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University of Nebraska Press Recognizing Heritage The Politics of
Book SynopsisExplores the social, political, and historical context of this and other public efforts to interpret and preserve Native American and Hispanic heritage in northern New Mexico.Trade Review"[Recognizing Heritage] opens the way for a frank discussion of multiculturalism in New Mexico and Latino American heritage as a part of our national story."-Joseph Sanchez, New Mexico Historical Review -- Joseph Sanchez New Mexico Historical Review "Anyone interested in the history, cultures, and contemporary challenges of the Southwest, in the spatialization of historic and anthropological studies, or in historic preservation and heritage tourism will want to read and absorb Guthrie's fresh, illuminating perspective."-Chris Wilson, J. B. Jackson Chair of Cultural Landscape Studies, University of New Mexico, and author of The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition -- Chris Wilson "Guthrie's fascinating and rigorously researched Recognizing Heritage confronts both the damning details and liberating potential of multiculturalism in New Mexico and the United States... This ethnography challenges anthropologists, policy makers, cultural producers, museum professionals, and the public to question the assumptions that drive our global culture industry."-Michael L. Trujillo, author of The Land of Disenchantment: Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico -- Michael L. TrujilloTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyIntroduction1. Constructing History at the Palace of the Governors2. Authenticity under the Palace Portal3. Heritage and Recognition in the Española Valley4. The Politics of Preservation in Las Trampas5. Anthropology, Heritage, and Multicultural JusticeEpilogue: Danza de los AntepasadosAppendix: Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area ActNotesReferencesIndex
£49.30
University of Nebraska Press Modern Blackfeet
Book SynopsisShows why policies and programs based on simplistic assumptions of assimilation are doomed to failure.Table of ContentsIntroduction Preface 1. Introduction to the Blackfeet 2. The Blackfeet Reservation and Its People 3. Horse and Buffalo Days: 1850-1880 4. Dependency and Readaptation: 1884-1970 5. Intratribal Diversity 6. Social Interaction 7. Values 8. Status 9. The Future References Recommended Reading
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University of Nebraska Press Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern
Book SynopsisProvides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life during the nineteenth century, from courtship rituals that took place while gathering Juneberries, to descriptions of how the women kept young boys from stealing wild plums as they prepared them for use, to recipes for preparing and cooking local plants - including the roots, fruits, seeds, and sap.Trade Review"[Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains is] indispensable to anyone interested in Native American life on the plains; valuable for ethnobiology and Native American studies."—E. N. Anderson, CHOICE"Use of Plants by the Hidatsa is an easy, enjoyable read and a unique, valuable source of information on how people used plants."—Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology“Every aspect of life is part of this classic ethnology, from acquisition of food to spirituality to the raising of the four sacred wooden pillars of a new Earth Lodge. . . . Editor Michael Scullin does a wonderful job of weaving the many living parts of Buffalobird-woman’s story. . . . The book’s precision—many specific uses for many plants—is a pleasure to read. One gets a sense of a people who rose to the challenge of using what nature provided them to wrest a living from a demanding environment.”—Bruce Johansen, Jacob J. Isaacson Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and author of The Native Peoples of North America: A HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEditor’s NoteAbbreviations: BBW=Buffalobird-woman; PW=Poor Wolf; GB=Goodbird; SW=Sioux Woman; GLW=Gilbert Wilson; WC=Wolf Chief; MS=Michael Scullin1. Plants That Are EatenDomesticated plants (MS)Sunflowers (BBW)Corn-smut (BBW)Prairie turnips (BBW)Jerusalem artichokes (BBW)Hogpeanut (BBW, WC, GB)Chokecherries (BBW)Making stone hammers (BBW)Buffaloberries (BBW)Gooseberries (BBW)Black currants (BBW)Wild grapes (BBW)2. Plants That Can Be EatenHawthorns (BBW)Wild white onions (BBW)Ball cactus (BBW, WC)3. Plants That Are SweetJuneberries (BBW)White juneberries (BBW)Wild plums (BBW)Strawberries (BBW)Roses (BBW)Red raspberries (BBW, SW, GB)Biscuitroot (BBW)Nannyberries (BBW)Purple prairie clover (BBW)4. Plants That Are Good to ChewSticky gum (BBW)Pine pitch (BBW)5. Plants That Smell GoodPurple meadow-rue (BBW)Blue giant hyssop (BBW)Sweetgrass (BBW)Wild bergamot (BBW)Pine needles (BBW)Perfumes used in beds (BBW)Beaver musk (BBW)6. Plants That Have Medicinal UsesBig medicine (BBW)White and red baneberry (BBW)Gumweed (WC)Purple coneflower (WC)“Medicine in the woods” (BBW)Poison ivy (BBW)Unknown grass (BBW, GB)Peppermint (BBW)7. Plants Used for FiberDogbane (WC)Upright sedge (BBW)Grasswork ornaments on leggings (Isokikuas)8. Plants Used for SmokingTobacco 9a (BBW)Tobacco 9b (WC)Red-osier dogwood (BBW)Bearberry (BBW)Bearberry or kinnikinnick (WC)9. Plants Used for Dye and ColoringYellow owl’s-clover (BBW)Water smartweed (BBW)Dye plants—unidentified (BBW)10. Plants Used for ToysUmakixeke, or game of throwing sticks (BBW, GB)Popguns (BBW)A toy horseReed whistle (GB)11. Plants Used for Utilitarian PurposesCordgrass (BBW)Buckbrush (BBW)Cattails (BBW)Box elder (BBW)Buffalograss (BBW)Big bluestem (WC)Common rush (BBW)Scouringrush horsetail (WC)Puffball (BBW)Snakewood (BBW, WC)Goldenrod (BBW)Prairie grasses as fodder (WC)12. Plants Used for Rituals or with Ritual SignificanceThe three kinds of sage (WC)Pasture sage 1 (BBW, GB)Pasture sage 2 (BBW, WC)Common sagewort (BBW, WC, GB)Black sage (BBW, WC)Fringed sage (PW)Juniper (Cedar) (BBW, WC, GB)Creeping juniper (BBW, GB)Prairie sandreed (WC)Bittersweet (WC)13. Sources of WoodWood as a resource (MS)Cottonwood (WC)Ash (BBW)Peachleaf willow (BBW)Sandbar willow (BBW, WC, GB)Heart-leaved willow (BBW)Quaking aspen (BBW)American elm (BBW)Water birch (BBW)Box elder (BBW)14. Uses of WoodGathering firewood (WC)Digging-sticks (BBW, WC)Mortar and pestle (BBW)Making a bullboat frame (BBW)Making a wooden bowl (WC)Rakes (and the bison scapula hoe) (BBW, WC)Paddle for working clay pots (cottonwood bark) (GLW)15. ArrowsSignificance and utility (MS)Making arrows (WC)Types of arrows (WC)Bows (WC)Arrows for boys (BBW, GB)Mock battle with grass arrows (WC)16. EarthlodgesBuilding an earthlodge (BBW)On earthlodges (The observations of Hairy Coat and Not A Woman)Winter lodges and twin lodges (BBW)The peaked or tipi-shaped hunting lodge (BBW)The use of sod as an earthlodge coveringDismantling an old earthlodge (BBW)Like-a-Fishhook Village and environs (WC)17. Miscellaneous MaterialBasket making (BBW)Native drinks of the Hidatsas (BBW)How our meals were served (GB)Nettles (BBW)Forest fire (GLW)ConclusionAppendix: Frederick N. Wilson’s Comments on “The Hidatsa Earthlodge”Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Households and Hegemony
Book SynopsisMakes a significant contribution to the understanding of the role North American households played in long-term cultural change after contact with European traders and settlers.Trade Review"[Households and Hegemony] is a well-written, thought provoking book. . . . Wesson forced me to rethink my understandings of habitus and hegemony, as well as the historic period transformation of Creek households."—Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Journal of Southern History"Those historians . . . who approach Wesson's evidence and his book itself with both an open mind and an appreciation for the potential of interdisciplinary conversation will find a great deal that is challenging, worthwhile, and, in the end, impressive."—Joshua Piker, HistorianTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Social Agents, Hegemony, and Households 2. The Creek Social Universe3. Creek-European Interactions4. Changing Creek HouseholdsConclusionsAppendix of TablesBibliographyIndex
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press Lethal Encounters Englishmen and Indians in
Book SynopsisBritain's first successful settlements in America occurred more than four hundred years ago. Not surprisingly, the historical accounts of these events have often contained inaccuracies. This compelling study of colonial Virginia, based on the latest research, sheds new light on the tensions between the English and the American Indians and clarifies the facts about several storied relationships.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Prelude: Explorations, Encounters, and Abandoned Colonies2. "Our Mortall Enemies": Early Encounters at Jamestown3. "To Subdue the Wilde Salvages": Captain John Smith and the Powhatans4. "A World of Miseries": The Virginia Colony, 1609-16145. "Upon Doubtful Terms": Virginia, 1616-16226. "A Plantation of Sorrows": Virginia, 1622-16357. Another War and a New Policy8. Bacon's Rebellion and Its AftermathConclusionsNotesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Gifts from the Thunder Beings
Book SynopsisExamines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures.Trade Review"Gifts from the Thunder Beings [is] an excellent place to start for anyone studying the relationship between native peoples and European firearms."—Daniel P. Barr, Journal of American History"Crisply written. . . . It should be read and appreciated by all students of ethnohistory."—David Silverman, Ethnohistory“Aboriginal weapons are an important subject in themselves and for their role within Native societies and Native-white relations. Roland Bohr’s knowledge of how Aboriginal weapons work and why they were constructed as they were allows the author to critique the ethnocentric and technologically ignorant assumptions of many earlier scholars. As a bowyer himself, Bohr brings knowledge of making and using bows and arrows lacking in earlier scholarship to his careful historical research.”—Dr. Laura Peers, curator of the Americas at the Pitt Rivers Museum and reader in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of OxfordTable of ContentsContentsList of Illustrations, Maps, and TablePreface1. Bows, Guns, and Diverging Views on Indigenous and European Technology2. Indigenous Subsistence Patterns of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and Northern Plains3. Bows of the Northern Plains and Subarctic4. Arrows and Arrow Makers5. Aboriginal Peoples and Firearms6. Injuries Caused by Arrows and Firearms7. Archery and Firearms in Aboriginal Beliefs8. Archery and Firearms in Hunting9. Archery and Firearms in Combat in the Central Subarctic10. Archery and Firearms in Combat in the Northern Plains11. Survival and Adaptation of Aboriginal Archery and European FirearmsAppendix: Extended Image CreditsGlossary of Archery TermsNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press City Indian
Book SynopsisA study of the significant role that Indigenous activists living in Chicago played in shaping local and national public perception of Native Americans in the early twentieth century. Trade Review"City Indian is a most important addition to the literature on Native activism, the history of Indigenous representation, and urban history."—Coll Thrush, Michigan Historical Review “LaPier and Beck reconstruct a history of Indigenous people both transcending and maneuvering within that two-worlds theme, and not cowering at modernity or drifting off into the sunset. . . . Scholars of not only the vital and maturing field of Indian urbanization, but also activism, education, labor, and modern Indigeneity, should consult this volume and add a copy to their shelves.”—Douglas K. Miller, Journal of American Studies "For anyone interested in Chicagoans—all Chicagoans—this book tells a tale that explains how the non-Indian city treated Native Americans. And, by extension, how it has treated anyone on the edges, whether African Americans, Hispanics, non-heterosexuals, women, the poor, and the unconventional."—Patrick T. Reardon, Third Coast Review“A substantial contribution to emerging scholarship on Native Americans and cities that provides fresh insight and helps us understand the motivations, strategies, tensions, controversies, and triumphs that have characterized the work and lives of local and national Indian leaders.”—Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles"Rosalyn LaPier and David R.M. Beck . . . add to a growing literature on urban Indians' experiences with their fine monograph City Indian."—Paul C. Rosier, Anthropos"A welcome addition to the robust field of studies of Indian in urban places."—Sherry L. Smith, South Dakota History“City Indian covers an important and timely topic. This history of Indians in urban settings is currently under considerable and probing reconsideration. With this book Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck have shown how Native peoples in Chicago have determined their destinies.”—Brian Hosmer, H. G. Barnard Chair of Western American History and coeditor of Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in the History of American Indian Nation Building Table of ContentsList of PhotographsPreface and Acknowledgments1. American Indians and Chicago in the Nineteenth Century2. The World Comes to Chicago (The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition)3. Indian Professionals in the City4. Indian Encampments and Entertainments5. The Indian Fellowship League6. Emerging Organizations7. Definitions of Indianness at the Century of Progress8. Self-DeterminationAppendix of Tables1. Chicago Population and American Indian Population in Chicago, 1830–20102. Chicago Indians in the 1920 Census3. Chicago Indians in the 1930 CensusNotesBibliographyIndex
£31.50
University of Nebraska Press A Lenape among the Quakers
Book SynopsisIn a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. This book reconstructs Hannah Freeman's history, traveling from the days of her grandmothers before European settlement to the beginning of the nineteenth century.Trade Review“Clear and compelling. . . . Through the life of Hannah Freeman, Marsh places the mythology of Penn’s peaceable kingdom in stark relief.”—Jean R. Soderlund, Western Historical Quarterly"A thoughtful documentation of one woman's struggle to maintain her ancestral homeland."—Booklist“In a genre that so often focuses on the lives of politically significant ‘great men’ (and occasionally women), we rarely learn of the lives of the marginalized, but this is exactly what historian Dawn G. Marsh has attempted. A Lenape among the Quakers is a scathing indictment of the hypocrisy of Quakers’ professions of peace while engaged in a land grab.”—Michelle LeMaster, Ethnohistory “Engagingly written—and impassioned as Marsh clearly chastises Hannah Freeman’s Quaker neighbors for their hypocrisy in promoting friendly relations with indigenous neighbors and landowners, while facilitating their dispossession.”—Gunlog Fur, Journal of the Early Republic “With great insight and sensitivity, Dawn Marsh has pieced together Hannah Freeman’s story. All who have ever wondered what happened to Pennsylvania’s Native people should read this book.”—Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America “Using the closely examined life of a single eighteenth-century Native American woman, Dawn Marsh convincingly challenges Pennsylvania’s claim to a more just and humane treatment of its indigenous peoples, persuasively contending that Native Americans adopted complex strategies to preserve their cultural heritage, and explores the significance of the continuing mythology of ‘Indian Hannah’ Freeman—all in a good read.”—Melton McLaurin, author of Celia, A Slave“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” Thomas Britten, The Historian Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Examination of Hannah Freeman Chapter 2. All Our Grandmothers Chapter 3. The Peaceable Kingdom Chapter 4. Lenapehoking Lost Chapter 5. Kindness Extended Chapter 6. The Betrayal Epilogue Appendix 1. The Examination of Indian Hannah alias Hannah Freeman Appendix 2. Kindness Extended Notes Bibliography
£20.89
University of Nebraska Press Rock Ghost Willow Deer
Book SynopsisRefers to life-revelations guiding the award-winning poet and writer through her many trials.Trade Review“Allison Hedge Coke’s intimate narrative details her journey through suffering to wholeness. Her story will inspire anyone who has faced adversity. . . . [Hedge Coke’s] insight is luminous.”—Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Of Seeds2. From Winds3. When Fire and Water Meet4. Ashes5. Back to the Lands6. Oceans, Rivers7. Crossings
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University of Nebraska Press The Awakening Coast An Anthology of Moravian
Book SynopsisOffers the comprehensive English-language selection of the writings of the multinational missionaries who established the Moravian faith among the indigenous and Afro-descendant populations through the turbulent years of the Great Awakening of 1881 to 1882, when converts flocked to the church and the mission's membership more than doubled.Trade Review"The Awakening Coast is essential reading for experts on Mosquitia and a welcomed addition to Latin American cultural-historical geography."—Andrew Hilburn, Journal of Latin American Geography“The Awakening Coast is of utmost importance because it shows us—firsthand through the lens of the missionaries—how indigenous peoples as late as the nineteenth century could or could not respond ideologically, economically, politically, and socially to the imposed new trends from the ‘outside,’ including their incorporation in 1894 to Nicaragua. How much deeper can one go into finding appropriate sources?”—Christine Hünefeldt, author of Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima’s Slaves, 1800–1854 Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsTranslator’s NoteIntroduction1. Extract of a Letter from H. G. Pfeiffer, 18492. Extract from the Diary of Bluefields, 18543. Establishing a Mission at Rama Key4. Report on a Journey North in 18595. The Hurricane of October 18656. A Visit to the Tungla Indians of Walpasiksa River, 18697. Trade among the Miskito Indians, 1870s8. Mythology of the Miskito Indians9. Sorcery at Kukalaya, 187710. Trading with the Sumu Indians, 187811. Life in Tasbapauni (Bethany), 1870s12. An Early Awakening at Karata, 187913. Bluefields Coup and Kukalaya Awakening, 1881–188214. The Awakening at Karata, 188315. Visit to Nicaraguan Territory, 188316. Kaisa! Travel to Nicaragua, 188617. Proposing Timber over Gold, 188918. Pictures Tell the Story, 189119. Christian Law, 189120. Visions of the Prophet Wima, 189121. The Sambo and Tawira Miskito, 189222. Political Disturbances at Sandy Bay, 189223. The Indians of Dakura and the Wangki River, 1893–189424. Nicaraguan Occupation of the Mosquito Reserve, 189425. Commencing Work along the Wangki River, 189626. A New Mission at Sandy Bay, 189727. Sandy Bay and Wasla, 189828. The Gospel in the Miskito Territory, 1881–188229. Changes in Dakura, 1890s30. The Sumu Indians of Prinzapolka River, 189931. QuamwatlaNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press How the West Was Drawn
Book Synopsis How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and indigenous peoples. Bernstein explores the cartographic creation of the Trans-Mississippi West through an interdisciplinary methodology in geography and history.He shows how the Pawnees and the Iowas—wedged between powerful Osages, Sioux, the horse- and captive-rich Comanche Empire, French fur traders, Spanish merchants, and American Indian agents and explorers—devised strategies of survivance and diplomacy to retain autonomy during this era.TTrade Review"The book's well-sourced revisionist examination of history through the eyes of both Euro- and Native Americans, and the influence of indigenous knowledge on cartography, is compelling, and thus it is a worthy addition to any historical examination of the Trans-Mississippi West."—Brian Croft, Nebraska History"Bernstein provides an interesting read on the importance of cartography and the cultural construction of the Trans-Mississippi West that is well worth reading for historians, cartographers, and cultural geographers, specialists and nonspecialists alike."—Ellen R. Hansen, Kansas History"David Bernstein's book adds fresh nuance to our understanding of the American West, particularly in regard to the creation of maps and boundaries."—Matthew K. Guske, Chronicles of Oklahoma"By examining the motives and process of mapmaking, Bernstein restores historical agency to the Pawnee and other tribes."—R. Dorman, Choice"Mapping does not stop. We find today the same kind of negotiated, contested, politically charged mapping process happening around the world as Bernstein finds in the nineteenth-century American West. Thus, another important contribution of Bernstein's work is its potential to shape how we think about and engage in mapping today."—John Krygier, South Dakota History"Bernstein's interesting and scholarly study discusses how the westward movement made maps necessary administrative mechanisms."—Lynn Bueling, Roundup Magazine"David Bernstein's How the West Was Drawn offers an important reassessment of the cartographic history of the American West, exploring how Plains Indians—specifically, Iowas, Pawnees, and Lakotas participated in the mapping and remapping of the region in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."—Alessandra Link, Environmental History"Throughout the volume, Bernstein not only makes a convincing argument, but he also corrects some of the problematic ideas scholars have advanced or embraced over the years. This is a well-researched book. The author draws from manuscript sources at the Kansas Historical Society, the Missouri History Museum, the National Archives, and the Newberry Library, among other repositories, not to mention newspapers, government documents, Native American records, and other published primary sources. . . . In addition, it would be a mistake not to mention and commend the book’s excellent selection of 46 map images. . . . Bernstein does an excellent job integrating these maps into his analysis and the University of Nebraska Press should be commended for their investment in this incredible level of illustration. This is a book that will work well in graduate seminars on Native American history, the history of the antebellum U.S., the history of cartography, and colonialism. Anyone interested in space and place in the North America would do well to read this book."—Evan Rothera, Reviews in History"Bernstein provides important tools for thinking about maps in complex ways. He carefully draws attention to the multifaceted processes and power involved in their construction, which, in turn, opens up many avenues for understanding how and why U.S. expansion developed as it did."—Rebekah M. K. Mergenthal, Annals of Iowa"Bernstein not only engages the historiography of Native America and cartography, but also joins a growing corpus that reassesses U.S. expansion from the point of view of those on the ground who would subvert and offer contingencies to the path of empire. Bernstein draws these insights from a well executed study centered around the Pawnees of the early nineteenth century who occupied the region that would become the states of Kansas and Nebraska."—Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Living in Indian Country 1. Constructing Indian Country 2. Sharitarish and the Possibility of Treaties 3. Nonparticipatory Mapping Part 2: The Rise and Fall of “Indian Country” 4. The Cultural Construction of “Indian Country” 5. Science and the Destruction of “Indian Country” Part 3: Reclaiming Indian Country 6. The Metaphysics of Indian Naming Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Glancy is not only an insightful historian but a gifted storyteller. The craft, creativity, and imagination with which she renders this amazing text powerfully draw the reader into the world of the Fort Marion prisoners. Few texts to date have portrayed their experiences with the upheavals of a changing world with such intimacy and humanism."—Steven Williams, American Studies"A memorable book. Intuitively and perceptively connecting the difficult journeys of late nineteenth-century Southern Plains Indians and her own difficult journeys more than one hundred years later, Glancy gives us valuable, evocative ways of imagining the Great Plains and its peoples in motion, undertaking often painful and traumatic journeys to understand who they are, where they have been, and where they might be going."—Eric Gary Anderson, Great Plains Quarterly“Diane Glancy inhabits a world of images that breathe life and voice for the voiceless men, women, and children. . . . No simple history lesson, this, as Glancy examines how language is both captor and savior, another means of imprisonment and also liberation.”—Gina Ochsner, author of The Necessary Grace to Fall“This book is mesmerizing and will stay with you for lifetimes.”—Jackie Old Coyote, Apsaalooke Nation, former director of education and outreach at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development “The survival of Indian people represents one of the most important subjects in American history. Glancy creates a multilayered narrative about the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho Indians, who became prisoners of the United States government during the late nineteenth century. She invites readers to contemplate the bleak realities and the difficult choices presented by historical circumstances.”—Brad Lookingbill, professor of history at Columbia College of MissouriTable of Contents Ledger Book Drawing: The Catch, Bear’s Heart Fort Marion Prisoners Photograph of Fort Marion Prisoners Ride to Prison The Train Ride Ledger Book Drawing: Buffalo Hunt, Bear’s Heart The Animal Show The Morning Had a Bugle in Its Mouth Night Digging a Hole in the Water Ledger Book Drawing: Boarding the Steam Boat, Bear’s Heart Backtrack Ledger Book Drawing: Chart of Goods for Sale, Buffalo Meat The Ax in my Hand Ledger Book Drawing: Military Formation at Fort Marion, Bear’s Heart Fort Marion Ledger Book Drawings (1) The Life Casts Photograph of Life Casts The Process of Writing (1) The Ocean Dogs Ledger Book Drawings (2) Ledger Book Drawing: Bishop Whipple in his Shark Suit, Bear’s Heart Schooling Ledger Book Drawing: The Schoolroom, Bear’s Heart A Snapshot of the History of Native Education The Testimonials (1) The Process of Writing (2) Pow Wow at the Seaside The Escape Ledger Book Drawing: Trees with Hair Standing Up, Bear’s Heart Trying to Walk while Holding Marbles on a Board I Was Herded into School with a Big Chief Tablet under My Arm There Were Clouds The Testimonials (2) The Letters (1) The Weight of Fire The Process of Writing (3) I Will Send My Choice Leopards Letters for Release Ride from Prison on a Painted Horse The Argument Captain Pratt to the Commissioners The Process of Writing (4) An Educational Experience Ledger Book Drawing: Crossing Eads Bridge, Bear’s Heart Undermath Photograph of Former Fort Marion Prisoners at Hampton Institute Acknowledgments Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Recognizing Heritage The Politics of
Book SynopsisExplores the social, political, and historical context of public efforts to interpret and preserve Native American and Hispanic heritage in northern New Mexico. Thomas H. Guthrie analyses the relationship between heritage preservation and ongoing struggles over land, water, and identity resulting from American colonization.Trade Review"[Recognizing Heritage] opens the way for a frank discussion of multiculturalism in New Mexico and Latino American heritage as a part of our national story."-Joseph Sanchez, New Mexico Historical Review -- Joseph Sanchez New Mexico Historical Review "Anyone interested in the history, cultures, and contemporary challenges of the Southwest, in the spatialization of historic and anthropological studies, or in historic preservation and heritage tourism will want to read and absorb Guthrie's fresh, illuminating perspective."-Chris Wilson, J. B. Jackson Chair of Cultural Landscape Studies, University of New Mexico, and author of The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition -- Chris Wilson "Guthrie's fascinating and rigorously researched Recognizing Heritage confronts both the damning details and liberating potential of multiculturalism in New Mexico and the United States... This ethnography challenges anthropologists, policy makers, cultural producers, museum professionals, and the public to question the assumptions that drive our global culture industry."-Michael L. Trujillo, author of The Land of Disenchantment: Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico -- Michael L. TrujilloTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyIntroduction1. Constructing History at the Palace of the Governors2. Authenticity under the Palace Portal3. Heritage and Recognition in the Española Valley4. The Politics of Preservation in Las Trampas5. Anthropology, Heritage, and Multicultural JusticeEpilogue: Danza de los AntepasadosAppendix: Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area ActNotesReferencesIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Portrait of an Island
Book SynopsisA work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.Trade Review "A very convincing portrait."—Michelle Moore Apotsos, CCA Reviews"A well-researched, well-documented, and well-argued piece of scholarship. . . . Hinchman makes an important contribution to the literature on the history of art and architecture, the history of the built environment, and slavery and the slave trade in West Africa, in general, and in Senegal, in particular."—Kalala Ngalamulume, H-France"Portrait of an Island is a valuable asset for scholars as well as for students of African colonial architecture, the material cultures of imperialism, and early modern histories of identity formation and cultural exchange."—Dwight Carey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“A major contribution to the understanding of early modern building traditions and lifestyles in West Africa, a literature that is missing in the larger architectural body of work.”—Nnamdi Elleh, author of African Architecture: Evolution and TransformationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Interdisciplinary Stroll in Early Modern West Africa1. The Natural Landscape: The Island and Cartography2. The Built Landscape: Architecture and Urbanism3. The Elite: Patrons, Critics, and Fans4. The Middle: Occupational Groups5. The Bottom Rung: Servants and Slaves6. Things: Houses and Their ContentsConclusion: Building MemoriesAppendix of TablesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press A Generation Removed
Book SynopsisA Generation Removed is an examination of the post–World War II international phenomenon of governments taking Indigenous children away from their primary families and placing them with adoptive parents in the United States, Canada, and Australia.Trade Review“Illuminating. . . . Jacobs’s history is essential and timely reading.”—Beth H. Piatote, Journal of American History "This is a moving, significant book. Justice, Jacobs explains, will come only when nonindigenous people acknowledge the damage done. A Generation Removed makes a major contribution toward bringing the story to light. It remains for the rest of us to read and teach it."—Sherry Smith, Western Historical Quarterly“[Jacobs] effectively elucidates the complicated policies surrounding the Indigenous child welfare crisis in a mesmerizing narrative that highlights how it’s not just an ‘American Indian story . . . but a profoundly American one.’”—Elise Boxer, South Dakota History "A Generation Removed is an important book that effectively researches and narrates a difficult and upsetting topic that has been all but ignored by mainstream American society for far too long."—Akim Reinhardt, Nebraska History"A Generation Removed is a powerful eye opener, covering a piece of history we push under the carpet at our own peril."—Alan Porter, Saskatchewan History"A solid account that calls for "a full historical reckoning" of this devastating chapter in the treatment of Native Americans."—Kirkus“Margaret Jacobs once again demonstrates her genius for writing history that combines penetrating analysis with heart-wrenching stories. Beautifully written, deeply researched, this important and amazing book examines a subject largely unknown to the public at large but all too familiar to Indigenous peoples who have suffered the pain and indignity of child removal.”—David Wallace Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928“Jacobs brings deep scholarship to a topic of searing national and transnational importance. In a respectful, clear voice, she guides the reader on a journey into the most intimate corridors of settler colonialism. This is a complex and often heart-wrenching history that provides salutary lessons for the future.”—Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University and coauthor of How to Write History That People Want to Read“Using compelling stories and weighty evidence, Jacobs has uncovered a modern and ongoing story of child-stealing in the United States. She lays out the shocking history of Native American adoption and the good liberal logic that enabled it in a page-turner of a book.”—Anne F. Hyde, Bancroft Prize–winning author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860“A Generation Removed will find a large and interested readership among researchers, university students (of all levels), as well as the broader community of people involved in adoption. This book is also clearly written and is sophisticated without being overly specialized or jargon-ridden. . . . An admirable book, compelling to read despite the tragic stories it recounts.”—Karen Dubinsky, author of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Abbreviations Simon Ortiz’s Question Introduction Prologue Part 1. Taking Care of American Indian Children Modern Indian Life Chapter 1. The Bureaucracy of Caring for Indian Children Dana’s Story Chapter 2. Caring about Indian Children in a Liberal Age Part 2. The Indian Child Welfare Crisis in Indian Country John’s Story Chapter 3. Losing Children Meeting Steven Unger Chapter 4. Reclaiming Care Interviewing Bert Hirsch and Evelyn Blanchard Chapter 5. The Campaign for the Indian Child Welfare Act Part 3. The Indian Child Welfare Crisis in a Global Context Tracking Down the Doucette Family Chapter 6. The Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis in Canada Meeting Aunty Di Chapter 7. The Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis in Australia and Transnational Activism Finding Russell Moore Chapter 8. Historical Reckoning with Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Before Boas
Book SynopsisThe history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the “natural history of man.” Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how “ethnography” originated as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as “ethnology” by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by reseaTrade Review"A short review cannot do justice to the sophistication of the author's comprehensive and remarkable research, which departs from histories that view the origins of anthropology in classical Greece or Renaissance exploration."—Riva Berleant-Schiller, Choice"Vermeulen's monograph on the "genesis" of ethnography and ethnology will sit as a large and imposing bookend on any history of anthropology shelf for many years to come."—Huon Wardle, American Anthropologist "This important book rewrites the early history of anthropology in new and surprising ways."—James Urry, Australian Journal of Anthropology"Before Boas represents a major contribution to the history of anthropology that must be taken into serious consideration by every scholar in our field."—Sergei Kan, Ethnohistory"Vermeulen's work is meticulous and fascinating, and the layers of ideas, biographies, and historical details make this a compelling book to read and contemplate."—Anne Good, Terrae Incognitae"Deserving to be called a sensation."—Horst Bredekamp, Süddeutsche Zeitung"This is a unique and detailed study of the eighteenth century origins of ethnology or ethnography that offers a new insight in reexamining the scope and subject matter of these disciplines in their earlier stages."—Madhuvanti Karyekar, Museum Anthropology Review"Before Boas will grow in importance with the elapsing of time. Certainly, it will become soon a landmark (if it has not become yet) and will definitively consecrate Han F. Vermeulen as a prominent specialist in this fascinating academic field."—Gheorghiţă Geană, Anuac"This rich book will be useful to researchers concerned with ethnography, anthropology, folklore, the history of science, and postcolonial and whiteness studies. By showing how the world’s peoples were placed on the scholarly agenda, Before Boas will put scholars in all of these fields on firmer footing."—Stephanie Leitch, ISIS"A profoundly useful book."—Rachel D. Koroloff, Ab ImperioTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSeries Editors’ Introduction1. History and Theory of Anthropology and Ethnology: Introduction2. Theory and Practice: G. W. Leibniz and the Advancement of Science in Russia3. Enlightenment and Pietism: D. G. Messerschmidt and the Early Exploration of Siberia4. Ethnography and Empire: G. F. Müller and the Description of Siberian Peoples5. Anthropology and the Orient: C. Niebuhr and the Danish-German Arabia Expedition6. From the Field to the Study: A. L. Schlözer and the German Invention of Völkerkunde7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment: Plural Approaches to Human Diversity8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic TraditionConclusionNotesReferences CitedIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Colonized through Art American Indian Schools
Book SynopsisExplores how the US federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness”, hoping to instil the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial hierarchy.Trade Review"Readers who are interested in the residential schools, art education, the Arts and Crafts Movement, or the implementation of federal Indian policy at the onset of the twentieth century will find Colonized through Art an original and engrossing addition to the existing literature in these areas. Lentis greatly expands our understanding of how the residential schools promoted assimilation through art and of the ways that Native students used their art for creative expressions of resistance."—Melissa D. Parkhurst, Western Historical Quarterly“Lentis breaks new ground in explaining the presence of arts and crafts . . . in government schools that otherwise ‘suppressed every aspect of Indian cultures, traditions, and languages.’. . . Well worth the read.”—Lisa K. Neuman, American Historical Review"Studies of federal Indian schooling have spawned a variety of approaches to the contested subject, but in Colonized through Art the independent scholar Marinella Lentis has moved the discussion in a new direction by evaluating the impact of art education in these schools."—Margaret Connell-Szasz, Journal of American History"In Colonized through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889–1915, Marinella Lentis provides an extensively researched study of art education in U.S. government operated boarding schools for American Indian students at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries."—John Reyhner, Pacific Northwest Quarterly“Marinella Lentis deftly lays out the terrain of Indian school art programs. . . . A significant contribution to the field, Colonized through Art clearly, succinctly, and broadly expands our knowledge of the ways government officials pushed assimilation through art—not to mention the resistance many Native students creatively expressed.”—Linda M. Waggoner, author of Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist"Colonized through Art provides a thorough historical account of how white, Euro-American superintendents, curriculum writers, and teachers implemented cultural assimilation, which was manifested in public displays through nineteenth- and early twentieth-century boarding schools."—Kevin Slivka, History of Education Quarterly "I highly recommend the volume and believe it to be essential reading for those studying the Native American boarding school system in the United States."—Mackenzie J. Cory, Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Art “Lifts Them to Her Own High Level”: Nineteenth-Century Art Education 2. “An Indispensable Adjunct to All Training of This Kind”: The Place of Art in Indian Schools 3. “Show Him the Needs of Civilization and How to Adapt His Work to the Needs of the Hour”: Native Arts and Crafts in Indian Schools 4. “The Administration Has No Sympathy with Perpetuation of Any Except the Most Substantial of Indian Handicraft”: Art Education at the Albuquerque Indian School 5. “Drawing and All the Natural Artistic Talents of the Pupils Are Encouraged and Cultivated”: Art Education at Sherman Institute 6. “Susie Chase-the-Enemy and Her Friends Do Good Work”: Exhibits from Indian Schools at Fairs and Expositions 7. “The Comparison with the Work of White Scholars Is Not Always to the Credit of the Latter”: Art Training on Display at Educational Conventions Conclusion Appendix A: List of Fairs, Expositions, and Educational Conventions That Featured Indian School Exhibits Appendix B: Day, Reservation, and Non-Reservation Schools Represented at Major National and International Fairs Appendix C: Layouts of Minneapolis and Boston Exhibits Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Cheyenne Indians Volume 2
Book SynopsisGeorge Bird Grinnell was a zoologist by training. He accompanied Custer's Black Hills expedition as a naturalist in 1874 and from that time until his death in 1938 was closely associated with the Cheyennes and other Plains tribes. In this title, he looks at its warmaking and warrior societies, healing practices and responses to European diseases.Trade Review"The value of such a work as Mr. Grinnell has produced can hardly be overstated."—New York Times"Grinnell was an entertaining and able writer . . . in this case he was also a scientific reporter of ways of life that he supposed would soon be forever lost."—Westerners Brand Book"A marvelous source book for customs, lore, history, personalities, and manner of speech of this tribe."—Roundup"Drawing upon the thoughts and actions of individual Cheyennes, Grinnell manages to reconstruct a highly readable account of their culture."—Journal of the American Academy of Religion
£20.89
University of Nebraska Press The Truth About Geronimo
Book SynopsisPresents an account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885-86, which offers a firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. The author knew most of the people involved in the campaign and was himself in charge of Indian scouts.Trade Review"Although Geronimo is the main character in this book, the reader also is given a valuable insight into the lives of the Apache nation as a whole. The descriptive writing style allows the reader to project himself into each event and feel as if 'he were there.'"—Military Review"A valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Apaches, [the book] throws light upon many incidents in the career of Geronimo which have hitherto been obscure."—American Historical Review"Much more interesting than any fiction ever written about Indians . . . a book that no one who is making a study of American Indians can afford to miss."—Saturday Review
£16.14
University of Nebraska Press The American Indian as Slaveholder and
Book Synopsis
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University of Nebraska Press The American Indian and the End of the
Book SynopsisExplores the diplomatic manuevers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with five Indian nations.
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press Indian Education in the American Colonies
Book Synopsis Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, to Christianize and civilize the native heathen. Both the attempts to transform Indians via schooling and the Indians'' reaction to such efforts are closely studied for the first time in Indian Education in the American Colonies, 16071783. Margaret Connell Szasz's remarkable synthesis of archival and published materials is a detailed and engaging story told from both Indian and European perspectives. Szasz argues that the most intriguing dimension of colonial Indian education came with the individuals who tried to work across cultures. We learn of the remarkable accomplishments of two Algonquian students at Harvard, of the Creek woman Mary Musgrove who enabled James Oglethorpe and the Georgians to establish peaceful relations with the Creek Nation, and of Algonquian minister Samson Occom, whose intermediary skills led to the founding of Dartmouth College. ThTrade Review“Szasz rightly understands both the strengths and the weaknesses of the formal, institutionalized, culture-bound colonial education that was offered to Indians. . . . The book is extraordinarily well researched and well written and is highly recommended.”—American Historical Review“Szasz, after several years of exhaustive archival research, has written a richly detailed overview of colonists' educational assault on Native Americans. . . . This study is a highly significant contribution to our understanding of Indian education in colonial America.”—American Indian QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Bison Books EditionIllustrations and MapsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Education for the Colonists3. Virginia: Indian Schooling in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries4. Puritans and Indians: New England in the Seventeenth Century5. The Southeast: Carolina Traders versus SPG Schooling6. The Southeast: Methodists and Moravians Meet the Yamacraw7. Schooling for the Southern New England Algonquian, from the 1690s to the 1730s8. The Great Awakening and Indian Schooling9. Indian Women between Two Worlds: Moor's School and Coeducation in the 1760s10. Indian Schoolmasters among the Iroquois, from the 1760s to the 1770s11. ConclusionAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians
Book SynopsisIntroduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. This work includes tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, and a presentation of Star Myths, which reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition by Darrell KippIntroduction to the Bison Books Edition by Alice Beck KehoeIntroduction by Clark WisslerI. Tales of the Old Man1. The Making of the Earth2. Languages confused on a Mountain3. Order of Life and Death4. Why People die Forever5. The First Marriage6. Old Man leads a Migration7. Old Man and the Great Spirit8. Old Man gambles9. Old Man and the Rolling Stone10. Old Man roasts Squirrels in Hot Ashes11. Old Man makes a Drive, and loses Meat in a Race12. Old Man sees Berries in the Water13. Old Man loses his Eyes14. Old Man and the Fire-Leggings15. Old Man frightens a Bear16. Old Man gets fast in an Elk-Skull, and loses his Hair17. Old Man cooks Two Babies18. Old Man's Escape19. Old Man deceived by Two Women20. Old Man sees Girls picking Strawberries21. Old Man penem trans flumen mittit22. Old Man makes Buffalo laugh23. Adventures of Old ManII. Star Myths1. The Twin-Brothers, or Stars2. Blood-Clot, or Smoking-Star3. The Fixed-Star4. Scar-Facea) Version by a Piegan Manb) Version by a Piegan Woman5. Cuts-Wood6. The Seven Stars7. The Bunched Stars8. The Moon-WomanIII. Ritualistic Origins1. The Beaver-Medicinea) Northern Blackfoot Versionb) Blood Versionc) North Piegan Versiond) Piegan Version2. Otter-Woman3. Tobacco-Seeds and Beaver-Medicine4. Crow Indian Water-Medicine5. Scabby-Round-Robe6. The Elk-Woman a) Blood Versionb) Piegan Version7. The Buffalo-Rocka) Piegan Versionb) Northern Blackfoot Version8. Origin of the Medicine-Pipe9. The Worm-Pipe10. A Pipe from the Seven Stars11. The Black-Covered Pipe12. The Otter-Lodge13. The Bear-Lodge14. The Horse-Lodge15. Black and Yellow Buffalo-Painted Lodges16. The Crow-Painted Lodge17. The Bear-Knife18. The Smoking-Otter19. The Medicine-Shields20. Never-Sits-Down's Shield21. The Eagle-Head Charm22. The Pigeons23. The Mosquitoes24. The Braves25. Dog-Chief26. Has-Scars-All-Over27. Scabby-Bull28. The Horns and the Matokia) Blood Versionb) North Piegan Version29. The Kit-Fox30. The Catchers31. The Buffalo's Adopted ChildIV. Cultural and Other Origins1. The Whirlwind-Boy2. The Bladder Story3. The Water-Bull4. Red-Head5. The Meeting in the Cave6. Why Dogs do not Talk7. Why Women are able to stick the Poles into the Holes of the Ears of the Lodge after Dark8. Contest between the Thunder-Bird and the Raven9. The Raven Rescues People10. Why Grasshopper Spit11. How Medicine-Hat got its NameV. Miscellaneous Tales1. The Lost Children2. The Woman who got Meat from the Cliff3. Bear-Moccasin, the Great Medicine-Man4. The Split Feather5. The Treacherous Wives6. The Woman who Married a Snake7. The Woman who Married Filth8. The Woman who Married a Horse9. The Woman with a Sharpened Leg10. The Woman without a Body11. The Man Cut in two below the Waist12. The Ghost-Woman13. Fed by a Ghost14. Fed by a Coyote15. Riding the Buffalo16. The Kutenai Black-Tail Deer-Dance17. The Horned-Toad and the Frog18. Turtle goes to War19. The Warrior's Dilemma20. A Warrior's Duty and his Love21. The Wolverene-Woman22. Seven-Heads23. The Sand Hills Index
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University of Nebraska Press Transatlantic Voices
Book SynopsisA collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - the essays chart the course of recent theories of Native literature, delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies, and probe specific themes of trauma and memory.Trade Review"Transatlantic Voices represents some of the most recent critical studies of contemporary Native North American literature by fourteen European scholars... The anthology will be a useful resource for anyone interested in interdisciplinary crossings in postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, and narrative ethics."-Laura Castor, Great Plains Quarterly -- Laura Castor Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic State University Part 1. Theoretical Crossings 1. "They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem Hartwig Isernhagen, Universität Basel2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Université Michel de MontaigneBordeaux 33. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America Helmbrecht Breinig, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Part 2. From Early Fiction to Recent Directions 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded Gaetano Prampolini, Università di Firenze5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Technische Universität Dresden Part 3. Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows Deborah L. Madsen, Université de Genève7. "Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's PoetryKathryn Napier Gray, University of Plymouth8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia Part 4. Comparative Mythologies, Transatlantic Journeys 9. Vizenor's Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart Paul Beekman Taylor, Université de Genève10. "June Walked over It like Water and Came Home": Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks Mark Shackleton, University of Helsinki11. Encounters across Time and Space: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan's Power Yonka Krasteva, University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria12. Double Translation: James Welch's Heartsong of Charging Elk Ulla Haselstein, Freie Universität Berlin13. Clown, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train Simone Pellerin, Université Paul-ValéryMontpellier III14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Tokyo List of Contributors Index
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
Book SynopsisA portrait and revisionist study of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm, which encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. This work illuminates alternative conceptions of power and cosmology that force reconsideration of important components of Powhatan society.Trade Review“Powhatan Lords of Life and Death is required reading for those interested in the Powhatans or early Virginia and offers an example of careful and creative analysis of difficult sources that should provide a model for anyone interested in understanding Indian societies through European materials.”—April Lee Hatfield, Journal of Southern History“An important, insightful, and original contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Native peoples of the Chesapeake region.”—James Rice, Maryland Historical Magazine“The reader finishes this book with a deeper and clearer understanding of the Powhatan interpretation of the cosmos and of their social customs.”—Cassandra Farrell, Virginia LibrariesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Realm of Powhatan2. "Civilizing" the Powhatan3. Kings and Councilors in Tidewater Virginia4. "Priests" and "Conjurors"5. Dual Sovereignty in Tidewater Virginia6. ConclusionNotes ReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Make a Beautiful Way
Book SynopsisSeeks the recovery of women's traditions in the analysis of Native American history, society and culture.Trade Review“[Make a Beautiful Way] goes beyond women's studies alone, maintaining that elements unnatural to Native ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America's elements consisting of European prejudice and male privilege. This focus on women’s traditions provides essays which examine Indian lifestyles and history through women’s lives and eyes. A fine approach which adds different perspective to Native history and issues.”—BookwatchTable of ContentsForewordPreface1. Does Euro-Think Become Us? Paula Gunn Allen2. Decolonizing Native Women Lee Maracle3. Weeping for the Lost Matriarchy Kay Givens McGowan4. Slow Runners Barbara Alice MannBibliographyContributors' BiographiesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost
Book SynopsisRobbers Roost is a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. This book features an introduction by Floyd A O'Neil, director of the American West Center at the University of Utah that discusses landscape, the law and the Wild Bunch, and the author's lifelong preparation for this subject.Trade Review""Pearl Baker has matched place and subject with authority and flair. She has helped to keep interest in the Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy alive.""—Floyd A. O'Neil
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University of Nebraska Press Sovereignty Matters
Book SynopsisInvestigates the multiple perspectives that exist within indigenous communities regarding the significance of sovereignty as a category of intellectual, political, and cultural work. This book explores the role of sovereignty in fueling cultural memory, theories of history and change, spiritual connections to the land, and repatriation efforts.Table of ContentsFor Whom Sovereignty Matters Joanne Barker (Lenape); Sovereignty Taiaiake Alfred (Mohawk); Backgrounding Maori Views on Genetic Engineering; Fiona Cram (Maori); Tinkuqniypacha/Crossroads: First Peoples/African American Connections Guillermo Delgado-P. (Quechua) and John Brown Childs (Massachusett/Brothetown-Oneida/Madagascan); The Politics of Hawaiian Blood and Sovereignty in Rice v. Cayetano J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Native Hawaiian); The Shark in the Woods: The Passive Resistance of Samoans to US and Other Colonialisms Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Samoan); Tribal Cultural Self-Determination and the Makah Whaling Culture Robert J. Miller (Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma); What is the Meaning of This Place: A Spiritual Definition of Sovereignty From a Kanaka Maoli Perspective Kilipaka Kawaihonu Nahili Pae Ontai (Native Hawaiian); Chamorro Resistance and Prospects for Sovereignty in Guam Michael P. Perez (Chamorro); Kaupapa Maori Theory: Asserting Indigenous Theories of Change Leonie Pihama (Maori); Indigenous Identity and Political Sovereignty: Tainos and the Puerto Rican Independence Struggle Deborah Berman Santana (Puerto Rican [Boriken])
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University of Nebraska Press A Listening Wind
Book SynopsisHighlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the US Southeast. The traditional and modern Native literature genres showcased include stories that speakers perceive to be in the past, genres that have developed alongside these stories, and modern story types that have sometimes supplanted traditional tales.Trade Review“Marcia Haag displays intimate awareness while skillfully articulating the complexities of Native American survivance in the southeastern U.S. . . . Throughout the seventy-seven works, there is a straightforward style embellished with poetic cadences and colloquialisms. These works offer a rare glimpse into a South too often overlooked or forgotten. . . . Care has been taken to record these gems in a context that respects their individuality and enhances awareness within and outside of their respective tribal communities.”—Douglas Suano Bootes, World Literature Today “This book is a pleasure to read. The strong aesthetic appeal of southeastern Native narrative is apparent in the contributors’ fine renderings of the tales, and their commentaries show the importance of the stories in the lives and expectations of southeastern narrators and audiences past and present.”—Margaret Holmes Williamson, author of Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia “This collection, which covers a greater diversity of tribes than most studies of [the Southeast], will be an asset to specialists, students, and those with a general interest in southern studies. Its presentation of storytelling with scholarly context is especially valuable.”—Lindsey Claire Smith, editor of American Indian Quarterly Table of ContentsIntroduction Marcia HaagChoctaw Essay Mississippi Choctaw Oral Literature Tom MouldCreation MythsThe Choctaw Creation Legend Isaac Pistonabee. 1901The Creation of Three Races Harley Vaughn. 1996 Shukhanumpa: Animal StoriesWhy Terrapins Never Get Fat Olman Comby. 1928.Contemporary Humorous StoriesThe Dog who Spoke Choctaw Jake York. 1997Running Water Lillie Gibson. 1997The Man and the Turkey Henry Williams. 1997Supernatural Legends and EncountersThe Little Man Terry Ben. 1996Pansh Falaya (Long Hair) Cynthia Clegg. 1997Prophecy StoriesNew Inventions and Lost Traditions Billy Amos. 1999Cars and Changing Values. In Choctaw and English. Odie Mae Anderson. 1997The Third Removal Estelline Tubby. 1996EssayWhere Oral Tradition and Literacy Collide: James L. McDonald’s Spectre Essay of 1830Phillip Carroll MorganLetter from J.L. McDonald to Peter Pitchlynn J.L. McDonald. 1830EssayModern Oklahoma Choctaw Stories Marcia HaagModern Oklahoma Choctaw StoriesBoarding School Runaways Paula Carney. 2008How I Almost Killed a Hog by Scaring It Abe Frazier. 2008.The Miracle Bill Nowlin. 2006.Neva the Hunter Lois Pugh. 2004.CreekEssayCreek (Muskogee) Literature Jack B. MartinTraditional TalesThe Story of Corn Taylor Postoak, Second Chief of the Muskokees. 1882The Boy who Turned Into a Snake I. Field. 1937 Family Versions of Traditional TalesRabbit Steals Fire Earnest Gouge. 1915Girl Abducted by LionEarnest Gouge. 1915Stories of Real PeopleAutobiography of James Hill James Hill. 1939Traditional SongEstvmvn Estomen Follatskis In Creek and English.Transcribed by Gloria McCarty.Chickasaw EssayChickasaw Oral Literature Joshua D. Hinson (Lokosh)Chikashsha Naaikbi’ Anoli’ ‘Creation-Origin Stories’Chikashsha Naiikbi’ Anoli’ Chickasaw Creation Story In Chickasaw and English Juanita Byars. 1995How the Day and Night were DividedTranslated by the Chickasaw Language Committee. 2012Shikonno’pa “Possum Stories”Why Turtle Has a Cracked Shell Weldon Fulsom. 2011Iksa Nannanooli: Clan StoriesWildcat Man Meets BigfootZeno McCurtain. 1921Humorous StoriesFala Shiiki Tawwa’a ‘The Crow and the Buzzard’ John Puller, retold by Stan Smith. 2011EssayInterpretation Is a Tricky Business: The Challenges of Interpreting Chickasaw Oral Narratives Joshua D. Hinson (Lokosh)Selections from Katihshtchi Ittish Oppolo’ Okla Imalattook `How the People Got Poison’Glenda Galvan. Translated by Jo Ann Ellis and Jerry Imotichey. 2012.Yuchi Essay Yuchi Stories Mary S. Linn Mythical Time StoriesThe Red-Mouthed Lizard and the Hunters Maxey Simms. 1928How the Yuchi Kill the Red-Mouthed Lizard Andy Johnson. 1928 Wind and IronMaxey Simms. 1928Animal TalesThe First Woman to Leave a Lazy Husband Collected by Jeremiah Curtin. 1883Rabbit and Turkeys In Yuchi and English Ida Clinton Riley. 1993 Stories of the Supernatural Spirit Stories Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brown. 1883Cherokee EssayCherokee Literature Christopher B.TeutonGalgogv’i: New and Old LiesThe Rabbit and the Image Dalala. 1961Rabbit and Possum Look for WivesSequoyah Guess. 2010How the Possum Lost His Beautiful TailKathi Littlejohn. 1998Thunder and the Uk’ten’Siquanid’. 1961How the White Man Was MadeHastings Shade. 2010Ulvsgedi: Stories of the WondrousThe Owl at the WindowHastings Shade. 2010Crossing Safely Sammy Still. 2010Santeetlah Ghost StoryEdna Chekelelee. 1998The Little People and the NunnehiRobert Bushyhead. 1998The Spirit of an AncestorHastings Shade. 2010.Kanoheda: Philosophy, History, and MemoirThe Language and the FireSequoyah Guess, Hastings Shade, Woody Hansen, and Christopher B. Teuton. 2010A Cherokee Vision of Eloh’ (excerpt) Sakiya Sanders. Translated by Wesley Proctor. 1981 The Cherokee Migration Story Sequoyah Guess. 2010The Trail of TearsFreeman Owle. 1998Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (excerpt)Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis. 2000Who Is Cherokee?Harry Oosahwee (Adawi). 2010EssayWho Is Cherokee? Federal Recognition, Culture, and Rhetorical SovereigntyKimberly Roppolo WieserKoasati EssayKoasati (Coushatta) Literature Linda LangleyTraditional StoriesThe Bear Hunter and the Alligator’s Gift Isabel Celestine Robinson. circa 1960How the Owl Got Skinny LegsRonnie Abney. 2009Getting Fire from the Bear Crystal Williams. 2013Modern Stories and MemoirsHow We Survived Long AgoDoris Robinson Celestine Battise and Jamison “Jimmy” Poncho. 2009Hunting in the Olden Days, and Tomatoes Dan Sylestine. 2009 and 2012Grandmother and the Nail Bertney Langley. 2012Another Story about Grandmother and a Nail Barbara Langley. 2012Grandmother and the Gift Card Lorenda Poncho. 2013Grandmother and the Turtle Claudine Ceslestine Hasting. 2012On My Way to the Meeting. Ittanahkafa Aayallis In Koasati and English Janice Battise Sylestine. 2010Photograph of Koasati authorsLiterature of smaller tribes of the Southeastern United States (Atakapa-Ishak, Catawba, and Houma)Essay Introduction to Atakapa, Catawba, and Houma Stories William Sconzert-HallAtakapa-IshakInterpretation of the Creation Myth Shaman Shawn PapillionOstitat – The One who Sits Above All: the Making of the Earth Shaman Shawn Papillion. 2013CatawbaInterpretation of a Folktale Beckee GarrisHow the Chipmunk Got its Stripes Re-told by Beckee Garris. 2013HoumaThe Importance of Folktales MorningDove Verret Hopkins and William Sconzert-HallHow the Rabbit Lost His Tail MorningDove Verret Hopkins. 2012How the Turtle Broke His Shell. MorningDove Verret Hopkins 2013AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press The Social Life of Stories Narrative and
Book SynopsisWhy does storytelling continue to thrive? What can anthropologists learn from the structure and performance of indigenous narratives to become better academic storytellers? This work addresses these questions. It is a theoretical study of indigenous oral narratives, and moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling.Trade Review"The Social Life of Stories establishes a powerful argument about the legitimacy and viability of the distinctive intellectual traditions of modern Native peoples. One of the strengths of this book is that Cruikshank extends her thesis to carve out a position that challenges the dominance of non-Native intellectual systems."-American Indian Quarterly American Indian Quarterly
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University of Nebraska Press Voices of Wounded Knee
Book SynopsisBrings together for the first time all the available sources - Lakota, military, and civilian - on the massacre of 29 December 1890.Trade Review"This is the first account in which participants have been allowed to tell the story almost entirely in their own words... [Coleman] has welded these accounts ... into a riveting narrative that tells how the massacre emerged out of a long string of broken treaties, cultural mistrusts, governmental rivalries, and inflammatory press reports."-Library Journal. "This is one of the most informative books written about the unfortunate circumstances leading to the 1890 debacle at Wounded Knee. Twenty-five years in the making, it provides insights into the Ghost Dance phenomenon with its visions and beliefs in the Messiah's arrival."-ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; 1. Anthropologists in Neah Bay: Past and Present; 2. Redefining Civilization: Struggles over Ways of Knowing on the Makah Reservation, with Helma Ward; Part 2; 3. Many Gifts from the Past: Elders, Memories, and Ozette Village; 4. Voices of a Thousand People: The Nature of Autoethnography; 5. Indigenizing the Museum: Subjectivity and the Makah Cultural and Research Center, with Kirk Wachendorf; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Fifth World of Forster Bennett
Book SynopsisIt is told that the ancestors of the Navajos journeyed through four worlds to reach the fifth, or present, one. This work offers an ethnographic account of the complexities and underlying wonder of their fifth world of modern reservation life.Trade Review“A realistic and probing portrait. It is disturbing to the point of shocking to read Crapanzano’s authentic, vividly written account of the incredible boredom and futility of Bennett’s reservation life and those of his people.”—Publishers Weekly“It is a plain, unadorned document, vivid, concrete, accessible. . . . It will stay in the mind longer than more ponderous tomes.”—New York Times
£13.29
University of Nebraska Press One Vast Winter Count
Book SynopsisThis magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.Trade Review"A splendid overview of the Native American West to the end of the eighteenth century."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books -- Larry McMurtry New York Review of Books "Author of First Peoples and a distinguished Dartmouth historian, Calloway concentrates on the Indian experience from the Appalachians to the Pacific, in a time frame from prehistory to the 18th century. The scope is staggering, but Calloway masters it, demonstrating a remarkable command of a broad spectrum of historical, ethnographic and archaeological sources including printed material and oral traditions... One Vast Winter Count is both a major work in its own right and a magnificent first volume in Nebraska's new History of the American West series."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Publishers Weekly
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University of Nebraska Press War Paintings of the Tsuu Tina Nation
Book SynopsisDuring much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians' equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narrativesappearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi coverswere maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T'ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T'ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T'ina artifacts, Trade Review"Arni Brownstone's study of Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) war paintings is a valuable addition to scholarship on the artistic traditions of the peoples of the North American Plains."—Alison K. Brown, Museum Anthropology Review"War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation is one of those books that anyone interested in the history of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains hopes comes along, perhaps without even knowing it."—Rob Alexander, Rocky Mountain Outlook“Brownstone’s meticulous study makes available a unique set of little-known hide paintings and offers valuable insights into one of the less studied indigenous societies of the Great Plains. A must for every library on Native North American art and culture.”—Janet Catherine Berlo, professor of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester and author of Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHistorical BackgroundPlains Indian WarfareWar Exploit PaintingHistory of the Five Tsuu T’ina PaintingsDiscussion of the Five PaintingsPictographic TranslationsLater Tsuu T’ina PaintingsTsuu T’ina Material Culture CollectionsNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Wolves for the Blue Soldiers
Book SynopsisA study of Indian scouts in general, focusing on the post-Civil War years when Americans began their final assault on western Indian lands. It is suitable for serious students of the Indian wars and for those interested in culture conflict and human behavior in general.
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press The 1870 Ghost Dance
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Buckley] treats readers to an excellent overview of early anthropology and DuBois’s place in its development. . . . Graduate students and . . . upper division undergraduates would certainly benefit from Buckley’s primer followed by a reading of the actual text.”—Oregon Historical Quarterly"Since it was first published in 1939, The 1870 Ghost Dance has long been unavailable to scholars. Almost seventy years later, it is available once again. It remains a seminal work, provides an essential source for understanding indigenous ways, and serves as a springboard for decolonization efforts in the state of California."—John H. Monnett, Historian
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University of Nebraska Press The Bearer of This Letter
Book Synopsis The Bearer of This Letter illuminates the enduring effects of colonialism by examining the decades-long tension between written words and spoken words in a reservation community. Drawing on archival sources and her own extensive work in the community, Mindy J. Morgan investigates how historical understandings of literacy practices challenge current Indigenous language revitalization efforts on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana.Created in 1887, Fort Belknap is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine peoples. The history of these two peoplesover the past century is a common one among Indigenous groups, with religious and federal authorities aggressively promoting the use of English at the expense of the local Indigenous languages. Morgan suggests that such efforts at the assimilation of Indigenous peoples had a far-reaching and not fully appreciated consequence. Through a close reading of federal, local, and missionary records at Fort Belknap, MorgTrade Review"Morgan provides an excellent explication of the power of language/literacy in the reservation world and Indian efforts to manipulate literacy to privilege their cultures. Literacy was a colonial tool for domination, but American Indian societies may now be using it to anticipate a multilingual future as they turn their oral languages into written languages used for their own purposes, as at Fort Belknap. Anyone interested in the effort to revive indigenous languages will benefit from the summaries of issues and solutions."—G. Gagnon, Choice"[The Bearer of This Letter's] ethnolinguistic relevance is obvious and central, but students of Indian history, culture, literature, and rhetoric will also find a good deal to occupy them. For educators and scholars focusing on Montana tribes, The Bearer of This Letter will quickly become an indispensable resource."—Matt Herman, Montana, The Magazine of Western History"This book is an important and pioneering effort that brings ethnohistorical rigor to the task of understanding current literacy debates in the Fort Belknap (Montana) Indian community by understanding the evolution of relevant language ideologies there from pre-reservation times to current efforts involving language renewal."—Paul V. Kroskrity, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsPrefaceNotes on Terminology and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Fort Belknap and the Question of Native Language LiteracyChapter 1. Before the Reservation: Language Practices and the Documentary RecordChapter 2. Creating Boundaries: English Literacy in the Early Reservation EraChapter 3. English Only: Language Ideology and the Limits of LiteracyChapter 4. Shifts in Practice: Literacy during the Indian New DealChapter 5. Bringing the Languages Back: Developing Bilingual Education at Fort BelknapChapter 6. The Nakoda Alphabet: Re-Imaging Literacy and TraditionSummary: New Literacies and Old WaysBibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Born in the Blood On Native American Translation
Book SynopsisAn anthology of essays on the translation of Native American languages and literatures.Table of ContentsIntroductionBrian Swann Part One1. Should Translation Work Take Place? Ethical Questions Concerning the Translation of First Nations LanguagesCarrie Dyck2. Reading a Dictionary: How Passamaquoddy Language Translates Concepts of Physical and Social SpaceRobert M. Leavitt3. Translating Time: A Dialogue on Hopi Experiences of the PastChip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa4. Hopi Place Value: Translating a LandscapePeter M. Whiteley5. Related-Language Translation: Naskapi and East CreeBill Jancewicz6. Performative Translation and Oral Curation: Ti-Jean/Chezan in BeaverlandAmber Ridington and Robin Ridington7. Translation and Censorship of Native American Oral LiteratureWilliam M. Clements8. In the Words of Powhatan: Translation across Space and Time for The New WorldBlair A. Rudes Part Two9. Ethnopoetic Translation in Relation to Audio, Video, and New Media RepresentationsRobin Ridington, Jillian Ridington, Patrick Moore, Kate Hennessy, and Amber Ridington10. Translating Algonquian Oral TextsJulie Brittain and Marguerite MacKenzie11. Translating the Boundary between Life and Death in O'odham Devil SongsDavid L. Kozak with David I. Lopez12. Revisiting Haida Cradle-Song 67Frederick H. White13. Translating Tense and Aspect in Tlingit NarrativesRichard L. Dauenhauer and Nora Marks Dauenhauer14. Translating Performance in the Written Text: Verse Structure in Dakota and HocákLynn Burley15. Toward Literature: Preservation of Artistic Effects in Choctaw TextsMarcia Haag16. Translating an Esoteric Idiom: The Case of Aztec PoetryJohn Bierhorst17. Translating Context and Situation: William Strachey and Powhatan's "Scorneful Song"William M. Clements18. A Life in TranslationRichard J. Preston19. Memories of Translation: Looking for the Right WordsM. Terry Thompson and Laurence C. Thompson ContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Welcome to the Oglala Nation A Documentary
Book SynopsisPopular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. As Akim D. Reinhardt demonstrates in this volume, however, the twentieth century continued to be politically dynamic.Trade Review"Reinhardt has produced an accessible collection of resources that both novices and scholars will find useful."—David Christensen, Kansas History"A welcome contribution to American Indian history."—Jace Decory, South Dakota History"Reinhardt covers more Lakota history and culture in one book than any other collective publication I have seen or read. It is a very thorough, accurate, and powerful collection of primary source documents. . . . The publication is a very useful teaching tool and a valuable source of information for interested readers."—Tribal College Journal"A fresh tapestry of Lakota and Dakota history."—Roundup Magazine"Welcome to the Oglala Nation: A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History is more than a documentary reader. Through a combination of primary documents, historical narrative, and historiography, Akim Reinhardt provides a comprehensive overview of more than 500 years of Oglala Lakota political history."—Margaret Huettl, Great Plains Quarterly“Akim Reinhardt’s Welcome to the Oglala Nation is a powerful combination of narrative description and primary documents that provides the reader with a deeper understanding of Oglala political history. Both the novice and the expert should find it useful.”—David R. M. Beck, professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana and coauthor of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934“Gathered in these pages is the story of one of the Great Plains’ ultimate survivors: the Oglala Lakotas. Covering the days when they first left the eastern woodlands for the prairie up to contemporary tribal politics, Akim Reinhardt has compiled vital information for scholars and armchair historians alike.”—Stew Magnuson, author of The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Wounded Knee 1973: Still BleedingTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyIntroductionOglala Political History: An OverviewDocuments in Oglala Lakota Political History1. Origins of the Oceti Sakowi?2. Oglala Winter Counts3. Jean-Baptiste Truteau Describes Lakota Politics and Expansion (1795)4. Treaty with the Sioune and Oglala Tribes (1825)5. Francis Parkman Observes an Oglala Political Meeting (1846)6. Oglalas Meet with U.S. Officials (1867–1868)7. Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)8. Breaking Up the Great Sioux Reservation (1889)9. Breaking Up Pine Ridge Reservation and Organizing Bennett County (1910)10. Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Tribal Council (1921)11. John Collier’s Plains Congress, Rapid City, South Dakota (1934)12. The Indian Reorganization Act (1934)13. Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota (1936)14. Final Meeting of the Oglala Tribal Council (1936)15. Oglala Sioux Tribal Council Resolution No. 1 (1936)16. Meetings of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1936)17. Christianity and Politics on Pine Ridge Reservation (1936–1937)18. Initial Ordinances and Resolutions of Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1937)19. Early Ordinances and Resolutions of Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1938)20. Oglala Sioux Tribe Bans Display of “Uncivilized Practices” (1938)21. Office of Indian Affairs Monitors the Cutting of Timber (1940)22. Office of Indian Affairs Curtails Oglala Sioux Tribal Authority (1942)23. Letters of Frank Ecoffey (1942)24. Office of Indian Affairs Officials Suggest Forcing Pine Ridge Oglalas to Contribute to War Effort (1943)25. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Restricts Tribal Government Membership (1943)26. Tribal Council Terminates the Tribal Buffalo Herd (1944)27. Letter Granting Mr. and Mrs. Fast Horse Permission to Leave Pine Ridge Reservation (1945)28. Resolution to Remove Pine Ridge Superintendent W. O. Roberts (1945)29. Tribal Council Authorizes a Delegation to Washington DC (1946)30. Porcupine District Council Demands a “White Man” as Farm Agent (1946)31. Congress Authorizes Compensation for Gunnery Range Land Seizures (1956)32. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Demands Greater Bureaucratic Efficiency (1960)33. Edison Ward Interviews South Dakota State Attorney Robert Maule (1964)34. Tribal President Johnson Holy Rock Interviewed (1967)35. Former Tribal Council Member Thomas Conroy Interviewed (1967)36. Future Tribal President Gerald One Feather Interviewed (1967)37. Oglala Sioux Tribe Bill of Rights (1968)38. Interior Department Certifies Pine Ridge Elections (1968)39. Presidential Hopeful Robert Kennedy Visits Pine Ridge Reservation (1968)40. Political Tensions on Pine Ridge Reservation (1970)41. Tribal Council Attempts to Suspend the Tribal President and Vice President (1971)42. Conflict on Pine Ridge Reservation (1972)43. Tribal President Richard Wilson’s Inauguration (1972)44. Tribal Council Seats Representative Kills Straight (1972)45. Pine Ridge Superintendent Stanley Lyman Interviewed (1972)46. Tribal President Richard Wilson’s Impeachment Hearing (1973)47. Anti-Wilson Tribal Member Interviewed (1973)48. A Tribal Policeman’s Observations of Pine Ridge Reservation (1973)49. Tribal President Richard Wilson Discusses Pine Ridge Politics (1973)50. Chuck Trimble Discusses the Current Political Situation (1974)51. U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report on Pine Ridge Election (1974)52. United States vs. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980)53. President Bill Clinton Addresses Pine Ridge Reservation (1999)54. Camp Justice Protests Alcohol Sales and Unsolved Murders at Whiteclay, Nebraska (2000)55. Protests at Red Cloud Administration Building End (2001)56. Tribal President Cecilia Fire Thunder Is Impeached (2006)57. Federal Approval of Casino Gambling on Pine Ridge Reservation (1993)58. Prairie Wind Casino Opens on Pine Ridge Reservation (2007)59. Amendment to the Oglala Sioux Tribal Constitution (2008)60. Oglala Sioux Tribe Debates Legalizing Alcohol on Pine Ridge Reservation (2014)AppendixesNotesGlossary and Pronunciation GuideBibliographic EssayIndex
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Arapahoe Politics 18511978 Symbols in Crises of
Book SynopsisExplores how, in response to the realities of domination by Americans, the Arapahoes have avoided serious factional divisions and have succeeded in legitimizing new authority through the creation and use of effective political symbols.
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University of Nebraska Press The Mohicans of Stockbridge
Book SynopsisPresents an account the Mohicans Indians who originated in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. This book covers the Mohicans' conversion to Christianity and the ramifications this had for them. It also examines the various ways they interacted with the settlers, Dutch and New Englanders, in trading, and as soldiers and victims of expansion and alcohol.Trade Review"A stirring story, much more humanly complicated than any Cooper had to tell, or indeed than has been told by previous historian. . . . Individual anecdotes Frzier has turned up might be the subjects of whole novels."—Boston Globe"With extensive research in primary sources, Frazier's account deserves praise for its insights into the uncharted waters of eighteenth-century Indian history."—Choice"Immortalized by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans, the Mohicans Indians originated in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Frazier, a specialist in Native American studies with the Library of Congress, presents a detailed, scholarly account of these Indians; he hopes to make his readers aware of the contributions they made to American history. He covers the Mohicans' conversion to Christianity and the ramifications this had for them. He examines the various ways they interacted with the settlers, both Dutch and New Englanders, in trading, and as soldiers and victims of expansion and alcohol. Frazier has done extensive research and uses solid documentation."—Library Journal"The calm suggestiveness of The Mohicans of Stockbridge makes it a model for future studies of native peoples."—Times Literary Supplement
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University of Nebraska Press Indians and Europe
Book SynopsisNorth American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of essays offers the extended look at the complicated, changing relationship between European and Native people.Trade Review"A valuable and welcome collection of carefully edited essays that offer a wealth of detail, raise serious questions as to the nature of indigenous realities, and highlight the confrontation of the Western mind with the prey of its colonizing conquests."—American Indian Culture and Research Journal
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University of Nebraska Press A Culture of Everyday Credit
Book SynopsisPawning was a common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the 19th century. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers provided collateral credit. This book shows how Mexican women depended on credit to run their households since the Bourbon era and how the collateral credit business of pawnbroking developed into a profitable enterprise.Trade Review"Both for what she narrates explicitly about everyday life and what she suggests implicitly about the historiography, consumerism, and patriarchy, Marie Francois has written a significant and thought-provoking book that all Mexican scholars should read and ponder."—William H. Beezley, Hispanic American Historical Review “Francois addresses an important issue that has never received much attention. She paints a vivid picture of an urban commerce dominated by women and made possible by the credit secured through pawnbroking. One of the works’ strengths is its multidisciplinary approach; it combines business and gender history, which should make it appealing to a wider variety of scholars. It is highly recommended.”—Jeremy Baskes, The Historian Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Hocking the Private in Public: Credit Policy, Housekeeping, and Status, 1750-1840; 2. Collateral Lending: Pulperias and the Monte de Piedad, 1750-1840; 3. Collateral Living: Consumption, Anxious Liberals, and Daily Life, 1830-80; 4. Brokering Interests: Casas de Empeno and an Expanded Monte de Piedad, 1830-75; 5. Positivist Housekeeping: Domesticity, Work, and Consumer Credit, 1880-1910; 6. Porfirian Paradoxes: Profit versus Regulation, Capital versus Welfare; 7. A Material Revolution: Militancy, Policy, and Housekeeping, 1911-20; Conclusion: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Politics; Epilogue: Still A Culture of Everyday Credit
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University of Nebraska Press Great Plains Indians
Book Synopsis2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference David J. Wishart’s Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country. Myriad internal and external forces have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the Great Plains. Those forces—the environment, religion, tradition, guns, disease, government policy—have written their way into this history. Wishart spans the vastness of Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the reader up to date on reservation conditions and rebounding populations in a sea of rural population decline. Great Plains Indiansis a compelling introduction to Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteenthousand years ago to the present.<Trade Review"[Wishart's] clear and succinct overview of Plains culture and history will enlighten the casual reader."—Publishers Weekly"Great Plains Indians is an accessible and highly readable book that is undoubtedly the best overview of the Plains Indians. The use of Native American sources combined with archaeological and historical sources produces a balanced review of 13,000 years of Plains Indians history."—Mark R. Ellis, Historical Geography"[Great Plains Indians is] packed with worthwhile information and observations on Indian life during the centuries before European settlement and up to present times."—Omaha World-Herald"David Wishart's book is a very accessible introduction to the indigenous cultures of the North American Great Plains."—John Truden, Chronicles of Oklahoma"[Great Plains Indians] will serve as an excellent, concise, and informative introduction to many facets of Plains Indian cultures, past and present, and should also serve as a conduit into additional studies. . . . A recommended volume for anyone interested in Plains Indians and the ongoing history of Native-U.S. relations that adds to the scholarship of the U.S. West and Borderlands of adjacent regions."—William C. Meadows, New Mexico Historical Review"Very informative."—Donald Raker, Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"These are the stories of how the United States came to be what it is today, and they should be known to all Americans."—W. Raymond Wood, Annals of Iowa"[Great Plains Indians] is written in an accessible manner and is up to date. It is a great introduction for those interested in knowing more about Plains Indian history and land and provides a foundation for undergraduate classes to think through current affairs in Indian Country."—William Bauer, Kansas History"Great Plains Indians by Nebraska geography professor David J. Wishart details the proud and fraught history of the original inhabitants of the plains. This broad view of the various peoples that tread the land tracks their trajectory from nomadic hunters to resolute resisters of European American expansion into their territory."—John Tolley, Big Ten Network"David Wishart has provided a welcomed and comprehensive synopsis of Great Plains Indian culture that is accessible to a wide audience and useful in the classroom."—Bruce Noble, Wyoming History JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Plains Indians in the 2010 Census Chapter One. Since Time Immemorial Chapter Two. Land and Life around 1803 Chapter Three. A Century of Dispossession Chapter Four. Against All Odds Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Corridor Talk to Culture History
Book SynopsisShowcases geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have presented their methods and theories to the public and in general to a variety of audiences. Essays showcase the research and personalities of Alexander Goldenweiser, Robert Lowie, Harlan I. Smith, Fustel de Coulanges, Edmund Leach, Carl Withers, and Margaret Mead, among others.Trade Review“This volume is part of an excellent series on the history of anthropology. There is no current series like it, and the editors are among the best scholars in this field.”—Paul Shankman, author of The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy “Well worth the reading. It is a valuable addition to the genre.”—Frank A. Salamone, author of Charlie Parker: The Trickster of JazzTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsEditors’ Introduction1. The Falling-Out between Alexander Goldenweiser and Robert Lowie: Two Personalities, Two Visions of AnthropologySergei Kan2. Forms of Relatedness: Harlan Smith and the Taxonomic MethodDorothee Schreiber3. Echoes of the Class Struggle in France: Exoticism, Religion, and Politics in Fustel de Coulanges’s The Ancient CityRobert Launay4. “I Have Not Advanced a Single Theory”: Mayan Ruins, Popular Culture, and Academic Authority in 19th-Century AmericaFernando Armstrong-Fumero5. Edmund Leach and the Rise of Cultural Polyvocality: A Case Study from the Ulúa Valley, HondurasKathryn M. Hudson6. Anthropology in CubaLeif Korsbaek and Marcela Barrios Luna7. An Unfinished Ethnography: Carl Withers’s Cuban Fieldwork and the Book That Never WasJorge L. Giovannetti8. Reading “The Redbook Columns”Susan R. TrencherContributors
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University of Nebraska Press Dressing for the Culture Wars Style and the
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of fashion and style, Dressing for the Culture Wars guides us through the competing political and social movements of the culture war. Betty Luther Hillman illustrates how self-presentation influenced the culture and politics of the era and carried connotations similarly linked to the broader political challenges of the time.Trade Review"Given its impressive sweep, scholarly rigor, and utter originality, Hillman's monograph is all the more commendable for opening up fresh areas of investigation."—Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, American Historical Review"Dressing for the Culture Wars extends our understanding of the social impact of fashion by providing an extensive analysis of its role in recent political and social debates."—Diana Crane, Journal of American History"A valuable addition to the reading list for any course on the history of the 1960s and 1970s. Given that so many of the issues and conflicts surrounding identity and self-presentation remain unresolved, Hillman's work is equally relevant to anyone teaching or researching contemporary political activists and organization."—Jo Paoletti, Pacific Historical Review“In this engaging book, Luther Hillman shows that performative self-presentation played a critical part in the social change of the 1960s and 1970s. Activists debated the transgressive styles of hippies, Black Power militants, feminists, and drag queens. The visual politics of everyday dress shocked the mainstream, shaped the fashion industry, challenged the law, and triggered conservative backlash. Compelling, original, and smartly argued, this book rewrites the history of an era and reminds us that fashion is not frivolity.”—Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States “Betty Luther Hillman has written a wonderfully engaging and thoroughly researched study of the politics of style and self-presentation during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s. . . . Luther Hillman carefully grounds her social and cultural analysis in the historical, political, and economic context of [that time]. Given the popular interest in the fashion and politics of that era, her book will no doubt attract the interest of students as well as the general public.”—Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, author of Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Significance of Style in American Culture and Politics 1. “You Can’t Tell the Girls from the Boys”: Changing Styles among American Youths, 1964–1968 2. “What to Wear to the Revolution”: Self-Presentation Politics in Social Movement Activism 3. “No Woman Can Be Free . . . Until She Loses Her Femininity”: The Politics of Self-Presentation in Feminist Activism 4. “Wearing a Dress Is a Revolutionary Act”: Political Drag and Self-Presentation in the Gay Liberation Movement 5. “Everyone Should Be Accustomed to Seeing Long Hair on Men by Now”: Style and Popular Culture in the Late 1960s to 1970s 6. “Ours Should Not Be an Effort to Achieve a Unisex Society”: Legal Regulations of Personal Presentation in the Workplace Epilogue: The Politics of Style in Retrospect Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Ways of Knowing
Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork at Chateh, this title delineates the interconnections between the strands of meaning and experience with which the Dene Tha constitute and creatively engage their world. It offers insights into the Dene Tha's ways of knowing that were gained through directly experiencing their lifeway rather than through formal instruction.
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University of Nebraska Press Powhatans World and Colonial Virginia
Book SynopsisFrederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds.Trade Review“Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia is likely to be the focus of spirited discussion for years to come. New interpretations of long-discussed events appear in literally every chapter.”—Journal of Southern History“Anyone who thinks that ethnohistory is dull and descriptive, or that the subdisciplines of anthropology cannot be brought to bear on particular historical cases, must read Frederic Gleach’s reassessment of the contact between the confederacy of the Powhatan and the settlers at Jamestown, Virginia. Gleach attributes the ensuing conflict to incommensurable worldviews rather than to competition for scarce resources. Colonists and Indians largely misunderstood one another without realizing that they did so, all the while undertaking ‘mutual attempts to civilize each other.’ . . . A fascinating book.”—American Anthropologist
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