Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Kristine Stenzel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia...
by Elena Mihas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic...
Strange Enemies
Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the...
Cave Rock
Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
On August 27, 2007, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier district court ruling that sport climbing on a Washoe Indian sacred site in western Nevada must cease. Cave Rock, a towering monolith jutting over the shore of Lake Tahoe, has been sacred to the Washoe people for over five...
In the Light of Justice
The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
In 2007 the United Nations approved the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. United States endorsement in 2010 ushered in a new era of Indian law and policy. This book highlights steps that the United States, as well as other nations, must take to provide a more just society and heal past injustices committed against indigenous peoples.
Landscapes of Power
Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic...
by Ralph Maud
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed herein, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated. Other scholars, amateurs, and Native informants of the past and present are given consideration, making this book a comprehensive...
Visualizing the Sacred
Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial...
Medicine that Walks
Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
In this seminal work, Maureen Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by European newcomers and that Aboriginal people therefore surrendered...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Lore, music, narratives, dozens of drawings by Indians themselves from an authoritative and important survey of native culture among Plains, Southwestern, Lake, and Pueblo Indians. Standard work in popular ethnomusicology. Features 149 songs in full notation. Includes 23 drawings and 23 photos.
by Charles Hays
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
This book contains the story of a wise, wealthy, and beautiful woman who was a coal baroness of the Eastern Kentucky coal fields. There were many coal barons but, there was only one baroness, and further, she was a direct descendant to Elijah Combs, the original settler of Hazard, Kentucky, and Perry...
by Howard D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
AUTHENTIC STORY OF THE “PEGLEG” AND 21 OTHER STORIES OF FABULOUS LOST MINES!
Author Howard D. Clark, a Kansas native, had an extensive career in journalism with appointments including managing editor for the Farm Press Publications of Chicago, Illinois; staff writer for a number of business...
Two Winters in a Tipi
My Search for the Soul of the Forest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One stormy August night, a lightning bolt struck Mark Warren’s tin-roofed farmhouse and burned everything to the ground. Even his metal tools melted. Friends loaned him a tent, but after just a month it began to break down—which Warren vowed not to do. Instead, he decided to follow a childhood...
by Kenneth Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1949
This report sets forth the results of the excavation of the site known as Ste Marie I on the Wye River, near Midland, Ontario. It is hoped that it will be in some measure a contribution to our knowledge of a small but important episode in Canadian history; namely, the activities of the Jesuit Fathers...