Native American Studies category: 1415 books
100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America
Covering tribes, treaties, sovereignty, casinos, reservations, Indian health, education, religion, culture and tribal membership
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
*100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America* is by the Native American Journalists Association as part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence.
This guide has sections on tribes, reservations, sovereignty, treaties, federal...
by Lisa Tatonetti
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, Lisa Tatonetti provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, Tatonetti offers the first overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the...
Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature
Across Every Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives....
The Native American Renaissance
Literary Imagination and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko...
The Native American Identity in Sports
Creating and Preserving a Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded. From individual athletes,...
The Sacred Hoop
Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen’s celebrated study of women’s roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women’s studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyond
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing...
by Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Martha Kreipe de Montaño
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"...an excellent overview of past and present Native American life."
—Library Journal
"Best research tool."
—Lingua Franca
Wide-ranging, authoritative, and timely, here is an illuminating portrait of America's Native peoples, combining information about their...
by Mary A. Stout
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans are estimated to have attended Native American boarding schools during the course of over a century. Today, many of the off-reservation Native American boarding schools have closed, and those that remain are in danger of losing critical federal funding. Ironically,...
We’Ve Done Them Wrong!
A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
Every Native American
Must leave his home. l.
Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed savage.
Savage was how the New World invaders described American...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Health and Social Issues of Native American Women is the first book that specifically explores and discusses health and related social issues within the world of Native American women, providing strong historical and cultural perspectives as well as other contextual information that is often missing...
by Luther Standing Bear
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from...
by Rita J. Simon, Sarah Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation. The participants of...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
For many hundreds of years, people wandered into the great northwest. They came from all directions across Canada and the United States. These early people were not only skilled farmers, they were also clever builders, engineers, and weavers. They loved games of skill. They created stories, songs...