2015 american indian catalog
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U N I V E R S I T Y O F O K L A H O M A P R E S S
American Indian
2015
For more than eighty–five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the American Indian and we are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog. The
catalog features the newest titles from University of Oklahoma Press.
For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visit our website at oupress.com.
We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Price and availability subject to change without notice.
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CONTENTS
Archaeology & Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Biography & Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Politics & Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Best Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
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On the cover: Detail from The Last of the Race, Tompkins H.
Matteson, 1847. Oil on canvas; 39¾ × 50 in. (101 × 127 cm).
Courtesy New York Historical Society, gift of Edwin W. Orvis
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American Indian Archaeology & AnthropologyNEW IN PAPERBACK
Native Performers in Wild West ShowsFrom Buffalo Bill to Euro DisneyBy Linda Scarangella McNenly$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4281-4 • 272 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4846-5 • 272 pages
Drawing on interviews with contemporary performers and descendants of twentieth-century performers, McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest new interpretations of their performances and experiences; she also uses these insights to analyze archival materials, especially photographs. Some Native performers saw Wild West shows not necessarily as demeaning, but rather as opportunities—for travel, for employment, for recognition, and for the preservation and expression of important cultural traditions..
Viewing the AncestorsPerceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and HisatsinomBy Robert McPherson$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4429-0 • 256 pages
Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.
From the Hands of a WeaverOlympic Peninsula Basketry through TimeEdited by Jacilee Wray Foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4245-6 • 264 pages $24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4471-9 • 264 pages
Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central to the daily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah cultures of Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of the essays collected here, who include Native people as well as academics, explore the commonalities among these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving styles and techniques.
Yuchi FolkloreCultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American CommunityBy Jason Baird Jackson Contributions by Mary S. Linn$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4397-2 • 304 pages
Yuchi Folklore examines expressive genres and customs that have long been of special interest to Yuchi people themselves. Beginning with an overview of Yuchi history and ethnography, the book explores four categories of cultural expression: verbal or spoken art, material culture, cultural performance, and worldview. In describing oratory, food, architecture, and dance, Jackson visits and revisits the themes of cultural persistence and social interaction, initially between Yuchi and other peoples east of the Mississippi and now in northeastern Oklahoma.
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Transforming EthnohistoriesNarrative, Meaning, and CommunityEdited by Sebastian Felix Braun Afterword by Raymond J. DeMallie$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4394-1 • 316 pages
The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching and writing of distinguished ethnohistorian Raymond J. DeMallie, whose exemplary combination of ethnographic and archival research demonstrates the ways anthropology and history can work together to create an understanding of the past and the present. Transforming
Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic from fiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning places from North Carolina to the Yukon.
Arapaho Women’s QuillworkMotion, Life, and CreativityBy Jeffrey D. Anderson$39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4283-8 • 216 pages
Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork, Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied as the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred patterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized not individual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivity—an approach foreign to many outside observers.
Patterns of ExchangeNavajo Weavers and TradersBy Teresa J. Wilkins$34.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-3757-5 • 248 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4354-5 • 248 pages
The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders like John Lorenzo Hubbell who guided their production and controlled their sale. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.
Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600By Meghan C. L. Howey$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4288-3 • 320 pages
Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed. In Mound Builders and Monument
Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600, Meghan C. L. Howey uses archaeology to make this connection.
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Art & PhotographyNEW
Painted JourneysThe Art of John Mix StanleyBy Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw Foreword by Bruce B. Eldridge$54.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4829-8 · 308 pages $34.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5155-7 • 308 pages
This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture.
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Surviving DesiresMaking and Selling Native Jewellery in the American SouthwestBy Henrietta Lidchi$34.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4850-2 • 272 pages
Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in constant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of desires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities.
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A Strange MixtureBy Sascha T. Scott$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4484-9 • 280
Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.
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North American Indian ArtMasterpieces and Museum Collections from the NetherlandsEdited by Pieter Hovens and Bruce Bernstein$39.95s Cloth • 978-3-9811620-8-0 • 320 pages Distributed for ZKF Publishers
North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands showcases 114 oustanding examples of Native art and heritage from the Canadian subarctic forests to the American Southwest preserved in Dutch museums. Many of these rare material documents collected between the seventeenth and the twenty-first century have never been published before.
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Conversations The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2015Edited by Ashley Holland and Jennifer C. McNutt$30.00s Paper · 978-0-9961663-0-0 · 136 pages Distributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Conversations: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2015, the ninth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museum’s acclaimed biennial art series, documents the strength, drama, determination, and storytelling genius of contemporary Native art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Mario Martinez (Yaqui Pascua) and Eiteljorg Fellows Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation), Da-ka-xeen Mehner (Tlingit/Nisgáa), and Holly Wilson (Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma/Cherokee), Conversations continues the dialogue of contemporary Native American art and artistic expression.
REDThe Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland Foreword by John Vanausdall$30.00s Paper · 978-0-9798495-7-2 · 136 pages Distributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
RED, the eighth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museum’s acclaimed biennial art series, documents the strength, drama, determination, and humor of contemporary Native art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Featured Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot).
Modern SpiritThe Art of george MorrisonBy W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm Foreword by Kay Walkingstick$39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4392-7 • 208 pages $29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4393-4 • 208 pages
The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (1919–2000) has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures have been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions. Yet because Morrison’s artwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian heritage, it has stirred debate about what it means to be a Native American artist. This stunning catalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white images, showcases Morrison’s work across a spectrum of genres and media.
Ernest L. BlumenscheinThe Life of an American ArtistBy Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4334-7 • 384 pages
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.
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The James T. Bialac Native American Art CollectionSelected WorksWith essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, Rennard Strickland, Christy Vezolles, Edwin L. Wade, and Mark Andrew White$49.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4299-9 • 240 pages $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4304-0 • 240 pages Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,
University of Oklahoma
One of the most important collections of modern Native American art assembled by one individual, the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection
is an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works. Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles.
The Eugene B. Adkins CollectionSelected WorksWith contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White$60.00 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4100-8 • 304 pages $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4101-5 • 304 pages
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from the Adkins Collection.
Ledger NarrativesThe Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth CollegeEdited by Colin g. Calloway With contributions by Michael Paul Jordan, Vera B. Palmer, Joyce Szabo, Melanie Benson Taylor, and Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote$29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4298-2 • 296 pages
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 created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century. Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements of their warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers.
Iroquois Art, Power, and HistoryBy Neal B. Keating$55.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-3890-9 • 360 pages
In this richly illustrated book, Neal B. Keating explores Iroquois visual expression through more than five thousand years, from its emergence in ancient North America into the early twenty-first century. Keating foregrounds the voices and visions of Iroquois peoples, revealing how they have continuously used visual expression to adapt creatively to shifting political and economic environments.
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Plains Indian ArtThe Pioneering Work of John C. EwersEdited by Jane Ewers Robinson$39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-3061-3 • 224 pages
The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (1909–97). Ewers’s publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in art and the cultures of the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewers’s writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992.
Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita AgencyThe Photographs of Annette Ross HumeBy Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4138-1 • 256 pages
Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,” but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S. government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century. Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the first time.
Allan Houser DrawingsThe Centennial ExhibitionBy W. Jackson Rushing III and Hadley Jerman$15.95s Paper • 978-0-9851609-4-4 • 108 pages Distributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition offers a critical examination of Houser’s career as a draughtsman, from his early career to the rich body of work he produced late in life.
HopituyEdited by heather ahtone and Mark T. Bahti $15.95s Paper • 978-0-9851609-3-7 • 96 pagesDistributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
This publication explores how Hopi artists express the relationship between traditional protocol, cultural beliefs, and artistic license. The essays provide a helpful introduction to the artistic diversity that expresses the culture and beliefs of the Hopi people and a narrative context for the full-color images of selected works from the 2013 exhibition.
Spirit RedVisions of Native American Artists from the Rennard Strickland CollectionBy Rennard Strickland Introduction by Mary Jo Watson$15.95s Cloth • 978-0-9717187-5-3 • 124 pages Distributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Spirit Red was published in conjunction with the 2009 exhibition celebrating the gift of Rennard Strickland’s significant collection to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. The diverse collection of Native American art was acquired over five decades and includes more than 200 works representing some of the most acclaimed artists of the twentieth century through the present.
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Arapaho JourneysPhotographs and Stories from the Wind River ReservationBy Sara Wiles$34.95s · 978-0-8061-4158-9 · 256 pages
In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. Wiles captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years of Northern Arapaho life on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.
Biography & MemoirNEW
Brummett EchohawkPawnee Thunderbird and ArtistBy Kristin M. Younbgbull$24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4826-7 • 224 pages
A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and counted coup as his grandfather had done during the Indian wars of the previous century. This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as an “Indian artist.”
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Clyde WarriorTradition, Community, and Red PowerBy Paul R. McKenzie-Jones$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4705-5 • 256 pages
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 of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.
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Big Sycamore Stands AloneThe Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for PlaceBy Ian W. Record$24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-3972-2 • 384 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5190-8 • 384 pages
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.
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Valentine T. McGillycuddyArmy Surgeon, Agent to the SiouxBy Candy Moulton$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-389-9 • 296 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4841-0 • 296 pages
On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary western figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddy’s life encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, award-winning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s fascinating experiences on the northern plains.
Scalping Columbus and other Damn Indian StoriesTruths, Half-Truths, and Outright LiesBy Adam Fortunate Eagle$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4428-3 • 216 pages
Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories is a collection of short stories that are in part autobiographical and in part fictional. Narrated in a style reminiscent of Indian oral tradition, Fortunate Eagle employs humor and satire to entertain and challenge society. The stories range from the author’s experiences as an activist in the Bay Area to his encounter with the Pope in Rome and back to his childhood.
Blackfoot RedemptionA Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect JusticeBy William E. Farr$24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4287-6 • 344 pages $21.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4464-1 • 312 pages
Blackfoot Redemption is the riveting account of a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee and his unusual and haunting story. To reconstruct the events of Spopee’s life—at first traceable only through bits and pieces of information—William E. Farr conducted exhaustive archival research, digging deeply into government documents and institutional reports to build a coherent and accurate narrative and, through this reconstruction, win back one Indian’s life and identity
A Cheyenne VoiceThe Complete John Stands In Timber InterviewsBy John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty$36.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4379-8 • 504 pages
A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882–1967). Recorded by Liberty in 1958 and 1959 when she was a schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book Cheyenne
Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of the interviews, this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the first time.
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Under The EagleSamuel Holiday, Navajo Code TalkerBy Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4389-7 • 288 pages
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.
Twenty Thousand MorningsAn AutobiographyBy John Joseph Mathews Edited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4253-1 • 352 pages
When John Joseph Mathews began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years.
A Navajo LegacyThe Life and Teachings of John HolidayBy John Holiday and Robert McPherson$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4176-3 • 420 pages
For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in A
Navajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life.
Chief LocoApache PeacemakerBy Bud Shapard$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4047-6 • 376 pages
Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
PipestoneMy Life in an Indian Boarding SchoolBy Adam Fortunate Eagle$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4114-5 • 248 pages
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.
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N. Scott MomadayRemembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliographyBy Phyllis S. Morgan$60.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4054-4 • 400 pages
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn
(1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him.
Nicholas Black ElkMedicine Man, Missionary, MysticBy Michael F. Steltenkamp$24.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4063-6 • 256 pages
Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.
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Voices of Resistance and RenewalIndigenous Leadership in EducationEdited by Dorothy Aguilera–Black Bear and John W. Tippeconnic III$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4867-0 • 224 pages
Voices of Resistance and Renewal provides a variety of philosophical principles that will guide leaders at all levels of education who seek to encourage self-determination and revitalization. It has important implications for the future of Native leadership, education, community, and culture, and for institutions of learning that have not addressed Native populations effectively in the past.
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Free to Be MohawkIndigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom SchoolBy Louellyn White$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4865-6 • 196 pages
In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.
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Teaching Indigenous StudentsHonoring Place, Community, and CultureEdited by Jon Reyhner$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4699-7 • 232 pages
Teaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based education squarely into practice. This volume, edited and with an introduction by leading American Indian education scholar Jon Reyhner, brings together new and dynamic research from established and emerging voices in the field of American Indian and Indigenous education.
The Students of Sherman Indian SchoolEducation and Native Identity since 1892By Diane Meyers Bahr$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4443-6 • 192 pages
Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to “civilize” Indian children, which meant stripping them of their Native culture and giving them vocational training. This book offers the first full history of Sherman Indian School’s 100-plus years, a history that reflects federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century.
HistoryNEW
Malinche, Pocahontas, and SacagaweaIndian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National SymbolsBy Rebecca Kay Jager$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4851-9 • 320 pages
The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time.
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A Call for ReformThe Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt JacksonEdited by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4363-7 • 248 pages
This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in Southern California in the 1880s, the articles also offer insight into Jackson’s career.
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Native Peoples of the Olympic PeninsulaWho We Are, Second Edition Edited by Jacilee WrayForeword by Patty Murray$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4670-6 • 232 pages
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are traces the nine tribes’ common history and each tribe’s individual story. This second edition is updated to include new developments since the volume’s initial publication—especially the removal of the Elwha River dams—thus reflecting the ever-changing environment for the Native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula.
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Hubbell Trading PostTrade, Tourism, and the Navajo SouthwestBy Erica Cottam$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4837-3 • 368 pages
For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading.
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Cherokee Medicine, Colonial GermsAn Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824By Paul Kelton$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4688-1 • 296 pages
In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,” or the widely held belief that Natives’ lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole routinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation—colonialism writ large; not disease.
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Red Dreams, White NightmaresPan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815By Robert M. Owens$32.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4646-1 • 320 pages
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White
Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related struggles they were.
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Americans RecapturedProgressive Era Memory of Frontier CaptivityBy Molly K. Varley$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4493-1 • 240 pages
Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.
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Red Power RisingThe National Indian Youth Council And The Origins Of Native ActivismBy Bradley Shreve$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4178-7 • 272 pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4365-1 · 288 pages
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 takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?
American Indians in U.S. HistorySecond EditionBy Roger L. Nichols$24.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4367-5 • 216 pages
This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their origins to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in the decade since its first publication. Now the second edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-first century. Useful features include new, brief biographies of important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested readings for each period of the past four hundred years.
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Chiefs and ChallengersIndian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906 Second EditionBy george H. Phillips$26.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4490-0 • 384 pages
In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence. His narrative includes numerous eloquent testimonies from Indians, among them a student at a government-run school who wrote to the U.S. president: “The white people call San Jacinto rancho their land and I don’t want them to do it. We think it is ours, for God gave it to us first.”
American CarnageWounded Knee, 1890By Jerome greene Foreword by Thomas Powers$34.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4448-1 • 620 pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greene—renowned specialist on the Indian wars—explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties, white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential factors in what eventually took place.
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Claiming Tribal IdentityThe Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal AcknowledgmentBy Mark E. Miller Foreword by Chadwick Corntassel Smith$29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4378-1 • 490 pages
Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.
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The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New FranceBy William R. Nester$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4435-1 · 516 pages $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5189-2 · 516 pages
The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and tactics and determined North America’s destiny.
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Ethnic Cleansing and the IndianThe Crime That Should Haunt AmericaBy gary Clayton Anderson$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4421-4 • 472 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5174-8 • 472 pages
In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Gary C. Anderson draws upon a vast wealth of previously unpublished sources to support his claim that the history of Euroamerican and Native American interaction is not one of genocide, as has often been claimed, but is, in almost all instances, more accurately called “ethnic cleansing.” Having defined ethnic cleansing, the author then seeks to trace its application and operation through American history from the colonial era to about 1890.
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CochiseFirsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache ChiefEdited by Edwin R. Sweeney$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4432-0 · 348 pages $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5192-2 · 348 pages
Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports, eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the
Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these documents to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apache leader. In particular, the interviews, many printed here for the first time, are the closest we will ever get to autobiographical material on this notable man, his life, and his times.
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The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885By Helen Hunt Jackson Edited by Valerie S. Mathes$24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-3090-3 · 400 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5160-1 · 396 pages
Helen Hunt Jackson’s passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes’s helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson’s involvement in Indian reform, which led her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.
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Pre-Removal Choctaw HistoryExploring New PathsEdited by greg O’Brien $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-3916-6 • 282 pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4848-9 · 282 pages
In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going. In a chronological survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.
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An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830Three French AccountsEdited and Translated by William Least Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4403-0 • 168 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4708-6 • 168 pages
In 1827 six Osage people—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated here for the first time in English. Among the earliest writings devoted to Osage history and culture, these works provide unique insights into Osage life and especially into European perceptions of American Indians.
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The Darkest PeriodThe Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873By Ronald D. Parks$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4430-6 • 336 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4845-8 • 336 pages
Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe’s original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale.
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Terrible JusticeSioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868By Doreen Chaky$39.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-414-8 • 412 pages
$21.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4652-2 • 412 pages
Terrible Justice explores relations not only between the Sioux and their opponents but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving beyond earlier historians’ focus on the Brulé and Oglala bands, Chaky examines how the northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became involved in and were affected by the U.S. invasion.
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Columns of VengeanceSoldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864By Paul N. Beck$24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4344-6 · 328 pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4596-9 · 328 pages
In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War of 1862. Rather than relying only on the official records of the commanding officers involved, Beck presents a much fuller picture of the conflict by consulting the letters, diaries, and personal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions, as well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas.
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Indians and EmigrantsEncounters on the Overland TrailsBy Michael L. Tate$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-3710-0 • 352 pages $21.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4654-6 • 352 pages
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders.
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War Dance at Fort MarionPlains Indian War PrisonersBy Brad D. Lookingbill$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4467-2 • 308 pages
War Dance at Fort Marion tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army. Held from 1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they participated in an educational experiment, initiated by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, as an alternative to standard imprisonment. This book, the first complete account of a unique cohort of Native peoples, brings their collective story to life and pays tribute to their individual talents and achievements.
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Speculators in EmpireIroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort StanwixBy William J. Campbell$39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4286-9 • 296 pages $24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4665-2 • 296 pages
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. In Speculators in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, land speculation, and empire building that led up to the treaty. His detailed study overturns common assumptions about the roles of the Iroquois and British on the eve of the American Revolution.
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Contours of a PeopleMetis Family, Mobility, and HistoryEdited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4487-0 · 520 pages
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. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity.
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Lewis and Clark Among the Nez PerceStrangers in the Land of the NimiipuuBy Allen V. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans Foreword by Frederick E. Hoxie$29.95 Cloth • 978-0-9834059-8-6 • 332 pages $19.95 Paper • 978-0-9834059-9-3 • 332 pages Distributed for The Dakota Institute
Nez Perce historian Allen Pinkham and Steve Evans have examined the journals of Lewis and Clark with painstaking care to tease out new insights about what Lewis and Clark wrote about their hosts the Nez Perce. Pinkham and Evans evaluate both what Lewis and Clark understood and what they misunderstood in the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) lifeway and political structure. More particularly they have re-examined the journals for clues about how the Nez Perce reacted to the bearded strangers. They have also gathered together and put into print for the first time the stands of a surprisingly rich Nez Perce oral tradition.
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Wil UsdiBy Robert J. Conley Foreword by Luther Wilson$14.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4659-1 • 160 pages
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–93), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.
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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and ExtinctionBy John Joseph Matthews Edited by Susan Kalter$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5120-5 • 200 pages
Mathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses. His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally intended his nature stories for boys. But the stories transcend boundaries of age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers with nature’s beauty but to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans, animals, and the landscapes in which they interact.
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Grand AvenueA Novel in StoriesBy greg Sarris Afterword by Reginald Dyck$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4834-2 • 248 pages
Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form the core of these stories—tales of healing cures, poison, family rituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace.
Creative AlliancesThe Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s PoetryBy Molly Mcglennen$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4482-5 • 230 pages
Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre to transcend national and colonial boundaries and to fashion global dialogues across a spectrum of experiences and ideas.
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Progressive TraditionsIdentity in Cherokee Literature and CultureBy Joshua B. Nelson$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4491-7 • 296 pages
Some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their culture and identities to white American economies and institutions. This traditionalist-versus-assimilationist divide is, Joshua B. Nelson argues, a false one. To make his case that American Indians rarely if ever conform to such simplistic identifications, Nelson considers the literature and culture of many Cherokee people.
The Native American RenaissanceLiterary Imagination and AchievementEdited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee$29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4402-3 • 368 pages
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence.
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906By James W. Parins$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4399-6 • 296 pages
Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” In Literacy and
Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century—a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.
The People Who StayedSoutheastern Indian Writing After RemovalBy geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4136-7 • 404 pages
The two-hundred-year-old myth of the “vanishing” American Indian still holds some credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of thousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Yet, as the editors of this volume amply demonstrate, a significant Indian population remained behind after those massive relocations.
Pushing the BearAfter the Trail of TearsBy Diane glancy$14.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4069-8 • 176 pages
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’ resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A
Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows their travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and adjust to new realities.
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Three PlaysThe Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two WindowsBy N. Scott Momaday$24.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-3828-2 • 224 pages
Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has also made his mark in theatre through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions.
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Through Indian Sign LanguageEdited by William C Meadows$55.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4727-7 • 520 pages
The Scott ledgers contain an array of historic, linguistic, and ethnographic data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people. Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists.
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Cherokee Reference GrammarBy Brad Montgomery-Anderson$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4342-2 • 536 pages
The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used throughout this volume, the first and only complete published grammar of the Cherokee language.
Arapaho Stories, Songs, and PrayersA Bilingual AnthologyBy Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. C’Hair$55.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4486-3 • 576 pages
Many of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although this is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts exist that have never before been published—until now. Arapaho Stories, Songs,
and Prayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative traditions in all the richness of the original language.
Manhattan To MinisinkAmerican Indian Place Names of greater New York and VicinityBy Robert S. grumet$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4336-1 • 296 pages
Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names.
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Native American Placenames of the SouthwestA Handbook for TravelersBy William Bright Edited by Alice Anderton & Sean O’Neill$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4311-8 • 174 pages
Written by distinguished linguist William Bright, the handbook is organized alphabetically, and its entries for places—including towns, cities, counties, parks, and geographic landmarks—are concise and easy to read. Entries give the state and county, along with all available information on pronunciation, the name of the language from which the name derives, the name’s literal meaning, and relevant history. In their introduction to the handbook, editors Alice Anderton and Sean O’Neill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation keys for English and Native languages.
The Cherokee SyllabaryWriting the People’s PerseveranceBy Ellen Cushman$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4220-3 • 256 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4373-6 • 256 pages
In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms.
Telling Stories in the Face of DangerLanguage Renewal in Native American CommunitiesEdited by Paul V. Kroskrity$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4227-2 • 288 pages
The contributors to this volume explore Native American storytelling both as a response to and a symptom of language endangerment. The essays show how traditional stories, and their nontraditional written descendants, such as poetry and graphic novels, help to maintain Native cultures and languages.
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Gathering the Potawatomi NationRevitalization and IdentityBy Christopher Wetzel$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4669-0 • 216 pages
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries, have reclaimed their common cultural heritage in recent years as the Potawatomi Nation? And why a “nation”—not a band or a tribe—in an age when nations seem increasingly impermanent? Gathering thePotawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how marginalized communities adapt to social change, and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two.
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A Gathering of StatesmenRecords of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826–1828By Peter P. Pitchlynn Translated and edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis Introduction by Clara S. Kidwell$29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4349-1 • 176 pages
The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.
Oklahoma’s Indian New DealBy Jon S. Blackman$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4351-4 • 236 pages
The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by Congress in 1936, brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRA’s provisions, but included other measures that applied only to Oklahoma’s tribal population. This first book-length history of the OIWA explains the law’s origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.
Buying America from the IndiansJohnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land RightsBy Blake A. Watson$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4244-9 • 512 pages
Johnson v. McIntosh and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation. He then focuses on the transactions at issue in Johnson between the Illinois and Piankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.
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American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting RightsBy Laughlin McDonald$55.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4113-8 • 360 pages $26.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4240-1 • 264 pages
The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.
“A rich and spirited account detailing how Native peoples have utilized the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the talents of ACLU attorneys to fight for the right to vote.”—David E. Wilkins, co-author of Uneven Ground: American Indian
Sovereignty and Federal Law
The Seminole Nation of OklahomaA Legal HistoryBy L. Susan Work$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4089-6 • 376 pages
When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government. In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy its nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciously retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence. Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.
The Choctaws in OklahomaFrom Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970By Clara Sue Kidwell$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4006-3 • 344 pages
The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws’ removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe’s subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws’ remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.
Modern SpiritThe Art of George MorrisonBy W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin MakholmForeword by Kay Walkingstick$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4392-7
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Sacred PipeBlack Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala SiouxBy Joseph E. Brown$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2124-6
A Cheyenne VoiceThe Complete John Stands In Timber InterviewsBy John Stands in Timber and Margot Liberty$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8
From Cochise to geronimoThe Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886By Edwin R. Sweeney$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4272-2
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Crazy HorseA Lakota LifeBy Kingsley M. Bray$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3785-8
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