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Book SynopsisIndigenous societies globally blend faith and economics through rituals and communal practices. Examples include fishing magic in Gold Coast, labor and women's rites in Australia, and remuneration to supernatural beings among the Apache, showcasing spirituality's impact on economic behaviors and social structures.

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Book SynopsisThe colonial paradigm shapes the understanding of Indic civilization, attributing its origins to migrating races like Aryans. Occidentals believe no significant scientific advances occurred in India before the Golden age of Greece in 600 BCE.

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Book SynopsisFrom the ancient Etruscans and Romans, to the Renaissance masters of Michelangelo and Raphael, the Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the history of humanity through art. The Indigenous Australian collection is a little known and an unexplored part of that story. Being amongst some of the earliest known documentations of Australian Indigenous cultures, the collection includes the earliest extant set of Pukumani poles from Melville and Bathurst Islands alongside more recent contributions of artworks and cultural objects, and presents materials that have not been exhibited before in Australia. The responsibility to culturally reconnect relevant contemporary Indigenous communities to their material heritage held in the museum has been realised and is documented in this catalogue, which includes a catalogue of objects, and essays by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors. During the process of community visits and consultations, images of the objects brought old and young people together, instigating intergenerational dialogue about the past. Now, in collaboration with communities, the Indigenous collection can be seen in this catalogue and is represented at the heart of the Vatican Museums where the objects have become cultural ambassadors inviting others to come and learn more about Australian Indigenous cultures.

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Book SynopsisCommunities in Contact represents the outcome of the Fourth International Leiden in the Caribbean symposium entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics from a variety of disciplines - archaeology, bioarchaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography - revolving around the themes of mobility and exchange, culture contact, and settlement and community. The application of innovative approaches and the multi-dimensional character of these essays have provided exiting new perspectives on the indigenous communities of the circum-Caribbean and Amazonian regions throughout prehistory until the present.

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Book SynopsisFrom 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductTable of ContentsIntroduction by Peter MatthiessenSuggestions for Further ReadingEditor's Note Letter No. 1Wyoming, birth-place of the Author. His former Profession—First cause of his Travels to the Indian Country—Delegation of Indians in Philadelphia—First start to the Far West, in 1832. Probable extinction of the Indians. Former and present number of—The proper mode of approaching them, and estimating their character. Letter No. 2—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper Missouri, 1832Mouth of Yellow Stone. Distance from St. Louis—Difficulties of the Missouri—Politeness of Mr. Chouteau and Major Sanford—Fur Company's Fort—Indian Epicures—New and true School for the Arts—Beautiful Models. Letter No. 3—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriCharacter of Missouri River. Beautiful prairie shores. Picturesque clay bluffs. First appearance of a steamer at the Yellow Stone, and curious conjectures of the Indians about it. Fur Company's Establishment at the mouth of Yellow Stone—M'Kenzie—His table and politeness. Indian tribes in this vicinity. Letter No. 4—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriUpper Missouri Indians—General character. Buffaloes—Description of. Modes of killing them—Buffalo-hunt. Letter No. 5—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriAuthor's painting-room, and characters in it. Blackfoot chief. Other Blackfoot chiefs, and their costumes. Blackfoot woman and child. Scalps, and objects for which taken—Blackfoot bows, shields, arrows and lances. Several distinguished Blackfeet. Letter No. 6—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriMedicines or mysteries—medicine bag—origin of the word medicine. Mode of forming the medicine-bag. Value of the medicine-bag to the Indian, and materials for their construction. Blackfoot doctor or medicine-man—his mode of curing the sick. Different offices and importance of medicine-men. Letter No. 7—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriCrows and Blackfeet—general character and appearance. Crow lodge or wigwam. Striking their tents and encampment moving. Mode of dressing and smoking skins. Crows—Beauty of their dresses—Horse-stealing or capturing. Letter No.8—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriFurther remarks on the Crows—Extraordinary length of hair. Crow and Blackfeet women—Their modes of dressing and painting. Differences between the Crow and Blackfoot languages. Different bands—Different languages, and numbers of the Blackfeet. Knisteneaux—Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways. Ojibbeways—Chief and wife. Assinneboins, a part of the Sioux. Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife. His visit to Washington. Letter No. 9—Mouth of Yellow Stone, Upper MissouriContemplations of the Great Far West and its customs. March and effects of civilization. Letter No. 10—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriVoyage from Mouth of Yellow Stone down the river to Mandans—Commencement—Leave M'Kenzie's Fort. Assinneboins encamped on the river—Wi-jun-jon lecturing on the customs of white people—Mountain-sheep. War-eagles—Grizzly bears. Clay bluffs. Grizzly bear and cubs—Courageous attack—Canoe robbed. Voluptuous scene of wild flowers, buffalo bush and berries. Adventure after an elk—War-party discovered. Magnificent scenery in the "Grand Detour." Antelope shooting. "Grand Dome." Prairie dogs—Village. Letter No. 11—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriLocation—Village. Former locations, fortification of their village—Description of village and mode of constructing their wigwams. Description of interior—Beds—Weapons—Family groups. Indian garrulity—Jokes—Fire-side fun and story-telling. Causes of Indian taciturnity in civilized society. Letter No. 12—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriBird's-eye view of the village. The "big canoe"—Medicine-lodge—A strange medley. Mode of depositing the dead on scaffolds. Respect to the dead—Visiting the dead—Feeding the dead—Converse with the dead—Bones of the dead. Letter No. 13—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriThe wolf-chief—Head-chief of the tribe. Mandans' personal appearance—Peculiarities—Complexion. "Cheveux gris." Hair of the men—Hair of the women. Bathing and swimming. Mode of swinning—Sudatories or vapour baths. Letter No. 14—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriCostumes of the Mandans—High value set upon them—Made of war-eagles' quills and ermine. Head-dresses with horns. A Jewish custom—Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa. Letter No. 15—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriAstonishment of the Mandans at the operation of the Author's brush. The Author installed medicine or medicine-man. Crowds around the Author—Curiousity to see and to touch him. Superstitious fears for those who were painted. Objections raised to being painted. The Author's operations opposed by a Mandan doctor, or medicine-man, and how brought over. Letter No. 16—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriAn Indian beau or dandy. A fruitless endeavour to paint one. Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second chief of the tribe—The Author feasted in his wigwam. Viands of the feast. Pemican and marrow-fat—Mandan poetry—Robe presented. Mah-to-toh-pa's exploits in battle. Letter No. 17—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriPolygamy—Reasons and excuses for it. Marriages, how contracted—Wives bought and sold. Paternal and filial affection—Virtue and modesty of women—Early marriages—Slavish lives and occupations of the Indian women. Pomme blanche—Dried meat—Caches—Modes of cooking, and times of eating—Attitudes in eating. Separation of males and females in eating—the Indians moderate eaters—Some exceptions. Curing meat in the sun, without smoke or salt—The wild Indians eat no salt. Letter No. 18—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriIndian dancing—"Buffalo dance." Discovery of buffaloes—Preparations for the chase—Start—A decoy—A retreat—Death and scalping. Letter No. 19—Mandan Village, Upper Missouri>br> Game of Tchung-kee. Feasting—Fasting and sacrificing—White buffalo robe—its value. Rain making. "The thunder boat"—The big double medicine. Letter No. 20—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriMandan archery—"Game of the arrow." Wild horses—Horse-racing. Foot war-party in council. Letters No. 21 & No. 22—Mandan Village, Upper MissouriMandan religious ceremonies—Mandan religious creed. Three objects of the ceremony. Place of holding the ceremony—Big canoe—Season of commencing—and manner. Opening the medicine lodge—Sacrifices to the water. Fasting scene for four days and nights. "Great Medicine." Bel-lohck-nah-pick (the bull dance). Pohk-hong (the cutting or torturing scene). Eh-ke-nah-ka-nah-pick (the last race). Extraordinary instances of cruelty in self-torture. Sacrificing of the water. Tradition of O-kee-hee-de (the Evil Spirit). Mandans can be civilized. Origins of Mandans. Letter No. 23—Minataree Village, Upper MissouriLocation and numbers—Origin. Principal village. Vapour baths. Old chief, Black Moccasin. Two portraits, man and woman. Green corn dance. Letter No. 24—Minataree Village, Upper MissouriCrows, in the Minataree village. Crossing Knife River in "bull boat"—Swimming of Minataree girls. Grand buffalo surround. Cutting up and carrying in meat. Letter No. 26—Mouth of Teton River, Upper MissouriSioux (or Dah-co-ta). Fort Pierre. Mississippi and Missouri Sioux. Ha-wan-je-tah (chief). Puncahs, Shoo-de-ga-cha (chief) and wife. Four wives taken at once. Early marriages—Causes of. Letter No. 27—Mouth of Teton River, Upper MissouriCustom of exposing the aged. A tedious march on foot. Level prairies—"Out of sight of land"—Mirage—Looming of the prairies. Turning the toes in—Bijou hills—Salt meadows. Letter No. 28—Mouth of Teton River, Upper MissouriDifficulty of painting Indian women. Indian vanity—Watching their portraits—Arrival of the first steamer amongst the Sioux. Dog-feast. Letter No. 29—Mouth of Teton River, Upper MissouriVoluntary torture, "looking at the sun." Religious ceremony. Smoking "k'nick-k'neck. Tomahawks and scalping knives. Scalps—Mode of taking, and object. Modes of carrying and using the scalps. Letter No. 30—Mouth of Teton River, Upper MissouriSmoking the shield. Bear dance. Beggar's dance—Scalp dance. Story of Little Bear and the Dog. Letter No. 31—Mouth of Teton River, Upper MissouriBisons (or buffaloes), description of. Habits of. Bulls' fighting—Buffalo wallows. Running the buffaloes, and throwing the arrow. Buffalo chase—Use of the laso. Hunting under masque of white wolf skins. Horses destroyed in buffalo hunting. Buffalo calf—Mode of catching and bringing in. Immense and wanton destruction of buffaloes—1,400 killed. White wolves attacking buffaloes. Contemplations on the probable extinction of buffaloes and Indians. Letter No. 32—Fort Leavenworth, Lower MissouriFloyd's Grave. Black Bird's Grave. Beautiful grassy bluffs. Mandan remains. Mouth of Platte. Buffaloes crossing. Letter No. 33—Fort Leavenworth, Lower MissouriGrouse shooting before the burning prairies. Prairie bluffs burning. Prairie meadows burning. Letter No. 34—Fort Leavenworth, Lower MissouriIoways. Konzas. Mode of shaving the head. Pawnees. Small-pox amongst Pawnees. Major Dougherty's opinion of the Fur Trade. Ottoes, Omahas. Letter No. 35—St. Louis, MissouriSt. Louis. Loss of Indian curiosities, &c.—Governor Clark. Letter No. 36—Pensacola, West FloridaPensacola, Florida. Santa Rosa Island. Start for Camanchee country. Letter No. 37—Fort Gibson, Arkansas TerritoryTransit up the Arkansas river. Fort Gibson, 1st regiment United States dragoons reviewed. Equipping and starting of Dragoons for the Camanchee country. Letter No. 38—Fort Gibson, ArkansasFort Gibson. Osages. Portraits of Osages. Former and present condition of. Letter No. 39—Mouth of False Washita, Red RiverMouth of the False Washita and Red River. Beautiful prairie country. Arkansas grapes—Plums—Wild roses, currants, gooseberries, prickly pears, &c. Buffaloe chase. Murder of Judge Martin and family. Letter No. 40—Mouth of False WashitaSickness at the Mouth of False Washita—one-half of the regiment start for the Camanchees, under command of Col. Dodge. Sickness of General Leavenworth, and cause of. Letter No. 41—Great Camanchee VillageGreat Camanchee village, Texas. A stampedo. Meeting a Camanchee war party, and mode of approaching them. They turn about and escort the Dragoons to their village. Immense herds of buffaloes. Buffaloes breaking through the ranks of the Dragoons regiment. Wild horses—sagacity of. Taking the wild horse with laso, and "breaking down." Chain of the Rocky Mountain. Approach to the Camanchee village. Camanchee horses—prices of. Letter No. 42—Great Camanchee VillageDescription of the Camanchee village, and view of. Wonderful feats of riding. Portraits of Camanchee chiefs. Estimates of the Camanchees. Pawnee Picts, Kiowas, and Wicos. Letter No. 43—Great Camanchee VillageThe regiment advance towards the Pawnee village—Description and view of the Pawnee village. Council in the Pawnee village—Recovery of the son of Judge Martin, and the presentation of the three Pawnee and Kiowa women to their own people. Return of the regiment to the Camanchee village. Pawnee Picts, portraits of. Letter No. 44—Camp Canadian, TexasCamp Canadian—Immense herds of buffaloes—Great slaughter of them—Extraordinary sickness of the command. Suffering from impure water—sickness of the men. Death of General Leavenworth and Lieutenant M'Clure. Letter No. 45—Fort Gibson, ArkansasReturn to Fort Gibson—Severe and fatal sickness at that place—Death of Lieutenant West. Death of the Prussian Botanist and his servant. Indian Council at Fort Gibson. Outfits of trading-parties to the Camanchees—Probable consequences of. Curious minerals and fossil shells collected and thrown away. Mountain ridges of fossil shells, of iron and gypsum. Saltpetre, and salt. Letter No. 46—Alton, IllinoisThe Author starting alone for St. Louis, a distance of 500 miles across the prairies—His outfit. The Author and his horse "Charley" encamped on a level prairie. Riqua's village of Osages. Crossing the Osage. Boonville on the Missouri—Author reaches Alton, and starts for Florida. Letter No. 47—Saint LouisKickapoos, portraits of. Weahs, portraits of. Potowatomies. Kaskasias. Peorias. Piankeshaws. Delawares. Moheconneuhs, or Mohegans. Oneidas. Tuskaroras. Senecas. Iroquois. Letter No. 48—St. LouisFlatheads, Nez Percé. Flathead mission across the Rocky Mountains to St. Louis—Mission of the Reverends Messrs. Lee and Spalding beyond the Rocky Mountains. Chinooks, portraits. Process of flattening the head. Similar custom of Choctaws—Choctaw tradition. Character and disposition of the Indians on the Columbia. Letter No. 49—St. LouisShawanos. Shawnee prophet and his transactions. Cherokees. Creeks. Choctaws. Ball-play. A distinguished ball-player. ball up. Eagle dance. Tradition of the Deluge—Of a future state. Origin of the Crawfish band. Letter No. 50—Fort Snelling, Fall of St. AnthonyFort Snelling, near the Fall of St. Anthony—Description of the Upper Mississippi. "Dubuque's Grave." Fall of St. Anthony. Fort Snelling. The Sioux. Letter No. 51—Fort Snelling, Fall of St. AnthonyFourth of July at the Fall of St. Anthony, and ammusements. Dog dance of the Sioux. Chippeways making the portage around the Fall of St. Anthoy. Chippeway bark canoes—Mandan canoes of skins—Sioux and Chippeway snow-shoes. Snow-shoe dances. Letter No. 52—Camp Des MoinesPrairie du Chien. Winnebagoes. Menomonies. Dubuque. Camp des Moines, and visit to Keokuck's village. Letters No. 54 & No. 55—Red Pipe Stone Quarry, Côteau des PrairiesCôteau des Prairies. Ravages of small-pox. Mackinaw and Sault de St. Marys. Catching white fish—Canoe race. Voyage up the Fox river and down the Ouisconsin in bark canoe. Red Pipe Stone Quarry, on the Côteau des Prairies. Indian traditions relative to the Red Pipe Stone. The Author and his companion stopped by the Sioux, on their way, and objections raised by the Sioux. Letter No. 56—Rock Island, Upper MississippiThe Author and his companion embark in a log canoe at "Traverse de Sioux." Ke-o-kuk. Slave-dance. "Smoking horses." Begging-dance. Sailing in canoes—Discovery-dance—Dance to the Berdashe. Dance to the medicine of the brave. Treaty with Sacs and Foxes—Stipulations of. Letter No. 57—Fort Moultrie, South CarolinaFort Moultrie—Seminoles. Florida War—Prisoners of war—Osceola. Mickenopah. Death of Osceola. Letter No. 58—North Western FrontierNorth Western Frontier. General appearance and habits of the North American Indians. Jewish customs and Jewish resemblances. Probable origin of the Indians. Languages. Government. Cruelties of punishments. Indian queries on white man's modes. Modes of war and peace. Pipe of peace dance. Religion. Picture writing and totems. Policy of removing the Indians. Trade and small-pox, the principal destroyers of the Indian tribes. Murder of the Root-Diggers and Riccarees. Concluding remarks. AppendixIndex List of MapsOutline Map of Indian Localities in 1833U. States Indian Frontier in 1840The Moves of the Mandans and the Place of Their Extinction.

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Book SynopsisThrough much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. In Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power, Sherry Smith offers the first full account of this remarkable story. Hippies were among the first non-Indians of the post-World War II generation to seek contact with Native Americans. The counterculture saw Indians as genuine holdouts against conformity, inherently spiritual, ecological, tribal, communal-the original long hairs. Searching for authenticity while trying to achieve social and political justice for minorities, progressives of various stripes and colors were soon drawn to the Indian cause. Black Panthers took part in Pacific NorthweTrade ReviewIn this remarkably insightful work, Sherry L. Smith brings to light a series of cross-cultural encounters during the Red Power era that until now have not been carefully parsed. ... Her persuasive analysis reveals example after example of meaningful cooperation and sincere mutual support. ... It is a bold and important retelling that should shape our discussions for years to come. * Western Historical Quarterly *Smith's book is...a model of cross-racial negotiation. She sees her task as correcting the record on the makeup of Red Power politics without diminishing the leadership of 'the original American 'long hairs' or the costs borne by their communities. She...judiciously trac[es] the false starts and the achievements of co-operation. * Christine Bold, Times Literary Supplement *Smith must be commended for opening a new door on the counterculture-Indian relationship. Smith's well written text substantially advances our understanding of the multiethnic nature of Native American activism in the 1960s and 1970s, and it both reveals and redeems the imaginings of Indianness by sixties hippies as important to that cause. * Current Anthropology *Elegantly written and thoroughly documented Smith does an excellent job of shedding light not only on the complicated relations between Indians and non-Indians but also on the nuances within Indian America, particularly among various Red Power movements, more established organizations like the National Congress of American Indians, and reservation-based tribal governments. * Akim D. Reinhardt, American Historical Review *An outstanding book.... Smith has written one of the very best histories of 'Red Power'. ... Her account of how Indian activists fought for greater sovereignty and control over their lands and their collective lives by attracting outside support and forging alliances with nonIndians is a moving and thought-provoking tale. ... Her method in analyzing the Red Power movement is innovative.... An exemplary account of a major sixties-era social change movement that can serve as a conceptual model. * H-Net Reviews *A convincing, concise, and readable introduction to a topic with which many readers may be unfamiliar. * CHOICE *If ever there was a story difficult to get right, it's the turbulent confluence of hippies and American Indians in the 1960s and 70s. Sherry Smith gets it right. * Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline *With penetrating analysis, Sherry Smith argues eloquently that the 1960s and 1970s were the defining moment in modern political history for America and American Indians struggling for justice. This book defines this pivotal time; it contextualizes nationwide political activism by putting an odd couple - Indians and hippies together - on the center stage of making history. Absolutely brilliant! * Donald L. Fixico, author of The Urban Indian Experience in America *Sherry Smith has done a masterful job of sorting out the braided cultural strains which tangled and interpenetrated during the cultural and political revolutions of the Sixties. I was present at a number of these events, knew many of the players, and am amazed at the way she has clarified 'the fog of war,' which is how history recounted appears to participants. Her book covers an unacknowledged aspect of Native people's struggle for justice and the confusing, often ignorant manner in which counter-culture hipsters, liberals, and well-meaning do-gooders tried to 'help' them. Through it all, 'White' cultural assumptions loom as large as a rude and noisy guest at a prayer breakfast. It's eye-opening, ground-breaking work and deserves to be read. * Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall *Without ever losing sight of the larger tragedy of American Indian history, Sherry Smith writes deftly and often wryly of the 1960s and 1970s when the counterculture and the New Left discovered Indians, and Indians discovered the political possibilities that alienated young white Americans presented. The results were sometimes comic, sometimes painful, occasionally touching, but always revealing of the changing valence of Indian peoples and cultures in American society and American politics. This is an original and absorbing book. * Richard White, Stanford University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Ch 1. In the Pacific Northwest ; Ch 2. The California Scene ; Ch 3. Alcatraz ; Ch 4. Back to the Land ; Ch 5. From Coast to Coast ; Ch 6. On to Wounded Knee ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisFor many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli (SHOO-po-wa-lee), or year counts, telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. These written texts were carefully preserved and even expanded upon for over a century. The annals, as they have often been called, were written not only by Indians but also for Indians, without regard to European interests. As such they are rare and inordinately valuable texts. But they have also been difficult for recent generations to understand. They have often been assumed to be both largely anonymous and at least partially inscrutable to modern ears. Now Nahuatl scholar Camilla Townsend, by dint of careful research, has been able to deduce authorship in the case of most of the texts, allowing her tTrade ReviewTownsend is an elegant writer, her book a pleasure to read. It covers much ground geographically and chronologically. The analysis of authorship and patterns of expression within this genre alone makes the book worthwhile for Mesoamerican specialists. * Susan Kellogg, Journal of World History *[A] masterly anthology ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Glossary Introduction Chapter One: Old Stories in New Letters (1520s-1550s) Chapter Two: Becoming Conquered (the 1560s) Chapter Three: Forging Friendship with Franciscans (1560s-1580s) Chapter Four: The Riches of Twilight (c. 1600) Chapter Five: Renaissance in the East (the 17th century) Epilogue: Postscript from a Golden Age Appendices The Texts in Nahuatl Historia Tolteca Chichimeca Annals of Tlatelolco Annals of Juan Bautista Annals of Tecamachalco Annals of Cuauhtitlan Chimalpahin, Seventh Relation Don Juan Bautista Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza Annals of Puebla Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had far-reaching social and environmental consequences for native peoples and native lands. This study explores the experiences of three groups--Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O''odhams--with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each group inhabited a different environment, and their cultural traditions reflected distinct subsistence adaptations to life in the western United States. Each experienced the full weight of federal agrarian policy yet responded differently, in culturally consistent ways, to subsistence change and the resulting social and environmental consequences. Attempts to establish successful agricultural economies ultimately failed as each group reproduced their own cultural vTrade ReviewLewis is dealing with the more complex and academically challenging aftermath of conquest...This is precisely this finely nuanced and sensitive book's strength and appeal. * American Studies 30:1 *

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Book SynopsisThe book offers a comprehensive view of the health of Native Americans in the United States and Canada. The author emphasizes the interaction of biology and culture in disease causation, distribution, and control.Trade Review'without peer as an introduction to the health problems of the indigenous peoples of North America ... I will recommend it to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students seeking information on Indian health. Physicians and public health professionals serving Native American populations, even those with years of experience, will have much to learn from the book, I certainly did.' Jonathan R. Sugarman, JAMA, February 1995, Vol. 273, No. 6an excellent review of the literature with careful attention to the limitations inherent in much of the research ... This book is a valuable reference for researchers and health professionals working with Native communities. * Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 86, No. 3, May/June 1995 *Table of Contents1: An Introduction to Native Americans 2: An Overview of Population and Health 3: Decline and Persistence of Infectious Diseases 4: Emergence of Chronic Diseases (I) 5: Emergence of Chronic Diseases (II) 6: Injuries and Social Pathologies 7: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.Trade ReviewDispossessing the Wilderness has many virtues. Accurate, detailed accounts of the creation of Yellowstone and Glacier national parks rest on solid research, as does the story at Yosemite. * The Journal of American History *Adding to recent scholarship exploring the cultural construction of nature, this succinct study opens up new areas of research in park service scholarship and paves the way for a more comprehensive study of the role and place of Native Americans in the national parks * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Common Ground 1: Looking Backward and Westward: The "Indian Wilderness" in the Antebellum Era 2: The Wild West, or Toward Separate Islands 3: Before the Wilderness: Native Peoples and Yellowstone 4: First Wilderness: America's Wonderland and Indian Removal from Yellowstone National Park 5: Backbone of the World: The Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park Area 6: Crowning the Continent: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park 7: The Heart of the Sierras, 1864-1916 8: Yosemite Indians and the National Park Ideal, 1916-1969 Conclusion: Exceptions and the Rule

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Book SynopsisPresents a biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and an adventuress who kidnapped and married him.Trade Review"An astounding tale, brilliantly told, of one man's simple dignity caught up in a hurricane of greed and chicanery."-- Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities and Other Tales"A historical tour-de-force that dramatically and depressingly shows how a confluence of law, racial attitudes, scheming individuals, and bureaucratic institutions devastated the considerable rights and resources of Jackson Barnett, a Creek Nation citizen, and by extension the rights of other similarly situated indigenous people. Thorne's lucid account is a worthy and timely successor to Angie Debo's And Still the Waters Run, a penetrating analysis of the systematic fraud and dispossession that was perpetuated on the citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma by similar forces. Finally, this work graphically shows that oil-its exploration and exploitation--has long played a major role in indigenous politics as well as in national and international politics."--David E. Wilkins, University of Minnesota"For anyone interested in American Indians, this book is a must read about surviving cultural change for many traditionalists learning the ways of the white man in the early twentieth century."--Donald L. Fixico, University of Kansas"Not just the life story of Jackson Barnett, this is a story of the government's failure to meet its trust responsibility to protect 'restricted' or 'incompetent' Indians from those who preyed upon them and their oil-generated wealth. It is the story of the culture of greed that gripped early Oklahoma--a complex, sad, and sometimes ugly story, masterfully told."-Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Book SynopsisThe arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn are taught far and wide, the political structure and development of Native American tribes, and the effect of American domination on Native American sovereignty, have been greatly neglected. This book contains a variety of primary source and other documents-traditional accounts, tribal constitutions, legal codes, business councils, rules and regulations, BIA agents reports, congressional discourse, intertribal compacts-written both by Natives from many different nations and some non-Natives, that reflect how indigenous peoples continued to exercise a significant measure of self-determination long after it was presumed to have been lost, surrendered, or vanquished. The documents are arranged chronologically, and Wilkins provides brief, introductory essays to each document, placing them within the proper context. Each introduction is followed by a brief list of suggestions for further reading. Covering a fascinating and relatively unknown period in Native American history, from the earliest examples of indigenous political writings to the formal constitutions crafted just before the American intervention of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, this anthology will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the political development of indigenous peoples the world over.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the field...Breadth of time and geography characterize this work...For scholars in the field, many of the tribes represented are expected, such as the Cherokee and Iroquois, while many others offer new material for study and comparison. It is this diversity of documents, reflective of the great diversity of tribal experiences, which is the most valuable aspect of this volume...It should be required reading for any serious scholar studying tribal governance. * Wicazo Sa Review *Table of ContentsDOCUMENTS:

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the work of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in developing the status of indigenous peoples in international law. Focussing on the creation and implementation of the two legally binding international instruments in the area, this book traces the political processes in the struggle of indigenous peoples for legal recognition.Table of ContentsI HISTORICAL ORIGINS; II THE LANGUAGE OF INTEGRATION; III THE FALL OF INTEGRATION

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Book SynopsisBeatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these forest traditions. The volume focuses on the use of ayahuasca, a psychoactive drink essential in many indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon. Ayahuasca use has spread far beyond its Amazonian origin, spurring a variety of legal and cultural responses in the countries to which it has spread. The essays in this volume look at how these responses have influenced ritual design and performance in traditional and non-traditional contexts, how displaced indigenous people and rubber tappers are engaged in the creative reinvention of rituals, and how these rituals help build ethnic alliances and cultural and political strategies for their marginalized position. Some essays explore important classicTrade ReviewThis book is a welcome addition for those interested in the use of ayahuasca in the Amazon and beyond, for both anthropologists and those with an interest in ayahuasca in general. Highly recommended. * Pieter Stokkink, OPEN Foundation *The essays open up some new paths for researching the interplay between tradition, culture, identity and ayahuasca. This book is a welcome addition for those interested in the use of ayahuasca in the Amazon and beyond, for both anthropologists and those with an interest in ayahuasca in general. Highly recommended * OPEN Foundation *This book presents the encounter between Amazonian and modern worlds through the account of the recent phenomenon of expansion of shamanistic rituals based on the consumption of ayahuasca. Reinvention and transformation of religious traditions, ethnic and ecological tourism, debates on intellectual property and on legalization of psychoactive substances feature among the topics which make up this brilliant collection. * Renato Sztutman, University of Sao Paulo *Much has been written about ayahuasca and shamanism, but this book will certainly stand out because it is problem-oriented and includes a fascinating array of chapters by leading experts of different backgrounds. It therefore promises to be an important contribution to religious anthropology rather than yet another instance of mystical mumbo-jumbo. * Philipe Erikson, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre *This volume unravels the complex meanders of intellectual and practical exchanges in a time when Amazonia goes global and the world goes Amazonian. * Aristoteles Barcelos Neto, University of East Anglia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Contributors ; List of Illustrations ; Foreword: Authentic Ayahuasca by Oscar Calavia Saez ; Introduction: Notes on the Expansion and Reinvention of Ayahuasca Shamanism - Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, and Francoise Barbira Freeman ; 1. Will the Real Shaman Please Stand Up? The Recent Adoption of Ayahuasca among Indigenous Groups of the Peruvian Amazon - Glenn H. Shepard Jr. ; 2. Kuntanawa: Ayahuasca, Ethnicity, and Culture - Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja ; 3. Materializing Alliances: Ayahuasca Shamanism In and Beyond Western Amazonian Indigenous Communities - Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen ; 4. Medicine Alliance: Contemporary Shamanic Networks in Brazil - Esther Jean Langdon and Isabel Santana de Rose ; 5. Ritualized Misunderstanding between Uncertainty, Agreement and Rupture: Communication Patterns in Euro-American Ayahuasca Ritual Interactions - Anne-Marie Losonczy and Silvia Mesturini Cappo ; 6. Shamans' Networks in Western Amazonia: The Iquitos-Nauta Road - Francoise Barbira Freedman ; 7. On the Uneasiness of Tourism: Considerations on Shamanic Tourism in Western Amazonia - Evgenia Fotiou ; 8. The Internationalization of Peruvian Vegetalismo - Beatriz Caiuby Labate ; 9. From the Native's Point of View: How Shipibo-Konibo Experience and Interpret Ayahuasca-Drinking with "Gringos" - Bernd Brabec de Mori ; 10. Ayahuasca's Attractions and Distractions: Examining Sexual Seduction in Shaman-Participant Interactions - Daniela Peluso ; 11. Yage Related Neo-Shamanism in Colombian Urban Contexts - Alhena Caicedo Fernandez ; Index

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Trade ReviewAuthor Karen Hansen provides a fascinating and informative look at the relationships among the Norwegian, Dakota Indians, and the culture at large...the carefully selected maps, documents and photographs, together with thorough notes and a time-line, allow you to fully immerse yourself in the society that was and explore the changes in attitude - among the European settlers, the Dakota, and the government-over time...The book will both educate and entertain you. * Anne Sladky, BRUA *...She [Hansen] presents representative perspectives from both genders, and a range of ages and socioeconomic status. Her research is well documented, with helpful appendices and liberal notes and her sources. Hansen's conversational prose is well-suited to a wide range of audiences. * Jackie Henry, Norwegian-American Historical Association Members *Table of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Figures ; Introduction: Illuminating the Encounter ; Part I. An Unlikely Encounter ; Chapter 1. Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the Encounter ; Chapter 2. The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and Settlement ; Chapter 3. The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and Landtracking ; Part II. The Entangled Lives of Strangers ; Chapter 4. Spirit Lake Transformed: The Nexus of Schooling, Language, and Trade ; Chapter 5. Marking Nations, Reservation Boundaries, and Racial-Ethnic Hierarchies ; Chapter 6. Fighting the Sky and Working the Land ; Part III. The Divisions of Citizenship and the Grip of Poverty ; Chapter 7. Divergent Paths to Racialized Citizenship ; Chapter 8. A Fragile Hold on the Land ; Conclusion: Strangers No More ; Appendixes ; A. Historical Timeline ; B. Oral History Interview Subjects ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisHow native people—from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa—have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation.Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story. This is a “good guy vs. good guy” story, Dowie writes; the indigenous peoples' movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal—to protect biological diversity—and could work effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for more than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousa

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek.Trade ReviewThis fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the armed clash at Wounded Knee Creek. A classic work, it is now available with a new preface by the author that discusses his current thoughts about a tragic episode in American history that has raised much controversy through the years. -->Praise for the earlier edition

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Book SynopsisDespite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programmes were instituted, native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. This book explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.Trade Review“There are a good number of books on the subject, but none provide the scope that this one does. . . . I can surely see this becoming the standard book to which people turn when wanting to know the story of Indian claims.”—Christian McMillen, author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory -- Christian McMillen“A highly readable and important study on the history of Native claims against the United States. . . . To my knowledge, this is the first sustained scholarly effort to link the acts of promise making and the consequences of promise-breaking between the US and the tribal nations with a close examination of the various institutional mechanisms developed over time to resolve those claims.“—N. Bruce Duthu, author of American Indians and the Law -- N. Bruce Duthu

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe—the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney

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Book SynopsisBringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost.After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led.The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

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Book SynopsisThis, the first, in-depth survey of Native American Indian foodways is an amazing chronicle of both human development over thousands of years and American history after the European invasion.Trade Review"[E]xplores Native American foodways from prehistory to the arrival of Europeans to modern times, encompassing various regions and tribes....Complementing the narrative are a few recipies that describe how the dish was prepared, as well as a chronology, a glossary, and a selected biblipgraphy. Overall, this highly readable and thorough chronicle will be a welcome addition to public, academic, and high school libraries as it fills a gap in Native American and food history." - Library Journal"The text covers food preparation, preservations, customs and rituals and the diets in various regions. Berzok is careful to emphasize regional and tribal differences in practices." - Reference & Research Book News"Relatively few titles have been written covering American Indian Foods; much less in depth: this fact makes all the more valuable Linda Berzok's in-depth coverage of the history of American Indian foods and traditions. From how foods were gathered, prepared and stored to changing recipes, newly added foods, and food customs and traditions, American Indian Food is an important coverage." - MBR BookwatchTable of ContentsPreface Timeline Introduction: Food, History, and Culture Primary Foods Food Preparation, Preservation, and Storage Food Customs Food and Religion Diet and Nutrition Glossary Selected Bibliography Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn the celebrated Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, Brooke Medicine Eagle revealed her extraordinary spiritual odyssey from her first guided steps on the medicine path to her ongoing work as one of the most respected Native American teachers of the modern era. Now she shares a groundbreaking approach to spiritual transformation--by revitalizing the powerful ancient ritual The Ghost Dance.Four centuries ago, when European invaders were ruthlessly plundering indigenous cultures, a Paiute tribesman received a vision of hope and resurrection, given by Father Spirit, to help survivors of the onslaught create a beautiful new life in the face of defeat, broken dreams, and death. That vision was celebrated in an ecstatic ghost dance honoring those who had perished.Brooke Medicine Eagle explains how and why we are profoundly connected to The Ghost Dance. As she herself becomes initiated into the 'illusion of death' and the wisdom of 'heart-centered ascension,' she teaches us how to c

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Book SynopsisThe world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe.Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012.David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the end of the Mayan calendar, which supposedly heralds the end of our own existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual achievement of anci

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars.Trade Review"A learned and lively new history of the Iroquois to 1744 . . . [that] stands by itself as a very important book. . . . [It] surely must now be the definite history of the Iroquois in their era of triumph and the first stages of decline." -- Ronald Sanders, author of Lost Tribes and Promised Lands

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Book SynopsisA pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march. A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even begin to assess the cost of losing so much of our natural and cultural legacy?For forty years, environmental journalist and author Eugene Linden has traveled to the very sites where tradition, wildlands and the various forces of modernity collide. In The Ragged Edge of the World, he takes us from pygmy forests to the Antarctic to the world's most pristine rainforest in the Congo to tell the story of the harm taking place-and the successful preservation efforts-in the world's last wild places.The Ragged Edge of the World is a critical favorite, and was an editors' pick on Oprah.com.

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