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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “scott richard lyons”
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  • X-Marks

    Native Signatures of Assent

    by Scott Richard Lyons ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditions), resistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The World, the Text, and the Indian

    Global Dimensions of Native American Literature

    Edited by Scott Richard Lyons ...
    Series series SUNY series, Native Traces
    Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, recovery, and teaching of Native ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ...
    Series Book 3 - ReVisioning History
    **New York Times BestsellerNow part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul PeckRecipient of the American Book AwardThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples**Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of the Self

    by Muhammad Iqbal ...
    The Secrets of the Selfby Muhammad Iqbal, tr. by Reynold A. NicholsonA philosophical poem by the intellectual founder of the nation of Pakistan.Asrar I Khudi. The form of existence is an effect of the Self. Whatsoever thou seest is a secret of the Self.The Asrár-i Khudí was first published at Lahore in 1915. I read it soon afterwards and thought so highly of it that I wrote to Iqbal, whom I had ... Read more

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  • 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

    $10.69 USD

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  • The Heirs of Columbus

    by Gerald Vizenor ...
    "If you must read a book on Columbus," declared the Los Angeles Times in its review of The Heirs of Columbus, "this is the one." Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher Columbus on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer himself to be a descendent of early Mayans and follows the adventures of his modern-day, mixedblood heirs as they create a fantastic tribal nation.The ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Victorio

    Apache Warrior and Chief

    by Kathleen P. Chamberlain ...
    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain expands our understanding of Victorio’s role in the Apache wars and brings him into the center of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • American Indian Medicine

    by Virgil J. Vogel ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the ... Read more

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  • Where the Waters Divide

    Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada

    by Michael Mascarenhas ...
    This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies, privatization, etc.) are woven through and shape contemporary racial inequality in Canadian society. ... Read more

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  • The Right Relationship

    Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties

    Edited by John Borrows, Michael Coyle ...
    The relationship between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore. Numerous tragic incidents and a legacy of historical negligence combined with more vehement calls for action is forcing a reconsideration of the relationship between the federal government and Indigenous nations.In The Right Relationship,John Borrows and Michael Coyle ... Read more

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  • Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq

    A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change

    by Shelley Wright ...
    Series Book 75 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of this magnificent place - and that it is undergoing a dangerous transformation. The Arctic ice is ... Read more

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  • The Salish People: Volume II

    The Squamish and the Lillooet

    by Charles Hill-Tout ...
    Series series The Salish People
    Charles Hill-Tout was born in England in 1858 and came to British Columbia in 1891. A pioneer settler at Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley, he devoted many years studying the Salish and publishing in the scholarly periodicals of the day. He was honoured as president of the Anthropological Section of the Royal Society of Canada and as a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. ... Read more

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