Native American Studies

Generations before the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery wintered in the northern Plains, the Mandan Indians farmed along the banks of rivers. The traditional world of the Mandans comes vividly to life in this classic account by anthropologist Alfred W...

In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common...

The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Active participants in the fur trade, and close friends with many French fur...

Our Way: A Parallel History is a collaborative text created by Native scholars representing over ten indigenous nations affiliated with various Institutions of Higher Education, along with other Native leaders. Our Way dispels the myth, stereotype, and...

In 1985, photographer and writer Vickie Jensen spent three months with Nisga’a artist Norman Tait and his crew of young carvers as they transformed a raw cedar log into a forty-two-foot totem pole for the BC Native Education Centre. Having spent years...

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...

The Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in Alberta has integrated customary First People's adoption practices with provincial adoption laws & regulations. Introducing this agency, the authors outline the history of First Nations adoptions &...

A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 2 is part of a comprehensive two-volume text that linguistically renders a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of the Upper Tanana language, volume 2 meticulously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496230362Author Nicole TonkovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496215611Author John A GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Native American language formerly spoken in hundreds of communities in the interior of California, Patwin (also known as...

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks...

Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with...

What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?  The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and...

Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state’s top private employers—with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises—they lived well below the poverty line and lacked any clear legal status. After settling near Bayou Blue in 1884,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496219626Author Martin Rizzo-MartinezFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams)...

This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Metis and Indigenous studies and Aboriginal law, as well as for lawyers, politicians, and civil servants engaged in Metis issues.Book InformationISBN 9780774865968Author Yvonne BoyerFormat...

In Modernity through Letter Writing Claudia B. Haake shows how the Cherokees and Senecas envisioned their political modernity in missives they sent to members of the federal government to negotiate their status. They not only used their letters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936127071Author Samuel A. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint PA Hearst Museum of AnthropologyPublisher PA Hearst Museum of...

Sherman and Grace Coolidge were a remarkable couple in many respects. Sherman Coolidge (Runs On Top), born in the early 1860s into the Northern band of Arapahos, experienced the extreme violence of the Indian Wars, including the death of his father, as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982915516Author Minnie GreyFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint International Polar Institute PressPublisher International Polar Institute Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552669556Author Jeffrey Paul AnsloosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682752333Author Matthew L.M. FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 0g

In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of...

Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496228567Author David J CostaFormat HardbackPage Count 666Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Since the earliest days of American colonization, racist imagery has been used to create harmful and enduring stereotypes of the indigenous people. In this book, the conflict between invading European white settlers and the indigenous groups who occupied...

Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884-1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister's extensive archival research establishes the historical significance of key...

A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1 provides a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language. Serving as a descriptive grammar of Upper Tanana, the book meticulously details a language that is currently fluently spoken by...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

In Relativization in Ojibwe Michael D. Sullivan Sr. compares varieties of the Ojibwe language and establishes subdialect groupings for Southwestern Ojibwe, often referred to as Chippewa, of the Algonquian family. Drawing from a vast corpus of both...

A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River...

The essays in this issue offer diagnosis, critique, and radical visions for the future from some of the leading thinkers and experts on the tactics of the settler capitalist state, and on the exercises of Indigenous jurisdiction that counter them. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517911935Author Linda LeGarde GroverFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517906030Author Lisa TatonettiFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

"Aboriginal People and Other Canadians" discusses a wide variety of issues in Native studies including social exclusion, marginalization and identity; justice, equality and gender; self-help and empowerment in Aboriginal communities and in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344526Author David PenneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 269mm *...

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural and remote locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity and as central to the survival of Indigenous cultures...

Haa Léelk'w Has Aaní Saax'u / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land presents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names. Documenting and analyzing more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida,...

Early in the twentieth century, Leslie Spier and Erna Gunther, graduate students trained by anthropologist Franz Boas, hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon to learn about Havasupai culture. In the process, they asked two Havasupai leaders and elders...