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  • Beyond the Lettered City

    Indigenous Literacies in the Andes

    by Joanne Rappaport, Tom Cummins ...
    Series series Narrating native histories
    In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphabetic and visual literacy on indigenous groups in the northern Andes. They consider how the Andean peoples received, maintained, and subverted the conventions of Spanish literacy, often combining them with their own traditions. Indigenous Andean communities ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    by Paulette Regan ...
    In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system.Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Shawnees and the War for America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Into the Daylight

    A Wholistic Approach to Healing

    by Calvin Morrisseau ...
    This book is an account of the personal and collective struggles of First Nations people and how the principles which held traditional societies together can be used today to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships by both aboriginals and non-aboriginals. Calvin Morrisseau provides in it the fundamentals for healing that he has learned over twenty years through his training in counselling ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest

    by Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Dakota Philosopher

    Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought

    by David Martinez ...
    Charles Eastman (1858–1939) straddled two worlds in his life and writing. The author of Indian Boyhood was raised in the traditional Dakota (Sioux) way after the upheaval of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War. His father later persuaded Ohiyesa to take a white name, study Christianity, and attend medical school. But when Eastman served as a government doctor during the Wounded Knee massacre, he became ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi

    Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977

    by Katherine M. B. Osburn ...
    Series series Indians of the Southeast
    When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When the remaining Choctaws applied for their allotments, however, the government reneged, and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $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

  • Unlearning the Language of Conquest

    Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America

    Edited by Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs) ...
    Responding to anti-Indianism in America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including:Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson's "Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD