Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Failed Experiment
Was Hamilton Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
When the American government was founded, the Founders and Framers assumed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That government is dying. It is under the authority of not we, the people but rather a small elite that is trying to snuff out the great experiment of man ruling...
A Generation Removed
The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished...
The Fourth World
An Indian Reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism that has long been out of print. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement at that time, with coauthor journalist...
by Grant Arndt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Ho-Chunk powwows are the oldest powwows in the Midwest and among the oldest in the nation, beginning in 1902 outside Black River Falls in west-central Wisconsin. Grant Arndt examines Wisconsin Ho-Chunk powwow traditions and the meanings of cultural performances and rituals in the wake of North American...
Indigenous Adolescent Development
Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families. The first study of its kind, it calls attention to culturally specific risk factors that affect Indigenous (American Indian and Canadian First Nations) adolescent development...
Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw
A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2018
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Boarder...
Salish Blankets
Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance. The blankets are protective...
Naming the World
Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Naming the World examines language shift among the Northern Arapaho of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, and the community’s diverse responses as it seeks social continuity. Andrew Cowell argues that, rather than a single “Arapaho culture,” we find five distinctive communities of practice...
Indian Tales of North America
An Anthology for the Adult Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This collection of folktales, originally published in 1961, presents stories from a wide range of North American indigenous peoples. The stories are grouped into three categories: “The Way the World Is,” “What Man Must Know and Learn,” and “The Excitement of Living.”
The Dust Rose Like Smoke
The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined...
Where the Waters Divide
Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies,...
by Justin B. Richland, Sarah Deer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This second edition of Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies is the only available comprehensive introduction to tribal law. In clear and straightforward language, Justin B. Richland and Sarah Deer discuss the history and structure of tribal justice systems; the scope of criminal and civil jurisdictions;...
Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy
Insights for a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When the UN adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, it brought the negative effect of globalization on the lives of Indigenous peoples to the centre of public debate.The contributors to this innovative collection extend the discussion by asking what can Indigenous peoples'...
by Justin B. Richland, Sarah Deer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In clear and straightforward language, Justin B. Richland and Sarah Deer discuss the history and structure of tribal justice systems; the scope of criminal and civil jurisdictions; and the various means by which the integrity of tribal courts is maintained. This book is an indispensable resource for...