Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Negotiating Tribal Water Rights
Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Water conflicts plague every river in the West, with the thorniest dilemmas found in the many basins with Indian reservations and reserved water rights—rights usually senior to all others in over-appropriated rivers. Negotiations and litigation over tribal water rights shape the future of both Indian...
by Mary Kidder Rak
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
A Cowman’s Wife is the true account of the author’s experience as co-owner of Old Camp Rucker Ranch, a 22,000 acre spread north of Douglas, Arizona that she purchased with her husband in 1919. It chronicles a woman’s view of cattle ranching in Northern Arizona, with all the hardships of the...
A Nation Rising
Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A Nation Rising chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Scholars, community organizers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute essays that explore Native Hawaiian resistance and resurgence from the 1970s to the early 2010s....
by F. M. Buckelew
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Reverend F. M. Buckelew started his life as one of a family of nine, born in 1852 in Union Parish, Louisiana. His father saw the opportunities out West and made travelled out into the wilds of Texas with his family to Cherokee County, Texas. As the author recounts, life there was hard, and before...
by Frank F. Latta
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
California Indian Folklore, which was first published in 1936, is a fascinating book, well written, and full of interesting first hand lore of California’s Yokuts Indians. It is because Frank Latta was able to interview the last of the old tribal leaders that this book exists. Latta’s expertise...
Edward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars
Life on the Frontier, 1815-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe’s escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars. Yet the details of the Battle of Pine Creek (or Tohotonimme) and its aftermath remain subjects of debate. Outnumbered six to one, Steptoe’s 164 troops...
Earth Politics
Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse...
Potlatch
Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages. In celebrations that often last many days, sumptuous meals are served; legends about clans and ancestors are sung and enacted...
Stoney Creek Woman
The Story of Mary John
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of racism,...
Reverse Shots
Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the...
by Max Freedom Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
AFTER an eighteen-year study of Magic in its various forms—not the spurious magic of the stage, but the genuine magic that works miracles—I come as a layman to report my findings to other laymen.
Fourteen years of my study have been spent largely in Hawaii endeavoring to penetrate beyond...
by William C. Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Examining the place names, geographical knowledge, and cultural associations of the Kiowa from the earliest recorded sources to the present, Kiowa Ethnogeography is the most in-depth study of its kind in the realm of Plains Indian tribal analysis. Linking geography to political and social changes,...
'Hang Onto These Words'
Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2005
In 1985 and 1986, ninety-year-old Witsuwit'en Chief, Maxlaxlex – or Johnny David as he is better known - was the first Witsuwit'en to give Commission Evidence in the Delgamuukw land claims case in which the Witsuwit'en and Gitxsan of Northern British Columbia were battling for title to their traditional...
by Dan W. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
A gripping slice of Americana, telling the exciting tale of Texas Ranger Daniel Webster Roberts’ Ranger service. As Captain of Company D, this book details the social life of the rangers, their relations with frontier society, their food, dress, and entertainment.
“We set out in this writing...