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Cowboy

by Ross Santee
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

“I always wanted to be a cow-puncher,” says Shorty Caraway. “As a little kid back on the farm in east Texas I couldn’t think of nothin’ else.” Shorty’s father took some persuading, but in the end he staked his fourteen-year-old son to a white pony, a second-hand saddle, and “forty...

Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies

Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present

by William C. Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009

For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural...

Indigenous Homelessness

Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...

Beyond Blood

Rethinking Indigenous Identity

by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011

The current Status criteria of the Indian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning...

Invisible Reality

Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet

by Rosalyn R. LaPier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award Rosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people’s relationship and mode of interaction with the “invisible reality” of the supernatural...

Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths

A Critical Inquiry

by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Using the tension between evolutionists and creationists in Kansas in the late 1990s as a focal point, Deloria takes Western science and religion to task, providing a critical assessment of the flaws and anomalies in each side's arguments.

The Heart of the Matter

Seeking the Center in Maya-Mam Language and Culture

by Wesley M. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016

Can a culture have a theme that unifies seemingly unrelated practices? In this volume, Collins suggests that Maya-Mam customs as different as constructing a house, staying healthy, seeking God, disciplining children, agreeing to a contract, or just speaking the language, all originate from the same...

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge

Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America

by Nancy Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways,...

We Interrupt This Program

Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture

by Miranda J. Brady, John M.H. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from Indigenous perspectives. Miranda Brady and John Kelly showcase the diversity of these interventions by offering...

Courage Tastes of Blood

The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001

by Daniel J. Walkowitz, Florencia E. Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005

Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across...

Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River

A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely...

Let's Move On, Paul Okalik Speaks Out

by Paul Okalik, Louis McComber
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

Paul Okalik was raised in Pangnirtung, a community that survived starvation, epidemics, eradication of its spiritual heritage, relocation, schooling in a foreign language, and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. He made the decision to improve the living conditions of his fellow Inuit....

Guía etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. Volumen I

Mai huna. Yagua. Ticuna

by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2014

La Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonia es un proyecto editorial de largo aliento que se propone publicar monografías etnográficas, ensayos comparativos y trabajos de arqueología referentes a diversas zonas y pueblos indígenas de las regiones amazónicas de Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia y Colombia....

Guía etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. Volumen II

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