Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers
Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and meaning. Regardless...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The most significant and popular examples of Native American art can be seen in totem poles. But the Native Americans also used other mediums for their art. Your child will be learning all about the Native American art history in the pages of this book. There are plenty of information to absorb, and pictures to see too! Grab a copy of this book today!
Reckonings
Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select...
Crossing Mountains
Native American Language Education in Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Collaboration among contemporary Native American communities and local public schools is vital for nurturing Native languages. Although public schools cannot bear the entire burden, Native-language education will remain on the margins without their support. Using case studies of school districts on...
by Lee D. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating...
Peoples of the Inland Sea
Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European...
The Quest for Citizenship
African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the...
Great Basin Indians
An Encyclopedic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including...
Native Land Talk
Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As...
Yuchi Folklore
Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi...
The Return of the Native
American Indian Political Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1990
An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the 16th century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations have shaped the Native American political identity and tactics in the ongoing struggle for power. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians...
Native Americans in the School System
Family, Community, and Academic Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she evaluates historical, ethnographic, and quantitative...
Deep Waters
The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher...
Indians on the Move
Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had...