Native American Studies

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...

Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and...

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 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

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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 It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi and Dan Nicholas, produced in the 1930s with the...

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 PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

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...

Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools' ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of...

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...

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...

"Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith,"...

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic BookFor many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and...

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...

Many thousands of persons here and abroad have been introduced to authentic Indian dancing through the Laubin's dance concerts, lectures, and seminars. Their admirers, as well as other dancers, anthropologists, historians, students of Indian culture, and...

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...

Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, hunting and gathering rituals, war and planting ceremonies, and newer religions, such as the Ghost Dance...

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...

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...

Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least...

"Federal Indian law . . . is a loosely related collection of past and present acts of Congress, treaties and agreements, executive orders, administrative rulings, and judicial opinions, connected only by the fact that law in some form has been...