Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies
Native North America in (Trans)Motion
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity,...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 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...
Red Matters
Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body...
Native Americans and the Christian Right
The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Native Americans and the Christian Right, Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. In examining the interplay of biblical...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1500s to 1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little...
Back to the Blanket
Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson, Jodi A. Byrd, Gina Caison, Robbie Ethridge, Patricia Galloway, LeAnne Howe, John Wharton Lowe, Katherine M. B. Osburn, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Jay Watson
From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching...
by Raney Bench
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Interpreting Native American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites features ideas and suggested best practices for the staff and board of museums that care for collections of Native material culture, and who work with Native American culture, history, and communities. This resource gives...
by Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth,...
Teaching Spirits
Understanding Native American Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity,...
Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how...
Going Native
Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as...
Native Activism in Cold War America
The Struggle for Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Labriola Center Book Award
The heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native Americans had long struggled against federal policies that threatened to undermine tribal sovereignty and self-determination....
The Cherokee Full Circle
A Practical Guide to Ceremonies and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
A comprehensive overview of Native American spiritual principles and their application for personal spirit-healing.
• Includes traditional sacred exercises, teaching tales, case studies, and suggested rituals for individual and group healing.
• Outlines the core principals of Native...