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The Sitting Bull You Never Knew
By James Lincoln Collier. 2003
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World
By John G. Neihardt. 1951
&“[Eagle Voice Remembers] is John Neihardt&’s mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. He served as…
a translator of the Sioux past, whose audience has proved not to be limited by space or time. Through Neihardt&’s writings Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and other old men who were of that last generation of Sioux to have participated in the old buffalo-hunting life and the disorienting period of strife with the U.S. Army found a literary voice. What they say chronicles a dramatic transition in the life of the Plains Indians; the record of their thoughts, interpreted by Neihardt, is a legacy preserved for the future. It transcends the specifics of this one tragic case of cultural misunderstanding and conflict and speaks to universal human concerns. It is a story worth contemplating both for itself and for the lessons it teaches all humanity.&”—from the introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie In her foreword Coralie Hughes discusses John G. Neihardt&’s intention that this book, formerly titled When the Tree Flowered, be understood as a prequel to his classic Black Elk Speaks. In this new edition David C. Posthumus adds clarity through his annotations, introducing Eagle Voice Remembers to a new generation of readers and presenting a fresh understanding for fans of the original.Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818 examines how Creek communities and their leaders remained viable geopolitical actors in…
the trans-Appalachian West well after the American Revolution. The Creeks pursued aggressive and far-reaching diplomacy between 1763 and 1818 to assert their territorial and political sovereignty while thwarting American efforts to establish control over the region. The United States and the Creeks fought to secure recognition from the powers of Europe that would guarantee political and territorial sovereignty: the Creeks fought to maintain their connections to the Atlantic world and preserve their central role in the geopolitics of the trans-Appalachian West, while the American colonies sought first to establish themselves as an independent nation, then to expand borders to secure diplomatic and commercial rights. Creeks continued to forge useful ties with agents of European empires despite American attempts to circumscribe Creek contact with the outside world. The Creeks&’ solicitation of trade and diplomatic channels with British and Spanish colonists in the West Indies, Canada, and various Gulf Coast outposts served key functions for defenders of local autonomy. Native peoples fought to preserve the geopolitical order that dominated the colonial era, making the trans-Appalachian West a kaleidoscope of sovereign peoples where negotiation prevailed. As a result, the United States lacked the ability to impose its will on its Indigenous neighbors, much like the European empires that had preceded them. Hill provides a significant revisionist history of Creek diplomacy and power that fills gaps within the broader study of the Atlantic world and early American history to show how Indigenous power thwarted European empires in North America.Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
By C. Thomas Shay. 2022
In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives…
of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the Ice Age, plants played important roles as Native peoples learned which were valuable foods, which held medicinal value, and which were best for crafts. Incorporating Native voices, ethnobotanical studies, personal stories, and research techniques, Under Prairie Skies shows how, since the end of the Ice Age, plants have held a central place in the lives of Native peoples. Eventually some groups cultivated seed-bearing annuals and, later, fields of maize and other crops. Throughout history, their lives became linked with the land, both materially and spiritually.This book introduces social practitioners - community development workers, social workers, organisational change facilitators, social, ecological, cultural and political activists…
- to a phenomenological tradition of reflective practice. Critiquing reductionist, linear and ossified thinking in the social and ecological fields, the book offers an exciting new alternative that is honouring of the uncertainty of all living and therefore emergent social processes. Linking phenomenology and Goethe’s ‘delicate empiricism’, the book challenges practitioners to observe and work with living processes. As such, the book charts two stories, two inquiries. One personal and the other social. The first is the personal phenomenological inquiry into the author’s own practice, a search to make sense of the nuanced and subtle practice that he brings to the social world. The second journey is the inquiry into how this social practice, shaped as it is by a confluence of three rivers – dialogue and community, soul and depth psychology, Goethe and ‘delicate activism’, along with other thinkers on ‘observation’ and ‘aliveness’ – can be understood in the context of a wider phenomenological reflective practice. This second journey draws on years of experience and research in Brazil, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe. Presenting a philosophical, personal and practical analysis, it offers a new approach to observation and action, while working with aliveness and complexity within the social and ecological fields. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work and community development and particularly courses on social complexity.Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
By Leanne Hinton. 2022
An essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years Before outsiders arrived, about…
one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original publication in 1994, Flutes of Fire has become one of the classic books about California’s many Native languages. It is written to be approachable, entertaining, and informative—useful for people doing language revitalization work in their own communities, for linguists, and for a general readership interested in California’s rich cultural heritage. With significant updates by the author, this is the first new edition of Flutes of Fire in over 25 years. New chapters highlight the exciting efforts of language activists in recent times, as well as contemporary writing in several of California’s Native languages. Both a practical guide and a joy to read, Flutes of Fire is an essential book for anyone who cares about the Indigenous languages of California and their flourishing for many generations to come.The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Heartbeat of the People is…
an insider's journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events. Tara Browner focuses on the Northern pow-wow of the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes to investigate the underlying tribal and regional frameworks that reinforce personal tribal affiliations. Interviews with dancers and her own participation in pow-wow events and community provide fascinating on-the-ground accounts and provide detail to a rare ethnomusicological analysis of Northern music and dance.Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy
By Christine A. Nelson, Tiffany S. Lee, Leola Tsinnajinnie-Paquin, Susan Faircloth, Nicole Reyes, Nizhoni Chow-Garcia, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Alayah Johnson-Jennings, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings, Dwanna L. McKay, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Shelly Lowe, Tria Blu Wakpa, Symphony Oxendine, Denise Henning, Renée Holt, Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, Otakuye Conroy-Ben, Theresa Gregor, Sloan Woska-pi-mi Shotton, Heather J. Shotton, Pearl Brower, Erin Kahunawaika?ala Wright, Kaiwipuni Lipe, Charlotte Davidson, Stephanie Waterman. 2022
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their…
roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices. This book covers diverse topics such as the journey to motherhood, lessons through motherhood, acknowledging ancestors and grandparents in one’s mothering, how historical trauma and violence plague the past, and balancing mothering through the healing process. More specific to Indigenous motherhood in the academy is how culture and place impacts mothering (specifically, if Indigenous mothers are not in their traditional homelands as they raise their children), how academia impacts mothering, how mothering impacts scholarship, and how to negotiate loss and other complexities between motherhood and one’s role in the academy.Indigenous America (True History)
By Liam McDonald. 2022
&“A powerful series that fills in the cracks and illuminates the shadows of the past.&” –Sherri L. Smith, award-winning author…
of Flygirl Introducing a new nonfiction series that uncovers hidden histories of the United States.The true story of the United States&’ Indigenous beginnings. American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was &“discovered&” by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus&’s and other colonizers&’ arrivals. So, what&’s the true history? Complete with an 8-page color photo insert, Indigenous America introduces and amplifies the oral and written histories that have long been left out of American history books.Pasquala: The Story of a California Indian Girl
By Gail Faber, Michele Lasagna. 1990
A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on the shores of Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and…
the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
By Jerome A. Greene. 2000
Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people&’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the…
face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history, Jerome A. Greene, and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive treatment of the Nez Perce War is the first to incorporate research from all known accounts of Nez Perce and U.S. military participants. Enhanced by sixteen detailed maps and forty-nine historic photographs, Greene&’s gripping narrative takes readers on a three-and-one-half month 1,700-mile journey across the wilds of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana territories. All of the skirmishes and battles of the war receive detailed treatment, which benefits from Greene&’s astute analysis of the strategies and decision making on both sides. Between 100 and 150 of the more than 800 Nez Perce men, women, and children who began the trek were killed during the war. Almost as many died in the months following the surrender, after they were exiled to malaria-ridden northeastern Oklahoma. Army deaths numbered 113. The casualties on both sides were an extraordinary price for a war that nobody wanted but whose history has since fascinated generations of Americans.Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: American Indian and Alaska Native Perspectives (Violence Against Women and Children)
By Royleen J Ross, Julii M Green, Milton A Fuentes. 2022
This book is part of a concentrated series of books that examines child maltreatment across minoritized, cultural groups.Specifically, this volume…
addresses American Indian and Alaska Native populations. However, in an effort to contextualize the experiences of 574 federally recognized tribes and 50+ state recognized tribes, as well as villages, the authors focus on populations within rural and remote regions and discuss the experiences of some tribal communities throughout US history. It should be noted that established research has primarily drawn attention to the pervasive problems impacting Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. Aligned with an attempt to adhere to a decolonizing praxis, the authors share information in a strength-based framework for the Indigenous communities discussed within the text. The authors review federally funded programs (prevention, intervention, and treatment) that have been adapted for tribal communities (e.g., Safecare) and include cultural teachings that address child maltreatment. The intention of this book is to inform researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates about the current state of child maltreatment from an Indigenous perspective.The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
By Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt. 1999
A Navajo woman shares her life story and describes how she became a doctor. She blends a belief in modern…
medicine with ancient Native American beliefs and uses this combination in her practice.Ethnographies of U.S. Empire
By John Collins, Carole McGranahan. 2018
How do we live in and with empire The contributors to Ethnographies of U S Empire pursue this…
question by examining empire as an unequally shared present Here empire stands as an entrenched if often invisible part of everyday life central to making and remaking a world in which it is too often presented as an aberration rather than as a structuring condition This volume presents scholarship from across U S imperial formations settler colonialism overseas territories communities impacted by U S military action or political intervention Cold War alliances and fissures and most recently new forms of U S empire after 9 11 From the Mohawk Nation Korea and the Philippines to Iraq and the hills of New Jersey the contributors show how a methodological and theoretical commitment to ethnography sharpens all of our understandings of the novel and timeworn ways people live thrive and resist in the imperial present Contributors Kevin K Birth Joe Bryan John F Collins Jean Dennison Erin Fitz-Henry Adriana Mar a Garriga-L pez Ol via Maria Gomes da Cunha Matthew Gutmann Ju Hui Judy Han J K haulani Kauanui Eleana Kim Heonik Kwon Soo Ah Kwon Darryl Li Catherine Lutz Sunaina Maira Carole McGranahan Sean T Mitchell Jan M Padios Melissa Rosario Audra Simpson Ann Laura Stoler Fa anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa David VineDo All Indians Live in Tipis? Second Edition: Questions and Answers from the National Museum of the American Indian
By Wilma Mankiller, Kevin Gover, Nmai. 2017
How much do you really know about totem poles, tipis, and Tonto? There are hundreds of Native tribes in the…
Americas, and there may be thousands of misconceptions about Native customs, culture, and history. In this illustrated guide, experts from Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian debunk common myths and answer frequently asked questions about Native Americans past and present. Readers will discover the truth about everything from kachina dolls to casinos, with answers to nearly 100 questions, including: Did Indians really sell Manhattan for twenty-four dollars worth of beads and trinkets? Are dream catchers an authentic tradition? Do All Indians Live in Tipis? Second Edition features short essays, mostly Native-authored, that cover a range of topics including identity; origins and histories; clothing, housing, and food; ceremony and ritual; sovereignty; animals and land; language and education; love and marriage; and arts, music, dance, and sports.The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives
By Thomas Kavanagh. 2016
The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph …
Joe A Attocknie Although various elements of Ten Bears s life ca 1790 1872 are widely known including several versions of how the toddler Ten Bears survived the massacre of his family other parts have not been as widely publicized remaining instead in the collective memory of his descendants Other narratives in this collection reference lesser-known family members These narratives are about the historical episodes that Attocknie s family thought were worth remembering and add a unique perspective on Comanche society and tradition as experienced through several generations of his family Kavanagh s introduction adds context to the personal narratives by discussing the process of transmission These narratives serve multiple purposes for Comanche families and communities Some autobiographical accounts recounting brave deeds and war honors function as validation of status claims while others illustrate the giving of names still others recall humorous situations song-ridicules slapstick and tragedies Such family oral histories quickly transcend specific people and events by restoring key voices to the larger historical narrative of the American WestMenominee Indians (Images of America)
By Gavin Schmitt. 2016
In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were…
pushed west by the Europeans and Americans, the Menominee stayed firm and held on to their ancestral homeland. Though their territory has been greatly diminished, there is something to be said about raising a family in the same place as your parents and their parents, going back thousands of years. Their interaction with the white man dates back to the days of explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634. Since then, they have been both allies and foes of the Europeans. Tribal leaders distinguished themselves in trade and war, with cities named in their honor: Oshkosh, Keshena, and Tomah. Many other Wisconsin cities have names derived from the Menominee language. The 20th century brought new challenges, but after some setbacks, the tribe forged ahead. Today, it is one of the most prominent tribes in the state, if not the nation, thanks to leaders like Ada Deer and Sylvia Wilber.Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State
By Shiri Pasternak. 2017
Since Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015, Canada has been hailed internationally as embarking on a truly progressive, post-postcolonial era—including an…
improved relationship between the state and its Indigenous peoples. Shiri Pasternak corrects this misconception, showing that colonialism is very much alive in Canada. From the perspective of Indigenous law and jurisdiction, she tells the story of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, in western Quebec, and their tireless resistance to federal land claims policy. Grounded Authority chronicles the band’s ongoing attempts to restore full governance over its lands and natural resources through an agreement signed by settler governments almost three decades ago—an agreement the state refuses to fully implement. Pasternak argues that the state’s aversion to recognizing Algonquin jurisdiction stems from its goal of perfecting its sovereignty by replacing the inherent jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples with its own, delegated authority. From police brutality and fabricated sexual abuse cases to an intervention into and overthrow of a customary government, Pasternak provides a compelling, richly detailed account of rarely documented coercive mechanisms employed to force Indigenous communities into compliance with federal policy.A rigorous account of the incredible struggle fought by the Algonquins to maintain responsibility over their territory, Grounded Authority provides a powerful alternative model to one nation’s land claims policy and a vital contribution to current debates in the study of colonialism and Indigenous peoples in North America and globally.The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living
By Joseph M. Marshall. 2001
Joseph M. Marshall's thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead…
more meaningful, ethical lives. Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that are crucial to the Lakota way of life--bravery, fortitude, generosity, wisdom, respect, honor, perseverance, love, humility, sacrifice, truth, and compassion. Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, The Lakota Way offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living.Fools Crow
By James Welch. 1986
The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native…
American literature." (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future and knows that the newcomers will punish resistance with swift retribution. First published to broad acclaim in 1986, Fools Crow is James Welch's stunningly evocative portrait of his people's bygone way of life.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.