Native American Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936127040Author Lila M. O'NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint PA Hearst Museum of AnthropologyPublisher PA Hearst Museum of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574160000Author Marcia KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 1165g

Quest for Harmony provides a basic understanding of the cultures and spiritual teachings of four Native American nations--Lenape (Delaware), Ani'-Yun'-wiya (Cherokee), Lakota (Sioux), and Dine (Navajo). The text is always sympathetic, respectful, and,...

Quest for Harmony provides a basic understanding of the cultures and spiritual teachings of four Native American nations--Lenape (Delaware), Ani'-Yun'-wiya (Cherokee), Lakota (Sioux), and Dine (Navajo). The text is always sympathetic, respectful, and,...

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...

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,...

Joseph Nicolar's The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published by Nicolar in 1893, this is one of the few sustained...

Upward, Not Sunwise explores an influential and growing neo-Pentecostal movement among Native Americans characterized by evangelical Christian theology, charismatic "spirit-filled" worship, and decentralized Native control. As in other global contexts,...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationIn this book of Native American language research and oral traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by...

Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when, and how, but no serious investigations...

In Messianic Fulfillments Hayes Peter Mauro examines the role of Christian evangelical movements in shaping American identity in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Christianity's fervent pursuit of Native American...

Sovereignty and Sustainability examines how Native American authors in what is now called New England have maintained their own long and complex literary histories, often entirely outside of mainstream archives, libraries, publishing houses, and other...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perene Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of...

The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so...

In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians...

Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples' use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples' ways of adapting and using this...

While Indigenous media have gained increasing prominence around the world, the vibrant Aboriginal media world on the Canadian West Coast has received little scholarly attention. As the first ethnography of the Aboriginal media community in Vancouver,...

This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna...

From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these...

In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era, folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first...

Ho-Chunk powwows are the oldest powwows in the Midwest and among the oldest in the nation, beginning in 1902 outside Black River Falls in west-central Wisconsin. Grant Arndt examines Wisconsin Ho-Chunk powwow traditions and the meanings of cultural...

The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Vida Woodhull Stabler, Aubrey Streit Krug, Loren...

As one of the first books published on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Power through Testimony will be of interest to students and scholars of Aboriginal studies, anthropology, and colonial studies and all Canadians interested in...

In the 1990s, news stories began to circulate about declining caribou populations in the North. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting by Indigenous hunters or failed attempts at...

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9780774830881Author Amanda NettelbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint...

This history of education in an Aboriginal community is intended for researchers, instructors, and students in the areas of education, history, BC studies, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and sociology. It will more broadly appeal to anyone who wants...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the Arctic, particularly scholars and students in the fields of Indigenous studies, northern studies, Canadian studies, human geography, anthropology, and history.Book InformationISBN 9780774828840Author...

This accessible book will be of interest to scholars, politicians, students, Aboriginal leaders, government officials, business people, media commentators, and all Canadians who care about the future of their country.Book InformationISBN...

Countless books and articles have traced the impact of colonialism and public policy on Canada's First Nations, but few have explored the impact of Aboriginal thought on public discourse and policy development in Canada. First Nations, First Thoughts...

Kiumajut [Talking Back]: Game Management and Inuit Rights 1900-70 examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on two interrelated issues. The first is how a deeply flawed set of scientific practices for counting animal...

With Good Intentions examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These people recognized...

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 9780774818292Author Kristin BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint...

The heart of the traditional legal order of the Lake Babine Nation of north-central British Columbia is the grand ceremonial feast known as the balhats, or potlatch. Misunderstood and widely condemned as a wasteful display of pride, the balhats...

We are in the midst of a fundamental re-evaluation of the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other, and of how the former are to be institutionally and constitutionally accommodated within Canada. Words matter. How we think...

Recent debates about the health of First Nations peoples have drawn a flurry of public attention and controversy, and have placed the relationship between Aboriginal well-being and reserve locations and allotments in the spotlight. Aboriginal access to...

This book will be of interest to museum specialists, anthropologists, First Nations, and students in disciplines including museum and heritage studies, anthropology, film and visual culture studies, Native studies, and history.Book InformationISBN...

This book helps fill a critical gap in our understanding of the role of sport in Aboriginal cultures, and the place of Aboriginal peoples in Canadian sport; it will be essential reading for sport historians, sociologists, health studies scholars, and...

This book helps fill a critical gap in our understanding of the role of sport in Aboriginal cultures, and the place of Aboriginal peoples in Canadian sport; it will be essential reading for sport historians, sociologists, health studies scholars, and...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in Native American studies, philosophy, ethics, politics, law, and history.Book InformationISBN 9780774822459Author Bruce MoritoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher...

This book will be of interest to environmentalists, policy-makers, and scholars of Aboriginal studies, philosophy, law, and political science.Book InformationISBN 9780774821278Author E. Richard AtleoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint University of...