Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Audra Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Despite the fact that 565 federally recognized tribes exist on the continent of North America, non-Native Americans typically know very little about the modern world of American Indians. In a few instances, the uneasy coexistence of the two cultures has served to create controversy, such as fake Indians...
Indian Spirit, Revised and Enlarged
Revised and Enlarged
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Through its striking combination of stirring oratory and majestic portraiture from the Plains Indian pre-reservation “old-timers,” Indian Spirit reveals the very heart of the traditional Native American life-way: a world where dignity of soul, nobility of sentiments, discipline of gesture, and a...
Domestic Subjects
Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary...
Indians in the United States and Canada
A Comparative History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European...
Crow Jesus
Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity. In this collection of narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke...
Corey Village and the Cayuga World
Implications from Archaeology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,
a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting
much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their
nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga
endured...
Red States
Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences...
Trans-Indigenous
Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in...
The Cherokee Kid
Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And though most in his vast audience didn't know it, he was also the most famous Indian of his time. Those who know of Rogers's Cherokee heritage and upbringing tend to minimize its importance,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Centennial Campaign of 1876 is a valuable example of warfare between the US and Native Americans. Originally conceived as a punitive campaign, three columns of combined cavalry and infantry...
From Daniel Boone to Captain America
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth century, American...
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography
In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations....
by Chris Flook
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Native Americans lived, hunted and farmed in east-central Indiana for two thousand years before the area became a part of the Hoosier State. Mounds and enclosures built by Adena and Hopewell peoples still stand near the White River and reflect their vibrant and mysterious cultures. The Lenape tribes...