Native American Studies category: 1415 books
A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential...
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Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
It has been well known since Marius Barbeau’s review of the first edition of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian Mythology in 1917 that something was seriously amiss with Boas’s alleged translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that...
Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia
Cherokee Elements in Four Selected Novels by Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa
Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with...
Stories of Oka
Land, Film, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society...
Wastelanding
Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S....
Re-Collecting Black Hawk
Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to “Black Hawk,” surrendered in 1832 after...
by Karin Michelson, Norma Kennedy, Mercy A. Doxtator
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted...
The Story of Act 31
How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From forward-thinking resolution to violent controversy and beyond.
Since its passage in 1989, a state law known as Act 31 requires that all students in Wisconsin learn about the history, culture, and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes.
The Story of...
En el país de nomeacuerdo
Archivos y memorias del genocidio del Estado argentino sobre los pueblos originarios, 1870-1950
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Esta publicación presenta siete investigaciones sobre los procesos de sometimiento e incorporación de los pueblos originarios de las regiones patagónica, pampeana y chaqueña por parte del Estado argentino. Los autores discuten sobre conceptos centrales como los de genocidio, terrorismo y violencia...
Declared Defective
Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in...
The Reluctant Pilgrim
A Skeptic's Journey into Native Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions.
• Provides a current and comprehensive analysis of contemporary...
by Vine, Jr. Deloria, Clifford M. Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Baffled by the stereotypes presented by Hollywood and much historical fiction, many other Americans find the contemporary American Indian an enigma. Compounding their confusion is the highly publicized struggle of the contemporary Indian for self-determination, lost land, cultural preservation, and fundamental...