Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Larry Gross
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
One of the central figures in the development of the study of visual communication, Sol Worth (1922-1977) was a filmmaker and painter before he turned to academic pursuits. He began with the question of how film could be understood and studied as medium of communication, and from there, he moved on to...
The White Possessive
Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This volume features differing views of past, present, and possible future roles for Aboriginal people in the Canadian political and electoral system. The studies address the issues facing Aboriginal people and the efforts to increase their involvement in the federal electoral system.
Robert...
Ethnicity and Aboriginality
Case Studies in Ethnonationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Ethnonationalism is a phenomenon of great importance in many parts of the world today. In this collection of papers, nine distinguished anthropologists focus on Canadian and international case studies to show how ethnonational claims of cultural groups have been expressed and developed in specific...
by Sheila Seclearr
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
The Hopi Mother: Peace is born in darkness is an essay by Sheila Seclearr of Santa Fe, New Mexico. A culmination of writing based on Peace Studies plus Hopi Indian history and prophecy, Seclearr weaves an account that includes her trademark empathic travel for a look inside a Hopi village and its...
Fragile Settlements
Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.
Breaking Ground
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued...
Who is an Indian?
Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries,...
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity...
Dilemmas of Difference
Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon...
Indian Given
Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces...
Beyond the Alamo
Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores...
Disinherited Generations
Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and their Descendants
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Two Cree women fought injustices regarding the rights of Aboriginal women and children in Canada.
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...