Indigenous Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949030Author David YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers, is an expansive, provocative...

Western theory and practice are over-represented in child welfare services for Indigenous peoples, not the other way around. Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and systems of child...

`How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666788440Author Garry Worete DeverellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921536922Author Jeremy BeckettFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach. Indigenous people demonstrate considerable knowledge in a...

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding...

Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the...

On February 27, 1973, a group of roughly 300 armed Indigenous men, women, and children seized the tiny hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, at gunpoint, took hostages, barricaded themselves in the hilltop church, and raised an upside-down American flag...

Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature. For many Native peoples and newcomers to North America, Canada is a motherland, an Eatenonha - a land in which all can and should feel included, valued, and celebrated. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862545571Author Veronica BrodieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield PressWeight(grams) 270g

Elected female leaders in the First Nations communities in Canada take centre stageElected female leaders in the First Nations communities in Canada take centre stageAbout the AuthorCora Voyageur is a Dene woman who teaches sociology at the University of...

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When Rose was in high school, she saw a girl in the bathroom injecting a needle into her leg. A heroin addict, she thought, right here in my school!. But then she learned about a new disease, creeping into her community. A retrospective on diabetes in...

When Jack is 18, he's diagnosed with diabetes but isn't told he can do anything about it, so he doesn't. He falls into comas, he loses vision and needs eye surgery, his leg is amputated and then amputated again further up, and then his kidneys give right...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928120254Author Louise HalfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Kegedonce PressPublisher Kegedonce PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

Tradition holds that when you come across a body of freshwater in a secluded area and everything is eerily still, the plants are yellowed, and the water covered with a greenish-yellow froth you have stumbled across the home of a mo'o. Leave quickly lest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922752017Author John MaynardFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Native Space explores how indigenous communities and individuals sustain and create geographies through place-naming, everyday cultural practices, and artistic activism, within the boundaries of the settler colonial nation of the United States. Diverging...

How can scholars best give back to the communities in which they conduct their research? This critical question arises from a long history of colonial scholarship that exploited study subjects by taking knowledge without giving anything in return. It is...

Tradition holds that when you come across a body of freshwater in a secluded area and everything is eerily still, the plants are yellowed, and the water covered with a greenish-yellow froth you have stumbled across the home of a mo'o. Leave quickly lest...

The contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (or EZLN) insurgency are intricately intertwined. Even as each has forged its own path, they are bound by a shared commitment to rescuing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816538683Author R. Aida Hernandez CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

Originally published as the ""Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907"", this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing 'more than any other to give a...

This edited collection tackles "unsettling" as an emerging field of study that calls for settlers to follow Indigenous leadership and relationality and work toward disrupting the colonial reality through their everyday lives. Bringing together Indigenous...

Stephen Warren traces the transformation in Shawnee sociopolitical organization over seventy years as it changed from village-centric, multi-tribe kin groups to an institutionalized national government led by wealthy men with only marginal kin ties to...

The inside story of American Indian life in ChicagoThe inside story of American Indian life in ChicagoAbout the AuthorJames B. LaGrand is an associate professor in the Department of History at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.ReviewsA CHOICE...

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WINNER of the Community and Regional History Prize in the 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards Shortlisted for the 2024 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary AwardThe phone rang unexpectedly, late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle...

Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Whatever the policy--from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition--government has done little to improve the quality...

Indigenous solutions we can all apply today to make our lives more sustainable and engage with earth and community from award-winning Dene activist and writer Katlia.The Dene in Canada's North West territories have lived alongside nature for many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855750848Author Amy ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 675g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923058460Author Tyson YunkaportaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816532735Author Aileen Moreton-RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781486320431Author Philip A. ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint CSIRO PublishingPublisher CSIRO PublishingWeight(grams) 852gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

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This book presents a broad range of perspectives and voices — Inuit and non-Inuit, youth and Elders, academics and community members — united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be. Premised on the...