Native American Studies

Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological Indian. Hailed as a masterful synthesis and yet...

The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles A. Eastman, a mixed-blood Sioux who earned renown as the author of nearly a dozen books, was on home...

Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out...

We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insightful Indian spokesman turns his penetrating vision...

Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were...

During the summer of 1963, Harvard linguist Karl V. Teeter traveled along the Saint John River, the great thoroughfare of Native New Brunswick, Canada, with his principal Maliseet consultant, Peter Lewis Paul. Together they recorded a series of tales...

Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws of southeastern Oklahoma, who have responded to a number of hard-hitting assaults on Choctaw sovereignty...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practiced today among Native communities. Of special interest is the complex relationship between indigenous ecological...

Practicing Ethnohistory is a compendium of twenty-one essays on ethnohistorical historiography. The essays, preceded by a contextualizing introduction, are organized under four topical heads: textual historiography, positive analytic methods using...

Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native life. Based on personal experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980027235Author Gary RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Tribal Eye ProductionsPublisher Tribal Eye ProductionsWeight(grams) 50g

Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Metis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as "all Metis people are Catholic," and...

Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062506665Author Duane NiatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934594339Author Robert BigartFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Salish Kootenai CollegePublisher Salish Kootenai College

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738502892Author Deborah L. DuvallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people's entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887552885Author Aimee CraftFormat PaperbackImprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968580387Author Michael B. DavieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966958867Author Director of Education Robert RossFormat PaperbackImprint Mach4 PressPublisher Mach4 PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911010268Author Marcelle MassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Naturegraph & Keven Brown PublicationsPublisher Naturegraph & Keven Brown...

A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice chronicles Peter Kulchyski's experiences with the Begade Shuhtagot'ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada's...

Post-secondary education, often referred to as "the new buffalo," is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879611699Author Robert M LiebertFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Naturegraph Publishers, Inc.Publisher Naturegraph Publishers, Inc.Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515306Author Amos E. OneroadFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513067Author Joseph H. CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512077Author Melvin R. GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865263239Author Joffre Lanning CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office of...

Swedish Scholar Ake Hultkrantz is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on American Indian religions. This collection of fifteen of his essays on the religious attitudes and practices of a variety of North American Indian communities brings...

From their emergence in the New World centuries ago, through their evolution into contemporary Native Americans, the Apache, Navajo, and Pueblo peoples of the American southwest have endured the hardships of a desert land and hostilities with those who...

This is an account of an Indian people's struggle to maintain an identity in American society. Also included is a study of ""The Mohawks in High Steel"" by Joseph Mitchell.ReviewsOne more of those pieces of research and detection which set him [Wilson]...

This compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, fighting for lands on the edge of the shrinking frontier. Long considered a classic, this edition features an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803250116Author Edmond AtkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 199g

Monacans and Miners sheds new light on the indigenous and immigrant communities of southern Appalachia by comparing the political, economic, and social experiences of the Monacans, a historically significant Native American group in Amherst County,...

Transatlantic Voices is the first collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature-fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry-the essays chart the course of...

Although the American Fur Company dominated the Upper Missouri fur trade during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a number of small, independent firms (known as the "Opposition") flourished briefly at this time. From 1858 until...

In the late 1880s the ethnologist and writer George Bird Grinnell visited the Pawnee Agency in Indian Territory. To Eagle Chief, whom he had known for many years, he explained the object of his visit: "Father, we have come down here to . . . ask the...

Tens of thousands of Indian children filed through the gates of government schools to be trained as United States citizens. Part of a late-nineteenth-century campaign to eradicate Native cultures and communities, these institutions became arenas where...

The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have...

After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into...