Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

Book SynopsisContemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communitiesIn the last half century, changing racial and cultural dynamics in the United States have caused an explosion in the number of people claiming to be American Indian, from just over half a million in 1960 to over three million in 2013. Additionally, seven out of ten American Indians live in or near cities, rather than in tribal communities, and that number is growing. In Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality, Michelle Jacobs examines the new reality of the American Indian urban experience. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over two and a half years, Jacobs focuses on how some individuals are invested in reclaiming Indigenous identities whereas others are more invested in relocating their sense of self to the urban environment. These groups not only apply different meanings to indigeneity, but they also develop different strategies for asserting and maintaining Native identities in an urban space inundated Trade ReviewWhy is racial formation theory insufficient to explain the complexities of urban Indigenous identity today? Sociologists have been far too slow to engage theories of settler-colonialism or to take seriously the experiences of Indigenous peoples in their own terms. Drawing on detailed interviews and observations and situating her analyses across multiple vectors of historical experience, Jacobs presents a view of the complexities of contemporary Indigenous identity that beautifully bridges key conversations in sociology and Indigenous studies. * Kari Marie Norgaard, author Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Nature Colonialism and Social Action *Jacobs writes on the erasure of Indigenous Peoples and Urban Indians from deeply informed research and personal experience that shows us how settler discourse and dominant paradigms still operate to marginalize and silence Native voices and perspectives, particularly on mascotry issues, identity claims and internal politics….Jacobs reflects the diversity of Native people and Indigenous identity issues with professional accuracy and intercultural awareness. * James V. Fenelon, author of Redskins?: Sport Mascots, Indian Nations and White Racism *Through narration and sociological analyses, Jacobs offers the reader fascinating accounts of both Indigenous memories and urban realities for Native people living in Northeast Ohio. The voices in Jacobs’ accessible and informative book speak to the importance of ancestry, spirituality, homelands, powwows, and organizations in contemporary Indigenous America which she shows in all of its complexity, contradictions, and community. * Joane Nagel, author of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers *Jacobs (Wayne State Univ.) has written a splendid analysis of contemporary urban Indigenous and Indigenous-identifying residents in the area around Cleveland, OH, living under the conditions of white domination . . . Jacobs combines sociological categories and vignettes of over 30 people to examine the complexity of these two groups’ identities. * C. T. Vecsey, Colgate University *Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality richly documents identity formation, social boundaries, and the processes of 'making' race as they unfold in one Midwestern urban Indigenous community. The book does so with vital attention to settler colonialism’s role in forming, maintaining, and reproducing Indigenous identity. We can never discount settler colonialism’s impact on Indigenous lives, nor experiences of marginalization more generally. Jacobs opens the door for many different lines of inquiry across cultural sociology, urban studies, and race and ethnicity." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers'' Trust Prize for Political WritingWinner, 2017 RBC Taylor PrizeWinner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/AdultWinner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her workFinalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionThe groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delvTrade Review[A]n 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. * Booklist *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. * Publisher's Weekly *What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by. * Globe and Mail *Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough. * National Post *[W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all. * The Walrus *

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Book SynopsisXurt’an (the end of the world) showcases the rich storytelling traditions of the northern Lacandones of Naha’ through a collection 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. It also includes work songs of Lacandon women, whose contribution to their culture has been hitherto overTrade 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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Book SynopsisCan there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head to reveal a policy-driven world dominated by short term political interests and their erratic, irrational effects, and by the less obvious protection of long-term interests in resource extraction and the liberal settler lifestyles this sustains. Wild Policy argues policies are not about undoing the big causes of enduring inequality, and do not ameliorate harms terribly well either—without yielding all hope. Drawing on efforts across housing and infrastructure, resistant media-making, health, governance and land tenure battles in regional and remote Australia, Wild Policy looks at how the logics of intervention are formulated and what this reveals in answer to the question: why is it all so hard? Lea offers readers a layered, multi-relational approach called policy ecology to probe the related question, 'what is to be done?' Lea's case material will resonate with analysts across the world who deal with infrastructures, policy, technologies, mining, militarization, enduring colonial legacies, and the Anthropocene.Trade Review"By naming the arbitrary, anarchic nature of policy, Tess Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head. The sheer effectiveness of the writing speaks to her ethnographic skill in delineating bureaucratic purpose: the result is a stunning re-visioning whose implications will reach far beyond what stimulated it." -- Marilyn Strathern * University of Cambridge *"Wild Policy offers an extraordinary contribution to the anthropology of policy, settler colonialism, and infrastructural inequality. Tess Lea's profound accomplishment rests on her sharp, ethnographically innovative account of policy as a milieu, its attention to the uneven ground of policy's materiality, and its appreciation for the work involved in wresting some good from policy's consequential detritus." -- Daniel Fisher * University of California, Berkeley *"Lea is an acute observer of the everyday practices that characterise the wild, disorderly, and strange cultural world of the interventionist settler-colonial state....this is courageous scholarship. Wild Policy's blast of originality compelled me." -- Eve Vincent * Sydney Review of Books *"[There] is a poetics in Lea's anthologising of policies, one that is profoundly moored in land and relations. The efficacy and power of Lea's work, be [it] destabilising or advocating, lies in their specific and relational mode of engagement with human and more-than-human worlds." -- Jamie Wang * Sydney Environment Institute *"Wild Policy provides a nuanced take on how policy is formulated and implemented in ways that exclude Indigenous experience, and seeks to rectify this through the interludes that present Indigenous knowledge apart from scholarly theorization." -- Claire Ross and Alexander Howes * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisAnishinaabe writer Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin, leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, fiction, and other genres to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people invite us to inhabit? In Bad Indians Book Club, we encounter a potent challenge to all the stories settler colonialism tells.

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Book SynopsisChronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Chronicles is a book literally risen from the ashes-beginning in 2008 after her home burned to the ground-and collectively is an accounting of Winona's personal path of recovery, finding strength and resilience in the writing itself as well as in her work. Long awaited, Chronicles is a labour of love, a tribute to those who have passed on and those yet to arrive.

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Book SynopsisIn 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation.The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through other events until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch was held. The occasion: the raising of a totem pole carved by Robert Davidson, the first the community had seen in close to 80 years. From then on, the community publicly reclaimed, from the Elders who remained to share it, the knowledge that has almost been lost.Sara Florence Davidson, Robert’s daughter, would become an educator. Over the course of her own education, she came to see how the traditions of the Haida practiced by her father—holistic, built on relationships, practical, and continuous—could be integrated into contemporary educational practices. From this realization came the roots for this book.Trade ReviewIn 1969, Sara’s father Robert raised a totem pole in the community, demonstrating a commitment to tradition and stitching together stories and practices from community Elders that helped to honour traditional wisdom and revive Indigenous knowledge. In recounting how her father learned traditions and took up totem carving and potlatching, Sara has raised a new pole with this book, and shares knowledge like gifts at a potlatch. Anyone reading this work will feel like they’ve been paid to witness what Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy looks like. We are blessed to have Potlatch as Pedagogy; reading it is truly nourishing. Sara shows us through lucid storytelling and collaborative remembering that Indigenous people are resilient and with commitment can heal from past trauma, revive traditions, reinterpret them for application in the contemporary moment, and in the process make ourselves whole again. -- Dr. Jean-Paul Restoule, Professor and Chair, Indigenous Education, University of VictoriaAn uplifting, inspiring, and insightful book. Indigenous pedagogy is a developing field of study and practice to which this work is a valuable contribution. Given that Indigenous cultural revitalization and celebration is frequently localized in regard to community and national relevance, this book’s focus on Haida is essential. Davidson and Davidson offer readers an important exploration of how one nation’s culture, knowledge, and protocols can inform pedagogy for the better. -- Dr. Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, University of ManitobaThis is not a book to be read quickly; it requires reflection to fully appreciate its content, purpose, and value. But time spent with Potlatch as Pedagogy will connect you with the Davidsons’ stories and enrich your understanding of Haida knowledge, culture, and historical struggles; and stimulate thought for considering how Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and pedagogies could be included in educational practices.Highly Recommended -- Anita Miettunen * CM Association *These nine sk’ad’a principles can serve as the threads to strengthen our teaching practice. As educators we have a great responsibility to learn and teach Indigenous history and knowledge. But we can also weave Indigenous pedagogy into our everyday teaching practice. Potlatch as Pedagogy is an accessible, engaging and heartfelt work. * ETFO Voice *

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Book Synopsis The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of thesoutheastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. Following the Arakmbuts' recommendation, the author uses their three greatest myths to introduce social, cultural and historical aspects of their lives. He ends with a discussion of the relationship between myth and history showing how the Arakmbut recreate their myths at the dramatic moments of their history. Buy all three volumes for 20% discountTrade Review "... splendid and innovative ethnography ... highly topical, well written, intellectually highly interesting, and often avant-garde ... sophisticated and honest discussions ..." · Joanna Overing, London School of EconomicsTable of Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps General Preface Preface Introduction: The Harakmbut PART I Preface: Myth and Relativity Chapter 1. Death and Salvation: The Story of Wanamey Chapter 2. Gender: Social and Cosmological Exchange Chapter 3. Time through Space: House and Community Chapter 4. Descent of Man and Exchange of Women PART II Preface: Nature and Potentiality Chapter 5. The Defeat of Death: The Story of Marinke Chapter 6. Keeping Body and Soul Together Chapter 7. Sickness and Death Chapter 8. Being Invisible: The Spirits PART III Preface: History and Creativity Chapter 9. Aiwe and the Papa Chapter 10. The Great War - The Rubber Boom Chapter 11. Christian Invasion Chapter 12. The Arakmbut Community and the Gold Rush Conclusion Orthography Glossary of main Arakmbut Words used in Text Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Ancient Maya scribes recorded prophecies and astronomical observations on the pages of painted books. Although most were lost to decay or destruction, three pre-Hispanic Maya codices were known to have survived, when, in the 1960s, a fourth book that differed from the others appeared in Mexico under mysterious circumstances. After fifty years of debate over its authenticity, recent investigations using cutting-edge scientific and art historical analyses determined that Codice Maya de Mexico (formerly known as Grolier Codex) is in fact the oldest surviving book of the Americas, predating all others by at least two hundred years. This volume provides a multifaceted introduction to the creation, discovery, interpretation, and scientific authentication of Codice Maya de Mexico. In addition, a full-color facsimile and a page-by-page guide to the iconography make the codex accessible to a wide audience. Additional topics include the uses and importance of sacred books in Mesoamerica, the role of astronomy in ancient Maya societies, and the codex's continued relevance to contemporary Maya communities. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from October 18, 2022, to January 15, 2023.Trade Review"Codice Maya de Mexico promises 'understanding' in its title and delivers to the highest degree, with all the lucidity and scholarship to be expected from the Getty Research Institute. After decades of see-sawing disputes-some favoring the authenticity of this document, others not- Andrew Turner and his colleagues have landed at where we should have been at the start, when the book first came to our attention in the 1960s. Arising in a time of cultural interplay, Codice Maya de Mexico shows itself to be the earliest, largely complete tome from Indigenous America. Looking to the heavens, and to Venus in particular, this screenfold (or leporello) indicates how predictable planetary movements were linked in Maya minds to cyclic conflicts between gods. And it does so by muting language and highlighting lists of days unencumbered by more elaborate text. Codice Maya thus served as a supple hybrid. Crosscutting societies, it 'lived' between different languages and rituals yet still retained its Maya identity. Codice Maya, a special treasure of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos, has now fulfilled its own manifest destiny by traveling to Los Angeles, a city founded by the precursor of the Mexican republic and a global example today of the benefits of cultural contact. This study and the welcome visit of the codex to the J. Paul Getty Museum provide unrivaled pleasures to all who care about the power of books and what happens when societies collide, mesh, and-as a direct result-strengthen."-Stephen Houston, editor of A Maya Universe In Stone ;; "What a great story: a rare Mesoamerican document, once thought to be a fake and featuring nuanced innovations in the arrangement of its complex astronomical content from a long-regarded archetype, is confirmed half a century later to be the archetype's historical predecessor. You can't make this stuff up. In this tidy, accessible package, Andrew Turner brings together the story of the physical analysis, historical background, and decipherment of Codice Maya de Mexico-the oldest book in the world of the Maya."-Anthony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies Emeritus at Colgate University; “These interconnected essays explore astronomical knowledge, bookmaking practices, artistic and scribal conventions, and belief systems at a significant juncture in Mesoamerican history through analysis of the recently authenticated Códice Maya de México. What I found especially compelling were the complementary methodologies and perspectives employed to contextualize this early codex, framing it not only within the cultural context of its eleventh- or twelfth-century creators but also in terms of its significance to contemporary descendant populations working to reclaim their intellectual heritage.” -- Gabrielle Vail, Research Collaborator, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Book SynopsisOn Indian Ground: Northwest is the second of ten regionally focused texts that explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in depth. The text is designed to be used by educators of Native youth and emphasizes best practices found throughout the region. Previous texts on American Indian education make wide-ranging general assumptions that all American Indians are alike. This series promotes specific interventions and relies on Native ways of knowing to highlight place-based educational practices.On Indian Ground: The Northwest looks at the history of Indian education across the Pacific Northwest region. Authors also analyze education policy and Tribal education departments to highlight early childhood education, gifted and talented educational practice, parental involvement, language revitalization, counseling, and research. These chapters expose cross-cutting themes of sustainability, historical bias, economic development, health and wellness and cultural competence.

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Book SynopsisIndigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, and Praxis brings various scholars, educators, and community voices together in ways that reimagines and recenters learning processes that embody Indigenous education rooted in critical Indigenous theories and pedagogies. The contributing scholar-educators speak to the resilience and strength embedded in Indigenous knowledges and highlight the intersection between research, theories, and praxis in Indigenous education. Each of the contributors share ways they engaged in transformative praxis by activating a critical Indigenous consciousness with diverse Indigenous youth, educators, families, and community members. The authors provide pathways to reconceptualize and sustain goals to activate agency, social change, and advocacy with and for Indigenous peoples as they enact sovereignty, selfeducation, and Native nation-building.The chapters are organized across four sections, entitled Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy, Revitalizing and Sustaining Indigenous Languages, Engaging Families and Communities in Indigenous Education, and Indigenizing Teaching and Teacher Education. Across the chapters, you will observe dialogues between the scholar-educators as they enacted various theories, shared stories, indigenized various curriculum and teaching practices, and reflected on the process of engaging in critical dialogues that generates a (re)new(ed) spirit of hope and commitment to intellectual and spiritual sovereignty. The book makes significant contributions to the fields of critical Indigenous studies, critical and culturally sustaining pedagogy, and decolonization.

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Book SynopsisLiterature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land" but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming "savages" without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyzes works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these dominant notions. Margery Fee examines John Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the War of 1812 that document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations. She provides a close reading of Louis Riel's addresses to the court at the end of his trial in 1885, showing that his vision for sharing the land derives from the Indigenous value of respect. Fee argues that both Grey Owl and E. Pauline Johnson's visions are obscured by challenges to their authenticity. Finally, she shows how storyteller Harry Robinson uses a contemporary Okanagan framework to explain how white refusal to share the land meant that Coyote himself had to make a deal with the King of England. Fee concludes that despite support in social media for Theresa Spence's hunger strike, Idle No More, and the Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the story about "savage Indians" and "civilized Canadians" and the latter group's superior claim to "develop" the lands and resources of Canada still circulates widely. If the land is to be respected and shared as it should be, literary studies needs a new critical narrative, one that engages with the ideas of Indigenous writers and intellectuals.Trade ReviewFee contributes to the decolonization of literary studies in Canada and readers will benefit from Fee's contextualization of Indigenous notions of land rights and language. ... scholars interested in issues related to decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty will find this work especially useful. -- Lianne Leddy -- H-Envirnoment, 2016Literary Land Claims is an extremely important contribution to conversations about literature in Canada. ... At a time when universities across Canada are endeavouring to heed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's "Calls to Action," Fee points readers toward a goal of consensus building, one that is predicated on muddying the binary and hierarchical logics through which we have tended to understand identity and, indeed, colonialism itself. She opens up an engaging and necessary conversation, offering a model for rich, ethical scholarly engagement with a literary landscape that is extends far beyond this book, and beyond the confines of "Canlit." -- Sarah Krotz -- English Studies in Canada... Literary Land Claims is timely reading. ... a rich and thoughtful book which will appeal to anyone writing or teaching in fields relating to settler-colonial, Canadian, and Indigenous studies. Historians in particular will find Fee's chapters a valuable complement to the original texts she discusses. -- Megan Harvey -- BC Studies, 2017Fee's argument is a compelling reframing of Indigenous literatures and Canadian cultural nationalism. Her case that literature and storytelling are powerful decolonial tools arrives at a crucial time for Indigenous literature and theory as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to decolonize the academy and public school systems, both of which are bound up within Canada's literary canon. Thus, I wholeheartedly endorse Fee's text as an important addition to our decolonial theoretical toolkit. -- Joshua Whitehead -- ariel, 2018Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Literary Land Claims: The âIndian Land Questionâ from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat by Margery Fee Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Imagining "The Indian Land Question" from Here 2 "Why have they taken our hunting grounds?": John Richardson's Lament for a Nation 3 "That 'ere Ingian's one of us!": Richardson Rewrites the Burkean Savage 4 "We have to walk on the ground": Constitutive Rhetoric in Riel's Addresses to the Court 5 "We Indians own these lands": Performance, Authenticity, Disidentification, and E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake 6 "They taught me much": Imposture, Animism, Ecosystem and Archibald Belaney / Grey Owl 7 "They never even sent us a letter": Literacy and Land in Harry Robinson's Origin Story Conclusion: Attawapiskat v. #Ottawapiskat Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA CBC BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 • Longlisted for the First Nations Communities READ AwardAward-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling.Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book is the outcome of that gathering. In The Power of Story, Johnson explains the role of storytelling in every aspect of human life, from personal identity to history and the social contracts that structure our societies, and illustrates how we can direct its potential to re-create and reform not only our own lives, but the life we share. Companionable, clear-eyed, and, above all, optimistic, Johnson’s message is both a dire warning and a direct invitation to each of us to imagine and create, together, the world we want to live in.Trade ReviewPraise for The Power of Story"A fascinating, thought-provoking, and ultimately inspiring read from cover to cover."—Midwest Book Review"Johnson’s idea is a powerful one: that a person is not only the 'author' but also the 'editor' of his or her life, that reframing a narrative is enough to change it."—Literary Review of Canada"By examining Indigenous stories, ways of living, dying, and—yes—laughing, Johnson ... offer[s] powerful alternatives to hierarchical structures of society that insist on consuming the Earth’s natural resources at an unsustainable pace."—Steven Beattie, That Shakespearean Rag"[The Power of Story] is quite the legacy to leave behind ... Clear and telling, this final work by Johnson is educational, cohesive and a very intriguing read."—The Link"The Power of Story is a profoundly hopeful book, rooted in the malleability of stories we have taken for granted (the justice system and the government, to name but two), and the power of humans building out from their lifestories to effect those changes."—Quill & Quire"Recently in conversation with a friend I remarked that the whole world is a story. Harold Johnson fills that phrase with profound meaning in The Power of Story as he takes ancient figures and modernizes their storied wit and role in creating the worlds we perceive and the boundaries we need. Harold blessed us one last time with a profound conversation on the role of story in every aspect of our lives."—Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians“The Power of Story begins where all great stories begin: around a fire. Harold Johnson gives us a seat at the fire to listen and take into ourselves some spellbinding, bracing, and provocative stories told with a view to healing and transforming. As Harold writes ‘It’s starting to get darker now, and a bright fire will help.’ The Power of Story is that bright fire. And it will help. His final book is a balm for our times.”—Shelagh RogersPraise for Harold R. Johnson“An extraordinary memoir by a Cree writer who understands the damage alcohol does when used to kill the pain caused by white Canadians stealing and torturing Indigenous children throughout this nation’s history. I know many white alcoholics but it’s always ‘the drunk Indian.’ Why? Firewater is a great book; it burns in the hand.”—Toronto Star“A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.”—Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie“A luminous, genre-bending memoir. Heartache and hardship are no match for the disarming whimsy, the layered storytelling shot through with love. The power of land, the pull of family, the turbulence of poverty are threads woven together with explorations of reality, tackling truth with a trickster slant.”—Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster“Written in the style of a kitchen-table conversation, Johnson’s personal anecdotes and perceptive analysis are a call to return to a traditional culture of sobriety … [a] well-argued case.”—Publishers Weekly

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Book Synopsis"John Macfie’s vivid and stirring photographs show a way of life on full display—the world my ancestors inhabited and that my mom fondly described to me. It is a world that, shortly after these pictures were taken, ended. So distant and yet achingly familiar, these pictures feel like a visit home."—Jesse Wente, Anishinaabe broadcaster, arts leader, and author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous ResistanceWhile working as a trapline manager in Northern Ontario during the 1950s and 1960s, John Macfie, a Canadian of Scottish heritage, formed deep and lasting relationships with the people of the Indigenous communities in the region. As he travelled the vast expanse of the Hudson Bay watershed, from Sandy Lake to Fort Severn to Moose Lake and as far south as Mattagami, he photographed the daily lives of Anishinaabe, Cree, and Anisininew communities, bearing witness to their adaptability and resilience during a time of t

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Book Synopsis"Warrior Women" makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people. Attending to these narrative reverberations foregrounded the continuing colonial barriers faced by six Aboriginal post secondary students as they composed their lives in a current era of increasing standardization in Canadian universities and schools. Yet, what also became visible were ways in which the Aboriginal teachers increasingly reclaimed or drew upon their ancestral ways of knowing and being.Table of ContentsTestimonials. Acknowledgements. Dedication. Foreword to Warrior Women. Not Tomorrow … Today. Introducing Ourselves: Storied Experiences Shaping the Stories We Live By. Co-Composing Relational Narrative Inquiry. Reclaiming and Maintaining Our Aboriginal Ancestry. Reclaiming Our Ancestral Knowledge and Ways: Aboriginal Teachers Honouring Children, Youth, Families, Elders, and Communities as Relational Decision Makers. Becoming “Real” Aboriginal Teachers: Counterstories as Shaping New Curriculum Making Possibilities. Being Included in and Balancing the Complexities of Becoming an Aboriginal Teacher. Sharing Our Forward Looking Stories. Learning to See the Little Girl in the Moon: An Afterword to Warrior Women. About the contributors. Warrior Women: Remaking Postsecondary Places through Relational Narrative Inquiry. Advances in Research on Teaching. Advances in Research on Teaching. Copyright page. Group Photo from Winnipeg Fall 2008. References.

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Book SynopsisThe rock art of the Americas was produced at very different times and by different cultures, both by hunter-gatherers, fishermen and by farmers from village or state societies. Each group can be characterised by diverse styles and techniques. The function of rock art depended on religious, political or social concerns that referred to a particular context and time. Peintures et gravures rupestres des Amériques: Empreintes culturelles et territoriales presents the proceedings from Session XXV-3 of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France). Papers address the following questions: How does the study of rock art make it possible to culturally characterize its authors? What does it tell us about the function of sites? How and under what circumstances does it make it possible to delimit a cultural territory? The six articles in this volume provide case studies from Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, French Guiana and Chile.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Brigitte Faugère et Philippe Costa ; Une technique pour un peuple : Le cas d’une tradition rupestre majeure du Salvador – Philippe Costa ; Peintures et gravures rupestres du nord du Michoacán, Mexique : Caractérisation culturelle et iconographie – Brigitte Faugère ; Grottes de pétroglyphes qui “avalent” le soleil – Joseph B. Mountjoy ; Pétroglyphes, religion et organisation politique au sud du Costa Rica – Felipe Sol ; Les sites d’art rupestre de Guyane française dans les contextes local, régional et anthropologique – Gérald Migeon ; Les représentations d’objets de métal dans l’art rupestre du río San Juan del Oro (Bolivie méridionale) – Françoise Fauconnier ; Auteurs

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Book SynopsisThe need for decolonizing cultural institutions and their mismanagement practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, of First Nations peoples’ materials and knowledge has been widely recognised. However, this has not translated into an information systems design, nor a complementary solution representing an alternative world view. Instead, the entrenched legacy of the neoliberal sector’s curatorial and archival practices remains intact, and their authority stays unquestioned. This edited book’s unique viewpoint is its exploration of projects that investigate innovative data curation strategies through the thematics of visual representation of infrastructure, and bodies of knowledge. Authors from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds underpin their chapters with a social justice approach to investigations around different knowledge systems. They powerfully challenge entrenched assumptions of knowledge capture and dissemination of the western academy. An emphasis on visualisations of cultural heritage materials across a variety of case studies using technologies that range from augmented and virtual realities to mixed reality aims to raise questions for debate in the way Indigenous data is collected, managed, curated, governed, and represented and by whom.Table of ContentsPOEM; Yali Leanne Windl PREFACE; Kirsten Thorpe INTRODUCTION: Co-design & Social Justice Opportunities in Information System Design; Julie Nichols and Bharat Mehra PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURE [SECTIONAL SYNOPSIS]; Julie Nichols and Bharat Mehra Chapter 1. The Ethics and Cultural Sensitivities of Data Management: Some Considerations; Anna Leditschke, Julie Nichols, Karl Farrow, and Quenten Agius Chapter 2. Enhanced Material Management: Application of Natural Language Processing and Rule Based Modelling for Simplifying Storage Requirements in a Museum; Georg Grossmann, Alice Beale, Harkaran Singh, Ben Smith, and Julie Nichols Chapter 3. Reflections from the Field: Country in a Plastic Bag; Stephen Nova Chapter 4. Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums [GLAM]-focused Games and Gamification; Erik Champion and Susannah Emery PART 2: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE [SECTIONAL SYNOPSIS]; Julie Nichols and Bharat Mehra Chapter 5. Entwined Vernaculars: Heritages of Tolerances, Reconciliation and Resistance; Julie Nichols and Quenten Agius Chapter 6. Working to Improve the Fire Exhibit of the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery (AACG); Jared Thomas Chapter 7. An Exploration of Digital Representation of Australian Aboriginal Art in Museums for Immersive Engagement; Rui Zhang and Fanke Peng Chapter 8. Clapsticks: Investigating Curatorial Opportunities; Eloise Labaz, Julie Nichols, Rebecca Agius, and Quenten Agius Chapter 9. Alternate Worldviews: Implications for Design, Architecture, and Cultural Records; Subook Samridhi and Yali Leanne Windl Chapter 10. More Than an Exhibition: Finding Voice, Tiati (truth) and New Perspectives; Julia Garnaut, Lynette Crocker, Jeffrey Newchurch, and Merle Simpson PART 3: BODIES OF EXPERIENCE [SECTIONAL SYNOPSIS]; Julie Nichols and Bharat Mehra Chapter 11. Yarning Journeys: Ngadjuri Perspectives on Cultural Heritage; Julie Nichols, Jeffrey Newchurch, Robert Rigney, Bonita Sansbury, and Tinesha Miller Chapter 12. The Significance of Country: Ngadjuri Voices and Cultural Heritage; Julie Nichols, Lynette Newchurch, Rebecca Agius, Ann Newchurch, and David Weetra Chapter 13. Agency and Authority in Intangible Cultural Heritage; Brye Marshall and Julie Nichols Chapter 14. Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in South Australia: Where to Next?; Deanne Hanchant-Nichols PART 4. REPRESENTATION [SECTIONAL SYNOPSIS]; Julie Nichols and Bharat Mehra Chapter 15. ‘Inter-sites of Knowledge’: Jules Janssen’s Nineteenth-century Astronomical Apparatus and a Contemporary Moving Image System; Deirdre Feeney Chapter 16. AR Storytelling for the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museum [GLAM] Sector: A case Study with the South Australian Museum Fire Exhibit and Megafauna Displays; Ben Stubbs Chapter 17. Can the Transdisciplinary Co-creation of Extended Reality Experience (XR) Artworks Help Decolonise the GLAM Sector?; Mairi Gunn, Irene Hancy, and Tanya Remana Chapter 18. Beyond the Inanimate Line: Expanding Narratives of Drawings in Contemporary Creative Practice and Architectural Education; Katica Pedisic CONCLUSION; Julie Nichols and Bharat Mehra

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Book SynopsisIn 1992, Kevin Annett an ordained minister with the United Church of Canada in Port Alberni on British Columbia's Vancouver Island a logging town half populated with native Indians, discovered a history of abuse and atrocities ranging from torture sodomy and rape to murder suggesting genocide among the native children in the church's residential school which had taken place for more than a century. It later was revealed that such was the case in more than 140 schools run by the major churches with the complicity of the Canadian government. Refusing to remain silent he was defrocked by his Presbytery. For 15 years he has conducted a one man campaign for justice and the revision of colonial laws for a race of subjugated people.

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Book SynopsisThis unique book is the first ever written in isiZulu by a Zulu author. Magema Fuze wrote it in the early 1900s, and published it privately in 1922 under the title Abantu Abamnyama, Lapa Bavela Ngakona.In this fascinating work, the author gives his views on racial origins and differences, and describes the settlement of the black people throughout Natal. He records the traditional customs of the Zulu people, and gives an overview of Zulu history during the turbulent period of the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the black people who lived through it. Integrated with this is Bishop Colenso's account of Natal history, which Fuze reproduces and comments on. Of added interest is Hlonipha Mokoena's foreword that offers insightful commentary on the contextual realities and challenges of the time.

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Book SynopsisAn ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sámi people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway's wanderlust; an affair with a Sámi reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for the tiny town of Kautokeino, Norway. When her new boyfriend left her unexpectedly after six months, it would have been easy, and perhaps prudent, to return home. But she stayed for six years.Dálvi is the story of Laura's time in a reindeer-herding village in the Arctic, forging a solitary existence as she struggled to learn the language and make her way in a remote community for which there were no guidebooks or manuals for how to fit in. Her time in the North opened her to a new world. And it brought something else as well: reconciliation and peace with the traumatic events that had previously defined her - the sudden death of her mother when she was three, a difficult childhood and her lifelong search for connection and a sense of home. Both a heart-rending memoir and a love letter to the singular landscape of the region, Dálvi explores with great warmth and humility what it means to truly belong.Trade ReviewMeeting Laura Galloway in the pages of her memoir has been like dropping into the incredible life of someone who inspires you to the moon and back. How far would you go to save your own life? For Laura the answer is to the ends of the earth. This astonishing, tender, jaw-dropping story is a page turner. Take this unforgettable journey with Laura and return with gems for your own life. -- Sheri Salata, author of THE BEAUTIFUL NO: AND OTHER TALES OF TRIAL, TRANSCENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATIONLaura Galloway's account of her escape to a new life in the Arctic tundra is an enchanting tale of courage, hope and breath-taking grit. I loved it. -- Christina Patterson, author of THE ART OF NOT FALLING APARTAn affecting memoir and a paean to the singular climate and landscape of the Arctic, Dálvi (winter in northern Sámi) is a profound exploration of connections lost and found. * Traveller *[A] compulsive account -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *[A] fascinating memoir. * The New European *Remarkable...intriguing...readers can't help but be impressed by her drive * Los Angeles Review of Books *[T]his remarkable memoir is as stirring as it is gripping... a joyous, life-affirming read. * LoveReading *Table of Contents1: Unravelled 2: Ailu 3: Guovdageaidnu 4: Detritus 5: Among the Reindeer 6: Away 7: Bargu (work) 8: Westward 9: Alone 10: Broken 11: Angels Appear 12: Beivvas (sun) 13: Boo 14: The Others 15: Grace 16: I Am Not A Sami 17: London 18: Cahppe 19: Ellos (life) 20: America 21: Nilla 22: Wild 23: Return

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Book SynopsisThis book examines a collaborative partnership model between academia and Indigenous peoples, the goal of which is to integrate Indigenous perspectives into the curriculum. It demonstrates how the authentic and creative approaches employed have led to an evolution of curriculum and pedagogy that facilitates cultural competence among Australian graduate and undergraduate students. The book pursues an interdisciplinary approach based on highly practical examples, exemplars and methods that are currently being used to teach in this area. It focuses on facilitating student acquisition of knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills, following Charles Sturt University’s Cultural Competence Pedagogical Framework. Further, it provides insights into the use of reflective practice in this context, and practical ideas on embedding content and sharing practices, highlighting examples of potential “ways forward,” both nationally and globally. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Working with Respect.- Chapter 1: The benefits of On Country Experiences at the tertiary level .- Chapter 2: Politics, and the Self .- Chapter 3: Curriculum to scaffold the students' cultural competence journey: whole of program assessment in allied health.- Chapter 4: Doing what is right: Behavioural change in service delivery at the higher end of cultural competence. A psycho-socio-cultural model for undergraduate and postgraduate health care professionals.- Chapter 5: Course and Subject Design Facilitating Indigenous Cultural Competence.- Chapter 6: Pushback and Progress- A Culturally Competent Law Degree.- Chapter 7: Reconciliation in Teacher Education.- Chapter 8: Grounding the teaching of anatomy and physiology in Indigenous pedagogy.- Chapter 9: The biases we bring: “Debiasing” higher education curriculum through the dynamics of implicit and unconscious bias.- Chapter 9: The biases we bring: “Debiasing” higher education curriculum through the dynamics of implicit and unconscious bias .- Chapter 11: Exploration of identity, relationships, learning, wisdom with cultural competence.- Chapter 12: Identity and success for Aboriginal students in higher education.- Chapter 13: The place of individual spirituality in the pedagogy of discomfort and resistance.- Chapter 14: The importance of cultural competence in sport-related higher education courses at CSU.- Chapter 15: Exploring the notion of cultural competence in regards to health and Physical Education and AITSL standards.- Chapter 16: Nursing and Cultural Competence.- Chapter 17: Searching for the middle ground of Indigenous and Western science.- Chapter 18: Facilitating critical reflexivity in undergraduate psychology.- Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Indigenous places as Learning Spaces: Fostering initial teacher education students’ cultural competence using Yindyamaldhuray Yalbilinya framework.

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Book SynopsisA Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison offers a remarkable perspective on eighteenth-century America. A white settler by birth, Mary Jemison was taken captive as a child in 1758 and adopted by two Seneca sisters. Refusing offers to return to settler society, she chose to spend the remainder of her life as a Seneca wife, mother, and respected community member. In 1823, the now-elderly Jemison shared her life story with white American writer James Seaver, who published it as a captivity narrative the following year. Conscious of the impacts of Seaver’s editorial hand, this edition foregrounds Jemison’s voice while also recentering Indigenous perspectives through an informative introduction and an illuminating selection of contextual materials.Trade Review“Like Mary Jemison’s Narrative itself, this much-needed edition resists a settler-focused analysis of Indigenous resistance and entangled colonial nation-states and epistemologies. Footnotes and editorial language peel back the layers of male settlers’ voices and editorial choices that attempt to package Jemison’s words and life and instead emphasize her identity as an adopted Seneca woman with deep ties to her chosen community. With contextual materials that connect the Narrative to histories of the Seneca’s displacement and continued ‘survivance,’ in the words of Gerald Vizenor, women’s captivity narratives, and sentimental fiction, this edition will allow educators to introduce this important text into discourses of both the long eighteenth century as a historical period and its impact on contemporary Anglo-American culture.” — Kate Ozment, Cal Poly Pomona“This is a thoughtful edition of a captivity narrative which expands the scope of the form beyond the earlier Puritan accounts which are still predominately studied. A fascinating and widely read account of transculturation, this text offers rewarding teaching opportunities in women’s history, Indigenous, and settler-colonial studies. The editors provide important contextual materials to help navigate this complex and often ambiguous book. A valuable text to add to the literature of the contact zone.” — Robbie Richardson, Princeton University“A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison extends challenges in the classroom, as students must grapple with the mediated and intertextual nature of its seeming autobiographical framework—namely, James Seaver’s position as editor of Jemison’s life narrative. Willow White and Tiffany Potter offer an important and necessary entry-point within Haudenosaunee, and specifically Seneca, practices of kinship formation and adoption that seek to situate Jemison’s perspective—what they call her ‘doubled voice’—within ongoing nineteenth-century Indigenous survivance. In this, their edition importantly draws deeply from recent scholarly emphases in Native American and Indigenous Studies on extricating community- and nation-centered Indigenous critiques of settler expansion, dispossession and removal, and forced assimilation. In particular, the ‘In Context’ section of the edition beautifully foregrounds late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Seneca perceptions on colonial history as counters to Seaver’s racialized rhetoric of Indigenous vanishing. I look forward to using this edition in my own teaching.” — Shelby Johnson, Oklahoma State University“Thirty years after June Namias’s recovery of this important text, the Broadview edition reinforces the continued relevancy of the Jemison narrative to early U.S. literature, Native American literature, and women’s literature. Its timely republication builds on Jemison’s significance to contemporary considerations of intersectional identities, citizenship, and as-told-to narratives, and it builds from the earlier edition by providing new contextual documents such as crucial Seneca treaties, Seneca voices, comparative captivity narratives, and a discussion of interracial and Indigenous kinship. Most importantly, it demonstrates how recovery work can remain relevant and make a deep, lasting impact on the study of American literature.” — Amy Gore, North Dakota State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Mary Jemison A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present timeIn Context Mary Jemison, Identity, and Indigenous Kinship Henry K. Bush-Brown, images of the statue Mary Jemison (1910) Artist unknown, Mary Jemison, the Captive (1892) Seaver’s Understanding of Gender and Governance in Seneca Culturefrom James E. Seaver, appendices to A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) Of Their Government Of Family Government An Account of the End of Jemison’s Lifefrom James E. Seaver, William Seaver, and Ebenezer Mix, Deh-He-Wa-Mis: or A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison (1842, revised and expanded edition) Seneca Voices: Sagoyewatha / Red Jacket and Gyantwahia / Cornplanter On good-faith negotiation: Red Jacket at Philadelphia, 31 March 1792 On religion and colonial missionaries: the meeting with Jacob Cram, November 1805 On bad-faith negotiation: 1790 Philadelphia speech to George Washington The Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Big Tree The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) The Treaty of Big Tree (1797) Excerpts from Earlier Narratives of Female Captives from Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together With the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed, Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) from Elizabeth Meader Hanson, God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty, Exemplified in the Captivity and Redemption of Elizabeth Hanson (1728) A Fiction of Indigeneityfrom James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) Map: Genesee River Area Map: New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio

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Book Synopsis"Misconceptions continue to shape public perceptions of American Indians. Deeply ingrained cultural fictions, what Jentz (history, North Hennepin Community College) refers to as myths, have had a lasting hold on popular understanding of Native Americans. In this readable and engaging overview, Jentz provides an important corrective, one that not only catalogs key stories and stereotypes but also lays a foundation for challenging them. As the title indicates, Jentz seeks to demystify seven fundamental ideas about American Indians through critical histories. Following a helpful introductory discussion, he devotes a chapter to each myth. Specifically, he unpacks (1) the noble savage, (2) the ignoble savage, (3) wilderness and wildness, (4) the vanishing native, (5) the authentic Indian, (6) the ecological Indian, and (7) the mystical native. Throughout, Jentz employs clear language and tangible examples to clarify each myth and its significance. [T]his work will greatly benefit nonspecialists, including high school teachers and students. The volume will be useful as either a textbook in introductory courses in Native American studies or as secondary reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended." —C. R. King, Washington State University, in ChoiceTrade Review"Seven Myths of Native American History will provide undergraduates and general readers with a very useful introduction to Native America past and present. Jentz identifies the origins and remarkable staying power of these myths at the same time he exposes and dismantles them." —Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College"Jentz's Seven Myths of Native American History is a wonderfully nuanced examination of the most common misconceptions that North Americans have held, and often continue to hold, about the original inhabitants of this continent. Jentz's book does an especially good job of weaving in the cultural productions—fiction, poetry, movies, and television shows—that created and sustained these myths. This approach allows students and members of the general public alike to become more critical consumers of cultural productions about Native Americans." —Andrae Marak, Governors State University"I never imagined that my Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, first published in 2003, would prove to be so enduring a format for helping students of all kinds to rethink key moments in human history. It is therefore a great honor to see that the book has now inspired Hackett Publishing Company's "Myths of History" series, expertly and effectively edited by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt." —Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University"[W]hat gives this book its strength is Jentz's demonstration of how each myth continues to shape the dominant culture's understanding of American Indians. Equally important, Jentz shows how some of the myths emerged from the earliest periods of colonization, while others emerged as a result of trends and developments outside of Indian-Euro-American relations. With each myth, Jentz argues for a particular 'origin' of the myth and then traces its evolution into contemporary times. As a result, each chapter leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for how certain attitudes and/or beliefs continue to shape our perceptions of Native American society." —Michael J. Mullin, Augustana University, in Ethnohistory"Jentz’s work and its analysis of a variety of different fields, including history, art, culture, and media, make this book useful for scholars in many different academic fields. Although Jentz provides a detailed history of the development of each myth, he does so in an easy-to-understand manner, taking care to not lose the reader in a sea of technical jargon. This makes the book not only accessible as a resource for scholars doing work related to Native Americans but also assignable to students, providing them with an effective entry point into challenging the preconceived notions of Native Americans that are, unfortunately, still prevalent in American society." —Deondre Smiles, The Ohio State University, in American Indian Quarterly"Jentz is not the first to attempt to correct erroneous generalizations regarding American Indians; however, he is more effective than most in exposing the historical genesis of these constructed depictions. . . .The book is successful in being accessible to the undergraduate and general audiences Hackett Publishing intended for its Seven Myths book series . . . a useful companion text for undergraduate survey courses in American history. . . . Jentz closes on a positive note by providing examples of more complex portrayals of and by American Indians to which readers can turn" —David Dry, in Native American and Indigenous Studies

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Book SynopsisAnyone who has been welcomed on to a marae in New Zealand, will understand that whaikorero - oratory - is at the heart of Maori culture. Whaikorero: The World of Maori Oratory is the first introduction to this fundamental Maori art to be widely published. It is based on broad research as well as oral histories from 30 of the leading exponents of whaikorero, many of whom have subsequently died. Author Poia Rewi's informants are affiliated to many iwi including Tuhoe, Ngati Kahungunu, Te Arawa, Ngati Porou, Ngati Awa, Waikato-Maniapoto, Te Whakatohea, Nga Puhi, and Ngati Whare. In Whaikorero, Poia Rewi assesses the origin and history of whaikorero; its structure, language and style of delivery; who may speak; and where speech happens. Featuring a range of samples, this handy guide provides high quality exemplars for learners and intermediate speakers of te reo Maori wishing to improve their whaikorero skills. It will be a major book for everyone interested in Maori and Polynesian cultures.

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Book SynopsisNgapuhi is the largest iwi in New Zealand and has occupied the northern North Island, from Tamaki in the south to Te Rerenga Wairua in the north, from the time of their arrival from Hawaiki. Ko Tautoro, Te pito o Toku Ao is Ngapuhi elder Hone Sadler's powerful account of the origins, history and culture of the Ngapuhi people - a profound introduction to the Sacred House of Puhi. Sadler illustrates the unbroken chain of Ngapuhi sovereignty by looking in-depth at his own hap? of Ngati Moerewa, Ngati Rangi and Ngai Tawake ki te Waok? of Tautoro and Mataraua. The narrative is told through weaving together karakia and whakapapa, histories and korero that have been part of the oral traditions of Ngapuhi's wh?nau, hap? and iwi and handed down through the generations on marae and other gathering places. Presented first to open the Ngapuhi's claim before the Waitangi Tribunal, Sadler's narrative is a powerful M?ori oral account, presented here in M?ori and English on facing pages, of the story of New Zealand's largest iwi.

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Book SynopsisKaore kau he kaumatua hei rite mo Te Rauparaha te mohio ki te whawhai, me te toa hoki, me te tino tangata ki te atawhai tangata. There has never been a man equal to Te Rauparaha in terms of knowledge of warfare and prowess in battle, and in being so dedicated to looking after people. -Tamihana Te Rauparaha Te Rauparaha is most well known today as the composer of the haka 'Ka Mate', made famous the world over by the All Blacks. A major figure in nineteenth-century history, Te Rauparaha was responsible for rearranging the tribal landscape of a large part of the country after leading his tribe Ngati Toa to migrate to Kapiti Island. He is venerated by his own descendants but reviled with equal passion by the descendants of those tribes who were on the receiving end of his military campaigns in the musket-war era. He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui is a 50,000-word account in te reo Maori of Te Rauparaha's life, written by his son Tamihana Te Rauparaha between 1866 and 1868. A pioneering work of Maori (and, indeed, indigenous) biography, Tamihana's narrative weaves together the oral accounts of his father and other kaumatua to produce an extraordinary account of Te Rauparaha and his rapidly changing world. Edited and translated by Ross Calman, a descendant of Te Rauparaha, He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui makes available for the first time this major work of Maori literature in a parallel Maori/English edition.Table of Contents-Nga whakaahua me nga mahere whenua/ List of illustrations and maps -He whakapuakitanga/Foreword -Nga mihi/Acknowledgements -He kupu na te etita/Editor's note -He kupu whakataki/Introduction -He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui/ -A record of the life of the great Te Rauparaha -He apitihanga/End matter -He rarangi wa/Timeline -He pitopito korero mo nga puna korero/Notes on sources -Nga tohutoro/References -He kuputohu/Index

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Book SynopsisThe Barnes Foundation's historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artists

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates, what John Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Note on Languages, Territories, and Names of California Indian Tribes Introduction PART I. CALIFORNIA AT CONTACT 1 Wildlife, Plants, and People 2 Gathering, Hunting, and Fishing 3 The Collision of Worlds PART II. INDIGENOUS LAND MANAGEMENT AND ITS ECOLOGICAL BASIS 4 Methods of Caring for the Land 5 Landscapes of Stewardship 6 Basketry: Cultivating Forbs, Sedges, Grasses, and Tules 7 From Arrows to Weirs: Cultivating Shrubs and Trees 8 California’s Cornucopia: A Calculated Abundance 9 Plant Foods Aboveground: Seeds, Grains, Leaves, and Fruits 10 Plant Foods Belowground: Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes, Taproots, and Tubers PART III. REKINDLING THE OLD WAYS 11 Contemporary California Indian Harvesting and Management Practices 12 Restoring Landscapes with Native Knowledge Coda: Indigenous Wisdom in the Modern World Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures. . . . [And] a welcome contribution to Native studies and the rich literature of California’s first peoples." * Kirkus Reviews *"In what seems an overdue departure from standard histories, Akins and Bauer’s comprehensive account places indigenous people at the heart of California’s story." * Boston Globe *"We Are the Land is an astonishing work of scholarship, storytelling, and solidarity. . . . It will set the standard for the many other stories of the People waiting to be told." * Sierra Magazine *"Combines lyrical storytelling with academic narration to foreground Indigenous oral stories. . . . The book’s well-researched micro-histories coalesce to create a necessary rewriting of Californian history." * Civil Eats *"Akins and Bauer have written a classic. . . . A relocation of the region’s indigenous peoples from a history based on their erasure to a history based on their preeminence." * CounterPunch *"This richly sourced work. . . . is a refreshing read, offering a much-needed perspective of California history." * CHOICE *"This is a history of personal stories. Many make for painful reading. All are to the point." * Geography Realm *“The stories Atkins and Bauer gather in this survey are about the Natives themselves, offering a compassionate reading of a people who have, even in some of the best revisionist studies, remained the 'other' on the periphery. The details and voices of California Indians' lives that the authors amplify from oral histories, primary documents, and secondary sources draw out the drama and recast the history of the 31st state from the perspectives of its First Peoples.” * The Nation *"Damon Akins and William Bauer unveil a fascinating narrative about California Indians that breaks free from conventional boundaries of time and space. . . . Anyone interested in the history of Indigenous peoples will wish to read and enjoy it." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"This well-written, accessible book reconceives California as Indigeneous land…the text itself is a powerful illustration of the ongoing challenges of colonialism and the Indigeneous survival of its many formations." * Pacific Historical Review *"It will be very good to keep this book close at hand and to insist that our students do the same. It is timely, it is a significant accomplishment, and it is welcome." * California History *"We Are the Land foregrounds Indigeneity in California — a state in which genocidal narratives operate to complete the work of actual genocide in effectively scrubbing any Native American presence from the story of California. The book offers a resounding refusal of this erasure, instead offering a comprehensive history of Native California that encompasses past and present to underscore the continual presence and centrality of Indigenous peoples throughout settler colonization, missionization, statehood, and the present." * Book Riot *"Thankfully, this is not your parents’ book on the history of California." * American Anthropologist *"This book is a welcome contribution to the growing field of California Indian Studies." * Society for US Intellectual History *"We Are the Land is an excellent book. . . . a history of California’s Indigenous people in action, shaping places that, in turn, shape them. They made this history." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Openings 1. A People of the Land, a Land for the People Native Spaces: Yuma 2. Beach Encounters: Indigenous People and the Age of Exploration, 1540–1769 Native Spaces: San Diego 3. "Our Country before the Fernandino Arrived Was a Forest": Native Towns and Spanish Missions in Colonial California, 1769–1810 Native Spaces: Rome 4. Working the Land: Entrepreneurial Indians and the Markets of Power, 1811–1849 Native Spaces: Sacramento 5. "The White Man Would Spoil Everything": Indigenous People and the California Gold Rush, 1846–1873 Native Spaces: Ukiah 6. Working for Land: Rancherias, Reservations, and Labor, 1870–1904 Native Spaces: Ishi Wilderness 7. Friends and Enemies: Reframing Progress, and Fighting for Sovereignty, 1905–1928 Native Spaces: Riverside 8. Becoming the Indians of California: Reorganization and Justice, 1928–1954 Native Spaces: Los Angeles 9. Reoccupying California: Resistance and Reclaiming the Land, 1953–1985 Native Spaces: Berkeley and the East Bay 10. Returning to the Land: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Revitalization since 1985 Conclusion: Returns Index

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Book SynopsisExamines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. This book argues that we are in the contact zone, struggling to understand the meaning of contact between indigenous and settler populations. It is suitable for scholars and students in Canadian history and First Nations studies.Trade ReviewThe essays provide a fascinating surf of “first contacts” from New Zealand, England, southern Africa, and the Pacific Northwest, from the eighteenth century to today […]. A plentiful range of new approaches to the genre of the contact narrative distinguishes this impressively interdisciplinary collection, with contributions from historians, anthropologists, linguists, and literary critics. -- Sophie McCall * Canadian Literature, No.197 *Myth & Memory injects an interesting and crucial “new” narrative into the historical record. -- Kelly Chaves * The Northern Mariner, Vol.XIX, No.1 *This convincing and solid collection encourages assessment and reassessment of contact narratives. … Ten scholars from various fields, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature, engage in this informative work. …Edited by University of Victoria historian John Sutton Lutz, the chapters in Myth and Memory integrate a number of global indigenous perspectives. Lutz’s extensive insight regarding native and newcomer relations provides a solid basis for editorial expertise of this compendium. -- Corinne George, Simon Fraser University * H-Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again / John Lutz1. Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin2. First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast / John Lutz3. Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact / Keith Carlson4. Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives / Patrick Moore5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of “The Chinook” / I.S. MacLaren6. Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke / Michael Harkin7. Stories at the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography / Wendy Wickwire8. When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney9. The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America / Nora and Richard DauenhauerNotesBibliographyContributors

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Book SynopsisIn Settler Aesthetics, Mishuana Goeman examines Terrence Malick’s film The New World (2005) and the Pocahontas narrative, analyzing the settler structures and regimes of power that sustain colonialism and empire.Trade Review“Settler Aesthetics is an energetic book that engages critical Indigenous and settler-colonial concepts through a case study of The New World as set in historical, gendered, and political (tribal, federal, state) contexts. Mishuana Goeman assembles a persuasive critique of the film and a justified defense of Indigenous peoples, homelands, and cultures in Virginia.”—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of Cinematic Comanches: “The Lone Ranger” in the Media BorderlandsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Spectacle of Originary Moments 1. The Consumption of Mythic Romance and Innocence 2. Settler Aesthetics and the Making of Cinematic Geographies 3. Filmic Apologies and Indigenous Labor 4. The “New World” of Race, U.S. Law, and the Politics of Recognition Conclusion: Undoing the Spectacle Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernado de Soto expedition. To explain the cultural and political disruptios caused by Hernado de Soto's exploration deep into north America, Amanda L. Regnier presents an analysis of ceramics and a novel theory of cultural exchange, which argues that culture consists of a series of interconnected models governing proper behaviour that are shared across the belief systems of communities and individuals. An approach not often applied to archaeological research, ceramic study serves as a test of whether historic cognitive models can be extracted from ceramic data via cluster and correspondence analysis. In addition, the summary of Late Mississippian sites includes a chronology of the Alabama River from approximately AD 900 to 1600, which previously has only existed in manuscript form, and a summary of excavations at major Late Mississippian sites along the Alab

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Book SynopsisAmulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms rounds out Edward J. Lenik's comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans. This volume provides a basis for interpreting the symbolism of more than eighty portable stone artifacts found in the region.

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Book SynopsisMark Rifkin explores how Indigenous experiences with time and the dominance of settler colonial conceptions of temporality have affected Native peoplehood and sovereignty, thereby rethinking the very terms by which history is created and organized around time by.Trade Review"Rifkin offers the compelling argument that challenging normative settler time engenders new possibilities for Native articulations of futurity." -- Stephanie Lumsden * Studies in American Indian Literatures *"Rifkin’s book presents a novel and ambitious perspective in analysing the process of land dispossession and forced assimilation of Native Americans during the consolidation of the U.S. national state in the nineteenth century and its afterlife." -- Carolina Aguilera * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A theoretically robust and intellectually satisfying work that challenges readers to think differently not only about the past, but also about time. . . . A welcome addition to the robust body of interdisciplinary writing that has become renowned for its thick descriptions of space and place. . . . Rifkin’s approach is innovative, his analysis is theoretically sophisticated, the scaffolding upon which his analysis hangs is inspiring, and the vocabulary he advances is both useful and empowering." -- Kieth Thor Carlson * American Historical Review *"A quite brilliant work of theory. . . ." -- James Mackay * American Literary History *"Rifkin’s work moves us toward a more expansive understanding of the ways in which collective memory, ceremonial practices, prophesy, oral traditions, and place- based knowledges inform Indigenous corpo-realities and shape quotidian experiences of synchronously felt pasts, presents, and futures. This text is a critical addition to Native American studies and should be read by all striving for a decolonial future." -- Sarah Whitt * American Indian Quarterly *"It is impossible in a brief review to do justice to the full richness of Beyond Settler Time. Rifkin is meticulous in positioning his own work in relation to other scholarship, and while at times this forces the reader to work through the extant discourse surrounding a particular novel or text to get at the new interpretive kernel, that work is always rewarding. . . . Beyond Settler Time is a valuable contribution to the field of indigenous studies." -- David J. Carlson * Journal of American Studies *"Beyond Settler Time provides a necessary and important intervention in theorizations of time in Native American literature and history. Rifkin presents a set of analytic tools that scholars can employ when engaging Indigenous texts with temporal formations, shedding light upon crucial differences in Native American conceptions of time, place, and becoming." -- Penelope Kelsey * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv 1. Indigenous Orientations 1 2. The Silence of Ely S. Parker 49 3. The Duration of the Land 95 4. Ghost Dancing at Century's End 129 Coda. Deferring Juridical Time 179 Notes 193 Bibliography 241 Index 269

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Book SynopsisDescribes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. In a comparative study that spans more than three centuries, McEnroe challenges common assumptions about the relationships among victors, vanquished, and their shared progeny.Trade ReviewMcEnroe's is an arresting voice. Attentive to the perspectives and ingenuities of all kinds of people, to the energy of their meaningful stories and places, and with a hemispheric vision and cross-imperial implications (that are rarely faced), A Troubled Marriage offers a meditation upon the dynamic intercultures at the heart of the emerging Americas." - Kenneth Mills, author of Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750"Combining archival sources from three continents with a huge body of scholarship, Sean McEnroe explores boundary crossing throughout the vast early Americas. While mindful of power, he introduces us to dozens of fascinating people who transgressed categories, hierarchies, and identities across the hemisphere. Sweeping in scope yet grounded in the details of individual lives, A Troubled Marriage deserves a wide readership." - Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

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Book SynopsisInvites readers to explore the work of ten contemporary Native American photographers - Jamison Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Beverly Singer, Matika Wilber, William Wilson, and Tiffiney Yazzie - showcasing the extraordinary achievements of these groundbreaking photographers.Trade ReviewAs We See It provides a unique and fascinating perspective into the international significance of contemporary Native American photography. The strength of this book resides in its well-written and extended dialogues with both well-established and lesser-known Indigenous artists. Fricke successfully advances Indigenous perspectives on their own works, as well as on Edward Curtis's historical photographs." - Laura E. Smith, author of Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity

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