Native American Studies

Without Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Cloud's (Ho-Chunk) vision for Native intellectual...

With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable...

In the late 1950s the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany...

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 PressWeight(grams)...

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 PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520155Author Elizabeth FurnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496230010Author Suzanne OakdaleFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint 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 9780802141712Author Brett Duval FromsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

"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 a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889781894Author Haig-Brown CeliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889221895Author Ralph MaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 311g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816544752Author Michael ChiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 214g

By focusing on the complex cultural and political facets of Native resistance to encroachment on reservation lands during the eighteenth century in southern New England, Beyond Conquest reconceptualizes indigenous histories and debates over Native land...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816541812Author Daisy OcampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

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...

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

Inspiring educators, philosophers, activists, shamans, artists, and visionaries to take up the challenge of bringing alternative teaching possibilities and strategies to the educational experience, this book creatively combines Aboriginal teachings with...

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...

In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened its mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982354506Author Sara BalbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 201mm *...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804704731Author Margaret Schevill LinkFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591298Author William N FentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341842Author Teresa PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleStories from Saddle Mountain recounts family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century. Henrietta Apayyat (1912-93) grew up and married near...

If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification's unintended...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884022046Author Karl A. TaubeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library...

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...

Archaeologists across the Midwest have pooled their data and perspectives to produce this indispensable volume on the Native cultures of the Late Woodland period (approximately A.D. 300-1000). Sandwiched between the well-known Hopewellian and...

After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught of federal Indian policies, governmental officials,...

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social...

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's...

This book presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), an innovative framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well intended...

In 1827 six Osage people - four men and two women - traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all...

This is the history of a remarkable nation, the only Indian tribe that never officially made peace with the United States. General Thomas Sidney Jesup admired the Seminoles as adversaries: ""We have, at no former period in our history, had to contend...

Choctaws at the Crossroads examines the political economy of the Choctaws at the end of the twentieth century. Forcibly relocated in the 1830s from the lower Mississippi Valley to the southeastern corner of Indian Territory, the Choctaws today are a...

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...