Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Wasáse
Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The word Wasáse is the Kanienkeha (Mohawk) word for the ancient war dance ceremony of unity, strength, and commitment to action. The author notes, "This book traces the journey of those Indigenous people who have found a way to transcend the colonial identities which are the legacy of our history...
Diabetes among the Pima
Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
For the past forty years, the Pima Indians living in the Gila River Indian Community have been among the most consistently studied diabetic populations in the world. But despite many medical advances, the epidemic is continuing and prevalence rates are increasing. Diabetes among the Pima is the first...
Far Off Metal River
Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1771, Samuel Hearne, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, set off with a group of Dene guides in search of a “Far Off Metal River” in the Central Arctic, rumored to be rich in copper. Twenty-four years later, Hearne’s account of his journey was published, along with a graphic description...
by Washington Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Collected here are stories, prayers, and songs of the Navaho people including A Tale of Kininaékai, A Prayer of the Second Day of the Night Chant, A Prayer of the Fourth Day of the Night Chant, The Story of Bekotsidi, and Protection Song (to be sung on going into battle).
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. After spending approximately 13 months on a reservation with their Southern Cheyenne cousins in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma, over 300 men, women, and children of the Northern...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
How do we live in and with empire? The contributors to Ethnographies of U.S. Empire pursue this question by examining empire as an unequally shared present. Here empire stands as an entrenched, if often invisible, part of everyday life central to making and remaking a world in which it is too often...
Sovereignty's Entailments
First Nation State Formation in the Yukon
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of government-to-government relations and grant individual First Nations significant, albeit limited, powers of governance over their peoples, lands, and resources. Those...
In the Footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab
The Events of 1880-1881
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The story of Abraham Ulrikab is one of the saddest and most moving stories in Nunatsiavut (Labrador), Inuit and Canadian history. In hopes of improving his family's living conditions, in August 1880, Abraham agreed to head to Europe to become the latest "exotic" attraction in the ethnographic shows...
Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns...
The Enduring Semioles
From Alligator Wrestling to Casino Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2008
Early in this century, the Florida Seminoles struggled to survive in an environment altered by the drainage of the Everglades and a dwindling demand for animal hides. This revised and expanded edition is the only book available on the cultural tourism activities of an Indian tribe.
Often told...
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement
Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Aboriginal people in Canada want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages. They want an education that will foster their children’s sense of engagement and identity, putting them on the path to success. When students enter public school systems, however, they encounter...
Colonial Lives of Property
Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel...
Justice Back and Forth
Duties to the Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them. However, what does justice require us to do for past and future generations?
In...
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders...