Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

Book SynopsisExamines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoplesTrade Review"Editors Timothy Perttula and Chester Walker has compiled the most comprehensive body of research about the Caddo peoples available today."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics"A timely, useful volume. . . . Worth having, reading, and referencing."—Don G. Wyckoff, American AntiquityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword 1. The Archaeology of the Caddo in Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, Eastern Oklahoma, and East Texas: An Introduction to the Volume Timothy K. Perttula2. Form and Structure in Prehistoric Caddo Pottery Design Ann M. Early3. At the House of the Priest: Faunal Remains from the Crenshaw Site (3MI6), Southwest Arkansas H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott, and Frank Schambach4. Bioarchaeological Evidence of Subsistence Strategies among the East Texas Caddo Diane Wilson5. Spiro Reconsidered: Sacred Economy at the Western Frontier of the Eastern Woodlands James A. Brown6. Viewshed Characteristics of Caddo Mounds in the Arkansas Basin Gregory Vogel7. Exploring Prehistoric Caddo Communities through Archaeogeophysics Chester P. Walker and Duncan P. McKinnon8. The Evolution of a Caddo Community in Northeast Texas Timothy K. Perttula and Robert Rogers9. Settlement Patterns and Variation in Caddo Pottery Decoration: A Case Study of the Willow Chute Bayou Locality Jeffrey S. Girard10. Caddo in the Saline River Valley of Arkansas: The Borderlands Project and the Hughes Site Mary Beth Trubitt11. Spatial Patterns of Caddo Mound Sites in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas Jami J. Lockhart12. Decisions in Landscape Setting Selection of the Prehistoric Caddo of Southeastern Oklahoma: A gis Analysis Robert L. Brooks13. The Character of Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Caddo Communities in the Big Cypress Creek Basin of Northeast Texas Timothy K. Perttula14. The Belcher Phase: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Caddo Occupation of the Red River Valley in Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas David B. Kelley15. The Terán Map and Caddo Cosmology George Sabo IIIReferences Cited ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisOne of the most important Native films of all time, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner tells a powerful and moving story about honor, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. This book takes readers behind the cameras, introducing them to the culture, history, traditions, and people that made this movie extraordinary.Trade Review"This book, the first in a series focusing on films made by indigenous peoples, gives the reader and filmgoer an intimate look behind the scenes of the film's genesis, the key players, and the financial and cultural challenges the producers faced. . . . This will be a welcome reference book for any serious student of film studies, regardless of genre."—Karl Kunkel, ForeWord "Isuma filmmakers have not only given outsiders the content to rethink preconceived ideas about life in the Arctic, but they have also presented this content in a way that is natural to an Inuit. Evans helps us move more fully into that space."—Kristin G. Congdon, Journal of American Folklore Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNoteSeries Editors' IntroductionIntroductionCharactersPronunciation of NamesChapter One: The Context of the CreationChapter Two: Seeing the UnseenChapter Three: The People and Path of IsumaChapter Four: Isuma’s MotivesChapter Five: The Legend and Its VariantsChapter Six: Reviews and AwardsChapter Seven: Lifeways as ContextChapter Eight: Local and Global EnvironmentsGlossaryNotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiscusses and compares the origins, structure, and development of religious and political revitalization movements in North America and the Pacific Islands. The essays cover the 20th century Cargo Cults of the South Pacific, the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements in western North America, and the Tuka Movement on Fiji in 1885.

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Book SynopsisPlains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains. Although some researchers thought it had disappeared following the widespread adoption of English, Brenda Farnell discovered that PST is still an integral component of the storytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture.Trade Review“What is struggling to emerge is a theoretical framework in which the way that the different modalities of communication are articulated with one another can be understood. This book should be read by all those with an interest in the development of such a framework.”—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“A major contribution to Native American studies, to cultural anthropology more generally, to linguistic anthropology, and to semiotics. . . . In one and the same book, Brenda Farnell reveals the power and precision of gesture in oral performance, makes major advances in the understanding of the storytelling process in general, and teaches us more about the world of Native Americans than we have learned in many a moon.”—James H. McNultyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Nineteenth-Century Legacy2. Bias against the Iconic3. Geographical and Historical Spaces: Assiniboine Territory and the Embodiment of Deixis4. Moral and Ethical Spaces: Naming Practices and Visual Imagery in Nakota and PST5. Getting to the Point: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in PST and Nakota6. Storytelling and the Embodiment of Symbolic Form7. The Primacy of Movement in Assiniboine Culture8. ConclusionsAppendix A. Phonetic KeyAppendix B. Kinetic KeyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they have been largely neglected by anthropologists and historians and are the least well known of all the Sioux groups. This study by a long-time student of Sioux and other Indian cultures fillsthat gap in the literature. Based on fieldwork done in the 1970s supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux presents a descriptive reconstruction of their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux today although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. It is rich in detail and presents an abundance of new information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, their economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devote

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Book SynopsisTells the story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Drawing on field research, oral histories, and archival sources, Valerie Lambert explores the struggles and triumphs of the Choctaw building a new government and launching an ambitious program of economic development in the late twentieth century, achieving a partial restoration of the tribe's former glory.Trade Review"[A] thorough study, one grounded in current anthropological theory but surprisingly free of the discipline's wordy jargon... [A] good book that tackles some complex issues ... [and] has value beyond its obvious purpose of describing the growth of the modern Choctaw Nation. There are, it seems, lessons here for other tribal groups that may be seeking greater autonomy or that are trying to escape from the ravages of allotment and termination."-The Chronicles of Oklahoma -- Paul H. Carlson The Chronicles of Oklahoma "The story of Choctaw reconfiguration is both unique to specific circumstances and emblematic of experiences of modern nation building elsewhere in Indian country."-Choice -- Choice Choice "As Lambert tracks between her outsider perspective as an anthropologist and her insider's view as a Choctaw, readers are privileged to a clear-sighted and at times touching analysis of a history and of a people."-Great Plains Quarterly Great Plains Quarterly "Tribal sovereignty is an often evoked but rarely defined term in Native American studies. For those interested in how modern Indian nations exercise their sovereign powers within the federal framework, Valerie Lambert's study of the post-1970 revitalization of the Choctaw Nation of southeastern Oklahoma would be hard to surpass."-Mark Edwin Miller, Journal of the West -- Mark Edwin Miller Journal of the West

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Book SynopsisTraces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward's classic ethnography.Trade Review"Interweaving colonist history with ecological changes and Indian efforts to survive, Kerns provides a road-trip story—an honest Bonnie and Clyde driving and driving the West—illuminating a crucial stage in an anthropological theorist's career."—A.B. Kehoe, CHOICE"[Journeys West is] an excellent study of the man, his strategy, the people he encountered, and his Great Basin fieldwork."—Catherine S. Fowler, Current Anthropology"Virginia Kerns has written an intelligent, beautifully detailed book that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Great Basin and the history of anthropological fieldwork. Her style is clear and meticulously researched, and I highly recommend this book."—Patricia Dean, Idaho Yesterdays"This well-written, engaging narrative puts a "human face" on Steward's ice enthusiasm in pursuing a theory."—Richard O. Clemmer, Journal of Anthropological Research "This is a book easily read. It is well written, with some lovely, even poetic passages attractive to a wide readership. . . . I heartily recommend the volume to scholars interested in Steward's research methods."—Joel C. Janetski, Western Historical Quarterly"Students and professionals alike will benefit from reading Kerns's Journeys West. It offers an opportunity to learn about the trials and tribulations of early scholars "in the field" while simultaneously reflecting on our own roles as anthropologists and historians."—Susan Hall, H-NetTable of ContentsPrefaceRemembering Part I: California, 1935Chapter 1. Going ThereChapter 2. Shoshone TerritoryChapter 3. Valley of the Paiutes Part II: Nevada, 1935Chapter 4. Coyote's CountryChapter 5. The People's LandChapter 6. River from Snow Mountain Part III: Idaho and Utah, 1936Chapter 7. Basin and PlateauChapter 8. Land of the UtesChapter 9. Trails WestChapter 10. Trail's End AfterwordNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisOffers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Terminology and Orthography1. The Specter of Language Death2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death3. Programming Language Maintenance4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice6. Death by Suicide7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and IdentityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of blood in shaping official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government’s unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that these people played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy. Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg, Arapahos, Cherokees, Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Lakotas, Lumbees, Ojibwes, Seminoles, and Virginia tribes. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation’s imTrade Review"Ellinghaus has taken a nuanced approach to an incredibly complex and wide-ranging topic with successful results. The book is thoroughly researched, well argued, and will be especially useful to scholars of nineteenth-century American Indian history and federal Indian policy."—Natalie Panther, Chronicles of Oklahoma"Blood Will Tell engages with and makes important contributions to the historical scholarship and contemporary political debates on race and citizenship in the academy, as well as in American Indian families, communities, and nations."—Jill Doerfler, American Historical Review"This book makes a significant contribution to how we interpret assumptions about ethnicity, skin color, and cultural behavior—from low-level civil servants to official ideology to indigenous notions of identity. It is a welcome addition to furthering our understanding of blood quantum and Native American policy."—Ryan W. Schmidt, Great Plains Quarterly"Blood Will Tell makes a brilliant and original contribution to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and settler colonialism in western American history and merits a wide readership."—Baligh Ben Taleb, Pacific Historical Review"Blood Will Tell is a valuable contribution to studies of the allotment era in particular and to studies of U.S.–American Indian relations and settler colonialism in general."—John R. Gram, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Ellinghaus's work shines a light on a crucial component of federal Indian policy."—Christopher Steinke, Nebraska History“Ellinghaus utilizes an impressive amount of archival research and specific case studies to show how the concept of blood permeated the policies of the Office of Indian Affairs during [the late nineteenth and early twentieth century].”—Paul Spruhan, Canadian Journal of Native Studies "Ellinghaus offers this book as a means for critiquing and analyzing the phenomenon of settler colonialism which allowed for tropes of authenticity to persist to today. It also adds to the story of Native Americans' unrelenting resistance with racial science and white structures. In light of the semi-recent events at Standing Rock, Native American persistence throughout history is again highlighted by their ability to resist and act against their oppressors."—Hannah Blubaugh, Origins“Katherine Ellinghaus brilliantly traces the uneven practices that produced a powerful discourse of American Indian blood quantum. With sure hand and subtle interpretation, Blood Will Tell offers a compelling new reading of a technology of identity at once complicated and crude.”—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Indians in Unexpected Places“Written with great clarity and precision. . . . Ellinghaus develops several key insights that will make contributions to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and western American history.”—Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Discourse of Blood in the Assimilation Period 1. Fraud: The Allotment of the Anishinaabeg 2. Chaos: The Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes 3. Practically White: The Federal Policy of Competency 4. The Same Old Deal: The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act 5. Colored: The Indian Nations of Virginia and the 1924 Racial Integrity Act Conclusion: Writing Blood into the Assimilation Period Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the complex relationships between Freemasonry and Native American Indians over the past three hundred years. Trade Review"This elegantly written book has much to recommend it. It is meticulously documented and is based on archival and secondary sources housed in major Masonic libraries in cities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The book serves as a metric for studies of Native Americans and of other minority groups who have participated in Freemasonry. . . . [Native American Freemasonry] breaks new ground and should be read by both historians and general readers."—R. William Weisberger, Journal of American History “Thoughtful and sophisticated.”—Alan Garrison, Pacific Historical Review “Offers many clarifications and revelations about a previously unexplored aspect of Native American history and Freemasonry. It belongs in all university and public libraries.”—Emily E. Auger, Canadian Journal of Native Studies "Joy Porter's book on freemasonry among American Indians deepens our understanding of how an institution once seen solely as elitist and secret could be used to give meaning to native American spiritual beliefs and social activism. It joins a growing scholarly literature that is changing the way we view freemasonry as well as our understanding of Indian Americans. A triumph of scholarship!"—Margaret C. Jacob, distinguished professor of history, UCLA "Native American Freemasonry provides an important insight into how Native and European Americans made use of Masonic space for mutual recognition, acceptance, and cultural exchange and how popular notions of "Nativeness" were exploited within the context of American fraternalism."—Bro. Robert Blackburn, Rising PointTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on Terms1. Approaching Native American Freemasonry, Part One2. Approaching Native American Freemasonry, Part Two3. A History of Freemasonry: From Europe to the United States4. Freemasonry as Ornamentalism: Class, Race, and Social Hierarchy5. The Attractions of Freemasonry to Indians and Others, Part One6. The Attractions of Freemasonry to Indians and Others, Part Two7. Native American Freemasons: The Revolutionary Era8. Native American Freemasons: The "Settlement" of the West and the Civil War Era9. Native American Freemasons: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries10. On Television's Deathblow to Fraternalism: Understanding Associationalism and the Declining Role of Fraternalism in American LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 1953 surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life. These engaging letters provide a compelling memoir of life at Pine Ridge in the mid-1950s.Trade Review"These letters provide a unique glimpse into life at Pine Ridge as well as insights into the daily workings of the IHS."—M.J. Schneider, CHOICETable of ContentsEditors' IntroductionChronology of Significant EventsNote on Provenance and Methodology1. August, 19532. September, 19533. October, 19534. November, 19535. December, 19536. January, 19547. February, 19548. March, 19549. April, 195410. May, 195411. June, 195412. July, 195413. August, 195414. September, 195415. October, 195416. November, 195417. December, 1954Editors' PostscriptAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators between 1910 and 1992 and are presented in the original Koasati verse and in English translation.Trade Review"[Kimball] has performed an invaluable service for students of orally expressed verbal art by documenting a corpus of well-translated, well-presented texts from a community that has been underrepresented in the available literature. Koasati Traditional Narratives is an extremely valuable addition to the library of resources on folklore, literature, and American Indian studies."—William M. Clements, Journal of Folklore ResearchTable of ContentsPreface Part One: Mythological Narratives1. Rabbit Stories2. Origin Tales3. Monster Stories4. Animal Tales5. Medicine Origin Tales6. Christian Tales Part Two: Semihistorical Narratives7. Encounter Stories8. War Stories9. Other Semihistorical Stories Appendix 1. Linguistically Analyzed TextsAppendix 2. Transcriptions of Swanton's TextsReferences

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, schools for Native children are examined within the broad framework of race relations in the United States for the first time. Jacqueline Fear-Segal analyses multiple schools and their differing agendas and engages with the conflicting white discourses of race that underlay their pedagogies.Trade Review"A rich and rewarding book."—Michael C. Coleman, Great Plains Quarterly"Fear-Segal imaginatively examines the ominous racialization of American Indians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a focus on the covertly racial agenda of boarding school policy. . . . White Man's Club's sophisticated but readable style will engross any reader."—Sally McBeth, Western Historical Quarterly"With the publication of Jacqueline Fear-Segal's White Man’s Club, the historiography of Indian residential schooling has reached a new level of sophistication."—John Milloy, Journal of American History“Perhaps only once in a decade does a book come along that truly sets the standard for the rest of the field. White Man’s Club is such a book. Beautifully written and superbly argued, it is replete with fresh insights and analysis of a subject that remains one of the most enduring and meaningful and often painful in the history of American Indian and white relations. Students of the Indian boarding school movement will be especially interested in the insights provided by Fear-Segal, particularly those that address how the dominant nineteenth century views of race played a major role in the creation and functioning of off-reservation boarding schools.”—Journal of the West"White Man's Club is a well-constructed and well-researched book that originally uses primary sources to unveil the convert agenda of race subjugation and control in the government schooling system and its impact on students' lives."—Marinella Lentis, Wicazo Sa"By including Native voices, Fear-Segal's study reminds us that the Native experience in America is not an academic exercise but involves people's cherished memories and present realities."—Ruth Spack, American Historical Review"White Man's Club provides a thought-provoking reinterpretation of the federal Indian Education Program's formative years and a thorough overview of the beliefs and actions of significant policy reformers, as well as the life histories of many Native students and leaders."—C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Ethnohistory"Perhaps only once in a decade does a book come along that truly sets the standard for the rest of the field. White Man's Club is such a book. Beautifully written and superbly argued, it is replete with fresh insights and analysis of a subject that remains one of the most enduring and meaningful and often painful in the history of American Indian and white relations."—Cary C. Collins, Journal of the West“With extraordinary insight and grace, Jacqueline Fear-Segal has made a major contribution to the literature on one of the most important and devastating chapters in Indian-white relations. Both immensely illuminating and haunting, this book should be read by anyone interested in the history of U.S. race relations.”—David W. Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928"Fear-Segal knows her topic well and she invites readers into the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Dakota Mission, Santee Normal Training School, and other similar institutions to illuminate issues of race. . . . Her use of biography and autobiographies of Indians and non-Indians alike is a strong contribution of the book, and her careful reading of these sources provides a fresh look at familiar participants in the Indian school system."—Clifford Trafzar, American Studies JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 000Acknowledgments 000Introduction 000Prologue: Prisoners Made Pupils 000 1.The Development of an Indian Educational System 1. White Theories: Can the Indian be Educated? 000 2. Native Views: "A New Road for All the Indians" 000 3. Mission Schools in the West: Precursors of a System 000 2. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 4. Samuel Chapman Armstrong: Educator of Backward Races 000 5. Thomas Wildcat Alford: Shawnee Educated in Two Worlds 0003. Carlisle Indian Industrial School 6. Richard Henry Pratt: National Universalist 000 7. Carlisle Campus: Landscape of Race and Erasure 000 8. Man-on-the-Bandstand: Surveillance, Concealment, and Resistance 000 9. Indian School Cemetery: Telling Remains 0004. Modes of Cultural Survival 10. Kesetta: Memory and Recovery 000 11. Susie Rayos Marmon: Storytelling and Teaching 000Epilogue: Cultural Survival as Performance, Powwow 2000 000Notes 000Bibliography 000Index 000

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Book SynopsisIn the latter half of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Native American families moved to cities across the United States, some via the government relocation program and some on their own. In the cities, they encountered new forms of work, entertainment, housing, and education. In this study, Stephen Kent Amerman focuses on the educational experiences of Native students in urban schools in Phoenix, Arizona, a city with one of the largest urban Indian communities in the nation. The educational experiences of Native students in Phoenix varied over time and even in different parts of the city, but interactions with other ethnic groups and the experience of being a minority for the first time presented distinctive challenges and opportunities for Native students.Using oral histories as well as written records, Amerman examines howPhoenix schools tried to educate and assimilate Native students alongside Hispanic, Asian, black, and white students and how Trade Review"The strength of this book stems from its account of the experience of eighteen students from several tribes who found themselves in the minority among Mexican-American, African-American and Asian-American students. Amerman discusses the emotional challenges confronting these students as they adjusted to a new educational system while working to retain a sense of cultural background and Native pride."—Patricia Etter, Pima County Library"Amerman's book is a valuable addition to the history of Indian education."—Jon Reyhner, Western Historical Quarterly"Stephen Kent Amerman's Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools broadens our understanding of Indian urbanization and analyzes "an understudied" aspect of American Indian history."—David H. Dejong, Journal of Arizona History"Urban Indians makes an important historical contribution to our understandings of the urban Indian experience and should appeal to readers with an interest in the history of Phoenix, the American Southwest, American Indian and minority education, urban Indians, and Native American community activism."—Lisa K. Neuman, New Mexico Historical Review"Amerman's book is a significant contribution to the scholarly work on American Indian education and on urban–or off-reservation–Indians."—Adrea Lawrence, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Beyond the Boarding Schools1. The City2. The Schools3. The Students4. The Fight5. The AftermathConclusion: Indian Education in the CityAppendix A: A Note on the InterviewsAppendix B: Interview QuestionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers overview of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls, featuring a look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals.Trade Review""Carol Markstrom's book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies.""—Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Overview of Coming-of-Age Ceremonies2. Contemporary Youth Concerns in Historical Perspective 3. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Development4. Menstruation, Cosmology, and Feminism5. Historical Overview of Coming-of-Age Practices6. Description of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony7. Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony8. Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa Puberty Customs9. Broader Perspectives on Coming-of-AgeFootnotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisProvides an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Psychologist Carol A. Markstrom reviews indigenous, historical, and anthropological literatures and conveys the results of her fieldwork to provide descriptive accounts of North American Indian coming-of-age rituals.Trade Review"Carol Markstrom's book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies."-Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Journal of American Ethnic History -- Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Overview of Coming-of-Age Ceremonies2. Contemporary Youth Concerns in Historical Perspective 3. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Development4. Menstruation, Cosmology, and Feminism5. Historical Overview of Coming-of-Age Practices6. Description of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony7. Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony8. Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa Puberty Customs9. Broader Perspectives on Coming-of-AgeFootnotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas Trade Review"The essays in Native Diasporas offer fascinating case studies that simultaneously value local nuance and transnational/global contexualization across more than three centuries of history. They also offer fresh insights in the study of indigenous identities."—Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Western Historical Quarterly"This work will become a seminal text for people studying in the field."—Paul Moon, Te Kaharoa"This text is not only a timely addition to the Native American/American Indian studies discourse, but it also introduces a fresh way of discussing indigeneity and the complicated experience of those communities impacted by settler colonialism."—Clementine Bordeaux, American Indian Culture and Research Journal“The essays in Native Diasporas address a tremendously important and complicated subject—Indigenous identity.”—Barbara Krauthamer, author of Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South “In a powerful and timely way, Native Diasporas moves away from the ‘frontier’ as finite and from the ‘middle ground’ as an endpoint. Its essays pay attention to women’s agency, gender issues, economic and political dynamics, the history of changing policies, and to Indigenous responses and engagements with settler colonialism.”—Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University and coauthor of How to Write History that People Want to Read Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceBrooke N. Newman and Gregory D. SmithersIntroduction: “What Is an Indian?”—The Enduring Question of American Indian IdentityGregory D. SmithersPart 1. Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish ConquestRebecca Horn2. Rethinking the Middle Ground: French Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Pays d’en HautMichael A. McDonnell3. Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent, 1763–1797Brooke N. Newman4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement, 1700–1800Linford D. Fisher5. “Decoying Them Within”: Creek Gender Identities and the Subversion of CivilizationFelicity DonohoePart 2. Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration6. Mastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Early Nineteenth-Century SouthJames Taylor Carson7. Resistance and Removal: Yaqui and Navajo Identities in the Southwest BorderlandsClaudia B. Haake8. Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyJoy Porter9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation PolicyKatherine Ellinghaus10. “All Go to the Hop Fields”: The Role of Migratory and Wage Labor in the Preservation of Indigenous Pacific Northwest CultureVera ParhamPart 3. Twentieth-Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan-Indian Identities11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth CenturyDuane Champagne12. Disease and the “Other”: The Role of Medical Imperialism in OceaniaKerri A. Inglis13. “Why Injun Artist Me”: Acee Blue Eagle’s Diasporic PerformativeBill Anthes14. Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity: Native Activism Before and After the Cold WarDaniel M. Cobb15. From Tribal to Indian: American Indian Identity in the Twentieth CenturyDonald FixicoContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe tragedy at Wounded Knee has often been written about, but the existing photographs have received little attention until now. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee brings together and assesses for the first time some 150 photographs that were made before and immediately after the massacre. Accompanying commentaries focus on both the Indian and the military sides of the story.Trade Review"Although the subject is somber, the vivid photos and well-written text present a full and useful history."—Omaha World-HeraldTable of ContentsIntroduction - Heather Cox RichardsonForeword - James A. Hanson CHAPTER ONE: Another Look at Wounded Knee - Richard E. JensenCHAPTER TWO: "Your Country Is Surrounded" - R. Eli PaulCHAPTER THREE: Making Pictures for a News-Hungry Nation - John E. Carter THE PHOTOGRAPHS:PreludeThe BattlefieldThe War's EndEpilogue NotesReferencesAcknowledgmentsList of Photograph RepositoriesIndex

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Book SynopsisUntil the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. This book offers accounts of Arikara ritualism.

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Book SynopsisAs scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. This title shows how anthropology showcased itself "to show each half of the world how the other half lives".Trade Review"Fascinating details and readable style make this a compelling account of the US's last great, naive exposition of 19th-century empire building."—H. G. Kong, CHOICE“Well organized and written. The authors have researched extensively in exposition company files, the papers of McGee and others with whom he worked (or quarreled), and the archives of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other agencies connected with the exposition. A large body of secondary sources provides background and context. More than fifty illustrations add a visual dimension to the book.”—John E. Findling, Journal of American History"Anthropology Goes to the Fair is a major contribution to the history of racial thought and the history of anthropology."—John David Smith, North Carolina Historical Review"Nancy Parezo and Don Fowler's Anthropology Goes to the Fair provides a comprehensive contribution to the literature on the world fair phenomenon, focusing explicitly on the display of indigenous peoples at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. This fascinating and well-written work accomplishes a number of new things."—Mary Neuburger, Journal of American Ethnic History"[Anthropology Goes to the Fair] is a rollicking examination of what one might today regard as an insane enterprise. It affords valuable insight into the origins and early evolution of American anthropology, as well as an understanding of early twentieth-century social mores of the American people."—Bernard L. Fontana, Journal of Arizona HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsSeries Editors' IntroductionPrologue: Setting the Stage for St. LouisChapter 1 Organizing the Louisiana Purchase ExpositionChapter 2 WJ McGee and the Science of ManChapter 3 Planning the Anthropology Department and Model Indian SchoolChapter 4 Assembling the “Races of Mankind”Chapter 5 Presenting Worthy IndiansChapter 6 The Model Indian SchoolChapter 7 The Philippine ReservationChapter 8 The Anthropology VillagesChapter 9 The Polyglot PikeChapter 10 Being a Living ExhibitChapter 11 In the Anthropology BuildingChapter 12 Anthropological PerformancesChapter 13 Celebrating the Fair and Going HomeChapter 14 The Experiences of an ExpositionEpilogue: Passing into History and Moving OnAppendix 1: McGee’s Racial Classification SchemesAppendix 2: Native ParticipantsNotesReferences Index

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Book SynopsisBorderlands violence, so explosive in our own time, has deep roots in history. Lance R. Blyth's study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion, and how violence became the primary means by which relations were established, maintained, or altered both within and between communities. For more than two centuries, violence was at the center of the relationships by which Janos and Chiricahua formed their communities. Violence created families by turning boys into men through campaigns and raids, which ultimately led to marriage and also determined the provisioning and security of these families; acts of revenge and retaliation similarly governed their attempts to secure themselves even as trade and exchange continued sporadically. This revisionist work reveals how during the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras, elements of both conflict and accommodation coTrade Review"A thesis-driven book backed by detailed narratives."—Wayne E. Lee, American Historical Review "Chiricahua and Janos represents a valuable addition to the growing literature examining violence in zones of intercultural contact, both in the Americas and around the globe."—Paul Conrad, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Built on solid archival research and making good use early on of Chiricahua oral tradition, Chiricahua and Janos adds to the growing body of United States–Mexico border lands studies focused on indigenous autonomy of action."—Jesús F. De La Teja, Hispanic American Historical Review“At a time when western historians have rediscovered the borderlands to great effect, Chiricahua and Janos presents a valuable new framework for thinking about Spanish-Indian relations in the American Southwest. It is a substantial contribution to the fields of Borderlands and Native American history.”—Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History “Blyth is concerned with the nexus of violence and cultural relations and, similarly, has a keen eye for Indians’ perspectives….Blyth has given us another example of the violent peace that cultural differences and local goals can produce.” “This inaugural contribution to a new borderlands and transcultural series from the University of Nebraska Press provides a compelling microhistory while addressing big-picture questions about the region.”—Carla Gerona, Western Historical Quarterly"Blyth's argument, as well as his narrative and use of traditional and non-traditional sources, is impressive and provides a framework for understanding the permeating role of violence in two borderlands communities."—Brandon Jett, Southwestern American Literature "This is an intriguing and welcome addition to the literature on the conflict between Apaches, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans."—Robert K. Watt, Journal of Arizona History "Thoroughly researched and clearly and concisely written. . . . This book is recommended for anyone, even the more casual reader, interested in the earlier frontier history of the Greater Southwest."—Dennis Reinhartz, Terrae Incognitae“[An] example of the violent peace that cultural differences and local goals can produce.”—Robert C. Galgano, The Journal of American HistoryTable of Contents List of MapsPreface 1. Communities of Violence: Apaches and Hispanics in the Southwestern Borderlands2. Refugees and Migrants: Making Hispanic-Apache Communities, 1680-17503. Fierce Dancing and the Muster Roll: Campaigns, Raids, and Wives, 1750-17854. A Vigilant Peace: Families, Rations, and Status, 1786-18305. War, Peace, War: Revenge and Retaliation, 1831-18506. Border Dilemmas: Security and Survival, 1850-18757. Communities' End: Persecution and Imprisonment, 1875-1910Conclusion: Borderland Communities of Violence AcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction by David E. Wilkins; an essay by Gerald Vizenor; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler.Trade Review"[The White Earth Nation provides] a compelling behind-the-scenes perspective on the creation of the White Earth constitution that will be instructive to anyone who is interested in the perplexing but always stimulating topic of indigenous self-government. Few issues are more significant to residents of the Great Plains and the American West."—Mark R. Scherer, Annals of IowaTable of Contents1. Sovereignty, Democracy, Constitution: An Introduction David E. Wilkins2. Constitutional Consent: Native Traditions and Parchment Rights Gerald Vizenor3. The Constitution of the White Earth Nation 4. A Citizen's Guide to the White Earth Constitution: Highlights and Reflections Jill DoerflerBibliography List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisJoseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father’s life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work.Trade Review"This book operates just like a totem pole—each essay is a face and each face has many meanings, and together, they combine to tell a tale." —Portland Book Review"A must read for anyone who wants to understand totem poles using a Lummi perspective.""—N. J. Parezo, ChoiceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsA Note on Lummi TermsNomination of Pauline Hillaire for the National Heritage FellowshipTaqwš?blu Vi HilbertA Call to CarversScälla, Pauline HillaireIntroductionGregory P. FieldsScälla, Of the Killer Whale: A Brief BiographyRebecca ChamberlainPart One: Joe Hillaire1. CarvingPauline Hillaire 2. Power of the Bear: Memories of My Father, Joe HillairePauline Hillaire3. Kwul-kwul’tw, Spirit of the War Club: Religious Man, Renaissance ManGregory P. FieldsPart Two: Coast Salish Art and Carving4. Straits Salish SculptureBill Holm5. Joseph Raymond Hillaire: Lummi Artist-DiplomatBarbara Brotherton6. Coast Salish Carving: Our Work Is Our IdentityFelix Solomon7. I Look to the Old People: Reflections on Joe Hillaire and CarvingScott Kadach’ aak’u Jensen8. A Thin Red Line: Pigments and Paint Technology of the Northwest CoastMelonie Ancheta9. Maintaining Integrity: Totem Pole Conservation and the Restoration of the Centennial History PoleAndrew Todd10. Archetypes from Cedar: Myth and Coast Salish Story PolesGregory P. Fields11. Artists Were the First Historians: Spiritual Significance of Coast Salish CarvingCHiXapkaid (Michael Pavel)Part Three: Totem Poles of Joe Hillaire12. Bellingham Centennial History Pole Pauline Hillaire13. Schelangen Story PolePauline Hillaire14. Kobe-Seattle Sister Cities Friendship PolePauline Hillaire15. Land in the Sky Story PolePauline Hillaire16. Man in Transition Story PolePauline Hillaire17. T’Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Entrance PolePauline Hillaire18. Bronson Story PoleFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire19. Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 1Pauline Hillaire20. Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 2Pauline Hillaire21. Double-Headed Wolf Totem PolePauline HillairePart Four: Lummi Oral History and Tradition22. Some Place-Names from Lummi HistoryFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire23. CanoesPauline Hillaire24. Longhouses of Long AgoPauline Hillaire25. A Wedding in Lummi HistoryPlans for a Play by Joseph HillaireFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire26. How the Lummi Came to Their Present AbodeTold by Joseph HillaireFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire27. The Lummi at Treaty-Making Time A Play by Joseph Hillaire Performed by the Setting Sun DancersFrom the Archives of Pauline Hillaire28. Tsats-mun-tonA Legend Told by Pauline Hillaire29. Four Generations of Medicine MenA Legend Told by Pauline Hillaire30. The Mink Family and the Raccoon FamilyA Folktale Told by Pauline Hillaire31. Stommish: Revival of the Water FestivalPauline Hillaire32. Signs of the SeasonsPauline HillaireAppendixBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Terminology and Orthography1. The Specter of Language Death2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death3. Programming Language Maintenance4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice6. Death by Suicide7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and IdentityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva's life together with the Baniwas' society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions.Trade Review"Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans is a tour de force, a remarkable work of deep understanding and expressive skill that should become a classic of Amazonian ethnography."—Donald Pollock, Anthropos"Complex, detailed, fascinating, and well-written."—Rebecca R. Stone, Journal of Anthropological Research "No ethnographer has ever written so extensively on a single shaman of the northwest Amazon. . . . A monumental study!"—S. D. Glazier, Choice"What Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon will be most remembered for is the essential connection between myths, religious roles, social organization, and physical places. . . . Any anthropologist interested in shamanism or animism should take note of it."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review DatabaseTable of Contents List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Shamans, Chanters, Sorcerers, and Prophets1. "You Are Going to Save Many Lives": The Life Story of Mandu da Silva, Hohodene Jaguar Shaman, coauthored by Manuel da Silva and Ercilia Lima da Silva2. Mandu's Apprenticeship and a Jaguar Shaman's Powers of World-Making3. "You Will Suffer Along Our Way": The Great Suffering in Mandu's LifePart 2. Shamanic Knowledge and Power in the Baniwa Universe4. Creation, Cosmology, and Ecological Time5. Mythscapes as Living Memories of the AncestorsPart 3. Transmission of Shamanic Knowledge and Power6. The Birth of the Child of the Sun, Kuwai7. Death and Regeneration in the First Initiation Rites, Kwaipan8. A Struggle for Power and Knowledge among Men and WomenPart 4. Revitalization Movements in Traditional and Christianized Communities9. The House of Shamans' Knowledge and Power, the House of Adornment, and the Pamaale School ComplexConclusionAppendix 1. Letter Authorizing Reproductions of Kuwai-ka WamundanaAppendix 2. Description of The Mysterious Body of KuwaiNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his Description of the Upper Missouri. This fully modern edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers to understand Truteau's travels.Trade Review"The result of several decades of collaboration, A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri merits cover-to cover reading. . . . Original manuscripts in French (and Spanish) are considered inaccessible by many students of the fur trade and of colonial St. Louis. For that reason, one important and potentially long-lasting benefit of this bilingual volume is that it can ease and even encourage further French-language study of various aspects of the fur trade, which is by no means yet fully explored."—Sharon K. Person, Missouri Historical Review"This book is a chef d'œuvre in ethnography, a work of love that spans nearly three generations of scholars. For anyone wanting to read a firsthand, in depth, intelligent account by a French fur trader whose two year long journal and his later conceived description of the upper Missouri about the Indians who lived there and their inter-tribal relations, this book is not to be missed."—Michael McCafferty, Le Journal"One of the most complete, well-edited, and best ethnographic and geographical late eighteenth-century fur trading accounts to ever be published. . . . A must-read for First Nation people, historians, ethnologists, linguists, historical reenactors, and professional and laypersons alike and will continue to be the aller á for historical reference work for the Upper Missouri River fur trade era for generations to come."—Kenneth Carstens, Michigan Historical Review"This volume is remarkable in its scope and scholarship. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of the fur trade in the disciplines of history, geography, anthropology, historical linguistics, and Native American studies."—Rob Bozell, Nebraska History"This is the first comprehensive critical edition of documents related to Truteau's two-year sojourn among Indian nations of the Upper Missouri a decade before Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery arrived at the Mandan villages. Superbly translated, edited, indexed, and annotated, the book eclipses previous efforts. Side-by-side French and English transcriptions offer easy access to Truteau's narrative, and an opportunity for readers to develop a feel for the early eighteenth-century French that fur traders spoke in the pays d'en haut, the "upriver country.” . . . This superb book reflects the talents of top-flight scholars who gave Truteau's significant narrative the attention it merits. An impressive example of "best practices" in fur trade scholarship, it makes compelling reading and is highly recommended."—Barton H. Barbour, Great Plains Quarterly"This excellent new volume of Truteau's writings is required reading for anyone with either a serious or passing interest in the history of the indigenous inhabitants of the Upper Missouri River or the fur trade that so dramatically changed their lives."—Greg Olson, Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"While it is fascinating enough to consider Truteau's journal as a primary source on the late-eighteenth-century fur trade, his journal not only provides a detailed description of the Upper Missouri but also an intriguing firsthand look into the culture, customs, traditions, beliefs, and ritualistic ceremonies of the region's Native Americans. . . . This book is a reference resource that will satisfy the needs of historians and linguists alike."—Eileen M. Angelini, French Review"A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri is a historically rich translated edition of crucial texts that explore and reflect on the cultures and environment along the Missouri River from Saint Louis to North Dakota. . . . Truteau's manuscripts are substantial, and the editor Douglas Parks's introductory essay is equally useful."—Aaron Luedke, Pacific Northwest Quarterly"Raymond J. DeMallie, Douglas R. Parks and Robert Vézina have just published a remarkable contribution to this effort to make known and situate in its socio-cultural context a variety of French that remains undoubtedly still enigmatic for many Romanists."—Revue de linguistique romane"With A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri, DeMallie, Parks, and Vézina set a new standard for a critical and textual edition of a fur trade journal, providing the most complete versions of the Truteau journals in English and the original French. During Truteau's day Native Americans dominated the Northern Plains. The journals are rich in eyewitness descriptions of interactions among Truteau, his party, members of various bands and tribes, some qualified allies, and many unrelenting adversaries. A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri also provides the necessary resources for a reader to begin to appreciate ways that Truteau's text is at many levels mediated by practices of the French fur trade society of the time."—David W. Dinwoodie, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of Contents List of Illustrations Explanation of Editorial Method Acknowledgments Introduction Douglas R. Parks Extract from the Journals of the Voyage of Jean-Baptiste Truteau on the Upper Missouri From St. Louis to the Arikara Villages, June 7, 1794–May 14, 1795 At the Arikara Villages, May 24–July 20, 1795 From the Arikara Villages to St. Louis, July 22, 1795–June 4, 1796 Abridged Description of the Upper Missouri First Notebook Second Notebook Third Notebook Instructions Given to Truteau by the Company of the Upper Missouri Account of the Indian Trade Jacques Clamorgan Appendix 1: The Language of Truteau Robert Vézina Appendix 2: A Glossary of Voyageur French Robert Vézina Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Sioux Nation's fight to regain its land and sovereignty, highlighting the events of 1973-74, including the protest at Wounded Knee. It features pieces by some of the most prominent scholars and Indian activists of the twentieth century, and features primary documents and firsthand accounts of the activists' work and of the trial.Trade Review"The Great Sioux Nation transcends its time and place and speaks to the present as much as the past."—Amanda Lynch Morris, Journal of American Culture“A delightful part of this volume is the extensive use of oral history of the Sioux which gives their version and understanding of the treaty of 1868. This will undoubtedly be a valuable source of information for future use. . . . In addition, the insights presented by the several writers about the importance of oral traditions among the Indian tribes will be useful to historians.”—Veronica E. Tiller, Pacific Historical Review “This book records what the Sioux people, the scholars, and the attorneys for the Sioux attempted to bring to the attention of the federal courts, the administration of that year, and the American people concerning the nature and status of the Sioux Nation. . . . If the moral issues raised by the Sioux people in the federal courtroom that cold month of December 1974 spark a recognition among the readers of a common destiny of humanity over and above the rules and regulations, the codes and statutes, and the power of the establishment to enforce its will, then the sacrifice of the Sioux people will not have been in vain.”—Vine Deloria Jr.“The oral history in this book represents some of the last documentation from the Lakota point of view, on the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty in these modern times. Almost all of the individuals quoted in the book have passed on and their oral history was only one generation removed from the actual Treaty signers. The entire hearing in front of Judge Urbom was a turning point in U.S. Law, as this was one of the few times in history where Lakota interpreters were used in U.S. Federal Court to express the meaning of the Fort Laramie Treaty from Lakota Peoples to the Judge and the Federal Court. Another highlight in this historic book was turning the words of the late Henry Crow Dog into poetry which made his wisdom understandable to future researchers, Indian and non-Indian.”—Bill Means, Lakota, co-founder, International Indian Treaty Council Table of ContentsIntroductionTHE TESTIMONYPart One: Wounded Knee, 1890 and 1973Part Two: The Sioux Nation Before InvasionPart Three: Colonialism to 1868Part Four: The Sioux-United States Treaty of 1868Part Five: Lakota Oral History of the TreatyPart Six: The Sioux ColonyPart Seven: From Victim to VictorConclusion: Sitting in Judgment on AmericaIt Does Not End HereSelected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisReveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled them to persevere during the reservation yearsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xix PART ONE: THEY CAME BEFORE1 They Came Before 12 The Early Years in Indian Territory 163 Allotment Comes 284 The Spirits Come 515 "They Were All around Us" 80 PART TWO: BECOMING PAWNEE6 Becoming Pawnee 1177 Childhood in Pawnee 1398 The Old and the New 1529 The Truths 179 APPENDIX ABlaine Genealogy Chart 215 APPENDIX BPawnee Indian Guardianship Record 216 Notes 225Bibliography 259Index 267

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Book SynopsisProvides new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.Trade Review"A book written from a Native person's point of view provides a rare—and therefore much needed—narrative about American society's impact on indigenous peoples."—Edward Valandra, Great Plains Quarterly"This is an unprecedented addition to the field of Dakota/Lakota scholarship."—Shannon D. Smith, Nebraska History“Emily Levine has amassed an essential text for all students, professors, scholars, and general readers interested in the history, culture, and traditions of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate, the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations.”—Brian J. Twenter, Studies in American Indian Literatures "This book is a pleasure to open and explore."—Bill Markley, Roundup Magazine"In this sensitively edited and translated volume, Emily Levine performs a work of recovery mirroring that of Lakota amateur historian Josephine Waggoner (d. 1943) herself: distilling for scholars a disciplined but wide-ranging gathering of historical materials that might otherwise have been forever lost. The list of archives consulted is impressive, and the attention to Lakota expression and Waggoner's intention extremely conscientious. Well illustrated and annotated, it is a major editorial achievement."—American Historical Association“Josephine Waggoner’s writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakota. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source. Emily Levine has meticulously examined all known collections of Waggoner’s manuscripts, sometimes comparing handwritten drafts with multiple typed copies to preserve information in full. Levine’s extensive notes are well chosen and informative. Witness will interest both specialist and popular audiences.”—Raymond J. DeMallie, Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword by Lynne AllenAcknowledgmentsEditor's Introduction by Emily LevineEditorial PolicyLakota Phonology and PronunciationJosephine Waggoner's Family Tree Ethnography, History, Her Story Introduction by Josephine WaggonerLife SketchPart 1. Dakota/Lakota Ethnography, Culture, and Society1. Creation as told by Makhúla2. The Origin of Fire by Makhúla3. Makhúla's Dream4. Sioux Legends and Traditions and Their Origins5. Ancient Legends of the Sioux6. The Arrow Makers7. Dakota and Lakota Oyáte Band Organization8. Some Cultural Miscellany9. Language10. Meaning of Names11. Some Dakota Geography12. Buffalo Hunt13. The White BuffaloPart 2. Tribal History/Her Life14. The Cramping Death15. The Mackinaw (Mackinac) Attack Near Burnt Wood Creek (Cha?gúyapi)16. The Grattan Massacre17. Fort Laramie and Horse Creek, 186518. The Wagon Box Fight19. Early Life: Grand River--Apple Creek--Standing Rock, c. 1870-7520. West to Powder River, 187521. Standing Rock, Winter 1875-7622. T?ahá?ská T?á?ka, John Bruguier23. Standing Rock and Montana, 1876-7824. The Surrender25. Life on the Reservation26. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1881-8827. Hampton and Back to Standing Rock: Working with Missionaries, 1888-8928. After Sitting Bull's Death: Wounded Knee, 1890-9129. Stock Rustling on the Reservation30. Married Life Lives of the Chiefs and Other Biographies Acknowledgments by Josephine WaggonerPart 1. Isá?yathi, Santee Dakota1. Támahe, the One-Eyed Sioux2. Ištá?ba, Sleepy Eye3. Í?kpadúta, Scarlet Point4. T?aoyátedúta, Little Crow5. Thiwak?á?, Holy HousePart 2. Ihá?kt?u?wa?/Ihá?kt?u?wa?na, Yankton/Yanktonai6. P?alániyap?ápi, Struck by the Ree7. T?at?á?kap?a, Bull Head Sr.8. Nasúnat?á?ka, Big Head9. Mat?ó Gnaškí?ya?, Mad Bear10. Cha??pílúta, Red Tomahawk11. T?at?á?kap?a, Lieutenant Henry Bull Head Jr.Part 3. Thít?u?wa?, Teton LakotaSection 1. Sihásapa, Blackfeet12. Wakutemáni, Shoots Walking13. Mat?ó Wat?ákpe, John Grass14. Cha?tehi, Goose15. Cha?té P?éta, Fire HeartSection 2. Oóhenu?pa, Two Kettle16. Mat?ó Thuchúhu, Bear Ribs17. Miwátani Há?ska, Tall Mandan18. Zi?tkálaki?yá?, Swift Bird19. Mat?ó Tópa, Four Bear20. Šú?gleškásápa, Black Spotted HorseSection 3. Itázipcho, Sans Arc21. Waánata?, Charger22. K?a?gí Wíyaka, Crow Feather23. Héwa?žíca, One Horn24. Wa?blíglešká, Spotted EagleSection 4. Mnik?ówožu, Miniconjou25. Magáska, White Swan II26. T?á?cahušté, Lame Deer27. U?p?ánglešká, Spotted Elk (Big Foot)28. Cha??á?ake, Hump29. Magáska, White Swan IV30. Mat?ó Cík'ala, Little Bear31. Ki?yá? Hiyáya, Flying By32. T?ašú?kezi, Yellow Horse33. Maští?calaglešká, Spotted RabbitSection 5. Hú?kpap?a, Hunkpapa34. T?at?óka Í?ya?ke, Running Antelope35. Wichá?pi Máza, Iron Star36. Mat?ó Ité, Bear Face37. T?at?á?ka Íyotake, Sitting Bull38. Chetá? Wakí?ya?, Thunder Hawk39. Phizí, Gall40. T?at?á?ka Héglešká, Spotted Horn Bull41. Hohú Cha??pí, Bone Club42. Mat?ó Ocí?šíca, Cross Bear43. Itú?kasa? Mat?ó, Weasel Bear44. Itéomagážu, Rain in the Face45. Wa?blí?óta, Gray Eagle46. Heyók?ahmi, Real BuffaloSection 6. Oglála, Oglala47. Ma?píyalúta, Red Cloud48. T?ašú?ke K?okíp?api, They Are Afraid of His Horses49. T?aópicík'ala, Little Wound50. Wašícu T?ašú?ke, American Horse II51. T?ašú?ke Witkó, Crazy HorseSection 7. Sichá?gu, Brulé52. Thukímáza, Iron Shell53. Mat?ó O?'á?k?o, Swift Bear54. Nú?pa Kap?á, Two Strikes55. Si?té Glešká, Spotted Tail56. Šú?ka Bloká, He Dog57. Mat?ó Kawí?ge, Turning Bear58. Waglékšu? T?á?ka, Big Turkey59. Mat?óhé?logeca, Hollow Horn Bear60. T?ašú?ke Wa?kátuya, High Horse Afterword: History of the Manuscripts Appendix 1: The Chiefs Who Fought and SurrenderedAppendix 2: The Keepers of the Peace Pipe Since Brought by the Buffalo MaidenAppendix 3: Police at Sitting Bull FightAppendix 4: Josephine Waggoner's BibliographyAppendix 5: Winter CountsAppendix 6: PoemsAppendix 7: Lakota Land DispossessionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisProvides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life during the nineteenth century, from courtship rituals that took place while gathering Juneberries, to descriptions of how the women kept young boys from stealing wild plums as they prepared them for use, to recipes for preparing and cooking local plants - including the roots, fruits, seeds, and sap.Trade Review"[Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains is] indispensable to anyone interested in Native American life on the plains; valuable for ethnobiology and Native American studies."—E. N. Anderson, CHOICE"Use of Plants by the Hidatsa is an easy, enjoyable read and a unique, valuable source of information on how people used plants."—Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology“Every aspect of life is part of this classic ethnology, from acquisition of food to spirituality to the raising of the four sacred wooden pillars of a new Earth Lodge. . . . Editor Michael Scullin does a wonderful job of weaving the many living parts of Buffalobird-woman’s story. . . . The book’s precision—many specific uses for many plants—is a pleasure to read. One gets a sense of a people who rose to the challenge of using what nature provided them to wrest a living from a demanding environment.”—Bruce Johansen, Jacob J. Isaacson Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and author of The Native Peoples of North America: A HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEditor’s NoteAbbreviations: BBW=Buffalobird-woman; PW=Poor Wolf; GB=Goodbird; SW=Sioux Woman; GLW=Gilbert Wilson; WC=Wolf Chief; MS=Michael Scullin1. Plants That Are EatenDomesticated plants (MS)Sunflowers (BBW)Corn-smut (BBW)Prairie turnips (BBW)Jerusalem artichokes (BBW)Hogpeanut (BBW, WC, GB)Chokecherries (BBW)Making stone hammers (BBW)Buffaloberries (BBW)Gooseberries (BBW)Black currants (BBW)Wild grapes (BBW)2. Plants That Can Be EatenHawthorns (BBW)Wild white onions (BBW)Ball cactus (BBW, WC)3. Plants That Are SweetJuneberries (BBW)White juneberries (BBW)Wild plums (BBW)Strawberries (BBW)Roses (BBW)Red raspberries (BBW, SW, GB)Biscuitroot (BBW)Nannyberries (BBW)Purple prairie clover (BBW)4. Plants That Are Good to ChewSticky gum (BBW)Pine pitch (BBW)5. Plants That Smell GoodPurple meadow-rue (BBW)Blue giant hyssop (BBW)Sweetgrass (BBW)Wild bergamot (BBW)Pine needles (BBW)Perfumes used in beds (BBW)Beaver musk (BBW)6. Plants That Have Medicinal UsesBig medicine (BBW)White and red baneberry (BBW)Gumweed (WC)Purple coneflower (WC)“Medicine in the woods” (BBW)Poison ivy (BBW)Unknown grass (BBW, GB)Peppermint (BBW)7. Plants Used for FiberDogbane (WC)Upright sedge (BBW)Grasswork ornaments on leggings (Isokikuas)8. Plants Used for SmokingTobacco 9a (BBW)Tobacco 9b (WC)Red-osier dogwood (BBW)Bearberry (BBW)Bearberry or kinnikinnick (WC)9. Plants Used for Dye and ColoringYellow owl’s-clover (BBW)Water smartweed (BBW)Dye plants—unidentified (BBW)10. Plants Used for ToysUmakixeke, or game of throwing sticks (BBW, GB)Popguns (BBW)A toy horseReed whistle (GB)11. Plants Used for Utilitarian PurposesCordgrass (BBW)Buckbrush (BBW)Cattails (BBW)Box elder (BBW)Buffalograss (BBW)Big bluestem (WC)Common rush (BBW)Scouringrush horsetail (WC)Puffball (BBW)Snakewood (BBW, WC)Goldenrod (BBW)Prairie grasses as fodder (WC)12. Plants Used for Rituals or with Ritual SignificanceThe three kinds of sage (WC)Pasture sage 1 (BBW, GB)Pasture sage 2 (BBW, WC)Common sagewort (BBW, WC, GB)Black sage (BBW, WC)Fringed sage (PW)Juniper (Cedar) (BBW, WC, GB)Creeping juniper (BBW, GB)Prairie sandreed (WC)Bittersweet (WC)13. Sources of WoodWood as a resource (MS)Cottonwood (WC)Ash (BBW)Peachleaf willow (BBW)Sandbar willow (BBW, WC, GB)Heart-leaved willow (BBW)Quaking aspen (BBW)American elm (BBW)Water birch (BBW)Box elder (BBW)14. Uses of WoodGathering firewood (WC)Digging-sticks (BBW, WC)Mortar and pestle (BBW)Making a bullboat frame (BBW)Making a wooden bowl (WC)Rakes (and the bison scapula hoe) (BBW, WC)Paddle for working clay pots (cottonwood bark) (GLW)15. ArrowsSignificance and utility (MS)Making arrows (WC)Types of arrows (WC)Bows (WC)Arrows for boys (BBW, GB)Mock battle with grass arrows (WC)16. EarthlodgesBuilding an earthlodge (BBW)On earthlodges (The observations of Hairy Coat and Not A Woman)Winter lodges and twin lodges (BBW)The peaked or tipi-shaped hunting lodge (BBW)The use of sod as an earthlodge coveringDismantling an old earthlodge (BBW)Like-a-Fishhook Village and environs (WC)17. Miscellaneous MaterialBasket making (BBW)Native drinks of the Hidatsas (BBW)How our meals were served (GB)Nettles (BBW)Forest fire (GLW)ConclusionAppendix: Frederick N. Wilson’s Comments on “The Hidatsa Earthlodge”Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRefers to life-revelations guiding the award-winning poet and writer through her many trials.Trade Review“Allison Hedge Coke’s intimate narrative details her journey through suffering to wholeness. Her story will inspire anyone who has faced adversity. . . . [Hedge Coke’s] insight is luminous.”—Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Of Seeds2. From Winds3. When Fire and Water Meet4. Ashes5. Back to the Lands6. Oceans, Rivers7. Crossings

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Glancy is not only an insightful historian but a gifted storyteller. The craft, creativity, and imagination with which she renders this amazing text powerfully draw the reader into the world of the Fort Marion prisoners. Few texts to date have portrayed their experiences with the upheavals of a changing world with such intimacy and humanism."—Steven Williams, American Studies"A memorable book. Intuitively and perceptively connecting the difficult journeys of late nineteenth-century Southern Plains Indians and her own difficult journeys more than one hundred years later, Glancy gives us valuable, evocative ways of imagining the Great Plains and its peoples in motion, undertaking often painful and traumatic journeys to understand who they are, where they have been, and where they might be going."—Eric Gary Anderson, Great Plains Quarterly“Diane Glancy inhabits a world of images that breathe life and voice for the voiceless men, women, and children. . . . No simple history lesson, this, as Glancy examines how language is both captor and savior, another means of imprisonment and also liberation.”—Gina Ochsner, author of The Necessary Grace to Fall“This book is mesmerizing and will stay with you for lifetimes.”—Jackie Old Coyote, Apsaalooke Nation, former director of education and outreach at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development “The survival of Indian people represents one of the most important subjects in American history. Glancy creates a multilayered narrative about the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho Indians, who became prisoners of the United States government during the late nineteenth century. She invites readers to contemplate the bleak realities and the difficult choices presented by historical circumstances.”—Brad Lookingbill, professor of history at Columbia College of MissouriTable of Contents Ledger Book Drawing: The Catch, Bear’s Heart Fort Marion Prisoners Photograph of Fort Marion Prisoners Ride to Prison The Train Ride Ledger Book Drawing: Buffalo Hunt, Bear’s Heart The Animal Show The Morning Had a Bugle in Its Mouth Night Digging a Hole in the Water Ledger Book Drawing: Boarding the Steam Boat, Bear’s Heart Backtrack Ledger Book Drawing: Chart of Goods for Sale, Buffalo Meat The Ax in my Hand Ledger Book Drawing: Military Formation at Fort Marion, Bear’s Heart Fort Marion Ledger Book Drawings (1) The Life Casts Photograph of Life Casts The Process of Writing (1) The Ocean Dogs Ledger Book Drawings (2) Ledger Book Drawing: Bishop Whipple in his Shark Suit, Bear’s Heart Schooling Ledger Book Drawing: The Schoolroom, Bear’s Heart A Snapshot of the History of Native Education The Testimonials (1) The Process of Writing (2) Pow Wow at the Seaside The Escape Ledger Book Drawing: Trees with Hair Standing Up, Bear’s Heart Trying to Walk while Holding Marbles on a Board I Was Herded into School with a Big Chief Tablet under My Arm There Were Clouds The Testimonials (2) The Letters (1) The Weight of Fire The Process of Writing (3) I Will Send My Choice Leopards Letters for Release Ride from Prison on a Painted Horse The Argument Captain Pratt to the Commissioners The Process of Writing (4) An Educational Experience Ledger Book Drawing: Crossing Eads Bridge, Bear’s Heart Undermath Photograph of Former Fort Marion Prisoners at Hampton Institute Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA Generation Removed is an examination of the post–World War II international phenomenon of governments taking Indigenous children away from their primary families and placing them with adoptive parents in the United States, Canada, and Australia.Trade Review“Illuminating. . . . Jacobs’s history is essential and timely reading.”—Beth H. Piatote, Journal of American History "This is a moving, significant book. Justice, Jacobs explains, will come only when nonindigenous people acknowledge the damage done. A Generation Removed makes a major contribution toward bringing the story to light. It remains for the rest of us to read and teach it."—Sherry Smith, Western Historical Quarterly“[Jacobs] effectively elucidates the complicated policies surrounding the Indigenous child welfare crisis in a mesmerizing narrative that highlights how it’s not just an ‘American Indian story . . . but a profoundly American one.’”—Elise Boxer, South Dakota History "A Generation Removed is an important book that effectively researches and narrates a difficult and upsetting topic that has been all but ignored by mainstream American society for far too long."—Akim Reinhardt, Nebraska History"A Generation Removed is a powerful eye opener, covering a piece of history we push under the carpet at our own peril."—Alan Porter, Saskatchewan History"A solid account that calls for "a full historical reckoning" of this devastating chapter in the treatment of Native Americans."—Kirkus“Margaret Jacobs once again demonstrates her genius for writing history that combines penetrating analysis with heart-wrenching stories. Beautifully written, deeply researched, this important and amazing book examines a subject largely unknown to the public at large but all too familiar to Indigenous peoples who have suffered the pain and indignity of child removal.”—David Wallace Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928“Jacobs brings deep scholarship to a topic of searing national and transnational importance. In a respectful, clear voice, she guides the reader on a journey into the most intimate corridors of settler colonialism. This is a complex and often heart-wrenching history that provides salutary lessons for the future.”—Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University and coauthor of How to Write History That People Want to Read“Using compelling stories and weighty evidence, Jacobs has uncovered a modern and ongoing story of child-stealing in the United States. She lays out the shocking history of Native American adoption and the good liberal logic that enabled it in a page-turner of a book.”—Anne F. Hyde, Bancroft Prize–winning author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860“A Generation Removed will find a large and interested readership among researchers, university students (of all levels), as well as the broader community of people involved in adoption. This book is also clearly written and is sophisticated without being overly specialized or jargon-ridden. . . . An admirable book, compelling to read despite the tragic stories it recounts.”—Karen Dubinsky, author of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Abbreviations Simon Ortiz’s Question Introduction Prologue Part 1. Taking Care of American Indian Children Modern Indian Life Chapter 1. The Bureaucracy of Caring for Indian Children Dana’s Story Chapter 2. Caring about Indian Children in a Liberal Age Part 2. The Indian Child Welfare Crisis in Indian Country John’s Story Chapter 3. Losing Children Meeting Steven Unger Chapter 4. Reclaiming Care Interviewing Bert Hirsch and Evelyn Blanchard Chapter 5. The Campaign for the Indian Child Welfare Act Part 3. The Indian Child Welfare Crisis in a Global Context Tracking Down the Doucette Family Chapter 6. The Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis in Canada Meeting Aunty Di Chapter 7. The Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis in Australia and Transnational Activism Finding Russell Moore Chapter 8. Historical Reckoning with Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how the US federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness”, hoping to instil the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial hierarchy.Trade Review"Readers who are interested in the residential schools, art education, the Arts and Crafts Movement, or the implementation of federal Indian policy at the onset of the twentieth century will find Colonized through Art an original and engrossing addition to the existing literature in these areas. Lentis greatly expands our understanding of how the residential schools promoted assimilation through art and of the ways that Native students used their art for creative expressions of resistance."—Melissa D. Parkhurst, Western Historical Quarterly“Lentis breaks new ground in explaining the presence of arts and crafts . . . in government schools that otherwise ‘suppressed every aspect of Indian cultures, traditions, and languages.’. . . Well worth the read.”—Lisa K. Neuman, American Historical Review"Studies of federal Indian schooling have spawned a variety of approaches to the contested subject, but in Colonized through Art the independent scholar Marinella Lentis has moved the discussion in a new direction by evaluating the impact of art education in these schools."—Margaret Connell-Szasz, Journal of American History"In Colonized through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889–1915, Marinella Lentis provides an extensively researched study of art education in U.S. government operated boarding schools for American Indian students at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries."—John Reyhner, Pacific Northwest Quarterly“Marinella Lentis deftly lays out the terrain of Indian school art programs. . . . A significant contribution to the field, Colonized through Art clearly, succinctly, and broadly expands our knowledge of the ways government officials pushed assimilation through art—not to mention the resistance many Native students creatively expressed.”—Linda M. Waggoner, author of Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist"Colonized through Art provides a thorough historical account of how white, Euro-American superintendents, curriculum writers, and teachers implemented cultural assimilation, which was manifested in public displays through nineteenth- and early twentieth-century boarding schools."—Kevin Slivka, History of Education Quarterly "I highly recommend the volume and believe it to be essential reading for those studying the Native American boarding school system in the United States."—Mackenzie J. Cory, Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Art “Lifts Them to Her Own High Level”: Nineteenth-Century Art Education 2. “An Indispensable Adjunct to All Training of This Kind”: The Place of Art in Indian Schools 3. “Show Him the Needs of Civilization and How to Adapt His Work to the Needs of the Hour”: Native Arts and Crafts in Indian Schools 4. “The Administration Has No Sympathy with Perpetuation of Any Except the Most Substantial of Indian Handicraft”: Art Education at the Albuquerque Indian School 5. “Drawing and All the Natural Artistic Talents of the Pupils Are Encouraged and Cultivated”: Art Education at Sherman Institute 6. “Susie Chase-the-Enemy and Her Friends Do Good Work”: Exhibits from Indian Schools at Fairs and Expositions 7. “The Comparison with the Work of White Scholars Is Not Always to the Credit of the Latter”: Art Training on Display at Educational Conventions Conclusion Appendix A: List of Fairs, Expositions, and Educational Conventions That Featured Indian School Exhibits Appendix B: Day, Reservation, and Non-Reservation Schools Represented at Major National and International Fairs Appendix C: Layouts of Minneapolis and Boston Exhibits Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Performing Indigeneity lays out a sophisticated treatment of the cross-cultural politics embodied in the productive but hard-to-define category ‘indigeneity.’ Laura Graham and Glenn Penny’s ground-breaking collection brilliantly guides readers through the emergence and renegotiation of such tropes as cultural heritage, human rights, environment, and aboriginality.”—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan and author of Indians in Unexpected Places“One is not born indigenous. That’s the far-reaching upshot of this remarkable collection, which radically expands our notion of indigeneity. Along with their collaborators, Laura Graham and Glenn Penny break with any sense of essential selfhood, giving us a performative and dialogic concept that sees the indigenous as a creative space of collective imagination.”—Matti Bunzl, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois“This terrific set of essays brings together some of the best and freshest thinking in a field burgeoning with creativity. Native arts and activism are flourishing, and so are interdisciplinary conversations about Indigeneity. Every chapter offers surprises: gems of insight from unexpected angles. This is a bold step forward.”—Beth A. Conklin, chair of the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Performing Indigeneity: Emergent Identity, Self-Determination, and SovereigntyLaura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny2. Living Traditions: A Manifesto for Critical IndigeneityBernard Perley3. Culture Claims: Being Maasai at the United NationsDorothy L. Hodgson4. A White Face for the Cofán Nation? Randy Borman and the Ambivalence of IndigeneityMichael L. Cepek5. Performed Alliances and Performative Identities: Tupinamba in the Kingdom of FranceBeatriz Perrone-Moisés6. Rethinking Sami Agency during Living Exhibitions: From the Age of Empire to the Postwar WorldCathrine Baglo7. Not Playing Indian: Surrogate Indigeneity and the German Hobbyist SceneH. Glenn Penny8. The Return of Kū? Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and NationTy P. Kāwika Tengan9. Bone-Deep Indigeneity: Theorizing Hawaiian Care for the State and Its Broken ApparatusesGreg Johnson10. Haka: Colonized Physicality, Body-Logic, and Embodied SovereigntyBrendan Hokowhitu11. Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in BrazilLaura R. Graham12. Showing Too Much or Too Little: Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central AustraliaFred Myers13. Cities: Indigeneity and BelongingMark K. WatsonContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn an earlier book, Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounted the story of his traditional Sioux Childhood and youth. From the Deep Woods to Civilization, first published in 1916, continues the narrative, beginning with his abrupt entry into the mainstream of Anglo-American life in 1873 at the age of fifteen.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays and autobiographies that explore a range of experiences and issues, including skinning a polar bear; traditional domestic and subsistence practices; marriage customs; alcoholism; the challenges and opportunities of modern education; balancing traditional and contemporary demands; adapting to urban life; and, more.Trade Review"These are gritty, forthright narratives about late-twentieth-century life in remote Alaska... A wonderful collection indeed!"-Julie Cruikshank, author of The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory (Nebraska 1998) and Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (Nebraska 1991) -- Julie Cruikshank "These stories add a new dimension to the genre of Native American literature."-Robin Ridington, coauthor of Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe (Nebraska 1997) -- Robin Ridington

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Book SynopsisFor more than a century, the Northern Arapaho people lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming - the fourth largest reservation in the country. This book draws together aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world - myth, language, art, ritual, identity, and history - to offer a vivid picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time.Trade Review"A remarkable work."—Wick Downing, Denver Westerners RoundupTable of ContentsIllustrationsContemporary Arapaho OrthographyPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Northern Arapahos2. The Approach3. Arapaho Persons and Relations4. The Space and Time of Life Movement5. Childhood6. The Men's Age-Grade System7. Old Age and the End of Life8. Women and Life Movement9. A Total View of Life Movement10. Changes in Age Structure and Life Movement11. Arapaho Knowledge12. Euro-American Knowledge13. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIntroduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. This work includes tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, and a presentation of Star Myths, which reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition by Darrell KippIntroduction to the Bison Books Edition by Alice Beck KehoeIntroduction by Clark WisslerI. Tales of the Old Man1. The Making of the Earth2. Languages confused on a Mountain3. Order of Life and Death4. Why People die Forever5. The First Marriage6. Old Man leads a Migration7. Old Man and the Great Spirit8. Old Man gambles9. Old Man and the Rolling Stone10. Old Man roasts Squirrels in Hot Ashes11. Old Man makes a Drive, and loses Meat in a Race12. Old Man sees Berries in the Water13. Old Man loses his Eyes14. Old Man and the Fire-Leggings15. Old Man frightens a Bear16. Old Man gets fast in an Elk-Skull, and loses his Hair17. Old Man cooks Two Babies18. Old Man's Escape19. Old Man deceived by Two Women20. Old Man sees Girls picking Strawberries21. Old Man penem trans flumen mittit22. Old Man makes Buffalo laugh23. Adventures of Old ManII. Star Myths1. The Twin-Brothers, or Stars2. Blood-Clot, or Smoking-Star3. The Fixed-Star4. Scar-Facea) Version by a Piegan Manb) Version by a Piegan Woman5. Cuts-Wood6. The Seven Stars7. The Bunched Stars8. The Moon-WomanIII. Ritualistic Origins1. The Beaver-Medicinea) Northern Blackfoot Versionb) Blood Versionc) North Piegan Versiond) Piegan Version2. Otter-Woman3. Tobacco-Seeds and Beaver-Medicine4. Crow Indian Water-Medicine5. Scabby-Round-Robe6. The Elk-Woman a) Blood Versionb) Piegan Version7. The Buffalo-Rocka) Piegan Versionb) Northern Blackfoot Version8. Origin of the Medicine-Pipe9. The Worm-Pipe10. A Pipe from the Seven Stars11. The Black-Covered Pipe12. The Otter-Lodge13. The Bear-Lodge14. The Horse-Lodge15. Black and Yellow Buffalo-Painted Lodges16. The Crow-Painted Lodge17. The Bear-Knife18. The Smoking-Otter19. The Medicine-Shields20. Never-Sits-Down's Shield21. The Eagle-Head Charm22. The Pigeons23. The Mosquitoes24. The Braves25. Dog-Chief26. Has-Scars-All-Over27. Scabby-Bull28. The Horns and the Matokia) Blood Versionb) North Piegan Version29. The Kit-Fox30. The Catchers31. The Buffalo's Adopted ChildIV. Cultural and Other Origins1. The Whirlwind-Boy2. The Bladder Story3. The Water-Bull4. Red-Head5. The Meeting in the Cave6. Why Dogs do not Talk7. Why Women are able to stick the Poles into the Holes of the Ears of the Lodge after Dark8. Contest between the Thunder-Bird and the Raven9. The Raven Rescues People10. Why Grasshopper Spit11. How Medicine-Hat got its NameV. Miscellaneous Tales1. The Lost Children2. The Woman who got Meat from the Cliff3. Bear-Moccasin, the Great Medicine-Man4. The Split Feather5. The Treacherous Wives6. The Woman who Married a Snake7. The Woman who Married Filth8. The Woman who Married a Horse9. The Woman with a Sharpened Leg10. The Woman without a Body11. The Man Cut in two below the Waist12. The Ghost-Woman13. Fed by a Ghost14. Fed by a Coyote15. Riding the Buffalo16. The Kutenai Black-Tail Deer-Dance17. The Horned-Toad and the Frog18. Turtle goes to War19. The Warrior's Dilemma20. A Warrior's Duty and his Love21. The Wolverene-Woman22. Seven-Heads23. The Sand Hills Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - the essays chart the course of recent theories of Native literature, delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies, and probe specific themes of trauma and memory.Trade Review"Transatlantic Voices represents some of the most recent critical studies of contemporary Native North American literature by fourteen European scholars... The anthology will be a useful resource for anyone interested in interdisciplinary crossings in postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, and narrative ethics."-Laura Castor, Great Plains Quarterly -- Laura Castor Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic State University Part 1. Theoretical Crossings 1. "They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem Hartwig Isernhagen, Universität Basel2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Université Michel de MontaigneBordeaux 33. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America Helmbrecht Breinig, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Part 2. From Early Fiction to Recent Directions 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded Gaetano Prampolini, Università di Firenze5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Technische Universität Dresden Part 3. Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows Deborah L. Madsen, Université de Genève7. "Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's PoetryKathryn Napier Gray, University of Plymouth8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia Part 4. Comparative Mythologies, Transatlantic Journeys 9. Vizenor's Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart Paul Beekman Taylor, Université de Genève10. "June Walked over It like Water and Came Home": Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks Mark Shackleton, University of Helsinki11. Encounters across Time and Space: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan's Power Yonka Krasteva, University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria12. Double Translation: James Welch's Heartsong of Charging Elk Ulla Haselstein, Freie Universität Berlin13. Clown, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train Simone Pellerin, Université Paul-ValéryMontpellier III14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Tokyo List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the political and legal history of the Indians of Robeson County, arguing that Lumbee political activities ave been powerfully affected by the interplay between their own and others' conceptions of who they are. This book offers insights into the workings of racial ideology and practice in both the past and the present South.Trade Review"The work is authoritative, theoretically provocative, and accessibly written, and should stand as a definitive source on the Lumbee for some time, as well as a useful contribution to the understanding of the South."—Choice"A welcome and valiant effort to elaborate on a quasi-comprehensive basis the history and contemporary status of this indigenous group. . . . It ranks high on the small list of works dealing with an Eastern tribe minus a treaty relationship with the federal government."—Ethnohistory

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Book SynopsisHighlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the US Southeast. The traditional and modern Native literature genres showcased include stories that speakers perceive to be in the past, genres that have developed alongside these stories, and modern story types that have sometimes supplanted traditional tales.Trade Review“Marcia Haag displays intimate awareness while skillfully articulating the complexities of Native American survivance in the southeastern U.S. . . . Throughout the seventy-seven works, there is a straightforward style embellished with poetic cadences and colloquialisms. These works offer a rare glimpse into a South too often overlooked or forgotten. . . . Care has been taken to record these gems in a context that respects their individuality and enhances awareness within and outside of their respective tribal communities.”—Douglas Suano Bootes, World Literature Today “This book is a pleasure to read. The strong aesthetic appeal of southeastern Native narrative is apparent in the contributors’ fine renderings of the tales, and their commentaries show the importance of the stories in the lives and expectations of southeastern narrators and audiences past and present.”—Margaret Holmes Williamson, author of Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia “This collection, which covers a greater diversity of tribes than most studies of [the Southeast], will be an asset to specialists, students, and those with a general interest in southern studies. Its presentation of storytelling with scholarly context is especially valuable.”—Lindsey Claire Smith, editor of American Indian Quarterly Table of ContentsIntroduction Marcia HaagChoctaw Essay Mississippi Choctaw Oral Literature Tom MouldCreation MythsThe Choctaw Creation Legend Isaac Pistonabee. 1901The Creation of Three Races Harley Vaughn. 1996 Shukhanumpa: Animal StoriesWhy Terrapins Never Get Fat Olman Comby. 1928.Contemporary Humorous StoriesThe Dog who Spoke Choctaw Jake York. 1997Running Water Lillie Gibson. 1997The Man and the Turkey Henry Williams. 1997Supernatural Legends and EncountersThe Little Man Terry Ben. 1996Pansh Falaya (Long Hair) Cynthia Clegg. 1997Prophecy StoriesNew Inventions and Lost Traditions Billy Amos. 1999Cars and Changing Values. In Choctaw and English. Odie Mae Anderson. 1997The Third Removal Estelline Tubby. 1996EssayWhere Oral Tradition and Literacy Collide: James L. McDonald’s Spectre Essay of 1830Phillip Carroll MorganLetter from J.L. McDonald to Peter Pitchlynn J.L. McDonald. 1830EssayModern Oklahoma Choctaw Stories Marcia HaagModern Oklahoma Choctaw StoriesBoarding School Runaways Paula Carney. 2008How I Almost Killed a Hog by Scaring It Abe Frazier. 2008.The Miracle Bill Nowlin. 2006.Neva the Hunter Lois Pugh. 2004.CreekEssayCreek (Muskogee) Literature Jack B. MartinTraditional TalesThe Story of Corn Taylor Postoak, Second Chief of the Muskokees. 1882The Boy who Turned Into a Snake I. Field. 1937 Family Versions of Traditional TalesRabbit Steals Fire Earnest Gouge. 1915Girl Abducted by LionEarnest Gouge. 1915Stories of Real PeopleAutobiography of James Hill James Hill. 1939Traditional SongEstvmvn Estomen Follatskis In Creek and English.Transcribed by Gloria McCarty.Chickasaw EssayChickasaw Oral Literature Joshua D. Hinson (Lokosh)Chikashsha Naaikbi’ Anoli’ ‘Creation-Origin Stories’Chikashsha Naiikbi’ Anoli’ Chickasaw Creation Story In Chickasaw and English Juanita Byars. 1995How the Day and Night were DividedTranslated by the Chickasaw Language Committee. 2012Shikonno’pa “Possum Stories”Why Turtle Has a Cracked Shell Weldon Fulsom. 2011Iksa Nannanooli: Clan StoriesWildcat Man Meets BigfootZeno McCurtain. 1921Humorous StoriesFala Shiiki Tawwa’a ‘The Crow and the Buzzard’ John Puller, retold by Stan Smith. 2011EssayInterpretation Is a Tricky Business: The Challenges of Interpreting Chickasaw Oral Narratives Joshua D. Hinson (Lokosh)Selections from Katihshtchi Ittish Oppolo’ Okla Imalattook `How the People Got Poison’Glenda Galvan. Translated by Jo Ann Ellis and Jerry Imotichey. 2012.Yuchi Essay Yuchi Stories Mary S. Linn Mythical Time StoriesThe Red-Mouthed Lizard and the Hunters Maxey Simms. 1928How the Yuchi Kill the Red-Mouthed Lizard Andy Johnson. 1928 Wind and IronMaxey Simms. 1928Animal TalesThe First Woman to Leave a Lazy Husband Collected by Jeremiah Curtin. 1883Rabbit and Turkeys In Yuchi and English Ida Clinton Riley. 1993 Stories of the Supernatural Spirit Stories Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brown. 1883Cherokee EssayCherokee Literature Christopher B.TeutonGalgogv’i: New and Old LiesThe Rabbit and the Image Dalala. 1961Rabbit and Possum Look for WivesSequoyah Guess. 2010How the Possum Lost His Beautiful TailKathi Littlejohn. 1998Thunder and the Uk’ten’Siquanid’. 1961How the White Man Was MadeHastings Shade. 2010Ulvsgedi: Stories of the WondrousThe Owl at the WindowHastings Shade. 2010Crossing Safely Sammy Still. 2010Santeetlah Ghost StoryEdna Chekelelee. 1998The Little People and the NunnehiRobert Bushyhead. 1998The Spirit of an AncestorHastings Shade. 2010.Kanoheda: Philosophy, History, and MemoirThe Language and the FireSequoyah Guess, Hastings Shade, Woody Hansen, and Christopher B. Teuton. 2010A Cherokee Vision of Eloh’ (excerpt) Sakiya Sanders. Translated by Wesley Proctor. 1981 The Cherokee Migration Story Sequoyah Guess. 2010The Trail of TearsFreeman Owle. 1998Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (excerpt)Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis. 2000Who Is Cherokee?Harry Oosahwee (Adawi). 2010EssayWho Is Cherokee? Federal Recognition, Culture, and Rhetorical SovereigntyKimberly Roppolo WieserKoasati EssayKoasati (Coushatta) Literature Linda LangleyTraditional StoriesThe Bear Hunter and the Alligator’s Gift Isabel Celestine Robinson. circa 1960How the Owl Got Skinny LegsRonnie Abney. 2009Getting Fire from the Bear Crystal Williams. 2013Modern Stories and MemoirsHow We Survived Long AgoDoris Robinson Celestine Battise and Jamison “Jimmy” Poncho. 2009Hunting in the Olden Days, and Tomatoes Dan Sylestine. 2009 and 2012Grandmother and the Nail Bertney Langley. 2012Another Story about Grandmother and a Nail Barbara Langley. 2012Grandmother and the Gift Card Lorenda Poncho. 2013Grandmother and the Turtle Claudine Ceslestine Hasting. 2012On My Way to the Meeting. Ittanahkafa Aayallis In Koasati and English Janice Battise Sylestine. 2010Photograph of Koasati authorsLiterature of smaller tribes of the Southeastern United States (Atakapa-Ishak, Catawba, and Houma)Essay Introduction to Atakapa, Catawba, and Houma Stories William Sconzert-HallAtakapa-IshakInterpretation of the Creation Myth Shaman Shawn PapillionOstitat – The One who Sits Above All: the Making of the Earth Shaman Shawn Papillion. 2013CatawbaInterpretation of a Folktale Beckee GarrisHow the Chipmunk Got its Stripes Re-told by Beckee Garris. 2013HoumaThe Importance of Folktales MorningDove Verret Hopkins and William Sconzert-HallHow the Rabbit Lost His Tail MorningDove Verret Hopkins. 2012How the Turtle Broke His Shell. MorningDove Verret Hopkins 2013AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDuring much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians' equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narrativesappearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi coverswere maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T'ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T'ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T'ina artifacts, Trade Review"Arni Brownstone's study of Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) war paintings is a valuable addition to scholarship on the artistic traditions of the peoples of the North American Plains."—Alison K. Brown, Museum Anthropology Review"War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation is one of those books that anyone interested in the history of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains hopes comes along, perhaps without even knowing it."—Rob Alexander, Rocky Mountain Outlook“Brownstone’s meticulous study makes available a unique set of little-known hide paintings and offers valuable insights into one of the less studied indigenous societies of the Great Plains. A must for every library on Native North American art and culture.”—Janet Catherine Berlo, professor of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester and author of Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHistorical BackgroundPlains Indian WarfareWar Exploit PaintingHistory of the Five Tsuu T’ina PaintingsDiscussion of the Five PaintingsPictographic TranslationsLater Tsuu T’ina PaintingsTsuu T’ina Material Culture CollectionsNotesReferencesIndex

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