Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
Cambridge University Press Contesting Citizenship in Latin America
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Cambridge University Press Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards SelfDetermination Culture and Land Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 52
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Cambridge University Press Faith and Boundaries
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Cambridge University Press Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music 17 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Hand Talk Sign Language among American Indian Nations
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Cambridge University Press Sustainable Development International Law and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies
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Cambridge University Press Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity
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Cambridge University Press Statelessness in Asia
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Cambridge University Press SelfDetermination as Voice
Book SynopsisMany states and international organizations have put in place institutional mechanisms to include Indigenous representatives in international policy-making, law-making and decision-making processes. This book maps these developments, and explains how they are grounded in the international law of self-determination and customary international law.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Participation in international governance and the logic of self-determination; 2. Finding support for indigenous peoples' participation in the sources of international Law; 3. The proliferation of indigenous peoples' participation, 1982-2007; 4. Emerging legal status? Participation of indigenous peoples, 2007-2022; 5. Conclusion: new epoch, old stones; Bibliography; International documents; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Indigenous Right to SelfDetermination in Extractivist Economies
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Cambridge University Press Counting Caste
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Cambridge University Press Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity
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Cambridge University Press Courts and Politics in Southeast Asia
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Cambridge University Press Blacks of the Land
Book SynopsisProfessors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard have translated John M. Monteiro's field-defining work from its original Portuguese into English. The book engages with themes central to slavery studies and ethnohistory and makes clear the degree to which native peoples shaped the colonial history of southeastern Brazil.Trade Review'Woodard and Weinstein deserve much praise for their work on this important edition and translation of Monteiro's book. It will bring his interdisciplinary methods and comparative perspective on slavery to an even wider readership of historians, anthropologists, and their students. Perhaps most importantly, it will reaffirm the historical roles played by indigenous peoples in the construction of colonial societies across the Americas.' Heather F. Roller, The American Historical Review'Specialists and students of slavery studies will certainly benefit from Monteiro's interdisciplinary approach and exhaustive analysis. Non-specialists interested in histories of colonial encounters and colonial labour systems will profit as well from this thorough edition.' Ana Moledo, ConnectionsTable of ContentsForeword; Blacks of the land: preface and acknowledgments; 1. The transformation of indigenous São Paulo in the sixteenth century; 2. Backcountry incursions and the expansion of the labour force; 3. The granary of Brazil; 4. The regime of personal service; 5. Masters and Indians; 6. The roots of rural poverty; 7. The final years of Indian slavery; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press Shadows of Empire The Indian Nobility of Cusco 17501825 90 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 90
Book SynopsisThe Indian nobility of the Andes - largely descended from the Inca monarchs and other pre-conquest lords - occupied a crucial economic and political position in late colonial Andean society, a position widely accepted as legitimate until the TÃpac Amaru rebellion. Shadows of Empire traces the history of this late colonial elite and examines the pre-conquest and colonial foundations of their privilege and authority. It brings to light the organization and the ideology of the Indian nobility in the bishopric of Cusco in the decades before the rebellion, and uses this nobility as a lens through which to study the internal organization and tension of late colonial Indian communities. The work analyzes the significance of the collapse of the Indian nobility, both repudiated by the Indian commons and the crown in the last years of Spanish rule, following the rebellion to the emergence of the creole-dominated republican order after 1825.Trade Review"This is a fine-grained study, meticulously researched and scrupulously written, and it represents a considerable achievement. It should remain the standard reference on the late colonial vicissitudes of the Inca nobles and other indigenous elites in southern Peru. Its emphasis on social divergence within interlocking indigenous, and even non-indigenous, elites and local governance has significant implications for the study of politics, society, and power well beyond the colonial era. -David Cahill, University of New South Wales, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Indian Elites and the Colonial Order: 1. Spanish conquest and the Habsburg reforms; 2. The long seventeenth century; Part II. The Indian Nobility of Bourbon Cusco: 3. Cacical families and provincial nobilities; 4. Communal economies and Indian fortunes; 5. The politics of the Cacicazgo; Part III. Crisis and Collapse: 6. From reform to rebellion; 7. The breakdown of colonial order.
£31.90
Cambridge University Press Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia 96 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 96
Book SynopsisWarfare and Shamanism in Amazonia is an ethnographic study of the ParakanÃ, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, who inhabit the interfluvial region in the state of ParÃ, Brazil. This book analyzes the relationship between warfare and shamanism in Parakanà society from the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, the book presents first-hand ethnographic data collected among a generation still deeply involved in conflicts. The result is an innovative work with a broad thematic and comparative scope.Trade Review'Here is the highest form of anthropology: superb ethnography, seriously pondered. Thinking through a small Amazonian group, Carlos Fausto is able to synthesize oppositions of universal import - the likes of history vs. structure or autonomy vs. alterity - that have long troubled the human sciences. Then there is the sheer intellectual pleasure of following a narrative that turns cannibalism into kinship.' Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago'Carlos Fausto has become over the years one of the leading figures in the anthropology of Amazonian Indians, and thus, in view of the relevance of this cultural area in present anthropological debates, a forefront actor in the inquiry on what it is to be human. Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia offers yet another example of his exceptional intellectual creativity.' Philippe Descola, Collège de France'Paying equally close attention to historical events and cultural forms, Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia presents an ethnographically rich and theoretically nuanced picture of Parakanã agency. In so doing, it offers a compelling model for describing the processes of change and continuity in lowland societies as well as beyond. Of special interest to a wide variety of readers are Fausto's analyses of complicated shifts in agriculture and sociopolitical organization that avoid the explanatory logics of either cultural regression or evolution as well as his already influential discussion of the relationship between predation and the production of familiarity and kinship in indigenous lowland societies.' Suzanne Oakdale, author of I Foresee My Life: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community'… [a] theoretically nuanced and deeply fascinating work … The Parakanã conceptual universe is complex, and not easy to articulate in Western terms, but sustained immersion within Fausto's 'new language' reminds us that to understand other cultures requires adjustments to ourselves.' Robert J. Wallis, Time and Mind'Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia is the English translation of Inimigos Fiéis, Carlos Fausto's masterful ethnography of the Parakanã Indians, published in Portuguese in 2001. … Beyond its ethnographic value, the book brings an innovative combination of structuralist anthropology with a historical approach of potential value to archaeologists.' Eduardo Goés Neves, AntiquityTable of Contents1. The matter of time; 2. Images of abundance and scarcity; 3. Forms through history; 4. Why war?; 5. The master and the pet; 6. Death producing life; 7. Gods, axes, and jaguars.
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Cambridge University Press Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico 15001800
Book SynopsisModern Mexico derives many symbols of identity and heritage from its Aztec legacy. This book demonstrates that such emotional links to the native past originated in part among colonial-era indigenous leaders who adapted ancestral memories following the Spanish conquest, eventually enabling American-born Spaniards to likewise identify with this ancient legacy.Trade Review'Professor Villella has proven that there is no key juncture in the development of Mexico's imaginary past in which indigenous figures were not involved. After reading Villella's book, one can in no way argue that Indians themselves were not integrally involved in the production and evolution of the nation's self-understanding. It is a masterful work.' Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University, New Jersey'Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800 is a masterful, revisionist study of native leaders in New Spain who capitalized on their ancestral heritage to create and secure prestigious positions for themselves and their families. Covering the longue durée of the colonial era, Peter B. Villella's exemplary research, most remarkably, reveals that the native peoples' glorious primordial story of Aztec achievement also served their counterparts, the creole Spaniards, who appropriated the same indigenous sources and monuments as patria to exemplify Mexico as grand and equivalent to any place in the world. Erudite and eloquently written, the book is a landmark contribution to our field.' Susan Schroeder, France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History Emerita, Tulane University'This beautifully written book is a magnificent contribution to Latin American intellectual history. Villella uses a rich variety of legal records, unpublished manuscripts, and printed books to examine the historical consciousness and vision of indigenous nobles in New Spain who strategically adapted their own Mesoamerican concepts of hereditary authority and rank to Spanish notions of nobility in order to maintain and advance their status in the colonial order. Villella shows how indigenous and mestizo writers and actors participated in the construction of a local, proto-nationalist, patriotic discourse that has been attributed primarily, if not exclusively, to Spanish Creoles.' Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles'In his engaging and comprehensive Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800, Professor Peter B. Villella takes the reader beyond this well-established narrative to examine the conditions and strategies that allowed generations of indigenous noble families from diverse ethnic groups to preserve some recognizable guise of their original status under increasingly adverse circumstances. The author painstakingly shows how the Indian nobility developed and exploited its ties to sectors of a creole elite that was still finding its footing in colonial society.' Osvaldo Pardo, Hispanic American Historical Review'… deftly exposes how both indigenous elites and creoles selectively employed the historical past to serve the different needs of each body. … Villella's work is impressive in its use of archival sources to cast a brighter light on the myriad ways natives, and even creoles, engaged history to further their ambitions …' Mark Christensen, Latin American Research ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The natural lords: asserting continuity, 1531–66; 3. Cacique informants and early Spanish texts, 1535–80; 4. Cacique-chroniclers and the origins of Creole historiography, 1580–1640; 5. Cacique-hidalgos: envisioning ancient roots in the mature colony; 6. Cacique-patrons: Mexicanizing the Church; 7. Cacique-letrados: an Indian gentry after 1697; 8. Cacique-ambassadors and the 'Indian nation' in Bourbon Mexico; 9. Conclusion.
£36.87
Cambridge University Press Continuity and Change in the Native American Village
Book SynopsisTwo common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native American villages in the North American Midcontinent. He shows that to affiliate archaeological remains with descendant communities fully we need to unaffiliate some of our well-established archaeological constructs. Cook demonstrates how and why Native American villages formed and responded to events such as migration, environment and agricultural developments. He focuses on the big picture of cultural relatedness over broad regions and the amount of social detail that can be gleaned from archaeological and biological data, as well as oral histories.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Prologue: unaffiliating the past to affiliate with the present; 1. The Fort Ancient 'savage slot' and its descendants; 2. Deconstructing Fort Ancient culture; 3. Theories of culture process and history; 4. The study region: 'a most delightful country'; 5. Worlds colliding: Mississippian punctuations and woodland continuities; 6. Hybrid villagers: becoming people of the Earth and sky; 7. Coalescence and descendance: the persistence of the village form; 8. Multicultural processes and histories; Epilogue: changing our cultural landscape.
£31.08
Cambridge University Press A History of the Arabs in the Sudan Volume 2
Book SynopsisH. A. MacMichael was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933. First published in 1922, this two-volume work the result of almost twenty years ethnological research provides a comprehensive history of the indigenous groups of Sudan. Volume 2 contains translations and analysis of genealogical manuscripts.Table of ContentsPart IV. The Native Manuscripts of the Sudan; Explanatory note; Introduction; List of manuscripts translated; Index.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press Acculturation
Book SynopsisAcculturation is the process of group and individual changes in culture and behaviour that result from intercultural contact. This Element presents variations in the meanings of the concept and a survey of empirical work with indigenous, immigrant and ethnocultural peoples around the globe that employed both qualitative and quantitative methods.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Acculturation; 3. General acculturation framework; 4. Adaptation to acculturation; 5. Assessment of acculturation and adaptation; 6. Empirical research on acculturation; 7. Conclusion.
£17.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Empires Nations and Families
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Taking of Jemima Boone
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Taking of Jemima Boone
Book Synopsis“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy SchiffA Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimat
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Earth Is All That Lasts
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Penguin Putnam Inc Native American Testimony
Book SynopsisFrom the author of How the World Moves--the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American HistoryIn a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony spans five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Crazy Horse
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Book SynopsisIn the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government''s betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building-and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.
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Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd Cahokia
Book Synopsis The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.
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Penguin Books Canada Ltd All the Way
Book SynopsisThe bestselling story of a true warrior's toughest battle, now in paperback It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain, a fan favourite, a star in international competition, Tootoo was always a leader. And when he was drafted by Nashville in 2001 and made the Predators out of camp in 2003, he became a leader in another way--as the first player of Inuk descent to suit up in the NHL. All the challenges and pressure would have been more than enough for any rookie, but Tootoo faced something far more difficult: the tragic loss of his older brother before his first shift for the Predators. Though he played through it, Tootoo suffered from many of the same problems that have plagued so many people from his community. In 2010, he checked himself into rehab for alcohol addiction. It seemed as though a promising career had ended too soon. But that's not the way Tootoo saw
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The University of Chicago Press Arrernte Present Arrernte Past Invasion Violence
Book SynopsisA study that addresses the Arrernte's contemporary situation. It documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced. It traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their marginalized position in the modern Australian economy.Trade Review"This is a landmark book for indigenous studies, one of the best things I've read in years. I am really taken with the subtle way in which Austin-Broos characterizes and explains the formations of contemporary Arrernte life, the connections it has with the past, and the way in which she allows us to see the role of their imagination in making this world in the face of great difficulties." - Fred Myers, New York University"
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The University of Chicago Press They Make Themselves
Book SynopsisThis study describes the daily existence of the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, who present a challenge to anthropologists because of their apparent lack of a cultural or social structure; but Jane Fajans argues that the Baining define themselves by their own productive and reproductive work.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Ch. 1: The "Baining Problem" Ch. 2: The Ethnographic Setting Ch. 3: History Ch. 4: Kinship, Adoption, and the Production of Society Ch. 5: The Life Cycle and Socialization Ch. 6: Sentiments and Motivation in the Social Person Ch. 7: Death and Social Reproduction Ch. 8: Baining Dances Ch. 9: Ta Takmut Banas: The Asarai Dance Ch. 10: Atut Ch. 11: Anarchy as Structured Antistructure Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Exchanging the Past A Rainforest World of Before
Book SynopsisThis study explores the dramatic change in the world of the Gebusi, a tribe from Papua New Guinea who, for many years had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. With the introduction of modernity; schools, shops and Christianity these rates had plummeted.
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The University of Chicago Press Journeys with Flies
Book SynopsisFrom 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Combining biography, poetry and anthropology, Wilmsen portrays the intense realities of life in the Kalahari.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Around the Sacred Fire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Treat has rescued an important area of Indian activism that has gone virtually unnoticed--the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Gathering scattered documents and conducting personal interviews, he presents an exciting history of efforts by traditional people to offer their own solution to modern social problems."--Vine Deloria Jr., author of Custer Died for Your Sins"This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity."--Great Plains Quarterly"In these times of culminating wars and spiritual devastation, this book provides a useful map of efforts to organize across intertribal and interreligious borders. The fire cooks our food, warms us, gives us light and movement. We need to be reminded . . . and the appearance of this book assures us that we will be."--Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and musician"Treat tells the story of this conference in a way that is authentic to both the events of this cultural reawakening and the narrative tradition of Native Americans. . . . This is a unique and powerful book."--Human Ecology Review“In unfolding the account of the Indian Ecumenical Conference, Treat forces the reader to abandon the long-held notion of the Red Power movement as a radical, confrontational, protest movement. Treat does a marvelous job in bringing out the issues involved in this period of Native American religious history."--American Studies International“A hugely detailed historical, sociological, theological, and personal account of the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Highly recommended."--Choice“A magnificent job of excavating the history of the ecumenical conference and illuminating key personalities involved."--Journal of American History"The best book on American Indian religion published in the new millennium."--Christopher Vecsey, author of American Indian Catholics
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MO - University of Illinois Press Indigenous Women and Work
Book SynopsisThe working lives of Indigenous womenTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Title, 2013. "A much-needed survey of Indigenous women's work in the settler nations of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States from the colonial period to recent times. Williams' collection does some heavy lifting for Indigenous women's comparative labour history. Readers will find its contents incredibly helpful in rounding out an undergraduate history course. . . . The book will no doubt occupy an important place at the intersections of labour and Indigenous history for some time."--Labour/Le Travail "This intellectually engaging anthology compiles an excellent array of essays revolving around Indigenous women's relation to labor in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The geographic range allows the reader to see the commonalities and differences between women's work experiences in these various national contexts."--Renya K. Ramirez, coeditor of Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture"Readers in search of compelling works in the fields of indigenous studies, women's studies, and women's history will find this work to be an absolute treasure. Recommended."--Choice "This book hopes to spark readers to envision a more just way to resist the postcolonial and neoliberal forces that continue to challenge the rights of indigenous women. Throughout history, indigenous women have stood firmly as warriors, preserving the values of culture, family, and community. They stand on the shoulders of the women who have come before them. This book allows their voices to be heard, bringing their wisdom to the call for peace and justice."--Social Service Review"This book of lively and engaging essays looks afresh at the labor relations that have shaped colonizer nations. It provides a cutting-edge text, as well as a useful index, which will guide scholars and students alike."--Western Historical Quarterly"This volume breaks down the divide between wage work and unwaged work and between production and reproduction, thus stretching the boundaries of labor history, women's history and indigenous history all at once, and doing so in a transnational context."--The Journal of American History "Indigenous Women and Work brings important historical information to light about women who have been marginalized and excluded from history,"--Labor Studies Journal "A comprehensive collection of essays spanning the late 18th to late 20th centuries, which detail the lives of working indigenous women in the four settler states of Canada, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa and the United States. A broad and rich contribution to the field."--The Canadian Journal of Native StudiesTable of ContentsContributors are Tracey Banivanua Mar, Marlene Brant Castellano, Cathleen D. Cahill, Brenda J. Child, Sherry Farrell Racette, Chris Friday, Aroha Harris, Faye Heavy- Shield, Heather A. Howard, Margaret D. Jacobs, Alice Littlefield, Cybele Locke, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Kathy M'Closkey, Colleen O'Neill, Beth H. Piatote, Susan Roy, Lynette Russell, Joan Sangster, Ruth Taylor, and Carol Williams.
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MIT Press Ltd Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings The MIT
Book SynopsisExamining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions.Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making—from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking—are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective projects that reclaim and reinvent tradition in contemporary North America, both within and beyond the frames of art. Levine argues that, in a time of political reaction and mass uprisings, the subversion of the traditional is galvanizing artists, activists, musicians, and people in everyday life. He shows that this takes place in strikingly different ways for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in settler colonies. Paradoxically, experimenting with practices that have been abandoned or suppressed can offer powerful resources for creation and struggle in the present.Lev
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University of Washington Press Sonny Assu
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The visually driven book highlights the artist’s work, with accompanying essays by contemporaries and Assu himself. Assu’s art leaps from medium to medium and includes graphic art, carvings, prints, photography and combinations of each..” -- Carl Segerstrom * High Country News *"As the first full-scale book about Assu’s career, Sonny Assu: A Selective History engages its readers with critical essays by important scholars in the field of Indigenous contemporary art and theory...recommended for the general public because it gives good insight into Sonny Assu’s career, and the 150 full-color reproductions will engage any reader interested in art, technology, and Indigenous politics in Canada." * NAIS Journal *
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University of Washington Press Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry
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University of Washington Press Looking at Totem Poles
Book SynopsisThis work gives a historical, cultural, and artistic account of the ancient craft of totem poles that has grown to be a symbol of the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast.
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University of Washington Press The Raven Steals the Light
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThese are simply the best versions of Indian tales I have read: they are colloquial yet poetic, precise yet spilling outside their boundaries, accumulating and then blending into one another. Canadian Literature The drawings are impressive; the stories are engaging. But the real value of the book lies in the ability of Reid and Bringhurst to recreate the voice of the storyteller and in their ability to capture the sensual qualities of Haida oral literature. Folklore Two artists, in an unusual pairing of talens, have reshaped Haida myths into scenes of Haida prehistoric life that seem told by a modern-day reincarnation of Raven himself. Western Folklore
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MV - University of Washington Press Haa Aan237 Our Land Tlingit and Haida Land
Book SynopsisIn the early 1940s, a boom in white migration to Southeast Alaska brought up questions of land and resource rights. In 1946, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs assigned a team of researchers to interview old and young villagers to discover who owned and used the lands and waters of the region and uTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Native WordsIntroduction: Who Owned Southeast Alaska? by Thomas F. ThorntonRemembering Alaska by Walter R. Goldschmidt Possessory Rights of the Natives of Southeast Alaska by Walter R. Goldschmidt and Theodore H. HaasForewordSummaryPart One: General Overview--I. Nature of the Investigation--II. Customary Land Use and Rights of the Tlingit and Haida--III. Natural Products Utilized in the Native EconomyPart Two: Detailed Examination--IV. Chilkat Territory--V. Juneau (Auk) and Douglas (Taku) Territory--VI. Yakutat Territory--VII. Hoonah Territory--VIII. Sitka Territory--IX. Angoon Territory--X. Wrangell (Stikine) Territory--XI. Saxman and Ketchikan Territory--XII. Kasaan Territory--XIII. Kake TerritoryAppendicesA. Native TestimonyB. Natural Resources Commonly Used by Natives of Southeast AlaskaC. Maps and ChartsBibliographyIndex of Resources, Clans, and PeopleTables
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University of Washington Press The People Are Dancing Again
Book SynopsisThis remarkable account, written by Charles Wilkinson, one of the nation's most respected experts in tribal law and history, is rich in the Indian voice and grounded in extensive research that includes oral tradition and personal interviews.Trade Review"Former tribal attorney Wilkinson has written the definitive history of four centuries of Siletz life by relying on official documents and over 100 interviews with tribal members. Summing up: Recommended." * Choice *"Wilkinson begins this process [integrating the perspectives of many tribes] by presenting a multidimensional perspective of Siletz history in a style that may become a new standard for the field in the future." -- David G. Lewis * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"A meticulously researched history of the Siletz people, who had asked Charles Wilkinson to write their story. It's also the story of every terminated tribe that has to fight to regain its culture, language, land and place in American society." -- Cherie Newman * High Country News *"[Wilkinson] weaves statements from tribal leaders and traditional accounts of group experiences into the story repeatedly, so the reader gets a clear picture of how the Indians interpreted their experiences. . . This interesting book combines broad research, years of experience with the events being discussed, and a strong personal commitment to the Siletz people." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"Wilkinson makes strong arguments that decisions to terminate the various tribes were poorly thought-out." * Klamath Falls Herald and News *
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University of Washington Press Tulalip From My Heart An Autobiographical
Book SynopsisBorn in 1904, the author grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved in moving from their villages to the reservation on Tulalip Bay. This book describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement.Trade Review"Tulalip, From My Heart is a rich addition to the history of Pacific Northwest Coast tribes and accomplishes Dover’s aim to tell Tulalip history from the inside in order to create a more complete historical narrative." -- Laurie Arnold * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Weaves adeptly between the personal, the communal, and the political….succeeds in telling a story of the past, even as it complicates the academy’s categories of what counts as history." -- Danae A. Jacobson * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Boarding school education, treaties, and reservation life are three topics of many that Dover raises from the welcome perspective of a Native American woman who struggled to survive through those trying and troubling times. Anyone seeking a deeper and richer understanding of Native American history, as well as the growth and development of the reservation community at Tulalip, and Dover’s long-standing efforts in adulthood to revive the cultural practices and traditions that the Bureau of Indian Affairs had been so obsessed with stamping out, will find Tulalip, From My Heart an indispensable resource." -- Cary C. Collins * Oregon Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword by Wayne Williams Introduction by Darleen Fitzpatrick Phonological Key Prologue: A Sense of Place 1. Treaty Time, 1855 2. Settling on the Reservation 3. Finding Work in the Early Days 4. First Memories of White People 5. Remember (What We Told You) 6. The Tulalip Indian Boarding School 7. Treaty Rights Are Like a Drumbeat 8. Public School and Marriage, 1922 to 1926 9. Political and Social Conditions 10. Legacy 11. Seeing the World Appendix: The Tulalip Indian School Schedule Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press We Are Here
Book SynopsisBoldly exemplifies Native American contemporary art as important, relevant, and deserving of a place in the contemporary art cannon
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University of Washington Press Reclaimers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Spagna’s enthusiasm for their dedication and causes is irresistible. Such struggles are the real deal, after all, and what reader wouldn’t cheer on these tenacious underdogs trying to remedy past damage? We’re blessed with opportunities to make a difference, the writing shows…The lessons of her journeys, those readers can glean from these pages, are ‘Do what you can. Hope without hope. Expect the unexpected." -- Irene Wanner * Seattle Times *"The most influential book I’ve read recently. . . . It’s not a typical story of adventure, but I found it absolutely motivating to get out and learn about our wild places, cherish them, and listen to the stories of people who call them home. It also makes very clear that adventure is not just found high up on a rock face or in a deep snowy couloir – the world is full of places to take risks and dive deep into, to be curious and ambitious and wild and bold." -- Jenny Abegg * Outdoor Research Verticulture blog *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Low Ground Part One | A Red-Lettered Sign 1. Homeland 2. Willkommen 3. Revisit 4. Remediation 5. Talk Talk Part Two | Face-to-Face 6. The Red Fox and the Tule Elk 7. Tending 8. Without an Invite 9. The Circle of Life 10. What Now? Part Three | When the Walls Come Tumbling Down 11. Unequivocal 12. She Who Watches 13. Bypass 14. Restored . . . Salvaged 15. Hope without Hope 16. No Difference at All Coda: The High Ground Acknowledgments
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