Indigenous Studies

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On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific studies community since Epeli Hau'ofa's passing in 2009...

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 Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous-settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening?Reconciliation politics, as developed in South America and South Africa, work counter...

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Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial...

Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy south land-a prize left for them by God. For its original inhabitants, their Country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle.Richard Broome tells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540198Author Manuela Lavinas PicqFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 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 9780816538683Author R. Aida Hernandez CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555001353Author Alice ReardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Alaska Native Language CenterPublisher Alaska Native Language Center

Unearthing Indian Land offers a comprehensive examination of the consequencesof more than a century of questionable public policies. In this book,Kristin Ruppel considers the complicated issues surrounding American Indianland ownership in the United...

Lewis Henry Morgan's mid-nineteenth-century assemblage of Iroquois-made artifacts featured more than 500 objects and at the time was the largest such collection for a single Indian group. In this richly illustrated volume, Elisabeth Tooker has brought...

In recent years there has been growing interest in identifying the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as both Aboriginal and a distinct people. The study of Metis identity formation has also emerged as an innovative way to explore...

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies.Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922790958Author Tyson YunkaportaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778540745Author Michael GauthierFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Medicine Wheel PublishingPublisher Medicine Wheel Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778219306Author Mark David TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Brack and BrinePublisher Brack and BrineWeight(grams) 454g

Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers reflects an ethnographic journey shaped by ancestral strength, resilience, and reverence. It is not merely academic—it is ceremonial: a remembering, a return, and a song to generations yet to come.This is a project of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337339283Author Candido MukuniFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI Global

For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a similarly...

Wartime hysteria over "foreign" ways fueled a movement for Americanization that swept the United States during and after World War I. Eileen H. Tamura examines the forms that hysteria took in Hawai'i, where the Nisei (children of Japanese immigrants)...

Reform and racism at the famed industrial school Founded in 1868, Hampton Institute educated almost 1400 members of sixty-five Native American peoples. Donal F. Lindsey examines the interactions among Indigenous people, Blacks, and whites at the nation's...

The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of...

This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. In addition to foregrounding...

This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. In addition to foregrounding...

Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the...

Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889828129Author James B BeardFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887319179Author James B BeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 308g

Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Indigenous people lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and...

Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This volume touches on a variety of subject areas,...

How did marae across Tamaki Makaurau respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?Toitu Nga Marae is based on interviews with leaders of ten marae. Dr Kimiora Raerino finds out how they dealt with the challenges - the waves of COVID-19 outbreaks and the lockdowns,...

The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century--the otherwise named Petun and Huron--and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma...

This collection of twenty-five papers by Professor Whatarangi Winiata and co-authors given over the last forty years, comment on Maori spirituality, social development, education and political affairs. They cover Professor Winiata's experiences of and...

An emerging Lakota scholar's critical interrogation of settler-colonial nations that re-centers Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) women as the tribe's traditional culture keepers and bearers.We Are the Stars is a literary recovery project that seeks to reconstruct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038317766Author Morningstar MercrediFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666707366Author Anita Maryam MansinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966461735Author Naomi KipuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint East African Educational PublishersPublisher East African Educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782382267783Author Richard SadleirFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Books ExplorerPublisher Books ExplorerWeight(grams) 417g