Unp Nebraska: 513 books
So, How Long Have You Been Native?
Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s...
Fluent Selves
Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading...
by Rex Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies...
How the West Was Drawn
Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a...
The Life of Ten Bears
Comanche Historical Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph “Joe A” Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bears’s life (ca. 1790–1872) are widely known, including several versions of how the toddler Ten Bears survived the massacre...
Waheenee
An Indian Girl's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe.
In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold...
The Pacific Northwest
An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period,...
by James R. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"The real value of Lakota Belief and Ritual is that it provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis, as well as insightful biographical information on the man who contributed more than any other individual to our understanding of early Oglala ritual and belief."—Plains Anthropologist
Prophets of the Great Spirit
Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional...
Mourning Dove
A Salishan Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"An exciting story that transports the reader to another time and place. . . . Anyone interested in American Indian history, culture, religion, and literature should read this informative volume that was produced at such great cost. Mourning Dove literally gave her life to do this work, and Jay...
A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War
Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Marcus Spiegel, a German Jewish immigrant, served with the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer regiments during the Civil War. He saw action in Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, where he was fatally wounded in May 1864. These letters to Caroline, his wife, reveal the traumatizing experience of a soldier and the constant concern of a husband and father.
Lucky Me
My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Eddie Robinson’s career lasted sixty-five years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player,...
Author Under Sail
The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London’s work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination...
Culture on Two Wheels
The Bicycle in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as “vehicles” for that text’s themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature...