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  • The Important Things of Life

    Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

    by Dee Garceau ...
    Series series Women in the West
    Sweetwater County lies in southwestern Wyoming, and has stood as a significant symbolic geography for the "new Western Woman’s" history. As the county in which Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Nebraska 1990) said she proved up her homestead in 1913, it is a fitting locale for the study of western gender relations.The Important Things of Life examines women’s work and family ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bound Like Grass

    A Memoir from the Western High Plains

    by Ruth McLaughlin ...
    At the start of this haunting memoir, Ruth McLaughlin returns to the site of her childhood home in rural eastern Montana. In place of her family's house, she finds only rubble and a blackened chimney. A fire has taken the old farmstead and with it ninety-seven years of hard-luck memories. Amidst the ruins, a lone tree survives, reminding her of her family's stubborn will to survive despite ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Across the Great Divide

    Cultures of Manhood in the American West

    by Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, Dee Garceau ...
    In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Portraits of Women in the American West

    Edited by Dee Garceau-Hagen ...
    Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told.This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Indian Blues

    American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934

    by John W. Troutman ...
    Series Book 3 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Negotiators of Change

    Historical Perspectives on Native American Women

    Edited by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Negotiators of Change covers the history of ten tribal groups including the Cherokee, Iroquois and Navajo -- as well as tribes with less known histories such as the Yakima, Ute, and Pima-Maricopa. The book contests the idea that European colonialization led to a loss of Native American women's power, and instead presents a more complex picture of the adaption to, and subversion of, the economic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children

    A Reader and Bibliography

    by Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin, Yvonne Wakim, Michael A. Dorris ...
    The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay on Thanksgiving and an essay by Dr. Cornell Pewewardy on Disney's Pocahontas film. This edition ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Victims of Benevolence

    The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School

    by Elizabeth Furniss ...
    An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the suicide of another while they were students at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School during ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits

    Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

    by Gregory Smithers ...
    Series Book 12 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.**Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

    Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    "Everything you know about Indians is wrong." As the provocative title of Paul Chaat Smith's 2009 book proclaims, everyone knows about Native Americans, but most of what they know is the fruit of stereotypes and vague images. The real people, real communities, and real events of indigenous America continue to elude most people. The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History confronts this ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Holding Our World Together

    Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community

    by Brenda J. Child ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women's labor, the sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • American Indians

    Stereotypes & Realities

    by Devon A. Mihesuah ...
    American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous illustrations and brief bibliographies on each topic PLUS these appendices: * Do's and Don'ts for those ... Read more

    $11.59 USD