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Book SynopsisIn 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster's outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanTrade Review"Sensing Disaster is an excellent book that offers a sympathetic and sophisticated introduction to the anthropology of disasters and indigenous knowledge and place-making, and would be invaluable as a teaching resource. The balance of theory and ethnography is highly engaging, making the book accessible to a larger audience outside the academy. . . . as the arguments in the book are highly relevant for (and should be reshaping) development and disaster practice across Oceania." * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Notes on the Simbo Language and Solomon Islands Pijin Glossary Prologue: “Something Was Not Right” Introduction 1. The Rise of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 2. Ocean Knowing 3. Ancestors, Steel, and Inland Living 4. New Villages, a New God, New Vulnerabilities 5. Assembling Reconstruction 6. Vulnerable Isles? 7. Sensing Disaster Compositions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster's outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanding the causes and consequences of calamity, the unintended effects of humanitarian recovery and mitigation efforts, and the nature of local knowledge.Trade Review"Sensing Disaster is an excellent book that offers a sympathetic and sophisticated introduction to the anthropology of disasters and indigenous knowledge and place-making, and would be invaluable as a teaching resource. The balance of theory and ethnography is highly engaging, making the book accessible to a larger audience outside the academy. . . . as the arguments in the book are highly relevant for (and should be reshaping) development and disaster practice across Oceania." * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Notes on the Simbo Language and Solomon Islands Pijin Glossary Prologue: “Something Was Not Right” Introduction 1. The Rise of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 2. Ocean Knowing 3. Ancestors, Steel, and Inland Living 4. New Villages, a New God, New Vulnerabilities 5. Assembling Reconstruction 6. Vulnerable Isles? 7. Sensing Disaster Compositions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peonsa decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by Trade Review"Disrupting the Patrón is a superb ethnography of Indigenous environmental justice as well as a nuanced account of the possibilities and challenges of land back. It deserves to be widely read by scholars and practitioners of all stripes." * Antipode *"Correia constructs a provocative ethnography which centers on the land struggles of the Enxet and Sanapaná people and offers a timely reminder of the racialized regimes and unequal geographies that mark the landscape of a rapidly changing economic frontier in Latin America." * NACLA *"Joel Correia’s timely Disrupting the Patrón has arrived at a moment of unprecedented national investment in environmental justice within the United States, and as Indigenous-led calls for the return of stolen land across North America continue to grow. Correia’s in-depth ethnographic study of the Indigenous Paraguayan communities of Enxet and Sanapaná’s decades-long fight for return of their ancestral lands adds critical insight to this movement, pushing the limits of how environmental justice is often defined and pursued within the states while still honoring its origin." * Sierra *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Environmental Justice Otherwise Rupture 1: Open/Closed Chapter 1: “A Land in the Making” Rupture 2: Boundaries Chapter 2: Not-Quite-Neoliberal Multiculturalism Rupture 3: In/Visible Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Neglect Rupture 4: Prison Chapter 4: Restitution as Development? Rupture 5: Heart Chapter 5: Five Years of Life Rupture 6: Spectacle Conclusion: In Pursuit of Environmental Justice Postcript Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents PART ONE THE FOUNDATIONS OF PLANTATION PEDAGOGY Introduction: Teaching Slavery and Settlement 1 • Plantation Pedagogy, Educative Space, and Currents of Colonialism PART TWO PLANTATION PEDAGOGY IN THE CURRENTS 2 • Plantation Pedagogy on the Reservation 3 • Pacific Currents: Island Plantations and Industrial Schooling 4 • Atlantic Currents: Industrial Education and Anti-colonial Struggle in Africa PART THREE PLANTATION PEDAGOGY AS A TECHNOLOGY OF SETTLEMENT 5 • “Out from Cabin and Tepee”: Settlement, Slavery, and the Making of Domestic Space 6 • Teachers of Teachers: The Expansion of Plantation Pedagogy through Teacher Training 7 • “Better Land, Better Stock, Better People”: The School as Experiment Station and Laboratory Conclusion: Learning by (Not) Doing? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNeither Indigenous nor white, Shireen Morris is both outside observer and inside player in the fight for Indigenous rights. Framed by her family's Indian and Fijian migrant story, Morris gives a personal perspective on what many consider the greatest moral challenge for Australia: constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.

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Book Synopsisaeo The first account in English of this ancient people. aeo Of interest to anthropologists, historians, geographers and orientalists. aeo Based on over 30 years of first--hand research. aeo The first account in English of this ancient people. aeo Of interest to anthropologists, historians, geographers and orientalists.Trade Review"The book would make an excellent text for undergraduate courses on the history and cultures of Insular Southeast Asia." CrossroadsTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Part I: The Shaping of Identity: from Origins to the Classical Age:. 1. Evidence and Source Material. 2. Early South Sulawesi and its Surrounding World. 3. Early Civilization. 4. The Rise of the Kingdoms. 5. Contests of Powers and Faiths. Part II: Society and Culture: Lasting Aspects and Modern Transformation: . 6. Society. 7. Spiritual and Mental Life. 8. Material Culture and Economic Activity. 9. The Modern World. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together the best recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of American Indian experiences.Trade Review"Pairing well-chosen primary sources with the best in contemporary scholarship, Nancy Shoemaker has devised an extraordinary book. Using treaty speeches, government documents, memoirs, and oral history, she matches Native voices with those of colonizers, bureaucrats, and historians. Lively and accessible introductions frame questions of method, evidence, historiography and analysis, making American Indians a compelling classroom book." Philip Deloria, University of Colorado.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface viii Introduction 1 Part I: Ancient America 11 Introduction 11 Article: The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans Neal Salisbury 12 Documents 30 Nanih Waiya, The Sacred Mound of the Choctaws 30 H. S. Halbert Legend of Nanih Wayah 39 Muriel Hazel Wright Further Reading 45 Part II: First Encounters 46 Introduction 46 Article: The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier 48 Kathleen M. Brown Documents 63 Castañeda's History of the Expedition 64 Pedro de Castañeda of Náxera Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 71 Samuel de Champlain Further Reading 77 Part III: International Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange 78 Introduction 78 Article: Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion: Timothy J. Shannon 79 Documents 103 Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 104 Witham Marshe's Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations by the Commissioners of Maryland, and Other Provinces, at Lancaster 114 Further Reading 127 Part IV: Cherokee Removal 128 Introduction 128 Article: Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal David M. Wishart 130 Documents 148 Excerpts from Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi 150 Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix 152 Further Reading 160 Part V: Sacred Places 162 Introduction 162 Article: The Sacred Black Hills: An Ethnohistorical Review 164 Linea Sundstrom Documents 191 Land of the Spotted Eagle: Luther Standing Bear 191 The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt: Raymond J. DeMallie 200 Further Reading 207 Part VI: Boarding Schools 208 Introduction 208 Article: "Hm! White Boy! You Got No Business Here!" 209 K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Documents 235 Supplemental Report on Indian Education 235 Thomas J. Morgan Education of the American Indian: Henry Roe Cloud 240 Further Reading 245 Part VII: Red Power 247 Introduction 247 Article: Remembering Alcatraz: Twenty-five Years After: Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel 248 Documents 259 Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation 260 Vine Deloria, Jr Mankiller: A Chief and Her People 267 Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis Further Reading 278 Index 279

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Book SynopsisThe book provides a valuable overview of current problems facing indigenous peoples in their relation with national states in Latin America, from the highlands of Mexico to the jungles of Brazil. The traditional, sometimes centuries old, relations between states and indigenous peoples are now changing and being rediscussed.Trade ReviewThe result of a conference held Harvard in 2000, this collection of essays explores the contemporary impact of indigenous organizations and indigenista policies in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil… This is an excellent volume that explains the variety of routes taken by the ‘return of the Indian’ in nine Latin-American national contexts. Predictions made in 2000 when the papers were given have proved quite prescient and the collection will be much used in teaching and research. -- Guy Thomson * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *[T]hese timely essays help explain the contradictory process by which recent indigenous uprisings have drawn so much attention on the international stage, while concurrently enjoying so few improvements within their respective nation states. As a reflection of the cutting edge of scholarly approaches to its field, this collection will become an important teaching tool for anthropological and historical courses specifically focused on indigenous resistance and a comprehensive complementary source to Latin American studies in general. -- Rene Harder HorstThe striking, world-wide, self-assertion by indigenous peoples is, surely, a most notable feature of our ‘turn-of-the-millennium.’ Nowhere is it more striking than in Latin America where assimilationist ideologies—whether violent and predatory or populist and peaceful—were recently so hegemonic. Nowhere is this great transformation examined with such originality, comprehensiveness, analytical care and nuance as here, in The Politics of Ethnicity. -- James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Anthropology and Political Science, Yale UniversityProfessor Maybury-Lewis and his colleagues provide the reader with a valuable analysis and a useful tool for the understanding of ongoing conflicts between indigenous peoples and states in various Latin American countries. A broad overview of the issues ranges from the local level to their international implications. This volume presents a clear picture of one of the least well-known yet most significant developments in the recent history of a number of Latin American societies. -- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Colegio de México, Special Rapporteur on the Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, U.N. Human Rights CommissionThis timely book is a sweeping anthropological vision of contemporary relations between the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the states that contain them. The resulting picture is an indictment for most Latin American nation states except for specific governments that have been able to respond to well-organized indigenous social and political movements. However, one central fact remains undisputed: the Latin American indigenous movement has provoked a most radical questioning of the models of nation-state, democracy, and development since the expansion of anarchistic and socialist theories in the late nineteenth century. -- Stefano Varese, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

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Book SynopsisIn the beginning, North America was Indian country, but Native Americans soon yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.Trade ReviewThanks to the work of Richter and others like him who have set out to break with the traditional Eurocentric narrative, ‘the people without history’ have been given back their voice. -- J. H. Elliott * New York Review of Books *In his acclaimed volume Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel Richter turns the tables on ‘conventional’ histories of early European–Indian relations by looking east from the Mississippi River rather than west from the Atlantic Ocean… Richter approaches, from the Indian perspective, the history of early contact with Europeans through the founding of the U. S., with emphasis on tribes’ immeasurable contribution to the history of the continent. He culls Native voices from surviving documents and records, pulling Indians from the periphery of white America’s memory and making them the focal point of the post-contact story. -- Tom Wanamaker * Indian Country Today *Richter insists that we must look over the shoulders of American Indians to see the Europeans who settled the New World to have a complete understanding of our origins. His depiction of how these original Americans adapted to the newcomers and how they were inevitably betrayed by generations devoted to ‘freedom’ and ‘opportunity’ are especially telling. * Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News *[Richter] has written a provocative new interpretation of early America from pre-contact to the early 19th century… [H]e places early America in the context of Native American society and history and not solely in the rush of colonial expansion… Historians of the American West and scholars of Western Native American studies will find much value in Richter’s retelling of early American History. -- Joseph Key * Journal of the West *Most American histories treat North America’s indigenous peoples as ancillary to the more important story of the establishment of a European nation in the New World. What would happen if one shifted focus and transformed the usual bit-players into stars? Richter…makes that shift and produces what may, for its impeccable use of primary sources, smoothly well-wrought prose, and passionate argument, become a classic. -- Patricia Monaghan * Booklist *Richter demythicizes the standard accounts…to demonstrate how white settlers consciously created false images to justify economic, religious, and military exploitation of Native inhabitants… This [is an] innovative and well-written book. -- M. L. Tate * Choice *An excellent, ambitious attempt to restore to history long-overlooked Indians who ‘neither uncompromisingly resisted…nor wholeheartedly assimilated’ in the face of white encroachment… A hallmark in recent Native American historiography that merits wide attention. * Kirkus Reviews *Richter here offers a masterly work that eschews the long-standing perception that Native Americans were nothing more than marginalized bystanders as Europeans colonized North America. Focusing on the period between the 15th and 18th centuries, the author instead shows that Native American communities adapted to the many stresses introduced by the arrival of the Europeans and were active participants in creating a new way of life on the continent… [He] provides a valuable perspective that is often overlooked in books about the same period. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries. -- John Burch * Library Journal *At the center of this bold and thoroughly astonishing history of Native Americans are narratives of three Indians generally known to Euro-Americans: Pocahontas, Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha, and the Algonquin warrior Metacom, also known as King Philip. Telling each of these stories—a romance, the life of a saint, the destruction of a ‘noble savage’—from the European and then the Native American perspective, Richter elucidates an alternative history of America from Columbus to just after the Revolution… Gracefully written and argued, Richter’s compelling research and provocative claims make this an important addition to the literature for general readers of both Native American and U.S. studies. * Publishers Weekly *Richter offers a brilliant retelling of the old stories of European colonies and empires through Native eyes. Facing East from Indian Country may be as close as any scholar has come to synthesizing an ‘Indian perspective’ on early American history. This is a book not to be missed. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing IndianFrom its title to its very last page, Facing East from Indian Country spins us around. But rather than dizzying, this turnabout is clarifying, freeing us from the blinders of a European perspective on the early American experience. Vast in scope yet intimate in its attention to particular people, places, and moments, Richter’s book is a moving, thought-provoking work of scholarship. -- James H. Merrell, author of Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania FrontierWith keen insight, deep reading, and a sparkling wit, Richter makes new and compelling sense of American history, radically shifting our perspective on the past. Balancing vivid imagination and a respect for the unknown, Richter crafts a powerful and engaging story that is essential to understanding our place in time on this continent. -- Alan Taylor, author of William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicTable of ContentsPrologue: Early America as Indian Country 1. Imagining a Distant New World 2. Confronting a Material New World 3. Living with Europeans 4. Native Voices in a Colonial World 5. Native Peoples in an Imperial World 6. Separate Creations Epilogue: Eulogy from Indian Country A Technical Note Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisMaybury-Lewis saw Latin American frontiers as unknown physical spaces and unexplored academic “territory.” The authors examine narratives that stirred or rationalized expansion, and emphasize their impact on native residents. The essays suggest a view of nationalism as theoretical concept and of frontier expansion as historical phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisTold by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler’s execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of European and Indian cultures, the struggle to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire on the eve of the American Revolution.Trade ReviewPocahontas. Sacajawea. Sitting Bull. Crazy Horse. Acorn Whistler? This Creek Indian's life will never put him in the pantheon of renowned Native Americans. But it is his death, not his life, that matters--or, rather, it is the stories that colonists and Creeks made up about his demise. Unpacking and untangling those tales, Joshua Piker's fine book reveals nothing less than 'the way life in colonial America worked.' -- James H. Merrell, author of The Indians' New WorldPiker is an excellent storyteller, and The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler is an intriguing tale--told in four different ways--that showcases his dazzling historical detective work. He skillfully uses Creek Indian history as a window into early America. -- Jenny Hale Pulsipher, author of Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New EnglandAs American historians contemplate how best to reintegrate narrative into our work, Piker provides us with a model. Not only is The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler beautifully written, it also considers the nature and impact of storytelling, suggesting that in the end we are who we are because of the tales we tell to ourselves and to others. -- Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand CreekJosh Piker follows his superb first book, Okfuskee, with a sharply observed and deeply researched analysis of a bloody conflict and its tangled--and ultimately murderous--aftermath. His examination of the multiple narratives of Whistler's death forces us to consider the nature of documentary evidence and story-telling in early North America. -- Peter C. Mancall, author of Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson

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Book SynopsisOver the 20th century, American Indians fought for the right to be both American and Indian. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in domestic and international contexts. Native Americans served as a visible symbol of an America searching for rights and justice; American history is incomplete without their story.Trade ReviewA superb, innovative book. The story of Native Americans in the Cold War is without doubt one of the most important in the relationship between race and foreign affairs, and Rosier is the first to tell it in full. Impressively researched and engagingly written, this book fills a major gap in the literature and will have widespread appeal. -- Thomas Borstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color LineThis pathbreaking book offers a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Indian politics, patriotism, and tribalism by tracking important intersections between domestic and international affairs. The Cold War and global colonization movements emboldened Native Americans to demand their rights. Simultaneously, events required them to defend their homelands from enemies both within and without the country. To be Indian and American poses no contradiction, as Rosier so wisely points out, if the nation lives up to its ideals and its treaty obligations. -- Sherry L. Smith, author of Reimagining IndiansIn this extensively researched and well-documented study, Rosier examines modern Native American political history within an international context. -- Deborah Dawson * Booklist *Fascinating...This is an important book, certain to generate considerable discussion. -- Brian Hosmer * Pacific Historical Review *Serving Their Country presents a compelling argument...Rosier has produced an important book that will provide scholars with much to engage, discuss, and debate. -- Daniel M. Cobb * American Historical Review *A fascinating study documenting how federal American Indian policies intersected with national and international issues...Although other historians have written about specific eras in which this intersection occurred, Rosier's intriguing and sweeping study adds much to the literature. -- Laurence M. Hauptman * Journal of American History *By putting Indian affairs in a broader, international context he does the field a great service. -- Joy Porter * Journal of American Studies *Table of Contents* Contents * List of Abbreviations * Prologue: An Empire for Liberty *1. Westward the Course of Empire *2. The Defense of the Reservation *3. World War II Battlegrounds *4. The Cold War on the Indian Frontier *5. Nation Building at Home and Abroad *6. The Last Indian War * Epilogue: Indian Country in the Twenty-first Century * List of Archival Sources * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisIn this story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence—use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds.Trade ReviewBrown writes elegantly… This is…a powerful, moving and entertaining book about one of the most interesting indigenous peoples in South America. -- John Hemming * Times Literary Supplement *Upriver is one of the best books I have read on Amazonian peoples in a long while. Brown is even-handed and insightful, and he writes with flair and clarity. He takes an unflinching, clear-eyed look at tribal life and at the Awajún’s difficult encounters with the outsiders with whom they have had varying degrees of contact with for almost 500 years… His experiences, descriptions and understandings will resonate with all who have had the privilege of living among a tribal society. And for those who have never enjoyed this experience, Upriver will make you wish you had. But perhaps the book’s most important lesson is its portrayal of human diversity as crucial for the understanding of our species. -- Daniel Everett * New Scientist *A model of nuance and humility. [Brown] describes vividly the encroachments of modernity on the lives of the Awajúns, and their attempts to resist and survive as the Amazon is carved up for natural-resource extraction. But Brown is scrupulously unsentimental and resists the political pieties typical of Latin American ethnography, which so often treats indigenous people as victims or heroes. The result is a book with the fullness and texture of real human life; it is a masterpiece of social science. -- Graeme Wood * Pacific Standard *Upriver: The Turbulent Life And Times of an Amazonian People is not only a revealing portrait of a people corning to terms with the modern world, but also of the changing face of anthropology itself. * Wanderlust *In a well-written, detailed text, anthropologist Brown presents an eloquent book full of reflections based on his 1976–2012 fieldwork with an Amazonian society, the Awajún, previously known as the Aguaruna or Jibaro. This indigenous society living in the Upper Amazon of Northern Peru has often been highly misunderstood and has erroneously been described as a vanishing society and portrayed in a very simplistic way as primarily a murdering culture. Brown presents a detailed story filled with many personal events combined with rich ethnographic and cultural information and a witty perspective that easily engages readers… This quite thoughtful work provides a deep understanding of who the Awajún really are, as well as their current situation in the modern world. -- M. Lizarralde * Choice *In this personal, bifurcated narrative, Brown portrays the proud, combative Awajún as deeply defined by their struggle to remain autonomous against the ‘meddling’ forces of a larger, modern culture. According to the author, their streak of aggression is unusual among Amazonian peoples; in a then-and-now juxtaposition, he closely observes the effects of their bellicosity in meeting contemporary challenges such as land and water rights… An unusual study, elucidating of a people and braced by both self-doubt and honesty. * Kirkus Reviews *Upriver is not only a sensitive portrait of a remarkable Amazonian people struggling to defend their land and distinctive lifestyle, it is also a candid account by a gifted writer of what ‘fieldwork’ is about. Brown’s vibrant tribute to the craft of anthropology reveals a method of knowledge capable of bringing enlightenment, and perhaps even hope, in troubled times. -- Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and CultureUpriver explores Awajún ways of being indigenously ‘off-modern’ with excruciating honesty about how the uncertainties of fieldwork challenge interpretation. Brown is one of the clearest writers and thinkers in anthropology today. This book is a pleasure to read. -- Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

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Book SynopsisThrough stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.Trade ReviewIndians in the Family is an astounding work of historical and cultural investigation. Dawn Peterson has woven together an eye-opening, original account of prominent white Americans’ adoptions of Native children in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America, revealing the nuanced, consequential, and often unsettling interplay between Indian youth and white wards, family lives and national politics, and American colonialism and indigenous self-determination. -- Tiya Miles, author of The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation StoryPeterson’s book reveals the intricate—even intimate—connections between personal and public affairs, between slavery and Indian removal, and between Native American assimilation and resistance. Ambitiously researched and vividly written, Indians in the Family will become a landmark study reaching across a wide range of fields in American history. -- Daniel H. Usner, author of Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American HistoryIndians in the Family is both a nuanced history of the lives of Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw youths adopted into white households between the 1790s and the 1830s and an incisive investigation of Native politics and American expansion…Indians in the Family is an analytically ambitious book that begins from the premise that gender, indigenous agency, and racialization are essential to understanding the politics of American early national expansion and the entrenchment of racial slavery. The book balances its analytical rigor with attention to human subjectivity and how it shaped historical action. -- Catherine Jones * Civil War Book Review *A clear strength of the book’s framing lies in Peterson’s ability to address the perspectives and intentions of Native individuals, kin networks, and nations in the narrative to reveal how and why they diverged from their white contemporaries in the United States…Understanding how southeast American Indian nations conceptualized and used education to advance their own interests is a critical step toward reexamining the diversity of Indigenous educational experiences. -- Rowan Faye Steineker * History of Education Quarterly *Peterson has unearthed the history of keenly instinctive Indian families placing their children in white settler families with the goal of having their children gather vital information they could use later to increase economic and territorial development…Thank you, Dawn Peterson, for your meticulous research that reveals the resiliency of the early Indian families as they grappled in desperation with how they would survive encroaching white settlers and government. This rich history brings more pride in our ancestors who sacrificed years away from their children knowing in the end that this act would benefit their Indian nations. -- Sandy White Hawk * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *Dawn Peterson’s Indians in the Family is not only a timely reminder of how the current strategies of resistance to colonial hegemony have a long and complex history, it is itself a nuanced, rigorously documented, and beautifully written account of the quotidian tensions around race, property, assimilation, and gender that continue to influence both Indigenous studies and Native activism in the present. -- Joseph M. Pierce * Adoption & Culture *

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century “salvage anthropology” preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable to researchers and the public. But many of these objects were stolen, and for decades exhibited as proof of cultural evolution. Samuel Redman details the tangled history and explores how we might contend with such collections today.Trade ReviewA must-read for anyone seeking to confront racist worldviews and make the world a better place for all. -- Paulette Steeves * Science *Redman tells the grim story of decades-long elite capture of Native cultures, while the US government and expansionist industries gained control of lands and waters from sea to sea. Decolonization requires recognition of the colonization process, and Redman’s book is a landmark contribution to that effort. -- Barbara Miller * American Anthropologist *A sweeping overview of the history and continued legacy of salvage anthropology in the United States…Redman’s work connects the complex histories of these practices to their ongoing implications for museums today, offering a major contribution to how we recognize their legacies for today’s efforts to decolonize collections, repatriate objects, and forge community partnerships. -- Reed Gochberg * American Nineteenth Century History *Prophets and Ghosts is a rich and eye-opening book, and Redman does not shy away from taking a hard look at the troubled and troubling legacy of salvage anthropology. It’s deeply researched, beautifully written—a real pleasure to read. -- Lukas Rieppel * New Books Network *Redman nuances the history of salvage anthropology…[and] recounts the stories of individual collectors, humanizing these anthropologists, Indian agents, missionaries, and Native people, while stressing the seriousness and urgency of their often-obsessive collecting practices. -- Klinton Burgio-Ericson * Journal of Anthropological Research *Essential…For any museum professional or anthropologist hoping to build an ethical and progress-oriented career, Prophets and Ghosts is an excellent guide to recognizing and reconciling with salvage anthropology. -- Sara Polk * Museum Studies Blog *An engaging account of the development of salvage anthropology in the United States during the nineteenth century…[Redman] does not shy away from the darker side of early acquisitions of Indigenous people’s culture in American museums. -- Crystal McColl * Fwd: Museums Journal *Illuminating…Prophets and Ghosts would be a suitable introduction for many, and any of the individual chapters would provide a good background of where salvage anthropology came from…and where it could go. -- Jaime M. N. Lavallee * Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association *Prophets and Ghosts is [Redman’s] latest work to examine the intersection between the history of museums and the rise of anthropology as a discipline…He argues that even with the problems inherent in early museums’ efforts to understand race and ‘primitive’ civilizations, their attempts ultimately produced some unexpected and surprising results. -- Robert Cassanello * Journal of American History *Redman has not only become anthropology’s leading historian but also its conscience. Through methodical research and insightful analysis, Prophets and Ghosts provides a window into the motives and practices of ‘salvaging’ cultures often assumed to be on the precipice of destruction. It reveals all the disciplinary successes and failures—and moral contradictions and paradoxes—in this moment that laid the groundwork for how the world thinks of cultures and Indigenous peoples. This is a history that is still resonant today. -- Chip Colwell, author of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s CultureAn original, masterful work on a rich and important topic. Redman looks at the idea of salvage as both preservation and as part of a larger cultural phenomenon—the establishment of a diverse cultural history for the nation—with all the implications this had for the Indigenous peoples being studied and ‘saved.’ -- Nancy J. Parezo, coauthor of Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase ExpositionRedman interrogates the origins of salvage anthropology by delving into the resonance of encounters and collections that, reflecting an emphasis on preservation at all costs, still haunt us today. He effectively exposes the entanglements among nationalistic impulses, colonial nostalgia, and assimilationist policies that shaped museum representations of the Indigenous well into the mid-twentieth century. -- Margaret M. Bruchac, author of Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American AnthropologistsThis book is a gem! Redman traces the nineteenth-century salvage anthropology movement in the United States, designed to preserve the material culture of Native Americans portrayed on the verge of extinction. Especially important are the many negative consequences of this movement, which last to this day. -- Laura Nader, author of Laura Nader: Letters to and from an AnthropologistThe ‘salvage’ of all things Indian was driven by scientific curiosity, but Redman shows how that curiosity was also driven by an insatiable obsession with objects rather than the people who produced them. This book provides a broad, often troubling, picture behind the impetus to collect everything before the Indians ‘vanished.’ -- Joe Watkins, author of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific PracticeRedman offers an impressive exploration of the strange history of salvage anthropology and its efforts to document Native cultures before their presumed disappearance before the forward march of history. With its detailed archival findings, clear writing, and comprehensive analysis, Prophets and Ghosts is a fine piece of scholarship. -- Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This extraordinarily capacious, academically sound study broadens the field of Victorian studies." * Choice *"It is in any case no surprise to report that Flint's readings of her sources are always searching and nuanced. The book is also very light on jargon; it is too intellectually confident for that. This will be a major text in the burgeoning field of transantlantic studies. It offers a distinctive portrait of Victorian culture that we have not seen before."---Rohan McWilliam, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century"Kate Flint's scholarly work is a fascinating and ground-breaking study of the Indian as both imagined in literature and visible in transatlantic encounters and exchanges. . . . Her extensive knowledge of both Victorian society and culture and tribal histories and cultures is evident throughout the work. . . . Flint's work establishes fruitful links with recent scholarship and debates which have successfully placed the Indian in a transatlantic perspective."---Mandy Cooper, Journal of Transatlantic Studies"The Transatlantic Indian succeeds admirably in surveying the transatlantic exchanges between Native Americans and British readers and writers during the long nineteenth century."---Siohban Carroll, English Literature in Transition"This beautifully researched project contributes a sweeping synthesis, but its virtues go much farther. . . . Flint pulls off the tricky combination of a tight argument with an exploratory format. Delicate readings of slippery texts will impress literary scholars, while historians will appreciate the book's temporal and cultural scope and its broad range of prosaic and canonical sources. . . . [T]his is a book to relish, ruminate over, and revisit."---Rebecca R. Noel, Literature and History"The claims of The Transatlantic Indian are superbly documented by extensive notes and bibliographical data; it is nicely illustrated by materials Flint actually analyses; and the book, as an artifact, is presented with the high production values characteristic of Princeton University Press."---Mick Gidley, Review of English Studies"[I]ts pages, sentences, and images demands fullest attention, appealing at once to our senses, emotions and minds."---Cyana Leahy-Dios, European Legacy"The historical scholarship on white attitudes toward Native Americans is prolific, but with The Transatlantic Indian, Kate Flint refreshes this familiar genre with a transnational approach to Anglo-Indian relations."---David A. Gerber, Journal of American Ethnic History"This is a very informed volume that uses an impressive range of literary texts in order to chart a history of representation and interaction. The crucial intervention of Flint's project is in how it implicates Britain in narratives and discourses regarding Native Americans, in a move that demonstrates the long and intimate links that become forged between an empire and its colony."---Hum, Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World"[A]s is characteristic of the best scholarly surveys, Flint's book marks out the territory that future scholars will need to subject to ever finer scrutiny."---Joshua David Bellin, Modern Philology

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction""Winner of the Cover & Design Award, The Nebraska Center for the Book""The book recounts massacres and broken treaties, and pays particular attention to the Friends of the Indian movement, white activists whose misguided assimilationist enterprises further eroded Indigenous nations. Jacobs, who is not herself Indigenous, emphasizes the importance of centering Native Americans’ own understanding of this history. She also highlights people of settler descent who have amplified Native voices and pushed for justice—not to portray them as heroes but to illuminate a potential path toward reconciliation." * The New Yorker *"After One Hundred Winters offer benchmark conversations enriching to western literature with accurate depictions of tribal cultures and diversity in the American West."---Meredith Eliassen, Western American Literature

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction""Winner of the Cover & Design Award, The Nebraska Center for the Book""The book recounts massacres and broken treaties, and pays particular attention to the Friends of the Indian movement, white activists whose misguided assimilationist enterprises further eroded Indigenous nations. Jacobs, who is not herself Indigenous, emphasizes the importance of centering Native Americans’ own understanding of this history. She also highlights people of settler descent who have amplified Native voices and pushed for justice—not to portray them as heroes but to illuminate a potential path toward reconciliation." * The New Yorker *"After One Hundred Winters offer benchmark conversations enriching to western literature with accurate depictions of tribal cultures and diversity in the American West."---Meredith Eliassen, Western American Literature

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Trade Review"Co-Winner of the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association""Co-Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize"

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Book SynopsisHaskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to 22 Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values. For a century and a quarter since that time, this famous boarding school institution has touched the lives of thousands of students. This book chronicles the institution's formative years.

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Book SynopsisExamines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labour. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracy.Trade ReviewEmpire of the People is a capacious tour de force. In a sweeping historical account, Dahl illuminates the violent structure of settler colonialism in the United States. The chapters explore, and powerfully unsettle, prevailing assumptions in American political thought, vividly taking stock of the narratives of native absence that underpin the democratic thought in the west. The book is an impressive contribution to the florescence of counter-narratives that are preparing new ground for an urgent and emergent political theory of decolonization."" - Alexander Keller Hirsch, associate professor of political science, University of Alaska""What if the foundation of democracy is not ‘the people’ but the dispossession of land from its rightful inhabitants? Adam Dahl transforms our understandings of American political thought, showing how it deliberately ignores Native American presence and practices. Dahl deftly illuminates how democratic theory—from Jefferson to Tocqueville to Emerson—cannot be separated from its settler-colonial roots. By turning to the Pequot theorist William Apess, Dahl identifies a solution—to take indigenous thinking and nations seriously as alternative, equal nations."" - Kennan Ferguson, director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee""What is the relation between democracy and colonial dispossession? Adam Dahl critically examines this question through a close study of democratic theory in nineteenth-century Anglo-America. Bringing together familiar figures such as Emerson, Whitman, and Tocqueville with a complex array of lesser known texts and authors, Dahl expertly demonstrates how the US tradition of democratic thought was forged in and through the systematic expropriation of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands. Most important and innovative, however, is his serious engagement with indigenous political thinkers, including William Apess, Black Hawk, and Elias Boudinot, who laid bare the paradoxes of this ‘democracy dispossession.’ As such, Empire of the People functions as both contribution to, and indictment of, American political thought."" - Robert Nichols, McKnight Land-Grant Professor in Political Theory and assistant professor of political science at the University of MinnesotaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Settler Colonial Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought Part One: Federalism and Empire 1. From Colonial Dependence to Imperial Equality 2. The Coloniality of Constituent Power Part Two: Settler Colonialism and Democratic Culture 3. Colonial Dispossession and the Settler Social State 4. Manifest Destiny and the Safety Valve of Colonization 5. Slavery and the Empire of Free Soil Part Three: Unsettling Democracy 6. William Apess and the Paradox of Settler Sovereignty Afterword: Decolonizing the Democratic Tradition Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLong before Hopis won trophy cups or received acclaim in American newspapers, Hopi clan runners competed against each other on and below their mesas–and when they won footraces, they received rain. Hopi Runners provides a window into this venerable tradition at a time of great consequence for Hopi culture.Trade ReviewHopi Runners is much more than an exquisite history of sport; it is a masterful interpretation of culture, identity, and power in motion. It elevates our appreciation for athletes and athletic traditions often forgotten while deepening our understanding of the social worlds that created and celebrated them. The book shines as an example of the power of thinking of indigenous achievements, interpretations, and actors in context. Indeed, one of the greatest strengths and pleasures of this book lies in its counter-readings that both draw on dominant accounts and unsettle them, unpacking preoccupations and biases, highlighting silences, and rerouting indigenous peoples and perspectives."" - C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand

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Book SynopsisOnly by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white ""civilization"" take root while childhood memories of “savagism” gradually faded to the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort.Trade ReviewWhat a triumph! Adams has masterfully reworked, reinterpreted, and reframed an enlarged version of his classic book by drawing on new research by Indian and non-Indian scholars over the past twenty-five years. Education for Extinction is a foundational study for anyone interested in boarding schools, Indian education, and American history." - Clifford E. Trafzer, distinguished professor of history and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, University of California, RiversidePraise for the first edition "Adams has achieved something remarkable here: he offers a great deal of information on an important and difficult historical topic while never losing sight of its human dimension. Persuasive and moving, his book is full of good stories that should appeal to the general public." - Brian Dippie, author of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy"A story worth reading and remembering, one that reveals the use of education as a weapon of war, a method of domination, A strong lesson in the potential for education to become part of a political and cultural arsenal." - American Journal of Education"A poignant and heartbreaking book that chronicles the infamous history of the U.S. government's efforts to indoctrinate, deculturalize, and 'Americanize' Native peoples through the use of boarding schools. . . . This is a must-read book for all educators, especially for those who wish to work with students of color. As this book powerfully reminds us, education is an encounter, not a discovery." - Harvard Educational Review

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Book SynopsisOnly by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white ""civilization"" take root while childhood memories of “savagism” gradually faded to the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort.Trade ReviewWhat a triumph! Adams has masterfully reworked, reinterpreted, and reframed an enlarged version of his classic book by drawing on new research by Indian and non-Indian scholars over the past twenty-five years. Education for Extinction is a foundational study for anyone interested in boarding schools, Indian education, and American history." - Clifford E. Trafzer, distinguished professor of history and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, University of California, RiversidePraise for the first edition "Adams has achieved something remarkable here: he offers a great deal of information on an important and difficult historical topic while never losing sight of its human dimension. Persuasive and moving, his book is full of good stories that should appeal to the general public." - Brian Dippie, author of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy"A story worth reading and remembering, one that reveals the use of education as a weapon of war, a method of domination, A strong lesson in the potential for education to become part of a political and cultural arsenal." - American Journal of Education"A poignant and heartbreaking book that chronicles the infamous history of the U.S. government's efforts to indoctrinate, deculturalize, and 'Americanize' Native peoples through the use of boarding schools. . . . This is a must-read book for all educators, especially for those who wish to work with students of color. As this book powerfully reminds us, education is an encounter, not a discovery." - Harvard Educational Review

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Book SynopsisDrawing on Dine stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project, Farina King illuminates the mutual entanglement of Indigenous identity and religious affiliation, showing how their Dine identity made them outsiders to the LDS Church and, conversely, how belonging to the LDS community made them outsiders to their Native community.Trade Review"An insightful and fascinating study into the lived experiences of Dine Latter-day Saints. It is important as the fullest examination of that history yet published."—Times and Seasons "In this beautifully rendered autoethnography, Farina King reckons honestly with the injustices of settler colonialism but refuses to grant it a controlling role. Instead, she centers the voices of her own DinÉ family and other DinÉ dÓÓ GÁamalii, Navajo Mormons, showing how they have built lives faithful both to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to DinÉ identity and peoplehood all at the same time."—Tisa Wenger, professor of divinity, American studies, and religious studies at Yale University, and author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom"This history illuminates the complexity of relating simultaneously to DinÉ and Latter-day Saint worlds. Richly textured by oral histories and the history of the author’s family, it attends closely to the diversity of views and practices among DinÉ Latter-day Saints."—Matthew W. Dougherty, author of Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early AmericaTable of Contents List of Images Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saints 2. Gáamalii Bina’nitiní: Missionaries 3. Ólta’ Gáamalii: “Mormon School” 4. Sodizin Bá Hooghan: Church 5. Beyond Diné Bikéyah 6. Red Power at BYU 7. Diné dóó Gáamalii Perspectives Epilogue Appendix: Oral History Interviews and Oral History Sources Glossary Notes

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMapsPreface1. Looking Backward2. Reconnaissance3. Preparing the Way4. Promise5. Presence6. Proscription7. Compression8. Intrusion9. IllusionNotesSourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the history and characteristics of settler colonialismTrade Review‘A brilliant introduction to settler colonialism … Offers a practical politics that seeks to link indigenous struggles to struggles against capitalism as a whole.’ -- ‘Red Pepper’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Settling the World 2. Indigenous Dispossession, Indigenous Resistance 3. The Birth of Race 4. Settler Class Struggle 5. Indigenous Resistance in the Present Conclusion

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Book Synopsisaeo The first in depth study of American sexuality at the time of the conquest of the Americas. aeo Sheds new light on conventional ways of examining the sexual relations, mainly between males, encountered by the Spaniards and Portugese entering the Americas during the Conquests.Trade Review"An absolutely fascinating book on male sexual culture in Europe and the Americas during the Conquest which will shock and take one's breath away." Ramon Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego "Sex and Conquest is a persuasive tour de force of deserted histories." Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley "In its exposure of the links between sexual abuse of boys and the sexualized subordination of women, Sex and Conquest offers a rare insight into gender inequality. Richard Trexler's analysis of male dominance in sacred and secular hierarchies offers evidence and depth, as well as sweep and vision." Catherine A. MacKinnon "His brutally unromantic conclusions are sure to provoke much-needed debate." Eugene Rice, Columbia University "Readable and informative, Trexler's book undeniably brings new complexity to conventional understandings of conquest." HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Introduction. 1. Backgrounds. 2. Iberian Experiences. 3. The Military and Diplomatic Berdache. 4. The Domestic Berdache: Becoming. 5. The Religious Berdache. 6. On the Ground. 7. Attitudes and Assessments. 8. Yesterday and Today. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on patients' experiences and the programmes set up to deal with the tuberculosis epidemic experienced by the Inuit in the mid-20th century, this study is based on recollections of patients and interviews with participants in the government programmes.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative combination of anthropology and clinical psychotherapy.Trade Review'"This work involves the creative use of concepts not previously much developed in the Cree context and makes significant use of materials not previously drawn together. It is bold in scope and penetrates deeply and subtly into the psychology of the self, motivation, and emotional dynamics." Richard Preston, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University " ... it is important to note Ferrara's articulated success as an art therapist, her deeply reflective thoughtfulness with regard to the significance of art therapy, her ability to meld therapeutic practice and Cree knowledge systems, and, most importantly the value of her work for so many members of the Cree communities."JRAI, Sept 2007

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Book SynopsisWhile the transition to Christianity in the Canadian Arctic occurred between the end of the 18th century and the 1950s, the various transformations that happened during this time have not been fully understood. This title looks at Inuit religion, offering a counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Part One: Angakkuuniq and Christianity 1 Continuity and Decline; 2 Missionaries and Angakkuit; 3 Inuit Winter Feasts Part Two: Animals, Owners, and Non-human Beings 4 Hunters and Prey; 5 The Owners of the Sky, the Land, and the Sea; 6 Inuunngittut, Non-human Beings from the Land and the Sea Part Three: Encounters, Healing, and Power 7 Initiation, Visions, and Dreams; 8 Healing as a Socio-economic Process; 9 Powerful Objects and Words Part Four: Connecting to Ancestors and Land 10 Connecting to Ancestors: Qilaniq and Qilauti, Head Lifting and Drum Dancing; 11 Reconnecting People and Healing the Land: Inuit Pentecostal and Evangelical Movements; 12 Transitions and Transformations Appendix 1: Glossary of Inuktitut Words; Appendix 2: Inuit Elders Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisIntriguing tales of Indigenous peoples who made their homes across the North American West.Trade Review"Iroquois in the West is a detailed and well-documented narrative history. Illustrating how much can be accomplished with meticulous analysis of primary and secondary source materials, Jean Barman has indefatigably tracked this little-known population of Iroquois travellers and settlers across the continent." Jennifer S.H. Brown, professor emeritus, University of Winnipeg

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Book SynopsisGeorge MacDonald combines archival material and scientific and photographic evidence to record what is known of the history of Ninstints and its people.Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceIntroduction: The Kunghit HaidaNinstints: The VillageHouses in the villageEarly Contact with EuropeansTom Price: The Last Ninstints ChiefProtecting the Heritage of NinstintsWill science save Ninstints?Selected Readings

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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis.Trade ReviewWithout question, the new reader by Getty and Lussier provides the best selection of historical articles on Canada’s Native peoples ever to appear ... It should be required reading for all attending future constitutional conferences on aboriginal rights. Ian Getty and Antoine Lussier have contributed to a new appreciation of Canada’s native people. -- Donald Smith * NeWest Review *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceMapIntroductory EssaySection I: The Evolution of Indian Administration Since the Royal Proclamation of 17631 Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada's Indian Policy2 The Early Indian Acts: Developmental Strategy and Constitutional Change3 Indian Land Cessions in Upper Canada, 1815-18304 Herman Merivale and Colonial Office Indian Policy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century5 A Victorian Civil Servant at Work: Lawrence Vankoughnet and the Canadian Indian Department, 1874-18936 Clifford Sifton and Canadian Indian Administration 1896-19057 The Administration of Treaty 3: The Location of the Boundaries of Treaty 3 Indian Reserves in Ontario, 1873-19158 Canada's Indians Yesterday – What of Today?9 The Politics of Indian AffairsSection II: Native Responses to Changing Relations and Circumstances1 Alcoholism, Indians and the Anti-Drink Cause in the Protestant Indian Missions of Upper Canada, 1822-18502 The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada3 A Witness to Murder: The Cypress Hills Massacre and the Conflict of Attitudes towards the Native People of the Canadian-American West during the 1870s4 Louis Riel and Aboriginal Rights5 A Parting of the Ways: Louis Schmidt's Account of Louis Riel and the Metis Rebellion6 La Conquete du Nord-Ouest, 1885-1985, or the Imperial Quest of British North America7 Native People and the Justice System8 Becoming Modern – Some Reflections on Inuit Social Change9 The Inuit and the Constitutional Process: 1978-81A Declaration of the First Nations, 18 November, 19811983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal RightsBibliographic EssayThe Indian in Canadian Historical Writing, 1971-1981Suggestions for Further ReadingNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.Table of ContentsForeword / Chief John SnowPreface1 The Challenge of Indian Education: An Overview / Jean Barman, Yvonne M. Hebert, and Don McCaskill2 First Nations Control of Education: The Path to our Survival as Nations / Dianne Longboat3 Role Shock in Local Community Control of Indian Education / Richard King4 Education as a Total Way of Life: The Nisga'a Experience / Alvin McKay and Bert McKay5 The Cree Experience / Billy Diamond6 Mi'kmaq Linguistic Integrity: A Case Study of Mi'kmawey School / Marie Battiste7 Blue Quills Native Education Centre: A Case Study / Lucy Bashford and Hans Heinzerling8 My Elders Tell Me / Beatrice Medicine9 Revitalization of Indian Culture: Indian Cultural Survival Schools / Don McCaskill10 The Education of Urban Native Children: The Sacred Circle Project / Vernon R. Douglas11 Training Indian Teachers in a Community Setting: The Mount Currie Lil'wat Programme / Lorna B. Williams and June Wyatt12 Evaluation of Indian Education: Issues and Challenges / Yvonne M. HebertNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDavid Neel presents us with a magnificent series of images of Native chiefs and elders which sharply contrasts with earlier depictions of Natives as “noble savages” or representatives of a “vanishing race.”Trade ReviewOur Chiefs and Elders is a fine, gentle book with the power to change our perceptions. David Neel has a professional photographic background, tuned to depicting the persona of bank presidents and judges. Now, with humility and respect, he has opened his lens to the chiefs and elders of the west coast, showing the deep concerns and robust human energy of people who have much to share. This book changes perceptions and presents us with living, breathing role models – at a time when moral example is sorely needed. Read it, and be changed. -- Robert Amos * Victoria Times-Colonist *This is a book in which photos and words play off one another to create a fascinating and powerful portrait of 40 B.C. chiefs and elders. -- Susan MacDonald * The Province *...this book makes not only compelling reading, but also features some brilliant photos of those being interviewed. ... It is a set of stunning portraits, showing native people neither as “noble savages nor skid row drunks” as Neel describes the most common views. A powerful book. -- Lynn Welburn * The Nanaimo Times *Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionContributorsAfterwordBibliography

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Book SynopsisIn A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.Trade ReviewEssential reading for all those trying to understand the evolution of Indian administration in Canada ... does much to illuminate the themes of continuity and change within the Indian Affairs Department. -- Douglas Leighton * Canadian Historical Review *An important book ... puts the problems facing Canada's native population into better perspective. It should be required reading for all members of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. -- Allan Levine * Globe and Mail *Titley has done Canadian scholarship a great service by opening up this area of scholarship to Canadian historians. It is indeed a fine book. -- David McNab * Native Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Indian Administration: Origins and Development2 The Poet and the Indians3 General Aspects of Policy and Administration4 The Treaty Maker5 Schooling and Civilization6 Indian Political Organizations7 The Six Nations’ Status Case8 Land Claims in British Columbia9 “Senseless Drumming and Dancing”10 The Ambitions of Commissioner GrahamConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis detailed but highly readable ethnohistory shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada’s most populous Aboriginal population.Trade ReviewColonizing Bodies is an innovative and engaging book … an important contribution to the history of First Nations and to health care history … Kelm critically examines the available evidence, suggesting that government reports and letters do not describe the “truth” of aboriginal health but do provide an indication of what was shaping federal health policy … the book is rich in detail … Kelm grounds this book in a breadth of archival documents and she skillfully and strategically deploys evidence from aboriginal elders to make her arguments even more compelling … Persons interested in the history of First Nations and the provision of state health services will certainly find this to be a fascinating study, but it should also enjoy broad appeal as a case study of how colonialism is culturally constructed. It is, in sum, a tremendously important contribution. The analysis is elegant and it is a book that serves both as model and inspiration for the sophisticated study of health care in the twentieth century. -- Peter Twohig * Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *By discrediting the destructive and paternalistic deficit model, Kelm plays an important role in pointing communities, academics, and public health officials to the vital task of continuing to recognize and support the sources of community resilience and, ultimately, health. * BC Studies *A worthy read, a sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis of the health situation of Aboriginal peoples and the way in which whites and Aboriginals themselves responded to it … What is fascinating about Kelm’s analysis is her ability to make apparent the interconnectedness of issues … She has had to detail the many ways in which First Nations people were victims, but never totally lost agency. While Native agency is certainly present in the study, the overwhelming tone is one of condemnation for what was done to the First Nations. -- Wendy Mitchinson * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsContentsIllustrations, Figures, and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Health1 The Impact of Colonization on Aboriginal Health in British Columbia: Overview2 “My People Are Sick. My Young Men Are Angry”: The Impact of Colonization on Aboriginal Diet and Nutrition3 “Running Out of Spaces”: Sanitation and Environment in Aboriginal Habitations4 A “Scandalous Procession”: Residential Schooling and the Reformation of Aboriginal Bodies5 Aboriginal Conceptions of the Body, Disease, and MedicinePart 2: Healing6 Acts of Humanity: Indian Health Services7 Doctors, Hospitals, and Field Matrons: On the Ground with Indian Health Services8 Medical Pluralism in Aboriginal CommunitiesConclusionNotesA Note on SourcesSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.Trade ReviewA well-written, engaging book. -- Steven Acheson * The Midden 31/4 *In this comprehensive history of [western Vancouver Island and the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington], Alan McMillan integrates all available sources of information into a single account, tracing the heritage of [the region’s indigenous] peoples from the earliest archaeological evidence over 4000 years ago and addressing contemporary issues. * University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries (2000) *The subject of this thoroughly researched and well-written book is the Native peoples of the west coast of Vancouver Island and the northwestern peninsula of Washington State ... McMillan presents an exhaustive and detailed overview of the archaeological evidence ... His book will prove especially valuable to researchers studying the northwest coast of Canada. -- Mima Kapches * Canadian Book Review Annual 4218 *Table of ContentsIllustrations, Maps, and TablesAcknowledgments1 Setting the Stage2 Differing Approaches to the Nuu-chah-nulth Past3 Archaeological Research in Nuu-chah-nulth Territory4 The Emergence of the West Coast Culture Type5 The Late West Coast Culture Type6 The Transition to Recorded History7 Recent History and the Modern CommunitiesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOnce Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.Trade ReviewGlenn has carefully documented the sequence of events surrounding this often bitter controversy and has provided a comprehensive analysis of the issues, motives, and actions involved. His thorough review of the geography, history, and political institutions offers readers an understanding of how and why the project emerged. His book is well written, enjoyable to read, and supplemented by extensive notes and references. Recommended for all readership levels, especially for those interested in the interactions between governmental agencies, lobbyists, Native peoples, environmental groups, and legal institutions. -- M.J. Zwolinski * Choice *In this dense, well-researched, and thoroughly readable book, Jack Glenn examines how this highly controversial project came about. -- Ken Woollard * CBRA 5043 *An exhaustive chronicle of the battles over the construction of the Oldman Den in southern Alberta ... a definitive chronicle of both the battle of the Oldman specifically and the ongoing struggle to keep some of our natural landscape whole in the face of development pressures. Glenn provides background and reasons for his criticisms that are hard to object to, no matter what your agenda. for anyone who was involved, however peripherally, in the Oldman struggle, this book will be both engrossing and enlightening. For those concerned with the overall government versus environment struggle, it should be equally so. -- Valerie Haig-Brown * Alberta Views *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART 11 The Oldman River Basin2 In the Beginning3 The ECA Review4 A Dam on the Oldman5 Interlude6 The Battle Joined7 The EARPGO Challenge8 Carry on Regardless9 Milton and the Lonefighters10 7 September 199011 In the Aftermath12 The Federal Review13 The Panel Reports14 And ThereafterPART 215 The Iron Triangle and the Oldman River Dam16 The Environment and Its Friends17 Archaeology18 Biological Diversity19 EARPGO and the Courts20 FOR and the Attorney General21 The Peigan Indians22 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam I23 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam II24 The Federal Watchdog I25 The Federal Watchdog II26 Iniquity and Betrayal27 The Peigan, Politics, and the Courts28 The Environment, Politics, and the Courts29 Information and Disinformation30 Does It Matter?BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOnce Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.Trade ReviewGlenn has carefully documented the sequence of events surrounding this often bitter controversy and has provided a comprehensive analysis of the issues, motives, and actions involved. His thorough review of the geography, history, and political institutions offers readers an understanding of how and why the project emerged. His book is well written, enjoyable to read, and supplemented by extensive notes and references. Recommended for all readership levels, especially for those interested in the interactions between governmental agencies, lobbyists, Native peoples, environmental groups, and legal institutions. -- M.J. Zwolinski * Choice *In this dense, well-researched, and thoroughly readable book, Jack Glenn examines how this highly controversial project came about. -- Ken Woollard * CBRA 5043 *An exhaustive chronicle of the battles over the construction of the Oldman Den in southern Alberta ... a definitive chronicle of both the battle of the Oldman specifically and the ongoing struggle to keep some of our natural landscape whole in the face of development pressures. Glenn provides background and reasons for his criticisms that are hard to object to, no matter what your agenda. for anyone who was involved, however peripherally, in the Oldman struggle, this book will be both engrossing and enlightening. For those concerned with the overall government versus environment struggle, it should be equally so. -- Valerie Haig-Brown * Alberta Views *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART 11 The Oldman River Basin2 In the Beginning3 The ECA Review4 A Dam on the Oldman5 Interlude6 The Battle Joined7 The EARPGO Challenge8 Carry on Regardless9 Milton and the Lonefighters10 7 September 199011 In the Aftermath12 The Federal Review13 The Panel Reports14 And ThereafterPART 215 The Iron Triangle and the Oldman River Dam16 The Environment and Its Friends17 Archaeology18 Biological Diversity19 EARPGO and the Courts20 FOR and the Attorney General21 The Peigan Indians22 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam I23 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam II24 The Federal Watchdog I25 The Federal Watchdog II26 Iniquity and Betrayal27 The Peigan, Politics, and the Courts28 The Environment, Politics, and the Courts29 Information and Disinformation30 Does It Matter?BibliographyIndex

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