University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as...
Red Bird, Red Power
The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential—and controversial—American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice...
by James E. Seaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family...
by Roger L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This one-volume narrative history of American Indians in the United States traces the experiences of indigenous peoples from early colonial times to the present day, demonstrating how Indian existence has varied and changed throughout our nation’s history. Although popular opinion and standard histories...
Land Too Good for Indians
Northern Indian Removal
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories...
Loren Miller
Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions...
Sweet Freedom's Plains
African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring,...
Crazy Horse
A Lakota Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects...
Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation...
The Native American Renaissance
Literary Imagination and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko...
Imagined Frontiers
Contemporary America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture...
We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher
Recollections of a Cowpuncher
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart,...
Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive...
by John W. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from...