Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
Scribe Publications All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the
Book SynopsisThe world’s Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life — all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health — income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services — leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism, from the Occupation of Alcatraz led by the Indians of All Tribes, to the Northern Ontario Stirland Lake Quiet Riot, to the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which united Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island in solidarity. All Our Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.Trade Review‘Talaga’s treatment and explanation of Indigenous people’s trauma is essential reading.’ -- Rosaleen McDonagh * The Irish Times *‘Tanya Talaga has written an urgent, passionate book, which is about the legacies of colonialism in the most naked, raw sense … Talaga writes with a sense of urgency as one who knows the story from the inside.’ -- Patrick Wright * Five Books *‘An essential work of non-fiction … Through storytelling, on-the-ground reporting, literature surveys, and plenty of statistics, Talaga demonstrates the extent to which Indigenous children continue to live under the full weight of colonial history … All children, she writes, ‘need to know who their ancestors are, who their heroes and villains are.’ In All Our Relations, Talaga restores that basic right to Indigenous children who have been robbed of it. And the rest of us, as an epigraph from author Thomas King makes clear, no longer have the excuse of saying we haven’t heard this story. Talaga alone has told it twice now.’ * Quill & Quire *‘All Our Relations is an impeccably researched and unflinching documentation of how both colonial histories and ongoing genocidal practices have created the suicide crisis among Indigenous youth across the globe. Tanya Talaga expertly folds together interviews, storytelling, and statistics to bring us directly to the startling truth that Indigenous youth are fighting to find themselves through the multiple separations forced on them by settler states: separation of parents from children, separation of peoples from their land, and separation of tongues and hearts from their languages and traditions. All Our Relations is a call to action and a testament to the strength and tenacity of Indigenous people around the world.’ * 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation *‘Talaga's passion for the topic is palpable as she shares eye-opening stories and heartbreaking statistics ... Thoughtful and thought-provoking.’ * Parvati Magazine *‘This book is both moving and effective; it creates the space for readers to understand the complexity of these issues … An excellent read.’ * Ottawa Review of Books *‘While drawing on academic studies, All Our Relations is a burning missive about what is happening now, on the ground, and what needs to be done to make for safe and healthy indigenous communities.’ -- Fiona Capp * The Age *‘A heartbreaking book … [Tanya Talaga’s] writing style is clear and easy to read, and she has a way of telling the reader what they need to know about policy and history by telling stories about people and communities, who are at the heart of this book.’ -- Ranuka Tandan * Hon Soit *Praise for Seven Fallen Feathers: ‘Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising … The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.’ STARRED REVIEW * Publishers Weekly *Praise for Seven Fallen Feathers: ‘An urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families … Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.’ STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *Praise for Seven Fallen Feathers: ‘Seven Fallen Feathers is achingly blunt in confronting recurring damage that must be repaired. The book puts a human face to the headline statistics, reveals the continuing harm of unequal educational opportunity, and delivers the evidence of systemic racism in Canada with an insistent voice. Tanya Talaga draws the reader into communities of hurt and flawed responses surrounding the deaths of seven Indigenous students, the ‘fallen feathers.’ Talaga yanks at the reader’s complacency with her story of separated families, untethered youths, and the seemingly unbridgeable distance between cultures. She offers painful lessons while courting hope.’ * BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction Jury Citation *
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Wellfleet Press Seasons of the Desert
Book SynopsisExplore desert plants season by season with this gorgeously illustrated guide full of identification tips, fun facts, and herbal remedies.Welcome to the Sonoran Desert, a unique and magical place in America’s Southwest. Though some may think only of hot sand and barren landscapes, the desert is actually full of diverse flora and fauna, and in Seasons of the Desert, Rosie Crocker introduces you to the hardy plants that thrive there in all four seasons.This beautiful and helpful guide features: Over 75 desert plants, divided into the seasons in which they bloom Details on how to identify plants and what kind of unique characteristics to keep an eye out for Tips on sustainable foraging and suggestions for how to use the flora you find to create herbal remedies and skincare Stunning illustrations of each plant Whether you live in the Southwest or are just curious about the plants that grow there, Seasons of the Desert is a year-round journey into a glorious habitat.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Inari S225mi Folklore Stories from Aanaar
Book SynopsisA rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and far beyond the community.Trade ReviewFrandy has made visible a goldmine of folklore that has been invisible to outsiders, and he introduces it in a deeply informed, nuanced context." - Krister Stoor, Umeå University"A glimpse of a wide range of oral genres from a little-known Sámi group during the nineteenth century that will fascinate people interested in the folklore of the Sámi, Scandinavian studies, and the study of Indigenous communities." - John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley"A work of intellectual and cultural repatriation that re-asserts SÁmi intellectual and cultural sovereignty within the field of global literature. . . . The text demonstrates how even texts and monuments taken hundreds of years ago in the name of nationalizing projects can be re-appropriated, re-signified, and ultimately returned to their communities." - AsymptoteTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Storyteller Biographies Glossary of Frequently Used SÁmi Terms Index of Significant Place-Names 1 Songs Joik Songs Cradle Song Bear Song Reindeer Song Raven Song The Tawny Owl Whitefish Livđe Trout The Old Man HÆÆnda-Maati Joik Taavvad-Piera Joik ListrÖm Aila-Jussa Ristnȧȧ-PiÄtȧr Eerki-Piera Other Songs Stuorravuona (Isovuono) Market Song The Girl's Song This and That VÄinÄmÖinen's Nephew I Saw Daughter and Mother Song The FiancÉe's Beauty 2 Animal Tales The Fox's Tale The Fox's Tale, Version 2 The Fox and the Fisherman The Story of the Fox's Blindness The Man and the Bear The Bear and Fox's Wild Reindeer Hunt The Mouse and the Cat The Raven and the Fox The Horse and the Wolf The Fox and the Hare The Wagtail and the Dipper The Story of the Moose and the Bear 3 Fairy Tales The Poor Boy and the King's Daughter The Great Lord's Son-in-Law The Boy and the Golden Bird Acorn Finding Endless Discontent The Reindeer Calf's Hooves Mattias the Fearless and the Devil & Mattias the Fearless The Man Who Lashed His Fortune The Story of Three Girls 4 Short Tales The Resourceful Boy The King and the Bank Thief A Merchant God's Miracles MeniŠ-Antti's Life Story The Poor Boy's Wedding Luck 5 Humorous Stories and Anecdotes The Noaidi Axe The Travels of the Čuđit The Wife's Stupidity Shingle-Stick The Story of the Girl's Spinning Rack The Girl and Her Suitor The Fool's Doorposts Three Lazy People Good Day—Axe Handle It Is Truly True The Butter Churn The Wild Reindeer Hunters 6 Belief Legends Etiological Legends Aaččan, Who Tarred the Moon The StÁllu The StÁllu, Version 1 The StÁllu, Version 2 The StÁllu, Version 3 The StÁllu, Version 4 The StÁllu, Version 5 Andras Pejvi Gufihtarat The Maker of Seven Churches Gufihtar Čahalig—Treasure Guardians Čahalig Čahalig, Version 2 Giants A Giant Fights with Small Men Two Giants The Sieidi The Sieidi Root Cluster A Story about Äjjih Island The Sieidi of Ij-jÄvri Noaidi Tales The Old Man Noaidi Skolt SÁmi Noaiddit The Noaidi Wife The Moose Skiers Two Jealous People Shapeshifting Tales The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law, Version 2 The Bear Daughter-in-Law Ghost Hauntings SÁrnoo kurr (Speaker's Gorge) The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi, Version 2 The Pastor and the Sexton 7 Historical and Regional Legends SiggÁ's Legend SiggÁ's Weeping Strait The Cannibal Vuolliǯ of Ij-jÄvri The Maiden Hannaaǯ's Decapitation Story The Dead Constable The Fight of the Constables The Late Raassaǯ PiÄjȧȧǯ Famed Antt-PiÄttȧr's Eelliǯ, FiancÉ-Waiter She Who Went to Sleep as a Maiden and Woke as a Wife 8 Stories about Čuđit Čuđit The Čuđit on the Move A Story from the Time of Čuđit The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow, Version 2 The Death of the Čuđit Futile Fear The Disobedient Daughter Laurukȧǯ The Čuđit Fall into a Ravine The Čuđit Drown in the Rapids The Čuđit Die of Hunger The Čuđit Drown in Lake Aanaar; Hundred Pine Island Hundred Pine Island, Version 2 Laurukȧǯ Kills Čuđit with a Sword 9 Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ The Feats of Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ About Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ's Father, Peeivih Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Burns a Sieidi Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Burns a Sieidi, Version 2 The Capstone Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ on the Sea Shore Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ on the Sea Shore, Version 2 Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Fighting Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Fighting, Version 2 Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Hunting Wild Reindeer Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ's Race with a Draught Reindeer 10 Stories about the Skolts Scaring the Skolt Wife Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 2 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 3 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 4 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 5 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 6 Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 7 KȧȧŠŠȧ 11 Hunting Stories The Late Haannuǯ's Bear and Wild Reindeer Hunt A Draught Reindeer as a Wild Reindeer The Bear Hunter The Soddy Root Ball as a Bear MeniŠ-Antti's Bear Hunting Stories A Bear Story The Bear Hunters The Girls and the Bear The Bear and the Women The Squirrel Hunters The Wild Reindeer Skiers The Moose Hunters Irjȧn-Ȧnnȧ ja Antti on a Fishing Excursion to LÁggujÄvri (LankojÄrvi) The Ermine Hunters 12 Personal Experience Narratives The Life of One Aanaar SÁmi An Aanaar Marriage and Life Story Some Misfortune The Old Man of Soađigil's (SodankylÄ) Forest Memories The Autumnal Wild-Reindeer Hunt in Aanaar Vuȧvnum (Vuongunta), or Hunting Wild-Reindeer in the Spring Juoŋ stim (Juomustus) and Netting Under the Ice 13 Proverbs and Figures of Speech Proverbs Sayings and Expressions 14 Riddles 15 Omens and Signs Appendix A North SÁmi Joiks Juhan Vesta's Joik MeniŠ-Irjan Mihkkus-Āslak Let us Leave Pulju Ninka-Ūla Kāre Pike Burbot Perch Stories The Lazy One Skolt SÁmi Story Letters Appendix B Introduction to the 1978 Edition by Lea Laitinen Introduction to the 1917 Edition by August V. Koskimies Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Life Beside Itself
Book SynopsisTakes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).Trade Review"Stevenson explores how care in Inuit communities is like a raven, a spiritual force that binds the living and the dead in ways that are not always straightforward or obvious." -- G. Bruyere CHOICE "This courageous humanistic work is well worth a close and critical read, for the simple reason that its author, Lisa Stevenson, addresses one of the most important contemporary healthcare issues in the Canadian North-that of suicide- and along the way challenges the reader through been termed welfare colonialism and continues to struggle with a bureaucratic legacy determined by historical state structure and policy." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsPrologue: Between Two Women Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Facts and Images 2. Cooperating 3. Anonymous Care 4. Life-of-the-Name 5. Why Two Clocks? 6. Song Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam Notes References List of Illustrations Index
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University of British Columbia Press Hunters and Bureaucrats Power Knowledge and
Book SynopsisA timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Southwest Yukon.Trade ReviewThe book is well written and carefully argued. Nadasdy draws effectively on the seminal ethnography and ethnological work of the Penn Boasians: Frank Speck, A.I. Hallowell, and their many informal students, and his own ethnographic observations are revealing and apt. -- David Dinwoodie, University of New Mexico * Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2005 *At first blush, it seems a very long reach from the aboriginal hunting camps of the Kluane in Canada’s Yukon wilderness to the poststructuralist environs of modern French philosophy. Yet careful reading of Paul Nadasdy’s prodigal new work of contemporary ethnography reveals that geographically, culturally, and philosophically the distance involved is much less than might be expected. -- William Hipwell, Department of Geography, Kyungpook National University, South Korea * Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Spring 2005 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Aboriginal-State Relations in Kluane Country: An Overview2 “It’s Not Really ‘Knowledge’ at All, It’s More a Way of Life”3 The Politics of TEK: Power and the Integration of Knowledge4 Counting Sheep: The Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee and the Construction of Knowledge5 Knowledge-Integration in Practice: The Case of the Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee6 “Just Like Whitemen”: Property and Land Claims in Kluane CountryConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Oklahoma Press Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee
Book SynopsisTraces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century - a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.
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University of Arizona Press Indigenous Health and Justice
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Duke University Press Mohawk Interruptus
Book SynopsisCombining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this book examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.Trade Review“In her brilliant study of Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk reserve outside Montréal, anthropologist Simpson rejects this dominant image of indigenous nationhood on the brink and ‘starts with a grounded refusal, not a precipice.’ The author problematizes long-standing assumptions to position the actions of the Kahnawà:ke nation as that of refusal, a valid alternative to political recognition. Through in-depth ethnographic research, Simpson identifies what is important to the community, as evidenced by her discussion of important intellectual Louis Hall, whose analysis of Mohawk nationhood has deeply influenced Haudenosaunee people, yet has been largely ignored by scholars. . . . Such incisive analysis promises that this study will be influential and widely read. . . . Essential. All levels/libraries.” -- K. L. Ackley * Choice *“Simpson accomplishes what she set out to do in this text, namely to offer a critical evaluation of settler colonialism as experienced by Kahnawà:ke Mohawk. Her book is beautifully written: her prose is elegant, and she interweaves ethnographic research with political history and theory to build her argument. … Simpson enhances our understanding of how a community of people struggle to understand, and why they must continually fight for, their political independence after centuries of settler colonialism.” -- Ruth Burgett Jolie * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *“[A]n essential read for any study of settler colonialism, native/indigenous/first-nation studies, or the study of sovereignty, and also stands on its own as an important narrative of North America’s ongoing colonial history.” -- Ian Kalman * Comparative Studies in Society and History *“Mohawk Interruptus deftly interrogates how settler colonialism and anthropological practice in the United States and Canada have circumscribed Iroquoian (Haudenosaunee) identities—and Mohawk identities, in particular—in ways that ignore contested interpretations of indigeneity and serve to erase indigenous nationhood. … A major takeaway from Simpson’s account is that anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and those of us in Native American studies need to theorize and examine how people experience and feel membership, citizenship, and nationhood while not replicating colonial projects of erasure in our scholarly research and writing." -- Lisa K. Neuman * American Ethnologist *“[A] tour de force exploration of contemporary Kahnawa:ke political life. . . . In its examination and sustained critique of the settler colonialism and the politics of nationhood, recognition, and refusal, and its vision of more productive and inclusive understandings of Kahnawa:ke citizenship, Mohawk Interruptus joins some of the most provocative and cutting-edge work taking place in Native/indigenous studies today. We would be wise to heed its challenge to develop similarly rigorous and critical studies of indigenous self-determination throughout the hemisphere, in whatever forms they might take.” -- Kirby Brown * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Mohawk Interruptus, was recently voted 'Best First Book Published in 2014' by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and after reading it I can understand why.... The complexities of Indigenous life in Mohawk Interruptus are given neither the security of romanticization nor the comfort of the scholarly pulpit." -- Brendan Hokowhitu * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Rather than merely a book of and for anthropology, then, Mohawk Interruptus calls upon its reader to rethink action and collectivity through a different modality than the current political registers presume. Refusal, both as a political theoretical concept and as a quotidian shared practice, may allow a continued, powerful, and even potentially joyful relationship to state power." -- Kennan Ferguson * Theory & Event *"[Simpson] offers a highly nuanced and theoretically sophisticated ethnographical study illustrating the kinds of critical research questions insider researchers can ask that lead to new understandings and challenge the orthodoxy. Simpson has made a significant contribution as an insider researcher, an Indigenous studies scholar, an anthropologist, that highlights the exciting new era of Indigenous research we have entered." -- Robert Alexander Innes * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"I expect Mohawk Interruptus will assert its place in the Haudenosaunee canon, which will compel subsequent scholars to take a closer look at how Indigenous communities in general struggle to maintain their political integrity under the pressure of a variety of colonially created borders and the laws that enforce them over the sovereign rights of others." -- David Martínez * Wicazo Sa Review *"This marvelous book is a searing exposition of a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk subjectivity hardened in opposition to social 'facts' taken for granted by millions in settler societies. . . . Readers will appreciate Simpson’s passionately argued and provocative thesis, in-depth and intimate ethnographic descriptions, incisive prose, and iconoclastic engagements with anthropological history and political theory." -- Nicholas Copeland * North American Dialogue *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State 1 2. A Brief History of Land, Meaning, and Membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ka 37 3. Constructing Kahnawà:ka as an "Out-of-the-Way" Place: Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the Writing of the Iroquois Confederacy 67 4. Ethnographic Refusal: Anthropological Need 95 5. Borders, Cigarettes, and Sovereignty 115 6. The Gender of the Flint: Mohawk Nationhood and Citizenship in the Face of Empire 147 Conclusion. Interruptus 177 Appendix. A Note on Materials and Methodology 195 Notes 201 References 229 Index 251
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University of New Mexico Press The Yazzie Case Building a Public Education
Book SynopsisThe story of Wilhelmina Yazzie and her son’s effort to seek adequate education in New Mexico schools revealed an educational system with poor policy implementation, inadequate funding, and piecemeal reform. In this collection of essays, contributors cover the background and significance of the lawsuit and its impact on racial and social politics.Trade ReviewAn unchanged education effectuated by systems and institutions not designed for us will continue to marginalize our Indigenous people and children. The heart of this continuing fight is for justice and equity. It is about the right to exist as we choose. Wilhelmina Yazzie personalizes the heartbreaking story of generations of parents in this struggle. She eloquently speaks of her love of her language and culture and the value of a balanced education, treating both as equally valuable for the health of our children and the future well-being of our people."The Yazzie Case is an extraordinarily and profoundly compelling call to action. It should be read by policymakers and educators at all levels. The book provides a history that should be required reading for us to realize what we are doing to ourselves in a state where 80 percent of our children come from linguistic and culturally different backgrounds. That is what enriches our diversity. We must act to do the right thing for the right reasons at the right time. This is the time!"—Regis Pecos, former governor of Cochiti Pueblo"A critically important collection. . . . The text offers high-quality educational and Indigenous education research, and it proposes recommendations and insights for practitioners in the field. Practitioners, lawyers, educators, parents, undergraduate and graduate students, policymakers, and white, non-Native public school teachers--all those who are invested in the education of our Native children will benefit."—John P. Hopkins, author of Indian Education for All: Decolonizing Indigenous Education in Public Schools "A superb collection of essays analyzing the issues involved in the Martinez/Yazzie lawsuit and what needs to be done to fully implement the judge's decision supporting the plaintiffs."—Jon Allan Reyhner, coauthor of American Indian Education: A HistoryTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Wilhelmina Yazzie Introduction. An Examination of the Yazzie Side of the Martinez/Yazzie Lawsuit Wendy S. Greyeyes, Lloyd L. Lee, and Glenabah MartinezPart I. The Case Chapter One. The Legal Significance and Background of the Yazzie/Martinez Lawsuit Preston Sanchez Chapter Two. Post-Summit Report on the Yazzie/Martinez Ruling: Action Report Glenabah Martinez, Terri Flowerday, Lloyd L. Lee, Leola Paquin, Wendy S. Greyeyes, Nathaniel Charley, and Carlotta Penny Bird Chapter Three. Witness Perspective from a Mother and Academic Georgina Badoni Chapter Four. The Significance of the New Mexico Indian Education Act in the Yazzie/Martinez Case Carlotta Penny BirdPart II. The Response Chapter Five. The New Mexico Public Education Department Response: An Analysis of the 2021 Strategic Plan to Resolve the Yazzie/Martinez Case Wendy S. Greyeyes Chapter Six. Navajo Nation's Response to the Yazzie/Martinez Case: Implications for Navajo Nation's Educational Sovereignty Alexandra Bray Kinsella, Navajo Nation Department of Justice Attorney (2018-2021) Chapter Seven. Narratives and Responses to Yazzie/Martinez: Tribal Consultation and Community Engagement Natalie Martinez Chapter Eight. The Department of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico: Role and Responsibilities with the Yazzie v. New Mexico Education Ruling Lloyd L. LeePart III. The Future Chapter Nine. The Yazzie/Martinez Ruling: The Politics of Culturally Relevant Curriculum Glenabah Martinez Chapter Ten. The Complexities of Language Learning for New Mexico's Indigenous Students Christine Sims and Rebecca Blum Martínez Chapter Eleven. Diné Language Teacher Institute and Language Immersion Education Tiffany S. Lee, Vincent Werito, and Melvatha R. Chee Chapter Twelve. Lessons from the Past: Fifty Years after Sinajini v. Board of Education of San Juan School District Cynthia Benally and Donna Deyhle Chapter Thirteen. Promoting Solidarity for Social Justice and Indigenous Educational Sovereignty in the Cuba Independent School District Leola Tsinnajinnie Paquin, Shiv R. Desai, Vincent Werito, Nancy López, and Karen Sanchez-Griego Conclusion. Constructing Critically Conscious Race Policy for Our State: The Case for a Re-racialization and Indigenizing of Our Education Policies Wendy S. Greyeyes and Navajo Nation president Jonathan NezAppendix A. Teaching Recommendations for this Book Appendix B. Martinez/Yazzie v. State of New Mexico Lawsuit Timeline Bibliography Contributors Index
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Duke University Press Otherwise Worlds
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume''s scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume''s essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward libeTrade Review“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye, author of * Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human *“Presenting new analyses and theorizations of the intersections and tensions between Black studies and Native studies, Otherwise Worlds shows how these fields can speak and think with each other. It has the potential to serve as a model of decolonial love in the academy and in our communities.” -- Michelle Jacob, author of * Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha *"There is so much to admire about this book. I am making my way through each section slowly. Artists, activists and scholars frame the questions, complexities and possibilities an 'otherwise' orientation might open up, if we find better and better ways of ‘thinking of, caring for and talking to one another’ about the ongoing effects of genocide, colonialism, enslavement and anti-Blackness." -- Julia Guez * Houston Chronicle *“Otherwise Worlds offers a thought-provoking guide towards re-imagining the presence, resurgence and future of Black and Indigenous life…. Otherwise Worlds is an outstanding piece of academic work and a remarkable guide to approaching alternative worlds beyond racism, ecological destruction and racial capitalism.” -- Laura Mariana Reyes * Cultural Studies *“This collection is truly a conversation between disciplines and paves the way for new ways of relating to one another. Otherwise Worlds is a compelling collection that does what it sets out to do.” -- Alina Scott * E3W Review of Books *“Otherwise Worlds is a call to think beyond ourselves and curate an authentic relation to the scholarship, the land, and mainly the people. A major takeaway from each interview, essay, and artwork in this volume is the range of interdisciplinarity needed to capture the complexity of this discourse of sovereignty and liberation across the diaspora.” -- Daisy E. Guzman Nunez * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith 1 Part I. Boundless Bodies 1. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley 27 2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva 38 3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King 52 Part II. Boundless Ontologies 4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King 77 5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton 94 6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith 118 7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante 133 8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter 158 Part III. Boundless Socialities 9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin 213 10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey 218 11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray 236 12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud 13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo 291 Part IV. Boundless Kinship 14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson 320 16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 322 17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson 330 18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon 332 19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott 343 20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley 362 About the Authors 371 Index
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Duke University Press The Politics of Kinship
Book SynopsisWhat if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin illustrates how conceptions of family and race work together as part of ongoing efforts to regulate, assault, and efface other political orders. The book examines the history of anthropology and its resonances in contemporary queer scholarship, contemporary Indian policy from the 1970s onward, the legal history of family formation and privacy in the United States, and the association of blackness with criminality across US history. In this way, Rifkin seeks to open new possibilities for envisioning what kinds of relations, networks, and Trade Review“The Politics of Kinship is a new and exciting contribution to the field that raises productive questions about the relationship and distinction between family and kinship. As part of his larger project, developing a queer critique of settler colonialism, Mark Rifkin here homes in on discourses of family and kinship to examine how these conversations have often elided underlying questions of governance and sovereignty.” -- Manu Karuka, author of * Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad *“Distinctly and importantly drawing on Indigenous intellectual frames in order to rethink racialization in the United States, Mark Rifkin makes a powerful contribution to the robust body of scholarship on family, kinship, and race. The Politics of Kinship is a fantastic book.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale 1 1. Kinship’s Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures 43 2. Indian Domesticity, Setter Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction 93 3. Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty 145 4. Blackness, Criminaltiy, Governance 199 Coda: Inside/Outside State Forms 257 Notes 271 Bibliography 343 Index 379
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University of Nebraska Press Life of the Indigenous Mind
Book Synopsis2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous MindDavid Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005), the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement. An experienced activist, administrator, and political analyst, Deloria was motivated to activism and writing by his work as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, and he came to view discourse on tribal self-determination as the most important objective for making a viable future for tribes. In this work of both intellectual and activist history, Martínez assesses the early life and legacy of Deloria’s “Red Power Tetralogy,” his most powerful and polemical works: Custer Died for Your Sins (1969), We Talk, You Listen (1970), God Is Red (1973), and Behind tTrade Review"Drawing on the activist-intellectual's personal papers and less well-known writings from the period, Life of the Indigenous Mind is more than mere commentary. Moreover, the book's critical edge distinguishes it from prior scholarship that erred toward hagiography. Overall, it is a long-overdue addition to the existing literature on Vine Deloria, Jr., and on Red Power more generally."—John H. Cable, American Indian Quarterly“The most substantial and important consideration of Deloria’s work to date and deserves a place on any comprehensive American Indian studies shelf.”—Akim Reinhardt, South Dakota History"Martínez has produced a rich and rewarding book. He is balanced in his critiques of Deloria's writings and careful to contextualize Deloria's political motives for self-determination."—Gregory D. Smithers, Native American and Indigenous Studies“An affecting portrait of one of America’s most influential Indigenous rights activists.”—C. T. Vecsey, Choice"Life of the Indigenous Mind is an asset for instructors of American Indian studies. Martínez paints Deloria as a wise elder of the Red Power movement, even in his youth, a portrait that bolsters the argument that he was the intellectual leader American Indians needed at a unique moment in history."—April M. Bond, American Indian Culture and Research Journal“As David Martínez observes, the Indigenous mind is the Indigenous community’s most potent weapon against colonialism. This powerful statement triggers a challenging responsibility: to identify the types of ideas that should inform the efforts of Indigenous intellectuals. Martínez charts a framework for future intersectional analysis, providing an important contribution to the growth of American Indian intellectualism. This book offers a magnificent appraisal of Vine Deloria Jr.’s legacy and the power of critical thought.”—Rebecca Tsosie, Regents’ Professor of Law at the University of Arizona and faculty co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the James E. Rogers College of Law“David Martínez transcends hagiography in this complex analysis of four key early works by Vine Deloria Jr. This fascinating book takes a deep dive into Deloria’s thinking. Martínez does an admirable job of both placing these works in the historical context of turbulent changes in Indian affairs in the United States and illuminating Deloria’s intellectual acumen as he challenged federal bureaucrats, academia, the public at large, and, perhaps most significantly, Indian Country to rethink the place of American Indians in the United States.”—David R. M. Beck, professor of Native American Studies at the University of MontanaTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Prologue: Fanfare for the American Indian 1. Vine Deloria Jr. and the Discourse on Tribal Self-Determination: Independence beyond the Reservation System 2. Coyote Old Man Tells a Story: History, Plight, and Indian-White Relations 3. The Law of the Land: Tribes as Higher than States, Indians as Lower than Human 4. For the Good of the Indian: Termination Policy and the Pillaging of Indian Country 5. Not Your Minority: Tribalism during the Civil Rights Era 6. Here Come the Anthros!: A Tribal Critique of the Social Sciences 7. “Merciless Indian Savages”: Christianity, Churches, and the Soul of the Indian 8. The Scandal of Indian Affairs: Policy, Reservations, and the Future of Indian Freedom 9. Twentieth-Century Tribes: Nonlinear People in a Linear World 10. The Good Red Road Ahead: Self-Determination Notes Bibliography Index
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University Press of Mississippi Monsters and Saints LatIndigenous Landscapes and
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America.Trade ReviewThis truly innovative book amasses creative and research-based writing that illustrates a connection between historical indigenous communities and contemporary Chicanx identified peoples." - Rachel González-Martin, author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities
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University of Minnesota Press Revenant Ecologies: Defying the Violence of
Book SynopsisEngaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth’s ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of unique life forms and ecosystems. Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious framework—(bio)plurality—that focuses on nurturing unique, irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to transform global ecological–political relations, including through processes of land return and critically confronting discourses on “human extinction.” Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of “extinction,” “conservation,” and “biodiversity,” Revenant Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively defying the forms of violence that drive extinction—and that shape global efforts to manage it. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Revenant Ecologies tackles the huge, widely resonating topic of extinction and blows it wide open with rigorous structural analysis from a broad base of humanities and social science traditions, engaging with Indigenous, feminist, and decolonial scholarship. Audra Mitchell challenges us to rethink how we use the concept of extinction and what ethical and justice issues we may have been missing all along."—Kyle Whyte, University of Michigan
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University of Minnesota Press Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha
Book SynopsisRecovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i Hawaiian “aloha ʻāina” is often described in Western political terms—nationalism, nationhood, even patriotism. In Remembering Our Intimacies, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio centers in on the personal and embodied articulations of aloha ʻāina to detangle it from the effects of colonialism and occupation. Working at the intersections of Hawaiian knowledge, Indigenous queer theory, and Indigenous feminisms, Remembering Our Intimacies seeks to recuperate Native Hawaiian concepts and ethics around relationality, desire, and belonging firmly grounded in the land, memory, and the body of Native Hawai’i.Remembering Our Intimacies argues for the methodology of (re)membering Indigenous forms of intimacies. It does so through the metaphor of a ‘upena—a net of intimacies that incorporates the variety of relationships that exist for Kānaka Maoli. It uses a close reading of the moʻolelo (history and literature) of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele to provide context and interpretation of Hawaiian intimacy and desire by describing its significance in Kānaka Maoli epistemology and why this matters profoundly for Hawaiian (and other Indigenous) futures. Offering a new approach to understanding one of Native Hawaiians’ most significant values, Remembering Our Intimacies reveals the relationships between the policing of Indigenous bodies, intimacies, and desires; the disembodiment of Indigenous modes of governance; and the ongoing and ensuing displacement of Indigenous people.Trade Review"A stunning example of archival research, translation, and analysis, Remembering Our Intimacies is both a kāhea (call) and makana (gift), a truly inspiring offering to the lāhui and the fields of Native and queer studies. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio innovatively theorizes how Kānaka Maoli create multiple forms of pilina (intimacy) to manifest the responsibilities and possibilities of collective pleasure. This is the moʻolelo that queer Natives have been waiting for."—Lani Teves, author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance"With a fearless commitment to land-based love, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio channels the multi-bodied powers of Hi‘iaka to cast an intimate yet expansive net of relating that reaches across geography, generation, and gender. Poetically moving from Hawaiian language archives to Mauna movement memories, this book creates both a refuge for queer Indigenous politics and a map for remembered futures."—Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa "[Remembering Our Intimacies] generously offers all readers a way to imagine intimate relations beyond the settler-capitalist constructions of land as property and love as patriarchy."—Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContentsHe Mele no Hōpoe: A Dedication Nā Mahalo: Acknowledgements A Note about Language Use ʻŌlelo Mua: Beginning to (Re)memberGathering Our Stories of Belonging 1. Aloha ʻĀina as Pilina2. Hawaiian Archives, Abundance, and the Problem of TranslationFor My Favorite Spring, “Puna” Leonetta Keolaokalani Kinard 3. The Ea of Pilina and ʻĀina4. ʻĀina, the Aho of our ʻUpenaKaimana: A Dismembered Home5. Kamaʻāina: Pilina and Kuleana in a Time of Removal Rise Like a Mighty Wave6. Kū Kiaʻi Mauna: How Kapu and Kānāwai Are Overthrowing Law and Order in HawaiʻiʻŌlelo Pīnaʻi: Epilogue NotesBibliographyIndex
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Texas A&M University Press The Handgame of the Kiowa Comanche and Apache
Book SynopsisThe North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains, noted scholar William C. Meadows examines the game's history, evolution, and practice from origin accounts to the present day among people of the Southern Plains American Indian nations. According to Meadows, the handgame, once primarily a source of winter recreation, now includes round-robin tournaments as well as public school and university teams. In fact, it has evolved to occupy an important social arena in Native American life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the author's own participation since the early 1990s, the book also incorporates extensive archival research in ethnographic, archaeological, and historical sources. Examining such topics as the handgame's relation to language, gender roles, economics, and tribal sovereignty, Meadows argues that the game is just as important in tribal contexts as other more widely known activities such as powwows, dances, sweat lodges, and stickball in maintaining American Indian culture and ethnicity.The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache affords readers a greater sense of how this traditional game has developed, how its practitioners feel about it, how it is played, and why it is, in the words of the author, so spirited, popular, and infectious as an activity.
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The Centre for International Governance Innovation Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United
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Duke University Press A World of Many Worlds
Book Synopsis A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science''s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de CastroTrade Review"The strength of this book is its presentation and varied discussion of the omission of all of the 'other-than-human-persons' who comprise the heterogeneity of cultures that form worlds beyond the Anthropocene. . . . This book provides excellent fodder for readers to reflexively consider their individual roles in the global knowledge-making process, the outcomes they create (and are creating), and the frames within which they dwell." -- Sally A. Applin * Journal of International and Global Studies *“A World of Many Worlds is a rich and welcome collection of essays that offers a complex and exploratory response to a timely problematic. Its statement is forthright and hallmark....” -- Mat Keel * AAG Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena 1 1. Opening Up Relations / Marilyn Strathern 23 2. Spiderweb Anthropologies: Ecologies, Infrastructures, Entanglements / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 53 3. The Challenge of Ontological Politics / Isabelle Stengers 83 4. The Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate / Helen Verran 112 5. Denaturalizing Nature / John Law and Marianne Lien 131 6. Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski 172 Contributors 205 Index 209
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Fulcrum Publishing God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
Book SynopsisA 50th anniversary revised edition of the beloved classic, God is Red. First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red 50th Anniversary Edition remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no responsibilities to the natural world." It is time again to listen to Vine Deloria Jr.'s powerful voice, telling us about religious life that is independent of Christianity and that reveres the interconnectedness of all living things.
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Advanced Shamanism: The Practice of Conscious
Book SynopsisA detailed guide to advanced shamanic techniques reveals authentic wisdom to help the practitioner reach increased levels of awareness Endredy offers hands-on instructions for sacred Fire ceremonies, direct shamanic viewing, experiencing shamanic death and rebirth, working with and acquiring healing stones, shamanic lucid dreaming, shamanic healing, and advanced methods for acquiring an animal spirit guide, including how to properly retain its spirit in a sacred bundle or altar and how to use its power responsibly for healing. He provides a meticulous step-by-step approach to working with the five points of attention, a Huichol teaching on sacred awareness and shamanic levels of attention. He also examines the many ways that Psi phenomena and shamanism are linked and their relationship to the scientific concept of quantum entanglement. Showing how quantum physics is the scientific expression of shamanism, the author also explores the biological foundations of spiritual experiences, including the roles of serotonin, dopamine, and opioid transmitters, and the connections between altered consciousness and shamanic states. Integrating modern research with ancient knowledge to provide an enlightened view of shamanism that marries science and spirit, this guide offers authentic shamanic wisdom and techniques to help the solitary practitioner move forward on their shamanic path.Trade Review“With competence and authority James Endredy has written a powerful book with clear and precise instructions on advanced shamanic techniques learned directly from indigenous shamans. This is a wonderful contribution to shamanic literature. By bridging quantum physics with ancient shamanic practices, he immeasurably expands our access to the strange and wonderful world of the age-old shamanic path. This is the real deal.” * José Luis Stevens, Ph.D., author of Awaken the Inner Shaman and Encounters with Power *“. . . a rich and fascinating journey intended to culminate in increasing levels of shamanic mastery. As the title implies, this is not a book for dabblers but is for advanced practitioners who have the grounding and patience necessary to work through and digest these exercises and resulting experiences over a period of months, even years.” * Hillary S. Webb, Ph.D., author of Traveling between the Worlds *“James Endredy births another book that provides theory, personal background, and teaching stories that illuminate shamanic practices and exercises that can produce a meaningful path in life. It makes for ‘powerful medicine,’ if you use what he offers in a respectful and humble way. He expands our notions of ‘self ’ and what is possible at a time of cultural crisis that calls for us to meet the challenges of today’s world with expanded vision and empowerment to create life-affirming ways of living with all our relations.” * Tom Pinkson, Ph.D., author of The Shamanic Wisdom of the Huichol and Fruitful Aging *“This remarkable book provides readers already proficient in basic shamanism a rare glimpse into the deeper universe of traditional healers and their most powerful practices. With precision and integrity Endredy provides step-by-step guidance for learning the advanced healing arts of world shamanism, such as interacting with Sacred Fire, recapitulating energy drains, creating animal-spirit jicara bowls, a personal death/rebirth ceremony, lucid-shamanic dreaming, and “quantum” healing through direct shamanic viewing. If you are ready to fully step through the portal of conscious transformation, this book will be your treasured companion and guide.” * Jeff Nixa, J.D., M.Div., and author of The Lost Art of Heart Navigation *“James Endredy’s Advanced Shamanism weaves together practices he has learned and used over many years, and his transparency about their origins adds to their validity. There are skills for improving your ability to practice shamanism as well as valuable tools for benefiting your community. A must-have for any shamanic practitioner seeking a solid practical text to learn from.” * Lupa, author of Nature Spirituality from the Ground Up *Table of ContentsPREFACE Why Advanced Shamanism? PART ONE The Phenomena of Shamanism 1 The Shamanic Worldview 2 States of Consciousness 3 Psi and Shamanism 4 Hyperspace, Holographic Fields, and Phase-Conjugate Mirrors PART TWO Primal Practices for Advanced Shamanism 5 Fundamental Practices: Part 1 Practice 1: Bringing Forth the Sacred Fire with Intention Practice 2: Fire Ceremony--Reclaiming Lost Energy by Healing Energetic Drains Practice 3: The Three Points of Attention 6 Fundamental Practices: Part 2 Practice 4: Acquiring Spirit Animal Guides--The Jicara Practice 5: Shamanic Death and Rebirth Practice 6: Healing Stones--Acquiring Te’ka PART THREE The Shamanic Dreamscape 7 Lucid Dreaming Practice 7: Cleansing Your Day in Preparation for Lucid Dreaming Practice 8: Importance of a Dream Journal Practice 9: Creating Lucid Goals Practice 10: Enhancing Prospective Memory--Reality Checks 8 Mastering Dream Cycles for Lucid Dreaming Practice 11: Waking during Dreaming Practice 12: Urination-Induced Lucid Dreaming Practice 13: The Sleep Rhythm Adjustment Technique 9 Autogenic Training and Lucid Dreaming Practice 14: The “I Breathe Me” Experience Practice 15: The Heaviness Experience Practice 16: Vascular Dilation Practice 17: Regulation of the Heart Practice 18: Warmth in the Abdomen Practice 19: Cooling the Forehead for Advanced Practice 10 Visualization for Advanced Lucid Dreaming Practice 20: The Spontaneous Evocation of Colors Practice 21: Colors on Demand Practice 22: Developing a Lucid Dreaming Practice--A Two-Week Intensive 11 Three Bridges to Shamanic Dreaming Practice 23: First Bridge--Dream Reentry Practice 24: Second Bridge--Dreaming Reality Check Practice 25: Third Bridge--Changing the Dream 12 Sentient Beings in the Dreamscape Practice 26: Feeling the Dream Landscape Practice 27: Animal Totems Practice 28: Interacting with Spirit Animals Practice 29: Human Spirit Guides PART FOUR Shamanic Practices for Quantum Healing 13 Shamanic Viewing Practice 30: Phase-Conjugate Mirrors of the Mind Practice 31: Targets Other Than People Practice 32: Direct Viewing of Random People Practice 33: Direct Viewing of a Client or Person You Are Helping 14 Advanced Shamanic Healing Practice 34: Cleaning the Holographic Field Practice 35: Extraction of the Holographic Field and Phase-Conjugate Mirrors Practice 36: Energetic Infusion of the Holographic Field and Decoding Client Ailments Practice 37: Making the Energetic Patch Permanent 15 The Five Points of Attention Practice 38: The Five Points of Attention EPILOGUE What’s Next? APPENDIX Ethics and Shamanic Practitioners Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Impressive. . . . Lakota America takes us from the sixteenth century to the present, with painstaking, carefully marshaled detail, but its real feat is in threading how the Lakota philosophy and vision of the world guided their reinventions and their dealings with colonial powers. . . . Hämäläinen has the novelist’s relish for the strange, pungent detail . . . [in this ] accomplished, and subtle, study.”—Parul Sehgal, New York TimesNamed one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019“A brilliant, bold, gripping history.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019“[A] profound history of the Lakota people. . . . Hämäläinen’s book emphasizes that to understand American history it is vital to understand Lakota—and, by extension, Native American—history. . . . Lakota America joins, and in many respects leads, a growing body of work centered on single-tribe histories through which we can see, for the first time, the wild making of America.”—David Treuer, New York Review of Books“Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out.”—Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019“A comprehensive history of the tribe.”—The Economist“You’ll catch something roiling beneath that professional composure: a lively truculence that gives this book its pulse, and its purpose. Pekka Hämäläinen’s impressive history is also a quarrel with the field, with how history—especially the history of indigenous Americans—has been told and sold.”—Parul Sehgal, International New York Times“There are comparative lessons here about the vulnerability that can lie behind apparent power and the strength that comes from apparent weakness.”—David A. Nichols, Reviews in HistoryCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020Finalist in the PROSE Awards North American and U.S. History category, sponsored by the Association of American PublishersLonglisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize, sponsored by the Columbia School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation.Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies“Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse live in history as great warriors. Hämäläinen’s brilliant exploration of the history and culture of the people that produced these two men is destined to become a classic.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University“Deeply researched, epic in scale, interpretatively adventurous, and ambitious, Lakota America will influence historians for years.”—Richard White, Stanford University“Like the Lakotas he studies, Pekka Hämäläinen is a shapeshifter. He is nuanced, nimble, and wise, with an uncanny capacity for reinvention as new understandings come to light. The result is stunning. To read Lakota America is to rethink American history itself.”—Elizabeth Fenn, University of Colorado, Boulder“Lakota America is beautifully researched, persuasively argued, and justifiably audacious in its reach and implications. It is both a landmark in American Indian history and a provocative rethinking of North American history generally.”—Elliott West, University of Arkansas
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University of Minnesota Press This Wound Is a World
Book SynopsisThe new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States “i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative.” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what we’ve been waiting for.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside.” Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.” Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms.Trade Review"This Wound Is a World is a decolonial wildfire from which the acclaimed writer Billy-Ray Belcourt builds a new world and it’s the brilliant, radiant, f*cked up Indigenous world I want to live in. . . . [His book] redefines poetics as a refusal of colonial erasure, a radical celebration of Indigenous life and our beautiful, intimate rebellion. This is a breathtaking masterpiece."—Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer and musician"This book is a monument for the future of poetic possibility. It is rare to be able to call a book something so grand and full—and have it be utterly true. That's what This Wound Is a World affords us: myth and hyperbole pressed into a lived and realized life. A reckoning for and of the wreck—bravely buoyant, alive, and finally here."—Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds"This Wound Is a World is a wonder. It is filled with humor, sadness, sadness about sadness, sex, profound and profane lyricism, and above all power. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s voice is uniquely plangent and self-aware. The book is a world with worlds inside it. It means to de-colonize any possible reader’s pre- or mis-conceptions about what it means to be alive and Indian today."—Tommy Orange, author of There There"This luminous collection’s formal experimentation arises from an urgent need to address the complexity of learning “how to love and be broken at the same time.” As the title suggests, woundedness is a resource for forging avenues toward a yet unimagined future."—Star Tribune"This collection is an answer to and a reckoning with story and with sadness itself: its ever-presence in the telling of the Indigenous body, the queer body, the body moving through stages of love and loss."—American Poets"Belcourt makes good on the promise of his title through poetry in which sadness, grief, and death are seamlessly entwined with love, sex, and cruising both within and across racial lines."—Native American and Indigenous Studies Table of Contents
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University Press of Colorado Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in
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The University of Chicago Press Custerology The Enduring Legacy of the Indian
Book SynopsisOn a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the famous defeat in US military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its four hundred men, and every soldier under Custer's direct command was killed. This title takes readers to each of the important places of Custer's life.Trade Review"Elliott is an approachable guide as he takes readers to battlefields where Custer fought American Indians... to the Michigan town of Monroe that Custer called home after he moved there at age 10... to the Black Hills of South Dakota where Custer led an expedition that gave birth to a gold rush." - Steve Weinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution "By 'Custerology,' Elliott means the historical interpretation and commemoration of Custer and the Indian Wars in which he fought not only by those who honor Custer but by those who celebrate the Native American resistance that defeated him. The purpose of this book is to show how Custer and the Little Bighorn can be and have been commemorated for such contradictory purposes." - Library Journal "Michael Elliott's Custerology is vivid, trenchant, engrossing, and important. The American soldier George Armstrong Custer has been the subject of very nearly incessant debate for almost a century and a half, and the debate is multicultural, multinational, and multimedia. Mr. Elliott's book provides by far the best overview, and no one interested in the long-haired soldier whom the Indians called Son of the Morning Star can afford to miss it." - Larry McMurtry"
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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 plummeted.
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The University of Chicago Press Arguing with Tradition
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University of Illinois Press Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas
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MIT Press Ltd Indigenous Currencies
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University of Washington Press Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[M]asterful and uplifting study... Highly recommended for indigenous scholarsand activists, as well as students of modern social media." * Choice *"Cocq and DuBois offer an artist-centered account of Sámi agency within Sámi media products—countering implicitly the many stereotypes of the newness of Indigenous media use and activist traditions. The work is of value for both crafting a Sámi activist counter-history that “talks back” to the empire through its own media platforms, and in its close readings of numerous multimedia art works of prominent Sámi artists." * Journal of American Folklore *"[M]arks the arrival of Sámi -specific studies in new media and communication." * Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice *
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University of Washington Press A Drum in One Hand a Sockeye in the Other
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The most recent book by Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) continues her trend of exceptional scholarship that draws from her academic and personal expertise on the politics of food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples in the Pacific Northwest...A Drum in One Hand provides a broad exploration of the Indigenous food sovereignty movement as seen through the lens of Coté and her family’s practices." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *"This book is based in, and within, Indigenous knowledges; specifically, Tseshaht philosophy and ontology. To be privy to such information feels like an incredible gift: Coté's stories are generous and insightful." -- Tabitha Robin, University of British Columbia * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *"This is an innovative work that tells living histories not just through people, but also through rivers, gardens, berry patches, and more. This dynamic and engaging book pursues an Indigenous-centered methodology that speaks to health and healing, ecology and environment, community and sovereignty, past, present, and future, and beyond." -- Western History Association Donald L. Fixico award committee
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University of Washington Press Enclosed
Book SynopsisHighlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world--repeated displacement from their landsTrade Review"Insightful, comprehensive, and authoritative . . . Grandia has made a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and to our understanding of neoliberalism and contemporary land and labor issues in Latin America." -- Molly Doane * Anthropological Quarterly *"This is a passionately written and often angry book, and the conclusion reaches a crescendo of critical outrage. Grandia is personally engaged in working with Q’eqchi’ groups seeking to resist the policies and processes that alienate people from the land and the independent livelihoods of small-farming or peasantry. [This book is a] powerful means to those ends." -- Bonnie J. McCay * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *"The book is well crafted and clearly written . . . a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and as an important ethnography about the Q’eqchi’." -- Sean S. Downey * Current Anthropology *"Enclosed would be so useful for undergrad and graduate classes in anthropology, geography, history, and sociology….Grandia and the press should be congratulated for producing this important work that will be of great utility for many years to come." -- Sterling Evans * Environmental History *"A rich anthropological account of continuity, change, and contestation over vital material and social resources…[with] thought-provoking contributions to debates over the roles and applications of anthropology and anthropologists in the processes they study." -- Sophie Haines * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Enclosed provides a timely and invaluable contribution to our understanding of the contemporary land grab…Grandia’s multifaceted and ‘historically and geographically situated’ analysis is a welcome addition to a literature characterized by varying degrees of depth and vigor….Enclosed is a fascinating and inspiring book whose relevance transcends the Guatemalan and Belizean borders." -- Alberto Alonso-Fradejas * Journal of Peasant Studies *"Grandia revela cómo la historia de las luchas de los q’eqchi’s contra el cercamiento de sus tierras puede contribuir a una mayor comprensión de los cercamientos de las tierras comunales a favor de las empresas en todo el mundo." -- Kurt Holder * Mesoamerica *"This is a passionately written and often angry book, and the conclusion reaches a crescendo of critical outrage. . . . She insists, ‘erosion of the commons is never inevitable;’ it can always be defended and it can be rebuilt. This book and its Spanish version are powerful means to those ends." * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *"[Grandia] insists, 'erosion of the commons is never inevitable'; it can always be defended and it can be rebuilt. This book and its Spanish version are powerful means to those ends." -- Bonnie McCay * Polar Book reviews *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgements Q'eqchi' Language and Orthography Notes on Measurements Maps Introduction: Commons Past 1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q'eqchi' History 2. Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' Lowland Migration and Territorial Expansion 3. Commons, Customs, and Carrying Capacities: The Property and Population Traps of the Peten Frontier 4. Speculating: The World Bank's Market-Assisted Land Reform 5. From Colonial to Corporate Capitalism: Expanding Cattle Frontiers 6. The Neoliberal Auction: The PPP and the DR-CAFTA Conclusion: Common Features Glossary Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index
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MV - University of Washington Press Where the Salmon Run The Life and Legacy of
Book SynopsisBilly Frank Jr was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and arrested many times at Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history.Trade Review"Heffernan's conversational writing style moves readers fluidly from the distant past through the turbulent times of the 1960s and the 1970s to the calmer waters of the present." -- Andrew H. Fisher * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The photographs and personal stories alone make it worth an interested reader's time." -- Steven M. Fountain * H-Net *"Trova has done a good job getting the reader into the narrative flow of Frank's admirable life; she's not afraid of quoting people who pull no punches." -- Mike Dillon * City Living *"Heffernan talked to all the right people to write this book, from fellow Indian rights warrior Hank Adams to Franks's son, Willie Frank III . . . Heffernan caught up with Frank six times for face-to-face interviews filled with candor, insight and patchwork quotes only Frank could knit together." -- John Dodge * The Olympian *"Heffernan’s biography of Billy Frank, Jr., is a lively and recommended addition to the growing scholarship on Native American salmon fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest and joins Charles Wilkinson’s Messages from Frank’s Landing (2000) as one of the key books on Frank and his widespread influence….Frank and his allies’ voices shine throughout the book, and their vivid anecdotes and vibrant quotations make for a very compelling history." -- Shawn Bailey * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue Introduction 1. Spirit of the Father 2. “I Live Here!” 3. The Survivor 4. Surveillance 5. Renegades 6. Canoes and Clashes 7. As Long as the Rivers Run 8. Takeovers 9. The Shelf Life of Treaties 10. Storm 11. The Politics of Salmon 12. Bridge Builder 13. Resilience 14. The Negotiator 15. Clear Creek Hatchery 16. Submerged 17. The Tough Guy 18. “You were always there for me” 19. The Catalyst 20. Operation Chainsmoker 21. Hard Truths 22. Dreams and Legacies Acknowledgments Billy Frank Jr. Family Tree Source Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press The Makings and Unmakings of Americans
Book SynopsisChallenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrantsTrade Review“By raising up the voices of American Indians and European immigrants—people who were both objects and adversaries of Americanization—Stanciu provides a stunning, pluralistic vision of this crucial moment in U.S history.”—Frederick E. Hoxie, author of This Indian Country“This book is phenomenal! Stanciu’s book is well-researched, showcasing the benefits of creatively using archives. A comparative cultural history, this project is a model for future historians and literary historians alike.”—Kyle T. Mays, author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States“In this expansive study, Stanciu centers Indigenous experiences of Americanization, revealing shared and divergent grounds with Immigrants in law, literature, and culture. Deeply researched and powerfully told, it refuses Indigenous erasure of the “nation of immigrants” framework. Essential reading.”—Beth Piatote, author of Domestic Subjects“Cristina Stanciu highlights the ways Native Americans and immigrant communities negotiated, and at times ‘authored,’ the terms of Americanization for themselves, and in so doing reworked categories of ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ to challenge the terms by which the nation sought to expand and define its reach.”—Kiara M. Vigil, author of Indigenous Intellectuals“In the midst of renewed immigrant exclusion and continued colonization of Native nations, this original and intriguing book is timely. Cristina Stanciu exposes the artificiality of ‘making Americans’ in a settler-colonial state.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants”
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kayap Ethnoecology and Culture Studies in
Book SynopsisDarrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kayapó sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the Kayapó are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for scientists to just do ''good science''. They are are increasingly asked and morally obliged to become involved in political action to protect the peoples they study.Table of ContentsPART I Kayapó history and culture 1 The science of the Mebêngôkre 2 Contact before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern Kayapó of the Amazon 3 Environmental and social implications of pre- and post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians 4 Time, space, and the interface of divergent cultures: the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon face the future 5 The Kayapó origin of night 6 The journey to become a shaman: a narrative of sacred transition of the Kayapó Indians of Brazil PART II Ethnobiology and the Kayapó Project 7 Report from Gorotire: will Kayapó traditions survive? 8 Indigenous knowledge and development: an ideological bridge to the future 9 Wasps, warriors and fearless men: ethnoentomology of the Kayapó Indians of Central Brazil 10 Hierarchy and utility in a folk biological taxonomic system: patterns in classification of arthropods by the Kayapó Indians of Brazil 11 Additional notes on the classification and knowledge of stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera) by the Kayapó Indians of Gorotire, Pará, Brazil 12 Keeping of stingless bees by the Kayapó Indians of Brazil 13 Ethnopharmacological search for antiviral compounds: treatment of gastrointestinal disorders by Kayapó medical specialists 14 Use of contraceptive and related plants by the Kayapó Indians (Brazil) PART III Kayapó land management 15 Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayapó Indians 16 Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: some implications of ethnopedology for the Amazon Basin 17 The keepers of the forest 18 Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon 19 The continuum of Kayapó resource management PART IV Continuing adaptation by the Kayapó 20 From warclubs to words 21 The Kayapó Indian protests against Amazonian dams: successes, alliances, and unending battles
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University of California Press The Peyote Effect From the Inquisition to the War
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An eminently readable history of indigeneity and whiteness through the lens of a drug. . . . Provides a rich history of the interplay between hallucinogens and the politics of identity.” * CHOICE *“Dawson’s book departs from traditional peyote literature through outstanding coverage of the non-Indian organizations.” -- Benjamin R. Kracht * Reading Religion *"Deeply researched and conceptually rich, The Peyote Effect makes an important contribution to the history of drugs, history of race, history of medicine, Native American and Indigenous studies, borderlands history, and the history of the U.S. and Mexico." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Alexander Dawson has produced a stellar piece ofcomparative scholarship on the history of peyote and its uses in both Mexico and the United States." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1833: The Cholera Epidemic Chapter One1887: Dr. John Briggs Eats Some Peyote Chapter Two1899: The Instituto Médico Nacional Chapter Three1909: Poison Chapter Four1917: The Ban Chapter Five1918: The Native American Church Chapter Six1937: The Goshute Letter Chapter Seven1957: The Holy Thursday Experiment Chapter Eight1958: Alfonso Fabila Visits the Sierra Huichola Chapter Nine1964: Bona Fide Chapter Ten1971: Peyote Outlawed in Mexico Chapter Eleven1972: The Exemption Chapter Twelve2011: Tom Pinkson ConclusionRace, Space, Time Notes Bibliography
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University of California Press Praying and Preying
Book SynopsisOffers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission.Trade Review"Praying and Preying is a remarkably original and important study." Anthropology Review DatabaseTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The New Tribes Mission 2 • Versions versus Bodies: Translations in Contact 3 • The Encounter with the Missionaries 4 • Eating God’s Words: Kinship and Conversion 5 • Praying and Preying 6 • Strange Creator 7 • Christian Ritual Life 8 • Moral Changes 9 • Personhood and Its Translations Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Veiled Sentiments
Book SynopsisDuring the late 1970s and early 1980s, the author lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. In this book, the poems are haunting, and the evocation of emotional life vivid.Trade Review"A foundational text for the subfields of literary anthropology and the anthropology of women in the Middle East." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Veiled Sentiments is an excellent study, thorough, meticulous, and stimulating, of the highly complex social system of these tribes, with particular emphasis on male-female relationships and on the intriguing, often paradoxical roles played by men and women to preserve this system." * Arab Studies Quarterly *"This book is a beautiful account of a lifetime of shared ‘ishra or moments between Abu-Lughod and the Awald ‘Ali Bedouins. Anthropology often looks at “the other”, but by representing the emotional dialectics between the informant and the researcher over time, what this book reveals is the impact fieldwork has on the anthropologist." * Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford *"The republication makes an important classic study better available for new generations of readers and offers some new material for those already familiar with it, as well as providing the author’s own commentary on her earlier work." * Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Transcriptions One: Guest and Daughter The Community Fieldwork Poetry and Sentiment PART ONE The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life Two: Identity in Relationship Asl: The Blood of Ancestry Garaba: The Blood of Relationship Maternal Ties and a Common Life Identification and Sharing Identity in a Changing World Three: Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy Autonomy and Hierarchy The Family Model of Hierarchy Honor: The Moral Basis of Hierarchy Limits on Power Hasham: Honor of the Weak Four: Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality Gender Ideology and Hierarchy The Social Value of Male and Female The "Natural" Bases of Female Moral Inferiority Red Belts and Black Veils: The Symbolism of Gender and Sexuality Sexuality and the Social Order Hasham Reconsidered: Deference and the Denial of Sexuality The Meaning of Veiling PART TWO Discourses on Sentiment Five: The Poetry of Personal Life On Poetry in Context The Poetry of Self and Sentiment Six: Honor and Poetic Vulnerability Discourses on Loss Matters of Pride Responding to Death The Discourse of Honor Seven: Modesty and the Poetry of Love Discourses on Love Star–Crossed Lovers An Arranged Marriage Marriage, Divorce, and Polygyny Eight: Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment The Social Contexts of Discourse Protective Veils of Form The Meaning of Poetry The Politics of Sentiment Ideology and Experience Ethnography's Values: An Afterword Appendix: Formulas and Themes of the Ghinnawa Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Mark Twain Among the Indians and Other Indigenous
Book SynopsisMark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materialsincluding previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens's personal libraryDriscoll charts the development of the writer's ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri, and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford's Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens's 189596 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rTrade Review“[a] ground-breaking new study.... Readers of this book will be disturbed, provoked, and disheartened, but not disappointed. They will find the excellent illustrations, bibliography, and index subentries extremely helpful and suggestive of further readings and research. Honest scholarly enquiry often leads to more questions than answers, and if there are unanswered questions at the end of Driscoll's superb enquiry, it is not the fault of the enquirer, but Mark Twain himself, who left us no clear answers on this subject—not because he knew the answers and chose to withhold them, but because he simply did not know himself.” * Mark Twain Forum *"Driscoll’s book offers a comprehensive examination of Twain’s attitudes about 'Indians' and the results are arguably more dismal, and even damning, than one might expect." * American Literary Realism *"Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous People will be the definitive resource for those seeking to track Twain’s attitudes toward Indigenous peoples." * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1. The Romance and Terror of Indians 14 2. Blind in Nevada: Early Perceptions of Indians in the West 53 3. Indians Imagined, 1862–72 93 4. The Roots of Racial Animus in “The Noble Red Man” 144 5. “How Much Higher and Finer Is The Indian’s God” 185 6. The Curious Tale of the Connecticut Indian Association 228 7. Indigenes Abroad: The Unseen Aboriginals of Australia 268 8. The Maori: “A Superior Breed of Savages” 309 Conclusion 349 Notes 371 Bibliography 405
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Catlins Lament
Book SynopsisGeorge Catlin gained renown for his nineteenth-century paintings of Indians and their lands. The author argues that, despite his sympathies, Catlin's work embodied the same prevailing sentiment toward Nature that sanctioned Indian removal and thus undercut his own alternate vision for westward expansion.Trade ReviewA clear, coherent, provocative reconsideration of Catlin that challenges readers to reexamine their perceptions of the artist; to explore their understanding of nineteenth-century American attitudes toward expansion, Indians, and nature; and to contemplate how underlying intellectual attitudes and epistemologies may shape and constrain social criticism, including our own. George Miles, coeditor of Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past ""Hausdoerffer's innovative and richly suggestive book leaves no question or controversy surrounding Catlin unexplored. His compelling answers to those questions alone make this rewarding reading for scholars working in environmental studies, environmental ethics, American studies, and ecocriticism."" Joni Adamson, author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism
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Pluto Press Society Despite the State
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Conquest The Destruction of American Indios The
Book SynopsisThe arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. In this book Livi Bacci argues that the catastrophe was not the inevitable outcome of contact with Europeans but was a function of both the methods of the conquest and the characteristics of the subjugated societies.Trade Review"An impressive argument for a more complex way of understanding the conquest of what is now Latin America than the single-cause explanations that have been dominant for the past several decades. The translation is lucid and easy to follow, and the generous contemporary illustrations of the life of the Indios at the time of conquest further enrich the text."Population Studies "An excellent study ... the book provides fresh insights into one of the most catastrophic episodes of early modern history and the narrative thrust of the work makes it very readable."Historical Association "Well-illustrated, useful and balanced ... an excellent provocative volume which should have wide appeal."European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies "Bacci makes a significant contribution and should be applauded for tackling a difficult academic question. [He] commendably moves the discussion away from singular epidemiological explanations and refocuses debate on the multiple means and various trajectories involced in the conquest of indigenous peoples."American Historical Review "Massimo Livi-Bacci's Conquest is a brilliant, fascinating history of the demographic catastrophe that enveloped the New World after 1492. Thickly illustrated with the artistic visions and voices of native peoples, it is the most even-handed, comprehensive narrative available - now in a lively, fluid English translation. Livi Bacci examines the evidence with the eye of a seasoned detective, solving a series of mysteries - in the West Indies, Mexico, Peru, and the Río de la Plata. Along the way, he finds much previously overlooked evidence, which he ingenuously assembles into a compelling, nuanced interpretation."Robert McCaa, University of Minnesota "Was the decay of the Amerindian population man-made, or was it brought about by the uncontrolled spread of pathogens or some other factor? Massimo Livi Bacci, a world-leading demographer, joins, in the present translation of his well-read book, the centuries-long debate on the extent and the causes of the post-Conquest collapse, adding to the discussion fresh insights based on his expertise in population studies and on a judicious and thorough historical research."Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz, New York UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceI In which are described three voyages that changed the face of a continent, the American population at the time of contact, the demographic catastrophe of the Indios, the sorrowful increase of the Africans, and the expansion of the EuropeansII A humble Franciscan, two combative Dominicans, an Italian humanist at the Court of Spain, a remorseful viceroy, a naturalist ‘alcade’, a Europeanized Inca and an Inca fallen on hard times, a conquistador observer... different witnesses and a common analysis of the catastropheIII A tireless traveler disrupts a continent, but a quarter century too late. From the Caribbean to Perú: a brief history of a long voyage and of the suspected assassin of Huayna Capac, father of Atahuallpa. The true and presumed sins of smallpox and other crowd diseasesIV A golden nose ring and the tragic destiny of the Taíno. An Indio follows a deer and discovers a mountain of silver. A people in constant movement, over 1000 miles and at an elevation of 4000 meters, and the wealth of Potosí. Deeds and misdeeds of gold and silverV Hispaniola, the territorial paradise of Columbus and the imagination of modern scholars. One hundred thousand or ten million Taíno? The catastrophe of the Antilles as seen from close up and a credible leyenda negra. People die while animals flourishVI A great and rich city, dreamed of by Columbus and destroyed by Cortés. The modern dispute over the population of Mesoamerica. Tributaries, tributes, and population. Thirteen brigantines hauled overland and a tunnel in the rock. Men and beastsVII The Incas and many millions of subjects. A quarter century of wars: Indios versus Indios, Spaniards versus Indios, Spaniards versus Spaniards. ‘Quipu’ pen and ink. A viceroy who counts, measures and acts. Epidemics: the moderns debate them, the ancients ignore themVIII Colonists and ‘Paulists’ hunting down Guaraní between the Paraná and the Uruguay. One hundred Jesuits for 100,000 Indios. Steel axes and security in exchange for Christian habits. Monogamy and reproduction stronger than crowd diseasesEpilogAppendicesTablesFiguresNotesChronologyGlossaryNote on IllustrationsIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Time and a Place
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University of Nebraska Press Xurtan
Book Synopsis Xurt’an (the end of the world) showcases the rich storytelling traditions of the northern Lacandones of Naha’ through acollection of traditional narratives, songs, and ritual speech. Formerly isolated in the dense, tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Lacandon Maya constitute one of the smallest language groups in the world. Although their language remains active and alive, their traditional culture was abandoned after the death of their religious and civic leader in 1996.Lacking the traditional contexts in which the culture was transmitted, the oral traditions are quickly being forgotten. This collection includes creation myths that describe the cycle of destruction and renewal of the world, the structure of the universe, the realms of the gods and their intercessions in the affairs of their mortals, and the journey of the souls after death. Other traditional stories are non-mythic and fictive accounts involving talking animals, supernatural Trade Review"Xurt’an will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of folklore, anthropology, comparative literature, and performance studies. The scope of the oral narratives gathered here is notable, as is Cook’s discussion of some of the selections. . . . Xurt’an will certainly become a landmark in the study of Northern Lacandon Maya oral literature."—Sarah Alice Campbell, Journal of Folklore Research“This is a very valuable piece of work for folklorists and linguists and is a huge contribution to scholarship in this area. I applaud Cook for including oral traditions recorded from Lacandon women. Lacandon women are largely ignored in the Lacandon ethnographic literature and archaeology, and until now I know of no compilation of Lacandon women’s stories. This is an outstanding service to the field.”—R. Jon McGee, professor of anthropology at Texas State University“You will be quickly drawn into this presentation of language texts contributed by skilled Mayan narrators working in multiple literary genres while covering topics ranging from the earthly to the cosmological. The author’s attention to detail is unparalleled. The scope and quality of the narratives will take your breath away.”—Barry Carlson, editor of Northwest Coast Texts: Stealing LightTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. The Hach Winik ‘True People’ The Lacandones Northern Lacandon Oral Literature Part 2. Myths Birth of the Gods Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum and Akyantʼoʼ Create Their People and Kisin Creates Their Onen Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum Makes the Ants and Snakes Antonio Martinez Hachäkyum Makes the Sky Bor Maʼax Uluʼubir Baʼarkaʼan Umentik Pethaʼ ‘A Star Falls and Creates the Lagoon’ Antonio Martinez Hachäkyum yeter Tʼuup yeter Kisin ‘Hachäkyum, Tʼuup, and the Devil’ Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum yeter Tʼuup yeter Chäk Xib ‘Hachäkyum, Tʼuup, and Chäk Xib’ Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum Uxatik Ucheʼir Ukaar ‘Hachäkyum Cuts the Mortals’ Throats’ Bor Maʼax Äkicheʼex ‘Our Eyes’ Bor Maʼax Nacimiento ‘Birth’ Bor Maʼax Uyählehir Bah ‘The Mole Trapper’ Bor Maʼax Xurtʼan Uburur ‘The World Ends with the Flood’ Bor Maʼax Akyantʼoʼ No Permite Uxurtʼan ‘Akyantʼoʼ Prevents the End of the World’ Bor MaʼaxʼÄhah Antonio Martinez Kaʼwätsʼäk uhoʼor Barum yeter Kʼakʼ ‘The Two-Headed Jaguar and the Lord of Fire’ Säk Hoʼor Mensäbäk yeter Hach Winik Tukinsah ‘Mensäbäk and the Ancestor He Killed’ Kʼayum Maʼax Kakʼoch yeter Ukʼani(r) Hach Winik ‘Kakʼoch and His Human Assistant’ Bor Maʼax Akʼinchob Takes a Human Wife Antonio Martinez Part 3. Popular Stories Maya Kimin ‘The Mayan Death’ Säk Hoʼor Chäk Xok ‘The Sirens’ Bor Maʼax Nukuch Winik yeter Utiʼaʼar yeter Ahyaʼaxcheʼ ‘The Ancestor, His Son, and the Ceiba Tree’ Bor Maʼax Haayokʼ Bor Maʼax Koʼotir Kaʼan ‘The Celestial Eagle’ Bor Maʼax Uyitber ‘He at the End of the Road’ Bor Maʼax Kakʼoch yeter Uyitber ‘Kakʼoch and the Yitber’ Bor Maʼax Wantʼutʼkʼin Säk Hoʼor Pʼikbir Tsʼon yeter Kisin ‘The Rifle and Kisin’ Säk HoʼorʼAyim yetel Chem ‘The Crocodile and the Canoe’ Säk Hoʼor Ahsaay ‘The Leafcutter Ants’ Bor Maʼax Ahtʼuʼur yeter Barum ‘The Rabbit and the Puma’ Säk Hoʼor Chʼämäk yeter Chäk Barum ‘The Fox and the Puma’ Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum yeter Ahbäb ‘Hachäkyum and the Toad’ Säk Hoʼor Pekʼ yeter ʼAyim ‘The Dog and the Crocodile’ Säk Hoʼor How the Toucan Got His Red Beak Antonio Martinez Part 4. Songs Ukʼaay Barum ‘The Jaguar Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaay Box ‘The Gourd Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaay Käkah ‘The Cacao Song’ Juana Koh Ukʼaay Käy ‘Fish Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaay tiʼ Huuchʼ ‘Song for Grinding’ Juana Koh Ukʼaay tiʼ Kʼuuch ‘Song for Spinning Thread’ Juana Koh Ukʼaay Torok ‘The Iguana Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaayir Maʼax ‘Song of the Monkeys’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaayir Tokʼ ‘Song of the Flint’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaayir Xux ‘Song of the Yellow Jacket Wasps’ Säk Hoʼor Part 5. Ritual Speech: Invocations, Chants, and Charms Ahhoochʼ ‘The Hoochʼ’ Juana Koh Ahtsʼin ‘The Manioc’ Juana Koh An Offering Chant during the Preparation of Balcheʼ Antonio Martinez Offering under a Tree Antonio Martinez Utʼanir Baʼcheʼ ‘The Secret of the Balcheʼ’ Antonio Martinez Part 6. Descriptions of Meteorological and Astral PhenomenaʼÄxpʼäriʼ ‘The Solstice’ Antonio Martinez Luʼum Kab ‘The Rainbow Gods’ Bor Maʼax Säkber Akyum ‘Our Lord’s White Road’ Antonio Martinez Appendix 1: Lacandon Onen, Ceremonial Names, and Distribution Appendix 2: Gods and Men in Lacandon Mythology Notes References
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John Wiley & Sons Native Southerners Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Gregory Smithers brings this world to life in Native Southerners, a sweeping narrative of American Indian history in the Southeast.
£24.65
University of Arizona Press Beyond the Reach of Time and Change Native
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The University of Alabama Press The Cosmos Revealed Precontact Mississippian Rock
Book SynopsisContaining more than 130 paintings and engravings, Painted Bluff is perhaps the most elaborate prehistoric pictograph site east of the Mississippi River. This volume provides the first complete description and interpretation of one of the most important archaeological sites in eastern North America.Trade ReviewThe Cosmos Revealed is a landmark synthesis of one of the Native South's most unusual and intriguing archaeological sites. The authors provide a richly detailed account of this rock art complex, including its history, preservation, and meaning." - Thomas J. Pluckhahn, author of Kolomoki: Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South"Provides extremely thorough, state-of-the-art research on a well-known and very important site by providing a detailed empirical account, combined with a well-supported and logical symbolic interpretation." - David S. Whitely, author of Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity and BeliefTable of Contents Foreword by LaDonna Brown Acknowledgments Introduction: Painted Bluff and the Power of Place 1. Historical Background of Painted Bluff 2. The Geology and Archaeology of Painted Bluff 3. Methods for Documenting the Painted Bluff Rock Art 4. The Rock Art of Painted Bluff 5. Rock Art Stratigraphy at Painted Bluff 6. Ancient Paint Recipes at Painted Bluff 7. The Tennessee Valley Authority Management of Painted Bluff 8. Graffiti Removal at Painted Bluff 9. Materializing the Natural and Spiritual Worlds at Painted Bluff References Cited Index
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Under Sacred Ground A History of Navajo Oil
Book SynopsisModern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This book tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in the six decades following the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas on tribal lands.
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University of Manitoba Press For King and Kanata Canadian Indians and the
Book SynopsisIn his groundbreaking new book, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919, and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans.
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