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Book SynopsisA state‑of‑the‑field volume of southern Native American history that focuses on the sixteenth to the twenty‑first centuries. Trade Review"[The Native South] reveals how the history of the Native South and Native southerners is a dynamic form of historical inquiry, a testimony to the skill of the contributors and an enduring testimony to the pathbreaking scholarship of Michael Green and Theda Perdue."—G. D. Smithers, Choice"The Native South offers a collection of essays in honor of Theda Perdue and the late Michael Green by a panel of their former students, all established or up-and-coming scholars of Native history in their own right. The essays are a fine tribute to their mentors."—Michelle LeMaster, Ethnohistory"Whether we train future historians, or future teachers, nurses, or pilots, any professor's greatest legacy is her or his students. In The Native South the editors Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien have assembled the students of Theda Perdue and the late Mike Green to prove this point forcefully and beautifully."—Matthew Jennings, Journal of American History"Fieldworkers among the Cherokee, Choctaw, and other local groups will find this material useful . . . and ethnographers elsewhere will be encouraged to seek out the discoveries of ethnohistorians to enrich their own work."—Anthropology Review Database"A welcome and long overdue sampling of one of the fastest growing subfields in American Indian history today."—Bradley Shreve, Tribal College Journal"In this compiled volume, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien bring together an impressive array of scholarship from the leading voices in southern Indian history."—Rowan Faye Steineker, Chronicles of Oklahoma"The Native South concludes with the finest essay in the collection. In his chapter about legacy and the ghosts of the South, James Taylor Carson studies the airport in Franklin, North Carolina. Carson uses insightful metaphors and quotes from figures in Native American studies and history to showcase how the Eastern Band of Cherokees fought to preserve the burial grounds of their ancestors. This is an apt conclusion to a book whose dedication to legacy and ethnohistory as methods of putting Indigenous peoples at the center of their own stories makes it a necessary resource in contemporary Native American studies."—Jay N. Shelat, American Indian Quarterly“These essays showcase some of the best work in the field. . . . One of the strengths of this volume is the wide scope and diversity in regard to both tribes and time periods.”—Kathryn E. Holland Braund, coeditor of Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and War of 1812 “Really great essays that expand our understanding not only of Indigenous Southerners but of larger processes of social change and cross-cultural encounters.”—Katherine M. B. Osburn, author of Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830–1977Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Greg O’Brien 1. An Interview with Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green Greg O’Brien 2. The Enterprise of War: The Military Economy of the Chickasaw Indians, 1715–1815 David A. Nichols 3. Quieting the Ghosts: How the Choctaws and Chickasaws Stopped Fighting Greg O’Brien 4. Cherokee and Christian Expressions of Spirituality through First Parents: Eve and Selu Rowena McClinton 5. Andrew Jackson’s Indian Son: Native Captives and American Empire Christina Snyder 6. Inevitability and the Southern Opposition to Indian Removal Tim Alan Garrison 7. An Absolute and Unconditional Pardon: Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Indigenous Justice Julie L. Reed 8. Race, Kinship, and Belonging among the Florida Seminoles Mikaëla M. Adams 9. Witnessing the West: Barbara Longknife and the California Gold Rush Rose Stremlau 10. Cherokee Women and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Izumi Ishii 11. Kinship and Capitalism in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations Malinda Maynor Lowery 12. “Engaged in the Struggle for Liberation as They See It”: Indigenous Southern Women and International Women’s Year Meg Devlin O’Sullivan 13. Cherokee Ghostings and the Haunted South James Taylor Carson Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDeals with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring timeTrade Review"Based on descriptions given by people who had experienced their traditional culture-most of it a way of life that had ceased or changed by 1900-Walker's papers are a unique and invaluable source for the anthropological study of the Sioux and for understanding traditional Plains Indian society generally."-Choice Choice "Classical material on the Lakota people and essential reading for anyone interested in a serious study of these people."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal American Indian Culture and Research Journal "DeMallie has done a sensitive, careful piece of work, and the documents as presented are both important sources and of interest to the general student of Indian history and ethno-history."-Western Historical Quarterly Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities.Trade Review"A welcome addition to serious scholarship directed at the uniting of history, historicity, ethnohistory, ethnology and ethnography."-Norman E. Whitten Jr., Ethnohistory -- Norman E. Whitten Jr. Ethnohistory "Whitehead and the other contributors are to be congratulated for forcing us to reexamine our ideas of what constitutes history and historical consciousness and to continue to insist that lack of literacy does not make 'a people without history.'"-S. Elizabeth Penry, The American Historical Review -- S. Elizabeth Penry The American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Restoring the Chain of Friendship does an admirable job of exploring the complications of British policy, and it does an even greater service for the field by explaining how native opinions and actions contributed to those complications."—John P. Bowes, Journal of American History"Timothy D. Willig has made a major contribution to the field. . . . With the bicentennial of the War of 1812 not far off, it will be of special interest to those seeking to make sense of the varied native responses to that enigmatic conflict."—Sandy Antal, Northwest Ohio History"Willig's analyses of Indian and British relations "on the ground" are persuasively connected to a history of policy development and implementation because he is able to incorporate a great deal of Native perspective."—Kiara M. Vigil, Michigan Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: The Chain of Friendship in the Colonial Past1. The Quest for a Just Peace, 1783-95 2. A New Diplomacy at Amherstburg, 1796-1803 3. British-Indian Relations in the North, 1796-1802 4. A New Society on the Grand River, 1784-1801 5. John Norton and the Continuing Struggle at the Grand River, 1801-12 6. Restoring the Chain of Friendship in the West and in the North, 1801-12 Epilogue: Reassessing the Chain of Friendship, 1812 and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the challenging subject of discoursemarkers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Ojibwe Discourse Markers is a remarkable study that interprets and describes the Ojibwe language in its broader theoretical concerns in the field of linguistics.Trade Review“Discourse markers, a major aspect of Ojibwe, as Brendan Fairbanks notes, are among the elements that make teaching and learning Ojibwe as a second language particularly challenging. The author’s insightful analysis of the nuances they bring to expression will greatly aid instructors and adult learners in particular.”—M. Naokwegijig-Corbiere, assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Sudbury“In Ojibwe Discourse Markers the author has tackled a challenging and poorly understood area of Ojibwe grammar. Grounding his study in authentic Ojibwe data from multiple sources, Brendan Fairbanks has made a valuable contribution to our knowledge of this important Algonquian language.”—John O’Meara, dean and faculty of education at Lakehead University in Ontario and author of Delaware-English/English-Delaware DictionaryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction and background1.1. The language1.2. Why study Ojibwe discourse markers?1.3. Methodology1.4. Orthography2. What is a discourse marker?2.1. Schiffrin’s definition of discourse markers2.2. Relevance theorists’ view of discourse markers2.3. Cross-linguistic data2.3.1. Position2.3.2. Clitics and affixes2.3.3. tam (tense-aspect-mode) systems2.3.4. Simultaneous textual and interpersonal functions of discourse markers2.4. Defining discourse markers3. Ojibwe discourse markers3.1. Discourse connectives3.1.1. Initial position3.1.1.1. inashke3.1.1.2. miinawaa3.1.1.3. onzaam3.1.1.4. dibishkoo3.1.1.5. mii dash3.1.2. Second position3.1.2.1. idash as a contrastive marker3.1.2.1.1. Digressions3.1.2.1.2. Backgrounding and foregrounding3.1.2.1.3. idash in adjacency pairs3.1.3. Preverbs3.1.3.1. Relative preverb izhi3.2. Mystery particles3.2.1. Initial position3.2.1.1. mii as a veridical marker3.2.1.2. mii as a command softener3.2.1.3. awenh, inenh3.2.1.4. aaniish3.2.2. Second-position mystery particles3.2.2.1. isa3.2.2.1.1. isa as a marker of closings3.2.2.1.2. isa as a marker of relinquishment3.2.2.1.3. isa as a marker of conclusory gists3.2.2.1.4. isa as a marker of resultant action3.2.2.1.5. isa as a position strengthener3.2.2.1.6. isa as a placeholder3.2.2.1.7. sa go3.2.2.2. gosha3.2.2.3. sha3.2.2.4. da3.2.2.5. bina3.2.2.6. goda3.2.2.7. naa3.2.2.7.1. Second-position discourse clusters with naa4. Conjunct order as a discourse-marking device4.1. Sentence-level use of conjuncts4.1.1. Dependent clauses4.1.2. Temporal immediacy and the connective feature of the conjunct4.1.3. Situational immediacy4.2. Discourse use of conjuncts5. ConclusionNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas’ religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the “ontological turn,” particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how a new animist framework can connect and articulate otherwise disparate and obscure elements of Lakota ethnography. Stripped of its problematic nineteenth-century social evolutionary elements and viewed as an ontological or spiritual alternative, this reevaluated concept of animism for a twenty-first-century sensibility provides a compelling lens through which traditional Lakota mythology, dreams and visions, and ceremony may be productively analyzed and more fully understood. Posthumus exploTrade Review"All My Relatives is an important contribution to the anthropological and ethnohistorical research on Lakota religion. It sets several standards for the field, showcasing the richness of sources, the complexity of theological Lakota argumentation, and how these sources can be analyzed in a meaningful way."—Sebastian Braun, Journal of Anthropological Research“In this superb ethnography of North American animism, David Posthumus paints a vivid and poetic picture of what it meant for the nineteenth-century Lakota Sioux to live in a world beyond the human that they shared with scores of animal persons and spirits. A remarkable achievement.”—Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture"All My Relatives provides us with a look into the core beliefs and practices of the Lakota people from an ontological view as well as an ethnographic one. Posthumus's firm grasp of Lakota history and culture adds clarity and historical significance to text, which is vital to understanding the Lakota people, their beliefs, and their rituals."—Victoria Sprague, Great Plains Quarterly"This is a must-read for the student of Lakota ontology, belief, and ritual. Posthumus adds to the field of collected works that capture once again the adage, 'We have much to learn from the American Indian.'"—Maka Akan Najin Clifford, Nebraska History"All My Relatives is a work that challenges the modern West's collective memory of American Indian spiritual beliefs, a relic of nineteenth-century Christian colonialism through missionary enterprises. Most impressive is the author's use of Lakota language to offer a more accurate translation of words and phrases that the Christian missionaries defined and employed to portray Lakota religion as void of any spiritual value. To the contrary, Posthumus argues that in an animist ontology, the principle of relatedness is at the heart of Lakota spirituality."—Lisa Barnett, South Dakota History"The serious reader will be richly rewarded in working through the book given Posthumus's sophisticated explication of Lakota interspecies relations and their implications for ritual enactment. . . . His work clearly demonstrates the promise of the new animism for indigenous research, and its application to Lakota lifeways specifically, and to Native American sacred traditions in general."—Fritz Detwiler, Reading Religion“The subject of Lakota ontology, belief, and ritual has enduring value and significance for all who are interested in the Sioux, in the literature of Black Elk, and in Plains ethnohistory generally. . . . All My Relatives is very strong in its command of Lakota sources, notably the writings of the Delorias, of ethnohistorical records, and of relevant secondary sources.”—Jennifer S. H. Brown, professor emerita of history at the University of Winnipeg and editor of Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in ConversationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Hallowell, Descola, Ontology, and Phenomenology 2. Situated Animism and Lakota Relational Ontology 3. The Living Rock, Grandfather of All Things 4. Persons and Transformation 5. Spirits and Ghosts 6. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Mythology 7. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Dreams and Visions 8. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Ritual 9. The Dynamics of Life Movement Glossary of Lakota Terms and Phrases Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisI Have Spoken is a collection of American Indian oratory from the 17th to the 20th century, concentrating on speeches focusing around Indian-white relationships, especially treaty-making negotiations. A few letters and other writings are also included.Here,

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Book SynopsisPontiac, Sequoyah, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle. These legendary names are familiar even to the uninitiated in Native American history, yet the life stories of these great spiritual leaders have been largely unknown.Trade Review“Frank Waters is the premier writer of the American West. Whatever we have learned from everything else that he has written, we find it coalesced here. Frank saved his best and deepest book for the last.”“Waters looks at an assemblage of great American Indians across the continent. In his lyrical fashion, he tells … why they will never be forgotten.”“A valuable introduction to Native American history.” * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisThis social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view.Trade Review'A hypnotizing study of the encounter between Indians and Europeans in New Mexico and of the formation of a colonial society, When Jesus Came is not 'lite' history. It is as theoretically sophisticated and as thoroughly researched as academic history gets. Gutierrez's work is proof that historians can have it both ways, meeting scholarly standards while also offering stories and ideas to capture the interests of a wider audience.'Patricia Nelson Limerick, The New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsTables and figures Introduction Part I. The Sixteenth Century: 1. The Pueblo Indian world in the sixteenth century Part II. The Seventeenth Century: 2. The Spanish conquest of New Mexico 3. Seventeenth-century politics Part III. The Eighteenth Century: 4. The reconquest of New Mexico 5. Honor and social status 6. Honor and virtue 7. Honor and marriage 8. Marriage and the church 9. Marriage - the empirical evidence 10. The bourbon reforms on the Northern Frontier Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, who in their own language call themselves Tay Ñudzahui, people of the rain place. These people were among the most populous cultural and language groups of Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish conquest. This study focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750.The work is largely based on an extraordinary collection of primary sources, translated and analyzed by the author, that were written by Mixtecs in the roman alphabet from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. To complement this native-language corpus, the author has examined preconquest and early colonial pictorial writings, Spanish-language civil and trial records, and Nahuatl (Aztec) texts.The book addresses many interrelated topics, including writing, language, sociopolitical organization, local government, social and gender relations, land tenure, trade, rebellion, Trade Review"The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca is a book for scholars, but all readers will be informed and encouraged to learn more about the ancient and important cultures still found among native peoples of Mexico." -- History"This groundbreaking study will be an essential acquisition for any library specializing in colonial Mexico." -- CHOICE"This book contains important insights for a multidiciplinary audience; those interested in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica, as well as Latin American history, ethnohistory, colonial studies, and gender studies will find much to consider and build upon in this exceptional work." -- Sixteenth Century Journal"This is a work of high seriousness, impeccable, even awesome scholarship in arcane sources, powerful analytic drive, and straightforward, comprehensible exposition." -- Journal of Social History"This is the sort of work that requres updating and fine-tuning, not replacement. Future editions should add even more luster to a book that is sure to become a classic." -- Canadian Journal of History"This is an extraordinary work. . . . Kevin Terraciano is extremely well read in the studies of Mexican indigenous cultures and has a masterly knowledge of the Mixtecs." -- History"This is a work of very great importance, and its combination of cutting-edge research and readable style will likely make it a classic. Terraciano attempts to do for the Mixtecs what James Lockhart has accomplished for the Nahuas of central Mexico: to provide an 'inside view' of the colonial Indian culture using contemporary documents written by Indians in their own language." -- John K. Chance * Arizona State University *

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Book SynopsisTaking on existing interpretations of "Peruvian exceptionalism," this book presents a multi-sited ethnographic exploration of the local and transnational articulations of indigenous movements, multicultural development policies, and indigenous citizenship in Peru.Trade Review"This book makes a substantive contribution to the rapidly burgeoning literature on indigenous activists and development... it demonstrates convincingly that the rejection of bilingual education inherently reflected fears of affirming ethnic identity because such an identity still implied second-class citizenship." -- Hispanic American Historical Review"In addition to its insightful analysis, Making Indigenous Citizens also follows in the best tradition of ethnographic writing, seamlessly combining field observations with theory-building and personal story-telling in a manner that presents a sophisticated argument while at the same time remaining highly accessible." -- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"The author recounts the history of indigenismo in Peru, from the days of Mariategui and his nineteenth-century precursors to the present. She tells the story with brio and erudition." -- Journal of Anthropological Research"...without question an essential new read."--Journal of Latin American Anthropology"García's book is a timely and welcome addition to the growing body of scholarly literature on the current wave of indigenous movements in Latin America. García takes as a departing point the rejection of conventional views on Peru... She is able to make a compelling and fascinating case for the existence of strong indigenous politics in Peru around issues of culture, education, identity, and citizenship... A new conceptualization of social movements' theory is needed... [and] the book's success in proving these points, by combining theoretical sophistication, solid fieldwork, and writing clarity, show that this is certainly the most stimulating and fruitful path to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples in contemporary Latin America." -- Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe"Garcia has fashioned a book thats terrific in every way. Her subject is the politics of culture, tradition, and identity in the Andes, and its the best thing Ive read on the topic in as long as I can remember. Making Indigenous Citizens will become a key book in scholarship about the Andes and Latin America." -- Orin Starn * Duke University *

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Book SynopsisTaking on existing interpretations of "Peruvian exceptionalism," this book presents a multi-sited ethnographic exploration of the local and transnational articulations of indigenous movements, multicultural development policies, and indigenous citizenship in Peru.Trade Review"This book makes a substantive contribution to the rapidly burgeoning literature on indigenous activists and development... it demonstrates convincingly that the rejection of bilingual education inherently reflected fears of affirming ethnic identity because such an identity still implied second-class citizenship." -- Hispanic American Historical Review"In addition to its insightful analysis, Making Indigenous Citizens also follows in the best tradition of ethnographic writing, seamlessly combining field observations with theory-building and personal story-telling in a manner that presents a sophisticated argument while at the same time remaining highly accessible." -- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"The author recounts the history of indigenismo in Peru, from the days of Mariategui and his nineteenth-century precursors to the present. She tells the story with brio and erudition." -- Journal of Anthropological Research"...without question an essential new read."--Journal of Latin American Anthropology"García's book is a timely and welcome addition to the growing body of scholarly literature on the current wave of indigenous movements in Latin America. García takes as a departing point the rejection of conventional views on Peru... She is able to make a compelling and fascinating case for the existence of strong indigenous politics in Peru around issues of culture, education, identity, and citizenship... A new conceptualization of social movements' theory is needed... [and] the book's success in proving these points, by combining theoretical sophistication, solid fieldwork, and writing clarity, show that this is certainly the most stimulating and fruitful path to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples in contemporary Latin America." -- Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe"Garcia has fashioned a book thats terrific in every way. Her subject is the politics of culture, tradition, and identity in the Andes, and its the best thing Ive read on the topic in as long as I can remember. Making Indigenous Citizens will become a key book in scholarship about the Andes and Latin America." -- Orin Starn * Duke University *

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Book SynopsisA history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, this book focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750.Trade Review"The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca is a book for scholars, but all readers will be informed and encouraged to learn more about the ancient and important cultures still found among native peoples of Mexico." -- History"This groundbreaking study will be an essential acquisition for any library specializing in colonial Mexico." -- CHOICE"This book contains important insights for a multidiciplinary audience; those interested in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica, as well as Latin American history, ethnohistory, colonial studies, and gender studies will find much to consider and build upon in this exceptional work." -- Sixteenth Century Journal"This is a work of high seriousness, impeccable, even awesome scholarship in arcane sources, powerful analytic drive, and straightforward, comprehensible exposition." -- Journal of Social History"This is the sort of work that requres updating and fine-tuning, not replacement. Future editions should add even more luster to a book that is sure to become a classic." -- Canadian Journal of History"This is an extraordinary work. . . . Kevin Terraciano is extremely well read in the studies of Mexican indigenous cultures and has a masterly knowledge of the Mixtecs." -- History"This is a work of very great importance, and its combination of cutting-edge research and readable style will likely make it a classic. Terraciano attempts to do for the Mixtecs what James Lockhart has accomplished for the Nahuas of central Mexico: to provide an 'inside view' of the colonial Indian culture using contemporary documents written by Indians in their own language." -- John K. Chance * Arizona State University *

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Book SynopsisUncommon Schools explores the emergence of postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples worldwide over the past fifty years.Trade Review"Cole has produced a landmark book that is unprecedented in the study of indigenous people. It represents a new benchmark for comparative studies of Native people. Although a few books have attempted to compare government policies for indigenous people across nation-states, Cole's book is the first to compare how Native people have attempted to structure institutions of higher education to serve their communities. This is a one-of-a-kind book that cannot be overlooked by scholars of Native people." -- C. Matthew Snipp * Stanford University *"Cole's book is important precisely because it is so cognizant of the wider social and political milieu of indigenous claims making vis-à-vis modern nation states. . .A book with a rare combination of elements—it is diachronic, interdisciplinary, theoretically strong, empirically grounded, and (particularly unusual for those books that focus primarily on the U.S. context) also consciously international." -- Stephen May * American Journal of Sociology *"Cole has written a masterful and comprehensive analysis of the modern rise of post-secondary schools for indigenous peoples. He analyzes the phenomenon at a global and historical level, but also examines national and organizational variations. The book is unique—a most impressive addition to the field." -- John W. Meyer * Stanford University *"Wade Cole's innovative, comparative Uncommon Schools illuminates how destitute and poorly educated groups of indigenous people have come to use quasi-sovereignty and the political authority of higher education to form unique colleges to increase their people's cultural survival. This is a fascinating story of local adaptation of global ideas, subjective self-identification, and the rising power of higher education in increasingly schooled societies worldwide." -- David P. Baker * The Pennsylvania State University *

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Book SynopsisA sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Percés were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture.Trade ReviewHaines has made a genuine effort to make imaginative and sympathetic use of the few sources that tell the internal story of what the Nez Perces thought, felt, and did. He succeeds so well that the reader, for a change, finds himself looking eastward with the Nez Percés instead of riding westward in the vanguard of the new civilization."" - Montana

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Book SynopsisBlack Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Black Elk was the only qualified priest of the older Oglala Sioux still living when The Sacred Pipe was written. This is his book.

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Book SynopsisFor many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian. They were the heroes of the Great Plains, and they were the villains, too. Royal Hassrick here attempts to describe the ways of the people, the patterns of their behaviour, and the concepts of their imagination.

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Book SynopsisAn account of the life and accomplishments of Sitting Bull, American Indian warrior and chief of the Dakota Sioux. A leader in the Sioux War of 1876-1877, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General Custer, he was killed during the "Ghost Dance" uprising in 1890 by police.

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Book SynopsisPresents in vivid detail the grisly realities of the Indian Wars and the suffering experienced by both sides. For the troops who campaigned in the lonely hinterlands of America, it was bloody, dangerous, and exhausting warfare fought, as General Crook said, “without favor or hope of reward.”

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Book SynopsisTom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man's fight to save the wilderness from destruction.

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Book SynopsisSpanning four centuries, this history traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with Spanish missionaries in 1750, through to their present-day way of life and relationship with the state of Virginia and the Federal Government.

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Book SynopsisFew historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as the journals written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a record of his journey into the North American interior in 1833-34. In this volume, Maximilian vividly narrates his extended stay at Fort Clark and his return journey eastward across America and on to his home in Germany.

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Book SynopsisDebates over the legitimacy of ethnohistory as a specialization have led some scholars to declare its decline. This volume shows ethnohistory to be alive and well and continuing to attract young scholars.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Trade ReviewA dramatic narrative with a tragic conclusion. . . . A lively, readable account of an overlooked episode in Native American history."" - Journal of the West""A fine history that focuses upon diplomacy, the fur trade, and intertribal conflict."" - Gary Clayton Anderson, The Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisOffers a rare glimpse into American Indian life and into the world of women's basketball before “girls' rules” temporarily shackled the sport. For anyone captivated by Sea Biscuit, A League of Their Own, and other accounts of unlikely champions, this book rates as nothing but net.Trade ReviewA compelling narrative. . . . Highly recommended."" - Choice""Bravo to Peavy and Smith for an excellent account of these Native heroes who deserve to be honored."" - Indian Country Today""A monumental achievement that deserves a wide readership among women, sport, and Indian historians."" - David W. Adams, Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisBefore their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe's original homeland.

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Book SynopsisSo highly regarded was John Mix Stanley that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution - where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley's extant art offers an opportunity to rediscover his remarkable accomplishments.

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Book SynopsisDespite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. This book celebrates in depth the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from the “heartbeat” of intertribal drums and “warble” of Native flutes to contemporary rock, hip-hop, and electronic music.Trade ReviewAn evocative snapshot of the musical landscape of Native North America."" - Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing Indian""This book doesn't miss a beat. It's the most authentic study of the ongoing Spirit of our music in recent memory."" - Rev. Goat Carson, American Indian elder and Grammy Award winner

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Book SynopsisTells the story of one of the most influential - and controversial - American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.Trade ReviewIn this definitive biography, Tadeusz Lewandowski carefully chronicles the challenges that Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), her Dakota Nation, and many Native Americans endured during her lifetime. Red Bird, Red Power is a must-read for those interested in this remarkable woman and the history of Native and non-Native relations during the first half of the twentieth century."" - A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, author of American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography""Red Bird, Red Power offers a complex portrait of a woman whose tenacious commitment to Native peoples produced unsettling alliances and political stances. Detailing the missing, misunderstood, and lesser-known periods of Gertrude Bonnin's life of advocacy and activism, Tadeusz Lewandowski provides an engrossing account of how she and a cohort of Native and non-Native people challenged and worked to change federal Indian policies in the first decades of the twentieth century. This book asks us to heed more fully the efforts of Native activists negotiating a difficult yet pivotal period of Indigenous political formation."" - Susan Bernardin, coauthor of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880 - 1940

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Book SynopsisCollects, defines, and correlates the month names in every recorded Maya calendrical tradition from the first hieroglyphic inscriptions to the present - an undertaking critical to unlocking and understanding the iconography and cosmology of the ancient Maya world.Trade ReviewIn The Maya Calendar: A Book of Months, 400 - 2000 CE, Weldon Lamb has compiled the most detailed examination to date of the month names of the Maya calendar. This exhaustive reference work will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in tracing the nuances of the pre- and (especially) post-Conquest Maya calendar."" - Scott A. J. Johnson, author of Translating Maya Hieroglyphs""Weldon Lamb masterfully demonstrates how Classic period glyphs evolved, tracing month names from the Classic through the Postclassic and Colonial periods and up to the ethnographic present. The Maya Calendar is a major contribution to academic research that will be a treasured resource now and in the future."" - Susan Milbrath, author of Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

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Book SynopsisThis engaging exploration of the life and career of Andrés Canché, and of his fellow Maya caciques, illuminates the realities of politics in Yucatán, revealing that seemingly ordinary political relationships were carefully negotiated by indigenous leaders. Theirs is a story not of failure and decline, but of survival and empowerment.Trade ReviewMaya Caciques in Early National Yucatán provides an updated account of Maya village headmen in the first half-century following Mexican independence in 1821. Rajeshwari Dutt's detailed narrative contributes to our knowledge of how Maya peoples responded to pressures generated by the construction of the modern Mexican state."" - Terry Rugeley, author of Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatán, 1800 - 1880

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Book SynopsisOffers a celebration of Arapaho oral narrative traditions in all the richness of their original language. Working with Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. C'Hair, Andrew Cowell retranscribes Arapaho texts into modern Arapaho orthography, and retranslates and annotates them in English.

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Book SynopsisThe wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now legendary, but Bear's Paw is not the entire story. In fact, nearly three hundred Nez Perces escaped the US Army and fled into Canada. Beyond Bear's Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians.Trade ReviewWith his characteristically thorough scholarship and perceptive insights, Jerome Greene tells the scarcely known, tragic story of the Canadian exiles from the Nez Perce War of 1877. We are much the better for the telling."" - Elliott West, author of The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story""Greene's knowledge and understanding of the Nez Perce flight from Idaho and their pursuit by the U.S. Army in 1877 are undeniable. The story here has long been waiting to be told, and it adds another shade to contemporary understanding of the complexity of Native-white history of the late nineteenth century. - Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAfter immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889, the city's residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory's creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889.Trade Review1889 is a much-needed contribution to the history of Oklahoma, the American West, and Gilded Age America. Michael J. Hightower offers the best and most complete coverage of the Boomer movement that I have read."" - Sterling Evans, editor of Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West

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