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Three Fires Unity: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands by Phil Bellfy 9780803213487
$63.61The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have... -
Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era by Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote 9781469643663
RRP: $64.25$60.29In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork,... -
Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior by O.M. McPherson 9781469641751
RRP: $68.15$65.05In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as ""Cherokees,"" a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and... -
Are We Not Foreigners Here?: Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Jeffrey M. Schulze 9781469637112
RRP: $68.15$64.45Since its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced individual and group identities that are as subversive... -
Are We Not Foreigners Here?: Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Jeffrey M. Schulze 9781469637105
$191.59Since its inception, the U.S.-Mexico border has invited the creation of cultural, economic, and political networks that often function in defiance of surrounding nation-states. It has also produced individual and group identities that are as subversive... -
Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race by Nancy Shoemaker 9781469636122
RRP: $58.40$55.59In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated... -
Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution: The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents by Keith Richotte 9781469634500
$191.59In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce and the others had been asked to adopt... -
Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence by Boyd Cothran 9781469633343
RRP: $64.25$59.73On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the... -
Dadibaajim: Returning Home through Narrative by Helen Agger 9780887559600
RRP: $136.50$121.13Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the... -
A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System by John S. Milloy 9780887552281
RRP: $136.50$128.43I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry."" - Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)""[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance... -
Night Spirits: The Story of the Relocation of the Sayisi Dene by Ila Bussidor 9780887551949
RRP: $136.50$121.52For over 1500 years, the Sayisi Dene, 'The Dene from the East', led an independent life, following the caribou herds and having little contact with white society. In 1956, an arbitrary government decision to relocate them catapulted the Sayisi Dene into... -
Land, Wind and Hard Words: A Story of Navajo Activism by John Sherry 9780826322821
$93.60In the early 1990s anthropologist John Sherry lived with Leroy Jackson and Adella Begaye, leaders of Dine CARE, a Navajo organization dedicated to protecting the environment and its links to Navajo culture. Land, Wind, and Hard Words is his account of... -
Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-determination Since 1928 by Margaret Connell Szasz 9780826320483
$69.42First published in 1974, Education and the American Indian has been widely praised as the first full-length study of federal Indian policy. This revised edition brings the book up to date through 1998 with the addition of analysis and interpretation of... -
Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive: A Story of Real Life among the Indians by J. J. Methvin 9780826317483
$69.52Early in 1867 Kiowa chief Many Bears paid the Mescalero Apache one mule, two buffalo robes, and a red blanket to purchase ten-year-old Jose Andres Martinez. Abducted near his home in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in October 1866, he became Many Bears's... -
A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas by Sean F. McEnroe 9780826361189
$229.69A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served as soldiers, scholars, artists, artisans, and... -
For Our Navajo People: Dine Letters, Speeches and Petitions 1900-1960 by Peter Iverson 9780826327185
$72.58One hundred documents written by Dine men, women, and children speaking for themselves and on behalf of their communities are collected in this book. Discovered during Iverson's research for the book, these letters, speeches, and petitions, almost all... -
Conquest and Catastrophe: Changing Rio Grand Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Elinore Barrett 9780826324122
$72.70This book forces a rethinking of our understanding of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico between the beginning of Spanish exploration in 1540 and the aftermath of revolt and reconquest at the end of the 1600s. Specifically, Pueblo losses of settlements and... -
Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession by Christen Mucher 9780813948249
$164.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813948249Author Christen MucherFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 156g -
We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 by William J. Bauer 9780807872734
RRP: $74.00$67.39The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a... -
Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape by Mark A. Nicholas 9780807871454
RRP: $83.75$77.12In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with... -
The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 by Kim Cary Warren 9780807871379
RRP: $74.00$67.65In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses... -
Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 by Gray H. Whaley 9780807871096
RRP: $74.00$68.56Western expansion reevaluated as continental U.S. colonialism. Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among... -
Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 by Jane E. Simonsen 9780807856956
RRP: $74.00$68.07During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as ""home"" was more than a metaphor for... -
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon M. Sayre 9780807846520
RRP: $97.40$91.51Algonquian and Iroquois natives of the American Northeast were described in great detail by colonial explorers who ventured into the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain,... -
Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984 by David R. M. Beck 9780803225176
$106.51In 1855 the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw tribes of Oregon signed the Empire Treaty with the United States, which would have provided them rights as federally acknowledged tribes with formal relationships with the U.S. government. The treaty, however,... -
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status by George Edwin Butler 9781469641812
$35.57The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson's Indians of North Carolina report, was an appeal to the state of North Carolina to create schools... -
The Cherokee Physician: Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor by Richard Foreman 9781469641720
RRP: $68.15$65.05The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was... -
Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution: The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents by Keith Richotte 9781469634517
RRP: $68.15$64.27In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce and the others had been asked to adopt... -
Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala by Laura E. Matthew 9781469621975
RRP: $77.90$73.03Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja,... -
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby 9780887559150
RRP: $136.50$120.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887559150Author Brittany LubyFormat HardbackImprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams) 229g -
The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River by Susan M. Hill 9780887552526
RRP: $136.50$125.00If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary... -
The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex by Meredith Paxton 9780826350367
$148.26Flourishing by A.D. 250-300, Maya civilization extended over large sections of modern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as Belize, and into present-day El Salvador and Honduras. The pre-Conquest inhabitants of this vast area left important clues to their... -
Rethinking American Indian History: Analysis, Methodology and Historiography by Donald Fixico 9780826318190
$72.70Writing from the Indian point of view is a central concern to historians today. Not only are new sources needed to understand native peoples, but new questions must be asked questions based in a deep knowledge of the languages and cultures of Native... -
Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-century Missions of Florida and New Mexico by Robert C. Galgano 9780826336491
$72.70Feast of Souls explores native peoples' responses to Spanish attempts to challenge and replace traditional spiritual practices in Florida and New Mexico. In these two regions, Franciscan missions were the primary mechanism for both spiritual and secular... -
The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy by David M. Brugge 9780826321565
$93.60This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and its effects on the tribes.Book InformationISBN 9780826321565Author David M. BruggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint University of New Mexico... -
The Navajos in 1705: Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal by Rick Hendricks 9780826318565
$72.70This long-lost journal, now available in paperback, gives a unique look into the old Navajo country. Recently rediscovered, it is both the earliest and only extensive eyewitness account of the traditional Navajo homeland in the eighteenth century. It... -
From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 by Robbie Ethridge 9780807871690
RRP: $74.00$71.27In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on... -
The Hopi People Az by Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa 9780738556482
RRP: $42.88$29.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738556482Author Stewart B. KoyiyumptewaFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region by Celinda R. Kaelin 9780738548470
RRP: $42.88$29.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738548470Author Celinda R. KaelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Fort Peck Indian Reservation Montana by Kenneth, Jr. Shields 9780738548272
RRP: $42.88$30.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738548272Author Kenneth, Jr. ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g