Native American Studies category: 1415 books
“Métis”
Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding.
According to Andersen,...
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Certain to become a standard reference in its field, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples.Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that...
by James D. Baker, Herbert Howell, Marie A. Cordero
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Baseball began in the New Mexico pueblos before 1900. The game was learned by watching soldiers and settlers and by playing in the Indian schools throughout the country. The first competition was with Albuquerque teams, mining teams, other pueblo teams, and the state penitentiary. Today, the game...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This volume offers new perspectives from Indigenous leaders in academic affairs, student affairs and central administration to improve colleges and universities in service to Indigenous students and professionals. It discusses and illustrates ways that leadership norms, values, assumptions and behaviors...
by Stanley Vestal
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Here is a story, in thinly disguised fictional form, of Plains Indians, especially a Cheyenne chief, Whirlwind—his manner of life, his beliefs, and particularly, his love of his son. The villain is a Mandan who is given refuge in the Cheyenne camp and then wreaks havoc with the lives of his hosts....
by Max Freedom Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
I believe that you need what most of us need at one time or another in our approach to Huna. This is something to keep the low self as well as the middle self thinking progressively along Huna lines day by day. It means absorbing the great truths, putting them gradually to work, so that they become...
The Creator’s Game
Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
A gift from the Creator – that is where it all began. The game of lacrosse has been a central element of many Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. Focusing on the...
Abenaki Daring
The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792–1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted...
Who Controls the Hunt?
First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As the nineteenth century ended, Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Tourists and sport hunters spent growing amounts of money in search of game, and the government began to extend its regulatory powers in this arena. Restrictions were imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring...
Beyond the Sea of Beer
History of Immigration of Bohemians and Czechs to the New World and Their Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This is a comprehensive history of immigrants from the historic lands of the Bohemian Crown and its successor states, including Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, based on the painstaking lifetime research of the author. The reader will find lots of new information in this book that is not available...
No Home in a Homeland
Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and proposes solutions by interweaving analysis of the region’s unique history with personal narratives...
by Cara Fabre
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction...
Journey to Healing
Aboriginal People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today’s generation of Aboriginal people carry. They...
Yakuglas' Legacy
The Art and Times of Charlie James
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Charlie James (1867–1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia. Also known by his ceremonial name Yakuglas, he was a prolific artist and activist during a period of severe oppression for First Nations people in Canada.
Yakuglas’ Legacy...