Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty
Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kēhaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of Hawaiian Kingdom restoration and demands for U.S....
Spider Woman's Children
Navajo Weavers Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. Their history and value to collectors is unparalleled. But what about the people who create these treasures? You might be surprised. Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the great Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. Chiefs who had already surrendered...
La urgencia por decir nosotros
Los intelectuales y la idea de nación en el Perú republicano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Análisis de los proyectos de nación imaginados por los grandes pensadores de los siglos XIX y XX. Lograda la independencia, el Perú comienza a configurarse como un estado que está aún muy lejos de albergar una nación en el sentido de una comunidad de gente que se imagina con los mismos derechos...
Guided by the Mountains
Navajo Political Philosophy and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and the challenges faced by Indigenous nations in...
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
One Final Mission for Love of the United States to Respect, Heal, and Remember
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A Pearl Harbor survivor’s love for the United States drives him from surviving as a frontline combat soldier in some of the toughest battles in World War II to share his message that war is hell—and you better think twice about starting one or getting into another one. This is a seventy-six-year...
Le centre du monde
Une virée en Eeyou Istchee Baie-James avec Romeo Saganash
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Au début de l'été 2015, Emmanuelle Walter a sillonné la Baie-James québécoise, guidée par un enfant du pays, le leader cri Romeo Saganash. Ce rescapé des pensionnats, négociateur de la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, artisan de la Paix des Braves et...
Guía etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. Volumen III
Cashinahua. Amahuaca. Shipibo-Conibo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 19, 2014
La Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonia es un proyecto editorial de largo aliento que se propone publicar monografías etnográficas, ensayos comparativos y trabajos de arqueología referentes a diversas zonas y pueblos indígenas de las regiones amazónicas de Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Colombia....
L'héritage spirituel amérindien
Le grand mystère
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Ce livre est une invitation au voyage en territoire spirituel chez les Amérindiens d'Amérique du Nord: les lecteurs y découvriront le Grand Esprit, ce dieu créateur inséparable des puissances cosmiques. Il y est question de la nature mystique de leurs mythes, symboles et cérémonies, de même...
by Don Marcelino
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Don Marcelino est un médecin amérindien, originaire du Pérou. Il est un homme de Connaissance, débarqué en Europe, cinq siècles après le massacre perpétré par les conquistadors, il enseigne aux Occidentaux le savoir universel et cosmique dont ses ancêtres étaient déjà les dépositaires....
by RENÉ BOUDREAULT
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Vue de l’intérieur et avec l’acuité d’une approche analytique rationnelle, mais surtout affective, la vie qui bat dans le milieu illustre les grandeurs et misères d’un peuple qui n’aspire qu’à s’épanouir et qu’à vivre heureux chez lui.La rencontre de gens que l’on aime permet...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Au moment où s’estompent au Canada la notion des « peuples fondateurs » et aux États-Unis celle de « melting pot » travaillées parfois jusqu’à l’érosion par les progrès civiques, il nous est paru urgent de penser les configurations identitaires à venir. Le multiculturalisme, l’interculture,...
Sovereignty for Survival
American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological...