Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by John Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country. However, longstanding disputes about the origins, legitimacy,...
by John H. Culp
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This 1960 novel by acclaimed author John H. Culp, author of Born of the Sun and The Restless Land, tells the tale of the heroic thirty-two men, guided by Texan political figure John W. Smith, who rode to the relief of the Alamo on March 1, 1836. At dawn on this day, Capt. Albert Martin, with 32 men...
by Melvin R. Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A classic of ethnobotany, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region has been enlarged for this Bison Book edition with thirty drawings, by Bellamy Parks Jansen, of plants discussed by Gilmore. The taxonomic glossary has been updated as well. Readers will find here, conveniently described,...
Pushmataha
A Choctaw Leader and His People
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Valuable, original, and difficult-to-find resources on Choctaw history and culture.
This important book comprises two articles that appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. In "Life of Apushimataha," Gideon Lincecum tells the story...
Recovering Canada
The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes. Indigenous law, however, has continuing relevance for both Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. In his in-depth examination of the continued existence and application...
Arctic Promise
Legal and Political Autonomy of Greenland and Nunavut
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
In Canada's Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over their lives without fear of being outnumbered by...
Making a Living
Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Until recently, most residents of Puvirnituq, an Inuit settlement in Northern Quebec, made their living off the land. Successful hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering, so vital to people’s survival, were underpinned by the expectation that food should be shared. As the Inuit moved into – both...
Let The Coyotes Howl
A Story of Philmont Scout Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1946, “this day-by-day narrative of events on a scout expedition will interest every ex-scout by reviving memories of his own experiences and his fondest daydreams. The contemporary scout will find it fascinating as proof that his own hopes are not beyond realization. That the...
by Gregory D. Smithers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the...
by Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award in Mexico for Best Research Work in Anthropology
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion,...
First Nations, First Thoughts
The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Countless books and articles have traced the impact of colonialism and public policy on Canada's First Nations, but few have explored the impact of Aboriginal thought on public discourse and policy development in Canada. First Nations, First Thoughts brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars...
On Being Here to Stay
Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
What, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada’s assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country’s vast territory? Why should Canada’s original inhabitants have to ask for rights to what was their land when non-Aboriginal people first arrived? The question lurks behind every...
Like the Sound of a Drum
Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and Aboriginal politicians, and participated in daily life. In Like the Sound...