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  • To Be Indian

    The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker

    by Joy Porter, Ms. Odie Brant Porter ...
    Born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State, Arthur Caswell Parker (1881-1955) was a prominent intellectual leader both within and outside tribal circles. Of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and Anglican descent, Parker was also a controversial figure-recognized as an advocate for Native Americans but criticized for his assimilationist stance. In this exhaustively researched biography-the first ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War

    The Making of Frank Prewett

    by Professor Joy Porter ...
    This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI.Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and how war-induced trauma or “shell-shock” caused him to pretend to be an indigenous North American. Porter investigates his influence of, and acceptance ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

    Edited by Joy Porter, Kenneth M. Roemer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Native American Freemasonry

    Associationalism and Performance in America

    by Joy Porter ...
    Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era—a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Land and Spirit in Native America

    by Professor Joy Porter ...
    Series series Native America: Yesterday and Today
    This book accurately depicts Native American approaches to land and spirituality through an interdisciplinary examination of Indian philosophy, history, and literature.Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Blood and Land

    The Story of Native North America

    by J. C. H. King ...
    Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples.This highly personal book, based on years of travel and first-hand ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • 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

  • Native American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sean Teuton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    North American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By setting indigenous literature in historical moments, Sean Teuton skillfully traces its evolution from the ancient role of bringing rain and healing the body, to its later purpose in resisting European ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • The Great Work

    Our Way into the Future

    by Thomas Berry ...
    Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The White Man's Indian

    Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present

    by Robert F. Berkhofer ...
    Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has ... Read more

    $4.99 USD