Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Original Instructions
Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to today’s global crisis
• Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature
• Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization...
Amazonian Geographies
Emerging Identities and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with...
Time before History
The Archaeology of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled...
The Seeds We Planted
Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of...
The Argumentative Indian
Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native country
India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history...
Warm Springs Millennium
Voices from the Reservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Established in 1855 on an area one-fifteenth the size of the lands relinquished in return for it, the Warm Springs Reservation in north central Oregon is home to some 3,600 Warm Springs, Wasco, and Paiute Indians, half of whom are under twenty. This book seeks to understand the reservation's inhabitants...
The Missionaries
God Against the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The renowned travel writer delivers “a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls” (Library Journal).
Acclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on...
by Naomi Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Kuessipan is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people of northeast Quebec. With the grace and perfect pitch, author Naomi Fontaine (herself an Innu) conjures up a world that reads like no other, and a community-of nomadic hunters and fishers, of mothers and children-who endure a harsh and sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity.
by George Ryga
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men’s violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama of enormous theatrical power, The Ecstasy...
Global Indigenous Media
Cultures, Poetics, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community...
Talking Indian
Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In south-central Oklahoma and much of “Indian Country,” using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as “talking Indian.” Among older Chickasaw community members, the phrase is used more often than the name of the specific language, Chikashshanompa’ or Chickasaw. As author Jenny...
by Anton Treuer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve...
Governing Indigenous Territories
Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective...
Indian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction
First Nations' Voices Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
According to an early 1990s study, 95 percent of what college students know about Native Americans was acquired through the media, leading to widespread misunderstandings of First Nations peoples. Sierra Adare contends that negative "Indian" stereotypes do physical, mental, emotional, and...