Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing...
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms
Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images,...
Survival and Regeneration
Detroit’s American Indian Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many Native Americans. During a ten-year period, Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. interviewed hundreds of Indians about their past and their needs and aspirations...
Reimagining Indians
Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered...
First Americans
U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A forgotten history that explores how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was...
Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which...
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Resilience through Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Non-Indians have amassed extensive records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the era between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. But academia has largely ignored the stories of these leaders’ descendants—including accounts from the Shawnees’ own perspectives. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe...
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.
Upon its original publication...
The Red Land to the South
American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Cox—the decades between 1920 and 1960—have been called politically and intellectually moribund. On the contrary, Cox identifies a group of American Indian writers who share an interest in the revolutionary potential of the indigenous...
The Newspaper Warrior
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each...
Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies
Conversations from Earth to Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in which...
"That's What They Used to Say"
Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own...
Messengers of the Wind
Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
"Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide."
--The Minnesota Daily
In Messengers...