Indigenous Studies

In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their...

The American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island was the catalyst for a more generalized movement in which Native Americans from across the country have sought redress of grievances, attempting to right the many wrongs committed against them. In this...

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native...

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532693182Author Robert StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico-from...

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...

A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017 BC National Award for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774872393Author John Reid-HreskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia Press

This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as...

Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, Savages and Citizens takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, theorized, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496244987Author Anne Ruggles GereFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

World-renowned scholar of human geography, development, and environmental change Antonio Ioris presents an original reconceptualisation of the notions of difference and indifference and their impacts on social structures. Drawing on a wide range of...

The Mythic Indian: The Native in French and Quebecois Cultural Imaginaries charts a genealogy of French and Quebecois visions of the Amerindian. Tracing an evolution of paradigms from the sixteenth century to present, it examines how the myths of the...

This book explores the critical linkages between indigeneity, marginality, and the state in Bangladesh. Indigeneity is progressively gaining currency in politics and thereby becoming an active force in the larger context of national activism with...

While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained...

While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMneesha Gellman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emerson College.Book InformationISBN 9781512828511Author Mneesha GellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMneesha Gellman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emerson College.Book InformationISBN 9781512828528Author Mneesha GellmanFormat HardbackPage Count...

In a world gripped by intersecting crises and deepening inequalities, can social work break free from its colonial entanglements to imagine a more just and compassionate future?Decolonising Social Work Education: Memory, Haunting and Critical Hope in the...

Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation...

Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation...

Spanning fifteen years of expeditions first begun in 1975, this captivating, fully illustrated memoir takes the reader on a journey into the heart of the Kalahari Desert and records, from an outsider's perspective, the vanishing hunter-gatherer culture...

A collaborative effort to address some of the chronic issues affecting the preservation and revitalization of indigenous languages. What does it mean to "revitalize" an indigenous language when approximately 6,700 of the nearly 7,000 left in the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889840978Author Jessica HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in MoroccoFor decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. They...

A first-of-its-kind collection to transform our understanding of digital media from Indigenous women creators Indigenous women form a vital force in digital media production now and have over the past several decades-in fact, nearly three quarters of the...

A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in MoroccoFor decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. They...

Understanding the Hawai'i Island summit of Mauna a Wakea as a place of ancestral connection, cultural resurgence, and political resistance for Native Hawaiians First Light is a site-specific study of Native Hawaiian resistance to the construction of...

A first-of-its-kind collection to transform our understanding of digital media from Indigenous women creators Indigenous women form a vital force in digital media production now and have over the past several decades-in fact, nearly three quarters of the...

This book brings together Indigenous thinkers and scholars with Western theories and practice frameworks to propose a theory for a strengths approach to knowledge production in Indigenous education.The text traverses disciplines and fields that have...

In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security began condemnation proceedings on the property of Dr. Eloisa Tamez, a Lipan Apache (Nde ) professor, veteran, and title holder to land in South Texas deeded to her ancestors under the colonial occupation and...

The atrocities of the residential school system in Canada are amply documented. Less well-known is the history of day schools, which some two hundred thousand Indigenous youth attended.The Curve Lake Indian Day School operated for over ninety years, from...

Secwepemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume details how a homeland has shaped Secwepemc...

'A powerful, beautiful, wrenching masterpiece ... both a memoir and something that reaches far beyond the personal'' REBECCA SOLNIT, author of HOPE IN THE DARK 'The book I've been waiting my whole life to read' TOMMY ORANGE, author of the Booker...

Knowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non-Western ways of knowing - especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities. In settler colonial states those in power seldom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816543557Author Maria Fernanda LeyvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Collaborative research revealing the lives of Ohlone individuals buried at an eighteenth-century Spanish mission outpostConstruction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to...

Collaborative research revealing the lives of Ohlone individuals buried at an eighteenth-century Spanish mission outpostConstruction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to...