us of dangers....
When Did Indians Become Straight?
Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological...
American Indian Business
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian� and Alaska Native�owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012�a time when the total number of US businesses increased by just 2 percent�and receipts grew from $34.4 million in 2002 to $8.8 billion in 2012....
Crooked Paths to Allotment
The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on...
by Donna Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in...
by Jack Darrell Crowder
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military—it would...