Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Chapter 1 Introduction: Publicity, Counterpublicity, Antipublicity ; Chapter 2 Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Metis Fiddling ; Chapter 3 "#1 on NCI": Country Music and the Aboriginal Public ; Chapter 4 "Your Own Heart Will Make its Own Music": Gospel Singing, Individuation, and the Comforting Community ; Preface to Chapter 5 ; Chapter 5 "We Don't Want to Say No to Anybody Who Wants to Sing": Gospel Music in Coffee-House Performance ; Chapter 6 Antipublicity: Family Tradition and the Aboriginal Public ; Chapter 7 Circulation Controversies ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBroken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation''s founding. Frank Pommersheim, one of America''s leading scholars in Indian tribal law, offers a novel and deeply researched synthesis of this legal history from colonial times to the present, confronting the failures of constitutional analysis in contemporary Indian law jurisprudence. He demonstrates that the federal government has repeatedly failed to respect the Constitution''s recognition of tribal sovereignty. Instead, it has favored excessive, unaccountable authority in its dealings with tribes. Pommersheim argues that the Supreme Court has strayed from its Constitutional roots as well, consistently issuing decisions over two centuries that have bolstered federal power over the tribes. Closing with a proposal for a Constitutional amendment that would reaffirm tribal sovereigTable of ContentsPart One: The Early Encounter ; 1. Introduction: A New Challenge to Old Assumptions ; 2. Early Contact: From Colonial Encounters to the Article of Confederation ; 3. Second Opportunity: The Structure and Architecture of the Constitution ; 4. The Marshall Trilogy: Foundational but Not Fully Constitutional? ; 5. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: The Birth of Plenary Power, Incorporation, and an Extraconstitutional Regime ; Part Two: Individual Indians and the Constitution ; 6. Elk v. Wilkins: Exclusion, Inclusion, and the Ambiguities of Citizenship ; 7. Indians and the First Amendment: The Illusion of Religious Freedom? ; Part Three: The Modern Encounter ; 8. Indian Law Jurisprudence in the Modern Era: A Common Law Approach Without Constitutional Principle ; 9. International Law Perspective: A New Model of Indigenous Nation Sovereignty? ; 10. Conclusion: Imagination, Translation, and Constitutional Convergence

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisAll culture, particularly that of non-literate traditions, is constantly being recreated, and in the process also undergoes changes. In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses in particular on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share similar material and ecological conditions, and similar languages. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of change, based on his close empirical observation of the processes of cultural transmission. This model emphasises the role of individual creativity in cultural reproduction and change, and maintains that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if theTrade Review"Barth provides significant theoretical insight into the nature of traditional and cultural variation. His focus on the mechanisms of communication and their effects on cultural symbols and the distribution of knowledge opens up a promising direction for future research." William H. McKellin, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsForeword Jack Goody; Map; 1. The problem; 2. An attempt at systematic comparison: descent and ideas of conception; 3. The possible interrelations of sub-traditions: reading sequence from distribution; 4. The context for events of change; 5. The results of process - variations in connotation; 6. Secret thoughts and understandings; 7. The stepwise articulation of a vision; 8. Experience and concept formation; 9. The insights pursued by Ok thinkers; 10. General and comparative perspectives; 11. Some reflections on theory and method; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, indigenous people in Latin America started to speak out, mobilize, and organize in unprecedented ways. This book asks: why are indigenous people mobilizing now and why only in specific places? This book answers these questions with insight into their advancement and reform of democracy.Trade Review'… a rigorous theoretical framework to a study of democratic issues related to ethnic movements … the book … will inspire students in international relations, political science, indigenous studies and sociology of development.' Political Studies Review'Deborah Yashar has processed and put together in a coherent framework an enormous amount of data provided by documents, interviews and secondary literature. … the book has made an outstanding contribution in clarifying not only the conditions of possibility and development, but also the deep meaning of indigenous struggles …' Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsPart I. Theoretical Framing: 1. Questions, approaches, and cases; 2. Citizenship regimes, the state, and ethnic cleavages; 3. The argument: indigenous mobilization in Latin America; Part II. The Cases: 4. Ecuador: Latin America's strongest indigenous movement; 5. The Ecuadorian Andes and ECUARUNARI; 6. The Ecuadorian Amazon and CONFENAIE; 7. Forming the National Confederation, CONAIE; 8. Bolivia: strong regional movements; 9. The Bolivian Andes: the Kataristas and their legacy; 10. The Bolivian Amazon; 11. Peru: weak national movements and subnational variation; 12. Peru. Ecuador, and Bolivia: most similar cases; 13. No national indigenous movement: explaining the Peruvian anomaly; 14. Explaining subnational variation; 15. Conclusion: 16. Democracy and the postliberal challenge in Latin America.

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Book SynopsisThis volume surveys research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present. It concentrates on continental South America, but also discusses peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected.Trade Review'The Cambridge History is an intensely academic publication whose conception, structure and coverage make it a benchmark for future work. … rich store of information and insight … No one interested or involved in indigenous South America can afford to ignore such a prodigious feat of modern scholarship.' The Times HigherTable of ContentsIntroduction Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz; 1. Testimonies: the making and reading of native South American historical sources; 2. Ethnography in South America: the first two hundred years; 3. The earliest South American lifeways; 4. The maritime, highland, forest dynamic and the origins of complex culture; 5. The evolution of Andean diversity: regional formations, 500 BCE–600 CE; 6. Andean urbanism and statecraft, 550–1450 CE; 7. Chiefdoms: the prevalence and persistance of 'Señorios Naturales', 1400 to European conquest; 8. Archaeology of the Caribbean region; 9. Pre-history of the Southern Cone; 10. The fourfold domain: Inka power and its social foundations; 11. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: the Caribbean, 1492–1580; 12. The crises and transformations of invaded societies, 1500–1580: Andean area; 13. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: Coastal Brazil in the sixteenth century; 14. The crises and transformations of invaded societies in the La Plata Basin (1535–1650); 15. The colonial condition in the Quechua-Aymara heartland, 1570–1780; 16. Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the Southern margin (1573–1882); 17. The Western margins of Amazonia from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisThis volume surveys research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present. It concentrates on continental South America, but also discusses peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected.Trade Review'It is profoundly reassuring that this kind of scholarly publishing continues to flourish at the start of a new millennium, and it is even more profoundly to be hoped that these books acquire the wide readership that they deserve.' The Journal of The Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of Contents18. Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the Chaco and Paraguay (1573–1882) James Schofield Saeger; 19. Destruction, resistance and transformation: Southern, Coastal and Northern Brazil, 1580–1890 Robin M. Wright and Manuela Carneiro de Cunha; 20. Native peoples confront colonial regimes in Northeastern South America, c. 1500–1900 Neil L. Whitehead; 21. New peoples and new kinds of people: adaptation, readjustment, and ethnogenesis in South American indigenous societies (Colonial Era) Stuart B. Schwartz and Frank Salomon; 22. The 'Republic of Indians' in revolt (c. 1680–c. 1790) Luis Miguel Glave; 23. Andean highland peasants and the trials of nation-making during the nineteenth century Brooke Larson; 24. Indigenous peoples and the rise of independent nation-states in lowland South America Jonathan D. Hill; 25. Andean people in the twentieth century Xavier Albó; 26. Lowland peoples of the twentieth century David Maybury-Lewis.

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Book SynopsisDescribes a unique case of sign language that served as an international language among numerous Native American nations not sharing a common spoken language. The book contains the most current descriptions of all levels of the language from phonology to discourse, as well as comparisons with other sign languages.Trade Review'With its very comprehensive account of the study and structure of Plains Indian Sign Language, with the valuable links that it provides to sign languages used by deaf people and with its accompanying website, this volume is a wonderful and timely resource.' Ceil Lucas, Gallaudet University'This is not just another book! It is a riveting narrative of an endangered Native American sign language that has served an essential role in Native American culture and life. For sign language studies, Native American studies, linguistics, anthropology, and a host of other allied professionals, as well as for the American public, Jeff Davis has made a momentous professional and social contribution. This is a landmark work that deserves the widest professional and popular audience.' Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State UniversityTable of Contents1. The language landscape; 2. Earliest historical linguistic accounts; 3. A national treasure; 4. Early sign language studies; 5. The spectrum of discourse; 6. The convergence of anthropology and linguistics; 7. Comparative studies of historical relatedness; 8. Linguistic analysis of PISL; 9. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisShedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.Trade ReviewOutstanding work... The book is filled with gems... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 Mandell has made a very valuable contribution to our understanding of Native American history in a period long overlooked. -- Jenny Pulsipher American Historical Review 2008 A carefully crafted, well-researched book... This review does not do justice to this rich account of the complex interactions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in the survival of native peoples. -- Thomas D. Hall Journal of American History 2009 Mandell's superb book on a long-neglected subject should affect the way the larger narrative of this era of American history is written. -- Rachel Wheeler Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009 A wide-ranging, intricately argued, and thoroughly researched book. It is well written and historiographically significant, and Mandell's nineteen-page essay on the source materials a the end of the volume is a boon for scholars. Overall, Mandell has produced an outstanding addition to the field of American Indian history in New England. -- Christopher J. Bilodeau Journal of American Ethnic History 2009 Consummate and exemplary researcher, Daniel Mandell has once again filled some significant gaps in our collective knowledge on the history of New England Native Americans... Very useful to the growing number of historians of this genre for generations to come. It will be a catalyst for many vital discussions and hopefully provoke some very important new research and writing. -- George Price H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews 2009 This is a book that every scholar of Native Americans should own. The research is deep and thorough. The book makes excellent reading for a senior or honors class or a graduate class. The citations to sources are invaluable Connecticut History 2009 An impressive, timely and thoroughly researched piece of scholarship. Historical Journal of Massachusetts 2009 Mandell carefully reconstructs what the historical records tell us about how these communities adapted to the environments of their non-Native neighbors and states while maintaining regional ties withother Native communities... His detailed recording of these tribes and individuals shows that they did not disappear but were ignored when they no longer fit the new paradigm of 'Indian' shared by most Americans. Massachusetts Historical Review 2010 An ambitious book. -- D. Elliotte Draegor Journal of Social History 2011 Reveals the complex and hitherto poorly understood internal dynamics at play within these communities... an innovative work of cultural history. New England Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Land and LaborTribal ReservesSmall CommunitiesWork off the ReservationIndian Reserves as Refuges2. Community and FamilyIndian Networks in the Early RepublicMarriages with "Foreigners & Strangers"Anglo-American Views of Indian IntermarriageIndian Views of Race and IntermarriageIntermarriage and Assimilation3. Authority and AutonomyGuardians ReappointedMashpee and Gideon HawleyThe Standing Order, Class, and IndiansGuardians and Tribal ChallengesThe Mashpee Revolt4. Reform and RenascenceMaintaining InstitutionsIndians, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and ReformsIndians, State Governments, and Economic EnterpriseRenascence and Resistance5. Reality and ImageryIndians at MidcenturyEmployment and WorkwaysTribal Identity and PoliticsImages of IndiansLocal Histories6. Citizenship and TerminationRace and Civil RightsProposing TerminationRejecting TerminationCompelling TerminationEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Trade ReviewThis study of racial and cultural stereotyping of the Indian in American culture is recounted with both wit and irony and makes delightful reading."" - Robert E. Bieder, Indiana Magazine of History""Strong, irreverent, capricious, useful and fun."" - True West

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Trade ReviewA masterpiece of oral history…The [Apache] survivors tell a gripping story of danger and hardship - war in the Southwest, exile in Florida and Alabama, prisoner-of-war status in Oklahoma and , finally, the return home. Not only do we get a fresh view - the Indian view - of historical events, we come to understand and respect the Apache as a people."" - Publishers Weekly""Deeply touching are the sensitive discussions of Apache family life, rarely ever disclosed to outsiders. The book is well documented, appointed, edited and indexed, and the many photographers are well chosen."" - Arizona Highways""An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the history of the Apaches and to our knowledge of them. But for Eve Ball, these sincere and graphic accounts of the Apaches' side of the story would have been lost forever."" - Donald E. Worcester, Arizona and the West""This is a book that may be enjoyed and appreciated by the general reader while providing the serious scholar with insight into Apache thinking and emotions and a much broader comprehension of the years conflict than has previously been available…. Indeh is a worthwhile addition to anyone's southwestern library."" - Journal of Arizona History

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Trade ReviewErnest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine,' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky."" - Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the Popol Vuh is the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest.

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Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the study of cultural transformation and Indian struggle for survival."" - Southern Historian

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years, this volume explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy. In this gripping tale, Jerome Greene explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre.Trade ReviewJerome Greene's retelling of Wounded Knee is simply kili (awesome). Please read and understand."" - Her Many Horses, Michael, Wounded Knee community member""The story of Wounded Knee has been told many times, yet never from the vantage of such a wealth of new sources. Jerome A. Greene provides the definitive last word in this masterfully told account."" - R. Eli Paul, author of Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854 - 1856""Wounded Knee is an inordinately complex story. Jerome A. Greene's thoughtful, artful, passionately written story is destined to become its new foundational history."" - Paul L. Hedren, author of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

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Book SynopsisFeatures a collection of short stories told in collaboration with five Native families that speak to the everyday aspects of Indigenous educational resurgence rooted in the intergenerational learning that occurs between mothers and their children.Table of Contents Contents Series Foreword Django Paris xi Foreword Megan Bang xiii Acknowledgments xv Prologue xix Introduction 1 Co-Developed From the Beginning: Self-in-Relation 3 Resurgence in the Everyday 7 Refusing the "Me": Toward the Implications of "We" 8 An Unfulfilled Promise: Formal Schooling in Indigenous Communities 10 Combating "Deficit Distractions" 12 Listening to Connect as a Story Supporter: Methods 16 Questions to Consider 18 1. Michael and Mali 21 Michael Munson and Timothy San Pedro History of Homelands 22 Introducing Michael and Mali 23 Songs From the Spirits 24 Wiping Tears Away 25 At Home: In Community 26 Identity Detours 26 Head Start to Where? 28 Head Start to Love 31 Nk̓ʷusm Salish Language School 32 Stepping Up by Stepping In 34 Protecting the Seams 35 2. Alayna, Kyyalyn, and Waaruxti 39 Alayna Eagle Shield and Timothy San Pedro Introducing Alayna 41 #NoDAPL 41 Introducing Waaruxti 43 Introducing Kyyalyn 45 Coming Together as One Family 46 Living Language Together 48 Language Post-Its 49 White Buffalo Calf Woman 51 Waaruxti and School 52 Standing Up 54 Singing Prayer 55 Sharing Lakȟóta 56 Spirit Dish 57 Language and Tribal Knowledge Intertwined 57 3. Tara and Scyla 61 Tara Ramos, Scyla Dowd, and Timothy San Pedro Scyla Raised Her Hand 62 Introducing Scyla 63 Introducing Tara 65 Tara and Scyla's Relationship 67 Going "Home" 68 The Dangers of a Model Minority 73 Advocating for Equity 75 Decolonizing vs. Indigenizing 75 Advocating for Indigenous Peoples' Day 77 Refusing Indigenous Peoples' Day 79 4. Kristina and Demetrius 85 Kristina Lucero, Demetrius Lucero, and Timothy San Pedro Introducing Kristina 85 Introducing Demetrius 88 "Can I Help You?" 90 "They're So Native" 91 Enduring Lacrosse 92 Forcing Special Ed 96 Demetrius and Schooling 97 In the In-Between 99 "I Do It to Get Through School" 103 Thanksgiving Dinner Talk: Learning With Grandma 105 5. Faith and Daliyah 113 Faith Price, Daliyah Killsback, and Timothy San Pedro Phone Call Reflection 113 Introducing Daliyah 116 Introducing Faith 117 Pendleton Pillows 118 Required Freshman Humanities Course 119 Back to School 123 First Native Instructor 124 "There Are an Infinite Possibility of Ways to Be Indigenous" 126 School Talk: Rants/Lectures 127 A Place to Be Native 129 Changing the Humanities Course: Blah, Blah, Blah Pedagogy 132 Presentation of Gifts 135 Conclusion: Montana Gathering 137 Epilogue: Questions to Connect Forward 157 Purposes of the Epilogue 159 Lesson Ideas: Carrying Stories to New Places 161 Questions Forward 163 Chapter 1: Michael and Mali 165 Chapter 2: Alayna, Kyyalyn, and Waaruxti 169 Chapter 3: Tara and Scyla 173 Chapter 4: Kristina and Demetrius 178 Chapter 5: Faith and Daliyah 183 Appendix: A Note on Terms 191 Notes 195 References 197 Index 204 About the Author 214

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Book SynopsisThousands of schoolchildren have read the adventures of Dickon, the English boy who was rescued from a shipwreck by the Lenape Indians, told in The Indians of New Jersey by M.R. Harrington. Now they and others can follow Dickon's further adventures in The Iroquois Trail.Trade ReviewThis exciting adventure story incorporates [Harrington's] vast knowledge of Indian life, lore, and crafts. * New Jersey Education Association Review *Young readers are sure to enjoy the fascinating illustrations. * The Home News *Table of ContentsJamestown and Pocahontas Turtle-Town and White-Deer The Girl with Short Hair Many-Tongues and the Iroquois Trail I Play Doctor A Goblin Enemy A Messenger of Shame Gathering Clouds I Defy Tadoda'ho Masked Healers The Lost Is Found The Great Chief's Revenge Iroquois Language

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the culture of the pre-colonial West African state of Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and European imperialism. Tracing 200 years of history up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in the monarchy and the palace.

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Book SynopsisUsing a combination of archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory, this book traces the rise of one Indian group, the Chicacoans. By presenting a case study of the Chicacoans from AD 200 to the early 17th century, Potter offers readers a window onto the development of Algonquian culture.

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Book SynopsisLooking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.Trade ReviewHudson, calling herself a 'knowledgeable layman,' accompanied her anthropologist husband, Charles, on a six-week trip in 1984 to locate Hernando De Soto's route through the United States in 1540. This book is Hudson's daily journal of their travels: how they worked out De Soto's route using four contemporary yet conflicting chronicles and current archaeological research. Until more aboriginal sites are excavated, the exact De Soto trail remains hypothesis; theirs is a more credible route than John R. Swanton's Final Report of the U.S. De Soto Expedition Commission. The book was published as Hudson wrote it; updated segments of the route appear only in the epilog. This is a fine, nontechnical snapshot of an investigation-in-progress.|A warmly humane travel story about rural and small-town life from Florida to Texas. Descriptions of the region's ever changing terrain, vegetation, and climate fill the book, along with troubled musings about Americans' increasing disconnection from the land and lack of reverence for the past. Conveying the rewards and frustrations of lives spent in painstaking scholarly inquiry, Looking for De Soto also offers a firsthand glimpse into the daily work of anthropologists and archaeologists: the exchanges of ideas, the ventures through swamps and down deeply rutted farm roads, the endless poring over maps, charts, and notes. As if writing a detective story, Hudson suspensefully paces the narrative with the accrual of geographical, artifactual, and documentary evidence, punctuating it with false leads and other setbacks as mile after mile of the trail is redrawn.

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Book SynopsisA beleaguered indigenous population came to the attention of the world in 1997 by threatening mass suicide in a last-ditch attempt to protect their ancestral lands--overlying possible oil deposits. Osborn's pioneering study of the U'wa is now available in English for the first time.

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