Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Navajo Sovereignty
Understandings and Visions of the Diné People
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The last few decades have given rise to an electrifying movement of Native American activism, scholarship, and creative work challenging five hundred years of U.S. colonization of Native lands. Indigenous communities are envisioning and building their nations and are making decolonial strides toward...
Capture These Indians for the Lord
Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
In 1844, on the heels of the final wave of the forced removal of thousands of Indians from the southern United States to what is now Oklahoma, the Southern Methodist Church created a separate organization known as the Indian Mission Conference to oversee its missionary efforts among the Native communities...
Monuments to Absence
Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee...
On Indian Ground
California
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
On Indian Ground: California is the first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education. The focus of this text is the 110 tribes in California and the best practices available to educators of native students in K?16. This volume explores the history of California...
Colonial Mediascapes
Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions...
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas
The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating...
Decolonizing Native Histories
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community...
Black Dawn, Bright Day
Indian Prophecies for the Millennium that Reveal the Fate of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A compelling and prophetic work that details the environmental future of every major landmass in the world.
The sacred teacher and author of The Medicine Wheel offers a compelling and prophetic work that details the environmental future of every major landmass in the world. Through his own...
Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls
The Battle for Puvungna
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
A twenty-two acre strip of land—known as Puvungna—lies at the edge of California State University’s Long Beach campus. The land, indisputably owned by California, is also sacred to several Native American tribes. And these twenty-two acres have been the nexus for an acrimonious and costly conflict...
Native American in the Land of the Shogun
Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in...
by Charles M. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends," writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of...
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...
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...