Native American Studies

For years, conventional scholarship has argued that minority groups are better served when the majority groups that absorb them are willing to recognize and allow for the preservation of indigenous identities. But is the reinforcement of ethnic identity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806143651Author Bradley G ShreveFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 408g

Cultural boundaries exist wherever cultures encounter one another. During centuries of contact between native peoples and others in America, countless intermediaries-artists, students, traders, interpreters, political figures, authors, even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820431017Author Dane MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 790g

Alcohol problems among Native Americans are severe and widespread. Statistics report that the rate of alcohol-related deaths is about eight times greater for Native Americans than for the U.S. population as a whole. This bibliography identifies the...

Self-determination, a crucial conceptual development in American Indian social and educational policy and the force behind current Indian policy programs, is critically analyzed in this volume by a scholar/educator who has worked closely with Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898751512Author Confederation of American IndiansFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

H. B. Cushman, the son of missionaries working at Mayhew, a Choctaw Indian station in Mississippi, observed the Indians' heartbreaking removal from Mississippi between 1831 and 1833. Later in life he continued to be associated with them, when he lived in...

This volume is the first major attempt to systematically examine the etiology of violence in American Indian communities. Using fieldwork as well as quantitative and qualitative research, Bachman first presents an overview of American Indians from...

Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages. In celebrations that often last many days, sumptuous meals are served;...

This book brings together as complete a record of traditional Yupik rules and rituals as is possible in the late twentieth century. Incorporating elders' recollections of the system of ruled boundaries and ritual passages that guided their parents and...

In The Campo Indian Landfill War, Dan McGovern explores the timely and controversial topic of "environmental justice" through the story of an Indian tribe's struggle to develop its isolated and impoverished reservation by building a commercial...

Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the...

The Salzman bibliography on the Arapaho Indians is . . . complete and accessible. Salzman, who has researched Arapaho language and folklore for many years, begins his bibliography with a brief historical and ethnographic sketch. While the 702 entries in...

The relationship between American Indians and the U.S. political system is both vitally important and unique. Yet American Indians-as individuals and as tribal nations-typically receive scant attention in introductory courses on American government and...

A small, poverty-stricken California Indian Tribe, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, successfully fought a long legal battle for the right to operate the business of their choice on their barren reservation-a gambling casino. This is their story, the...

This book offers a revealing look at how newspapers covered the key events of the Plains Indian Wars between 1862-1891-reporting that offers some surprising viewpoints as well as biases and misrepresentations. The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of...

This book serves as a much-needed source of information on the social and health issues that impact the health of Native American women in the United States, accompanied by invaluable historical, cultural, and other contextual data about this...

A collection comprising a wide variety of accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers. This extraordinary volume gathers together an astonishing array of voices of those so often...

A small, poverty-stricken California Indian Tribe, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, successfully fought a long legal battle for the right to operate the business of their choice on their barren reservation-a gambling casino. This is their story, the...

"Oh God, here comes Esther Ross." Such was the greeting she received from members of the U.S. Congress during her repeated trips to the Capitol on behalf of Stillaguamish Indians. Tenacious and passionate, Esther Ross's refusal to abandon her...

Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism focuses on "medicine" or sacred ceremonies conducted through shamans in which the power of the Creator is made manifest for all to behold. Historically, Native American peoples believed that life was to...

Daughters of Mother Earth is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. It holds that for too long, elements unnatural to Native American ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973809268Author James, Nation HillyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Writing on Stone Press IncPublisher Writing on Stone Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978666422Author Patrick QuirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Dolphin Media LLCPublisher Dolphin Media LLCWeight(grams) 905g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978666439Author Patrick E QuirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dolphin Media LLCPublisher Dolphin Media LLCWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978666408Author Patrick QuirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dolphin Media LLCPublisher Dolphin Media LLCWeight(grams) 404g

One of the most important Native American leaders in history, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh protested land cession, and was a major catalyst of the Battle of Tippecanoe. He harnessed the tradition of American Indian pan-tribal unity to become the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882409641Author Mary Giraudo BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing CoWeight(grams) 347g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268019570Author Christopher VecseyFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within...

The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20,000 individuals in seventy villages, the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities, carefully following the seasonal shifts in...

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K-12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native...

This indexed guide enables researchers and practitioners to draw upon the substantial dissertation research on the life experiences of Native American and Alaska Native children and adolescents. This carefully arranged and fully cross-referenced...

This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans...

An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations-and Indian responses to them-have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in...

When Did Indians Become Straight?explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation. It offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the...

About 1875 the Crows abandoned their own Sun Dance, but they continued to carry out other traditional rites despite opposition from missionaries and the federal government. In 1941, Crow Indians from Montana sought out leaders of the Sun Dance among the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806137612Author George HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824810559Author Takie Sugiyama LebraFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press