Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Roberta Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Samuel Wesley Gathing: A Closer Look is the moving true story of Sam and Beatrice Gathing and the struggles they faced rearing their fourteen children during the era of the Jim Crow laws. These laws meant that both society and the system enforced the damaging view that their children were just stupid...
Black Troops
At the Battle of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
On January 1815, colonel Savary, a free man of color, and his Battalion fought back the britishs troops who were attempting to invade the city of New Orleans. On the battle field suddenly appears a young slave who had fled a plantation..
by Eliza McFeely
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itself
The Zuni society existed for centuries before there was a United States, and it still exists in its desert pueblo in what is now New Mexico. In the late nineteenth...
by Al Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
How would you change the constitution if it were up to you? How should we as a nation change the constitution? Even asking the question gets angry and outraged responses. This is so even though parts of it are poorly thought out, anti-democratic, and have done tremendous damage to the nation.
For...
From Princess to Chief
Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina.
In From Princess to Chief, Priscilla Freeman Jacobs and Patricia...
by William Elsey Connelley
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The folk-lore of the Wyandots should be peculiarly interesting to Kansas students. It will be conceded, I believe, that the emigrant tribes were in every way superior to the native tribes of Kansas Indians.. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now...
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
Hamatsa
The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific NW Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
The first book-length study of whether cannibalism existed on the Pacific Northwest coast. McDowell shows how a "cannibal complex" among Westerners coloured many early accounts of "man-eating," and how this perception obscured the importance of ritual cannibalism in the secret Hamatsa ceremony—a crucial feature of Native spirituality.
Property and Dispossession
Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation'...
The Chaco Meridian
One Thousand Years of Political and Religious Power in the Ancient Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In this return to his lively, provocative reconceptualization of the meaning of Chaco Canyon and its monumental 11th-century structures, Stephen H. Lekson expands—over time and distance—our understanding of the political and economic integration of the American Southwest.
Lekson’s argument that...
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for...
Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized Indian tribes and bands lost their sovereignty...
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a...