Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature
Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
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Assessing Environmental Health Risks through Collaborative Research and Oral Histories
Christianne V. Stephens and Regna Darnell
Christianne V. Stephens and Regna Darnell represent a foray into understanding how oral narratives can illuminate health and environmental conditions on Walpole Island First Nation and more generally on any First Nations territory.
by Michael Posluns
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across the Manhattan seascape, was a strange small vessel build in the dark Arctic winter to carry a message...
Sustaining the Cherokee Family
Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation,...
Warrior Nation
A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common—and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservation land base. The people of Red Lake developed the first modern indigenous democratic governance...
Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced
Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following...
by Leona M Zastrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
American Indian art has a long history and a vibrant and active modern-day community, something that has long interested collectors, historians, and anthropologists. In My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian ArtMy Viewpoint, author Leona M. Zastrow offers an examination of the past and...
by Richard Wagamese
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life.
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, Wagamese...
The Winged
An Upper Missouri River Ethno-ornithology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The Missouri River Basin is home to thousands of bird species that migrate across the Great Plains of North America each year, marking the seasonal cycle and filling the air with their song. In time immemorial, Native inhabitants of this vast region established alliances with birds that helped them...
The New Buffalo
The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education is an Aboriginal and Treaty right, the Canadian government...
God Is Red
A Native View of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition.
The Mixtecs of Oaxaca
Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy. Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day...
Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat
A Navajo Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 “when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] thumbnail,” of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account turns...
Original Thinking
A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In Original Thinking, Glenn Aparicio Parry delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview. Inspired by groundbreaking dialogues that the author organized between Native American elders and leading-edge Western...
Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit
The Nunatsiavummiut Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the long-awaited creation of their own regional self-government of Nunatsiavut.This historic agreement...