Description
About the Author
Nancy Bonvillain is professor of anthropology and linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is author of several university-level textbooks (Cultural Anthropology; Language, Culture, and Communication; Women and Men) in addition to numerous specialized books written for young readers about Native Americans, including The Zuni, The Santee Sioux, The Hopi, The Teton Sioux, The Sac and Fox, The Haidas, The Cheyennes, The Mohawk, The Huron, The Nez Perce, The Navajos, Hiawatha, and Black Hawk.
Reviews
Bonvillain captures the vitality of Native peoples today as well as the current issues they face. She places Native people and their continued struggles squarely in a contemporary framework, covering a variety of crucial topics from climate change to taxation. Emphasizing the concept of nations and sovereignty, she describes reservations, reserves, and treaties in a way that is frank and refreshing. -- Erica Cusi Wortham, George Washington University
Native Nations gives a broad overview of the whole of Native North America, bringing together the historical, sociological, and cultural aspects that shape Native lives. However, it also gives the specific local contexts of Native communities that shape their reactions to contemporary issues and conditions. It is detailed, expansive, comprehensive, and well researched. -- Steven Williams, Oberlin College
I am very pleased by the substantive contemporary content in this text. Students need to hear about challenges Native peoples face today, and Native Nations does a great job with that. -- Chris Hurst-Loeffler, Irvine Valley College
Native Nations combines prehistory, anthropologically based ethnographic sketches, and consideration of modern Native America in a text that is accessible and engaging. -- Adam King, University of South Carolina
Impressive for its breadth and the diversity of tribes covered, this is a text my students enjoy. -- Katharine Kirakosian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Book Information
ISBN 9781442251458
Author Nancy Bonvillain
Format Paperback
Page Count 552
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 953g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 19mm