Indigenous Studies

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266349Author Ivan HeadFormat HardbackPage Count 269Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Now in its second edition, this groundbreaking work of literary and cultural criticism analyzes representations of Indigenous women in Canadian literature. By deconstructing stereotypical images of the "Indian princess" and "easy squaw," Janice Acoose...

Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy examines the intrinsic value of First Nations perspectives, languages, and knowledges without the framing of Indigenization, decolonization, incorporation, or adaptation. Organized into three parts, this title focuses on...

An essential contribution to contemporary Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholarship, Mo'olelo: The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge elevates our understanding of the importance of language and narrative to cultural revitalization. Mo'olelo preserve the...

This insightful volume delves into land-based DinE and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories-oral, literary, and visual. Like the dynamism and kinetic facets of hOzhO ,* Restoring Relations Through Stories takes us through many landscapes, places, and...

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 9780816535576Author Molly DoaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 317g

Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the eve of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. By comparing and...

This unique collection features auto-ethnographical essays by nine Inuit women educators who were part of the inaugural cohort of the University of Prince Edward Island's Nunavut Master of Education program, which offered Nunavut's first graduate-level...

From the Foreword ""Crucially, past, present, and future are tightly woven in 'Oiwi (Native Hawaiian) theory and practice. We adapt to whatever historical challenges we face so that we can continue to survive and thrive. As we look to the past for...

This publication aims to assist the United Nations system to mainstream and integrate indigenous peoples' issues in processes for operational activities and programmes at the country level. It sets out the broad normative, policy and operational...

Panama's DariEn is a name many conservationists know. Renowned for its lowland tropical forests, its fame is more pronounced because a road that should be there is not: environmentalists have repeatedly, and remarkably, blocked all attempts to connect...

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...

This book is a celebration of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi's intellectual and cultural legacy to Samoa, providing Tui Atua's writings and thoughts on Samoan indigenous knowledge. It was first compiled and published as a festschrift in...

Set along the Pacific Northwest Coast in the 1950s, Ravensong tells the story of an urban Native community devastated by an influenza epidemic. Stacey, a 17-year-old Native girl, struggles with the clash between white society's values and her family's...

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...

This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under...

This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under...

A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile.Part 1: The Navajo Tradition, Perspectives and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949206312Author Sally MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889779730Author Jarol BoanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894725644Author Andrea ProcterFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint ISER BooksPublisher ISER BooksWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540686Author Lloyd L. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 173g

A critical and timely collection, Land as Relation introduces readers to an intersectional approach to Indigenous space and land-based education. Indigenous and ally-partnered contributors, from elders to emerging and established scholars, share...

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade-one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition-who settled in...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889779815Author Blair A StonechildFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina PressWeight(grams)...

The follow-up to his award-winning book The Knowledge Seeker , Blair Stonechild's Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality continues to explore the Indigenous spiritual teachings passed down to the author by Elders, examining their relevance...

An interdisciplinary work that draws on the fields of rhetorical studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, and museum studies, Legible Sovereignties considers the creation, critical reception, and adaptation of Indigenous self-representation in...

Born into an Odawa family in Michigan in 1932, Frances "Geri" Roossien lived a life that was both ordinary and instructive. As a child, she attended Holy Childhood Boarding School; as an adult, she coped with her trauma through substance abuse; and in...

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...

In this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true"...

The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to...

Winner- 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language NonfictionMembers of Eli Baxter's generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay...

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize" Aboriginal children, it was...

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize" Aboriginal children, it was...

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...

Hawai'ian performance cartography is an interactive presentation of place as "experienced space" that situates mapping in the environment, and encodes spatial knowledge into bodily memory via repetitive recitations and other habitual practices, such as...

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance...