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  • "Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods"

    Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes

    by Larry Nesper ...
    Series series SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
    Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, "mixed bloods" were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Tribal Worlds

    Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building

    Edited by Brian Hosmer, Larry Nesper ...
    Series series SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
    Explores how indigenous nationhood has emerged and been maintained in the face of aggressive efforts to assimilate Native peoples.Tribal Worlds considers the emergence and general project of indigenous nationhood in several geographical and historical settings in Native North America. Ethnographers and historians address issues of belonging, peoplehood, sovereignty, conflict, economy, identity, ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Social Memory and History

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Robert R. Archibald, Adina Cimet, Jacob Climo, Marilyn Cohen, Carole L. Crumley, Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, Luke Eric Lassiter, Cheryl Natzmer, Georgina Neophytou, Larry Nesper ...
    In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its nature and process, its personal and political implications, the crisis in memory, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past

    by Eviatar Zerubavel ...
    The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct.Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?As ... Read more

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  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    by Jeffrey Ostler ...
    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Aboriginal Ontario

    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Edited by Edward S. Rogers, Donald B. Smith ...
    Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of ... Read more

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  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Edited by Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, Susan Saegert ...
    The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Anton Treuer ...
    "I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they supported but also challenged me with questions like, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    by Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Keywords for Radicals

    The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle

    by Joy James, Silvia Federici ...
    "An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and ... Read more

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD