Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Maps and Memes
Redrawing Culture, Place, and Identity in Indigenous Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Maps and cartography have long been used in the lands and resources offices of Canada's indigenous communities in support of land claims and traditional-use studies. Exploring alternative conceptualizations of maps and mapmaking, Maps and Memes theorizes the potentially creative and therapeutic uses...
Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep...
Looking for Lost Lore
Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach–perhaps multidisciplinary,...
Into the Daylight
A Wholistic Approach to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 1998
This book is an account of the personal and collective struggles of First Nations people and how the principles which held traditional societies together can be used today to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships by both aboriginals and non-aboriginals. Calvin Morrisseau provides in it...
Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer
Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup�ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup�ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from...
Histories of Race and Racism
The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous social movements in these countries have intensified debate about racism and drawn attention to the connections between present-day...
by John Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Law’s Indigenous Ethics examines the revitalization of Indigenous peoples’ relationship to their own laws and, in so doing, attempts to enrich Canadian constitutional law more generally. Organized around the seven Anishinaabe grandmother and grandfather teachings of love, truth, bravery, humility,...
Navigating Power
Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajo Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Interactions among individuals representing culturally dissimilar and politically unequal groups are a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe is concerned with how these interactions affect task coordination in organizational settings....
Performing Indigeneity
Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about...
Corps, cosmos et environnement chez les Nahuas de la Sierra Norte de Puebla
Une aventure en anthropologie
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Cet ouvrage est la synthèse de plus de trente ans de recherches au Mexique et le couronnement d’une longue collaboration entre l’anthropologue Pierre Beaucage et une organisation autochtone vouée à la réappropriation de la culture amérindienne, le Taller de Tradición Oral. Cet ouvrage rend...
Sœurs volées
Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2014
« La vulnérabilité appelle la vulnérabilité. La mort est en embuscade. L’aide sociale inadéquate et l’apathie médiatique renforcent cette hyperfragilité. Les femmes autochtones sont surreprésentées dans cette cohorte livide et silencieuse. Fétus de paille, brindilles, flocons de neige,...
Eagle Voice Remembers
An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
“[Eagle Voice Remembers] is John Neihardt’s mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. He served as a translator of the Sioux past, whose audience has proved not to be limited by space or time. Through his writings, Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and other old men who were of that...
by Daniel David Moses
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Almighty Voice and His Wife shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The “renegade Indian story” transforms into both an eloquent tale of tragic love and an often hilarious, fully theatrical exorcism of the hurts of history. A modern classic about the place of First Nations people in Canada.
We Are the Face of Oaxaca
Testimony and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and...