Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
MO - University of Illinois Press Ohiyesa Charles Eastman Santee Sioux
Book SynopsisCharles Eastman, or 'Ohiyesa' in Santee, came of age during a period of increasing tension and violence between Native and 'new' Americans. Raised to become a hunter-warrior, he was nevertheless persuaded by his Christianized father to enter the alien world of white society.
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The University of Michigan Press Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Book SynopsisProvides an in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya. McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and violence.
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Rlpg/Galleys Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
Book SynopsisRiley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between western regimes of intellectual property rights and the requirements for safeguarding indigenous cultural resources. The manuscript gets beyond these negative claims in depicting positive efforts at protecting indigenous knowledge and cultures, notwithstanding these legal limitations. The reader is exposed to a wide array of legal, political, organizational, and contractual strategies deployed by indigenous groups to protect their intellectual property interests. It will be an important resource for social scientists, advocates for indigenous and human rights, bioprospecting, indigenous leaders, NGOs and law libraries.Trade ReviewThis kaleidoscopic collection explores legal strategies for defending the artistic and technological creations of indigenous peoples from misuse by outsiders. Each chapter illuminates a different facet of the problem. Together they offer fresh and urgently needed insight into one of the most vexing human-rights problems of the digital age. A superb addition to the required reading list of courses on globalization, intellectual property, and indigenous rights. -- Michael F. Brown, Williams College, author of Who Owns Native Culture?This book covers much of the enormous range of concerns Native peoples have today about appropriation and alienation of their cultural property and rights. . . . A good source for surveying the breadth of the IPR discourse today. -- Tom Greaves, Bucknell UniversityThe Convention on Biological Diversity is now ten years old, and more than a dozen years have passed since Darrell Posey called our attention to the possibility of intellectual property as a tool to benefit indigenous people. In this short time, indigenous people, governments, international agencies, conservationists, and human rights activists have explored different means to achieve the CBD's goal of recognizing the contributions of indigenous people to understanding, utilizing, and conserving biological diversity. We have expanded our search for equitable and effective means to protect a range of traditional knowledge. Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights reflects the broadening and maturing of scholarship about issues surrounding the protection of indigenous knowledge. Although medicinal and other plant knowledge remains central, this book shows that many more types of knowledge are now considered. Most importantly, the essays in Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights provide excellentexamples of how anthropologists and other scholars and activists have confronted the obstacles to such an ambitious agenda. As the world increasingly turns to legal mechanisms to protect people who have been marginalized and exploited for so long, this b -- Stephen B. Brush, University of California, DavisEach chapter demystifies indigenous intellectual property rights and explains why existing laws (attached to Western concepts and contructs) do not legally protect them. More importantly, the authors present actual cases that were resolved with respect to indigenous rights and consideration of their cultural values, beliefs and tradition...There are sufficient examples to assist in finding answers and defining solutions for a wide range of important concerns. * Muse *Dr. Mary Riley has edited an extremely timely and indispensable book for understanding the myriad issues impinging upon indigenous intellectual property rights. The legal protection of these intellectual achievements and the ability to control their dissemination by indigenous communities is a problem facing the world's legal and intellectual communities. In a world with a global economy and where local borders are ignored, indigenous property rights are constantly violated and exploited. The challenge is guidance from creative solutions and innovative programs to involve the people whose prior control is ignored. This thoughtful volume is a wonderful textbook for anthropology, business, and legal courses to enable students to propose solutions to local problems that defy easy answers for preserving indigenous knowledge and protecting economic interests of powerless communities. -- Richard I. Ford, University of MichiganThe Convention on Biological Diversity is now ten years old, and more than a dozen years have passed since Darrell Posey called our attention to the possibility of intellectual property as a tool to benefit indigenous people. In this short time, indigenous people, governments, international agencies, conservationists, and human rights activists have explored different means to achieve the CBD's goal of recognizing the contributions of indigenous people to understanding, utilizing, and conserving biological diversity. We have expanded our search for equitable and effective means to protect a range of traditional knowledge. Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights reflects the broadening and maturing of scholarship about issues surrounding the protection of indigenous knowledge. Although medicinal and other plant knowledge remains central, this book shows that many more types of knowledge are now considered. Most importantly, the essays in Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights provide excellent examples of how anthropologists and other scholars and activists have confronted the obstacles to such an ambitious agenda. As the world increasingly turns to legal mechanisms to protect people who have been marginalized and exploited for so long, this book will stand as a milestone and beacon. -- Stephen B. Brush, University of California, DavisTable of Contents1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 3 PART I: LEGAL OBSTACLES 4 CHAPTER 1: "As Long As the Grass Grows": Representing Indigenous Claims 5 CHAPTER 2: Digital Vibes and Radio Waves in Indigenous Peru 6 CHAPTER 3: Intellectual Property Protection and the Market for Alaska Native Arts and Crafts 7 CHAPTER 4: The Amerindian Rights Movement in Guyana and Its Influence 8 PART II: DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS 9 CHAPTER 5: Land, Tenure Systems, and Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights 10 CHAPTER 6: Benefit-Sharing Under the Convention on Biological Diversity 11 CHAPTER 7: Ownership of Indigenous Languages: A case study from Guatemala 12 PART III: ACCESS AND CONTROL 13 CHAPTER 8: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights and Responsibilities 14 CHAPTER 9: Biocolonialism and Isolates of Historic Interest 15 CHAPTER 10: Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Plant Resources of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation 16 CHAPTER 11: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Archaeology 17 CHAPTER 12: Prior Informed Consent and Bioprospecting Research in Chiapas 18 Index 19 About the Authors
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John Wiley & Sons Canadas Residential Schools Missing Children a
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These volumes contain a tremendous amount of information and data. Of special interest are the first-person accounts and the black-and-white photographs taken at the various schools. Anyone interested in Canadian history and the history of Native peoples will be intrigued by these publications, which are sure to be eye-opening." - Library Journal
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John Wiley & Sons From Wounded Knee to the Gallows The Life and
Book SynopsisOn December 28, 1894 Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. On the gallows, Two Sticks declared, “My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy.” The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in detail in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota.
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John Wiley & Sons Culturally Sustaining Policymaking in Indigenous
Book SynopsisDiscover how top-down, policy-into-practice educational mandates have adversely affected indigenous communities in the United States’ midwestern core. The author scrutinizes how leaders and intermediaries in Nebraska conceptualized and implemented school accountability policy in Indian country.Table of Contents Contents (Tentative)Series Foreword: James A. Banks Foreword: Teresa McCarty Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Democracy and School Reform Grounding Terminology and Conceptual Framing School Policy Reform in Indian Country Methodology and Positionality Overview of Chapters1. So What? Lessons Learned and Why They Matter Accountability: What Came Before No Child Left Behind NCLB Limbo The Role of State Departments of Education Spatial Tactics as Resistance2. Welcome to Flyover Country Accountability and Nebraska's AQuESTT The Nebraska Way A Nebraska Way of Education Governance The Nation's Only Unicameral A Brief History of Schooling and Governance in Nebraska Policy Landscape and Key Figures The Shifting Roles of NDE3. A Broader Story Than the Village of Santee Early Interactions with Colonizers A Dakota Education "Big Knives" and the "Physical and Moral Degradation" of Reservation Life School as a Policy Tool Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Self-Education Agency, Survivance, and Schooling What's a "Good" Education? Culturally Sustaining and Responsive Pedagogy Culturally Sustaining/Revitalizing Education Policymaking4. More Policy Crafted on the Legislative Floor The Introduction of LB438 Public Hearing: A Better Way to "Fix" Schools LB438 and the Second Session of Nebraska's 103rd Legislature LB438 Becomes Law5. Nebraska's AQuESTT: Bolder, Broader, Better The SBOE Hires a New Commissioner of Education From Vision to Plans on Paper Codifying AQuESTT Sketching out AQuESTT's Implementation Bolder, Broader, Better The First AQuESTT Classification and Designation6. Run by Outsiders Initial Thoughts About Improvement in Santee A Diagnostic Review State Plan Development Priority Schools: Developing Progress Plans Progress Plan Approval and Initial Implementation7. Compliance, Kind Of Reporting First Year Progress Continued Compliance, Kind of . . . and Incognito Improvement Efforts Incognito Improvement Acts Endure8. Wait, What Just Happened? The "Consultocracy" Sovereignty and Who Gets to Define Educational Quality Everyday Tactics and Incognito Acts of Improvement The Decolonizing Work of Culturally Sustaining Policymaking ConclusionAfterword A Final Trip to Santee The iSanti Ozuyapi at StateReferences Index About the Author
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University of Arizona Press From Enron to Evo Pipeline Politics Global
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University of Arizona Press Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia
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University of Arizona Press The Sovereign Street Making Revolution in Urban
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University of Arizona Press Tewa Worlds An Archaeological History of Being
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University of Arizona Press Visions of Transformation
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University of Arizona Press Nahua Horizons
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The University of Alabama Press Pushmataha A Choctaw Leader and His People
Book SynopsisThis work comprises two articles that appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society - Life of Apushimataha, in which Gideon Lincecum tells the story of Choctaw chief Pushmataha, a warrior born in 1764, and Choctaw Traditions about Their Settlement in Mississippi and the Origin of Their Mounds.Trade ReviewPushmataha was a Warrior of Great Distinction. He was wise in Council; Eloquent in an extraordinary degree, On all occasions the white man's friend, and under all circumstances. - Grave inscription
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University of Alabama Press The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, the author offers accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened under the Virginia's Racial Integrity Law.Trade ReviewRosemary Whitlock's book will help to tell the history of the Monacan people. The stories told to her will live on and will keep the history alive for generations to come. Thank you for recording our lives as Monacan people. - Chief Kenneth W. Branham, Monacan Indian Nation
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The University of Alabama Press Pox Empire Shackles and Hides The Townsend Site
Book SynopsisThe late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. This volume examines issues of culture contact and social identity by exploring how this chaotic period played out in the daily lives of Cherokee households, especially those excavated at the Townsend site in eastern Tennessee.
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The University of Alabama Press Aggression and Sufferings
Book SynopsisReassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories.Trade Review“The author details how violent encounters with Indians—and consistently one-sided white interpretations of these events—helped fuel Southern white identity and facilitate Indian Removal. Further, Nooe ‘connects the dots’ of white Southern attitudes about race, citizenship, and land rights. Why are some Americans so attached to Confederate iconography? Nooe demonstrates that the emotional/psychological connection began long before 1865. Aggression and Sufferings skillfully weaves all of these themes together."—Robert M. Owens, author of “Indian Wars” and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842
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Michigan State University Press Lies to Live by
Book SynopsisLies to Live By, a series of interdependent tales, reflects the storyteller's role in interpreting traditional stories for contemporary audiences, while preserving traditions based not in mysticism but in pragmatism.
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Michigan State University Press Minong The Good Place Ojibwe and Isle Royale
Book SynopsisMinong (the Ojibwe name for Isle Royale) is the search for the history of the Ojibwe people's relationship with this unique island in the midst of Lake Superior. This book presents an account of Ojibwe activities on Minong - and their slow waning in the latter third of the nineteenth century.
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Michigan State University Press nationalmonuments
Book SynopsisFeatures poems that explore bodies, particularly the bodies of indigenous women worldwide, as monuments - in life, in photos, in graves, in traveling exhibitions, and in plastic representations at the airport.
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Michigan State University Press Plain of Jars And Other Stories American Indian
Book SynopsisWith pitch perfect dialogue and a sense of the unexpected, Plain of Jars tests the depths of complex lives.
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Michigan State University Press Visualities Perspectives on Contemporary American
Book SynopsisIn recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film, video, and art; what role these practices play in cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work.
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Exactly What I Said Translating Words and Worlds
Book SynopsisYou don't have to use the exact same words. But it has to mean exactly what I said."" Thus began the ten-year collaboration between Innu elder and activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue and Memorial University professor Elizabeth Yeoman. Exactly What I Said reflects on that collaboration and what Yeoman learned from it.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Mapping Chapter 2: Walking Chapter 3: Stories Chapter 4: Looking Chapter 5: Signs Chapter 6: Literacies Chapter 7: Listening Chapter 8: Songs Chapter 9: Wilderness
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Green Writers Press Paddling with Spirits A Solo Kayak Journey
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Personal Persistence Identity Development and
Book SynopsisThis Monograph demonstrates that disruptions to young people's developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence begin to explain the suicide rates among Aboriginal Canadian and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.Table of ContentsPart I: Contents:. Abstract. 1. Introduction. 2. The Antimony of Sameness and Change. 3. On Self-Continuity and its Developmental Vicissitudes-What Young People Have to Say about the Paradox of Sameness and Change. 4. Self-Continuity and Youth Suicide. 5. From Self-Continuity to Cultural Continuity-Aboriginal Youth Suicide. 6. Culture as a Set Point in the Choice between Narrativist and Essentialist Self-Continuity Warranting Practices. 7. Conclusions. 8. Appendix: Sample Questions from the Personal Persistence Interview. Part II: Commentary:. 9. Treading Fearlessly: A Commentary on Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide: James E. Marcia (Simon Fraser University). Contributors. Statement of Editorial Policy
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Temple University Press,U.S. Contemporary Social Constructionism
Book SynopsisIn Contemporary Social Constructionism, Darin Weinberg provides a detailed, critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. Weinberg traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences. Contemporary Social Constructionism illuminates how constructionist social science developed in relation to positivism, critical and hermeneutic philosophy, and feminism and then goes on to distinguish the concept from postmodernism and deconstructionism. In addition, Weinberg shows how social constructionists have contributed to our understanding of biology, the body, self-knowledge, and social problems. The result is a contemporary statement of social constructionism that shores up its scientific veracity and demonstrates its analytic power, promise, and influence. The book concludes with a look toward the futurTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 What is Social Constructionism? 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Social Constructionism 3 Social Constructionism Contra Deconstructionism and Postmodernism 4 Social Constructionism and the Body 5 The Social Construction of Self-Knowledge 6 The Social Construction of Social Problems 7 The Way Forward for Social Constructionism Notes References Index
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McFarland & Co Inc The New New Zealand
Book Synopsis Today''s New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations. Although the nation''s Maori (indigenous Polynesian) and Pakeha (colonial European) populations of the 19th century were dramatically different and often at odds, they are today co-contributors to a vibrant society. For more than a century they have been working out the kind of nation that engenders respect and well-being; and their interaction, though often riddled with confrontation, is finally bearing bicultural fruit. By their model, the encounter of diverse cultures does not require the surrender of one to the other; rather, it entails each expanding its own cultural categories in the light of the other. The time is ripe to explore modern New Zealand''s cultural dynamics for what we can learn about getting along. The present anthropological work focuses on religion and related symbols, forms of reciprocity, the operation of power and the concept of culture in modern New Zealand society.<
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University of Toronto Press Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
Book SynopsisAuthor J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indigenous peoples are resisting displacement and marginalization.Trade Review"If we learn anything from history it will be because of histories like Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens, which help put into perspective what Buffy Ste. Marie sings about as the ‘bitter past’ and give to Indian-white relations a sense of hope." -- M.T. Kelly * Globe and Mail *"Drawing on recent scholarship, [Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens] is both broad and even-handed, covering developments in the Indigenous-settler relationship as it headed into the twenty-first century…." -- Susan Neylan, Wilfred Laurier University * The Canadian Historical Review, Vol 100 1, March ‘19 *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition Note on Terminology Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the First Edition INTRODUCTION 1 Indigenous Peoples and Europeans at the Time of Contact PART ONE: COOPERATION 2 Early Contacts in the Eastern Woodlands 3 Commercial Partnership and Mutual Benefit 4 Military Allies through a Century of Warfare PART TWO: COERCION 5 From Alliance to "Irrelevance" 6 Reserves, Residential Schools, and the Threat of Assimilation 7 The Commercial Frontier on the Western Plains 8 Contact, Commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific 9 Resistance in Red River and the Numbered Treaties: "Bounty and Benevolence" 10 The North-West Rebellion 11 The Policy of the Bible and the Plough 12 Residents and Transients in the North: Relations to the 1960s PART THREE: CONFRONTATION 13 The Beginnings of Political Organization 14 Land Claims and Self-Government from the White Paper to Guerin 15 Meech, Oka, Charlottetown, Nass, and Ottawa: Relations 1986-2000 PART FOUR: RECONCILIATION? 16 Relations in the Twenty-First Century 17 Do We Learn Anything from History? Notes Select Bibliography Illustration Credits Index Maps First Nations of Canada First Nations of northeastern North America at contact Iroquoia (showing height of land) The Ohio and Illinois Country, 1754 French possessions in North America, 1750 Effect of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 Location of western nations, 1821 First Nations of British Columbia The numbered treaties, 1871–1921 North-West Rebellion, 1885
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University of Toronto Press Blackfoot Grammar
Book SynopsisBlackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes Third Edition, provides description and analyses of the major features of Blackfoot grammar and language structures.Trade Review'It compiles a wealth of information in a single volume, which, together with the previously published dictionary, is a welcome addition to the field.' -- Canadian Journal of Linguistics 'Frantz has addressed all of the important aspects of Blackfoot structure and in a way that is accessible to people who need or want to know about the language. His study is concise, clear, and largely accurate ... an outstanding addition to the growing corpus of descriptions of Algonquian languages.' -- American Indian Culture and Research Journal '... this work, which greatly increases the amount of readily available lexical material, is most welcome on both scientific and cultural grounds.' -- Language and LinguisticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface to the Third Edition Chapter 1 The Blackfoot Alphabet Chapter 2 Some Basics of Noun Inflection Chapter 3 Intransitive Verbs Chapter 4 More on Intransitive Verbs Chapter 5 Some Phonological Rules Chapter 6 Tense and Aspect Chapter 7 Four Verb Stem Types Chapter 8 Transitive Inanimate Verbs Chapter 9 Attached Pronouns Chapter 10 Transitive Animate, Part 1: Direct Chapter 11 Transitive Animate, Part 2: Inverse Chapter 12 Transitive Animate, Part 3 Chapter 13 Demonstratives Chapter 14 Possessives Chapter 15 Allomorphy Chapter 16 Complex Verb Stems, Part 1 Chapter 17 Complex Verb Stems, Part 2: Finals Chapter 18 Some Concrete Finals Chapter 19 Other Verb Paradigms Chapter 20 Nominalizations Chapter 21 Questions Chapter 22 Complement Clause Types Chapter 23 Translating from English to Blackfoot Chapter 24 Numbers and Enumeration Appendix A Verb Paradigms Appendix B Phonological Rules Appendix C The Sounds of Blackfoot Appendix D Design of the Blackfoot Alphabet Appendix E Ikasskini: Analyzed Blackfoot Text References Index
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated Mythology, Spirituality, and History
Book Synopsis The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of thesoutheastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. Following the Arakmbuts' recommendation, the author uses their three greatest myths to introduce social, cultural and historical aspects of their lives. He ends with a discussion of the relationship between myth and history showing how the Arakmbut recreate their myths at the dramatic moments of their history. Buy all three volumes for 20% discountTrade Review "... splendid and innovative ethnography ... highly topical, well written, intellectually highly interesting, and often avant-garde ... sophisticated and honest discussions ..." · Joanna Overing, London School of EconomicsTable of Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps General Preface Preface Introduction: The Harakmbut PART I Preface: Myth and Relativity Chapter 1. Death and Salvation: The Story of Wanamey Chapter 2. Gender: Social and Cosmological Exchange Chapter 3. Time through Space: House and Community Chapter 4. Descent of Man and Exchange of Women PART II Preface: Nature and Potentiality Chapter 5. The Defeat of Death: The Story of Marinke Chapter 6. Keeping Body and Soul Together Chapter 7. Sickness and Death Chapter 8. Being Invisible: The Spirits PART III Preface: History and Creativity Chapter 9. Aiwe and the Papa Chapter 10. The Great War - The Rubber Boom Chapter 11. Christian Invasion Chapter 12. The Arakmbut Community and the Gold Rush Conclusion Orthography Glossary of main Arakmbut Words used in Text Bibliography Index
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Michigan State University Press Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the
Book SynopsisFor the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing along a broad narrative spectrum, from aadizookaanag (traditional or sacred narratives) to dibaajimowinan (histories and news) - as well as everything in between - storytelling is one of the central practices and methods of individual and community existence. Stories create and understand, survive and endure, revitalize and persist. They honour the past, recognise the present, and provide visions of the future.In remembering, (re)making, and (re)writing stories, Anishinaabeg storytellers have forged a well-travelled path of agency, resistance, and resurgence. Respecting this tradition, this groundbreaking anthology features twenty-four contributors who utilise creative and critical approaches to propose that this people’s stories carry dynamic answers to questions posed within Anishinaabeg communities, nations, and the world at large. Examining a range of stories and storytellers across time and space, each contributor explores how narratives form a cultural, political, and historical foundation for Anishinaabeg Studies.Written by Anishinaabeg and non-Anishinaabeg scholars, storytellers, and activists, these essays draw upon the power of cultural expression to illustrate active and ongoing senses of Anishinaabeg life. They are new and dynamic bagijiganan, revealing a viable and sustainable centre for Anishinaabeg Studies, what it has been, what it is, what it can be.
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Michigan State University Press Follow the Blackbirds
Book SynopsisIn language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the affection and appreciation a contemporary poet feels for her family, community, and environment. With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words. In this moving collection, Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective, one that connects the painful past and the hard-fought future of her Dakota homeland. Grounded in vivid story and memory, Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with “more than history.” An intense homage to the power of place, this book tells a masterful story of cultural survival and the power of language.
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Michigan State University Press Ottawa Stories from the Springs: Anishinaabe
Book SynopsisSometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James McClurken of Michigan State University.These rich tales, recorded by Anishinaabe people in the Harbor Springs area of Michigan, draw on the legends, fables, trickster stories, parables, and humor of Anishinaabe culture. Reaching back to the distant past but also delving into more recent events, this book contains a broad swath of the history of the Ojibwe/Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomi, Algonkian, Abenaki, Saulteau, Mashkiigowok/Cree, and other groups that make up the broad range of the Anishinaabe-speaking peoples.Provided here are original stories transcribed from Anishinaabe-language recordings alongside Howard Webkamigad’s English translations. These stories not only provide a textured portrait of a complex people but also will help Anishinaabe-language learners see patterns in the language and get a sense of how it flows. Featuring side-by-side Anishinaabe/English translations.
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Michigan State University Press The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701
Book SynopsisDrawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed and sustained it, Jon Parmenter challenges the persistent association between Iroquois 'locality' and Iroquois 'culture,' and more fully maps the extended terrain of physical presence and social activity that Iroquois people inhabited.Studying patterns of movement through and between the multiple localities in Iroquois space, the book offers a new understanding of Iroquois peoplehood during this period. According to Parmenter, Iroquois identities adapted, and even strengthened, as the very shape of Iroquois homelands changed dramatically during the seventeenth century.
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Michigan State University Press Mediating Indianness
Book SynopsisMediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media - including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric - that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images.The contributors to this collection are (Native) American and European scholars whose initial findings were presented or performed in a four-panel format at the 2012 MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) conference in Barcelona. The selection of the term Indianness is deliberate. It points to the intricate construction of ethnicity as filtered through media, despite frequent assertions of “authenticity”. From William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s claim, extravagantly advertised on both sides of the Atlantic, that he was staging “true-to-life” scenes from Indian life in his Wild West shows to contemporary Native hip-hop artist Quese IMC’s announcement that his songs tell his people’s “own history” and draw on their “true” culture, media of all types has served to promote disparate agendas claiming legitimacy.This volume does not shy away from the issue of evaluation and how it is only tangential to medial artificiality. As evidenced in this collection, “the vibrant, ever-transforming future of Native peoples is located within a complex intersection of cultural influences”, said Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness.
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Michigan State University Press Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and
Book SynopsisDespite the central role blood quantum played in political formations of American Indian identity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few studies that explore how tribal nations have contended with this transformation of tribal citizenship.Those Who Belong explores how White Earth Anishinaabeg understood identity and blood quantum in the early twentieth century, how it was employed and manipulated by the U.S. government, how it came to be the sole requirement for tribal citizenship in 1961, and how a contemporary effort for constitutional reform sought a return to citizenship criteria rooted in Anishinaabe kinship, replacing the blood quantum criteria with lineal descent.Those Who Belong illustrates the ways in which Anishinaabeg of White Earth negotiated multifaceted identities, both before and after the introduction of blood quantum as a marker of identity and as the sole requirement for tribal citizenship.Doerfler’s research reveals that Anishinaabe leaders resisted blood quantum as a tribal citizenship requirement for decades before acquiescing to federal pressure. Constitutional reform efforts in the twenty-first century brought new life to this longstanding debate and led to the adoption of a new constitution, which requires lineal descent for citizenship.
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Michigan State University Press Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
Book SynopsisThe Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians has been a part of Chicago since its founding. In very public expressions of indigeneity, they have refused to hide in plain sight or assimilate. Instead, throughout the city’s history, the Pokagon Potawatomi Indians have openly and aggressively expressed their refusal to be marginalized or forgotten—and in doing so, they have contributed to the fabric and history of the city.Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago examines the ways some Pokagon Potawatomi tribal members have maintained a distinct Native identity, their rejection of assimilation into the mainstream, and their desire for inclusion in the larger contemporary society without forfeiting their “Indianness”.Mindful that contact is never a one-way street, Low also examines the ways in which experiences in Chicago have influenced the Pokagon Potawatomi. Imprints continues the recent scholarship on the urban Indian experience before as well as after World War II.
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Michigan State University Press Indian Country: Telling a Story in a Digital Age
Book SynopsisStorytelling has always been an important part of Native culture. Stories play a part in everyday Native life - they are often oral and rich in detail and language and serve as a form of recording history. Digital media now allow for the extension of this storytelling.This necessary text evaluates how digital media are changing the rich cultural act of storytelling within Native communities, with a specific focus on Native newsroom norms and routines.The authors argue that the non-Native press often leave consumers with a stereotypical view of American Indians, and aim to give a more authentic representation to Native journalism. With interviews from more than forty Native journalists around the country, this book is essential to understanding how digital media possibly advances the distribution of storytelling within the American Indian community.
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Michigan State University Press Papers of the Forty-Sixth Algonquian Conference
Book SynopsisPapers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, education, ethnography, history, Indigenous studies, language studies, literature, music, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Contributors often cite never-before-published data in their research, giving the reader a fresh and unique insight into the Algonquian peoples and rendering these papers essential reading for those interested in studying Algonquian society.
£68.63
Michigan State University Press Papers of the Forty-Seventh Algonquian Conference
Book SynopsisPapers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, education, ethnography, history, Indigenous studies, language studies, literature, music, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Contributors often cite never-before-published data in their research, giving the reader a fresh and unique insight into the Algonquian peoples and rendering these papers essential reading for those interested in studying Algonquian society.
£68.63
Michigan State University Press Visualities 2: More Perspectives on Contemporary
Book SynopsisEchoing and expanding the aims of the first volume, Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art, this second volume contains illuminating global Indigenous visualities concerning First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, Maori, and Sami peoples.This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Indigenous film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities Two draws on American Indian studies, film studies, art history, cultural studies, visual culture studies, women’s studies, and postcolonial studies.Among the artists and media makers examined are Tasha Hubbard, Rachel Perkins, and Ehren “Bear Witness” Thomas, as well as contemporary Inuit artists and Indigenous agents of cultural production working to reimagine digital and social platforms. Films analyzed include The Exiles, Winter in the Blood, The Spirit of Annie Mae, Radiance, One Night the Moon, Bran Nue Dae, Ngati, Shimásání, and Sami Blood.
£47.00
Michigan State University Press Papers of the Forty-Ninth Algonquian Conference
Book SynopsisPapers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarship from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, education, ethnography, history, Indigenous studies, language studies, literature, music, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Contributors often cite never-before-published data in their research, giving the reader a fresh and unique insight into the Algonquian peoples and rendering these papers essential reading for those interested in studying Algonquian society.
£68.63
Michigan State University Press Detroit's Hidden Channels: The Power of
Book SynopsisFrench-Indigenous families were a central force in shaping Detroit’s history. Detroit’s Hidden Channels examines the role of these kinship networks in Detroit’s development as a site of singular political and economic importance in the continental interior.Situated where Anishinaabe, Wendat, Myaamia, and later French communities were established and where the system of waterways linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico narrowed, Detroit’s location was its primary attribute. While the French state viewed Detroit as a decaying site of illegal activities, the influence of the French-Indigenous networks grew as members diverted imperial resources to bolster an alternative configuration of power relations that crossed Indigenous and Euro-American nations. Women furthered commerce by navigating a multitude of gender norms of their nations, allowing them to defy the state that sought to control them by holding them to European ideals of womanhood.By the mid-eighteenth century, French-Indigenous families had become so powerful, incoming British traders and imperial officials courted their favor. These families would maintain that power as the British imperial presence splintered on the eve of the American Revolution.
£77.90
UNSW Press Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History
Book SynopsisThe history of Aborigines in Van Diemen’s Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation and against almost insurmountable odds for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. This broad-ranging book is a comprehensive and critical account of that epic survival up to the present day.Starting from antiquity, the book examines the devastating arrival of Europeans and subsequent colonisation, warfare and exile. It emphasises the regionalism and separateness, a consistent feature of Aboriginal life since time immemorial. Carefully researched using extensive archaeological and documentary evidence, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history.
£20.66
NewSouth Publishing Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war,
Book SynopsisAfter decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman and Alison Cadzow and others reveal the courage, resilience and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.
£20.66
NewSouth Publishing This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
Book Synopsis‘How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?’ Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous people. His now-classic book This Whispering in Our Hearts constructed an alternative history of Australia through the eyes of those who felt disquiet and disgust at the brutality of dispossession. These men and women fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites. The unease of these humanitarians about the morality of white settlement has not dissipated and their legacy informs current debates about reconciliation between black and white Australia. Revisiting this history, in this new edition Reynolds brings fresh perspectives to issues we grapple with still. Those who argue for justice, reparation, recognition and a treaty will find themselves in solidarity with those who went before. But this powerful book shows how much remains to be done to settle the whispering in our hearts. An updated edition of a classic text, now includes reflections on native title, the apology, international conventions, reparations, recognition and the treaty.Trade Review"No other historian can match Henry Reynolds’ impact on Australians’ understanding of their frontier history and its troubled inheritance." —Mark McKenna
£18.86
UNSW Press True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and
Book SynopsisIndigenous cultures are not terra nullius – nobody's land, free to be taken.True Tracks is a ground-breaking work that paves the way for the respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous cultures. Using real-world cases and personal stories, award-winning Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on twenty years of professional experience and personal stories to inform and inspire leaders across many industries – from art and architecture, to film and publishing, dance, science and tourism.How will your project affect and involve Indigenous communities? What Indigenous materials and knowledge are you using? Who owns Indigenous languages?True Tracks helps answer these questions and many more, and provides invaluable guidelines that enable Indigenous peoples to actively practise, manage and strengthen their cultural life, keeping tracks into the future to empower the next generations.If we keep our tracks true, Indigenous culture and knowledge can benefit everyone.
£25.16
UNSW Press Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru
Book SynopsisWe leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the constitution and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth.What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved?Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, written by Megan Davis and George Williams, two of Australia's best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation.
£16.16
NewSouth Publishing Forgotten War: new edition
Book Synopsis'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.'Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier wars now than it was one hundred years ago?In Forgotten War, winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction, influential historian Henry Reynolds makes it clear that there can be no reconciliation without acknowledging the wars fought on our own soil. Reynolds argues the resistance by First Nations warriors to the invasion of their homelands, lasting for more than a hundred years, can now be seen as a significant chapter in the global history of anti-colonial rebellion. To be appreciated and understood in a way that has scarcely begun to dawn on our national consciousness, and admired far more widely than our role as adjunct imperialists fighting with Britain and America.
£17.06
