Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum
Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
From improved critical thinking to increased self-esteem and school retention, teachers and students have noted many benefits to bringing Aboriginal viewpoints into public school classrooms. In Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum, Yatta Kanu provides the first comprehensive...
Carrington
A Novel of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
EIGHTY-ONE MEN under the command of Lt.-Col. W. J. Fetterman were ambushed by the Sioux in northern Wyoming on December 21, 1866. Not one survived to tell their story. Old army records prove that Fetterman, a Civil War hero, was acting in defiance of explicit orders, given by his commanding officer,...
Negotiating the Deal
Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada. Since 1973, groups that have never signed treaties with the...
Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century...
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq
A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of this...
Crazy Horse
The Invincible Ogalalla Sioux Chief
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1949, this book is a gripping collection of reminiscences on the death of the great Indian chief, Crazy Horse, by the military men who were present on that fateful day on September 5, 1877 at old Fort Robinson, Nebraska: Jesse M. Lee , V. T. McGillycuddy, H. R. Lemly, and George...
by Tom Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system showing that customary rights are insecure certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation and leases are temporary. As well analysis of legislation...
High Stakes
Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming had surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created...
Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence...
For King and Kanata
Canadian Indians and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front.When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s First Nations pledged their men and money to the Crown to honour their long-standing tradition of forming...
Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate...
Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path
Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Trail of Story examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson’s rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en of northwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dene of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich’in of the Mackenzie Delta.With...
Faces of the North
The Ethnographic Photography of John Honigmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic...
Trickster
An Anthropological Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown—Youngstown, Ohio—to study an "exotic" group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada. This is 1964; she'll be "the expert," and they'll be "the subjects." The Paiute elders have other ideas. They'll be "the...