Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Blood of Guatemala
A History of Race and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The...
'We Are Still Didene'
Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs.
Using naturally occurring, extended...
Yakama Rising
Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The Yakama Nation of present-day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grassroots activism and cultural revitalization. This pathbreaking ethnography shifts the conversation from one of victimhood to one of ongoing resistance and resilience...
Applied Anthropology in Canada
Understanding Aboriginal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2008
Anthropologists are often reluctant to present their work relating to matters of a broad social context to the wider public even though many have much to say about a range of contemporary issues. In this second edition of a classic work in the field, Edward J. Hedican takes stock of Anthroplogy's...
Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
A must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Aboriginal studies, Canadian history, and collaborative research and for anyone interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest.
A Quiet Evolution
The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous...
by Cheryl Suzack
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke.
Working within...
Restoring the Balance
First Nations Women, Community, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations...
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
WINNER OF:
Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson Prize
Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
The Iroquois Book of Rites, the most noteworthy of Hale's studies of the Iroquois, was translated and edited by him from two Indian manuscripts found at Grand River, with the help of informants and interpreters. The various parts of the Book of Rites throw valuable light on the political and social...
In Plain Sight
Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In compiling this collection of seven life stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the editors set out to create a space for the voices of women who are seldom heard on their own terms the words of people who are publicly visible yet who, due to the blur of preconceptions that surround the inner city, remain unseen.
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women
Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean...
Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between western...
Hunting Caribou
Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist...