Native American Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555001056Author James KariFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Alaska Native Language CenterPublisher Alaska Native Language CenterWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006796Author George PhebusFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530649Author Donald L. FixicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 410g

This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity...

Between October 2010 and August 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469677774Author Michael John WitgenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Omohundro Institute and Unc PressPublisher Omohundro Institute and Unc Press

The vast, pine-covered plateau now known as Yellowstone National Park has been lived in, traveled through, and exploited by humans for thousands of years. It is still possible to see the remnants of old camps and deep-rutted trails over which ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870814778Author James J. LopachFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 632g

The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural...

The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates...

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...

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s. For over twenty-five years he has been a part of landmark litigation concerning treaty rights,...

Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal...

Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a 'raconteur among the Indians.' The thirteen stories in this new volume were among those that Lyon recounted to anthropologist Frank...

Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a 'raconteur among the Indians.' The thirteen stories in this new volume were among those that Lyon recounted to anthropologist Frank...

The Ute people of White Mesa have a long, colorful, but neglected history in the Four Corners region. Although they ranged into the Great Basin, Southwest, and parts of the Rocky Mountains as hunters, gatherers, and warriors, southeastern Utah was home...

In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading. Protestant expatriates who opened schools within British and U.S...

The campaign to ban seal hunting in Canada won international headlines and achieved its aims to a large extent. Most observers felt instinctively that the campaigners were "right" but little thought was given to the cataclysmic consequences the ban would...

Based upon information gathered from several Indian sites in the Tennessee region, the authors have taken the material evidence of long-ago cultures and breathed life into the fascinating story of the region's ancient and earliest people. Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982170359Author Minnie GreyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint International Polar Institute PressPublisher International Polar Institute Press

KinaaldÁ, the ceremony associated with the onset of a girl’s puberty, is an important Navajo rite within the Blessingway complex. Derived from the experiences of Changing Woman, the puberty ceremony has been passed through generations and continues to be...

The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system, showing that customary rights are insecure, certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation, and...

In this newly researched and synthesized history of the Cherokees, Hoig traces the displacement of the tribe and the Trail of Tears, the great trauma of the Civil War, the destruction of tribal autonomy, and the Cherokee people's phoenix-like rise in...

This book explores the early era of change in Indian education ideology as it pertained to student health at Sherman Institute in Southern California between 1902 and 1922. Beginning with the establishment of Carlisle Indian School in 1879,...

What does it mean to be both Maya and Protestant in Guatemala? Burgeoning religious pluralism in Mesoamerica and throughout Latin America is evident as Protestantism permeates a region that had been overwhelmingly Catholic for nearly five centuries. In...

Dramatic geographical formations tower over the Four Corners country in the southwestern United States. The mountains, cliffs, and sandstone spires, familiar landmarks for anglo travelers, orient Navajos both physically and spiritually. In Sacred Land,...

With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, Lisa Tatonetti provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, Tatonetti offers the first overview and...

Can Aboriginal values be reconciled with Canadian jurisprudence, and what is the role of Aboriginal jurisprudences in the development of treaty and Aboriginal rights? The combination of policy, philosophy, strategy, and legal arguments are valuable as a...

Amendments to the Canadian Constitution in 1982 recognize and affirm “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada”, specifically the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples. A 1996 report from The Royal Commission on Aboriginal...

In the first ninety-five years of her life, Dorothy Dora Whipple has seen a lot of history, and in this book that history, along with the endangered Ojibwe language, sees new life. A bilingual record of Dorothy’s stories, ranging from personal history to...

What does it mean to be a white settler on land taken from peoples who have lived there since time immemorial? In the context of reconciliation and Indigenous resurgence, Unsettling Spirit provides a personal perspective on decolonization, informed by...

How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in Yoruba...

How aboriginal deprivation is maintained by a self-serving "industry" of lawyers and consultants.Book InformationISBN 9780773534216Author Frances WiddowsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879442900Author Stephanie M WhittleseyPage Count 823Imprint Statistical ResearchPublisher Statistical ResearchWeight(grams) 2345g

Monacan Indians tell their own story in this title. The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816550296Author Marianne O. NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425204Author Emily LeggFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press

To Educate American Indians presents the most complete versions of papers presented at the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education meetings during a time when the debate about how best to “civilize” Indigenous populations...

In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be 'exhibited' in zoos and Volkerschauen (ethnographic shows). Abraham, Maria, Noggasak, Paingo,...

Maps and cartography have long been used in the lands and resources offices of Canada's indigenous communities in support of land claims and traditional-use studies. Exploring alternative conceptualizations of maps and mapmaking, Maps and Memes theorizes...