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Rez Salute
By Jim Northrup. 2012
Since 2001 Indian Country has seen great changes, touching everything from treaty rights to sovereignty issues to the rise (and…
sometimes the fall) of gambling and casinos. With unsparing honesty and a good dose of humor, Jim Northrup takes readers through the last decade, looking at the changes in Indian Country, as well as daily life on the rez. Jim Northrup is an award-winning journalist, poet, and playwright. His syndicated column "Fond du Lac Follies" was named Best Column at the 1999 Native American Journalists Association convention.Indians of the Pacific Northwest
By Vine Deloria Jr., Steve Pavlik, Billy Frank Jr. 2012
The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the…
white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world, tells the story of these tribes' fight for survival, one that continues today. Billy Frank Jr. was the first recipient of Indian Country Today's American Indian Visionary Award. Steve Pavlik is a professor of Native American studies at Northwest Indian College.The Hank Adams Reader
By David E. Wilkins. 2011
According to Vine Deloria Jr., Hank Adams is the most important Native American of the past sixty years. From his…
mediation of disputes between the US government and AIM in the 1970s to his key role in the Trail of Broken Treaties, Adams shaped modern Native activism. For the first time Adams' writings are collected, providing a well-rounded portrait of this important figure and a firsthand history of Indian country in the late twentieth century. Professor David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.Where the Tall Grass Grows
By Bobby Bridger. 2011
In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, noted historian and musician Bobby Bridger explores the impact of Native American culture on…
the American psyche. The book also examines the impact of indigenous American mythology on contemporary identity and the development of modern popular entertainment, particularly the Hollywood film industry.Renowned for "A Ballad of the West," Bobby Bridger has written three books and has had a career in show business that spans the rockabilly to the cosmic cowboy scene in Austin, Texas; the flowering of folk music; and Broadway theater. His multifaceted talents have found expression in singing, acting, writing, painting, and sculpting.Meeting the Medicine Men
By Charles Langley. 2008
A chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class London life and into…
the world of the North American Indian Medicine Men, where people believe that witchcraft can bring ruin and even death. Only the Medicine Men have the knowledge to do battle with witches, lift curses and restore the sick to health. The larger-than-life Blue Horse is one of a dwindling band of Medicine Men traveling the vast Navajo reservation of New Mexico and Arizona, ministering to the victims of evil spirits. Charles Langley, former London newspaper editor, finds himself serving as Blue Horse's bag carrier and chauffeur, eventually becoming his apprentice. He sees Blue Horse perform incredible feats - predicting the future, uncovering the past, curing the sick and communicating with spirits. At first bemused by what he sees, Langley attributes Blue Horse's successes to luck or fraud. But logical explanations soon fall short. In Meeting the Medicine Men, Langley studies the accumulating evidence that Navajo Medicine Men really can cure the sick, change history and foretell the future and explores a culture that has endured since the Ice Age but is now cracking under the pressure of the modern world.A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend
By Ralph Maud. 1978
Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed herein, and their work…
in Indian folklore evaluated. Other scholars, amateurs, and Native informants of the past and present are given consideration, making this book a comprehensive survey of myth collecting in B.C. a valuable reference tool for beginning or advanced students of anthropology.The Salish People: Volume I
By Ralph Maud, Charles Hill-Tout. 1978
These four volumes, edited by Ralph Maud, are rich in stories and factual details about the old customs of the…
Pacific Coast and Interior Salish in British Columbia. Each volume covers a specific geographical area. Volume 1 deals with the people of the Thompson and Okanagan. It includes stories told to Charles Hill-Tout by Chief Mischelle of Lytton in 1896.The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories
By Ralph Maud. 1993
Henry W. Tate (d. 1914), a Tsimshian informant to ethnographer Franz Boas, first wrote these stories in English before giving…
Boas Tsimshian equivalents between 1903 and 1913. Boas published them in the much-consulted ethnology classic, Tsimshian Mythology (1916). In Ralph Maud's selection of the best stories, now preserved closer to the way Tate originally intended, Tate emerges as creative writer.The Salish People: Volume IV
By Charles Hill-Tout, Ralph Maud. 1978
Volume IV of The Salish People deals with the Sechelt and the South-Eastern tribes of Vancouver Island. This four-volume series…
collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout, who studied the anthropology of British Columbia, in the Pacific Northwest.The Salish People: Volume II
By Ralph Maud, Charles Hill-Tout. 1978
Field reports from nineteenth-century ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout are collected in this four-volume series, The Salish People. Volume II deals with…
the people of the Squamish and the Lillooet. It includes an account of the Origin Myth as told by a 100-year-old blind storyteller whose mother saw Captain Cook sail into Howe Sound in 1792. Hill-Tout's "asides," too, are uniquely informative.The Salish People: Volume II
By Ralph Maud, Charles Hill. 1978
Field reports from nineteenth-century ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout are collected in this four-volume series, The Salish People. Volume II deals with…
the people of the Squamish and the Lillooet. It includes an account of the Origin Myth as told by a 100-year-old blind storyteller whose mother saw Captain Cook sail into Howe Sound in 1792. Hill-Tout's "asides," too, are uniquely informative.The Salish People: Volume III
By Ralph Maud, Charles Hill-Tout. 1978
Volume III of The Salish People deals with the Mainland Halkomelem, the people of the Fraser River from Vancouver to…
Chilliwack, and includes the earliest account of B.C. archaeological sites. The Salish People collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout.Lessons from Turtle Island
By Sally Moomaw, Guy W. Jones. 2002
How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and…
in the media?Lessons from Turtle Island is the first complete guide to exploring Native American issues with children. The authors-one Native, one white, both educators-show ways to incorporate authentic learning experiences about Native Americans into your curriculum. This book is organized around five cross-cultural themes-Children, Home, Families, Community, and the Environment. The authors present activities, from children's books they recommend, to develop skills in reading and writing, science, math, make-believe, art, and more. The book provides helpful guidelines and resource lists for selecting appropriate toys, children's books, music, and art, and also includes a family heritage project."[A] marvelous tool that should be in every American school."-Joseph Bruchac, author of Heart of a Chief and The Winter PeopleGuy W. Jones, Hunkpapa Lakota, is a full-blood member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. He is a co-founder of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans in Dayton, Ohio.Sally Moomaw teaches at the University of Cincinnati. She is the co-author of the More Than . . . curriculum series published by Redleaf Press.Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology
By Ralph Maud. 2000
It has been well known since Marius Barbeau's review of the first edition of Franz Boas's Tsimshian Mythology in 1917,…
that something was seriously amiss with Boas's alleged "translations" of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that Boas was doing with Tate's stories? It is this question that Ralph Maud sets out to address in Transmission Difficulties. * Boas's original misrepresentations of the over 2,000 pages of material he received from Henry Tate have been denied by the ethnographic establishment for over eighty years. His distortion of Tate's stories has been rationalized, to date, as "cultural relativism"--any loss of Tate's original material in this ethnographic "collaboration" between Native informant and European scientist was "unavoidable," due to the presumably equal "cultural differences" between them. This, Maud argues convincingly, is not the case at all. The fact that Boas paid Tate for his stories by the page, and furthermore instructed Tate specifically on what stories, and even on what kinds of stories he was to gather and submit, created a profoundly unequal relationship between these two men, which resulted in an inevitable and pre-determined "authentication" of the Native material by the European ethnographer. * Transmission Difficulties unfolds like a gripping, real-life mystery story. It leaves the reader with a whole new vision of what the relation between European colonials and Aboriginal inhabitants in the Americas might have been, and still might be.The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
By Theda Perdue, Michael D Green. 2007
Historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen…
like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march leads only to their death. 2007.The Iroquois and diplomacy on the early American frontier
By Timothy J Shannon. 2008
Our Land Before We Die
By Jeff Guinn. 2002
In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the…
Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral history, and based on extensive interviews with descendants, this book describes the incredible circumstances of a people who sought shelter in the shadow of a tribe whose land and welfare already hung in the balance. And yet, in their tireless journey-from Florida to Indian Territory in Oklahoma; on the seven-hundred-mile flight from persecution that took them across the Rio Grande into Mexico; and then back across the Rio Grande to Texas-they never surrendered the hope of one day attaining land of their own. Our Land Before We Die brings to life the largely forgotten history of a courageous people and the descendants for whom this story is their only legacy.Collecting Native America, 1870-1960
By Shepard Krech. 1999
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they…
thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs.In Collecting Native America contributors examine the motivations, intentions, and actions of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. They describe obsessive hobbyists such as George Heye, who, beginning with the purchase of a lice-ridden shirt, built a collection that--still unsurpassed in richness, diversity, and size--today forms the core of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, collected and displayed artifacts as a means of converting Native peoples to Christianity. Clara Endicott Sears used sometimes invented displays and ceremonies at her Indian Museum near Boston to emphasize Native American spirituality. The contributors chart the collectors' diverse attitudes towards Native peoples, showing how their limited contact with American Indian groups resulted in museums that revealed more about assumptions of the wider society than about the cultures being described.Cahokia: ancient America's great city on the Mississippi (The Penguin library of American Indian history)
By Timothy R Pauketat. 2010
Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil. Once a flourishing metropolis of 20,000 people…
in 1050, Cahokia had rotted away by 1400. Its earthen mounds near modern-day St. Louis reveal "woodhenges" and evidence of large-scale human sacrifice. 2010.A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend
By Ralph Maud. 1978
Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed here in A Guide…
to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated. Other scholars, amateurs and Native informants of the past and present are given ample consideration, making this book a comprehensive survey of myth collecting in B.C. The aim is to reveal the true extent of this neglected body of world literature, and to begin to sort out the more valuable texts from those damaged in transmission. A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend is a valuable reference tool for beginning or advanced students of anthropology, and an absorbing look at the research process itself.