Native American Studies

Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota...

In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies...

This work will speak to members of Ojibway-, Ota'wa-, Ishkodawatomi-Anishinabe and other Indigenous communities. More broadly, it offers a new vision for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and scholars of law, history, politics, and...

Students and scholars in a wide range of subfields within Indigenous studies will find this book of considerable appeal, as will scholars and students of law, literature, education, and language studies, and those with an interest in Indigenous...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in Native American studies, philosophy, ethics, politics, law, and history.Book InformationISBN 9780774822442Author Bruce MoritoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher...

In most English-speaking countries, including Canada, "black letter law" - text-based, firmly entrenched law - is the legal standard upon which judicial decisions are made. Within this tradition, courts are forbidden from considering hearsay -...

In most English-speaking countries, including Canada, "black letter law" - text-based, firmly entrenched law - is the legal standard upon which judicial decisions are made. Within this tradition, courts are forbidden from considering hearsay -...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian identity and culture and to students and scholars of sociology, Native studies, critical race theory and women's and gender studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774820257Author Margot FrancisFormat...

Students and scholars in a number of disciplines - law, political science, literature, Native studies, sociology, and history - will be interested in this book, as will anyone who wants to explore how stories have helped to create, and re-create, settler...

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of western Canadian history, the history of medicine and nursing, and Aboriginal and women's history.Book InformationISBN 9780774818285Author Kristin BurnettFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint...

This book is essential reading for historians of the Maritimeprovinces and those studying Aboriginal-state relations in Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780774817899Author Martha Elizabeth WallsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint University of British...

New Histories for Old will appeal to scholars and students in history, Native studies, geography, anthropology, and related fields.Book InformationISBN 9780774814133Author Theodore BinnemaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of British...

It will be of interest to students and practitioners of public policy, political economy, and political science, as well as members and leaders in First Nations communities.Book InformationISBN 9780774814065Author Gabrielle SloweyFormat PaperbackPage...

It will be of interest to students and practitioners of public policy, political economy, and political science, as well as members and leaders in First Nations communities.Book InformationISBN 9780774814058Author Gabrielle SloweyFormat HardbackPage...

The moment of contact between two peoples, two alien societies, marks the opening of an epoch and the joining of histories. What if it had happened differently?The stories that indigenous peoples and Europeans tell about their first encounters with one...

Those working in child welfare or contemplating a career in child protection will find this book an insightful analysis of current practice thinking and experience. Aboriginal peoples with an interest in health and human services, as well as social work...

The BC treaty process was established in 1992 with the aim of resolving the outstanding land claims of First Nations in British Columbia. Two discourses have since become prominent within the treaty negotiations between First Nations and the governments...

This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzes the impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considers how, in light of this, the Native land...

William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan. In 1945 he attended and actively...

A well-known member of the circle of Confederation poets, Duncan Campbell Scott is generally considered a kind-hearted and sympathetic portrayer of the nobility of the Canadian Indian. But his real belief about the conditions and future of Canada's...

Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans - fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832128Author David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 281g

In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians. Place signifies not only a specific geographical location...

Winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus FoundationWinner of the 2009 Alaska Library Association's Alaskana of the Year AwardThe Battles of Sitka were seminal events in the history of the Tlingit people, in the multicultural history of...

Norwegian adventurer Johan Adrian Jacobsen collected more than two thousand Yup'ik objects during his travels in Alaska in 1882 and 1883. Now housed in the Berlin Ethnological Museum, the Jacobsen collection remains one of the earliest and largest from...

Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of American Indians. This book brings together six prominent museum professionals--Native and non-Native--to...

Anthropologist Rodney Frey culminates a decade of work with the Schitsu'umsh (the Coeur d'Alene Indians of Idaho) in this portrait of the unique bonds between a people and the landscape of their traditional homeland. The result of an intensive...

Sidner Larson's Captured in the Middle embodies the very nature of Indian storytelling, which is circular, drawing upon the personal experiences of the narrator at every turn. Larson teaches about contemporary American Indian literature by describing his...

Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5...

Second place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore PrizeA celebration of the Cherokee cosmos through creature names, stories, cultural concepts, and reflectionsAyetli gadogv-to "stand in the middle"-is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the natural world...

Digital media-GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more-have become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous people's strategies for addressing the historical and ongoing effects of colonization. In Sami Media and Indigenous Agency in the...

"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century,...

From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already operated a lucrative casino in the region. Brook...

While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining. This depopulation is not being perpetrated by the federal government, but by Native governments...

At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on...

The region stretching from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for...

Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas are sewn today, many people still wear those made for...

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's...

For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans-Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans-occupied the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Just before AD 1300, they abandoned their homeland in a...

By Native Hands describes the history and context of Native American basketry with full-color photographs and scholarly text. The objects are brought to life in words and pictures, including such rare objects as a feathered Pomo blazing sun basket that...