Social and cultural history Books
University of Nebraska Press Practicing Ethnohistory
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Galloway’s painstaking multidisciplinary research . . . provides case studies that exemplify how to extract a good deal of information out of what often appears to be simple lists of place names or of names and associated roles. . . . What archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and museum directors do has consequences for indigenous groups and for the society at large. . . . These last two chapters should be required reading for all involved in narrating the history of colonial encounters.”—Journal of Anthropological Research“This book is an excellent text for use in graduate classes on methodology in a number of disciplines, including ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, and Native American studies. . . . The book is ‘a kind of ethno-ethnohistory’ that reinforces the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Other. Scholars interested in eighteenth-century Choctaw culture will want this book as part of their libraries.”—Journal of Southern History
£21.84
University of Nebraska Press The Allotment Plot
Book SynopsisNicole Tonkovich reexamines the history of allotment on the Nez Perce Reservation from 1889 to 1892 to account for and emphasize the Nez Perce side of the story. Trade Review"The Allotment Plot is a refreshing, nuanced, and insightful reinterpretation of a moment in Nez Perce history that illuminates both the blind nature of federal policy and the tribal resilience reflected in post-reservation Indian resistance and selfdetermination."—David R. M. Beck, American Historical Review"An extremely readable and informative book that will benefit scholars from various disciplines."—Jennifer Macias, Pacific Northwest Quarterly"A meticulously researched and carefully developed analysis of events before, during, and after allotment on the Nez Perce reservation."—Elizabeth James, Oregon Historical Quarterly "The Allotment Plot is a good addition to the field and offers readers much to consider."—C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, H-NetTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Allotment and Nimiipuu Survivance Part 1. Beginnings Introduction: After the End of Nez Perce History 1. A False Beginning 2. Another Beginning Part 2. Land Introduction: Map and Territory, Space and Place 3. "The Square Idea" 4. Ethnographic Knowledge and Native Cartography Part 3. Citizens Introduction: E Pluribus Unum 5. Technologies of Citizenship 6. Fictions of Coherence Part 4. Endings Introduction: "If the Work Is Ever to Be Finished" 7. Irresolutions and Incompletions 8. The Ends of Nez Perce Allotment Part 5. Afterward Introduction: "Double Pictures Have Met Us All along the Way" 9. After-Words 10. After-Images Notes Bibliography Index
£49.30
University of Nebraska Press Becoming Melungeon
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the Melungeon ethnic identity has been socially constructed over time by various regional and national media, plays, and other forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how the social construction of this legend evolved into a fervent movement of a self-identified ethnicity in the 1990s.Trade Review"Schrift has produced an important piece of scholarship about a new American ethnic identity."—Susan Keefe, Appalachian Journal"Becoming Melungeon will be vital to anyone interested in Melungeons."—Philip E. Coyle, FolkloreTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Race, Identity, and the Melungeon Legend Chapter 1: Inventing the Melungeons Chapter 2: Melungeons and Media Representation Chapter 3: Playing the First Melungeons Chapter 4: Becoming Melungeon Chapter 5: The Mediterranean Mystique Chapter 6: The Melungeon Core Closing Thoughts Appendix 1: Melungeon Questionnaire Appendix 2: Media Articles Notes Works Cited Index
£30.40
University of Nebraska Press American Indian Nations from Termination to
Book SynopsisProvides a concise overview of all the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes from 1953 to 2006 and explores the enduring policy implications for Native peoplesTrade Review"Rich in facts and easy to read, the book details a little noticed chapter of present-day Indian politics of the USA. AmerIndian Research "Highly recommended Choice "For the general reader, [this book] provides a good overview of termination and its reversal and demonstrates how these factors influenced Indian identity. Western Historical Quarterly "Clearly laid out and very readable. Indian Country TodayTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The ExperimentPart One. Breaking the Ties1. Policy: Kill the Indians2. Menominees: Ambush3. Klamaths: Disaster4. Western Oregon: Invisible5. Alabama-Coushattas of Texas and Catawbas of South Carolina: Entangled6. Utah Paiute Bands: Helpless7. California: Scattered8. Oklahoma Tribes and Poncas of Nebraska: AfterthoughtsPart Two. The Way Back9. Menominees: Pioneers10. Siletz: Fish11. Oklahoma and Utah: Flood12. Cow Creeks and Grand Rondes: Communities13. Klamaths: Troubles14. Coos and Coquilles: Cooperating15. Alabama-Coushattas and California: Legalities16. Catawbas and Poncas: LastEpilogue: The ResultsAppendix: Terminated Tribes and RestorationsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press The Canadian Sioux
Book SynopsisThe Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. This book helps fill that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Howard has written a very good book, which demonstrates that the Canadian Sioux have retained some traditions that their relatives in the United States have abandoned. The Canadian Sioux is recommended reading to students of Sioux traditions.”—Minnesota History Magazine Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordForeword to the Bison Books EditionPreface1. Traditional Sioux Culture2. Tribal DivisionsTraditional Band NamesThe Canadian Reserves3. The Sioux in Canada4. Traditional History5. Warfare6. EconomyWild Plant FoodsHuntingFishingAnimal HusbandryHorticulture and Food ProductionHousing and SettlementTechnology and CraftsBeadwork and QuillworkClothing7. Social LifeChildrenCourtship and MarriageKin GroupsKinship SystemVisitingAthletic SportsGambling GamesSocial Dances8. Philosophy and ReligionSupernatural BeingsFolktalesMagicDoctoringDeath and Burial9. Ceremonialism, the Woodlands HeritageVision QuestPrayer Feast and Medicine FeastAdoption FeastMedicine DanceAnimal Dreamers10. Ceremonialism, the Plains HeritageSun DanceHorse DanceWarrior Society DancesGrass DanceThachó, Warbonnet, and Buffalo DancesHeyókha DanceGhost DancePeyote Religion11. The Canadian Sioux TodayAppendix: List of InformantsBibliographyIndex
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press Children of Grace The Nez Perce War of 1877
Book SynopsisAn account of the Nez Perce War, bringing to life unforgettable characters from both sides of the conflict.Trade Review"In his lucid, clear-eyed, day-by-day chronicle of the Nez Perce and their leaders, their tragedies, and their defeats, and his union of sympathy and objectivity, Hampton has achieved the most historically accurate account of the panorama of the 1877 war... A vigorous narrative that builds on diligent research, this study contributes to the upsurge of excellence in American Indian studies." Booklist
£18.99
University of Nebraska Press Native Americans and the Environment
Book SynopsisExplores related historical and contemporary themes and subjects involving Native Americans and the environment. This volume examines topics as divergent as Pleistocene extinctions and the problem of storing nuclear waste on modern reservations.Trade Review“This excellent anthology features 12 articles originally presented at the 2002 conference ‘Re-figuring the Ecological Indian.’ Of uniformly high quality, the essays respond to Shepard Krech’s The Ecological Indian . . . while furthering discussion of historical and contemporary ideas about Native people as ecologists and conservationists. . . . Harkin and Lewis provide an erudite introduction elucidating the complex issues involved in the discussion. . . . This volume provides an important contribution to a critical, ongoing debate.”—CHOICE "Because of its deliberate interdisciplinary approach, Native Americans and the Environment with appeal to a wide variety of academics and those who appreciate bona fide intellectual exchange. Yet this book also contributes important commentary on contemporary environmental and resource management debates. Its timeliness adds to its appeal."—Elizabeth James, Alaska History“This book provides a balanced perspective on the history of resource use and the social and political pressures that affected resource use in the past and continue to affect use in the present.”—Susan C. Ryan, Journal of American Ethnic History “This is a valuable collection with many carefully documented analyses that speak to the complex and often ambiguous details of Native American environmental relationships, past and present.”—Eugene S. Hunn, Western Historical Quarterly “This book will be valuable for anthropologists, historians, educators, resource managers, and the general public interested in learning about Native Americans have been, and are still, front and center in using and managing their environments. . . . Each stand-alone essay is a fascinating look at the state of the debate on Native Americans and their environments.”—Great Plains Research "Harkin and Lewis's book is a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of these issues which will be profitably read by anyone interested in environmental anthropology, Native North America, Indian-European relations, and cultural identity."—Robert Jarvenpa, Anthropos
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Rivers of Sand
Book SynopsisA study of the Creek home front in Alabama during the removal period, their experiences moving west, and the ways they reestablished their lives in Oklahoma Territory. Trade Review“Rivers of Sand explores how American citizens used various levers to pry the Creek nation out of its ancestral homeland in Georgia and Alabama. The result, Haveman argues in the book’s most important conclusion, was the ethnic cleansing of the antebellum South. Whether or not scholars accept the argument remains to be seen, but the book forces us to reconsider the basic language and periodization of the field. . . . Haveman’s interpretation derives great force from the spadework he undertook to uncover exactly how the [ethnic] cleansing happened.”—James Taylor Carson, Journal of American History “Christopher Haveman presents a much-needed and compelling narrative of the forced removal of the Creek Indians. In Haveman’s hands, the inexorable weight of American expansion is felt as it played out on the ground in rampant and illegal land speculations, the forced signing of treaties, the invasion of Americans into Creek country, corrupt contractors, bitter intra-Creek disputes, and the subsequent suffering and grief of thousands of Creek men and women forced into exile from their homelands.”—Robbie Ethridge, author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World“Haveman offers an unflinching look at America’s own ethnic cleansing in this carefully researched study of Indian removal. A powerful book that exposes the brutality of U.S. policy while never losing sight of the perseverance of Indian people.”—Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America"Through this comprehensive assessment of nineteenth-century Creek removal policy, Haveman exposes various methods of ethnic cleansing ranging from explicit laws, through manipulative treaties, to the push and pull of economic factors, enacted through various agents all the while retaining a focus on the plight of Creeks and their continued survival and pride despite the tragic events endured."—Melanie Vasselin, Native American and Indigenous Studies"Scholars interested in knowing more about not only the Creek experience but also the logistics that shaped the removal process on the ground should read Rivers of Sand."—John P. Bowes, Journal of Southern History"A fascinating work."—J.R. Burch Jr., CHOICE"Haveman's narrative of Creek removal during the early to mid-nineteenth century is a testament to exhaustive research and judicious analysis."—Bryan Rindfleisch, H-AmIndian"Deeply researched and clearly written, Rivers of Sand gives readers a lot to contemplate."—Robert M. Owens, Tribal College Journal"Haveman has produced a sensitive, readable, and comprehensive account of the ethnic cleansing of Creek Indian people from the American South. While other scholars have addressed the political roots of the removal, the many frauds that emerged from it, and the consequences for reestablishing the Nation in the West, this book will stand as the go-to work for those seeking a broader understanding of Creek removal as a whole as well as those hoping to identify the vast array of materials that document both the suffering and the resilience of the Creek people."—Angela Pulley Hudson, Alabama ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on TerminologyIntroduction: Water, 18481. Treason: 1825–272. Fission: 1827–283. Frenzy: 1828–294. Fraud: 1829–355. Eclipse: 1833–366. Sand: 1828–507. Chains: 18368. Coercion: 1836–379. Defiance: 1837–4910. Perseverance: 1837–82Conclusion: Persistence, 2014List of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Hunting Caribou Subsistence Hunting along the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Henry and Karyn Sharp have given us a gift of how abstract and narrative culture translates into everyday practical activity and how that activity feels to the people themselves and to the ethnographers who make the commitment to share it with them."—John David Eller. Anthropology Review Database“Few books discussing subsistence hunting in history, archaeology, or anthropology are grounded in such rich and deep personal experience and understanding of the subject matter from a practical, participatory, long-term, and hands-on approach. This is mandatory reading for anyone discussing hunting and game management in a historical or anthropological context.”—Roland Bohr, author of Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670–1870“This outstanding book covers a range of critical issues: hunter/gatherer transitions within a colonial context; knowledge and expertise in terms of living with nonhumans; indigenous knowledge; but most intriguing and fundamentally exciting is the blend of voices between father and daughter, elder/younger, anthropologist/archaeologist, and on it goes. This is a book that I read cover to cover without pausing and imagine that I will not be alone!”—Charles R. Menzies, editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource ManagementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Hunt 1. Caribou Text 1. Hunting and Predation Small Game. Native Mammals. Scale, Guns, and Freedom. Denésuliné Conceptualization of Hunting. Biology of Women as Hunters. Trust. Hunting Is the Easy Part.Hunt 2. Moose Text 2. Food Storage Meat Distribution. In the Village. Food Storage in the Bush: Freezing, Drying, Smoking, Natural Refrigeration. Protecting Dried Meat. Drying Caribou Meat. Marrow and Boiling Bones for Grease.Hunt 3. Caribou: Pursuit and Risk Text 3. Persistence in Hunting The Dangers of Moving through the Bush. Walking the Land. Dog Teams. Boats, Opportunistic Contact in Hunting.Hunt 4. Caribou: Waiting for Prey Text 4. Weapons Muskets and Rifles. Accuracy. How Weapons Technology Altered Denésuliné Hunting. Women and Rifles. Social Changes from Changed Hunting Methods. Pursuit Hunting and Following Wounded Game.Hunt 5. Caribou: Walking, Kill Locations, and Spoilage Text 5. Carrion and Scavengers The African Model. Consequences of Human Scavenging. An Anthropological Gender War. Eating the Dead. Snow Probes.Hunt 6. Wolf Text 6. Camp Formation Pitching a Camp. Work Areas and Dog Beds. Area a Camp Occupies. Range of Day Trips. Marking the Land. Average Area Exploited by a Camp. Human Influence upon the Land.Hunt 7. Moose: Hunting by Habitat Text 7. Summer Doldrums Inactivity. Problems with Making and Storing Dry Meat. Fish and Other Things. Choosing a Camp Location. Scars on the Land.Hunt 8. Caribou: Long-Distance Hunting Text 8. Transporting Meat Walking the Land. Storing Meat in Lakes.Interlude 1. Land Use and the Terrain at Foxholm Lake Hunt 9. Bear: Failed Hunt Text 9. Looking for Game The Use of High Ground. The Scale of Distance in Hunting. Time and Distance.Hunt 10. Caribou: Calves Text 10. Hides Characteristics of Caribou Hide and Leather. Making and Working Caribou Hide. Time Window for Taking Caribou Hide. Parasites and Seasonality. Uses of Caribou Hide. The Need for Hides Modifies Hunting Priorities. Hunting the Megafauna.Hunt 11. Jackfish Text 11. Women’s Labor Flexibility in the Sexual Division of Labor. Women’s Work and Social Status. Women’s Tasks and Shared Work. Raw Materials vs. Finished Products. The Balance of Temperaments.Hunt 12. Bear: Stalking Prey Text 12. Prey Choices The Failure of Economic AnalysisHunt 13. Missing Hunts Text 13. Shadows of the Past Geology, Rock, Ice, and Ground Cover. Permafrost, Drainage, and Ice Action. Change. How Long Is the Memory of Unused Technology? Clothing. The Generational Transmission of Knowledge.Interlude 2. Wolves, Caribou, and Approaching Prey Hunt 14. Caribou: Caching in the Fall Text 14. Hunting from High Ground Prey Selection. Hunting with Spears.Hunt 15. Caribou: Failed Hunt Text 15. A Puzzle How Past Hunters Hunted the Land. Conclusion.Selected Bibliography Index
£32.30
University of Nebraska Press A Lenape among the Quakers The Life of Hannah
Book SynopsisOn July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. A Lenape among the Quakers reconstructs Freeman's history.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
£13.29
University of Nebraska Press Ojibway Heritage
Book SynopsisIntroduces Ojibway ceremonies, rituals, songs, dances, prayers, arid legendsTrade Review"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples."—Vancouver Sun"This compilation of the basic beliefs, ideals, values, and ceremonies of a large North American native group is a beautiful and sacred document. The wisdom of many of these stories may be understood by humans of all ages. These insightful views of life and its meanings should be read and re-read by those seeking a better understanding of American Indians and themselves."—Library Journal
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press Song of Rita Joe Autobiography of a Mikmaq Poet
Book SynopsisRita Joe is celebrated as a poet, an educator, and an ambassador. In 1989, she accepted the Order of Canada 'on behalf of native people across the nation'. This title tells her story: her education in an Indian residential school, her turbulent marriage, and the daily struggles within her family and community.Trade Review"Rita Joe's heart-wrenching and triumphal autobiography will deeply touch the hearts of its readers. Hers is an inspiring story of survival, endurance, love, and achievement."oA. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.
£12.34
University of Nebraska Press Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Book SynopsisA collection of myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest - the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes. It includes stories concerning the creation of the universe, the theft of fire and daylight, and the death and rebirth of salmo.
£14.24
University of Nebraska Press This Benevolent Experiment
Book SynopsisAnalyses the formulation of the “Indian problem” as a policy concern in the United States and Canada, and examines how the “solution” of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space.Trade Review"[This Benevolent Experiment] is well written, intelligently organized, meticulously researched, and offers original content. Woolford provides an important addition to the growing and rich literature about American Indian genocide and boarding schools."—Clifford E. Trafzer, American Historical Review"This Benevolent Experiment is a must-read for the experts and students of North American history and Native Americans alike."—Arif Jamal, Washington Book Review"This important book, which students, scholars, and policy makers in the U.S. and Canada should read, is a testament to the quality of the work and the still limited understanding of its subject in both countries."—C. R. King, CHOICE"Andrew Woolford's contribution to the field of residential school studies is fascinating. . . . This important work deserves to be read and debated in both countries."—Jim Mochoruk, South Dakota State Historical Society"[This Benevolent Experiment] is a genuine contribution to the literature and will remain for years to come a major source for understanding this tragic, but nonetheless fascinating, chapter in indigenous-colonial settler relations."—David Wallace Adams, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"Scholars of indigenous boarding schools will find Woolford's book a valuable tool in analyzing and describing the destructive power of these institutions."—John Gram, Western Historical Quarterly"An excellent offering for scholars."—Roundup Magazine“Andrew Woolford’s outstanding book offers fresh contributions to the field of Indigenous and settler colonial studies. His comparison of the Indian boarding schools in the United States with their Canadian counterparts yields new insights into both. He provides a sophisticated and probing analysis of whether these schools constituted genocidal policies and practices. This is a top-notch piece of scholarship that should enrich our scholarly—and national—debates for decades to come.”—Margaret Jacobs, author of White Mother to a Dark Race and A Generation RemovedTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction2. Settler Colonial Genocide in North America3. Framing the Indian as a Problem4. Schools, Staff, Parents, Communities, and Students5. Discipline and Desire as Assimilative Techniques6. Knowledge and Violence as Assimilative Techniques7. Local Actors and Assimilation8. Aftermaths and Redress9. Conclusion NotesReferencesIndex
£69.70
University of Nebraska Press Ute Land Religion in the American West 18792009
Book SynopsisUte Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denisontakes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisementbytracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion. As the narrative unfolds, Denison shows how Utes and their Anglo-American allies worked together to systematize a religion out of existing ceremonial practiTrade Review"A welcome edition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Ute."—Curtis Martin, Southwestern Lore“Beautifully written, clear, and compelling. [This book] is grounded on a solid understanding of history, while also providing insightful interpretation and theoretical nuance.”—Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest “This terrific book shows how white settlers in Colorado used the construct of ‘Ute Land Religion’ to justify their appropriation of Native land, how Ute people both resisted and participated in that invention, and how the category of religion has functioned in the making and remaking of the American West.”—Tisa Wenger, author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Religion, Memory, and the American West 1. Plowing for Providence: Nathan Meeker’s Folly 2. Of Outrageous Treatment: Sexual Purity, Empire, and Land 3. She-towitch and Chipeta: Remembering the “Good” Indian 4. Abstracting Ute Land Religion: Fiction and Anthropology on the Reservation 5. Remembering Removal: Enacting Religion and Memorializing the Land 6. The Limits of Reconciliation: Ute Land Religion, Hunting Rights, and the Smoking River Powwow Conclusion: The Burden of Dirt and the Politics of Memory Notes Bibliography Index
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Recovering Native American Writings in the
Book SynopsisAn anthology of editorials, articles, and essays written and published by Indigenous students at boarding schools around the turn of the twentieth century. Trade Review"The texts . . . go a long way toward showing the degree to which some embraced assimilationist rhetoric and others saw literacy and publishing as means to adapting, surviving, resisting, "talking back," and ultimately claiming agency over their own futures in a society that, to differing degrees, saw their existence as a problem to be solved."—M. F. McClure, Choice"Emery's book is timely and important, as it is critical that both Native Americans and allies push for education about this period in history, especially at such a crucial time in our development as a country. Now, more than ever, with the call for a "national identity," we should be looking to our past and what the building of that national identity entails. This means that we should be educating our citizens on how our past governments have attempted to shape the "American." Emery's book provides us with a rich resource of stories gathered from the voices of the students who were part of Carlisle founder Richard Henry Pratt's vision."—Lydia Presley, Great Plains Quarterly"This edited volume features work of thirty-five Native writers and editors and brings visibility to the boarding school newspapers, which hopefully will spur efforts at preserving and using these works as an untapped resource that give voice to Native Americans and expand the history of Native American literature."—Jerry W. Carlson, Nebraska History"By carefully doing the time-consuming work of collecting the writings for this book—writings by Indian people themselves that are scattered in difficult-to-access newspaper archives—Emery has provided a valuable service. She has created a resource that can help us restore and recover at least some of our sight, bringing more detail, nuance, complexity, and humanity into view, if only we can take the time to look closely enough."—Steve Amerman, H-AmIndian"The absorbing nature of these writings and reflections, combined with the insights they provide into an often-ignored chapter in U.S. history, illustrate their value and significance and underscore the importance of publishing additional volumes of Native students' writings."—Samantha M. Williams, Transmotion"This invaluable collection of Native American writings from the turn of the 20th century amplifies Indian voices and experiences during one of the most transitional periods for Indigenous communities in North America. . . . These writings offer a lens to the humanity, creativity, and intellectualism of boarding school students who navigated many issues, cultures, and settings, while representing their peoples and futures."—Farina King, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education"Emery's most valuable addition to boarding school literature is her use of lesser-known writers. While most boarding school presses were run by boys, Emery also has included unique sources like the all-female editorial group—Ida Johnson, Arizona Jackson, and Lula Walker—who launched the Hallaquah newspaper at Seneca Indian School in 1879. Instead of using the newspaper as a promotion of assimilation, these young women showed agency and used their newspaper as a way to preserve their cultures and serve their neighboring communities."—Amanda Johnson, Chronicles of Oklahoma"The editor's exemplary work, meticulous research, and orchestration of a multi-vocal dialogue between boarding school students and activists across decades paves the way for similar, much-needed work of recovery in the field, both in the boarding school press and beyond. We know that Native students were also skilled poets and performers; this is a study worth undertaking by scholars in the future."—Cristina Stanciu, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Jacqueline Emery offers an important addition to the field of Native American studies and, in particular, boarding school literature. . . . [This study] is a significant contribution to making available early voices of American Indian students.”—Cari M. Carpenter, associate professor of English at West Virginia University and coeditor of The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864–1891 “This collection offers something not only to specialists but also to general readers, and especially to classes devoted to Native American studies, Native literature, literacy history, and mass communication. This is an important work.”—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part One: Writings by Boarding School Students Letters Arizona Jackson (Wyandot) Letter to Laura, 1880 Letter to the Editors, 1881 Letter to Susan Longstreth, 1881 Samuel Townsend (Pawnee) Letter by an Apprentice, 1880 Luther Standing Bear (Oglala Sioux) Letter on Baltimore, 1881 Letter to Father, 1882 Editorials Ida Johnson (Wyandot?), Arizona Jackson (Wyandot), and Lula Walker (Wyandot) Hallaquah Editorial, December 1879 Hallaquah Editorial, January 1880 Hallaquah Editorial, February 1880 Hallaquah Editorial, March–April 1880 Hallaquah Editorial, May 1880 Lucy Grey (Seneca), Arizona Jackson (Wyandot), and Bertrand N. O. Walker (Wyandot) Hallaquah Editorial, January 1881 Hallaquah Editorial, February 1881 Hallaquah Editorial, March 1881 Hallaquah Editorial, April 1881 Hallaquah Editorial, May 1881 Hallaquah Editorial, August, September, October, and November 1881 Samuel Townsend (Pawnee) School News Editorial, June 1880 School News Editorial, July 1880 School News Editorial, August 1880 School News Editorial, October 1880 School News Editorial, December 1880 School News Editorial, January 1881 School News Editorial, February 1881 Annie Lovejoy (Sioux), Addie Stevens (Winnebago), James Enouf (Potawatomi), and Frank Hubbard (Penobscot) Our Motto Changed, Talks and Thoughts Editorial, January 1892 Essays Henry Caruthers Roman Nose (Southern Cheyenne) An Indian Boy’s Camp Life, 1880 Roman Nose Goes to New York, 1880 Roman Nose Goes to Indian Territory, 1880 Experiences of H. C. Roman Nose, 1880 Experiences of H. C. Roman Nose, on Captain Pratt, 1881 Experiences of H. C. Roman Nose, on Going to Hampton, 1881 Experiences of H. C. Roman Nose, on Getting an Education,1881 Mary North (Arapaho) A Little Story, 1880 Joseph Du Bray (Yankton Sioux) Indians’ Accustoms, 1891 How to Walk Straight, 1892 The Sun Dance, 1893 Robert Placidus Higheagle (Standing Rock Sioux) Tipi-iyokihe, 1895 Samuel Baskin (Santee Sioux) What the White Man Has Gained from the Indian, 1896 Alonzo Lee (Eastern Band Cherokee) The Trail of the Serpent, 1896 Indian Folk-Lore, 1896 An Indian Naturalist, 1897 Transition Scenes, 1899 Anna Bender (White Earth Chippewa) A Glimpse of the Old Indian Religion, 1904 An Indian Girl in Boston, 1904 Elizabeth Bender (White Earth Chippewa) From Hampton to New York, 1905 J. William Ettawageshik (Ottawa) My Home Locality, 1909 Caleb Carter (Nez Percé) Christmas Among the Nez Percés, 1911 How the Nez Percés Trained for Long Distance Running, 1911 Short Stories and Retold Tales Joseph Du Bray (Yankton Sioux) A Fox and a Wolf: A Fable, 1892 Harry Hand (Crow Creek Sioux) The Brave War-Chief and the Ghost, 1892 A Buffalo Hunt, 1892 The Story Teller, 1893 The Adventures of a Strange Family, 1893 Chapman Schanandoah (Oneida) How the Bear Lost His Tail: An Old Indian Story, 1893 Robert Placidus Higheagle (Standing Rock Sioux) The Brave Deaf and Dumb Boy, 1893 The Legend of Owl River, 1895 Samuel Baskin (Santee Sioux) Ite Waste, or Fair Face, 1895 Stella Vanessa Bear (Arikara) An Indian Story, 1903 How My People First Came to the World, 1903 An Enemy’s Revenge, 1905 Ghost Bride Pawnee Legend, 1910 Indian Legend—Creation of the World, 1910 Anna Bender (White Earth Chippewa) Quital’s First Hunt, 1904 The First Squirrel, 1904 The Big Dipper, 1904 William J. Owl (Eastern Band Cherokee) The Beautiful Bird, 1910 The Way the Opossum Derived His Name, 1912 Emma La Vatta (Fort Hall Shoshoni) The Story of the Deerskin, 1910 Why the Snake’s Head Became Flat, 1911 J. William Ettawageshik (Ottawa) The Maple Sugar Sand, 1910 Caleb Carter (Nez Percé) The Coyote and the Wind, 1913 The Feast of the Animals, 1913 Part Two: Writings by Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Native American Public Intellectuals Francis La Flesche (Omaha) Address to Carlisle Students, 1886 The Laughing Bird, the Wren: An Indian Legend, 1900 The Past Life of the Plains Indians, 1905 One Touch of Nature, 1913 Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai) An Apache, to the Students of Carlisle Indian School, 1887 The Indian Problem from an Indian’s Standpoint, 1898 Civilized Arrow Shots from an Apache Indian, 1902 The Indian Dance, 1902 Flash Lights on the Indian Question, 1902 How America Has Betrayed the Indian, 1903 Charles Alexander Eastman (Santee Sioux) An Indian Collegian’s Speech, 1888 Address at Carlisle Commencement, 1899 The Making of a Prophet, 1899 Notes of a Trip to the Southwest, 1900 An Indian Festival, 1900 A True Story with Several Morals, 1900 Indian Traits, 1903 The Indian’s View of the Indian in Literature, 1903 Life and Handicrafts of the Northern Ojibwas, 1911 “My People”: The Indians’ Contribution to the Art of America, 1914 Angel De Cora (Winnebago) My People, 1897 Native Indian Art, 1907 An Autobiography, 1911 Gertrude Bonnin (Yankton Sioux) School Days of an Indian Girl, 1900 Letter to the Red Man, 1900 A Protest Against the Abolition of the Indian Dance, 1902 Laura Cornelius Kellogg (Oneida) Indian Public Opinion, 1902 John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) The Outlook for the Indian, 1903 The Problem of Old Harjo, 1907 The Indian in the Professions, 1912 Address by J. M. Oskison, 1912 An Indian Animal Story, 1914 Arthur Caswell Parker (Seneca) Making New Americans from Old, 1911 Progress for the Indian, 1912 Needed Changes in Indian Affairs, 1912 Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago) Education of the American Indian, 1915 Elizabeth Bender (White Earth Chippewa) Training Indian Girls for Efficient Home Makers, 1916 A Hampton Graduate’s Experience, 1916 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Complete Seymour Colville Storyteller
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection is an important addition to the canon of Native American narratives and literature and an essential volume for anyone studying Salish languages and linguistics."—Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas"The volume shows the value of deep engagement, of Seymour with his own elders and ancestral narrative traditions and of Mattina with the community of indigenous scholars and storytellers."—Bruce Granville Miller, Pacific Northwest Quarterly“For nearly half a century Tony Mattina has been one of those extremely rare scholars to stick with the narrative legacy of a single mysterious, master storyteller, whose genius and wisdom he serves up in this career-culminating book. Working in close auspices with the Colville-Okanagan communities of Washington State and British Columbia, Mattina [has] . . . produced this stunning and original anthology of their collective imagination, as filtered through the old, old stories of the now-deceased sage, Peter Seymour. [It is] one of those quiet triumphs that took one humanistic spirit from academia to unearth, translate, and contextualize the genius of another humanistic spirit from another cultural world.”—Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrefaceSymbols and AbbreviationsIntroductionThe Colville-Okanagan land and its peopleThe languagesColville-Okanagan social organizationColville-Okanagan knowledgeThe TextsAutobiographical and ethnographic textsAutobiographyHarvestingRacing horsesA hunting tripMarriage customsAfter the birth of a childPartnership butcheringThe attainment of provisionsThe rainy hunting tripTales of European originBlack PigThe grateful dead version 1The grateful dead version 2The Devil and the black mancaptikʷɬHow Coyote got his powersCoyote and WhaleCoyote and GrizzlyThe two goatsLynx and the virginBlueJay and WolfThe transcription and analysis of the textsApproximate phonemic transcriptionsPhrasal words and amalgamsAlternate formsInflectional and non-inflectional materialDerivational affixesInflectional affixesPerson MarkingThe suffix -y̓List in tabular form of remaining inflectional affixesWord classesNominal and pronominal argumentsAutobiographical and ethnographic textsAutobiographyHarvestingRacing horsesA hunting tripMarriage customsAfter the birth of a childPartnership butcheringThe attainment of provisionsThe rainy hunting tripTales of European originBlack PigThe grateful dead version 1 (unfinishedThe grateful dead version 2The Devil and the Black FacecaptikʷɬHow Coyote got his powersCoyote and WhaleCoyote and GrizzlyThe two goatsLynx and the virginBlue Jay and WolfIndex of stems and inflectional affixesIndex of rootsLexical affixesIndex and chronology of Pete Seymour’s narrationsReferences.
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Comanches
Book SynopsisProvides an in-depth historical study of Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, the author traces the changes and continuities in Comanche politics from their earliest interactions with Europeans to their settlement on a reservation in Oklahoma.Trade Review“A historical encyclopedia of Comanche diplomacy. . . . No student of Southwest Native American history should overlook this book.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly“Soundly researched and solidly documented, this book includes painstaking analysis and comparisons of the sources. . . . Of interest to students of southwestern as well as Comanche history.”—Choice“A stunning scholarly achievement. . . . This is a book that belongs on any Western historian’s or writer’s shelf.”—Southwestern American Literature“This is a persuasive and comprehensive work, impressive in its detail and scope. . . . [It is] not likely to be superseded any time soon.”—Journal of the West
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University of Nebraska Press CrossCultural Collaboration
Book SynopsisPresents an anthology of essays on Native American involvement in archaeology in the northeastern US and on the changing relationship between archaeologists and tribes in the region. This work examines the process and the details of collaborative case studies, and also discusses the ethical, theoretical, and practical importance of collaboration.Trade Review"Given the rise of community consultation and collaboration in museums and other settings, this book is an important resource for anyone embarking on or involved in such work... The essays themselves provide a mix of voices: some are openly collaborative and others offer a point-counterpoint of Native and non-Native perspectives within a single chapter. Many candidly discuss misunderstandings, missteps, and that the resolution of some situations may sometimes by only to "agree to disagree," thus providing readers with real-life examples of how consultations and collaborations can go wrong and how problems may be avoided or resolved."-Museum Anthropology Review Museum Anthropology Review "Because of its realistic and inclusive tone, Cross-Cultural Collaboration ultimately presents the reader with a balanced and helpful view that is at the same time both sobering and optimistic."-Jon Daehnke, Collaborative Anthropologies -- Jon Daehnke Collaborative AnthropologiesTable of ContentsForeword - Joe Watkins Introduction - Jordan E. Kerber Map Part One: Collaboration and Regulatory Compliance: Burials and Repatriation 1. Making a Final Resting Place Final: A History of the Repatriation Experience of the Haudenosaunee - Richard W. Hill Sr.; 2. Tradition, Sovereignty, Recognition: NAGPRA Consultations with the Iroquois Confederacy of Sovereign Nations of New York - Nina M. Versaggi; 3. Consulting with the Bone Keepers: NAGPRA Consultations and Archaeological Monitoring in the Wampanoag Territory - Ramona L. Peters; 4. Collaboration between Archaeologists and Native Americans in Massachusetts: Preservation, Archaeology, and Native American Concerns in Balance - Brona G. Simon; 5. "The 368 Years' War": The Conditions of Discourse in Narragansett Country - John B. Brown III and Paul A. Robinson; 6. Ancient Burial Grounds on Monument Road: Abenaki and Archaeologist Efforts to Find a Solution in Vermont - Deborah E. Blom, James B. Petersen, and Frederick Wiseman; 7. Working with the Abenaki in New Hampshire: The Education of an Archaeologist - Robert G. Goodby; 8. Forging New Partnerships: Archaeologists and the Native People of Maryland - Richard B. Hughes and Dixie L. Henry Part Two: Collaboration and Regulatory Compliance: Sites and Places 9. Highway Archaeology in Western New York: Archaeologists' Views of Cooperation between State and Tribal Review Agencies - Robert L. Dean and Douglas J. Perrelli; 10. Green Mountain Stewardship: One Landscape, Multiple Histories - David M. Lacy and Donna Roberts Moody; 11. The Past Is Present: CRM Archaeology on Martha's Vineyard - Holly Herbster and Suzanne Cherau; 12. Tribal Consultation in Pennsylvania: A Personal View from within the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation - Ira Beckerman; 13. Working Together: Developing Partnerships with American Indians in New Jersey and Delaware - Cara Lee Blume; 14. Native American Collaboration in the Delmarva: New Meanings and an Expanded Approach to Delaware Archaeology - Michael D. Petraglia and Kevin Cunningham Part Three: Voluntary Collaboration: Research and Education 15. Case Studies in Collaborative Archaeology: The Oneida Indian Nation of New York and Colgate University - Jordan E. Kerber; 16. Research and Dialogue: New Vision Archaeology in the Cayuga Heartland of Central New York - Jack Rossen; 17. Indigenous Archaeology in Southern New England: Case Studies from the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation - Brian D. Jones and Kevin A. McBride; 18. From the Ground Up: The Effects of Consultation on Archaeological Methods - Elizabeth S. Chilton; 19. Constructing Alliances along the Northern Border: Consultations with Mi'kmaq and Maliseet Nations - Bernard Jerome and David E. Putnam; 20. Passamaquoddy Homeland and Language: The Importance of Place - David Sanger, Micah A. Pawling, and Donald G. Soctomah
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University of Nebraska Press Native Womens History in Eastern North America
Book SynopsisHow can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This is a guide to the significance, experiences, and histories of Native women. It features essays that describe a range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Searching for Cornfields – and Sugar Groves” by Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside) and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark) Section I: Theory What Native Women Were NOT1. Rayna Green (National Museum of American History), “The Pocahontas Perplex”2. David D. Smits (College of New Jersey), “The ‘Squaw Drudge’: A Prime Index of Savagism,” ExcerptWhat Native Women WERE3. Clara Sue Kidwell (University of Oklahoma), “Indian Women as Cultural Mediators”4. Jennifer S. H. Brown (University of Winnipeg, Manitoba), “Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Métis Communities”Equality and Feminism5. Eleanor Leacock (Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and City University of New York), “Women’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution,” Excerpt6. Kathryn Shanley (University of Montana), “Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History,” Excerpt Section II: Method Biography7. Helen Tanner (Newberry Library, Chicago), “Coocoochee: Mohawk Medicine Woman”8. Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Roverside), “Leadership within the Women’s Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe”Central Theme: The Kinship of Religious Affiliation9. Carl Ekberg (Illinois State University), with Anton J. Pregaldin, “Marie Rouensa-8canic8e and the Foundations of French Illinois” 0in 0pt 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.25in"10. Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), “Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade”Central Question: Did Native Women Loose Power After Colonization?11. Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina), “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears”12. Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut), “The Rise or Fall of Iroquois Women”Using Gender as a Tool of Analysis: Economics13. Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota), “Divorced from the Land: Resistance and Survival of Indian Women in Eighteenth Century New England”14. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark), “To Live Among Us: Accommodation, Gender, and Conflict in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832”Oral History15. Nancy Lurie, ed., Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder, Excerpts16. Michelene E. Pesantubbee (University of Iowa), “Beyond Domesticity: Choctaw Women Negotiating the Tension Between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism”
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University of Nebraska Press The Dust Rose Like Smoke The Subjugation of the
Book SynopsisIn 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. The similarities between the two frontier encounters have long been noted, but James O. Gump is the first to scrutinize them in a comparative context.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition of The Dust Rose Like Smoke “It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this brief but pioneering book.”—Ethnohistory “[Gump’s] opening chapters show a mastery of all the relevant historical literature. Indeed, they could be set for any undergraduate course in imperial history as textbook examples of how to build up a comparative framework of analysis.”—Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History “An excellent scholarly introduction to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of the Sioux and the Zulus as well as a thoughtful analysis of United States and British expansion.”—Journal of American History “The first detailed, in-depth comparison of the closing of the American and South African frontiers. . . . Gump has performed a valuable service by showing that the events surrounding Little Big Horn and Isandhlwana were comparable incidents in a global narrative.”—Journal of Social History “Informative to both specialist and general readers.”—American Historical Review "An intriguing book which opens the doors for all manner of comparative studies, and thereby suggests that the process of interaction between indigenous peoples and imperial interlopers is much the same across the world. . . . an interesting and thought-provoking book."—Soldiers of the Queen"Gump's comparative framework examining historical parallels and contrasts makes this an important and useful book illuminating the clashing of Indigenous and settler colonial empires in America and southern Africa."—Jay H. Buckley, Native American and Indigenous Studies"Engrossing."—ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Little Bighorn in Comparative Perspective 2. Frontiers of Expansion 3. Indigenous Empires 4. Collaborators of a Kind 5. Agents of Empire 6. Patterns of Imperial Overrule 7. Images of Empire 8. Legacies Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Ancestral Mounds Vitality and Volatility of
Book SynopsisDeconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological studies, Jay Miller explores the wide-ranging themes and variations of mounds, from those built thousands of years ago to contemporary mounds, focusing on Native southeastern and Oklahoma towns.Trade Review"Fascinating, thorough, insightful, and provocative."—L. E. Sponsel, CHOICE"Miller's rich descriptions, layering of historical and modern perspectives, and holistic viewpoint of mounds made clear that what he really seeks is collaboration and understanding. . . . An enjoyable and informative read."—Erin C. Dempsey, Great Plains Research"As an extended meditation on the power of mound architecture and its continued significance to living, vital, communities, Ancestral Mounds is without parallel."—Matthew Jennings, Kansas History"Highly readable, intriguing, and nuanced, Miller’s text is a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship highlighting the social-symbolic significance of mounds in cosmological context. . . . Ancestral Mounds: Vitality and Volatility of Native America would therefore benefit any scholar of American Indian studies."—Jessica C. Bittner, Southeastern Archaeology"Ancestral Mounds provides us with the continuity through time of Indigenous ceremonial practices and addresses the continued struggle by Indigenous communities for recognition of their importance."—Aimee E. Carbaugh, Native American and Indigenous Studies“Ancestral Mounds is an excellent survey of updated information on earthworks . . . based on thorough research.”—Blue Clark, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, author of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century “Jay Miller is an accomplished scholar of both traditional Native American peoples and their modern descendants. He brings fresh insights and new sense to correct old popular nonsense and outdated academic dogma regarding the profound ancestral meanings and enduring significance of earthen Indian mounds.”—Raymond D. Fogelson, senior editor of Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast “Fully grounded in linguistics, archaeology, and ethnography, this exciting book rethinks the history of humans and nature.”—Laura Dassow Walls, author of The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America “Jay Miller provides a thought-provoking ethnographic interpretation of the religious nature of mound building in eastern North America.”—Brice Obermeyer, author of Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation “Miller has a unique and valuable perspective on mounds, also known as earthen forms. I have tried to describe prehistoric mounds as fossil rituals. Miller describes them as ongoing phenomena and also broadens basic definitions.”—Robert L. Hall, author of An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsConventionsArchaeological Time FrameKinship CodesGraphic Codes1. Mounding Up2. Breaking Ground3. SEeing Mounds4. Modern Mounding5. Mounds in FullNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Modernity and Its Other
Book SynopsisExamines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilisation (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the “Other”) before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonisers.Trade Review"This is an important title for undergraduate and graduate readers."—B. A. Mann, Choice"[Modernity and Its Other] is a worthy read in terms of examining eighteenth-century literature from the perspectives of Europeans and Euro-Americans, investigating their thoughts about modernity and their views on how modernity influenced the lives of indigenous Americans."—Brooke Bauer, Journal of Southern History"Sayre's work adds to our understanding of the creation and promotion of the nineteenth-century Romantic Indian and the role it played in American culture."—Robyn Johnson, American Indian Quarterly"Modernity and Its Other is essential reading for historians of the French and British North American colonies as well as scholars interested in the intellectual, political, and economic currents of the Atlantic world. Robert Woods Sayre’s in-depth examination of Franco-American and Anglo-American travel literature by authors like François-Xavier de Charlevoix, John Lawson, and William Bartram provides readers with new insights into many well-used primary sources."—Peter Ferdinando, H-Atlantic“This translation and expansion of the original French edition brings an international scholar’s perspective and another dimension to the construction of what has been called ‘the white man’s Indian.’”—Colin G. Calloway, author of One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark “Readers will discover new aspects to French American figures like Crèvecoeur and Freneau, as well as the charms of lesser-known travelers such as the Jesuit historian Charlevoix, the renegade officer Lahontan, and the colonial promoters such as John Lawson and Jonathan Carver.”—Gordon M. Sayre, author of Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature “This is no tale of the Vanishing Indian (a fable chillingly historicized in the epilogue). By Sayre’s account what has vanished, into commodity and property, is the counter-world admired in most of the texts and writers analyzed here, no matter how conflicted their accounts.”—Mary Baine Campbell, author of The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Views of Modernity: Internal/External Discovery 1. Crèvecoeur: British America before and during the Revolutionary Upheaval 2. Philip Freneau: After the Revolution 3. Moreau de Saint-Méry: Fin de Siècle Part 2. Views of the Other: Travels in “Indian Territory” 4. The Zero Degree of the Other: Indian Violence and “Adventure” with Indians 5. Accounts of Travel in New France: Lahontan and Charlevoix 6. Anglo-American Travelers: John Lawson and Jonathan Carver 7. Travels of William Bartram, Quaker Botanist 8. Fur Traders: Alexander Mackenzie and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau Epilogue: Into the Nineteenth Century—George Catlin Conclusion Appendix: Chronology of Historical Events, Travels, and Publications Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Vanished in Hiawatha
Book SynopsisVanished in Hiawatha is a harrowing look into the mistreatment of Native Americans at the Canton (South Dakota) Asylum for Insane Indians from 1902 to 1934. Trade Review"Anyone interested in ethnohistory, social history, and the evolution of public health and medicine will glean much value from this work."—Ken Zontek, Annals of Wyoming“[Carla Joinson] exposes the notorious Canton Asylum with balance and compassion. Long overlooked, the story of this asylum has at last found a lucid, discerning, and worthy chronicler.”—Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn "A valuable resource for a number of different fields of scholarship, as well as for the average reader looking to learn about this unique institution."—John Truden, South Dakota History“Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Vanished in Hiawatha. The story is painful, but Joinson’s elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians—and ourselves.”—Catherine Robbins, author of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) “Carla Joinson’s fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell.”—LLyn De Danaan, author of Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster BayTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go?2. Life in an Asylum3. The Bad Start Begins4. Helpless5. A Superintendent in Trouble6. Which Way to Canton?7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins8. Reforms and Canton Asylum9. Let the Investigations Begin10. Life among the Indians11. Another Sort of Prison12. The World Outside13. Hummer Can’t Keep Up14. Ripples in the Waters15. The Winds of Change16. The Gale BlowsEpilogueAfterthoughtsAcknowledgmentsAppendix A: Patients Treated at Canton AsylumAppendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum CemeteryAppendix C: Patients Transferred to St. ElizabethsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Myths and Legends of the Sioux
Book SynopsisIncludes legendary figures such as the timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief's daughter, the pet crane who saves a family, and others. This book presents a collection of 38 pieces, containing humor, animal lore, otherworldly encounters and famous legends such as Unktomi and the Stone Boy.
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University of Nebraska Press Fools Crow
Book SynopsisFrank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. This book, based on interviews conducted in the 1970s, talks about his eventful life, from the days when the Sioux were learning to farm to later times when alcoholism, the cash economy, and WWII were fast eroding the old customs.
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University of Nebraska Press Natives and Academics
Book SynopsisLends clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarshipTrade Review"The essays are spirited and refreshing in bringing out key issues concerning the study and the marketing of American Indian culture and history."—Multicultural Review"Provocative, clear, and forceful."—Western Historical Quarterly"The joy of this book is that Indians speak for themselves, and speak very well indeed!"—Book Talk: New Mexico Book LeagueTable of Contents1 "Introduction" / Devon A. Mihesuah (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff); 2 "American Indian History or Non-Indian Perceptions of American Indian History?" / Angela Cavender Wilson (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York); 3 "Grandmother to Grandaughter: Generations of Oral History in a Dakota Family." / Angela Cavender Wilson; 4 "Commonalty of Difference: Indian Women and History." / Devon A. Mihesuah; 5 "Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony." / Paula Gunn Allen (University of California-Los Angeles); 6 "Comfortable Fictions and the Struggle for Turf: An Essay Review of the Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies." / Vine Deloria Jr. (University of Colorado, Boulder); 7 "Ethics and Responsibilities In Writing American Indian History." / Donald L. Fixico (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo); 8 "Licensed Trafficking and Ethnogenetic Engineering." / Susan A. Miller (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); 9 "American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story." / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Eastern Washington University, Cheney); 10 "Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America." / Laurie Anne Whitt (Michigan Technological University, Houghton); 11 "On Revision and Revisionism: American Indian Representations in New Mexico." / Theodore S. Jojola (University of New Mexico-Albuquerque); 12 "American Indian Studies is for Everyone." / Duane Champagne (University of California-Los Angeles); 13 "Why Indians Should Be the Ones to Write About Indian Education." / Karen Gayton Swisher (Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas) Contributors; Index
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University of Nebraska Press Indigenous American Women
Book SynopsisOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others.Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves. She then illuminates the pervasive impact of colonialism and patriarchal thought on Native women's traditional tribal roles and on their participation in academia. Mihesuah considers how relations between Indigenous women and men across North America continue to be altered by Christianity and Euro-American ideologies. Sexism and violence against Indigenous women has escalated; economic disparities and intratribal factionalism and culturalism threaten connections among women and with men; and many women suffer from psychological Trade Review"Particularly insightful, thought-provoking, [and] well-researched."-Rodney Frey, Journal of American Ethnic History -- Rodney Frey Journal of American Ethnic History "Well worth reading to learn how a perceptive insider views the current state of Native affairs."-Lillian Ackerman, Montana, The Magazine of Western History -- Lillian Ackerman Montana, The Magazine of Western History "As many of these issues relate to decolonization, the legacy of colonialism, and feminism, the essays speak to a larger audience than just American Indian women or people involved with American Indian Studies. Thos whose work spans both activism and scholarship are likely to find something of interest between these covers. The book may also help those who have little experience with activist-scholarship such as Milhesuah's work come to a better understanding of what she and others like her are trying to do."-Stacy Schlegel, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History -- Stacy Schlegel Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "A powerful book about the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of North America... These essays should be required reading in every research seminar... And they clearly establish Milhesuah as a leading indigenous intellectual."-Theda Perdue, Great Plains Quarterly -- Theda Perdue Great Plains Quarterly "Her observations on research and writing about Native women are valuable reminders to other scholars in the field... scholars whose research deals with Native women will find Mihesuah's Indigenous American Women a worthy resource."-Patrice Hollrah, Western American Literature -- Patrice Hollrah Western American Literature "Native and non-Native feminist scholars will find much to debate in this collection, which accomplishes its primary purposes-contributing to a growing body of scholarly literature by Indigenous women, confronting difficult topics frankly and directly, demonstrating ethical research, and providing catalysts for much-needed converstaions about the complex nature of feminisms and activist agendas."-Amanda J. Cobb (Chickasaw), New Mexico Historical Review -- Amanda J. Cobb New Mexico Historical Review
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University of Nebraska Press Eagle Voice Remembers
Book SynopsisDavid C. Posthumus adds new clarity through his annotations, thus introducing John G. Neihardt’s Eagle Voice Remembers to a new generation of readers and presenting a fresh understanding for fans of the original. Trade Review"This is a delightful volume with stories of childhood, kinship, adventure, war, hunting, even finding new life in a Plains tribal culture which continues to enrich twenty-first century America. Read or re-read the book."—Michael Smith, Nebraska History Magazine"Eagle Voice Remembers is an important work for anyone interested in the region's Indigenous history."—Chelsea D. Frazier, South Dakota History“A warm and often moving piece of literature which can be appreciated for its literary value and for its insights into Sioux culture.”—Rocky Mountain Social Science JournalTable of ContentsContentsForeword by Coralie HughesIntroduction to the New Edition by Raymond J. DeMallieJohn G. Neihardt’s Introduction to the British EditionI. “I Used to Be Her Horse”II. When the Hundred DiedIII. The New Medicine PowerIV. Wandering to MournV. Was the Great Voice Angry?VI. Chased by a CowVII. Going on Vision QuestVIII. “Hold Fast; There Is More!”IX. The Old Bull’s Last FightX. The Boys Who Had Sister TroubleXI. Helping a Brother-FriendXII. The Mysterious Mother-PowerXIII. Four Against the CrowsXIV. “Am I Greater Than the People?”XV. The Sun DanceXVI. Thanking the FoodXVII. The Woman Four Times WidowedXVIII. Falling Star, the SaviorXIX. The Labors of the Holy OneXX. The Battle in the BlizzardXXI. The Cleansing of a Kills-HomeXXII. Why the Island Hill Was SacredXXIII. Fighting the Gray FoxXXIV. “It Was a Great Victory”XXV. The Woman Who Died TwiceXXVI. The Moon of Black CherriesXXVII. The Dark Hills of WaterXXVIII. In the Village Called ParsXXIX. The Girl’s RoadNotesReferences
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University of Nebraska Press When Dream Bear Sings
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary, diversified, multicultural anthology that includes English translations accompanied by analytic and interpretive text outlines by leading scholars of eight major language groups of the Southern Plains: Muskogean, Uto-Aztecan, Caddoan, Siouan, Algonquian, Kiowa-Tanoan, Athabascan, and Tonkawa.Trade Review"This book should appeal to the casual reader who would like a closer look at Native American literature from the Southern Plains, to academics interested in the stories and cultures of the Native American nations of the Southern Plains, and to linguists interested in the nuances of translation by native speakers."—Geneva Harline, Western Folklore"A diverse collection of texts from each linguistic family of the Native American Southern Plains, When Dream Bear Sings evokes a singular editorial freedom, and in juxtaposing texts crafted in different eras, for different purposes, and by authors of diverse sensitivities, interrogates a paradoxical literary tradition—that of the documentation and revitalization of Native American oral traditions—on its evolution, its promises, and its shortcomings."—Thierry Veyria, Journal of Folklore Research"Those who are interested in Southern Plains culture will want this book for its authentic presentation of Native languages, its broad and deep survey of texts, and the knowledgeable essays that accompany them."—Marcia Haag, Tribal College Journal“The vital importance of When Dream Bear Sings cannot be expressed strongly enough. The editor offers the reader multiple, reflective levels of understanding the stories and Native ways of thinking about the world around us.”—Blue Clark, professor of law at Oklahoma City University and author of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century“To my knowledge, this is the most comprehensive collection of oral literature of the Plains that has ever been produced. I especially appreciate the diversity of tribal perspectives rendered here and the way that the text accounts for the intricacies, including problems and possibilities, of transcription.”—Lindsey Claire Smith, associate professor of English and affiliate of American Indian studies at Oklahoma State University and editor of American Indian Quarterly“I celebrate the achievement of When Dream Bear Sings, which offers not only rich translations of extremely valuable literary traditions but also a deeper understanding of the cross-cultural translation process itself. This work and the voices that echo from its pages advance humanist aims in science for a scholarship grounded in human dignity.”—Catharine Mason, associate professor of English and linguistic ethnography at the University of Caen Normandy“In this wonderful collection of Native American stories from the Southern Plains, Gus Palmer and his host of contributors treat the reader to Indigenous language narratives that allow us, as readers, to hear a variety of Native voices while reading well-crafted translations that deliver the power, beauty, and imagination of the originals.”—Paul V. Kroskrity, professor of anthropology and American Indian studies at UCLATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Alan R. Velie Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Algonquian Language Family Cheyenne Cheyenne Stories and Storytelling Oral Traditions Gordon Yellowman The Bear and the Coyote Translated by Joyce Twins Cheyenne Story—Dogs Used to Carry Burdens in Days before Horses Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan Cheyenne Story—Man Who Prophesied Coming of Horses and White Men Long Ago Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan How Stories Were Told at Night by an Old Lady Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan Birdie’s Grandmother’s Story of How Corn and Buffalo Were Given to the Cheyennes Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan Absentee Shawnee Shawnee Poems Narrated by Pauline Wahpepah Introduced by Gus Palmer Jr. Kickapoo The Motorcyclists Mosiah Bluecloud Lenape The Lenape Story of the Origin of the Woman Dance Lillie Hoag Whitehorn Transcribed by Bruce Pearson and James Rementer Translated by Nora Thompson Dean Introduced by James Rementer Miami Myaamia “Story of Fox and Wolf” Narrated by Kiišikohkwa (Elizabeth Valley) to Albert Gatschet Introduced by David J. Costa Potawatomi Pondese: Old Man Winter and Why We Have Spring Today Translated and introduced by Justin Neely 2. Athabaskan Language Family Plains Apache Coyote and Rock Monster: A Plains Apache Tale Narrated by Alonzo Chalepah Sr. Transcribed by Harry Hoijer Reanalyzed and introduced by Sean O’Neill 3. Caddoan Language Family Caddo The Wolf and the Wren Narrated by Sadie Bedoka Weller Transcribed by Wallace Chafe Pawnee The Old Woman and Her Grandson Blessed by a Voice Narrated by Dollie Moore, Pitahawirata Pawnee Translated and introduced by Douglas R. Parks Interlinear files by Joshua A. Richards He Goes Over and the Burning Log: A Wolf Story Narrated by Harry Mad Bear, Skiri Pawnee Introduced and translated by Douglas R. Parks Interlinear files by Joshua A. Richards A Pawnee Story Narrated, translated, and introduced by Adrian Spottedhorsechief Arikara The Race between the Horse and the Buffalo: An Arikara Narrative Alfred Morsette (Paatú Kananuuninó, ‘Not Afraid of the Enemy’) Transcribed and introduced by Douglas R. Parks Kitsai Coyote Frees Buffalo Narrated by Kai Kai, Kitsai Recorded by Alexander Lesser Translated and introduced by Joshua A. Richards Wichita Awa:hárikic: Hassí:ri:ha:stírih Narrated and translated by Bertha Provost Translated and introduced by David S. Rood 4. Iroquoian Language Family Cherokee Diary Translated and introduced by Durbin Feeling I Shot It, You Shot It Transcribed and translated by Durbin Feeling Seneca-Cayuga Minnie Thompson Stories Narrated by Minnie Thompson Recorded and transcribed by J. W. Tyner Wyandotte History of the Wyandotte Indians Donna Elliott Vowel interviewed by J. W. Tyner 5. Kiowa-Tanoan Language Family Kiowa Já̱:mátàunhè̱:jègà (Star Girls Story) Narrated, transcribed, and translated by Parker P. McKenzie Retranslated and introduced by Gus pàntha̱i:dê Palmer 6. Siouan Language Family Ponca A Ponca Ghost Story Narrated by Francis La Flesche Originally transcribed and translated by James Owen Dorsey Reanalyzed and introduced by Sean O’Neill Otoe-Missouria Introduction to Otoe-Missouria Sky Campbell The Rabbit and the Grasshoppers: An Otoe Story Collected by Rev. James Owen Dorsey The Rabbit and the Mountain: An Otoe Myth Narrated by Joseph La Flesche Collected by Rev. James Owen Dorsey Ponca Omaha Ponca Omaha Letters Dictated and Taken by James Owen Dorsey Introduced by Vida Woodhull Stabler To the Cincinnati Commercial, from several Omahas Part 1, written by Dúba-Moⁿthiⁿ Part 2, written by Káxe-Thoⁿba Part 3, written by Óⁿpʰoⁿ-toⁿga Part 3, written by Óⁿpʰoⁿ-toⁿga Part 3, written by Óⁿpʰoⁿ-toⁿga Part 6, written by Káxe-Thoⁿba Kaw Two Accounts of a Battle between the Kaws and Cheyennes Narrated by Zhóhiⁿ Máⁿyiⁿ and Paháⁿle Gáxli Collected by Rev. James Owen Dorsey Retranscribed, retranslated, and introduced by Justin T. McBride Ioway The Sister and Brother Translated and introduced by Lance Foster, THPO Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Quapaw Introduction to Quapaw Billy Proctor The Rabbit and the Black Bears: A Dhegiha Myth Narrated by Alphonsus Valliere Recorded by James Owen Dorsey Transcribed by Billy C. Proctor 7. Uto-Aztecan Language Family Comanche Blind Fox and Two Girls Narrated by Mow-wat Translated by Juanita Pahdopony Introduced by Brian Daffron The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake Narrated by Dorothy Martinez Translated by Juanita Pahdopony Introduced by Brian Daffron 8. Language Isolate Introduction to Language Isolates Gus Palmer Jr. Tonkawa The Young Man Who Became a Shaman: A Tonkawa Myth Story Transcribed, translated, and introduced by Don Patterson Text prepared by Miranda Allen Myers Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press George Swords Warrior Narratives
Book SynopsisThe general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been in the study of content rather than process in oral traditions. In a new disclosure of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet.Trade Review"Delphine Red Shirt provides a valuable, culturally informed analysis of a selection of texts authored by George Sword, one of the most noteworthy of historical Lakota figures spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."—Debra K. S. Barker, Great Plains Quarterly"This study is recommended for those interested in folklore, oral literature, American Indian studies, or narrative studies. The book can also be taught in folklore theory classes, alongside The Singer of Tales, as a successful application of oral-formulaic theory to American Indian oral literature."—Joshua Chrysler, Journal of Folklore Research“Students of anthropology, linguistics, and world literature will be delighted to see a Native American case that is parallel to Albert Lord’s classic, The Singer of Tales, which showed how ancient bards managed to memorize lengthy oral narratives as epic poetry, performed as song. Red Shirt’s book will soon be a classic itself.”—Sean O’Neill, associate professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and author of Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Lakota Tradition 2. Lakota Practice 3. George Sword 4. Lakota Formulas 5. Textual Analysis 6. Lakota Theme 7. Traditional Implications Appendix 1: Narrative 1 and Literary Translation Appendix 2: Narrative 2 and Literary Translation Appendix 3: Narrative 3 and Literary Translation Appendix 4: Sun Dance Narrative and Literary Translation Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Life of Ten Bears
Book SynopsisPresents a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph “Joe A” Attocknie. Kavanagh’s introduction adds context to the personal narratives by discussing the process of transmission.Trade Review"The Life of Ten Bears provides such a wealth of information regarding Comanche raids and rituals from this era that it should prove of immense value to researchers for decades to come."—Steven Sielaff, Great Plains Quarterly“Native historical accounts are the ‘holy grail’ for scholars working in borderlands or colonial contact situations. Kavanagh’s editing of Francis Joseph ‘Joe A’ Attocknie’s collection of the historical narratives of the Comanche Ten Bears will prove invaluable for scholars and edifying for readers.”—Lance Blyth, author of Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880“The Life of Ten Bears will quickly become required reading in a range of disciplines and will be enjoyed by a broad, popular readership. It is a treasured addition to historical narratives authored by members of Native American communities in the twentieth century.”—Daniel Swan, curator of ethnology, Sam Noble Museum, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsIntroduction by Thomas W. Kavanagh Preface The Dated Narratives 1. The Life of Ten Bears · ca. 1790–1872 2. Peace with the Kiowas · ca. 1825 3. Uhta Hookne: The Robe Entrenchments · 1837 4. Nahwakatahnohpetuhupu: When the Enemies Camped Together · 1838 5. Piakoruko’s War against the Apaches · 1840 6. Where the Comanches’ Saddle Packs Were Captured: Isakwahip’s Tragic Victory · ca. 1845–50 7. The Badger’s Mirror · 1855 8. Disaster in Coahuila · 1856 9. The Red-Striped Saddle Blanket · 1856 10. The Battle at Little Robe Creek · 1858 11. Wutsuki · 1858 12. Tuhtahyuheekuh Evens the Score against the Osages · 1868 13. Onawia Takes a New Wife and Goes to Mexico ·1868 14. Buckskin Charlie versus Kiowas and Comanches · July 1868 15. The Battle of the Washita · November 26, 1868 16. The Battle of McClellan Creek · September 24, 1872 17. The Battle of Adobe Walls · 1874 18. The Last Sun Dance, the Last Raid · July 26, 1878 The Undated Narratives 19. Esitoya’s Loyalty 20. Pukumahkuh’s Two Escapes 21. The Pukutsinuu: The Comanche Contrary Warriors 22. Mubsiihuhtuko: The Peaceful Nephew 23. A Fight between Cavalry and a Comanche War Party 24. Attocknie Gets Half a Scalp 25. A Cripple and a Blind Man Form a Friendship 26. Violation of a Dance Ground 27. Pohocsucut and the Two Kiowas 28. The Mule 29. Querherbitty 30. Comanche Pictographs 31. Miscellaneous Religious Matters 32. Fragmentary and Incomplete Narratives Appendix: Lexicon Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Upper Peren233 Arawak Narratives of History
Book SynopsisThe storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts, women’s autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches. It covers a range of themes in the Alto Perené oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts.Trade Review“A sophisticated and interesting, discourse-centered approach to culture that can serve as a model for integrating linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, this collection demonstrates how much cultural variability exists within and among the various indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon region.”—Jonathan Hill, author of Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History in an Amazonian Community“Books like this are a feast for linguists and anthropologists alike, and are all too rare. . . . The storytelling alone provides a unique insight into a world that will be unfamiliar to most English speakers. . . . Its integrated approach to culture and language . . . gives the reader a true appreciation of the mental universe inhabited by these speakers of a threatened, but defiant, language of Peru.”—Christopher Moseley, Ogmios, newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered LanguagesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Objective, Method, Data, and StructureOrthographyAbbreviationsSynopsis of Texts Part 1. History 1. Pava vitsikirori kipatsi (Pava, Who Made the Earth)Cristobal Jumanga Lopez 2. Okoñaatantakari kaniri(How Sweet Manioc Appeared)Alberto Pérez Espinoza 3. Okoñaatantari paamari(How Fire Came into Existence)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 4. Pava Apinka(God Apinka)Luis Mauricio Rosa 5. ApinkaBertha Rodríguez de Caleb and Abdias Caleb Quinchori 6. ApinkaElías Meza Pedro, Gregorio Santos Pérez, and Livia Julio de Quinchori 7. Yookantapakairi virakocha(How the Whites Threw Us Out)Fredi Miguel Ucayali 8. Natsitonini(The Stream of Bones)Manuel Rubén Jacinto 9. Tsika okantakota ovayeritantsi(About the Craft of War)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 10. Apapanani(The Brook of Liver Parts)Gregorio Santos Pérez 11. Ovayeri inoshikantarori kooya(When Warriors Kidnapped a Woman)Paulina García Ñate 12. Ovayeri inoshikantzi eentsi(The Warriors Kidnapped Children)Ines Pérez de Santos 13. Nonkinkitsatakotero nayironi(I Will Tell about My Deceased Mother-in-Law)Victorina Rosas de Castro 14. Tsika okanta nosaikantakari Marankiaroki(How We Settled Down in Bajo Marankiari)Bertha Rodríguez de Caleb 15. Tsika okanta noñaakoventakiri matsipaye(How I Witnessed Events Involving Witches)Bertha Rodríguez de Caleb Part 2. Landscape 16. Ashiropanko(The Iron House)Gerardo Castro Manuela 17. Atziri yamaniri mapi poña paamari(People Were Worshipping Fire and Stone)Elías Meza Pedro, with Gregorio Santos Pérez 18. Atziri yamaniri paamari(People Were Worshipping Fire)Cristobal Jumanga Lopez 19. Tzivi(Salt)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 20. Tzivi(Salt)Abraham Jumanga Lopez 21. Manitzipanko(The Jaguar House)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez 22. Imoro Naviriri(The Naviriri Hole)Elías Meza Pedro 23. Otzinantakari otzishi omontero Samamparini(How the Hill Appeared across from the Village of Villa Progreso)Raul Martin Bernata 24. Anashironi(The Anashirona Stream)Julio Castro Shinkaki, with Delia Rosas Rodríguez 25. PichanakiOtoniel Ramos Rodríguez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 26. PichanakiAlmacia Benavidez Fernandez 27. Kiatsi(The Owner of the River)Carmen Pachiri Quinchori 28. Peyari(The Bone Spirit)Gregorio Santos Pérez 29. Iñaaventa kamari Kovatsironi(Speaking with Regard to the Demon from Kovatsironi)Ines Pérez de Santos 30. Tsamirimenta(The Curassow Crest Stone)Moises Santos Rojas 31. Maninkaroite(The Invisible Women)Moises Santos Rojas 32. Ashitarori otzishipaye(Masters of the Hills)Elena Nestor de Capurro, with Victoria Manchi de Martin 33. Inkaari Chorinkaveni(Lake Churingaveni)Moises Santos Rojas 34. Chorinkaveni(Churingaveni)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa Part 3. Ritual 35. Ampinateri Pava(What We Will Offer to Pava)Clelia Mishari, with Gregorio Santos Pérez 36. Kamenantsi(Traditional Advice)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 37. Tsika okantya ashimaapakotantyari(How to Be a Good Fisherman)Gregorio Santos Pérez 38. Yamaniri pava impereta(They Were Worshipping the Stone Divinity)Delia Rosas Rodríguez 39. Arika ashimaatya(When We Fish)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 40. Ookantyarori inkani(How to Chase Away Rain)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 41. Shinavaite ovariri atziri(Shinavaite Who Ate People)Abdias Caleb Quinchori 42. Okoñaatantakari mavira(How Mavira Appeared)Luis Mauricio Rosa, with Raul Martin Bernata and Victoria Manchi de Martin 43. MaviraElena Nestor de Capurro 44. MaviraInes Pérez de Santos and Moises Santos Rojas 45. Pavankiri ooria(Solar Deity)Bertha Rodríguez de Caleb 46. Iyovapajirika ooriatsiri(When the Sun Comes Out)Paulina García Ñate 47. Ipantsakoitziri kashiri(They Sing about the Moon)Paulina García Ñate 48. Arika antarote kooya(When a Girl Had Her First Menses)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 49. Aavakantsi(Taking a Spouse)Gregorio Santos Pérez 50. Kamaki aparoni atziri(When a Person Died)Delia Rosas Rodríguez 51. Ikantakota sheripiari pairani(About Shamans Who Existed in the Past)Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 52. Sheripiari Julio Quintsori(Shaman Julio Quintsori)Frida Thomas Huamán 53. Impantsakoteri isherini(He Will Sing about His Tobacco)Paulina García Ñate 54. Yantavairi sheripiari(Shaman’s Work)Moises Santos Rojas 55. Sheripiari(Shaman)Ines Pérez de Santos 56. Okantakota matsitantsi(About Witchcraft)Ruth Quillatupa Lopez, with Daniel Bernales Quillatupa 57. Ochonkiri Abdias(She Steam-Bathed Abdias)María Virginia Lopez, Abdias Caleb Quinchori, Bertha Rodríguez de Caleb, and Victorina Rosas de Castro 58. Antavairi aavintantzinkaro(Healer’s Work)Luzmila Machari Quinchori Concluding Remarks Appendix: Ideophones Used by the Narrators Notes Glossary References Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Integration of the Pacific Coast League Race
Book SynopsisDescribes the evolution of the Pacific Coast League, beginning with the league's differing treatment of African Americans and other non-white players. Because these Minor League teams integrated so much earlier than the Major Leagues or the eastern Minor Leagues, West Coast baseball fans were the first to experience a more diverse baseball game.Trade Review"Amy Essington’s The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast points towards the underappreciated and vastly overlooked Minor League Baseball (MiLB) as an important new direction for scholars interested in baseball’s desegregation."—David Lucander, NINE"Jackie Robinson was a trailblazer in integrating major league baseball, but as Essington shows, there were pioneers at the minor-league level who also blazed a path for a future generation of African American players. The Pacific Coast League integrated quickly and was ages ahead of other areas of the country. Essington's book provides readers with a concise, useful examination of that progress."—Bob D’Angelo, Sport in American History"The West Coast's reputation as socially progressive was a factor even in sports. Amy Essington . . . tells the story of how the Pacific Coast League, a popular minor league before the majors' westward expansion, became one of the first leagues in any sport to integrate throughout."—Ross Atkin, Christian Science Monitor"Essington's book is a worthy exploration of race, baseball, and American culture in the postwar American West. Historians and members of the general public interested in race, civil rights, baseball, and the American West should find this book useful and informative."—Robert Bauman, Oregon Historical Society“The desegregation of the Pacific Coast League is a story that has never been fully told until now. Amy Essington gives a thorough account of the process and the individuals. . . . Essington explains the story beyond Robinson and Rickey. A definite must-read.”—Leslie Heaphy, editor of Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star, and the Negro Leagues “Based on a subject that has received too little attention from sports historians, The Integration of the Pacific Coast League explores the important role that the PCL played in the integration of baseball and how it became one of the first sports leagues to be fully integrated.”—Dick Beverage, founder and former president of the Pacific Coast League Historical SocietyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Baseball, the Color Line, and the Pacific Coast League before World War II 2. Baseball, the Color Line, and the Pacific Coast League in the 1940s 3. John Ritchey Integrates the San Diego Padres, 1948 4. Momentum and Challenges, 1949 5. The Pacific Coast League Integrates, 1950–52 Afterword Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Grasslands Grown
Book SynopsisAn exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America’s northern grasslands. Trade Review"Rozum overcomes the methodological compartmentalization that often hinders studies of regionalism, intermixing literary analysis, historical geography, and environmental history."—R. L. Dorman, Choice"[Grasslands Grown] offers historians, social anthropologists, and cultural geographers further evidence of not only the myriad ways space is inscribed with meaning but also how these meanings may, consciously or otherwise, serve to supplant and negate the dispossessed."—Bree Hocking, North Dakota History"Rozum's book is clear, engaging, and well argued. It deserves a place on the bookshelves of scholars who study settler placemaking, the North American grasslands, the northern borderlands, and the ways the interaction of culture and environment fosters senses of place and regional identity creation."—Anthony Carlson, H-Environment"Rozum highlights a great internal conflict of many grasslands settlers: pride in the environment and a great sense of connection to it, but shame at its lack of "real" culture and disdain (even self-directed loathing) for those who stayed. It is for this reason that anyone interested in the cultural environmental history of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies should read Grasslands Grown."—Laura Larsen, NiCHE“A subtle, sensitive, and sophisticated transnational history of settler place-making that transforms our understanding of the Great Plains. Grasslands Grown’s exceptional exploration of environment and experience will interest readers everywhere. This brilliant book is a must-read.”—Michael J. Lansing, author of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics“Grasslands Grown will become a standard in Great Plains studies. The work is profoundly important.”—Thomas D. Isern, professor of history and University Distinguished Professor at North Dakota State University“Rozum artfully presents the different personalities. . . . I can’t think of a book I have read in the last ten years that weaves in so many voices across such disparate, tangible, variegated experiences. Rozum is a lucid, often poetic writer, and her insights into humanity are many.”—Susan N. Maher, professor of English at the University of Minnesota–DuluthTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Northwest from La Vérendrye Hill 1. Parents’ Choice: Taking Root on the Northern Grasslands 2. Small Worlds: Animal Friends, Foes, and Place Rhythms 3. Sensing Prairies and Plains: Grasses, Grains, Waters, Woods, Rocks, and Snow 4. “The Purple Hills That Beckoned”: Growing Up, Travel, Education, and Region 5. “Old Woman Who Never Dies” and Old Man’s Garden: Settler and Indigenous Relations over the Generations 6. “All Is So Still—So Big, I Scarce Can Speak”: New Literature and Settler-Society Aesthetics 7. “Surely, Grass Is the Great Mother of All Plains Agriculture”: Agricultural Adaptation and Grasslands Conservation 8. “All That Vast Region of Grass Land”: The United States, Canada, and Changing Cultural Geography Conclusion: Looking across the Line from the Prairies and Plains Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Conquering Sickness
Book SynopsisPublished through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout this eighty-year period, ordinary health concerns shaped cross-cultural interactions during Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo colonization. Historians have shown us that Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American settlers in the contested borderlands read the environment to determine how to live healthy, productive lives. Colonizers similarly outlined a culture of healthy living by observing local Native and Mexican populations. For colonists, Texas residents’ so-called immorality—evidenced by their “indolence,” “uncleanliness,” and “sexual impropriety”—made them unhealthy. In the Spanish and Anglo cases, the state madTrade Review"Taking up a history with a number of diverse actors and epistemologies, Goldberg demonstrates the ways in which native, European, Mexican, and US health practices were deeply entangled, even as the framework of health was repeatedly marshalled in the service of conquest. Conquering Sickness . . . illuminates a cruel paradox: oppressed communities produced medical knowledge that buttressed both the authority of colonial medicine and the health of colonists, who in turn used ideologies of wellness to conquer and to oppress."—Michael J. Piellusch, Early American LiteratureConquering Sickness is, in many ways, a classic borderlands study, as Goldberg highlights how indigenous people circumvented, undermined, coopted, and rerouted the impulses and programs of imperial and national powers. Goldberg's analysis, however, is sharpest—and most significant—when he explores the connections between identity formation, everyday life, and discourses of healthy living. . . . Conquering Sickness offers an excellent blueprint for locating subaltern cultural markers among the conquerors and colonizers of the borderlands."—Paul Barba, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Conquering Sickness makes a significant contribution to our understanding of health and colonization in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands."—Heather Sinclair, Pacific Historical Review“A stunning achievement, Conquering Sickness tells a compelling multiethnic and transnational story about culture and power rooted in the everyday lives of people in Texas.”—John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, associate professor at Texas State University and author of Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1952 “As Mark Goldberg’s well-researched and detailed work moves from the first smallpox inoculations in the region and the widespread use of medicinal hot springs to cures for cholera and other diseases that utilized local plants such as peyote and maguey, he illuminates in new ways the cross-cultural encounters of this multiracial border region.”—Martha Few, author of For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala “I can imagine Conquering Sickness finding its way onto many reading lists. It’s clear that this is a book from which historians of the American West, Native American history, colonial and early national Mexico, and Texas now have much to learn.”—Thomas Andrews, author of Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High RockiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology Chapter 1: Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial Texas Chapter 2: The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and Missionization in the Gulf Coast Chapter 3: Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State Formation in Northern Mexico Chapter 4: Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health in Nineteenth-Century Central Texas Chapter 5: Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine in South Texas Epilogue Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Okanagan Grouse Woman
Book SynopsisIn this book of Native American language research and oral traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by culture-bearer Lottie Lindley, one of the last Okanagan elders whose formative years of language learning were unbroken by the colonizing influence of English. Lindley tells the stories that recount and reflect Salish culture, history, and historical consciousness.Trade Review“[The voice of] Lottie Lindley, full of both personal character and the reserved and patient wisdom of the elder, comes through the transcriptions clearly, movingly, and with cumulative power.”—Ursula K. LeGuin, winner of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters “This volume sets a new standard for combining accessibility to the speaker community and academic rigor.”—David Beck, professor of linguistics at the University of Alberta “The collection is masterfully constructed, reflecting Lottie Lindley’s distinctive narrative voice in Okanagan and in English. At once a carefully annotated documentation of the Okanagan language as well as a record of history, culture, and land, the book is a testament to the power of narrative in Okanagan and a wonderful gift to future generations.”—Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria “John Lyon has changed the mold somewhat in providing complete Nsyílxcen texts on a separate page, preceding the linguistic explanations. This gives advanced learners and teachers an invaluable resource: a wealth of written literature that can be read, enjoyed, and taught from.”—Michele K. Johnson, Syilx Language House Association Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword by Xʷacúʔ (Allan Thomas Lindley) Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Editor’s Introduction: The Okanagan Language PART 1. UPPER NICOLA NARRATIVES: OKANAGAN 1. kɬíw̓sntməlx iʔ t t̓ik̓ʷt 2. ɬaʔ ckc̓x̌ʷípəlaʔs iʔ sənk̓l̓íp 3. iʔ nx̌aʔx̌ʔítkʷ 4. Snʕánʕas 5. k̓l nsk̓ʷuts iʔ t̓ik̓ʷt 6. lkʷilx iʔ tl sənɬq̓ʷútən 7. xʷk̓ʷncut mi sic ʔawspíx̌əm 8. ɬaʔ c̓x̌ʷíltəm iʔ sqilxʷ 9. iʔ t̓yt̓ymuɬ t tətwít 10. ɬaʔ ck̓awíwləx iʔ sqilxʷ 11. ɬaʔ ck̓ʷúl̓əm iʔ sqilxʷ t p̓ínaʔ 12. l Nəq̓áq̓suɬ 13. l Q̓ʷumqnátkʷ 14. iʔ kəkn̓íʔ iʔ ksk̓wilxs 15. cktyáqʷtmstsəlx iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷ 16. yaʕyáʕt səʕsáʕtləx k̓im t̓i knaqs t ƛ̓əx̌əx̌ƛ̌x̌áp act̓kíkst 17. iʔ sqiʔsc iʔ knaqs iʔ tkɬmilxʷ 18. uɬ ixíʔ cyaʕp iʔ smsámaʔ 19. ɬaʔ ckicx Douglas 20. kʷu ɬaʔ cq̓əy̓ám k̓l snq̓əy̓míntən 21. Maggie Moore iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷs PART 2. UPPER NICOLA NARRATIVES: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES 1. Divided by the Lake 2. When Coyote Ruled 3. The Lake Monster 4. The Snotty-Nose Bird 5. Other Side of the Lake 6. Leave Your Bed 7. Clean Yourself Before Going Hunting 8. When the People Trained 9. The Lazy Boy 10. When the People Became Old 11. How the People Made Baskets 12. At Minnie Lake Interview with Nellie Guitterez 13. At Chapperon Lake 14. The Kokanees Will Go Upriver 15. They Fought Over the Land 16. They All Fell Off Except One Old Man with a Cane 17. One Woman’s Dream 18. And the White People Came 19. When Douglas Came 20. When We Were Writing in School 21. Maggie Moore’s Land PART 3. UPPER NICOLA NARRATIVES: INTERLINEAR ANALYSES 1. kɬíw̓sntməlx iʔ t t̓ik̓ʷt / Divided by the Lake 2. ɬaʔ ckc̓x̌ʷípəlaʔs iʔ sənk̓l̓íp / When Coyote Ruled 3. iʔ nx̌aʔx̌ʔítkʷ / The Lake Monster 4. Snʕánʕas / The Snotty-Nose Bird 5. k̓l nsk̓ʷuts iʔ t̓ik̓ʷt / Other Side of the Lake 6. lkʷilx iʔ tl sənɬq̓ʷútən / Leave Your Bed 7. xʷk̓ʷncut mi sic ʔawspíx̌əm / Clean Yourself Before Going Hunting 8. ɬaʔ c̓x̌ʷíltəm iʔ sqilxʷ / When the People Trained 9. iʔ t̓yt̓ymuɬ t tətwít / The Lazy Boy 10. ɬaʔ ck̓awíwləx iʔ sqilxʷ / When the People Became Old 11. ɬaʔ ck̓ʷúl̓əm iʔ sqilxʷ t p̓ínaʔ / How the People Made Baskets 12. l Nəq̓áq̓suɬ / At Minnie Lake 13. l Q̓ʷumqnátkʷ / At Chapperon Lake 14. iʔ kəkn̓íʔ iʔ ksk̓wilxs / The Kokanees Will Go Upriver 15. cktyáqʷtmstsəlx iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷ / They Fought Over the Land 16. yaʕyáʕt səʕsáʕtləx k̓im t̓i knaqs t ƛ̓əx̌əx̌ƛ̌x̌áp act̓kíkst / They All Fell Off Except One Old Man with a Cane 17. iʔ sqiʔsc iʔ knaqs iʔ tkɬmilxʷ / One Woman’s Dream 18. uɬ ixíʔ cyaʕp iʔ smsámaʔ / And the White People Came 19. ɬaʔ ckicx Douglas / When Douglas Came 20. kʷu ɬaʔ cq̓əy̓ám k̓l snq̓əy̓míntən / When We Were Writing in School 21. Maggie Moore iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷs / Maggie Moore’s Land Appendix: Interview with Lottie Lindley Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Cinematic Comanches
Book SynopsisCinematic Comanches engages in a description and critical appraisal of Indigenous hype, visual representation, and audience reception of Comanche culture and history through the 2013 Disney film The Lone Ranger. Trade Review"Extensively researched and thoroughly theorized, Cinematic Comanches seeks to answer the question of why the Comanche Nation is currently experiencing cultural resurgence. Tahmahkera finds that strength scattered throughout the twentieth century, in films and elsewhere, connecting the dots of Comanche survivance from the past into the present. This powerful intervention by a Comanche about Comanches is a must-read for anyone interested in representations of Native people in America."—Liza Black, Tribal College Journal"Cinematic Comanches generates important possibilities for future Native film studies by placing several forms of scholarship in conversation with each other (film theory, cultural studies, Native studies, borderlands studies, etc.). While rooted in enlightening readings and connections between forms of scholarship, this book is largely accessible to readers who may be less familiar with the scholars he summarizes because throughout the work Tahmahkera writes in a personal, engaging, and often humorous tone."—Jacob Floyd, American Indian Quarterly"Media scholars, Indigenous and settler studies folks, popular culture buffs, and anyone with interests in decolonization and image sovereignty will find much here to interest and intrigue them. It is exemplary."—Jennifer L. Jenkins, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Cinematic Comanches presents an important conjunction of Native American studies and film and media studies. Additionally, it illuminates both past and present Comanche participation in the representation of Comanche people across representative media, raising important conversations about the futurity of this representation and resisting the so-called fall of the Comanches by depicting them as a people very much participating in their culture, past, present, and future."—Kerry Fine, Great Plains Quarterly“Exceptional. . . . Written with energy and a capacious critical sensibility, Cinematic Comanches feels like the ‘Yes, we can!’ of Indigenous film and media criticism. It is also voraciously interdisciplinary and beautifully executes some of the primary challenges of public intellectual work—to be both learned and hip, both theoretically sophisticated and accessible for undergraduates, both deeply historical and relevant to this very moment.”—Joanna Hearne, author of Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western“Tahmahkera writes in an engaging and sometimes humorous style that is generally devoid of academic jargon, which makes it accessible to students yet sophisticated enough in its theoretical grounding to appeal to scholars of Indigenous and media studies.”—Dominique Brégent-Heald, author of Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive EraTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Marʉawe in Medias Res Acknowledgments Introduction: The Comanche Empire Strikes Back 1. Jurisdiction: Reclaiming Comanchería Cinema 2. Kinship: A Captivity Narrative 3. Performance: Seeking Representational Justice 4. Audience: Comanches Viewing Comanches Afterword: Subeetʉ Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press The Great Father
Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of two centuries of federal policy. This is useful reading for those interested in understanding the complexities of American Indian policy.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsList of Maps and Tables, viiPreface to the Abridged Edition, viiiPreface to the Original Edition, ixAcknowledgements, xiiPrologue: The Colonial Experience, 11. The Revolutionary War and the Years Following, 132. Regulating Trade and Intercourse, 313. Civilization and Education, 484. The Policy of Indian Removal, 645. Emigration of the Tribes, 786. The Aftermath of Removal, 947. American Expansion and Indian Affairs, 1088. Developments in the West, 1229. The Civil War Years, 13610. The Peace Policy, 15211. Military Challenge, 16712. Indian Reservations, 18113. The New Christian Reformers, 19814. The Reservations and Reform, 21115. Severalty, Law, and Education, 22416. The Indian Service, 24217. The Indian Territory, 25218. The Nation’s Wards, 26319. Education and Health, 28020. The Indians’ Land, 29521. An Indian New Deal, 31122. Rounding Out the New Deal, 32623. The Termination Era, 34024. A New Day for the Indians, 35725. Indian Self-Determination, 37426. The Indians: America’s Unfinished Business, 393Appendix ACommissioners of Indian Affairs, 403Appendix BIndian Population, 404Suggested Readings, 405Index 407 Maps and Tables1. United States Factory System, 1795–1822, 372. Land Cessions of the Five Civilized Tribes, 813. Indian Land Cessions in the North, 914. Location of Indians in the Indian Territory after Removal, 965. The Indian Territory, 1866–1888, 1426. Indian Reservations, 1880, 1887. The Sioux Reservations, 1890, 2158. Indian Lands and Communities, 1971, 382Tables1. Termination Acts, 3482. Urban Indians, 1970 and 1980, 3943. Government-Wide Funding for Indian Programs, 1980, 397
£26.09
University of Nebraska Press Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians
Book SynopsisThough much has been written about the Arikaras, their own accounts of themselves and the world as they see it have been available only in limited scholarly editions. This collection is the first to make Arikara myths, tales, and stories widely accessible. The book presents voices of the Arikara past closely translated into idiomatic English.
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press John Rollin Ridge His Life and Works
Book SynopsisJohn Rollin Ridge was a controversial, celebrated, and self-cast exile. He was born to a prominent Cherokee Indian family in 1827. This biography places Ridge in the circle of his family and recreates the circumstances surrounding the assassination of his father and his grandfather and uncle by rival Cherokees, led by John Ross.Trade Review“Parins has done an admirable job of placing this important and enigmatic figure in his proper social, political, and historical context without simplistic or reductive explanations.”—Studies in American Indian Literature“A well-researched, beautifully organized, and smoothly written biography of John Rollin Ridge. It is a memorable achievement, presenting a sharply realized characterization of this pioneer Indian writer.”—New Mexico Historical Review
£18.04
University of Nebraska Press In the Lands of Fire and Sun Resistance and
Book SynopsisThe Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines the Huichol Indians as they have struggled to maintain their independence over two centuries.Trade Review"Stephens . . . is among the first scholars to tap Spanish and Mexican archives for primary sources on Huichol history. Using both documentary and published sources, she weaves a concise, accessible narrative of the Huichol from the conquest to the present day, paying particular attention to their resistance to missionizing and continual dogged defense of their lands in times of peace and war. Stephens highlights the paradox of Huichol indigenous identity: the fact that a people perennially fractured by political and local identities might still so successfully maintain their ethnic identity and autonomy. There is no better single introduction to the study of Huichol history."—P.R. Sullivan, Choice"This is an interesting study for anybody interested in the history of Mexico, Latin America, and the native people around the world, and in particular the Huichol."—Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal"Fluidly written and accessible."—Zachary Brittsan, American Historical Review"This is an important addition to the scholarship on interactions between indigenous peoples and the state in peripheral regions."—Leslie S. Offutt, Hispanic American Historical Review“A much-needed addition to the scholarship on the Huichol and on indigenous peoples in Mexico more generally. Unlike most studies of indigenous peoples, In the Lands of Fire and Sun effectively spans the colonial and modern periods, demonstrating the incredible continuity in Huichol resistance and adaptation. . . . It will be an excellent choice for single-semester surveys of Mexican history as well as upper-division and graduate courses in history, anthropology, and indigenous studies.”—Andrae Marak, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Governors State University “McArdle Stephens delivers carefully measured arguments in prose that is at once vivid, reflective, and a pleasure to read. . . . In the Lands of Fire and Sun is ethnohistory as it should be: acutely sensitive to local detail while casting a sophisticated gaze on the politics of a changing world.”—Raphael Folsom, associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial MexicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. From Native Neighbors to Spanish Conquerors 2. Facing the Young Nation-State 3. Between Tolerance and Rejection of the Church 4. In Defense of Lands 5. Foreign Scholars as Tools of Resistance 6. A Revolution Comes to the Huichols Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£37.05
University of Nebraska Press Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation 19121954
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews, democratic theory, and research, this book focuses on the internal political, economic, and ethnic forces shaping the Blackfeet Nation during the first half of the twentieth century. It illuminates a pivotal time in modern Indian-white relations and aims to broadens our understanding of the meaning of democracy in America.Trade Review“In this important new work, Paul Rosier looks deeply into the dynamics of the Blackfeet community as the group adapted to reservation life. . . . This is a thorough, balanced, and conceptually sound analysis.”—Larry Burt, Western Historical Quarterly“An outstanding book on one tribe’s experience of their internal struggles in embracing the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act and the termination era of the early 1950s.”—George Heavy Runner, American Studies“A long overdue addition to the sparse scholarship on Native political and economic activism in the twentieth century.”—Melissa L. Meyer, American Historical Review“Rosier's book is excruciatingly revealing, honest, and important. . . . Rosier's work is an eloquent account of a people who have been through the worst of times and still view every day as one of promise."—Darrel Robes Kipp, Great Plains Quarterly“Dense, detailed, and rewarding.”—Stephen Cornell, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“Paul Rosier’s superb monograph deals with the intense economic and political efforts of the Blackfeet to collectively emancipate themselves from their own earlier political paradigms, from poverty and dependency, and from the wardship of the federal government. . . . The novelty and originality of this work rests on the focus that Rosier brings to the largely unnoticed and unwritten Blackfeet story of mixed-blood involvement, leadership, and commitment to a tribal future that was broadly inclusive and decidedly Indian.”—William E. Farr, Journal of American Ethnic History“A well-researched, sophisticated political history of the Blackfeet in the early to mid-twentieth century. Shifting tribal history away from the nineteenth-century tribal wars, he presents a portrait of people finding ways to contend with the paternalistic federal government. . . . Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation is a masterful, sensitive book.”—Scott Meridith, H-Net Reviews“Rosier's book is excruciatingly revealing, honest, and important. . . . Rosier's work is an eloquent account of a people who have been though the worst of times and still view every day as one of promise.”—Great Plains Quarterly“This book rightfully deserves a prominent place in the Indian New Deal canon.”—Theodore Binnema, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Silver Veins Dusty Lungs Mining Water and Public
Book SynopsisRocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946. Trade Review“Tracing the ‘ecology of extraction,’ Gomez brilliantly connects the ecosystems of city, mountain, body, and microbe into a comprehensive and compelling story. . . . In doing so, Gomez reminds us that silver mining haunts the past and the present of Zacatecas and that reckoning with those legacies greatly enhances our understandings of Mexican history and our capacity to imagine a more just and sustainable future.”—Emily Wakild, author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940“What Gomez uncovered is not pretty, but it is important not only for environmental history but for all mining communities today.”—Myrna Santiago, author of The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938“This book traces a previously unexplored aspect of the storied silver mines of Zacatecas. Long after the colonial bonanza had faded, the mines found new life thanks to new technology and foreign capital. Rocio Gomez shows how the mining renaissance created toxic environments that permeated the bodies of those who lived and worked above ground and below, even as it poisoned the waters on the people of arid Zacatecas depended. Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs is a major contribution to Mexican environmental history, to history of public health, and—most important—to our understanding of the relationship between the two.”—Chris Boyer, author of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico“Well researched. . . . Focusing on the emblematic case of Zacatecas, [this book] expands our understanding of, and should appeal to a broad set of readers interested in, this important topic.”—Mikael D. Wolfe, author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in MexicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note about Mine Names Introduction 1. Underground Bodies: Extraction, Exposure, and Dissection 2. The Home: Drought, Wells, and Bodies of Water 3. The City: The Mine and the Body 4. The Body as Land: Water, Mining, and the Revolution 5. The Body as Nation: Silicosis-Tuberculosis, Unions, and Revolutionary Death Conclusion: Toxic Legacies Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars
Book SynopsisWritten by participants and eyewitnesses, white and Indian, this work presents the accounts of the surrender of Geronimo and Chiricahua chief Naiche in September 1886 and its aftermath.
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains
Book SynopsisFrank Raymond Secoy wrote this work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original publication in 1953.Trade Review"This work gives an excellent picture not only of the changing military patterns ... from the early part of the seventeenth century through the early part of the nineteenth century, but it also gives a vivid picture of the impact of the Spanish, French, and English cul-tures upon the lives and customs of the Indians who inhabited the Great Plains."--Chronicles of Oklahoma. " As a historical study covering not only tribal changes, conflicts and movements, but also the effect of horse and gun on the balance of power and on the fur trade, this is both interesting and stimulating reading."--New Mexico Historical Review. "Carefully documented and well-written... an excellent and interesting work."--Southwestern Historical Quar-terly.
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House
Book SynopsisSuitable for medicine societies that are prescribed herbs and used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness, this title investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution.Trade Review“The charm of [Dr. Speck’s] book is matched only by the quiet dignity and poetic imagery of the Cayuga. Immersing himself in the native scene, the author entered sympathetically into the spirit of their thought. . . . Both the prayers and myths are remarkable for their power and loveliness.”—Canadian Historical Review“Since Speck’s attitude towards native religion was charged with the highest respect and sympathy, he always was extremely successful in eliciting the cooperation of informants in securing reliable information. . . . Speck’s linguistic gifts also facilitated such inquiries.”—American Anthropologist
£14.24
University of Nebraska Press The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge
Book SynopsisTells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne family.Trade Review"This is a living, heartbreaking account of four generations of a Lakota Sioux family. . . . A truly fine book rich in historical and personal detail of a family and a people."—The Boston Globe"No superfluous sentimentality impedes this saga; it moves across the pages with an immediacy that belies its century-plus timespan. . . . The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge is a story of raw endurance and of a passion for the honorable freedom of mind, heart, and body."—The Miami Herald"A fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience."—Booklist"You get to know four generations of Dull Knifes as intimately as the characters of a good novel. . . . [Starita] has written a compassionate book, but an angry book."—The Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer"Highly readable and highly recommended."—Glenn M. Busset, The Manhattan Mercury
£22.79
