Native American Studies

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060928827Author Carlos CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550172454Author Anne CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine * Winner of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social...

Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military...

What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous Mind David Martinez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140144567Author Peter MatthiessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 214mm...

The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,...

Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830813599Author Terry M. WildmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060929602Author Carlos CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian...

Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He...

2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St. PaulMagazine and others Here is real food-our...

In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout the book on the history of Native...

Explains the concept of the medicine wheel, and shows how to use it in practical exercises and ceremonies to gain energy from the spirits.Book InformationISBN 9780671767327Author Sun BearFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher...

In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036210Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world's primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings-modern media in their...

Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal,...

Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth.Book InformationISBN 9781555913854Author Joseph BruchacFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140277715Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452010956Author David MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the...

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and...

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385239547Author John EhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Preserving What Is Valued explores the concept of preserving heritage. It presents the conservation profession's code of ethics and discusses four significant contexts embedded in museum conservation practice: science, professionalization, museum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941524582Author Four Worlds DevelopmFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Lotus PressPublisher Lotus PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 221mm *...

The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816546893Author Gary Paul NabhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 117g

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845255Author Mark CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions...

Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily distanced from the metaphysical aspects of existence, such as spirit, faith, and intuition.In Tsawalk,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Anthology) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780873514040Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society...