Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
University of British Columbia Press Metis Rising
Book SynopsisMétis Rising brings together a vibrant collection of essays on history, politics, and culture that celebrate the resilience of Métis identity.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: History, Identity, and Belonging 1 River Water Flows through Our Veins / Leah Dorion and Curtis Breaton2 What’s a Métis, Anyway? / Catherine Littlejohn3 The Right to Self-Identify as Métis at School / Jonathan Anuik4 Ancestral Knowledge in a Contemporary World / Yvonne VizinaPart 2: Leadership and Relationship Building5 Fire Starters and Keepers / Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns6 Finding a Way around the Jurisdictional Gaps / Tricia Logan7 Navigating Troubled Political Waters for Better Housing / Nathalie Kermoal8 Demanding the Right to Care for Their Own Children / Allyson StevensonPart 3: Exercising Our Rights and Self-Determination9 Who Will Come to Bury You? / Paul Chartrand10 Wiichihiwayshinawn / Margaret Kress11 Stoking the Embers: A Story of Realizing Decolonizing Aims with the Métis through Media Agancy / Yvonne Poitras Pratt12 A Métis Woman's Journey of Discovery / Judith G. BartlettIndex
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Braided Learning
Book SynopsisIn Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi educator Susan Dion inspires engagement with the histories and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, cultivating capacities for understanding, attunement, and respect. Trade Review“Dion appeals to the reader to be responsible listeners, who, from an Indigenous episteme, do not interrupt the speaker, and instead listen to the whole story, from which they can gain their own insights about themselves. From this, Dion positions settler educators as responsible for learning and teaching the true history of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples for reconciliation to be possible.” -- Linda M. Doyle * Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire De l’éducation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Indigenous Presence1 Requisites for Reconciliation2 Seeing Yourself in Relationship with Settler Colonialism3 The Historical Timeline: Refusing Absence, Knowing Presence, and Being Indigenous4 Learning from Contemporary Indigenous Artists5 The Braiding Histories Stories / Co-written with Michael R. DionConclusion: Wuleelham – Make Good TracksGlossary and Additional Resources: Making Connections, Extending LearningNotes; Bibliography
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Braided Learning
Book SynopsisIn Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi educator Susan Dion inspires engagement with the histories and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, cultivating capacities for understanding, attunement, and respect. Trade Review“Dion appeals to the reader to be responsible listeners, who, from an Indigenous episteme, do not interrupt the speaker, and instead listen to the whole story, from which they can gain their own insights about themselves. From this, Dion positions settler educators as responsible for learning and teaching the true history of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples for reconciliation to be possible.” -- Linda M. Doyle * Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire De l’éducation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Indigenous Presence1 Requisites for Reconciliation2 Seeing Yourself in Relationship with Settler Colonialism3 The Historical Timeline: Refusing Absence, Knowing Presence, and Being Indigenous4 Learning from Contemporary Indigenous Artists5 The Braiding Histories Stories / Co-written with Michael R. DionConclusion: Wuleelham – Make Good TracksGlossary and Additional Resources: Making Connections, Extending LearningNotes; Bibliography
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Meeting My Treaty Kin
Book SynopsisThis intimate story of one settler's journey toward reconciliation reveals the rich potential that comes from learning to listen and change decolonization not as to-do list, but as a lived experience of taking one awkward step at a time.Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction1 At the Fence2 Showing Up3 First Doubts4 A Chance to Really Engage5 Who Do You Think You Are?6 Showing Up Again7 Dwelling in Discomfort8 Challenged9 Challenging Myself10 Conversations Deepen11 Witnessing Denial12 Learning to Listen13 Witnessing Denial – and Possibility14 Surrendering Personally15 Living a Land Claim16 Connective Cadences17 Colonialism Ongoing18 Preparing to Leave 19 The Poignant Blessings of Relationship Building20 Surrendering Professionally 21 Helping Prepare a Spirit Plate22 Continuing the Journey: Toward a Possible Settler Counter-Narrative Epilogue: Lighting the Eighth Fire?
£23.39
Chelsea House Publishers The Apache Wars
Book SynopsisFor a quarter century - 1861 to 1886 - the US military attempted to subjugate one of the largest Indian tribes of the American Southwest. This book presents the tale of how thanks to leaders such as Victorio and Geronimo, the Apache Indians held out longer than any other major US tribe.
£29.71
The Trail of Tears
Book SynopsisIn 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. This book is an insightful exploration of the dark chapter in Native American history.
£27.16
Cornell University Press Brethren by Nature
Book SynopsisIn Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians.Trade ReviewLast fall, National Geographic and PBS touted their respective TV series about the first Thanksgiving as new and historically accurate interpretations of the European colonization of New England. But neither 'Saints and Strangers' nor 'American Experience: The Pilgrims' dared to go where Margaret Ellen Newell has gone in her most recent book, Brethren by Nature, a meticulously researched account of American Indian slavery during the Colonial period in New England. -- Tanya H. Lee * Indian Country Today Media Network *Newell has done an excellent job of combing through court recordscorrespondenceand other materials to reconstruct details large and small and to uncover the stories of enslaved people and their enslavers... [A] testament to her careful scholarship and indeed a central part of the story of Indian slavery in New England. -- Daniel K. Richter * New England Quarterly *Newell recovers the stories of individual Indian people caught up in a system of unfree labor that contributed to New England's prosperity, linked the region to slave economies in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and played an important role in the racialization of society. Brethren by Nature is an important book about Indians in New England; it is also an important book about New England. -- Colin G. Calloway * Media Reviews *Newell's achievement represents some of the best new research within the historiographies of Native America, slavery, and colonial New England. Never losing sight of the enslaved themselves, Brethren by Nature places the travails of indigenous nations and individuals at the heart of colonial slavery. With this outstanding work, Newell shakes the 'city on the hill' to its very core. -- Max Flomen * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Indian Slavery in Early America1. "Davids warre": The Pequot War and the Origins of Slavery in New England2. "I doe not see how wee can thrive untill wee gett into a stock of slaves": Slavery in the Puritan Atlantic World3. "Indians we have received into our houses": Pequot War Captives in New England Households4. "Such a servant is part of her Master's estate": Acculturation, Resistance, and the Making of a Hybrid Society5. "An Indian to help in the work": The Importance of Indian Labor in the New England Economy6. "We sold...47 Indians, young and old for 80£. in money": Enslavement in King Philip’s War7. "As good if not better then the Moorish Slaves": Law, Slavery, and the Second Native Diaspora8. "Free men subjects to the king": The Search for Enslavable Indians in the Northeast and Southeast9. To be sold "in any part of ye kings Dominyons": Judicial Enslavement of New England IndiansEpilogue: Indians and the Origins of American Slavery—and AbolitionismAbbreviations Notes Index
£40.50
MB - Cornell University Press Architect of Justice
Book SynopsisA major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907–1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural...Trade ReviewDalia Tsuk Mitchell has produced a work of impressive legal scholarship. * New York Law Journal *
£69.30
Cornell University Press To Live upon Hope Mohicans and Missionaries in
Book SynopsisWheeler explores the question of what "missionary Christianity" became in the hands of two native communities in the 18th century: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Shekomeko of Dutchess County, New York.Trade ReviewBehind the mythology of The Last of the Mohicans and recent revisionist accounts, Native and otherwise, that regard the Christian mission to the Indians as an unmitigated disaster, there lies a tangled and often deeply moving tale, well told by Rachel Wheeler.... We should read it to better understand a crucial episode in the national story, and also to shine a comparative light on the working out of our own faith. * Christianity Today *In this meticulously researched and well-written book, Rachel Wheeler adds to the growing scholarship exploring how Native American communities adapted 'missionary Christianity' to suit their own needs....Wheeler successfully examines some of the complex responses native peoples developed in a rapidly changing colonial world. -- Shawn G. Wiemann * History: Reviews of New Books *Rachel Wheeler provides an impressive amount of texture, detail, and contingency as she traces the outline of two very different and intriguing mission towns. Throughout, Wheeler's emphasis is on how Indians 'adapted Christianity to preserve and construct community.' Wheeler is a deft storyteller. To Live Upon Hope is perhaps the most sophisticated analysis of northeastern Indian lifeworlds and religious interiority that we have to date, in part because of Wheeler's mastery of the difficult eighteenth-century Moravian manuscript archives—a feat claimed only by a few contemporary American historians. And for this and many other reasons, this excellent volume is sure to be enjoyed by students and historians interested in Native American studies and/or the religious history of early America. * Journal of Social History *This is a wonderful book for what it does for the field of mission history. Comparing two communities influenced by two different denominations brings into sharp relief the competition for native souls in colonial British America; Wheeler never loses sight of the ferocious power dynamics of colonialism. Wheeler has also accomplished a tough task, showing how Mohicans made two types of Protestantism their own. To Live upon Hope is a reminder that Christianity was not always a shock-troop weapon against native peoples; it could become a source of Indian pride and strength. Wheeler's dual approach is also a tragic statement on the bar of civility and racial superiority with some mission efforts that always set limits on native acceptance into Anglo-American society. There is much left to ponder with this work. * Journal of American History *To Live Upon Hope is a monumental study of the Mohican Indian mission experience in the eighteenth century.... Using her tenacious skill at uncovering countless obscure manuscript sources, Rachel Wheeler has re-created the little-known story of these Indian missions and, in comparing the two, placed her emphasis on the 'reconfiguration of peoples and the formation of racial identity.'... To Live Upon Hope outlines the careers of many fascinating characters, including Umpachene and Hendrick at Stockbridge and Shabash, Tschoop, and Joshua at Shekomeko. Wheeler's use of the sources is thorough and unmatched; indeed, her study serves as a sourcebook for the period.... Wheeler's history is a major work and should remain as the definitive study of the Mohican mission experience for many years to come. Demonstrating clearly and eloquently that the Mohicans did not rely on hope alone to survive in a changing world, she shows that they acted and they adapted. -- Lion Miles * The New England Quarterly *To Live upon Hopecontributes significantly to underattended topics through careful study of local archives. Rachel Wheeler applies appropriately adapted theory to develop fresh arguments about the relations of power between imperial and indigenous agency in a book that should make useful reading for scholars in Native American Studies and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies.... Chapter six (Mohican Men and Jesus as Manitou) and chapter eight (Mohican Women and the Community of the Blood) best exemplify her central arguments about Mohican Christianity. They are worth the purchasing price of the whole book for anyone interested in discussing the gendered dimensions of Indian religious conversion in eighteenth century America as part of an advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar. * James O'Neil Spady *Wheeler is particularly strong on Moravian Mohican spirituality, including its gendered dimensions, and her thorough and compelling reading of Edwards's relationship with the Stockbridge Mohicans must now stand as the authoritative discussion of that subject. The comparative dimension only adds to the book's richness, particularly by highlighting perhaps inadvertently the relatively limited role played by piety and religious practice, as opposed to political and material benefits, in motivating eastern Indians to work with Anglo-Protestant missionaries. To Live upon Hope is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in Indians and/or religion, particularly in eighteenth-century North America. -- Neal Salisbury * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Indian and ChristianPart I. Hope 2. The River God and the Lieutenant 3. Covenants, Contracts, and the Founding of StockbridgePart II. Renewal 4. The Chief and the Orator 5. Moravian Missionaries of the Blood 6. Mohican Men and Jesus as ManitouPart III. Preservation 7. The Village Matriarch and the Young Mother 8. Mohican Women and the Community of the BloodPart IV. Persecution 9. The Dying Chief and the Accidental Missionary 10. Indian and White Bodies Politic at StockbridgeConclusion 11. Irony and Identity 12. The Cooper and the Sachem 13. Epilogue: Real and Ideal IndiansAbbreviations Notes Index
£44.65
Cornell University Press The Edge of Extinction
Book SynopsisJules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature.Trade Review[Pretty] describes an astonishing diversity of human experience in which our species has learned to live well with, rather than against, nature and often each other. -- Andrew Simms * The Guardian *Jules Pretty traveled the world to find places where people live and work in concert with the land. In this book, he shares his story of these travels and the people he met along the way to emphasize the utter importance of caring for what we have before we have it no more.... He shares these stories to honor them and to educate us. -- REH * Wildlife Activist *The key to a long term sustainable future is an appeal to a loving care of beauty and the vibrant communities it gives rise to, rather than either the instilling of fear of catastrophe or utilitarian calculation. It is, finally, this recurring testimony that makes the book not only a thoughtful exploration of the lives of others, genuinely other, tracking different paths to the mainstream, but a tracing of the patterns of what it might mean to love a place and be at home in it. The homes themselves are all strikingly different but bound by being places that first and foremost are genuinely listened to—its possibilities and the stories it can give rise to. -- Nicholas Colloff * Network Review *Pretty (environment and society, Univ. of Essex; The Earth Only Endures) provides the reader with a verbal feast for the senses while detailing his experiences in a variety of landscapes, from the steppes of Russia to the farmland of Ohio's Amish country. The author reveals the ways in which many people around the globe continue to live in harmony with the land despite the unavoidable encroachment of modern technology and values. In what could be considered either a strength of the book or a weakness, Pretty stays away from divisive political statements regarding environmentalism, though he does advocate for governments to allow the indigenous peoples of their land to live with minimal intervention. This work is no political rallying cry; rather it is a celebration of the beauty and culture of "extreme" landscapes and slower lifestyles the world over. VERDICT Readers who delight in detailed travel writing will relish Pretty's masterly descriptions of deserts, swamps, and mountains, as well as the daily activities of those who live in these environments. * Library Journal *Table of Contents1. Seacoast: Ngai Tahu, Aotearoa (New Zealand) 2. Mountain: Huangshan, China 3. Desert Coast: Murujuga (Burrup), Australia 4. Steppe: Tuva, Russia 5. Snow: Karelia, Finland 6. Swamp: Okavango, Botswana 7. Marsh-Farm: East Anglia, England 8. Coast: Antrim Glens, Northern Ireland 9. Snow: Nitassinan, Labrador, Canada 10. Farm-City: Amish Country, Ohio, United States 11. Swamp: Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, United States 12. Desert: Timbisha (Death Valley), California, United States Coda: Dreaming of the Day AfterNotes Bibliography Acknowledgments
£20.89
Cornell University Press Mien Relations
Book SynopsisThailand's hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts...Trade Review"A detailed ethnography of the Mien people of Thailand is long overdue. Mien Relations addresses the transformations that have come to the upland regions of Thailand with a clear analytical vision, just as it engages various theoretical developments in anthropology over the last two decades. Hjorleifur Jonsson regards the Mien as modern Thai subjects, and his book is a true pleasure to read. It is clearly written, rich in ethnographic detail, and brilliantly argued." -- Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"Mien history and society come to life in this provocative and beautifully written ethnography. Hjorleifur Jonsson's striking analysis of how households and communities have re-formed within varied regional political economies cuts through the simplifications of earlier ethnographies as it also forms a cogent commentary on all ethnographic practice. Mien efforts to appeal to the standards of the nation-state—even when burning down the office—are equally riveting." -- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection"Mien Relations is a major contribution to knowledge about the highland minorities of mainland Southeast Asia, marking a radical break with traditional ethnographies. Hjorleifur Jonsson's work should encourage a new generation of scholars to conduct rich and historically grounded research. Combining rich archival materials with insights gained through fieldwork, Jonsson establishes that many elements of highland culture were shaped by specific historical and political influences. This book explodes the standard paradigm of highland minorities as remote from state control." -- Katherine A. Bowie, University of Wisconsin–Madison
£26.59
Cornell University Press To Live upon Hope
Book SynopsisWheeler explores the question of what "missionary Christianity" became in the hands of two native communities in the 18th century: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Shekomeko of Dutchess County, New York.Trade ReviewBehind the mythology of The Last of the Mohicans and recent revisionist accounts, Native and otherwise, that regard the Christian mission to the Indians as an unmitigated disaster, there lies a tangled and often deeply moving tale, well told by Rachel Wheeler.... We should read it to better understand a crucial episode in the national story, and also to shine a comparative light on the working out of our own faith. * Christianity Today *In this meticulously researched and well-written book, Rachel Wheeler adds to the growing scholarship exploring how Native American communities adapted 'missionary Christianity' to suit their own needs....Wheeler successfully examines some of the complex responses native peoples developed in a rapidly changing colonial world. -- Shawn G. Wiemann * History: Reviews of New Books *Rachel Wheeler provides an impressive amount of texture, detail, and contingency as she traces the outline of two very different and intriguing mission towns. Throughout, Wheeler's emphasis is on how Indians 'adapted Christianity to preserve and construct community.' Wheeler is a deft storyteller. To Live Upon Hope is perhaps the most sophisticated analysis of northeastern Indian lifeworlds and religious interiority that we have to date, in part because of Wheeler's mastery of the difficult eighteenth-century Moravian manuscript archives—a feat claimed only by a few contemporary American historians. And for this and many other reasons, this excellent volume is sure to be enjoyed by students and historians interested in Native American studies and/or the religious history of early America. * Journal of Social History *This is a wonderful book for what it does for the field of mission history. Comparing two communities influenced by two different denominations brings into sharp relief the competition for native souls in colonial British America; Wheeler never loses sight of the ferocious power dynamics of colonialism. Wheeler has also accomplished a tough task, showing how Mohicans made two types of Protestantism their own. To Live upon Hope is a reminder that Christianity was not always a shock-troop weapon against native peoples; it could become a source of Indian pride and strength. Wheeler's dual approach is also a tragic statement on the bar of civility and racial superiority with some mission efforts that always set limits on native acceptance into Anglo-American society. There is much left to ponder with this work. * Journal of American History *To Live Upon Hope is a monumental study of the Mohican Indian mission experience in the eighteenth century.... Using her tenacious skill at uncovering countless obscure manuscript sources, Rachel Wheeler has re-created the little-known story of these Indian missions and, in comparing the two, placed her emphasis on the 'reconfiguration of peoples and the formation of racial identity.'... To Live Upon Hope outlines the careers of many fascinating characters, including Umpachene and Hendrick at Stockbridge and Shabash, Tschoop, and Joshua at Shekomeko. Wheeler's use of the sources is thorough and unmatched; indeed, her study serves as a sourcebook for the period.... Wheeler's history is a major work and should remain as the definitive study of the Mohican mission experience for many years to come. Demonstrating clearly and eloquently that the Mohicans did not rely on hope alone to survive in a changing world, she shows that they acted and they adapted. -- Lion Miles * The New England Quarterly *To Live upon Hopecontributes significantly to underattended topics through careful study of local archives. Rachel Wheeler applies appropriately adapted theory to develop fresh arguments about the relations of power between imperial and indigenous agency in a book that should make useful reading for scholars in Native American Studies and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies.... Chapter six (Mohican Men and Jesus as Manitou) and chapter eight (Mohican Women and the Community of the Blood) best exemplify her central arguments about Mohican Christianity. They are worth the purchasing price of the whole book for anyone interested in discussing the gendered dimensions of Indian religious conversion in eighteenth century America as part of an advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar. * James O'Neil Spady *Wheeler is particularly strong on Moravian Mohican spirituality, including its gendered dimensions, and her thorough and compelling reading of Edwards's relationship with the Stockbridge Mohicans must now stand as the authoritative discussion of that subject. The comparative dimension only adds to the book's richness, particularly by highlighting perhaps inadvertently the relatively limited role played by piety and religious practice, as opposed to political and material benefits, in motivating eastern Indians to work with Anglo-Protestant missionaries. To Live upon Hope is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in Indians and/or religion, particularly in eighteenth-century North America. -- Neal Salisbury * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Indian and ChristianPart I. Hope 2. The River God and the Lieutenant 3. Covenants, Contracts, and the Founding of StockbridgePart II. Renewal 4. The Chief and the Orator 5. Moravian Missionaries of the Blood 6. Mohican Men and Jesus as ManitouPart III. Preservation 7. The Village Matriarch and the Young Mother 8. Mohican Women and the Community of the BloodPart IV. Persecution 9. The Dying Chief and the Accidental Missionary 10. Indian and White Bodies Politic at StockbridgeConclusion 11. Irony and Identity 12. The Cooper and the Sachem 13. Epilogue: Real and Ideal IndiansAbbreviations Notes Index
£23.19
MB - Cornell University Press Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empir
Book SynopsisOn the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending...Trade ReviewThis quietly written account of the Albany Congress as a stage in the evolution of empire comprehends the historical issues of the congress and raises some historiographical issues by implication... His work is to be welcomed. -- Francis Jennings, Newberry Library * The Journal of American History *
£21.84
Cornell University Press Shared Symbols Contested Meanings
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Loretta Fowler here examines the history and culture of the Gros Ventres over two centuries, seeking to discover why the residents of Fort Belknap ascribe different and often opposing meanings to their shared cultural symbols and how these differences have influenced Gros Ventre identity.
£23.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The HuronWendat Feast of the Dead IndianEuropean
Book SynopsisHis compelling narrative gives undergraduate students of early America and the Atlantic World a revealing glimpse into this fascinating-and surprising-meeting of cultures.Trade Review"This book does everything an instructor could wish for by offering a historically rich, dramatic, and vividly rendered narrative that should at once engage and challenge students at all levels." (Neal Salisbury, Smith College)"Table of ContentsPrologue: Encounters with Bones and Death1. The Origins of Wendake2. Catholicism and Colonization3. First Encounters4. The Feast of the Dead5. Epidemic Tensions6. Conversion and Conflict7. DestructionEpilogue: Bones of Contention, Bones of ConsolationAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£40.95
University of Toronto Press The Indians of Quetico
Book SynopsisA fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game, trees, and plants for their food, their clothing, and their dwellings, and they realized that it was in their best interest to protect these things, to ensure their livelihood year after year and for the generations to come.The author traces the outlines of this Indian civilization—the Ojibwa's social organization, family life, the quest for food, their handicrafts, and the world of the supernatural with which they lived in such intimacy. The result is an authoritative and entertaining account. The book contains 8 photographs, 25 line drawings and two-colour end-paper map.
£13.29
University of Toronto Press The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian
Book Synopsis The movement of one cultural group into the territory of another has always produced conflict: a conflict which is resolved at times by the obliteration of one group, but more often by a gradual fusion of elements drawn from both. This study examines the conflict between the Europeans and the Indians precipitated by the arrival of the French in the New World. The Indians were necessarily affected by the fur trade and the religious and social development of New France, and the meeting of contrary cultures resulted in most cases in the obliteration of that of the Indian. However, a fusion of Indian and European elements sometimes occurred, resulting in the birth of a ‘Canadian’ culture. The process has been repeated with the immigration of every new cultural group to Canada. This study analyses the conflict and traces the fusion of Canadian culture in its initial stage. First published in 1937, the book has proved an importance contribution to an area of early Can
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Teaching in a Cold and Windy Place
Book SynopsisJoanne Tompkins travelled to the Baffin Island community of Anurapaqtuq to take on the job of principal at the local school. This is the fascinating story of her experiences in the four years she spent there and the many challenges she faced.On her arrival in the Inuit village, Tompkins found struggling teachers and failing students in a community that was grappling with social and economic change. Outlining strategies that worked and others that failed, she gives a vivid account of the day-to-day trials and rewards that she and community members experienced as they worked to create a productive and exciting school environment.This engaging and informative account of change in an Inuit school will be of great use to educators and administrators, and appeal to general readers as well. One educator who read the manuscript paid it the compliment of comparing it to Sylvia Ashton-Warner's classic tale of teaching Maori children, Teacher.
£23.39
University of Toronto Press How Should I Read These Native Women Writers in
Book SynopsisDrawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada.
£29.70
University of Toronto Press Hang Onto These Words
Book SynopsisIn 1985 and 1986, ninety-year-old Witsuwit'en Chief, Maxlaxlex – or Johnny David as he is better known – was the first Witsuwit'en to give Commission Evidence in the Delgamuukw land claims case in which the Witsuwit'en and Gitxsan of Northern British Columbia were battling for title to their traditional territories. 'Hang Onto These Words' presents the actual transcripts of the questions and answers between lawyers working on both sides and this knowledgeable and outspoken Native elder who spoke in his own language and whose words were then translated by an interpreter into English. The evidence was given in a makeshift courtroom set up in David's own home. Anthropologist Antonia Mills was present during these proceedings, and in this book, she introduces and contextualizes the evidence within the Delgamuukw case. In his testimony, David provides a rich description of the Witsuwit'en way of life as well as the injustices suffered atTable of ContentsForeword HAGWILNEGHL /RONALD A. MITCHELL Foreword MISALOS / VICTOR JIM Foreword MICHAEL JACKSON Acknowledgments Introduction ANTONIA MILLS The Commission Evidence of Witsuwit'en Chief Maxlaxlex / Johnny David VOLUME 1: Direct Examination of Johnny David by Peter Grant, 20 September 1985 VOLUME 2: Direct Examination of Johnny David by Peter Grant, 26-7 September 1985 VOLUME 3: Direct Examination of Johnny David by Peter Grant, 17-19 October 1985 VOLUME 4: Direct Examination of Johnny David by Peter Grant, 19-20 December 1985 VOLUME 5: Direct Examination of Johnny David by Peter Grant, 29-31 January 1986 VOLUME 6: Cross-Examination of Johnny David by John Milne, 24-5 February 1986 VOLUME 7: Cross-Examination of Johnny David by John Milne, 21-2 April 1986 VOLUME 8: Cross-Examination of Johnny David by John Milne, 28 April 1986 Redirect Examination of Johnny David by Peter Grant, 29 April 1986 Cross-Examination of Johnny David by John Milne, 29 April 1986 Notes Glossary References Credits and Sources Index
£40.50
MY - University of Toronto Press Aboriginal Health in Canada
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£31.50
University of Toronto Press Reflections on NativeNewcomer Relations
Book SynopsisThe twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with the evolution of historical writing on First Nations and Métis, methodological issues in the writing of Native-newcomer history, policy matters including residential schools, and linkages between the study of Native-newcomer relations and academic governance and curricular matters. Half of the essays appear here in print for the first time, and all use archival, published, and oral history evidence to throw light on Native-Newcomer relations.Miller argues that the nature of the relationship between Native peoples and newcomers in Canada has varied over time, based on the reasons the two parties have had for interacting. The relationship deteriorates into attempts to contrTrade Review"'Miller's willingness to be clear and forthright about contested matters is a real strength of this collection. He does not shrink from controversy, either about current issues or about the interpretation of history. The order in which the essays appear shows the development in thinking over a twenty year period of a scholar who has made a very significant contribution to the field of native-newcomer history in Canada.' Robin Fisher, Dean of Arts, University of Regina"
£29.70
University of Toronto Press Reflections on NativeNewcomer Relations Selected
Book SynopsisReflections on Native-Newcomer Relations opens up for discussion a series of issues in Native-newcomer history. It addresses all the trends in the discipline of the past two decades and never shies from showing their contradictions, as well as those in the author's own thinking as he matured as a scholar.Trade Review"'Miller's willingness to be clear and forthright about contested matters is a real strength of this collection. He does not shrink from controversy, either about current issues or about the interpretation of history. The order in which the essays appear shows the development in thinking over a twenty year period of a scholar who has made a very significant contribution to the field of native-newcomer history in Canada.' Robin Fisher, Dean of Arts, University of Regina"
£56.95
MY - University of Toronto Press Mississauga Portraits
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£30.60
University of Toronto Press Recognizing Aboriginal Title The Mabo Case and
Book SynopsisRecognizing Aboriginal Title is a work of enormous importance by a legal and constitutional scholar of international renown, written with a passion worthy of its subject - a man who fought hard for his people and won.
£30.39
University of Toronto Press Before the Country
Book SynopsisIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced non-Native Canadian writers and has been fundamental in shaping our search for a national mythology.In the context of Northrop Frye's theories of myth, and in light of the attempts of social critics and early anthologists to define Canada and Canadian literature, McKenzie discusses the ways in which our decidedly fractured sense of literary nationalism has set indigenous culture apart from the mainstream. She examines anew the aesthetics of Native Literature and, in a style that is creative as much as it is scholarly, McKenzie incorporates the principles of storytelling into the unfolding of her argument. This strategy not only enlivens her narrative, but also underTrade Review"Before the Country is indispensable to any survey of Canadian national literature or literary study of the period." -- Kirby Brown * Studies in American Indian Literatures 21.1 (2009) *"Before the Country should provide the stimulus for discussion among scholars of Canadian Native literature as well as countless others involved with Canadian literature, Native Studies, or Canadian Studies." -- Michael Kennedy * Canadian Journal of Native Studies 28.2 (2008) *"Before the Country provides an important antithesis to Romantic nationalism and obscure euphemisms that serve no purpose in reconciliation between Aboriginal Canadians and non-Aboriginal Canadians." -- Naomi Mcllwraith * American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32.3 (2008) *"Indigenous literature of the 1960s and 1970s is often dismissed as `protest literature’; McKenzie, however, believes that it constitutes `a literature of praise, resilience, hope, and instruction by example’ and influence beyond its community. McKenzie's theories shed light on an important period of Canadian cultural history by using a study of myth to show Indigenous literature's influence on settler literature. Although Before the Country is specific to Canadian literature and Indigenous literature from Canada, McKenzie's theories could apply to U.S. and Native American literatures from south of the 49th parallel. Before the Country is an invaluable text for anyone interested in better understanding the Native-settler relationships through literature and myth." -- Jo-Ann Episkenew * Queen’s Quarterly 29.3 (2009) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations IntroductionThe Headwaters of DesignThe Seventh GenerationNative Literature of the 1960s and 1970s in CanadaDay of AtonementSearching for Sun-Gods: Robert Kroestch's Badlands and Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe Admitting the Possibility of Transitional Texts in Canadian LiteratureConclusion Notes Works CitedPermissionsIndex
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University of Toronto Press Zapatismo Beyond Borders
Book SynopsisOn January 1, 1994 in the far southeast of Mexico, a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants calling itself the Zapatista Army of National Liberation rose up in rebellion against 500 years of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, racism, and neoliberal capitalism. Zapatismo Beyond Borders examines how Zapatismo, the political philosophy of the Zapatistas, crossed the regional and national boundaries of the isolated indigenous communities of Chiapas to influence diverse communities of North American activists.Providing readers with anthropological perspectives that draw on a year of fieldwork with activists, and also enriched by the author's own experience with contemporary social justice struggles, Alex Khasnabish examines the "transnational resonance" of the Zapatista movement. He shows how the spread of Zapatismo has unexpectedly produced new imaginations and practices of radical political action in diverse socio-political movements throughout North America. Trade Review"'Khasnabish's research is solid, the conceptual framework is innovative and interesting with a logical progress from theory to history and case studies. This is a very good work: engaging, sometimes enraging, alive, and well-informed.' Philippe Couton, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa"
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University of Toronto Press Zapatismo Beyond Borders New Imaginations of
Book SynopsisExamines how Zapatismo, the political philosophy of the Zapatistas, crossed the regional and national boundaries of the isolated indigenous communities of Chiapas to influence diverse communities of North American activists.Trade Review"'Khasnabish's research is solid, the conceptual framework is innovative and interesting with a logical progress from theory to history and case studies. This is a very good work; engaging, sometimes enraging, alive, and well-informed.' Philippe Couton, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa"
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University of Nebraska Press The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890
Book SynopsisOffers an account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance. This book presents the views and observations of Indian agents, the US Army, missionaries, the mainstream press, and Congress.Trade Review"Well written and researched, this is a landmark book on the Lakota ghost dance and Wounded Knee."—M. J. Van de Logt, CHOICE"Finnish scholar Rani-Henrik Andersson has written what should be the first stop for those approaching the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee tragedy for the first time and a must-read addition to the literature for those familiar, or who think they are familiar, with them."—Todd M. Kerstetter, Nebraska History"The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 is highly recommended for all those wishing to learn more about this exceedingly important chapter in Native American–white relations."—Harvey Markowitz, Journal of American History"[The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890] demonstrates how understanding a particular tribe's culture is fundamental in comprehending and writing its history."—David Christensen, Studies in American Indian Literatures"This work is impressive in its detail and consistent in its manner of presentation. . . . I am certain The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 will become a primary reference text on the subject, accessible to scholars and popular readers alike."—Lee Irwin, Great Plains Quarterly"[The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890] is the most comprehensive study of the Ghost Dance to date and it offers an intriguing new look at the events that developed at the Lakota agencies in 1890 and the ensuing tragedy at Wounded Knee. Scholars and the public will find much of interest in Andersson's lively book."—Mark R. Ellis, New Mexico Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIllustrations, maps and tablesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Wanáõi Wachípi këChapter 3: The Indian Agents and the Lakota Ghost DanceChapter 4: “To Protect and Suppress Trouble”Chapter 5: Missionary Views on the Lakota Ghost DanceChapter 6: “In an Atmosphere Pregnant With Mysteries”Chapter 7: The United States Congress and the Ghost DanceChapter 8: Toward “A Great Story” of the Lakota Ghost DanceAppendicesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection of essays that assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World's Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant.Trade Review"In this edited volume, sports anthropologist Brownell leads an exploration of a forgotten moment in premodern anthropology. . . . A very successful project of intellectual history."—J. Marks, CHOICE"The multidisciplinary approach offered by this collection succeeds in exposing the relationships between anthropology, physical culture, the Olympic movement, and imperialism in revelatory ways."—John W. Troutman, Western Historical Quarterly"The authors provide not only a window into the history of a sporting event but also an important story about sports as a system of representation. This volume is a fine collection that recalls a past event that is still relevant to the present."—John Bloom, American Historical Review"Through their analyses of the 1904 Games, the authors convincingly interrogate—and connect—categories of science, sport, race, and nation at the turn of the 20th century. . . . The book will appeal to a number of audiences, including scholars interested in the histories of anthropology, museums as well as world's fairs and other forms of display, science, sport, colonialism, imperialism, and national and international movements."—Andi Johnson, Museum Anthropology Review"This is a well-conceived volume that will be of wide interest to many scholars."—Barbara Keys, Journal of American Ethnic History"The connection between the histories of the Olympics and anthropology provides a unique perspective on the history of sport. . . . The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games would make an excellent addition to the library of any scholar interested in the history of the Olympics or the history of anthropology."—Colleen English, International Journal of the History of SportsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bodies before Boas, Sport before the Laughter Left (Susan Brownell)1. A “Special Olympics”: Testing Racial Strength and Endurance at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Nancy J. Parezo)2. The “Physical Value” of Races and Nations: Anthropology and Athletics at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Mark Dyreson)3. Pierre de Coubertin’s Concepts of Race, Nation, and Civilization (Otto J. Schantz)4. Anthropology Days, the Construction of Whiteness and American Imperialism in the Philippines (Gerald R. Gems)5. “From Savagery to Civic Organization”: The Non-Participation of Canadian “Indians” in the “Anthropology Days” of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games (Christine M. O’Bonsawin)6. “Leav[ing] the White[s] . . . Far Behind Them”: The Girls from Fort Shaw (Montana) Indian School, Basketball Champions of the 1904 World’s Fair (Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith)7. Germans and Others at the “American Games”: Problems of National and International Representation at the 1904 Olympics (Suzuko Mousel Knott)8. Greece and the 1904 “American” Olympics (Alexander Kitroeff)9. From the Anthropology Days to the Anthropological Olympics (John Bale)10. Olympic Anthropology Days and the Progress of Exclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Democracy (Henning Eichberg)11. The Growth of Scientific Standards from “Anthropology Days” to Present Days (Jonathan Marks)Afterword: Back to the Future (Susan Brownell)
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University of Nebraska Press That Dream Shall Have a Name
Book SynopsisThe founding idea of “America” has been based largely on the expected sweeping away of Native Americans to make room for EuroAmericans and their cultures. In this authoritative study, David L. Moore examines the works of five well-known Native American writers and their efforts, beginning in the colonial period, to redefine an “America” and “American identity” that includes Native Americans.Trade Review"David Moore has spent his career studying Native American literature; That Dream Shall Have a Name distills many years of teaching, reading, and thinking. A signal contribution to Native American scholarship, it shines with wisdom, poignancy, and hope."—O. Alan Weltzien, Western American Literature"This book is an impressive study and a great contribution to our literary classrooms."—Leola Tsinnajinnie, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher EducationTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Fool SoldiersChapter 1 – “knowing it was to come”: Sovereignty as SacrificeChapter 2 – “a plethora of animistic factors immersed in ethereal realities”: Community as AnimismChapter 3 – “the soul of the Indian is immortal”: Identity as ChangeChapter 4 – “the creative ability of Indian people”: Authenticity as TranslationChapter 5 – The Last Laugh: Humor and Humanity in Native American PluralismConclusion: The Anxiety of Confluence: America’s Struggle with AuthenticityNotesBiographical AppendixBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Reservation Reelism
Book SynopsisIn this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples. Raheja attempts to create positive representations in film that reflect the complex and vibrant experiences of Native peoples and communities.Trade Review"A fascinating resource for those interested in the history of Native Americans in film, the contradictions of racial visual representations, and the emergence of a Native filmmaking aesthetic."-J. Ruppert, Choice -- J. Ruppert Choice "Deeply researched and beautifully conceptualized and written, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of history, film, and indigenous cultural production."-Beth H. Piatote, Western Historical Quarterly -- Beth H. Piatote Western Historical Quarterly "Raheja's archival research and extensive references to relatively unknown films will prove useful to scholars of indigenous media and representational practices, as will the exposition of visual sovereignty, the work's strongest contribution that will be discussed and utilized for years to come." -Leighton C. Peterson, Journal of the American Ethnological Society -- Leighton C. Peterson Journal of the American Ethnological Society "Reservation Reelism is a very important read for anyone interested in Film Studies, Native American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies."-Jenell Navarro, Taylor and Francis Online -- Jenell Navarro Taylor and Francis Online "Reservation Reelism is a focused and innovative study and will be crucial reading for anyone working in Indigenous film and media studies."-Joanna Hearne, Studies in American Indian Literature -- Joanna Hearne Studies in American Indian Literature "This thoroughly researched book is a significant contribution to film studies... Raheja's theoretical inventions recommend Reservation Reelism not only to scholars of Native American history and film but also to all critics interested in portrayals of race in American popular culture."-Scott D. Emmert, Western American Literature -- Scott D. Emmert Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction/Chapter 1. Towards a Genealogy of Indigenous Film Theory: Reading Hollywood IndiansChapter 2. Ideologies of (In)visibility: Redfacing, Gender, and Moving ImagesChapter 3. Tears and Trash: Economies of Redfacing and the Ghostly IndianChapter 4. Prophesizing on the Virtual Reservation: Imprint and It Starts with a WhisperChapter 5. Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)Epilogue. Redfacing Redux
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University of Nebraska Press The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. The original and creative pedagogical method of teaching Omaha language through Omaha culture used in this textbook consists of a structured series of lesson plans.Trade Review"Taken as a whole, the volume represents an active guide to the intertwined language and culture of the Omaha people. It is an essential tool for anyone who wishes to begin the path to a fluency in the Omaha language as well as for others whose goals may be less ambitious, but who wish to know and appreciate the people of this important Native American nation."—Michael J. Smith, Nebraska History“This book, whose subject matter is critically important for any member of the Omaha Nation, can help a reader move from being someone who is simply looking to say a few words in Omaha to someone who can read, write, and speak Omaha at a conversational level. I consider it a major contribution to its field.”—Ryan Kasak, doctoral candidate in linguistics at Yale University
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University of Nebraska Press The Blue Tattoo
Book SynopsisIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer travelling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.Trade Review"An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-century America."—Times Literary Supplement"An easy, flowing read, one you won't be able to put down."—Christian Science Monitor"The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman, the first tattooed American white woman. . . . Mifflin weaves together Olive's story with the history of American westward expansion, the Mohave, tattooing in America, and captivity literature in the 1800s."—Elizabeth Quinn, Bust"In The Blue Tattoo, Margot Mifflin slices away the decades of mythology and puts the story in its proper historical context. What emerges is a riveting, well-researched portrait of a young woman—a survivor, but someone marked for life by the experience."—Jon Shumaker, Tucson Weekly"The Blue Tattoo is well written and well researched; it re-opens the story of white women and men going West and Native people trying to survive these travels."—June Namias, Pacific Historical Review“Mifflin’s treatment of Olive’s sojourns [provides] an excellent teaching opportunity about America’s ongoing captivation with ethnic/gender crossings.”—Western American Literature “Although Oatman’s story on its own is full of intrigue, Mifflin adeptly uses her tale as a springboard for larger issues of the time.”—Feminist Review“Mifflin engagingly describes Oatman’s ordeal and theorizes about its impact on Oatman herself as well as on popular imagination…. Her book adds nuance to Oatman’s story and also humanizes the Mohave who adopted her. Recommended for general readers as well as students and scholars.”—Library Journal"Margot Mifflin sketches out a life in fine detail in her book The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman . . . . It rouses strong metaphors with timeless applications: the idea of what marks us, that which comprises our stories and how they are interpreted, appropriated or manipulated."—Melissa Corliss Delorenzo, Her Circle“Margot Mifflin has written a winner. . . . The Blue Tattoo offers quite intense drama along with thorough scholarship.”—Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of Three-Ten to Yuma and Other StoriesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Emigrant Song1. Quicksand2. Indian Country3. "How Little We Thought What Was Before Us"4. A Year with the Yavapais5. Lorenzo's Tale6. Becoming Mohave7. Deeper8. "There Is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away"9. Journey to Yuma10. Hell's Outpost11. Rewriting History in Gassburg, Oregon12. Captive Audiences13. "We Met as Friends, Giving the Left Hand in Friendship"14. Olive Fairchild, TexanEpilogue: Oatman's Literary Half-LifeNotesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Texture of Contact
Book SynopsisA study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. It describes everyday encounters between Europeans and Indians along the frontiers of the Iroquois Confederacy in the St Lawrence, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Ohio valleys.Trade Review"Preston has created an original and stimulating narrative by engaging with frontier peoples on their own lands and on their own terms."—Christopher Bilodeau, Ethnohistory"Well-written, thoroughly researched . . . . [Preston's] major contribution is the wonderful descriptions of Indian economic, cultural, and social relations with diverse whites in the Mohawk Valley."—L. M. Hauptman, Choice"Students of Iroquois culture and backcountry history will be surprised and challenged by this book, which shows in a new way that conflict was never inevitable in the backcountry. Even on the eve of the Revolution, there was still the possibility of Indian-European amity in the Iroquoian borderlands."—Daniel Ingram, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"Preston is an ambitious and stimulating writer, and his book is worthy of use in the graduate or advanced undergraduate classroom."—Gregory Evans Dowd, American Historical Review"This book is a substantive and welcome addition to the scholarship on eighteenth-century Native-settler relations. . . . Preston's engaging writing style makes the book viable for assignment in upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, and all scholars in the field will need to grapple with the implications of his significant findings regarding the importance of local, "everyday," face-to-face interactions across cultural boundaries in early America."—Jon Parmenter, William and Mary Quarterly“The Texture of Contact deserves to be recognized for what it is, a major contribution to the ever growing body of academic studies about Indian-white interactions, both peaceful and bloody, in colonial North America. Preston’s presentation represents a sophisticated analysis that moves significantly beyond currently fashionable explanations about Indian-white interactions—and the reasons why harmony finally gave way to a bloody history of violence and the dispossession of Native Americans from their homelands.”—James Kirby Martin, Pennsylvania History Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Under the Tree of Peace1. The Tree of Peace Planted: Iroquois and French-Canadian Communities in the St. Lawrence Valley2. Iroquois Communities in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley: Schoharie, Tiononderoge, and Canajoharie3. Dispossessing the Indians: Proprietors, Squatters, and Natives in the Susquehanna Valley4. "The Storm Which Had Been So Long Gathering": Pennsylvanians and Indians at War5. "Our Neighbourhood with the Settlers": Iroquois and German Communities in the Seven Years' War6. Imperial Crisis in the Ohio Valley: Indian, Colonial American, and British Military CommunitiesEpilogue: The Tree of Peace UprootedList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Broken Treaties
Book SynopsisProvides a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree. Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label has obscured the implementation experience of participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them.Trade Review"In challenging the long-honored "broken treaties tradition," Jill St. Germain has written a groundbreaking and welcome revision of the history of treaty- and reservation-making on both sides of the United States-Canadian border. . . . Broken Treaties is a must read for any scholar interested in the history of the Great Plains, federal policy, the western United States, western Canada, or Indigenous studies."—Laura Woodworth-Ney, Great Plains Quarterly"[Broken Treaties] is a strong piece of scholarship that joins the recent work of Jeffrey Ostler, David G. McCrady, and others in enhancing our historical understanding of a period and topic that has long been studied but frequently misinterpreted."—Akim D. Reinhardt, American Historical Review"Well written and researched from primary sources in both the United States and Canada, this volume reminds us how significant tribal sovereignty was and how it continues to inform tribal governments today." —Donald L. Fixico, Western Historical Quarterly"St. Germain has made an important contribution to a growing field of literature that emphasizes the active role taken by native statesmen in seeking to shape those crucial agreements that defined the straitened world left them at the end of the nineteenth century." —Kingsley M. Bray, Nebraska History"This study captivate the reader's attention with its sharp analysis based on extensive research and thorough command of the subject."—Janne Lahti, Canadian Journal of History"This is a complex, well-written, and carefully researched book that interprets one of the most enigmatic issues in the still-convoluted relationship between native and European peoples in North America: treaties and the treaty process."—Sidney L. Harring, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsMapsIntroduction: Broken Treaties 1. Separate Pasts2. Expectations and Promises3. Early Implementation Efforts in the United States, 1868-18714. Early Implementation Efforts in Canada, 1876-18785. Implementation in Earnest: The Treaty of 1868, 1871-18756. Implementation in Earnest: Treaty Six, 1879-18847. The Treaty of 1868 and the Peace Policy, 1875-18768. Treaty Six and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885ConclusionAppendix A: Treaty with the Sioux, 1868Appendix B: Treaties at Forts Carlton and Pitt, Number Six, 1876NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press William Fenton
Book SynopsisWilliam N. Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable. William Fenton: Selected Writings brings together for the first time Fenton's most influential writings on the Iroquois and anthropology, written across nearly six decades.Trade Review"This must-read memoir provides valuable insights for those interested in the twentieth-century Iroquois, ethnographic field methods, or the history of anthropology."—Denis Foley, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsIntroductionFenton Papers--PrécisGeneral WorksIroquois Indian Folklore (1947)Letters to an Ethnologist's Children: From Simeon Gibson to the Children of William N. Fenton Who Took Them Down (1948)The Training of Historical Ethnologists in America (1952)Cultural Stability and Change in American Indian Societies (1953)The Hyde de Neuville Portraits of New York Savages in 1807–1808 (1954)"This Island, the World on the Turtle's Back" (1962)"Anthropology and the University": An Inaugural Lecture (1969)Return to the Longhouse (1972)The Advancement of Material Culture Studies in Modern Anthropological Research (1974)The Iroquois in the Grand Tradition of American Letters: The Works of Walter D. Edmonds, Carl Carmer, and Edmund Wilson (1981)Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada (1989)He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan (2001)Book ReviewsThe Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations by George T. Hunt (1940)Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century by Allen W. Trelease (1961)Conservatism among the Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve by Annemarie Anrod Shimony (1963)"Huronia: An Essay in Proper Ethnohistory," a review of The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce G. Trigger (1978)The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter (1994)ObituariesSimeon Gibson: Iroquois Informant, 1889–1943 (1944)Twí-yendagon' (Woodeater) Takes the Heavenly Path: On the Death of Henry Redeye (1864–1946), Speaker of the Coldspring Seneca Longhouse (1946)John Reed Swanton, 1873–1958 (1959)Howard Sky, 1900–1971: Cayuga Faith-Keeper, Gentleman, and Interpreter of Iroquois Culture (1972)Conference on Iroquois ResearchConference on Iroquois Research (1947)Fourth Conference on Iroquois Research (1948)Seventh Conference on Iroquois Research (1952)Iroquois Research (1956)History and Purposes of the Conference on Iroquois Research (1967)Iroquois Research Conference after 25 Years (1969)Index
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University of Nebraska Press George Washingtons War on Native America
Book SynopsisThe Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. George Washington's War on Native America recounts the tragic events on the forgotten western front of the American Revolution, a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America.Trade Review“[Mann’s book] serves as a powerful statement of the native side of a conflict which has been sugar coated for two centuries. . . . The book should be required reading for all students seeking to understand the conflict on the frontier that lasted until the late nineteenth century. Given the extensive documentation provided, it will serve as an extremely valuable reference for college students and authors.”—Walter Dunn, Journal of Military History“Mann’s grasp of primary sources makes her narrative one of the most detailed recent studies of the military campaigns in western Pennsylvania and New York during the American War of Independence.”—Patrick Spero, HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - "Niggur-in-Law to Old Sattan": How the West Was Really Won1 - "The Vile Hands of the Savages": Countdown to Total War, 1775-17782 - "Shooting Pigeons": The Goose Van Schaick Sweep through Onondaga, April 17793 - "The Wolves of the Forest": The Brodhead March up the Allegheny, August-September 17794 - "Extirpate Those Hell-Hounds from off the Face of the Earth": The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, 9 August-30 September 17795 - "Keep That Nest of Hornets Quiet": The Ohio Campaigns of 1779-17816 - "Two Mighty Gods with Their Mouth Wide Open": Settler Assaults on Ohio, 1782NotesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Meskwaki and Anthropologists Action
Book SynopsisIlluminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Drawing on interviews and archival records, this work tells the story from the viewpoint of the Meskwaki themselves. It also assesses the impact of Action Anthropology on the Meskwaki settlement.Trade Review"This inspiring reconsideration of an important moment in twentieth-century American anthropology is richly annotated, with an excellent index and bibliography and two appendices listing the participants in the project and the published works that emerged. The book leaves the reader with a better understanding of the possibilities for and complexities of collaborative ethnographic work."—Larry Nesper, Collaborative Anthropologies"Timely and appealing to social scientists and activists who continue to wrestle together with questions of values, leadership, and voice as they work toward new models of collaborative, transformative research."—Dana E. Powell, Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' IntroductionIntroductionChapter 1: Making the Modern Meskwaki NationChapter 2: Sol Tax and the Value of AnthropologyChapter 3: ‘Science Has to Stop Somewhere’Chapter 4: Action Anthropology and the Values QuestionChapter 5: 1954—Project Nadir and ReboundChapter 6: Fruits of Action AnthropologyEpilogueAppendix IAppendix IIBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Dance Lodges of the Omaha People
Book SynopsisDrawing on the oral histories of forty Omaha elders collected in 1992, Dance Lodges of the Omaha People provides insights into how these lodges shaped Omaha cultural identity and illustrates the adaptive abilities of the modern Omaha tribe. A new afterword by the author highlights advances in research on these unique structures since 1992.Trade Review“This volume is a success as both history and ethnography and presents a useful case study of Native cultural resistance and adaptation to pervasive efforts at detribalization and assimilation. It also emphasizes the research value of tribal oral history and illustrates how such histories might be collected and preserved for future generations.”—John M. O’Shea, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction by Roger WelschDedicationList of Tables and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPronunciation GuideI On This Ground They Are Going To Do [or create] Something, Before 1890II From the Beginning They Had Sacred Dancing, 1890-1930III I Had Not Asked About It, 1930-1960IV Now They Want to be Indians, Since 1960AfterwordAppendix A - Roster of Sacred and Social Group MembersAppendix B - Oral Interview Transcripts: Tom C. Walker, June 18, 1992Appendix C - Oral Interview Transcripts: Ramona Turner Greany, June 24, 1992Appendix D - Oral Interview Transcripts: Gertrude "Emily" Parker, July 02, 1992Appendix E - Oral Interview Transcripts: Joe and Irene Gilpin, July 07, 1992Appendix F - Oral Interview Transcripts: Jacob "Zac" Drum, July 15, 1992BibliographyContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Book SynopsisThe occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. This work examines the takeover, and tells the story of those who organized the occupation and those who participated.Trade Review“The book provides illuminating, behind-the-scenes looks at Alcatraz’s occupiers, the dreams that united them and realities that splintered them; the reaction of the Bay Area Native American community; and the White House efforts to solve a public relations dilemma. Included is an extensive summary of other Native American actions that grew out of the Alcatraz experience.”—Publishers Weekly“This important study of late-20th-century Indian issues is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers.”—Choice“Johnson presents a fine narrative that is both fresh and authoritative.”—American Indian Quarterly“Johnson provides an interesting and comprehensive account of the social and political context for the occupation, of the motivations and political aspirations of the occupiers, of daily life on Alcatraz during the occupation, of the U.S. government’s strategy to end the occupation, and the reasons for the eventual end of the occupation.”—Professional GeographerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword, by Donald L. FixicoIntroduction1. The Relocation Program, Urban Indians, and Alcatraz2. Urban Indian Unrest and the 1964 Occupation of Alcatraz3. Social Movements of the 1960s and Indian Leadership4. "We Hold the Rock!": The Indian Occupation5. The Occupation: Logistics and Support6. Voices from Alcatraz7. Trouble on Alcatraz8. Government Responses9. Removal from AlcatrazConclusion: Alcatraz: Catalyst for ChangeAfterwordAppendix: Summary of Major OccupationsBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Haida Syntax 2volume set
Book SynopsisThe Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska. This book offers a description of the syntax of two Haida dialects.Trade Review"Haida Syntax makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of the syntax and semantics of Haida. There is very little published material available on this language, and in this book John Enrico brings together a rich range of syntactic and semantic material on the language. . . . A book of this magnitude will make Haida one of the syntactically best described languages."—Keren Rice, author of Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb"One of the most valuable features of Haida Syntax is the semantic detail that is given regarding verbs, constructions, etc. This will be immensely useful to linguists of all theoretical persuasions, as they try their hand at analyzing this fascinating language within their own theoretical framework. Also, the extensive discussion of focus and its role within the grammar is very valuable."—Robert D. Van Valin, author of An Introduction to Syntax"Thanks to the long-term research program of John Enrico, the Haida language of the Queen Charlotte Islands will be one of the best documented indigenous languages of North America. . . . There is exceptional depth and breadth to Enrico's research program. . . . [a] massively exemplified and annotated study."—James Kari, Journal of Anthropological Research
£140.25
University of Nebraska Press Deerskins and Duffels The Creek Indian Trade
Book SynopsisDocuments the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern US. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society.Trade Review“A solid contribution to the history of the southern frontier. It will be the standard by which future scholarship on the topic is measured.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly“This well-written book is essential for understanding the mechanics and impact of European trade on the Creek and all Southeastern Indians.”—Ethnohistory“Will stand as a prominent landmark in the study of southeastern Indians during the colonial era. This book captures the importance and complexity of Creek trade with Anglo-America, shedding new light on the operation of the deerskin market and on its impact upon Indian society.”—William and Mary Quarterly“An important contribution to our understanding of the influence of the deerskin trade on Creek and Anglo-American relations in the eighteenth-century Southeast.”—Journal of Southern History“Enlightening and insightful. . . . [Braund’s work] raises questions and addresses issues of fundamental importance in our quest to understand the development of the American nation in the eighteenth century.”—Southern HistorianTable of ContentsIntroductionList of Illustrations and MapsSeries Editors' IntroductionPrefacePART I: PARTNERS IN TRADE1. The Eighteenth-Century Muscogulges2. Trade: "The Original Great Tye"3. Merchants to the MuscogulgesPART 2: HUNTING AND TRADING4. The Creeks as Producers for a Trade Economy5. Traders and Trading6. "Runagadoes" and the Regulation of the TradePART 3: THE TRADE AND ITS IMPACT ON NATIVE LIFE7. Consumerism and Its Consequences8. Politics and the Trade Alliance9. Old Needs and New Partners: The American Revolution and BeyondAppendix: Regulations for the Better Carrying on the Trade with the Indian Tribes in the Southern DistrictNotesBibliographyIndex
£16.14
University of Nebraska Press Lt. Charles Gatewood His Apache Wars Memoir
Book SynopsisLt Charles B Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth US Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures.Trade Review“The memoir is a fascinating read. To fill in missing details, Kraft has provided excellent commentary and footnotes. Readers will find invaluable Lt. Gatewood’s accounts of his service as chief of Apache scouts, commander of the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and later aide-de-camp to General Nelson Miles. . . . A welcome addition to the literature of the frontier army and Apache relations. . . . The book should provide students of military history and Native American studies a valuable primary source and fascinating chronicle of Apache life in the early reservation era.”—Mark Edwin Miller, Western Historical Quarterly"A treasture trove of information on the Apache Wars."—New Mexico Magazine“Gatewood was an excellent writer with narrative skill and his memoir makes interesting reading.”—Roundup Magazine“This is a haunting story. . . . A good one to add to your Apache Wars reading collection.”—Chronicle of the Old West"Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is a unique and welcome supplement to American military history or Native American studies shelves."—James A. Cox, Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue - The Adventure BeginsChapter One - Mismanagement and the Last OutbreakChapter Two - The Apache IndiansChapter Three - Military CommandantChapter Four - Civil ProblemsChapter Five - Gatewood and GeronimoEpilogue - Slow Fade to OblivionAppendix - Old Black Joe's DevilNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press Smoke Signals
Book SynopsisThis in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmarkTrade Review"Hearne's book is a cogent and valuable addition to the body of work on Smoke Signals and Native cinema. . . . Her extremely detailed reading of the film, her trenchant analysis of the strategies it uses to speak to multiple audiences, and her examination of the current state of Native cinema make this a valuable resource for both teachers and scholars."—Laura Beadling, Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsSeries Editors' IntroductionIntroduction: "A Way to Sit at the Same Table": Indigenizing Popular Culture1. "Indians Watching Indians": Speaking to and from Cinema History2. "The Storyteller Is Part of the Story": Making Smoke Signals3. "Dances with Salmon": Reading Smoke Signals4. "Take Your Dad's Pickup": Smoke Signals's ReceptionConclusion: "Be a Crazy Horse of Filmmaking": Smoke Signals and the Ongoing Production and Reception of Native CinemaAppendix: Remembering Smoke Signals: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman AlexieNotesBibliographyYouTube VideographyIndex
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Contesting Knowledge
Book SynopsisIlluminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.Trade Review"Regardless of one's ethnicity, affiliation or experience, museum professionals and public historians alike, especially those with little or no experience working with indigenous communities or other stakeholder audiences, will find this volume concerning an emerging aspect of museum practice valuable and worth exploring."—Kym S. Rice, Western American Literature"Contesting Knowledge will likely remain relevant for many years as the issues the authors present are ongoing and applicable to any tribal-centered exhibition or public museum collaboration."—Charles D. Chamberlain III, Ethnohistory"These essays demonstrate that Native peoples across North America and Africa are using museums to rectify a legacy of conquest. As such, scholars and educators in the fields of anthropology, American Indian studies, and museum studies will find this collection of essays especially useful."—Jennifer Fish Kashay, Western Historical Quarterly"This collection is an important part of the conversations taking place in Indigenous studies and beyond."—Elizabeth Archuleta, Studies in American Indian Literatures"This book is valuable because it contains both external and internal synopses of cultural convictions, public history motivations, and organizational conventions which operate to situate an object in its "best position.""—Alphine W. Jefferson, Public HistorianTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsContesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives / Susan Sleeper-SmithPart 1: Ethnography and the Cultural Practices of MuseumsIntroduction: The Legacy of Ethnography / Ray Silverman1. Elite Ethnography and Cultural Eradication: Confronting the Cannibal in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil / Hal Langfur2. Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Indigenous Resistance / Zine Magubane3. Reinventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian and Its Collections / Ann McMullen4. Ethnographic Elaborations, Indigenous Contestations, and the Cultural Politics of Imagining Community: A View from the District Six Museum in South Africa / Ciraj RassoolPart 2: Curatorial Practices: Voices, Values, Languages, and TraditionsIntroduction: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives on Curatorial Practice / Jacki Thompson Rand5. A Dialogic Response to the Problematized Past: The National Museum of the American Indian / Miranda J. Brady6. West Side Stories: The Blending of Voice and Representation through a Shared Curatorial Practice / Brenda Macdougall and M. Teresa Carlson7. Huichol Histories and Territorial Claims in Two National Anthropology Museums / Paul Liffman8. The Construction of Native Voice at the National Museum of the American Indian / Jennifer ShannonPart 3: Tribal Museums and the Heterogeneity of the Nation-StateIntroduction: Creation of the Tribal Museum / Brenda J. Child9. Tsiniyukwalihot, the Oneida Nation Museum: Creating a Space for Haudenosaunee Kinship and Identity / Kristina Ackley10. Reimagining Tribal Sovereignty through Tribal History: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Klamath River Region / Brian Isaac Daniels11. Responsibilities toward Knowledge: The Zuni Museum and the Reconciling of Different Knowledge Systems / Gwyneira Isaac12. Museums as Sites of Decolonization: Truth Telling in National and Tribal Museums / Amy Lonetree / ContributorsIndex 000
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Skylark Meets Meadowlark
Book SynopsisA study of the literary image of the bird in both British Romantic and contemporary Native American literature.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Birds of a Feather: Avians, Indigenes, Animal Rights, and Ecology 2. Wandering Voices: The Avian Other from Cowper to Wordsworth 3. Blithe Spirit and Immortal Bird: The Avian Other from Wordsworth to Clare 4. The Eagle and the Crow: Avian Returns in Native American Literature 5. A Beatitude of Birds: Contemporary Native Poetry Epilogue: The Avian Speaks Back Notes Works Cited Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Burst of Breath Indigenous Ritual Wind
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments - including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles - played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America.Trade Review"This well-conceived and very well executed volume marks a major advance in discussions of the significance of aerophones and sound over a large area of South America."—Anthony Seeger, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Overture Jonathan D. Hill and Jean-Pierre ChaumeilFirst Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes Jean-Pierre Chaumeil2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians Rafael José de Menezes Bastos3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music Jonathan Hill4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual Nicolas Journet5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of Secrecy Marcelo FioriniSecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Flutes in the Guianas? Marc Brightman8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Traditions of Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana Stephanie W. Alemán9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes Maria Ignez Cruz Mello11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region Ulrike Printz12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context Javier Ruedas13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity Robin WrightCoda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred? Claudia Augustat15. Mystery Instruments Jean-Michel BeaudetContributors Index
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