New Directions in Native American Studies Series – serie
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Big Sycamore Stands Alone
The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place
Häftad, 2015
284 kr
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Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society.Big Sycamore …
I Choose Life
Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World
Häftad, 2008
300 kr
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How Navajos navigate the complex world of medicineSurgery, blood transfusions, CPR, and organ transplantation are common biomedical procedures for treating trauma and disease. But for Navajo Indians, these treatments can conflict with their traditional understanding of health and well-being. This …
Indian Blues
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934
Inbunden, 2009
417 kr
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Wives and Husbands
Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History
Inbunden, 2010
471 kr
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In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers' understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter with Americans as government officials, troops, missionaries, and …
Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
Inbunden, 2011
417 kr
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During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power - a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian …
Indian Blues
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934
Häftad, 2012
284 kr
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From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those …
Ledger Narratives
The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh's diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains peoples …
Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
Häftad, 2014
248 kr
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During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power - a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian …
Viewing the Ancestors
Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
Inbunden, 2014
417 kr
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Contours of a People
Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Av Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
344 kr
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What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the …
Speculators in Empire
Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Häftad, 2014
253 kr
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At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois, …
Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
Inbunden, 2015
368 kr
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The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939-1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one …
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Inbunden, 2015
357 kr
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Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes …
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Häftad, 2016
284 kr
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Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes …
Land Too Good for Indians
Northern Indian Removal
Inbunden, 2016
417 kr
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The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the …
Serving the Nation
Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907
Inbunden, 2016
417 kr
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Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy - a form of what today might be called social welfare - based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work …
From Huronia to Wendakes
Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900
Av Thomas Peace, Kathyrn Magee Labelle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
338 kr
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From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples - also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte - has been woven into the narratives …
Land Too Good for Indians
Northern Indian Removal
Häftad, 2017
284 kr
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The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the …
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs
An Indigenous Nation's Fight Against Smallpox, 1518-1824
Av Paul Kelton
Häftad, 2018
284 kr
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How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the ""virgin soil …
Coming Full Circle
The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934
Inbunden, 2019
417 kr
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The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca …
Viewing the Ancestors
Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
Häftad, 2019
300 kr
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The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American …
Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States
Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health
Av Devon A. Mihesuah, Elizabeth Hoover
Häftad, 2019
344 kr
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Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems. This volume explores the meaning and importance of food sovereignty for Native peoples in the United States, and asks whether and how it might be achieved and …
Making a Difference
My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice
Av Ada Deer
Inbunden, 2019
274 kr
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2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, ""I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived."" She proceeds to narrate the first …
Voice of the Tribes
A History of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association
Inbunden, 2020
417 kr
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The 1960s and 1970s were a time of radical change in U.S. history. During these turbulent decades, Native Americans played a prominent role in the civil rights movement, fighting to achieve self-determination and tribal sovereignty. Yet they did not always agree on how to realize their goals. In …
Coming Full Circle
The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848–1934
Häftad, 2020
300 kr
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The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca …
Making a Difference
My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice
Av Ada Deer, Theda, Perdue m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
218 kr
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2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, 'I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived.' She proceeds to narrate the first …
Serving the Nation
Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907
Häftad, 2021
300 kr
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Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy-a form of what today might be called social welfare-based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated …
Voice of the Tribes
A History of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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The 1960s and 1970s were a time of radical change in U.S. history. During these turbulent decades, Native Americans played a prominent role in the civil rights movement, fighting to achieve self-determination and tribal sovereignty. Yet they did not always agree on how to realize their goals. In …
From Huronia to Wendakes
Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650-1900
Av Thomas Peace, Kathryn Labelle
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples—also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte—has been woven into the narratives of …
Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
Häftad, 2023
264 kr
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The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one …
