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  • Hawaiian Blood

    Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

    by Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos, Joanne Rappaport, J. Kehaulani Kauanui ...
    Series series Narrating Native Histories
    In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system in Hawai‘i. Hawaiian Blood is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this federal law that equates ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Courage Tastes of Blood

    The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001

    by Daniel J. Walkowitz, Florencia E. Mallon ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • When a Flower Is Reborn

    The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist

    by Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef ...
    A pathbreaking contribution to Latin American testimonial literature, When a Flower Is Reborn is activist Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef’s chronicle of her leadership within the Mapuche indigenous rights movement in Chile. Part personal reflection and part political autobiography, it is also the story of Reuque’s rediscovery of her own Mapuche identity through her political and human rights activism ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • New Languages of the State

    Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia

    by Bret Gustafson, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos, Joanne Rappaport, K. Tsianina Lomawaima ...
    Series series Narrating Native Histories
    During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with the Guarani, who were at the vanguard of the movement for bilingual education. Drawing on his ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Recognition Odysseys

    Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities

    by Brian Klopotek, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos, Joanne Rappaport, K. Tsianina Lomawaima ...
    Series series Narrating native histories
    In Recognition Odysseys, Brian Klopotek explores the complicated relationship between federal tribal recognition policy and American Indian racial and tribal identities. He does so by comparing the experiences of three central Louisiana tribes that have petitioned for federal acknowledgment: the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe (recognized in 1981), the Jena Band of Choctaws (recognized in 1995), and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Decolonizing Native Histories

    Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas

    Translated by Gladys McCormick ...
    by Florencia E. Mallon ...
    Series series Narrating native histories
    Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the rights of Native peoples to decide how their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    by Juliet S. Erazo ...
    Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an ... Read more

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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

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  • The Lakota Way

    Stories and Lessons for Living

    by Joseph M. Marshall III ...
    Series series Compass
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development

    Rights, Culture, Strategy

    by Karen Engle ...
    Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous groups. Her vivid account highlights the dilemmas that accompany each legal strategy, as well as the persistent elusiveness ... Read more

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  • The Missionaries

    God Against the Indians

    by Norman Lewis ...
    The renowned travel writer delivers "a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls" ( Library Journal ).Acclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on the cultures he visited. In The Missionaries, he turns his critical lens on those missionaries who embed ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Intellectuals

    Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes

    Edited by Yanna Yannakakis, Gabriela Ramos, PhD ...
    Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and art history reveal new facets of the colonial ... Read more

    $25.19 USD