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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In an important [and] moving contribution to both Native and diaspora studies . . . Conrad, a non-native, begins by respectfully acknowledging his outsider status and then weaves stories of the Apache across history by using extensive archival resources in multiple states as well as Mexico and Spain to put names (and, when he can, faces) to many figures who have been lost within White-dominated textbooks. By focusing on the personal sides of these stories, the author connects readers directly to a history that should be better known." * Kirkus Reviews *"[A] study of displacement and survival that is daunting in its scope and impressive for its research. Conrad surveys 400 years of Apache history...Conrad has produced a vivid contribution to the ongoing discussion about whether and how diaspora is a fitting label for the myriad experiences of people subjugated under colonialism. It will not only be essential reading for scholars of Indigenous peoples of the Southwest, but also for those interested in uniting disparate temporal and geographic subfields. " * Journal of Social History *"Impressively researched...the diasporic framework offers fresh insights into changing Apache kin networks and identities. The close-ups of people, places, and events that Conrad shares with readers in the latter half of the book enrich both his analysis and our understanding of the Apache diaspora. Indeed, The Apache Diaspora is part of a small but growing body of scholarship that uses diaspora to breathe new life into ethnohistory. Conrad’s analysis is welcome and timely; his work is deserving of a wide readership." * The Journal of Arizona History *"This is the first comprehensive examination of Apache (Ndé) groups from the 1500s, when they entered the Spanish documentary record, to the twentieth century...Conrad’s deeply sympathetic and well-written book presents a tragic history with much suffering and unfairness but also with an unshakeable will to remain." * Journal of the Early Republic *"Paul Conrad’s wonderful book, The Apache Diaspora, undertakes [an] ambitious and important task by training its focus on the Ndé, or Apache peoples of the American Southwest....[T]his is an essential contribution to the historiography and an outstanding piece of historical scholarship. The Apache Diaspora will stimulate important conversations in graduate seminars and will make an invaluable read for anyone interested in the broad and chaotic scope of conquest." * H-Early America *"[An] ambitious and powerful work...[T]his is a sweeping work covering four hundred years of history in order to highlight pre- as well as post-conquest experiences of Apache life in regard to captivity, mobility, and colonization...What emerges in this narrative are the different approaches Apache people used to resist and survive despite the persistent efforts of outsiders to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them over more than four hundred years. Indeed, this work highlights some of the continuities within Native resistance amid colonization and diaspora, and all the while brings readers into close contact with Apache stories." * Early American Literature *"[A] deeply researched, well-written study of the Apache diaspora...Conrad successfully argues that the legacy of this long Apache diaspora is deep and lasting. Many remain separated from their homeland to this day. Factions endure. And Native peoples, Apaches included, still face disproportionate rates of incarceration and violence...The Apache Diaspora is a major contribution to Native American and Apache history and to the field of diaspora studies." * The Journal of American History *"In this sweeping, detailed study, Paul Conrad interprets four centuries of Apache history through the analytical framework of diaspora...Deeply researched and extensive in scope, this book should appeal to a wide readership in Borderlands, American Indian, and colonial North American and Latin American history." * Journal of Early American History *"Conrad provides an intriguing and exciting new way to think about Apaches and their important place in the long colonial history of North America...The Apache Diaspora is at once a synthesis narrative and a detailed case study, a colonial policy history and an Indigenous-centered work of ethnohistory, a top-down look at familiar Indian figures and a bottom-up account of previously unknown Native actors. In every respect, Conrad has produced a model for studying and writing about American Indian history, and his work should initiate an historiographic wave in the coming years that will further transform the way we think about colonialism in North America." * American Historical Review *"[A] pathbreaking work...Even as he tackles questions of extraction, exploitation, and colonization situated hundreds of years in the past, Conrad has written a book that is urgent and timely and exposes important lessons about Apache people’s vibrant love for their communities and lands that have sustained them across centuries...[A] remarkably cohesive narrative that highlights trends that persisted through centuries and empires, a narrative that seamlessly integrates a study of Indigenous slavery within a study of Native nationhood and makes sense of the ongoing conflict over Apache homelands in the Southwest. [A] compelling and innovating narrative. " * William and Mary Quarterly *"The first comprehensive history of the Apache nations, this is a revelatory book of enormous importance. Ranging from North America to the Caribbean, Paul Conrad illuminates four centuries of violence, enslavement, resistance, diaspora, and survival. Reading The Apache Diaspora is to see American history itself anew." * Pekka Hämäläinen, author of Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power *"The study of America's borderlands history is as incomplete as it is inadequate without consideration of Apache peoples and their centuries-long struggles for survival and autonomy. With breathtaking range and focus, The Apache Diaspora provides a powerful overview of nearly four centuries of Apache history and offers a series of sobering analyses into the varied phases of enslavement, warfare, and forced migrations that structured much of colonial and nineteenth-century history. A vital addition to the field." * Ned Blackhawk, author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West *"Through deep research and amazing stories that pull the reader into the lives, hopes, and despairs of Apache individuals and families, Paul Conrad offers unique chronological breadth and perspective from which to view the centuries-long experience, burden, and legacy of enslavement and removal suffered by Native people within American history. The unremitting displacements endured by Apaches over four centuries go directly to the heart of their determination to evade imprisonment and to protect kinship integrity through mobility, as they transformed movement into a tool to achieve diplomatic, military, and sovereign advantage in their contests with foreign governments and would-be conquerors." * Juliana Barr, author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[C]oncise yet deeply researched...Stone convincingly demonstrates that Indigenous slavery and the slave trade were integral to Spanish exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas...Scholars interested in the origins and consequences of Indigenous slavery in the Americas have much to gain by engaging with this groundbreaking work. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Captives of Conquestis an important additiontothevoluminousscholarlyworkon slavery in the Atlantic world. It forces historians to consider other forms of slavery beyond the better-known African slavery and challenges the idea that Indigenous slavery was a marginal process in the colonization of the Americas. * H-LatAm *[A] thorough, detailed inquiry into the Indian and African slave trades in the Spanish Caribbean… This is an engagingly written, clearly argued, and meticulously researched volume. * Choice *Captives of Conquest is an original and important contribution to a growing body of scholarship that expands our understanding of slavery in Latin America. Through its innovative examination of indigenous slavery and by placing the circum-Caribbean and Central America at its center, it fills important lacuna in scholarly understandings of indigenous slavery in the Spanish Empire. * Emily Berquist Soule, California State University Long Beach *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[M]eticulously researched and steeped in contemporary theory...This fascinating, important book is a vital contribution to the developing field of extinction studies within the environmental humanities. * Choice *Timothy Sweet has deep experience thinking about the intersection of American environmental, cultural, and intellectual history, from the first decades of European colonization through the nineteenth century. He is perfectly prepared to tackle questions around megafauna extinction narratives and debates in the Americas. Extinction and the Human is compelling, learned, wide-ranging, trustworthy, and thorough. * Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan *Timothy Sweet has written a richly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and ultimately engrossing book. Filled with scenes of literary and cultural exchange, his accounts of the near or complete extinction of mastodons, whales, and bison have the power to stop us in our tracks, forcing us to rethink the roles and relationships of the human and nonhuman in new, sometimes visceral ways. * Randall Fuller, University of Kansas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene Chapter 1. A Prehistory of Extinction Chapter 2. Mammoths, the "Oeconomy of Nature," and Human Ecology Chapter 3. Does the Whale Diminish? Will He Perish? Chapter 4. Buffalo Commons, Buffalo Nation Reprise. The Human Exception Revisited Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review".Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom is an accessible book that shares valuable insights learned from comparative and collaborative research engagement with Zapotec and Yurok educators across several years, including pandemic years, which attest to the commitment of the researcher to Indigenous education. Engaging with this book can inspire readers to consider how we can engage in Indigenous education research and practice to benefit its diverse actors and how we can do so by drawing on a wide range of knowledges and ways of knowing—across cultures, across disciplines and across methodological paradigms." * Revista: Harvard Reiew of Latin America *"Mneesha Gellman shows how Indigenous language programs in high schools operate as collaborative platforms for Indigenous identity reclamation, multicultural empowerment, and decolonization, and demonstrates how Indigenous languages and cultures are relevant issues to anyone interested in forging a fairer society." * Américo Mendoza Mori, Harvard University *"This book shows why language matters so much for Indigenous identity, and how communities like mine are keeping our language alive. Mneesha Gellman demonstrates how important it is for young people to learn about themselves and their cultures, and for schools to make a place for everyone in the schoolroom." * Victoria Carlson, Yurok Language Program Manager for the Yurok Tribe *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Contemporary Culturecide: Why Language Politics Matters for Youth Participation Chapter 2. Collaborative Methodology: Research With, Not On, Indigenous Communities Chapter 3. Language Regimes, Education, and Culturecide in Mexico and the United States Chapter 4. Weaving Resistance: Zapotec Language Survival in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico Chapter 5. “My Art Is My Participation”: Language and Rights in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico Chapter 6. Like Water Slipping Through Cracks in a Basket: Teaching and Learning Yurok at Hoopa Valley High School, California Chapter 7. “We Are Still Here”: Navigating Cultural Rights and Discrimination at Eureka High School, California Conclusion. Advocating for Multilingual, Pluricultural Democracy Appendix 1. Informational Letter for Students, Parents, Guardians, and Community Members Appendix 2. Permission Form Appendix 3. Examples of Qualitative Interview Questions for Research Appendix 4. Examples of Focus Group Questions Appendix 5. Survey, English Version for Use in Language Classes (V1) Appendix 6. Discussion of Survey Data in Relation to Language and Identity Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTo the world they are known as Berbers, but they prefer to call themselves Imazighen, or “free people”. By tracing the cultural production of the Kabyle people—their songs, oral traditions, and literature—from the early 1930s to the end of the twentieth century, Fazia Aïtel shows how they have defined their own culture over time, both within Algeria and in its diaspora.

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Book SynopsisToo easily we forget that the process of European colonization was not simply a matter of armed invaders elbowing themselves into position to take charge. As John Juricek reminds us, the road to revolution was paved in part by complicated negotiations with Indians, as well as unique legal challenges.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on his 49 years of studying and learning from the Lacandon Maya, James Nations discusses how in the midst of external pressures such as technological changes, missionary influences, and logging ventures, Lacandon communities are building an economic system of agroforestry and ecotourism.

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Book SynopsisConcentrating on how family life, community life, and grassroots activism are carried out in two countries simultaneously as Garifuna move back and forth, this book examines the relationship between the Garifuna and Honduran national society and discusses much of the recent social activism organized to protect Garifuna coastal villages.Trade ReviewAn ethnographically rich exploration of the ways in which Garifuna communities and grassroots organizations negotiate the transnational complexities of race, class, gender, ethnicity and nationhood as a multivalent diasporic people."—Journal of Latin American Studies"Does an impressive job of analyzing Garifuna transnationalism while highlighting the distinctions between dwelling in different places within it. . . . Has much to offer students of race and ethnicity, ethnic movements and transnationalism."—Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"[A] finely crafted book. . . . In exquisite theoretical and ethnographic detail, England focuses on the history of transnational migration of a community of Garifuna between Limón, Honduras, and New York City."—Latin American Perspectives"An excellent account of how transnational culture informs social movements, the negotiation of development processes, and reformulation of ethnic identity. England makes her case using rich, thick description based on firsthand narrative accounts to provide a window of insight into the complexities of transnational Garifuna culture."—American Anthropologist "A strength of England’s analysis is her consideration of critical discourses that compete with the dominant perspective to argue that dependence on remittances and the consumption they enable is debilitating and enslaving."—Latin American Research Review"An important book. . . . England’s multisited ethnography represents a substantial contribution."—New West Indian Guide

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Book SynopsisDrawing on her research of the Mixtec Indians' migration from the southwest of Mexico to Baja California, the author shows that sometimes the push for indigenous labels is more a process of external oppression than it is of minority empowerment. This book is useful to scholars working in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and ethnic studies.Trade ReviewVirtually all of the scholarship on identity sees it as something that comes from the bottom-up. Martinez Novo recognizes the popular side of identity formation, but also looks at the process from the top down. How do more powerful actors-state institutions, intellectuals, elites, NGOs, etc.-try, in an imperfect and messy way, to mold collective identities? Martinez Novo not only poses this rather interesting problem, but investigates it with an innovative methodology and supports it with sound scholarship.-Steve Striffler, author of in the Shadows of State and CapitalTable of ContentsContents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mixtec Communities at the Mexican Border. 3 The Making of Vulnerabilities: Indigenous Day Laborers in Mexico's Neoliberal Agriculture; 4 ""We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government."" State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s; 5 Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana; 6 Race, Maternalism, and Community Development; 7 Conclusion: Cultural Difference and Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. Chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political issues and identities for people who are in dual or multiple minority situations. Trade Review"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge." -- Kevin Johnson * Dean, UC Davis School of Law *"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies." -- Robert Chao Romero * author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 *"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge." -- Kevin Johnson * Dean, UC Davis School of Law *"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies." -- Robert Chao Romero * author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: About Mixed Race, Not About WhitenessPaul Spickard, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Joanne L. Rondilla Part I Identity JourneysChapter 2 Rising Sun, Rising Soul: On Mixed Race Asian Identity That Includes BlacknessVelina Hasu HoustonChapter 3 BlackapinaJanet C. Mendoza Stickmon Part II Multiple Minority Marriage and ParentingChapter 4 Intermarriage and the Making of a Multicultural Society in the Baja California BorderlandsVerónica Castillo-MuñozChapter 5 Cross-Racial Minority Intermarriage: Mutual Marginalization and CritiqueJessica Vasquez-TokosChapter 6 Parental Racial Socialization: A Glimpse into the Racial Socialization Process as It Occurs in a Dual-Minority Multiracial FamilyCristina M. Ortiz Part III Mixed Identity and Monoracial BelongingChapter 7 Being Mixed Race in the Makah Nation: Redeeming the Existence of African-Native AmericansIngrid Dineen-WimberlyChapter 8 “You’re Not Black or Mexican Enough!” Policing Racial/Ethnic Authenticity among Blaxicans in the USRebecca Romo Part IV Asian ConnectionsChapter 9 Bumbay in the Bay: The Struggle for Indipino Identity in San FranciscoMaharaj Raju DesaiChapter 10 Hyper-visibility and Invisibility of Female Haafu Models in Japanese Beauty CultureKaori Mori WantChapter 11 Checking “Other” Twice: Transnational Dual MinoritiesLily Anne Y. Welty Tamai Part V ReflectionsChapter 12 Neanderthal-Human Hybridity and the Frontier of Critical Mixed Race StudiesTerence KeelChapter 13 Epilogue: Expanding the Terrain of Mixed Race Studies: What We Learn from the Study of NonWhite MultiracialsNitasha Tamar Sharma BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this book analyze Latin American indigenous women’s engagements with different legal forums and language to secure greater justice and security, and aim to set out a series of key concepts and issues for analyzing these mobilizations, in order to present innovative, engaged research on constructions of justice and security. Trade Review“Demanding Justice and Security offers a panoramic view of Latin American indigenous women’s strategies for combating gendered violence and of creating constructive justice alternatives grounded in indigenous concepts of collective rights and autonomy. Beautifully written ethnography and crisp theory make this a particularly useful classroom book.” -- Lynn Stephen * author of We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements *"Demanding Justice and Security constitutes a milestone in the study of indigenous women’s organizing, understanding and engaging legal pluralities in Latin America. Drawing on rich fieldwork from Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala, the authors of this collaborative research-action experience have crafted an outstanding multi-sited ethnography of gender, violence, injustice and insecurity in these countries. This remarkable volume allows for a unique opportunity to consider structural violence and its comparative effects on the gendered body politic." -- Pamela Calla * Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University *"Demanding Justice and Security...brings into focus communities often overlooked in much of the research on political institutions, particularly in political science. An important contribution of this work is its emphasis on intersectionality: the ways that indigenous women negotiate multiple identities of class, gender, and ethnicity and their struggles to balance gender and ethnic claims." * Politics & Gender *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America: Demanding Justice and Security Rachel Sieder Part I Gender and Justice—Between State Law and International Norms Chapter 1 Between Community Justice and International Litigation: The Case of Inés Fernández before the Inter-American Court Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo Chapter 2 Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: The Political Dilemma of the Cuetzalan Indigenous Women’s Home (CAMI) Adriana Terven Salinas Chapter 3 Between Participation and Violence: Gender Justice and Neoliberal Government in Chichicastenango, Guatemala Rachel Sieder Part II Indigenous Autonomies and Struggles for Gender Justice Chapter 4 Indigenous Autonomies and Gender Justice: Women’s Dispute for Security and Rights in Guerrero, Mexico María Teresa Sierra Chapter 5 Gender Inequality, Indigenous Justice, and the Intercultural State: The Case of Chimborazo, Ecuador Emma Cervone y Cristina Cucuri Chapter 6 Let Us Walk Together”: Chachawarmi [Male-Female] Complementarity and Indigenous Autonomies in Bolivia Ana Cecilia Arteaga Böhrt Chapter 7 Participate, Make Visible, Propose: The Wager of Indigenous Women in the Organizational Process of the Regional Indigenous Council of the Cauca (CRIC) Leonor Lozano Part III Women’s Alternatives in the Face of Racism and Dispossession Chapter 8 Voices within Silences: Indigenous Women, Security, and Rights in the Mountain Region of Guerrero Mariana Mora Chapter 9 Grievances and Crevices of Resistance: Maya Women Defy Goldcorp Morna Macleod Chapter 10 Intersectional Violence: Triqui Women Confront Racism, the State, and Male Leadership Natalia De Marinis Part IV Methodological Perspectives Chapter 11 Methodological Routes: Toward a Critical and Collaborative Legal Anthropology Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo and Adriana Terven Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting stories that represent the diversity of Virginia's Indians, this book offers an introduction to the history of Virginia Indians, a native American community.

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Book SynopsisConsidered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. The first book-length volume devoted to the site, this text reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains of the earthworks and the site’s undeniable importance to history.

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Book SynopsisThe American Revolution was a struggle not only for independence, but for the lands of American Indians. This is an account of the events surrounding the scorched-earth campaign against the Iroquois of New York and the eastern territories in 1779.Trade Review"Packed with juicy nuggets of detail and clearly the result of prodigious research in primary sources." * William and Mary Quarterly *"In an unsparing and meticulously researched narrative, Mintz confronts the hard facts of a seamy side of the Revolution, a warfare in which both sides aimed at desolation and succeeded." -- Edmund S. Morgan,Yale University"Max Mintz's fascinating account is packed with colorful details. A lively narrative that succinctly traces the twists and turns of the wilderness warfare that raged on the northwestern frontier of the Confederation. A wonderful, fast paced read about an important dimension of the revolutionary struggle that has finally received the attention it deserves." -- Richard Buel Jr.,Wesleyan University"Max Mintz, in sparkling prose, reminds us that war on the frontier of Revolutionary America was vitally important and that the Iroquois side of the story demands further investigation." -- Don Higginbotham,University of North Carolina"A valuable addition to American history." * Fore Word *"Mintz's extensive knowledge of Revolutionary War figures and his gift to make them live illuminates descriptions of Gen. John Sullivan, Mohawk Joseph Brant, and others." * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA collection of children's tales, handed down by Seneca Indians. They have been gathered together by a Seneca anthropologist, who himself is the grandson of a leading Seneca chief.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on archaeology, historical evidence, oral traditions, and linguistics, this book provides a view of Iroquois life from the prehistoric period and Owasco sites through the establishment of the Five Nations.Trade ReviewThis volume represents far more than a description of the culture, history, and archaeological record of the Iroquois - it is an accessible, anthropological account of their world. It should be considered essential reading not only for scholars... but also anyone interested in understanding contemporary Iroquois world view and politics. It is a book that celebrates the dynamic history of a living culture." - Ontario Archaeology"William Englebrecht draws on archaeology, ethnology, historical evidence, and oral traditions to give the reader a detailed overview of this great culture from its ancient roots until today.... An outstanding survey of this captivating episode of America's heritage." - American Archaeology"A very accessible and plainspoken account of the Iroquois and their homeland... The book's strength lies in its use of enthnohistory.... Engelbrecht's descriptions of the Iroquois economy, practiced in the throes of what to all appearances was unending strife and warfare, are some of the best available. So too are his depictions of villages and village life, which are based not only on his own field work, but also [on] information gleaned from the most recent, authoritative literature." - New York History

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Book SynopsisShines a light on the rich history of Algonquian and Iroquoian people, offering the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Native Americans and the Adirondacks. While the book focuses on the nineteenth century, the analysis extends to periods before and after this era.

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Book SynopsisThe variety of people who lived in America prior to Western migration possessed an equal variety of faith practices and beliefs. This work is about how those beliefs began, how they changed due to the influence of outside forces, and how Native Americans today are working to preserve their faiths.

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Book Synopsis Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.

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