Native American Studies

During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Metis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living...

What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and...

A Cherokee Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of...

Grounded in existing understandings of Yup'ik cosmology and worldview, this work is the first to look at how a Yup'ik community uses stories of place in social life. On the Bering coast of southwest Alaska, Cusack-McVeigh accompanied storytellers during...

Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle's as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century."Beautifully imagined and written."-Alice WalkerOne of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816514663Author SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816542222Author Duane ChampagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816534852Author Michelle LelievreFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530090Author Allice LegatFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 427g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816525454Author John J. Bodinger De UriarteFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816526314Author Joanne McCloskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978816374Author Robin Starr MinthornFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816527571Author Donna DeyhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540419Author 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 9780816540839Author Karen Jarratt-SniderFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816545629Author Sarah HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Recognition Odysseys, Brian Klopotek explores the complicated relationship between federal tribal recognition policy and American Indian racial and tribal identities. He does so by comparing the experiences of three central Louisiana tribes that have...

"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common Native American heritage of its authors; and yet that thread proves to be the most tenuous of all, as the experience of indigeneity differs radically for each of them. While many experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816520084Author Frances ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 391g

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816501687Author Muriel Thayer PainterFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Arnold Krupat’s From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi and Dan Nicholas, produced in the 1930s with the...

This book offers a fascinating review of native American myths. Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816544752Author Michael ChiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530687Author Cathy Moser MarlettFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Through a comprehensive study of changing pottery attributes, this text documents the clash of Spanish and Native American cultures in the 16th-century southeastern United States. By studying the ceramic traditions of the Guale Indians, it provides...

Without a recognized reservation or homeland, what keeps an Indian tribe together? How can members of the tribe understand their heritage and pass it on to younger generations? For Christine Dupres, a member of the Cowlitz tribe of southwestern...

Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation...

Mediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media - including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric - that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816532025Author Kaitlyn Moore ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

A collection of Native American songs and poems, researched and annotated by Brian Swann.Book InformationISBN 9780870238727Author Brian SwannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

Learning from the Oklahoma Indians' own stories about the forces shaping their ethnic identityBook InformationISBN 9780252072796Author James F. HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496228017Author Arnold KrupatFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint 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 9780816504268Author Anna Moore ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Did our ancestors live in tropical forests? Although we see the rainforest as a bountiful environment teeming with life forms, most anthropologists and archaeologists have long viewed these areas as too harsh for human occupation during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625344953Author William B HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

Traces the interaction of notions of gender, the practice of religion, and the conduct of warfare in colonial America. It shows how Native and Anglo-American ideas of manhood developed in counterpoint, in the context of Christian evangelization, colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982354506Author Sara BalbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 953g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874224207Author David Edward WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University Press