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United States history, Criticism, Indigenous peoples
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Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous…
land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman argues that the war part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources specifically, mineral lead—and the emergence of new cultures of killing and composition. The elemental basis for the fabrication of bullets, lead drawn from the mines of the upper Mississippi, contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples through the consolidation of U.S. control over a vital military resource. Rendered as metallic type, Mississippian lead contributed to the expansion of print culture, providing the occasion for literary justifications of settler violence, and promulgating the fiction of Indigenous disappearance.Treating the theft and excarnation of Black Hawk’s corpse as coextensive with processes of mineral extraction, Waterman explores ecologies of racial capitalism as forms of inscription, documentary traces written into the land. Reading the terrestrial in relation to more conventional literary forms, he explores the settler fetishization of Black Hawk’s body, drawing out homoerotic longings that suffuse representations of the man and his comrades. Moving from print to agriculture as modes of inscription, Waterman looks to the role of commodity agriculture in composing a history of settler rapine, including literal and metaphoric legacies of anthropophagy. Traversing mouth and stomach, he concludes by contrasting forms of settler medicine with Black Hawk’s account of medicine as an embodied practice, understood in relation to accounts of dreaming and mourning, processes that are unforgivably slow and that allow time for the imagination of other futures, other ways of being.
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History, Indigenous peoples, General non-fiction
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The Whales, They Give Themselves is an intimate life history of Harry Brower, Sr. (1924-1992), an Inupiaq whaling captain, artisan,…
and community leader from Barrow, Alaska. In a life that spanned the profound cultural and economic changes of the twentieth century, Brower's vast knowledge of the natural world made him an essential contributor to the Native and scientific communities of the North. His desire to share his insights with future generations resulted in a series of conversations with friend and oral historian Karen Brewster, who weaves Harry's stories with cultural and historical background into this innovative and collaborative oral biography. Brower was deeply committed to Native culture, and his life history is a moving expression of the Inupiaq way of life. He was also influential in traditionally non-Native arenas in which Native and non-Native values sometimes collided. Acting as a mediator between Inupiaq whalers and non-Native scientists, Brower communicated a vast understanding of bowhead whales and whaling that became the basis for a scientific research program and helped protect Inupiaq subsistence whaling. He was a central architect of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation boundaries, and served for over twenty years as a consultant to scientists at the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory. Brower's role in this collaborative research serves as one of the earliest and best examples of how scientists and Native experts can work together to advance knowledge. Such approaches are now promoted by researchers around the world. The Whales, They Give Themselves not only conveys Brower's life story, but also is a cross-cultural journey of wisdom and friendship. Whereas academic oral historians once strove to erase the presence of the interviewer in the name of objectivity, Brewster recognizes the influence her specific relationship with Brower had on the way he narrated his life. This volume is a major contribution to our understanding of northern peoples, and a testament to the immense value of collaborative oral history.
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Religion, Indigenous peoples, Biography
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Book is a record of the spiritual life of Bull Lodge, religious leader, healer and keeper of the tribal Feathered…
Pipe, one of two tribal objects of the Gros Ventres Native American Indians
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United States history, Indigenous peoples, Travel and geography, Nature, Dinosaurs, Science and technology, Archaeology
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Hell Creek, Montana, is one of the most windswept, hardcrabble locales in the American West-a quiet town of ranchers, farmers,…
and others who seek the beauty of the open spaces. It is also the unlikely setting of some of the most fascinating events in the history of the United States and North America. From the first-ever discovery of a Tyrannosuarus Rex to Lewis and Clark's landmark expedition; for the Freeman compound standoff to Sitting Bull and Little Big Horn, Hell Creek has been a central player in the events of the last tow hundred years-and the last 200 million. Adult
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Environment, Nature, Indigenous peoples, Social issues, Biography
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"I tried really hard and I didn't get an explanation. After a forty-day search performed by some of the world's…
best-trained soldiers in the matter of survival and jungle tracking, the four missing children happened to appear barely 30 feet away from where the shaman said they would be. It all happened under the influence of yage, a sacred drink that, according to Amazonian cultures, heals all illnesses and gives you dream-like visions for a few minutes, allowing you to enter the depths of your mind or travel freely through time and space. In the interviews done for the book, the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, told me that he tried yage in his youth on two separate occasions. The first time he learned that caring for nature should be his main reason to live. The second time he received the chilling vision of his own death. This is also the story of abused children who found a chance for happiness following a tragedy; of indigenous communities living in poverty, and yet owners of the giant lung that could save humanity; of a general who won the most crucial battle of his life without firing a single shot, and the story of a tracking dog that picked up the footprints of the surviving children, but couldn't find its way out of the jungle." -- Provided by publisher
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Indigenous peoples history, Archaeology, Indigenous peoples
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Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award As Native American history is primarily studied through the lens of European contact, the…
story of Virginia's Powhatans has traditionally focused on the English arrival in the Chesapeake. This has left a deeper indigenous history largely unexplored--a longer narrative beginning with the Algonquians' construction of places, communities, and the connections in between. The Powhatan Landscape breaks new ground by tracing Native placemaking in the Chesapeake from the Algonquian arrival to the Powhatan's clashes with the English. Martin Gallivan details how Virginia Algonquians constructed riverine communities alongside fishing grounds and collective burials and later within horticultural towns. Ceremonial spaces, including earthwork enclosures within the center place of Werowocomoco, gathered people for centuries prior to 1607. Even after the violent ruptures of the colonial era, Native people returned to riverine towns for pilgrimages commemorating the enduring power of place. For today's American Indian communities in the Chesapeake, this reexamination of landscape and history represents a powerful basis from which to contest narratives and policies that have previously denied their existence. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson
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Politics and government, Indigenous peoples, History, Indigenous peoples history, Games, Social issues, Sports and games
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In 1973 an old American Indian woman is the last of her tribe on a 214-acre tract of abandoned forest…
and she asks a relative to think of something to save the land from being turned over to the government upon her death. It seems to be the end of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, but it is just the beginning. Over the next three decades, the reservation grows, to more than 600 tribal members and the Foxwoods casino
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Actors biography, Women biography, United States travel and geography, Indigenous peoples
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Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of…
her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina
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Sports and games, Sports biography, Indigenous peoples, United States travel and geography
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Learn about the incredible legacy of the first Native American athlete and Olympian to earn a gold medal for the…
United States in this exciting addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series. While most athletes excel in just one sport, Jim Thorpe was different. Born in Oklahoma in 1887, he played both professional football and baseball, and ran track and field. Jim was not only a sports icon but also a trailblazer. Raised as part of the Sac and Fox tribal nation, he was the first Native American person to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. And although his personal life was not always as successful as his career, Jim remains one of the greatest athletes in American history
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Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples history, Politics and government
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New York Times Bestseller This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than…
400 years of US history A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States includes both a new foreword by Peck and a new introduction by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Unflinchingly honest about the brutality of this nation’s founding and its legacy of settler-colonialism and genocide, the impact of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s 2014 book is profound. This classic is revisited with new material that takes an incisive look at the post-Obama era from the war in Afghanistan to Charlottesville’s white supremacy-fueled rallies, and from the onset of the pandemic to the election of President Biden. Writing from the perspective of the peoples displaced by Europeans and their white descendants, she centers Indigenous voices over the course of four centuries, tracing their perseverance against policies intended to obliterate them. Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. With a new foreword from Raoul Peck and a new introduction from Dunbar Ortiz, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. Big Concept Myths That America's founding was a revolution against colonial powers in pursuit of freedom from tyranny That Native people were passive, didn’t resist and no longer exist That the US is a “nation of immigrants” as opposed to having a racist settler colonial history
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Biography, Food and drink, Indigenous peoples, United States history
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Thomas Pecore Weso shares stories from growing up on the Menominee Indian Reservation that are interlinked with memories of meals, including recipes along the way. Adult. Unrated
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United States history, Indigenous peoples, Anthologies
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Now little recognized by their neighbors, the Southern Paiute had homelands that included large segments of the vast Colorado Plateau,…
Great Basin and Mojave Desert. The Paiute lived in many small, widespread communities there. They still do, but the communities and people are fewer and no longer have access to the lands and resources that sustained traditional lives. Vibrant oral traditions livee on among the Souhtern Paiute people, who here tell of there lives then and now. Adult
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Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples
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In Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe, Huron, and Blackfeet) presents the first scholarly work to untangle the origin,…
rise, and spread of Ojibwe identity and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, as well as the emergence of Ojibwe identity in the early years of French imperial incursions into the Upper Midwest. Schenck traces the names ascribed to the Ojibwe by French officials, traders, missionaries, and settlers in the earliest European records to their presences in French America. Schenck then follows the people themselves and their complex relationships through the centuries. Schenck&’s proficiency in French and her close reading of the sources, many in French, have facilitated a more accurate, traceable, and comprehensive documentary study than achieved by previous generations of scholars. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 has thus achieved our fullest understanding to date of Ojibwe roots and culture going back four hundred years.
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War, Religion, Indigenous peoples
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Richly illustrated with historical photographs and paintings, Spirit of the Indian Warrior presents the thoughts of some of history&’s greatest…
warriors and tribal leaders. It offers an intimate window into the cultural values of courage, loyalty, and generosity.When the first Europeans landed in North America, its native peoples faced a challenge unlike any before. Many warriors and chiefs vowed, like Tecumseh, &“to resist as long as I live and breathe.&” Some eventually accepted treaties of peace, but they soon found, like Chief Joseph, that these were worth little: &“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one.&” Hope for the future, however, remains strong among their proud descendants. And the words of the Indian warrior live on and inspire the people of America&’s First Nations, as well as people across the world.
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Environment, Religion, Indigenous peoples
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Often spoken at the end of a prayer, a well-known Sioux phrase affirms that &“we are all related.&” Similarly, the…
Sioux medicine man, Brave Buffalo, came to realize when he was still a boy that &“the maker of all was Wakan Tanka (the Great Spirit), and . . . in order to honor him I must honor his works in nature.&” The interconnectedness of all things, and the respect all things are due, are among the most prominent—and most welcome—themes in this collection of Indian voices on nature.Within the book are carefully authenticated quotations from men and women of nearly fifty North American tribes. The illustrations include historical photographs of American Indians, as well as a wide selection of contemporary photographs showing the diversity of the North American natural world. Together, these quotations and photographs beautifully present something of nature&’s timeless message.
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United States history, Social issues, Indigenous peoples, Arts and entertainment
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"Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That's why some images…
of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge our outdated visions, even as the latter continue to dominate relations between Native and non-Native Americans. Philip Deloria explores this cultural discordance to show how stereotypes and Indian experiences have competed for ascendancy in the wake of the military conquest of Native America and the nation's subsequent embrace of Native "authenticity." Rewriting the story of the national encounter with modernity, Deloria provides revealing accounts of Indians doing unexpected things - singing opera, driving cars, acting in Hollywood - in ways that suggest new directions for American Indian history." -- Provided by publisher
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Indigenous peoples, History
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"The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D.…
Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student. This edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic findings, which continue to proceed at a fast pace, along with full-color illustrations. The new material includes evidence of the earliest human occupants of the Maya region and the beginnings of agriculture and settled life; analysis from lidar on swampy areas, such as Usumacinta, that show enormous rectangle earthworks, including Aguada Fénix, dating from 1050 to 750 BCE; and recent advances in decoding Maya writing and imagery. This revised edition also expands information on the roles of women, courtiers, and outsiders; covers novel research about Maya cities, including research into water quality, marketplaces, fortifications, and integrated road systems; and includes coverage of more recent Maya, including their displacement and mistreatment, along with growing affirmations of their cultural identity and legal rights." -- Amazon.com
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Poetry, Indigenous peoples
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"Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous…
indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."-- Jacket flap
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Indigenous peoples, United States history, History
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"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and…
their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insisting that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America." -- Provided by publisher
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Indigenous peoples biography, Indigenous peoples history, Indigenous peoples
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Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk…
Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian traditions. In Black Elk, Lakota Visionary, Harry Oldmeadow draws on recently discovered sources and in-depth research to provide a major re-assessment of Black Elk&’s life and work. The author explores Black Elk&’s mystical visions, his controversial engagement with Catholicism, and his previously unrecognized attempts to preserve and revive ancestral Sioux beliefs and practices. Oldmeadow&’s lively and highly readable account also examines the controversies that have surrounded Black Elk and his collaborators, John G. Neihardt and Joseph Epes Brown. Oldmeadow judiciously explains why both Black Elk Speaks and The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk&’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux are to be ranked amongst the most profound spiritual documents of the twentieth century. Black Elk, Lakota Visionary will command the attention of every reader who is interested in the American Indians, providing fascinating insights into their ancestral traditions prior to the reservation era, the subsequent destruction and revival of their traditional ways, and the vital lessons which the contemporary world might draw from their spiritual legacy.