Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Native Wisdom for White Minds
Daily Reflections Inspired by the Native Peoples of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
You don't have to be white to have a white mind.
What is a white mind? As Anne Wilson Schaef learned during her travels throughout the world among Native Peoples, anyone raised in modern Western society or by Western culture can have a white mind. White minds are trapped in a closed system of thinking...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Champagne and his distinguished coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. Many countries still face extreme differences among ethnic groups and submerged nations, leading to...
Reservation Reelism
Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the...
Beyond Settler Time
Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues,...
The Yaquis and the Empire
Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui...
Multiethnic American Literatures
Essays for Teaching Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally...
Reading the Fire
The Traditional Indian Literatures of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Reading the Fire engages America�s �first literatures,� traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition of a book first published to critical acclaim in 1983 includes four new essays.
Drawing on ethnographic...
by Brandi Denison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the...
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature....
Tribal Television
Viewing Native People in Sitcoms
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present. In this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Dustin Tahmahkera...
by Bobette Perrone, Victoria Krueger, H. Henrietta Stockel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians...
Relational Formations of Race
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as...
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...
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...