Native American Studies

Grounded in existing understandings of Yup'ik cosmology and worldview, this work is the first to look at how a Yup'ik community uses stories of place in social life. On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during...

Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938065309Author Rebecca M. WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Makwa EnewedPublisher Makwa Enewed

The FernandeNo Tataviam Band of California Mission Indians have lived in Southern California in the area now known as Los Angeles and Ventura Counties from time immemorial. Throughout history, these Indigenous Californians faced major challenges as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816525454Author Bodinger de Uriarte, John J.Format HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts...

Without Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Cloud's (Ho-Chunk) vision for Native intellectual...

With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816526314Author Joanne McCloskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 369g

In the late 1950s the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany...

What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them? The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and...

Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and...

Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540419Author Marianne O. NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

What does the phrase Metis peoples mean in constitutional terms? As lawyers and scholars debate the nature and scope of Metis identity and constitutional rights, understanding Metis experience of colonization is fundamental to achieving reconciliation.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816545629Author Sarah HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Amazonian Cosmopolitans focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the context of large-scale state projects...

"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common Native American heritage of its authors; and yet that thread proves to be the most tenuous of all, as the experience of indigeneity differs radically for each of them. While many experience a...

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies...

Arnold Krupat's From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi and Dan Nicholas, produced in the 1930s with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816544752Author Michael ChiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 214g

In Mexico's western Sonoran Desert along the Gulf of California is a place made extraordinary by the desert solitude, the dynamic sea, and the people who live there-the Seris. Central to the lives of these people are the sea and its shores. Shells on a...

By focusing on the complex cultural and political facets of Native resistance to encroachment on reservation lands during the eighteenth century in southern New England, Beyond Conquest reconceptualizes indigenous histories and debates over Native land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682752333Author Matthew L.M. FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

Through a comprehensive study of changing pottery attributes, this text documents the clash of Spanish and Native American cultures in the 16th-century southeastern United States. By studying the ceramic traditions of the Guale Indians, it provides...

Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation...

Mediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media - including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric - that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816532025Author Kaitlyn Moore ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women's activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of...

A collection of Native American songs and poems, researched and annotated by Brian Swann.Book InformationISBN 9780870238727Author Brian SwannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Going Indian explores Indian (as opposed to tribal) ethnic identity among Native American people in Oklahoma through their telling, in their own words, of how they became Indian and what being Indian means to them today. Divided into four parts, the book...

The essays in this issue offer diagnosis, critique, and radical visions for the future from some of the leading thinkers and experts on the tactics of the settler capitalist state, and on the exercises of Indigenous jurisdiction that counter them. It...

Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools' ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of...

"In simple, unaffected prose, Mrs. Shaw constructs a moving saga of Native Americans caught between their tribal past and a Europeanized present...Some of the most interesting passages deal with the wrenching realities of Indian life on the reservation...

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural and remote locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity and as central to the survival of Indigenous cultures...

Haa Leelk'w Has Aani Saax'u / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land presents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names. Documenting and analyzing more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida,...

Our Fight Has Just Begun is a timely and urgent work. The result of more than a decade of research, it revises history, documents anti-Indianism, and gives voice to victims of racial violence. Navajo scholar Cheryl Redhorse Bennett reveals a lesser-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Total Book Design) 2011 and Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Regional-Illustration) 2011 and Midwest Book Award (MIPA)...

The Iroquois Book of Rites, the most noteworthy of Hale's studies of the Iroquois, was translated and edited by him from two Indian manuscripts found at Grand River, with the help of informants and interpreters. The various parts of the Book of Rites...

Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education...