Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Elliot Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The charm of Elliot Paul’s storytelling is that nowhere does he allow relevancy to cloud the brilliance of his art. Mr. Paul seeks to pleasure you. Like a skilful skater on a frozen pond he cuts intricate figures on memory’s gleaming surface. If, here and there, the ice is thin he chances it rather...
An Intimate Wilderness
Arctic Voices in a Land of Vast Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
An unforgettable and beautifully illustrated memoir of one man’s journeys in the eastern Arctic over 50 years, and a revealing look into the world of the Inuit.
Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally...
by Alberto Miramón
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
El abogado y escritor colombiano Alberto Mi-ramón escribió un relato historiográfico del Libertador Simón Bolívar, contextualizado en dos Volúmenes, titulados La Forja del Héroe identificado con el número 1 y el Prometeo Criollo con el número 2.
En este texto presentamos el Volumen...
by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an...
Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree girl named by George Stroumboulopoulos as one of "five teenage girls in history...
Spirit Builders
Charles Catto, Frontiers Foundation and the Struggle to End Indigenous Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The inspiring story of how one organization has tried to alleviate the struggles faced by First Nations peoples in Canada by building houses and developing livable communities for those in desperate need.
The people who were living here on Turtle Island (North America) before us have been pushed...
From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation
A Road Map for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This accessible book will be of interest to scholars, politicians, students, Aboriginal leaders, government officials, business people, media commentators, and all Canadians who care about the future of their country.
by John Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
"Weinstein has given us a beautiful history of the M?tis nationà.Quiet Revolution West is a vivid tale of constant struggle and sacrifice. It is a gripping account of political intrigue and brinksmanship that will raise eyebrows in many quarters."-- From the Foreword by the Right Honourable...
Rollercoaster
My Hectic Years as Jean Chretien's Diplomatic Advisor, 1994-1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
For four years, James Bartleman mixed with all the biggest names – Clinton, Blair, Yeltsin, Mitterrand, Castro, Kohl, Chirac, and on and on, as Chrétien’s Henry Kissinger figure.
He was involved in deadly serious crisis management, accompanying Chrétien to all the world’s hot spots...
Indigenous Intellectuals
Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars...
Where the River Ends
Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village...
by Arvis Locklear Boughman, Loretta O. Oxendine
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
“There’s nothing happens to a person that can’t be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there’s something in the earth to cure everything … I don’t fix a tonic until I’m sure what’s wrong with a person. I don’t make guesses. I have to be sure, because...
Creek Country
The Creek Indians and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound...
Just Ask Us
A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children.
For First Nations in particular, the issue has become critical. Aboriginal girls...