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Reginald and Gladys Laubin, American Indian Dancers
(2000)
Friends and cultural historians of many Indian families among the Sioux, Crow, and Shoshone-Bannock, Reginald and Gladys Laubin devoted their lives to preserving a vanishing culture by presenting authentic Indian dances, ...
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum
(1996)
Created in collaboration with students and community members from the Zuni Pueblo and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, this curriculum addresses key issues in Native American Indian adolescents' lives and teaches such life ...
Indian Culture and European Trade Goods
(1966)
In an absorbing account of the archaeology and culture of Indian tribes in the Great Lakes region from 1600 to 1820, George Quimby recounts the results of decades of careful study of archaeological sites in this 1966 classic.
Beyond the Covenant Chain
(2003)
For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier—""the Romans of this Western World,"" as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have ...
This Benevolent Experiment
(2015)
This Benevolent Experiment is a nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have ...
The Daring Trader
(2012)
A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his ...
Death Stalks the Yakama
(1997)
Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the ...
Ambiguous Justice
(2006)
In 1769, Spain took action to solidify control over its northern New World territories by establishing a series of missions and presidios in what is now modern California. To populate these remote establishments, the Spanish ...
After Wounded Knee
(1996)
The Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890, known to U.S. military historians as the last battle in "the Indian Wars," was in reality another tragic event in a larger pattern of conquest, destruction, killing, and ...
After the Bloodbath
(2019)
As violence in the United States seems to become increasingly more commonplace, the question of how communities reset after unprecedented violence also grows in significance. After the Bloodbath examines this quandary, ...
Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century
(1994)
As the twentieth century began, Native Americans were reeling from a century of war, forced resettlement, and loss of indigenous control. In a narrative that is compellingly evenhanded and insightful, Donald L. Parman ...
The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934
(1991)
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Tales of the North American Indians
(1966)
A classic collection of Indian myths and legends; mythological, hero and trickster tales; tales of magic and enchantment; many more.
Two Crows Denies It
(1984)
In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including ...
Wooden Leg
(1962)
Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858–1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ...
Standing in the Light
(1994)
For most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light—in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing ...
Hopi Coyote Tales
(1984)
This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales ...
Navajo Coyote Tales
(1984)
Coyote is easily the most popular character in the stories of Indian tribes from Canada to Mexico. This volume contains seventeen coyote tales collected and translated by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., more than half a century ...
American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives
(1984)
Indian women's autobiographies have been slighted because of the assumption that women had a secondary and insignificant role in Indian society. Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands cogently demonstrate in this ...
Sixth Grandfather
(1984)
In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the ...
Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978
(1982)
The Northern Arapahoes of the Wind River Reservation contradict many of the generalizations made about political change among native plains people. Loretta Fowler explores how, in response to the realities of domination ...
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner, and Other Essays
(1996)
This provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in ...
American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
(1998)
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Native peoples inhabiting the Lower Mississippi Valley confronted increasing domination by colonial powers, disastrous reductions in population, and the threat of being ...
Lakota Society
(1992)
As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of ...
Team Spirits
(2001)
A growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, and so ...
Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
(1994)
One day Alice C. Fletcher realized that "unlike my Indian friends, I was an alien, a stranger in my native land." But while living with the Indians and pursuing her ethnological studies she felt that "the plants, the trees, ...
Invisible Genealogies
(2001)
Invisible Genealogies is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many American anthropologists has called for an "experimental moment" grounded ...
Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877
(2000)
Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877 is a comparison of United States and Canadian Indian policies with emphasis on the reasons these governments embarked on treaty-making ventures in the ...
Washakie
(1995)
Washakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace Raymond Hebard offers ...
Turn to the Native
(1996)
The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism," the ambiguous position of non-Native ...
Great Father
(1986)
The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure ...
The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger
(2005)
David Zeisberger (1721–1808) was the head of a group of Moravian missionaries that settled in the Upper Ohio Valley in 1772 to minister to the Delaware Nation. For the next ten years, Zeisberger lived among the Delaware, ...
Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900
(2007)
This landmark anthology is an essential guide to the histories of Native women's lives in earlier centuries. Sixteen classic essays, plus new commentary—many by the original authors, describe a broad range of research ...
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
(2007)
A comprehensive encyclopedia of Indians of the Great Plains, past and present.
Inside Dazzling Mountains
(2013)
This collection of new translations of Native oral literatures features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. ...
Indian Slavery in Colonial America
(2010)
The essays in this collection use the complicated dynamics of Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.
Native Americans and the Environment
(2007)
Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue the conversations that Shepard Krech started. The essays examine topics as divergent as Pleistocene ...
1870 Ghost Dance
(2007)
Cora Du Bois' historical study, The 1870 Ghost Dance, has remained an essential contribution to the ethnographic record of Native Californian cultures for seven decades yet is only now readily available for the first time. ...
Native American Representations
(2001)
From Columbus's journal jottings about "Indios" to the image of Sacagawea on the dollar coin, from the marauding Indians portrayed in the traditional western to the appearance of Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, ...
Toward a Native American Critical Theory
(2003)
Toward a Native American Critical Theory articulates the foundations and boundaries of a distinctive Native American critical theory in this postcolonial era. In the first book-length study devoted to this subject, Elvira ...
Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York.
(1964)
This is the first complete English translation of Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York by Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur. It presents the rich reflections and tales of an 18th-century ...
New Perspectives on Native North America
(2006)
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological ...
Faith in Paper
(2011)
Faith in Paper is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that together have awakened a ...
The Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi
(1972)
From August of 1933 to March 1933, Mischa Titiev lived among the Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi, an ancient pueblo of the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. A trained anthropologist, Dr. Titiev was adopted into ...
American Pentimento
(2001)
American Pentimento traces the history of colonization and exploitation in the Americas coming to demonstrate how contemporary native struggles are decisively limited by embedded cultural assumptions this history has ...
Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923
(1994)
Founded near Jamestown, Virginia, in 1868, Hampton Institute educated almost 1400 members of sixty-five Indian tribes. Donal F. Lindsey examines the complex and changing interactions among Indigenous people, Blacks, and ...
Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance during the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900
(2009)
During the four decades following the War of 1812, Great Lakes Indians were forced to surrender most of their ancestral homelands and begin refashioning their lives on reservations. The challenges Indians faced during this ...
Myths of the Rune Stone
(2015)
In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher ...
Red on Red
(1999)
A Creek National Literature attempts to find a critical vantage point grounded in Native culture from which to understand Native literatures. He argues that the application of postmodern literary criticism to Native ...
Wastelanding
(2015)
Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism ...
The Third Space of Sovereignty
(2007)
The Third Space of Sovereignty offers fresh insights on such topics as the crucial importance of the formal end of treaty-making in 1871, indigenous responses to the prospect of U.S. citizenship in the 1920s, native politics ...
The Networked Wilderness
(2009)
Reconceptualizing aural and inscribed communication as a spectrum, The Networked Wilderness bridges the gap between the history of the book and Native American systems of communication. Cohen reveals that books, paths, ...
The Backcountry and the City
(2005)
Ed White explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together two distinct bodies of scholarship: one stressing the political culture of the Revolutionary era, the other ...
Limits Of Multiculturalism
(1999)
Scott Michaelsen shows cultural criticism to be at an impasse, trapped by tradition even in its attempts to get beyond tradition. With this dilemma in mind, he takes us back to anthropology's nineteenth-century roots to ...
The People and the Word
(2005)
Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents, The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected ...
Taxidermic Signs
(2008)
In Taxidermic Signs, Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses ...
To Show What an Indian Can Do
(2000)
The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the ...
Tribal Secrets
(1995)
A framework for understanding the contributions of Vine Deloria Jr. and John Joseph Mathews, two American Indian Intellectuals, as part of the struggle for tribal sovereighty, and argues that the contemporary reality of ...
Tears of Repentance
(2013)
Tears of Repentance reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing ...
Encounters of the Spirit
(2007)
Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including ...