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  • Native Hubs

    Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond

    by Renya K. Ramirez ...
    Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources—particularly health care services—provided to Native Americans living on reservations. A scholar and a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Renya K. Ramirez investigates how ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Music, Health and the Body

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    by Poonam Bala, Julia C. Basso, Fabian Cannizzo, James J. Chriss, Bamba Ndiaye, Justin Patch, Renya K. Ramirez, Noor Tasnim, Töres Theorell, Kenneth H. Wilson0, Farren Yero1 ...
    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people’s perception of and ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Standing Up to Colonial Power

    The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud

    by Renya K. Ramirez ...
    Series series New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
    Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty rights, and tribal identities. Mastering ways of behaving and speaking in different social settings and to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    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

  • Beothuk Of Newfoundland: A Vanished People

    A Vanished People

    by Ingeborg C.L. Marshall ...
    A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information concerning every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Stoney Creek Woman

    The Story of Mary John

    by Bridget Moran ...
    The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of racism, poverty, and the deaths of six children--but lived her life with extraordinary grace and courage ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Indian Act

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system showing that customary rights are insecure certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation and leases are temporary. As well analysis of legislation court decisions and economic reports reveals that current land management has led to unnecessary ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Mohawk Interruptus

    Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

    by Audra Simpson ...
    Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation

    A Road Map for All Canadians

    by Greg Poelzer, Ken S. Coates ...
    Canada is a country founded on relationships and agreements between Indigenous peoples and newcomers. Although recent court cases have upheld Aboriginal title rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians engage in endless arguments about First Nations “issues.” Each new court decision adds fuel to the debate raging between those who want to see an end to special ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Indigenous Storywork

    Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

    by Jo-Ann Archibald ...
    Indigenous oral narratives are an important source for, and component of, Coast Salish knowledge systems. Stories are not only to be recounted and passed down; they are also intended as tools for teaching.Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Coyote Wisdom

    The Power of Story in Healing

    by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D. ...
    An in-depth look at the therapeutic and transformative powers of storytelling in Native American and other cultures• Explores how to create a healing state of mind using stories• Includes healing stories from Native American traditions and other cultures from around the world• By the author of the bestselling Coyote MedicineStories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives ... Read more

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  • Theorizing Native Studies

    by Audra Simpson ...
    This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility toward theory as an inherently Western, imperialist epistemology. The editors of Theorizing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD