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From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania,...
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The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
December 1, 2008 |
471 pages
One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time... More Info
Survivance
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2008 |
385 pages
The concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articulated by the Anishinaabe critic and writer Gerald Vizenor, survivance throws into relief the... More Info
Coyote Anthropology
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
July 1, 2010 |
199 pages
Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropology’s vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaning—in terms of... More Info
The Lakota ghost dance of 1890
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2008 |
437 pages
Nevada's highly individualistic political culture has produced a conservative political philosophy in an open society. Economic developments resulting from mining and gambling reinforced and heightened the individualistic ethic that many early settlers brought to the frontier state. This ethic is... More Info
Lakota Woman
Grove Press |
June 14, 2011 |
272 pages
Relates the experiences of a Native American woman who grew up on a reservation and joined in the revolution for Native American rights during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Inside Dazzling Mountains
U of Nebraska Press |
January 1, 2013 |
696 pages
Inside Dazzling Mountains provides fresh new translations of Native oral literatures of the Southwest, a region of vital and varied cultures and languages. The collection features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups of the Southwest: Athabascan, Uto-Aztecan,... More Info
Rez Life
Atlantic Monthly Press |
January 31, 2012 |
368 pages
Presents an insider chronicle of the history of Indian reservations and contemporary Native American life, highlighting misunderstood issues and examining the historical tensions between Native Americans and the U.S. government.
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Chief Bender's Burden
Bison Books |
May 1, 2010 |
352 pages
The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender was, according to a contemporary, “the coolest pitcher in the game.” Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game’s first slider, and an apparently unflappable... More Info
A dictionary of Skiri Pawnee
University of Nebraska Press |
December 1, 2008 |
548 pages
A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee is the first dictionary ever published of a Caddoan language. Formerly an independent tribe living along the North Fork of the Loup River in central Nebraska, the Skiris united with South Band Pawnee groups in the late eighteenth century, and in 1874–76 they were... More Info
$49.95
Seminole voices
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
June 1, 2010 |
234 pages
In a series of interviews conducted from 1969 to 1971 and again from 1998 to 1999, more than two hundred members of the Florida Seminole community described their lives for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Some of those interviews, now showcased in this volume,... More Info
Born in the Blood
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
June 1, 2011 |
488 pages
Praise for Brain Swann's Algonquian Spirit Contemporary Transltions of the Algonquian Literatures of North America
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$45.00
Bad fruits of the civilized tree
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
April 1, 2008 |
260 pages
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. While acknowledging the addictive and socially destructive effects of alcohol, Izumi Ishii also examines... More Info
Anthropology goes to the fair
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
September 1, 2007 |
536 pages
World’s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and cultural exhibits, entertainment concessions,... More Info
$32.50
All That Remains
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
April 1, 2009 |
229 pages
In this dynamic collection of essays, Arnold Krupat, one of the leading critics of American Indian writing, storytelling, and film, offers insightful and provocative analyses of representations by and about Native peoples, past and present. He considers the relations between tricksters in... More Info
The Ponca Tribe, Second Edition
Bison Books |
June 1, 2010 |
240 pages
The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated... More Info
$40.00
The New Warriors
Bison Books |
March 1, 2004 |
346 pages
An indispensable introduction to the rich variety of Native leadership in the modern era, The New Warriors profiles Native men and women who have played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the twentieth century. The leaders showcased include... More Info
Contributions to Ojibwe studies
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
August 1, 2010 |
634 pages
From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community of Berens River on its east side. He traveled up that river several times to other Ojibwe communities... More Info
$56.50
Natalie Curtis Burlin
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
May 1, 2010 |
402 pages
Natalie Curtis Burlin (1876–1921) was born to a wealthy New York City family and initially trained for a career as a classical concert pianist. But in 1903, she left her family and training behind to study, collect, and popularize the music of American Indians in the Southwest and African... More Info
Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era
U of Nebraska Press |
November 1, 2012 |
246 pages
In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era, folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi people... More Info
$21.95
Deerskins and duffels
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2008 |
306 pages
Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern United States. The Creeks were the largest Indian nation in the Southeast, and through their trade alliance with... More Info
Natick Dictionary
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
June 1, 2009 |
392 pages
James Hammond Trumbull was a prolific New England antiquarian and linguist. In connection with his research into the Native languages of New England, his discovery that some of the languages were highly systematic enabled him to decipher the grammar and vocabulary from rough phonetic accounts of... More Info
$34.50
Smoke Signals
U of Nebraska Press |
December 1, 2012 |
280 pages
"An introduction to and analysis of "Smoke Signals," the most popular Native American film of all time"--
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$62.50
Taking assimilation to heart
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2006 |
276 pages
Taking Assimilation to Heart examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. In these settler societies, white women were expected to reproduce white children to keep the white race “pure”--hence special anxieties were... More Info
$65.00
Koasati traditional narratives
University of Nebraska Press |
June 1, 2010 |
303 pages
Koasati Traditional Narratives is the first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators... More Info
$24.95
Keeping the Circle
University of Nebraska Press |
September 1, 2007 |
196 pages
Keeping the Circle presents an overview of the modern history and identity of the Native peoples in twentieth-century North Carolina, including the Lumbees, the Tuscaroras, the Waccamaw Sioux, the Occaneechis, the Meherrins, the Haliwa-Saponis, and the Coharies. From the late 1800s until the 1930s,... More Info
Eagle Voice Remembers
Bison Books |
June 1, 2011 |
280 pages
This book was originally published as When the Tree Flowered: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World.
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The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
December 1, 2008 |
283 pages
The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. In this detailed examination of the takeover, Troy R. Johnson tells the story of those who organized... More Info
The Brothertown Nation of Indians
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
July 1, 2010 |
341 pages
A group of educated Christian Natives from a variety of New England tribes came together in central New York in 1785 to form a community of their own, Brothertown, a proprietary “Body Politick” modeled after a New England town with an elected leadership. In an effort to retain their land rights... More Info
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge
Bison Books |
August 1, 1999 |
340 pages
For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and... More Info
$37.50
Ruth Landes
University of Nebraska Press |
September 1, 2007 |
315 pages
Ruth Landes (1908–91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders... More Info
Iroquois on Fire
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2008 |
168 pages
In their homelands in what is now New York state, the Iroquois have assumed a prominent role in public debate as residents of the region seek ways to resolve multibillion-dollar land claims. The initial dispute over territorial title has grown to encompass gambling, treaties, taxation, and what it... More Info
Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians
Bison Books |
January 1, 2008 |
166 pages
Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included are tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles... More Info
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Dance Lodges of the Omaha People
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
June 1, 2008 |
214 pages
After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught of federal Indian policies, governmental officials, and missionary zealots. At the same time,... More Info
Mapping the Mississippian shatter zone
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2009 |
526 pages
During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M.
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Doctor among the Oglala Sioux Tribe
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
May 1, 2010 |
366 pages
In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life... More Info
$31.25
Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
July 1, 2007 |
333 pages
Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, “to Christianize and civilize the native heathen.” Both the attempts to transform Indians via schooling and the Indians' reaction to such efforts are closely studied for the first time in Indian... More Info
$70.00
Skylark meets meadowlark
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2009 |
416 pages
A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature... More Info
$37.50
Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women
University of Nebraska Press |
January 1, 2010 |
340 pages
Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women makes available in English a rare collection of eyewitness accounts by German Catholic missionaries among the Lakotas in the late nineteenth century. German missionaries played an important role in the early years of the St. Francis mission on the Rosebud... More Info
We will dance our truth
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
October 1, 2009 |
373 pages
In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter’s interpretation of the... More Info
The Oglala Sioux
Bison Books |
April 1, 2010 |
120 pages
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) physician Robert H. Ruby arrived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to oversee the health needs of the Oglala Sioux tribe during a period of significant transformation and change in federal Indian policies. As Ruby came to know the individuals living on the... More Info
Households and hegemony
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
May 1, 2008 |
228 pages
The long-term significance of the household as a social and economic force—particularly in relation to authority positions or institutions—has remained relatively unexplored in North American archaeology. Households and Hegemony makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the role... More Info
$18.95
Southern Ute Women
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
January 1, 2009 |
165 pages
After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In... More Info
Tribal Theory in Native American Literature
University of Nebraska Press |
January 1, 2010 |
192 pages
Scholars and readers continue to wrestle with how best to understand and appreciate the wealth of oral and written literatures created by the Native communities of North America. Are critical frameworks developed by non-Natives applicable across cultures, or do they reinforce colonialist power and... More Info
Native storiers
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
March 1, 2009 |
198 pages
Gerald Vizenor presents in this anthology some of the best contemporary Native American Indian authors writing today. The five books from which these excerpts are drawn are published in the University of Nebraska Press’s Native Storiers series. This series introduces innovative, emergent,... More Info
$27.95
Coyote Warrior
Bison Books |
January 1, 2010 |
344 pages
From White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called "Coyote Warriors"--among them a Mandan/Hidatsa named Raymond Cross. Coyote Warrior tells the epic story of the three tribes that saved Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery from starvation,... More Info
White man's club
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2007 |
395 pages
Tens of thousands of Indian children filed through the gates of government schools to be trained as United States citizens. Part of a late-nineteenth-century campaign to eradicate Native cultures and communities, these institutions became arenas where whites debated the terms of Indian citizenship,... More Info
Sacred Sites
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
October 1, 2010 |
291 pages
A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and mythic characters. The result is a singular and memorable account of the evolution of the Southern California landscape, reflecting the riches of both... More Info
Broken treaties
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
June 1, 2009 |
450 pages
Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States–Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label imposed... More Info
$48.95
Women elders' life stories of the Omaha Tribe
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
January 1, 2010 |
112 pages
Eleanor Baxter, Alice Saunsoci, and Hawate (Wenona Caramony) are female elders of the Omaha Tribe in Macy, in the northeast corner of Nebraska. All three grew up on the Omaha reservation, moved away in later life, and held careers outside the reservation. Yet all returned to their community,... More Info
$45.00
Kiowa humanity and the invasion of the state
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
March 1, 2008 |
198 pages
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government’s efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by... More Info
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