Native American category: 3329 books
by Nikki L. M. Brown, Barry M. Stentiford
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied in much of the nation....
Mascot Nation
The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the...
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story
Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Focusing on the importance of discussions about sovereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics.
These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both...
Planning the American Indian Reservation
From Theory to Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession. Charged with developing a strategy to protect irreplaceable tribal homelands that have been repeatedly diminished over the ages through unjust public policy...
by Stephen Sachs, Barbara Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and harmony so that they may again live well in their...
Spirited Encounters
American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
During the twentieth century, dozens of protests, large and small, occurred across North America as American Indians asserted their anger and displayed their disappointment regarding traditional museum behaviors. In response, due to public embarrassment and an awakening of sensitivities, museums began...
LONGING TO BE FREE
THE BEAR, THE EAGLE AND THE CROWN
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This novel is set in tumultuous times 1630-1677 in colonial New England and London. In the beginning there was peaceful co-existence between the English colonists and the Native American Nations. Comfort Bradford, the daughter of the Governor of Plymouth, is friends with her Wampanoag neighbors;...
Native American Short Stories
Book Ii
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book is a collection of short stories written by the author.
Landscape of the Spirits
Hohokam Rock Art at South Mountain Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppings—images...
Blackfoot Grammar
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Although thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language, their numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in danger.
Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes Third Edition, provides description...
The Languages of Native America
Historical and Comparative Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective"...
Translingual Poetics
Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogue—and into conflict—in their work. This growing but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of multilingual poetry. While modernist poets...
As Long as Grass Grows
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism
Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist...
Canyon Dreams
A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.
Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated...