Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
More than twenty years after its publication in 1991, Leslie Marmon Silko’s monumental novel Almanac of the Dead continues to disconcert, move, provoke, and outrage readers. In a work that is overtly and often uncomfortably political, Silko’s overflowing cast of characters includes representatives...
by Julia Coates
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
This book provides an outstanding resource that introduces readers to Indian removal and resistance, and supports high school curricula as well as the National Standards for U.S. History (Era 4: Expansion and Reform). Focusing specifically on the Trail of Tears and the experiences of the Cherokee...
by Ronald Haycock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national magazines, and to suggest attitudes and...
by Robert W. Patch
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch’s even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancías—the commercial dealings...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and teachable essays on key topics, debates, and case studies. Written by leading scholars in the field, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them...
Unsettling America
The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about...
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.
Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow,...
by Judith K. Witherow
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In Strong Enough to Bend, author Judith K. Witherow compiles a sampling from four decades of her essays and poems that describe the real life experiences of a disabled, mixed blood Native American Indian lesbian raised in Appalachian poverty. Much of the work has been previously published in anthologies,...
Essential Song
Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
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Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree,...
George Sword's Warrior Narratives
Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics...
Patroons and Periaguas
Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled along the rivers and coastline near the bourgeoning colonial port city of Charleston, South Carolina. Colonial...
Mohawk Interruptus
Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate...
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai,...