First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies – serie
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Sustaining the Cherokee Family
Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation
Häftad, 2011
458 kr
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family , Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, …
Corner of the Living
Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency
Häftad, 2012
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Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the 21st century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. …
Queer Indigenous Studies
Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature
Av Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
648 kr
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“This book is an imagining.” So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so …
Whale Snow
Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska
Häftad, 2020
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As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a …
Marking Indigeneity
The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations
Häftad, 2018
329 kr
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Tongans, the native people of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, are a highly mobile indigenous group. Like their seafaring ancestors, they are constantly on the move across ta (time) and va (space). Carrying their traditions with them, Tongans living in Maui, Hawai‘i, actively mediate …
Return to Servitude
Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún
Häftad, 2010
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As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, CancÚn, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state's modernization plan for rural, indigenous communities. …
Spaces Between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Häftad, 2011
314 kr
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We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing …
Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here
Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana
Häftad, 2011
282 kr
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In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, made by stenciling patterns with black dye, and kente, a type of strip weaving, each convey, through color, style, and adornment, the bearer’s identity, …
Way of Kinship
An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
Av Alexander Vaschenko, Claude Clayton Smith
Häftad, 2010
250 kr
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That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who have lived long on the earth, on their own …
Chosen People, a Promised Land
Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i
Häftad, 2012
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Christianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many indigenous people embrace Christian faith as part of their cultural and ethnic identities. A Chosen People, a Promised Land gets to the heart of this contradiction …
Transit of Empire
Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Av Jodi A. Byrd
Häftad, 2011
314 kr
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In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that …
Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
Häftad, 2012
347 kr
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During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous …
Mark My Words
Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Häftad, 2013
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Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, …
Voices of Fire
Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi'iaka
Häftad, 2014
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Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hi‘iaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism-first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry. But far from quaint tales for amusement, the Pele and …
Seeds We Planted
Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School
Häftad, 2013
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In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the …
Agitating Images
Photography Against History in Indigenous Siberia
Häftad, 2014
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Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and ’30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook …
Roots of Our Renewal
Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance
Häftad, 2015
303 kr
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Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book AwardIn Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. …
Accomplishing NAGPRA
Perspectives on the Intent, Impact, and Future of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Av Sangita Chari, Jaime M. N. Lavallee
Häftad, 2013
278 kr
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Accomplishing NAGPRA reveals the day-to-day reality of implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The diverse contributors to this timely volume reflect the viewpoints of tribes, museums, federal agencies, attorneys, academics, and others invested in the landmark act. …
Deeper Sense of Place
Stories and Journeys of Collaboration in Indigenous Research
Av Jay T. Johnson, Soren C. Larsen
Häftad, 2013
259 kr
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In A Deeper Sense of Place, editors Jay Johnson and Soren Larsen collect stories, essays, and personal reflections from geographers who have worked collaboratively with Indigenous communities across the globe. These first-person narratives offer insight into the challenges faced by Native and …
Native and National in Brazil
Indigeneity After Independence
Häftad, 2013
458 kr
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How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticised role of ""Indians"" in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native and National in Brazil charts this enigmatic relationship from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the consolidation of the dominant …
Framing Chief Leschi
Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice
Av Lisa Blee
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader, was found guilty of …
Crooked Paths to Allotment
The Fight Over Federal Indian Policy After the Civil War
Häftad, 2014
400 kr
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Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on …
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it …
Indigenous Miracles
Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico
Inbunden, 2010
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While King Carlos I of Spain struggled to suppress the Protestant Reformation in the Old World, the Spanish turned to New Spain to promote the Catholic cause, unimpeded by the presence of the “false” Old World religions. To this end, Osowski writes, the Spanish “saw indigenous people as necessary …
Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman
Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective
Inbunden, 2010
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Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications amongAmazonian …
State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
A Symmetrical Ethnography
Inbunden, 2011
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This places the study of culture and cosmology squarely within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. It explores Indian-white relations as seen through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela.
Crafting Identity
Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico
Inbunden, 2015
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Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how …
Voices of Play
Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
Av Amanda Minks
Häftad, 2020
413 kr
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While indigenous languages have become prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children's everyday communication. Voices of Play is a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part of …
