Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Indigenous in the City
Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for...
New Languages of the State
Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with...
Stickhandling through the Margins
First Nations Hockey in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Some of hockey’s fiercest and most passionate players and fans can be found among Canada's First Nations populations, including NHL greats Jordin Tootoo, Jonathan Cheechoo, and Gino Odjick. At first glance the importance of hockey to the country's Aboriginal peoples may seem to indicate assimilation...
Grounded Authority
The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Since Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015, Canada has been hailed internationally as embarking on a truly progressive, post-postcolonial era—including an improved relationship between the state and its Indigenous peoples. Shiri Pasternak corrects this misconception, showing that colonialism is very...
The Modern North
People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Published in 1989, The Modern North examines the experience of the peoples of the Yukon and Northwest Territories from the Berger inquiry of 1975 and onwards.
Untangling the varied strands that make up the Northern tapestry--its resourceful peoples, its awesome physical landscape, its political...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people. The colonizers’ intent was to homogenize these cultures and make all of them “Indian.” The creation of those new identities is the subject of...
On Decoloniality
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with...
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis
Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates...
Sôhkêyihta
The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Speaks specifically to Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Given the controversy surround cultural appropriation, Halfe provides a grounded, Cree-perspective into Canada's history of colonialism.
first collection of Louise Bernice Halfe's work
These poems explicitly address the violence of colonialism and the ongoing effects of residential schools on Indigenous peoples.
'Will the Circle be Unbroken?'
Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenges of Conflict and Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Embraced with zeal by a wide array of activists and policymakers, the restorative justice movement has made promises to reduce the disproportionate rates of Aboriginal involvement in crime and the criminal justice system and to offer a healing model suitable to Aboriginal communities. Such promises...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors...
Recognizing Aboriginal Title
The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius – a land of no one – when the white man arrived. The proceedings were known as the Mabo Case, named for Eddie Koiki Mabo, the...
Original People. Original Television.
The launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
"Original People: Original Television" is the behind -the-scenes account of a little known revolution in Canadian broadcasting - a journey that led from Nanook of the North in 1922 to the launch of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in 1999. A must-read for anyone interested in...
by Robert Conley
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2007
A Cherokee Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokees.
From A Cherokee Encyclopedia
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