Indigenous Studies

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Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of...

Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of...

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,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427390Author Jennifer A ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

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...

In Indigenizing Japan, archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, tracing their journey from ancient times to their contemporary struggles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427383Author Jennifer A ShannonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

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In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections...

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 9798888904275Author Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket BooksWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Named after the Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs (RAVEN) nonprofit organization, The RAVEN Essays is an anthology that celebrates a decade of prize-winning student essays. Since 2012, RAVEN has awarded an annual essay prize to honour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524990473Author Robert A. BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506499123Author Patty KrawecFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Global Indigeneity is a term that reflects shared recognition of sovereignty among Indigenous peoples. Terms like global Indigeneity, transnational, and relational are in use to describe both ancient and contemporary connections between Indigenous...

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and...

In Mapping Neshnabe Futurity Blaire Morseau weaves together on-the-ground insights and Indigenous speculative fiction to illustrate the profound ways in which Anishinaabe /Neshnabe (Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe) communities are reclaiming their...

This compelling work delves into the personal narratives of Hiaki (Yaqui) individuals who endured the tumultuous period from 1900 to 1930, when they faced systematic attacks, conscription, deportation, and enslavement under Mexican government policies...

In Mapping Neshnabe Futurity Blaire Morseau weaves together on-the-ground insights and Indigenous speculative fiction to illustrate the profound ways in which Anishinaabe /Neshnabe (Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe) communities are reclaiming their...

Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate world as sea levels rise. Economic, academic, and activist...

Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities and disrupting a more southern, temperate world as sea levels rise. Economic, academic, and activist...

This is a book about how Nahuas--native speakers of Nahuatl, the common language of the Aztec Empire and of more than 2.5 million Indigenous people today--have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and...

In Defense of Sovereignty recounts the history of the Oneida Nation and its struggles for self-determination. Since the nation's removal from New York in the 1820s to what would become the state of Wisconsin, it has been engaged in legal conflicts with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962645324Author Lara A JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Oregon State University PressPublisher Oregon State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

This groundbreaking book offers a unique collection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to decolonizing international development.The world is facing enormous challenges, from ever-growing global inequality to climate change to the continuing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355704Author Jerome BaschetFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force-water-through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing-in all kinds of weather,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469680408Author Maria JohnFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and criminalizing...

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities...

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities...

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and criminalizing...

What can Aboriginal filmmaking reveal about Indigenous presence and futures? The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a...

What makes music Metis, and who gets to decide? Complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure have played out over a history of Metis music-making, from the Red River Resistance all the way to the present day.Monique Giroux argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957521001Author Colin SamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of LondonWeight(grams)...

Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to...

Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois - principally from what is now Kahnawa:ke - left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some...

This highly topical collection of essays addresses contemporary issues facing Indigenous communities from a broad range of multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives. Drawing from across the social sciences and humanities, this important volume challenges...