Indigenous Studies

In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term “Aboriginal” and its displacement by the word “Indigenous.” In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term’s express purpose was to speak to the “aboriginal rights” acknowledged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228861553Author Mel BevanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 240g

Aloha"" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kanaka Maoli people, the concept of ""aloha"" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite...

Aloha"" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kanaka Maoli people, the concept of ""aloha"" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887552236Author Shauna MacKinnonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams)...

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him the first indigenous head of state in the Americas, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played...

Highlighting collaborative archaeological research that centers the enduring histories of Native peoples in North America Challenging narratives of Indigenous cultural loss and disappearance that are still prevalent in the archaeological study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228861560Author Mel BevanFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302530Author Ben SilversteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896445021Author Jill OakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint CCI PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive." -Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates how traditional knowledge, Indigenous approaches to healing, and the insights of Western bio-medicine can...

Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant is a collection of traditional and personal stories told by Johnny Neyelle, a Dene Elder from Deline,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590333976Author Larry V ParksFormat HardbackPage Count 163Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 420g

An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517910297Author Jamaica Heolimeleikalani OsorioFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities In the last half century, changing racial and cultural dynamics in the United States have caused an explosion in the number of people claiming to be American Indian, from just...

The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international...

The contributors to Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life investigate biopolitics and geopolitics as two distinct yet entangled techniques of settler-colonial states across the globe, from the Americas and Hawai‘i to Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing...

In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines how, in the hands of Native...

In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and...

The Meaning of Ice celebrates Arctic sea ice as it is seen and experienced by the Inuit, Inupiat, and Inughuit, who for generations have lived with it and thrived on what it offers. With extensive details offered through their own drawings and writings,...

Metis Rising presents a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to demonstrate that there is no single Metis experience - only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice. The contributors to this unique collection, most of whom are Metis...

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel'an'en - "our culture, the way of...

Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals that have been established through the second half of the twentieth century to address aboriginal land claims have consequently created a particular way of presenting aboriginal, colonial, and...

Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and...

Four decades have passed since the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982. Now it is time to assess its legacy. Constitutional Crossroads brings together an impressive assembly of established and rising stars of political science and law, who not only...

From the marginalia of their readers to the social and cultural means of their production, books bear the imprint of our humanity. Embodying the marks, traces, and scars of colonial survival, Indigenous books are contested spaces. A constellation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889779495Author Freda AhenakewFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina PressWeight(grams) 771g

Reclaiming Tom Longboat recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards, shedding light on a significant yet overlooked aspect of Canadian policy and Crown-Indigenous relations. Drawing on a rich...

Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands of Aboriginal people and...

Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior roles. Their...

Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922059390Author Giordano NanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 602g

Cultural and economic benefits of Aboriginal resource management; Effects of contaminants on Aboriginal lifestyles; Aboriginal self-government' Decolonization; Implications of restructuring Aboriginal health and services; and, contemporary perspectives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896445083Author Jill OakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CCI PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamentsa, an indigenous culture located in the Southwest of Colombia, this book is an investigation of how a native culture creates meaning. Time, beauty and spirit are key philosophical...

In 2010, Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J Vilsack directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Tribal Relations and the USDA's Forest Service to engage in a dialogue with American Indians and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribal leaders to...

This book presents current research on new developments and policies in the American Indian population in the United States. Topics discussed in this compilation include the Indian health service; Indian gaming; fraud and abuse in the Indian tribal...

For six weeks in 2012–13, Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence undertook a high-profile ceremonial fast to advocate for improved Canadian-Indigenous relations. Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question she asked the Canadian public...

An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices...