Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Henry F. Hoyt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This is the autobiography of the famous Henry F. Hoyt, a medical doctor and notable adventurer of the American West. His career started as a physician in the Goldrush town Deadwood, before moving west into the Texas Panhandle. He was by turns a Doctor, a Vigilante and a Cowboy, and he recounts stories...
by Richard Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In 1903 Alaska governor John Brady collected fifteen old totem poles for preservation at Stika National Historical Park, creating one of the most famous collections of totem poles in the world. One pole became separated, and its fate remained a mystery for nearly ninety years. This revised edition...
Up from These Hills
Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Leonard Carson Lambert Jr.’s candid memoir is a remarkable story and an equally remarkable flouting of the stereotypes that so many tales of American Indian life have engendered.
Up from...
A Passion for the True and Just
Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The**Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner...
The Deadly Politics of Giving
Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
A clash of cultures on the North American continent.
With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers...
This Is Not a Peace Pipe
Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal...
Eating the Landscape
American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
"Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview," Enrique Salmón writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the Tohono O’odham of the Sonoran Desert and the Rarámuri of the Sierra Tarahumara,...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Duane Champagne has been presenting a series of comments on Indian policy, history, and culture since October 2006 in the newspaper Indian Country Today. This book provides a compilation of many of these editorials, plus two chapters not previously published. The contemplative writing by this well-respected...
Inconstant Companions
Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research.
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Ronald J. Mason explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. That exploration is...
by Jeff Guinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral history, and based on extensive interviews with descendants, this book describes the incredible circumstances...
Therapeutic Nations
Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Self-determination is on the agenda of Indigenous peoples all over the world. This analysis by an Indigenous feminist scholar challenges the United Nations–based human rights agendas and colonial theory that until now have shaped Indigenous models of self-determination. Gender inequality and gender...
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie
Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism,...
Finding a Way to the Heart
Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women’s, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heart examines race, gender,...
Building a Nation
Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
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The Chickasaw Nation, an American Indian nation headquartered in southeastern Oklahoma, entered into a period of substantial growth in the late 1980s. Following its successful reorganization and expansion, which was enabled by federal policies...