University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
"That's What They Used to Say"
Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own...
Jim Thorpe
World's Greatest Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the...
Montana's Pioneer Naturalist
Morton J. Elrod
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
A naturalist on Montana’s academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment...
by Will Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the “Okie Bard,” dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a red-dirt road, a battered guitar strapped to his back. But unlock Guthrie from the confines of rural folk and Hollywood mythology, as Will Kaufman does...
Native American Placenames of the Southwest
A Handbook for Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such well-known placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa originated?
Native American placenames like these occur all across the American Southwest. This...
The Darkest Period
The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss...
Father of Route 66
The Story of Cy Avery
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
If it weren’t for Cy Avery’s dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build.
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins...
Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho
Southern Arapaho
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting,...
The Comanches
Lords of the South Plains
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the...
Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory
Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him...
Geronimo
The Man, His Time, His Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of the great Cochise), sixteen other warriors, fourteen...
First Manhattans
A History of the Indians of Greater New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river...
Poke a Stick at It
Unexpected True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Open this book and who knows what will pop out: the story of a gangland funeral, a status report on an ex-husband, a meditation on cats and gardens, a feuilleton about Native American fry bread, or a thoughtful musing on old women and books. Welcome to the delightfully irreverent world of Connie Cronley,...
Most American
Notes from a Wounded Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist!
In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself—and indeed all Americans—in...