Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
University of Arizona Press Tewa Worlds An Archaeological History of Being
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University of Arizona Press Horsefly Dress
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University of Arizona Press Footprints of Hopi History
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£28.46
University of Arizona Press The Din Reader An Anthology of Navajo Literature
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£21.56
University of Arizona Press Once Upon the Permafrost
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University of Arizona Press Once Upon the Permafrost
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University of Arizona Press Diverting the Gila The Pima Indians and the
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University of Arizona Press Strong Hearts and Healing Hands Southern
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University of Arizona Press Transforming Dine Education
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University of Arizona Press Pachamama Politics
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University of Arizona Press Postindian Aesthetics
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University of Arizona Press Postindian Aesthetics
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University of Arizona Press Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
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University of Arizona Press Guarded by Two Jaguars
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Persistence of Good Living
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Becoming Hopi
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University of Arizona Press Visions of Transformation
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University of Arizona Press Nahua Horizons
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£26.09
University of Arizona Press Hopis and the Counterculture
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University of Arizona Press Hopis and the Counterculture
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University of Arizona Press Savages and Citizens
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University of Arizona Press Caracoleando Among Worlds
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University of Arizona Press Nahua Horizons
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£72.00
University of Arizona Press Visions of Transformation
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University of Arizona Press Sentient Lands
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University of Minnesota Press The People Named The Chippewa
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£17.09
University of Minnesota Press Red On Red
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University of Minnesota Press Wiping the War Paint off the Lens
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive exploration of Native American filmmaking and video production. Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With their cameras, they capture the lives of Native people, celebrating community, ancestral lifeways, and identity. Not only artistic statements, the films are archives that document rich and complex Native communities and counter mainstream media portrayals. Wiping the War Paint off the Lens traces the history of Native experiences as subjects, actors, and creators, and develops a critical framework for approaching Native work. Singer positions Native media as part of a larger struggle for cultural sovereignty-the right to maintain and protect cultures and traditions. Taking it out of a European-American context, she reframes the discourse of filmmaking, exploring oral histories and ancient li
£17.09
University of Minnesota Press The People Have Never Stopped Dancing
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University of Minnesota Press Spaces between Us
Book SynopsisExplores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United StatesTrade Review"This is a fascinating multi-disciplinary book that analyzes the intricate linkages, appropriations, and productions around discourses of Native and non-Native queer movements of indigeneity and national belonging. Scott Lauria Morgensen is a gifted writer and scholar with an elegant eye for detailed and nuanced analysis." —Martin F. Manalansan, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"Spaces Between Us is brilliant work that is unceasingly critical, ethical, and illuminating in its research, analysis, and theorization. Morgensen challenges formations of queer settler colonialism in this major intervention undertaken with a critical methodology that has implications for numerous fields." —J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and IndigeneityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Genealogies1. The Biopolitics of Settler Sexuality and Queer Modernities2. Conversations on Berdache: Anthropology, Counterculturism, Two-Spirit OrganizingPart II. Movements3. Authentic Culture and Sexual Rights: Contesting Citizenship in the Settler State4. Ancient Roots through Settled Land: Imagining Indigeneity and Place among Radical Faeries5. Global Desires and Transnational Solidarity: Negotiating Indigeneity among the Worlds of Queer Politics6. “Together We Are Stronger”: Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality in Transnational Native AIDS OrganizingEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press A Chosen People a Promised Land Mormonism and
Book SynopsisHow Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditionsTrade Review"A Chosen People, a Promised Land is a fascinating book. Attending to fraught and revealing episodes in Hawaiian-Mormon history, Hokulani K. Aikau opens up new terrain for historical analysis in a manner that is theoretically engaged yet accessible."—Greg Johnson, author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition"More than finding an eager audience, this pathbreaking book will add convincingly to the growing body of work inside and outside the continental United States and the Pacific Islands region that compels critical audiences in the studies of American culture and Native Pacific struggles of the absolute need to read work coming out of the other."—Vicente M. Diaz, author of Repositioning the Missionary"An excellent examination of the complex intersection of race, religion, and culture in Hawaii."—Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources"Aikau's personal experiences, her interviews with LDS members in the islands, the inclusion of oral history and journal entires and her storytelling skills provide fresh and valuable insight into a fascinating segment of Hawaii's people and history."—Honolulu Civil Beat"This groundbreaking, transnational, and more inclusive approach to Hawaiian studies grants Native Hawaiians agency and offers a much needed alternative representation of Hawai’i within the national history of the United States."—American Studies"This book shows the complicated nature of colonial interactions. Aikau masterfully uses native voices, especially through oral histories, to critique existing scholarship that has not addressed the colonial legacy of the Church. This book is an important work for other scholars to build on as they do further research on Mormonism in the Pacific."—Journal of Mormon HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Negotiating Faithfulness1. Mormonism, Race, and Lineage: The Making of a Chosen People2. Lā‘ie, a Promised Land, and Pu’uhonua: Spatial Struggles for Land and Identity3. Called to Serve: Labor Missionary Work and Modernity4. In the Service of the Lord: Religion, Race, and the Polynesian Cultural Center5. Voyages of Faith: Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Struggles for Sustainable Self-DeterminationConclusion: Holo Mua, Moving ForwardAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press TransIndigenous
Book SynopsisWhat might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency. Through demonstrations of distinct forms of juxtapositionacross historical periods and geographical borders, across tribes and nations, across the Indigenoussettler binary, across genre and mediaAllen reclaims aspects of the Indigenous archive from North America, Hawaii, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia that have been largely left out of the scholarly conversation. He engages systems of Indigenous aestheticssuch as the pictographic discourse of Plains Indian winter counts, the semiotics of Navajo weaving, and Maori carving traditions, as well as Indigenous technologies like larTrade Review"Chadwick Allen’s articulation of a Trans-Indigenous methodology is clear-minded, robust, and urgent. A committed focus on specific texts is underpinned by deep and genuinely reflective intellectual, ethical, and political commitments. Trans-Indigenous both emphasizes and will be a key player in the configuration of global Indigenous literary studies; yet it is able, through its sheer specificity, to speak provocatively and productively beyond a singular discipline or nation." —Alice Te Punga Somerville, Victoria University of WellingtonTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ands turn Comparative turn Trans-Part I. Recovery/Interpretation1. “Being” Indigenous “Now”: Resettling “The Indian Today” within and beyond the U.S. 1960s2. Unsettling the Spirit of ’76: American Indians Anticipate the U.S. BicentennialPart II. Interpretation/Recovery3. Pictographic, Woven, Carved: Engaging N. Scott Momaday’s “Carnegie, Oklahoma, 1919” through Multiple Indigenous Aesthetics4. Indigenous Languaging: Empathy and Translation across Alphabetic, Aural, and Visual Texts5. Siting Earthworks, Navigating Waka: Patterns of Indigenous Settlement in Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run and Robert Sullivan’s Star WakaNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Seeds We Planted
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Like the stone walls of the ancient irrigation ditches rebuilt by the Halau Ku Mana Native Hawaiian Charter School that Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua writes of, this book channels the pain, struggle, hope, and mana (power and authority) of the Hawaiian people into a place of life and growth. Drawing deftly upon Native studies, history, anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and education, The Seeds We Planted redefines the meaning and purpose of ethnography." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, University of Hawai’i, Manoa"In this powerfully told story of Indigenous language, education, and cultural reclamation, Goodyear-Ka‘opua documents how the seeds of resistance to colonial schooling have brought forth a remarkable educational enterprise, the Halau Ku Mana public charter school. The school exemplifies a strengths-based, Indigenous self-determined pedagogy. This beautifully written book is one that all those concerned with education for a critical, sustainable, pluricultural democracy will want to read, use, and share widely." —Teresa L. McCarty, University of California, Los Angeles Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Indigenous Education, Settler Colonialism, and Aloha ‘Āina1. The Emergence of Indigenous Hawaiian Charter Schools2. Self-Determination within the Limits of No Child Left Behind3. Rebuilding the Structures that Feed Us: ʻAuwai, Loʻi Kalo, and Kuleana4. Enlarging Hawaiian Worlds: Waʻa Travels against Currents of Belittlement5. Creating Mana through Students’ VoicesConclusion: The Ongoing Need to Restore Indigenous VesselsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Savage Preservation is an eye-opening account of the mutually entangled origins of ethnography and the meanings of modern media: recorded sound, color photography, documentary film. Not only does Brian Hochman enrich his readers’ sense of culture as a concept available to historical change, he demonstrates convincingly that North American media studies remains haunted at its core by the racial ‘science’ of earlier generations." —Lisa Gitelman, New York University "The book’s intersection of technological development and evolutionist cultural theory make a valuable contribution to media history."—Afterimage"Refreshing and original."—CHOICE"Hochman crafts a compelling account of the unexpected ways in which race and new media technologies intersected during this era."—MELUS"Hochman’s book is a clearly argued, broadly researched work with cogent case studies which should help to broaden our understanding of turn-of-the-century media and technology."—History of Anthropology NewsletterTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Passamaquoddy Experiment1. Media Evolution: Indians, Alphabets, and the Technological Measures of Man2. Representing Plains Indian Sign Language3. Originals and Aboriginals: Race and Writing in the Age of the Phonograph4. Race, Empire, and the Skin of the Ethnographic Image5. Local Colors: The Work of the Ethnographic AutochromePostscript: Fictions of PermanenceAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Road Back to Sweetgrass
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With the grace of a dancer lifted by spirit and grounded in the well-worn earth beneath her feet, Linda LaGarde Grover tells a circular tale of life on and off the Reservation. Generous, ironic, and often gut-wrenching, The Road Back to Sweetgrass is at its large heart a book about the power of home and the inexorable connections between land, people, and stories." —Danielle Sosin, author of The Long-Shining Waters "History, humanity and humor—these things always impress me when I read Linda LeGarde Grover’s fiction. In this deeply moving and healing book, we are drawn into a communally told story that shows generations violently separated yet held together by the cord of place and culture and by many, many acts of love." —Heid E. Erdrich, author of Original Local"Through the character of Margie Robineau, Linda LeGarde Grover has created an Ojibwe everywoman who not only births a daughter Crystal, but also revitalizes the small township of Sweetgrass by making family with her would be father-in-law. Grover’s novel tackles genealogy and kinship, Indian allotment and traditions, and ultimately love. A gorgeous read, an extraordinary novel!" —LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker"The overall theme of longing and belonging affects us all, and in this story Linda brings us into the grand circle." —Lake Superior Magazine "The events that define these characters and their world, the births and deaths and binding loves, unfold with gentle pathos and wry humor, the cadences of minute detail and the sweep of history a matter of quiet confidence and unshowy grace for this gifted storyteller." —Star Tribune "At heart this is the story of the women’s longing for home, with traditions of pow-wows, fancy dancing and wild ricing, and of coming of age when the Anishinaabe struggled to preserve their culture in a changing world." —St. Paul Pioneer PressTable of ContentsContentsThe Odissimaa Bag Bezhig: The Frybread Makers The Power of Frybread In Her Dream, MargieThe Art of Dressing a RabbitNiizh: Termination DaysShades of Through the Looking GlassThe Veil in the JarNisswi: The Wild RicersMargie-enjissAnimooshThe Ar-Bee-SeeNiiwin: MigwechiwendamEnchanted Ah-gwachingThe Occasional Scent of Sweetgrass
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University of Minnesota Press The Queerness of Native American Literature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finally! A queer recovery of Native literatures that challenges both straight and settler erasures of queer and Two-Spirit presence. In The Queerness of Native American Literature, Lisa Tatonetti not only restores a history of queer Native literature, but also revises the history of Native American Studies to show us its queer and feminist genealogies. Her critical attention to Maurice Kenney’s and Janice Gould’s work are enough to make this book central to Native American literary studies, but Tatonetti also gifts us with Indigenous Queer critical approaches that, no doubt, will change the future of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Tatonetti demonstrates that the entire field Native American literature is very queer story, indeed." —Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University"A productive, early step in an effort to enrich and complicate the ways in which to reimagine Native American literature and study."—CHOICE"The Queerness of Native American Literature is a necessary book for historians of sexuality, indigeneity, and late twentieth-century literature, and it provides a valuable window onto complex historical intersectionalities."—Journal of American History"Tatonetti’s project is one that encourages us to challenge the boundaries of our disciplines and to ask about what texts we are not reading, or what readings we are not seeing in texts. A most welcome contribution that will undoubtedly inspire a range of discussions in the years to come."—The Canadian Journal of Native StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Two-Spirit Histories1. A Genealogy of Queer Native Literatures2. The Native 1970s: Maurice Kenny and Fag Rag3. Queer Relationships and Two-Spirit Characters in Louise Erdrich’s Novels4. Forced to Choose: Queer Indigeneity in Film5. Indigenous Assemblage and Queer Diasporas in the Work of Janice GouldConclusion: Two-Spirit FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere
Book SynopsisA rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in CanadaTrade Review"Grounded Authority is a powerful and compelling study based upon a sophisticated grasp of Indigenous politics, settler colonial logics, and political theory."—Kevin Bruyneel, author of The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations"An impressive and highly original analysis of the overlapping conflict-laden regimes of legal and political authority, Shiri Pasternak's deeply researched study provides an analytically nuanced and engaging account of the ways in which the Algonquins of Barriere Lake confront the jurisdictional claims over their land and lives made by Canada and the province of Quebec. Grounded Authority brilliantly succeeds at intervening at multiple registers."—Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico"Extremely well-researched and documented."—CHOICE "Grounded Authority is a nuanced and careful ethnographic project that demonstrates how ethnography can be a powerful tool for Indigenous people. Pasternak brings political economy into the frame of analysis, paying necessary attention to the seemingly mundane aspects of governance." —American Indian QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsPreface: An Autobiography of TerritoryIntroduction1. Flipping the Terms of Recognition: A Methodology2. How Did Colonialism Fail to Dispossess?3. Jurisdiction from the Ground Up: A Legal Order of Care4. Property as a Technique of Jurisdiction: Traplines and Tenure5. “They’re Clear-Cutting Our Way of Life”6. The Trilateral Agreement is Born7. Coup D’état in Fourth World Canada 8. The Government Must Fall9. Security, Critical Infrastructure, and the Geography of Indigenous LandsConclusion: A Land Claim is Canada’s Claim: Against ExtinguishmentAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Alabama Press Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians Contemporary American Indian Studies
Book SynopsisThe Choctaw Indians were peaceful farmers living in Mississippi and Alabama, until they were moved to Oklahoma in 1830. This guide to their ways includes descriptions of such subjects as clans, division of labour between the sexes, games, religion, war customs, and burial rites.Trade ReviewSwanton's work on the Choctaw and other southeastern Indian groups was a benchmark in the development of American anthropology and southeastern American Indian studies. - J. Anthony Paredes, editor of Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century
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The University of Alabama Press Transforming the Dead Culturally Modified Bone in
Book SynopsisThe essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals. Transforming the Dead is a collection of essays that examines culturally modified human bones and their roles as cultural and ritual objects among prehistoric Eastern Woodland cultures. Previous scholarship has explored the role of human body parts in Native American cultures as trophies of war and revered ancestors. This collection discusses new evidence that human elements were also important components of daily and ritual activities across the Eastern Woodlands. The contributors to this volume discuss each case study within the unique regional and temporal contexts of the material, rather than seeking universal answers to how these objects were used. Most research addressing modi
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The University of Alabama Press Conflict and Carnage in Yucatan Liberals the
Book SynopsisSynthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of Yucatán's complex and violent history that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics in Yucatán from 1855 to 1876.
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University of Alabama Press Forging a CherokeeAmerican Alliance in the Creek
Book SynopsisExplores how the Creek War of 1813-1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the US’s Cherokee allies. Susan M. Abram explains in engrossing detail the pivotal changes within Cherokee society triggered by the war that ultimately ended with the Cherokees’ forced removal by the United States in 1838.
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The University of Alabama Press The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern
Book SynopsisAs part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. This book revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites.Trade ReviewI am very happy to see that more of the New Deal–era/Works Progress Administration work that previously had not been published is being brought to publication by a younger generation of archaeologists. This volume will serve as a standard reference work and data source for many years to come."" - Lynne P. Sullivan, coauthor of Curating Archaeological Collections: From the Field to the Repository and coeditor of Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective""I commend the authors in unearthing historical documents related to New Deal investigations in Eastern Oklahoma, critically examining those original findings, and contextualizing the WPA investigations with respect to the latest understandings of archaeology in the region."" - Bernard K. Means, author of Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition and editor of Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
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The University of Alabama Press Becoming Catawba
Book SynopsisConcentrates on Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation.
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The University of Alabama Press Aggression and Sufferings
Book SynopsisReassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories.Trade Review“The author details how violent encounters with Indians—and consistently one-sided white interpretations of these events—helped fuel Southern white identity and facilitate Indian Removal. Further, Nooe ‘connects the dots’ of white Southern attitudes about race, citizenship, and land rights. Why are some Americans so attached to Confederate iconography? Nooe demonstrates that the emotional/psychological connection began long before 1865. Aggression and Sufferings skillfully weaves all of these themes together."—Robert M. Owens, author of “Indian Wars” and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842
£79.90
The University of Alabama Press Waccamaw Legacy Contemporary Indians Fight for
Book SynopsisTraces the story of the now state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan tribe from its beginnings in the Southeastern United States, through their first contacts with Europeans, and into the 21st century, detailing the struggles these Indians have endured over time.
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The University of Alabama Press Plains Earthlodges
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers provides a comprehensive gathering of the current research into earthlodges in a variety of Plains Indian cultures - Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux - in the territory of the upper Missouri River and its tributaries.Trade ReviewAn excellent body of work that will serve as an important reference for many years. - George H. Odell, University of Tulsa
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The University of Alabama Press Plaquemine Archaeology
Book SynopsisPlaquemine, Louisiana, about 10 miles south of Baton Rouge on the banks of the Mississippi River, seems an unassuming southern community for which to designate an entire culture. This work provides an understanding of Plaquemine's relationship to other Native American cultures. It addresses the archaeology of Plaquemine societies.Trade ReviewThe focus on Plaquemine cultural identity and variability and the evidence and arguments for origins, material culture, social, economic, and political differences make this high-quality work worthy of wide distribution and recognition. - Martha A. Rolingson, Arkansas Archeological Survey
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