Native American Studies category: 1415 books
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia
A History, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and—as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color—their work was important in challenging health care inequities...
Red Dreams, White Nightmares
Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably...
The Nations Within
The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today.
“Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing...
Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities
Transformations and Continuities
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
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The Friendship Centre: Native People and the Organization of Community in Cities
Heather A. Howard
This chapter examines the socio-political history and culture of the Native Friendship centre, the organization which most often serves as the focal point of urban Native communities...
That the Blood Stay Pure
African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia’s racial purity campaign from the perspective of...
by Virgil J. Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were...
Blood Will Tell
Native Americans and Assimilation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity...
Spaces between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent...
Separate Peoples, One Land
The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee...
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their...
by Nikki L. M. Brown, Barry M. Stentiford
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied in much of the nation....
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story
Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Focusing on the importance of discussions about sovereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics.
These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both...
Native Americans on Film
Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years,...
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than...