American Indian

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2016

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CONTENTS
Archaeology & Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Politics & Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Bestsellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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On the front: Zitkala-a, Sioux Indian and activist, courtesy of Gertrude Kasebier
Collection, Division of Culture and the Arts, National Museum of American
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Archaeology & Anthropology

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Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere

By A. Martin Byers
$65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-8688-7 440 Pages
Found across the North American Eastern Woodlands are multiple Hopewellian
monumental earthworks, considered to be sites of funerary rituals and practices.
Byers proposes they were Ceremonial Spheres and develops a complementary
heterarchical community model of their use in world renewal rituals. Detailed
interpretations of Hopewellian sites and their contents in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
and Georgia empirically anchor his claims.

Native Performers in Wild West Shows

From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney
By Linda Scarangella McNenly
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4281-4 272 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4846-5 272 pages
Drawing on interviews with contemporary performers and descendants of
twentieth-century performers, McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest new
interpretations of their performances and experiences. Some Native performers
saw Wild West shows not necessarily as demeaning, but rather as opportunities
for travel, for employment, for recognition, and for the preservation and
expression of important cultural traditions.

Viewing the Ancestors

Perceptions of the Anaasz, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
By Robert McPherson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4429-0 256 pages
Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert
McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole
story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived
from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a
more complete history.

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From the Hands of a Weaver

Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
Edited by Jacilee Wray
Foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6 264 pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4471-9 264 pages
Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central to the
daily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah cultures
of Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of the essays collected
here, who include Native people as well as academics, explore the commonalities
among these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving styles and techniques.

Yuchi Folklore
Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community
By Jason Baird Jackson
Contributions by Mary S. Linn
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4397-2 304 pages
Yuchi Folklore examines expressive genres and customs that have long been of
special interest to Yuchi people themselves. Beginning with an overview of Yuchi
history and ethnography, the book explores four categories of cultural expression:
verbal or spoken art, material culture, cultural performance, and worldview. In
describing oratory, food, architecture, and dance, Jackson visits and revisits the
themes of cultural persistence and social interaction, initially between Yuchi and
other peoples east of the Mississippi and now in northeastern Oklahoma.

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Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Edited by Sebastian Felix Braun
Afterword by Raymond J. DeMallie
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4394-1 316 pages
The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the
teaching and writing of distinguished ethnohistorian Raymond J. DeMallie,
whose exemplary combination of ethnographic and archival research
demonstrates the ways anthropology and history can work together to create
an understanding of the past and the present. Transforming Ethnohistories
comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic from
fiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning places
from North Carolina to the Yukon.

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Arapaho Womens Quillwork

Motion, Life, and Creativity
By Jeffrey D. Anderson
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8 216 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5583-8 216 pages
Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork,
Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied
as the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges
predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred
patterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized not
individual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivityan
approach foreign to many outside observers.

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Patterns of Exchange
Navajo Weavers and Traders
By Teresa J. Wilkins
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3757-5 248 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4354-5 248 pages
The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result
of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo
weavers and the traders like John Lorenzo Hubbell who guided their
production and controlled their sale. Wilkins traces how the relationships
between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.

Mound Builders and Monument Makers of

the Northern Great Lakes, 12001600
By Meghan C. L. Howey
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4288-3 320 pages
Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds
and circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the
regions ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long
been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social
dynamics of the time in which they were constructed. In Mound Builders and
Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 12001600, Meghan C. L. Howey
uses archaeology to make this connection.

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Art & Photography

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A Place in the Sun

The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings
By Thomas Brent Smith
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5198-4 208 pages
Of the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academy
between 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (18761936) and E. Martin Hennings
(18861956) returned to the United States to foster the development of a
national art. The two German American artists shared much in common,
and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists.
Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in the
Sun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy of
these two important artists.

Painted Journeys
The Art of John Mix Stanley
By Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw
$54.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4829-8 308 pages
$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5155-7 308 pages
Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (18141872), one of the most celebrated
chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his
own success. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanleys
extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunityand ample
reasonto rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure
of nineteenth-century American culture.

Surviving Desires
Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest
By Henrietta Lidchi
$34.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4850-2 272 pages
Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of
the Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in
constant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of
desires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individual
entrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities.

A Strange Mixture
By Sascha T. Scott
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4484-9 280
Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New
Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo
peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists encounters with
Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led
them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this
book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo
and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting
some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.

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Art in Motion
Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought
Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso
$25.00 Paper 978-0-914738-63-3 108 pages
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
In the summer of 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled Art in
Motion: Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought, which brought artists
and scholars together to discuss American Indian art, using the idea of motion
as a unifying theme. The perspectives explored in this volume reveal how scholars
and artists with different backgrounds can employ overarching themes, such as
motion, to investigate topics in arts and culture.

North American Indian Art

Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands
Edited by Pieter Hovens and Bruce Bernstein
$39.95s Cloth 978-3-9811620-8-0 320 pages
Distributed for ZKF Publishers
North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands
showcases 114 oustanding examples of Native art and heritage from the Canadian
subarctic forests to the American Southwest preserved in Dutch museums. Many
of these rare material documents collected between the seventeenth and the
twenty-first century have never been published before.

Conversations
The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2015
Edited by Ashley Holland and Jennifer C. McNutt
$30.00s Paper 978-0-9961663-0-0 136 pages
Distributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Conversations: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2015, documents the strength,
drama, determination, and storytelling genius of contemporary Native art and the
artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Mario Martinez (Yaqui
Pascua) and Eiteljorg Fellows Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Brenda
Mallory (Cherokee Nation), Da-ka-xeen Mehner (Tlingit/Nisga), and Holly
Wilson (Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma/Cherokee), Conversations continues
the dialogue of contemporary Native American art and artistic expression.

RED
The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013
Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland
30.00s Paper 978-0-9798495-7-2 136 pages
Distributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
RED, the eighth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museums acclaimed biennial art series,
documents the strength, drama, determination, and humor of contemporary
Native art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Featured Artist
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffalohead
(Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Shan Goshorn
(Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot).

Modern Spirit
The Art of George Morrison
By W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm
39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4392-7 208 pages
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4393-4 208 pages
The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (19192000) has enjoyed
widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures have
been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions. Yet because Morrisons
artwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian heritage, it has
stirred debate about what it means to be a Native American artist. This stunning
catalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white images, showcases Morrisons
work across a spectrum of genres and media.

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Ernest L. Blumenschein
The Life of an American Artist
By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7 384 pages
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold
the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927
or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into
memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest
and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art
colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and
life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the
twentieth century.

The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection

Selected Works
With essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, Rennard
Strickland, Christy Vezolles, Edwin L. Wade, and Mark Andrew White
$49.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9 240 pages
$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0 240 pages
Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
One of the most important collections of modern Native American art
assembled by one individual, the James T. Bialac Native American Art
Collection is an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and threedimensional works. Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection
comprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints,
kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles.

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection

Selected Works
With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke,
James Pick, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III,
Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White
$60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4100-8 304 pages
$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4101-5 304 pages
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (19202006) spent nearly
four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American
and American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry,
baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This
stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from
the Adkins Collection.

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Blackfoot War Art

Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 18802000
By L. James Dempsey
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3804-6 488 pages
$39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5415-2 488 pages
In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood
tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. Filled
with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how
pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment.

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Ledger Narratives
The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh
Collection at Dartmouth College
Edited by Colin G. Calloway
With contributions by Michael Paul Jordan, Vera B. Palmer, Joyce
Szabo, Melanie Benson Taylor, and Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4298-2 296 pages
The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is
Mark Lansburghs diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held
by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this
important book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains
peoples created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century.
Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements of
their warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency

The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume
By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1 256 pages
Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the Indian Capital of the Nation,
but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross
Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the
many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S.
government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century.
Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians
she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the
first time.

Allan Houser Drawings

The Centennial Exhibition
By W. Jackson Rushing III and Hadley Jerman
$15.95s Paper 978-0-9851609-4-4 108 pages
Distributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
After training at The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s, the
Chiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser (19141994) had both commercial and
critical success as a painter and sculptor. Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial
Exhibition offers a critical examination of Housers career as a draughtsman,
from his early career to the rich body of work he produced late in life.

Hopituy
Edited by heather ahtone and Mark T. Bahti
$15.95s Paper 978-0-9851609-3-7 96 pages
Distributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
This publication explores how Hopi artists express the relationship between
traditional protocol, cultural beliefs, and artistic license. The essays provide
a helpful introduction to the artistic diversity that expresses the culture and
beliefs of the Hopi people and a narrative context for the full-color images of
selected works from the 2013 exhibition.

Spirit Red
Visions of Native American Artists from the Rennard Strickland Collection
By Rennard Strickland
Introduction by Mary Jo Watson
$15.95s Cloth 978-0-9717187-5-3 124 pages
Distributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Spirit Red was published in conjunction with the 2009 exhibition celebrating
the gift of Rennard Stricklands significant collection to the Fred Jones Jr.
Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. The diverse collection of
Native American art was acquired over five decades and includes more than
200 works representing some of the most acclaimed artists of the twentieth
century through the present.

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Biography & Memoir

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Red Bird, Red Power

The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-a
By Tadeusz Lewandowski
$29.95s Cloth 978-08061-5178-6 288 Pages
Zitkala-a (18761938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly
gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for
Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of
the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people
propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform .

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Brummett Echohawk
Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
By Kristin M. Younbgbull
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4826-7 224 pages
A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a
Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the
European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and counted
coup as his grandfather had done during the Indian wars of the previous century.
This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer,
humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who
refused to be pigeonholed as an Indian artist.

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Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4705-5 256 pages
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (19391968) in the 1960s,
introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever
biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader
as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most
significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.

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William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By William Heath
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5119-9 520 pages
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the
Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells
(17701812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in
neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively
unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen
as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.

Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux
By Candy Moulton
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-389-9 296 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4841-0 296 pages
On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson
crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way
through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him. It was the famed
Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary
western figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddys
life encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native
people forever.

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Scalping Columbus and other Damn Indian Stories

Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4428-3 216 pages
Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories is a collection of short stories
that are in part autobiographical and in part fictional. Narrated in a style
reminiscent of Indian oral tradition, Fortunate Eagle employs humor and
satire to entertain and challenge society. The stories range from the authors
experiences as an activist in the Bay Area to his encounter with the Pope in
Rome and back to his childhood.

Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indians Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
By William E. Farr
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 344 pages
$21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4464-1 312 pages
Blackfoot Redemption is the riveting account of a Canadian Blackfoot known as
Spopee. To reconstruct the events of Spopees life, William E. Farr conducted
exhaustive archival research, digging deeply into government documents and
institutional reports to build a coherent and accurate narrative and, through
this reconstruction, win back one Indians life and identity.

A Cheyenne Voice
The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews
By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8 504 pages
A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by
anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In
Timber (18821967). Recorded by Liberty in 1958 and 1959 when she was a
schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern
Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book
Cheyenne Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of the
interviews, this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the
first time.

Under The Eagle

Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 pages
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the
Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit
secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with
Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holidays vivid account of his own
story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which
the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

Twenty Thousand Mornings

An Autobiography
By John Joseph Mathews
Edited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4253-1 352 pages
When John Joseph Mathews began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was
one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national
audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentiethcentury Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathewss
intimate chronicle of his formative years.

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A Navajo Legacy
The Life and Teachings of John Holiday
By John Holiday and Robert McPherson
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3 420 pages
For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the
sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author
and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in A
Navajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life.

Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
By Bud Shapard
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4047-6 376 pages
Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a
lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have
ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him
as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging
biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief
against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal
of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and
Oklahoma.

Pipestone
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4114-5 248 pages
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969,
Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a
young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare
firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a contrary
warrior by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak
and prisonlike.

Nicholas Black Elk

Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
By Michael F. Steltenkamp
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4063-6 256 pages
Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers
to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardts
popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an
Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full
interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of
this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.

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Education
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Voices of Resistance and Renewal

Indigenous Leadership in Education
Edited by Dorothy AguileraBlack Bear and John W. Tippeconnic III
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4867-0 224 pages
Voices of Resistance and Renewal provides a variety of philosophical principles
that will guide leaders at all levels of education who seek to encourage selfdetermination and revitalization. It has important implications for the future
of Native leadership, education, community, and culture, and for institutions
of learning that have not addressed Native populations effectively in the past.

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Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
By Louellyn White
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4865-6 196 pages
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Recovering
Languages and Literacies of the Americas
Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York,
Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding
self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to
self-education. In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the
AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or
provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its
impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

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Teaching Indigenous Students

Honoring Place, Community, and Culture
Edited by Jon Reyhner
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4699-7 232 pages
Teaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based education squarely into
practice. This volume, edited and with an introduction by leading American
Indian education scholar Jon Reyhner, brings together new and dynamic
research from established and emerging voices in the field of American Indian
and Indigenous education.

The Students of Sherman Indian School

Education and Native Identity since 1892
By Diane Meyers Bahr
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4443-6 192 pages
Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris
Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine
students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding
schools, was to civilize Indian children, which meant stripping them of their
Native culture and giving them vocational training. This book offers the first
full history of Sherman Indian Schools 100-plus years, a history that reflects
federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century.

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Hang Them All

George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858
By Donald L. Cutler
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5337-7 392 pages
Col. George Wrights 1858 campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur
dAlene, and Palouse Indians of eastern Washington Territory was intended
to punish them for a recent attack on another army force. Today, many critics
view his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers and politicians of
the time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the inland Northwest
to settlement. Hang Them All offers a comprehensive account of Wrights
campaigns and explores the controversy that surrounds his legacy.

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Ioway Life
Reservation and Reform, 18371860
By Greg Olson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5211-0 184 pages
Ioway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways efforts to retain
their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha
Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the
agencys files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study
in U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance.

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Land Too Good for Indians

Northern Indian Removal
By John P. Bowes
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5212-7 328 Pages
The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one
that begins with President Andrew Jacksons Indian Removal Act of 1830 and
follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In Land Too Good for Indians, historian John
P. Bowes takes a long-needed closer, more expansive look at northern Indian
removaland in so doing amplifies the history of Indian removal and of the
United States.

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Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow

American Indian Music
By Craig Harris
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5168-7 280 pages
Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates, in depth, the vibrant
soundscape of Native North America, from the heartbeat of intertribal
drums and warble of Native flutes to contemporary rock, hip-hop,
and electronic music. Drawing on interviews with musicians, producers,
ethnographers, and record-label owners, author and musician Craig
Harris conjures an aural tapestry in which powwow drums and end-blown
woodwinds resound alongside operatic and symphonic strains, jazz and
reggae, country music, and blues.

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Contesting the Borderlands

Interviews on the Early Southwest
By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5194-6 280 pages
Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since
prehistoric times. To explore the regions complex past from prehistory to
the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach.
In interviews with ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects
ranging from warfare among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage
and peonage among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.

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Serving the Nation

Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 18001907
By Julie L. Reed
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5224-0 376 pages
Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people
administered their own social policya form of what today might be called
social welfarebased on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship
obligations, and communal landholding. Offering insights gleaned from
reconsidered and overlooked historical sources, this book enhances our
understanding of the history and workings of social welfare policy and
services, not only in the Cherokee Nation but also in the United States.

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A Field of Their Own

Women and American Indian History, 18301941
By John M. Rhea
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5227-1 312 pages
A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship
to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they
eventually claimed it as their own field. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie
Debo, the magnitude of their research, the reach of their scholarship, the
popularity of their publications, and their close identification with Indian
scholarship makes their invisibility as pioneering founders of this specialized
field all the more intriguing.

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Blood on the Marias

The Baker Massacre
By Paul R. Wylie
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5157-1 336 pages
While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related
contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment
it deserves. Bakers inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of
tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-oftenforgotten incident.

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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees

Volume Six: March to Removal, Part 1,
Safe in the Ancestral Homeland, 18211824
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
$50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-7-2 568 pages
Distributed for Cherokee Heritage Press
Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, minutes,
reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina to
provide a firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokee throughout the
nineteenth century. Though written by missionaries from their perspective,
these records provide much insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs,
and personalities.

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Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea

Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
By Rebecca Kay Jager
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4851-9 320 pages
The first Europeans to arrive in North Americas various regions relied on
Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This
study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries,
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with EuroAmericans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic
representation over time.

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A Call for Reform

The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson
Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4363-7 248 pages
Journalist, novelist, and scholar Helen Hunt Jackson (183085) remains
one of the most influential and popular writers on the struggles of American
Indians. This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important
articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes
and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in
Southern California in the 1880s, the articles also offer insight into Jacksons
career.

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Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula

Who We Are, Second Edition
Edited by Jacilee Wray
Foreword by Patty Murray
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4670-6 232 pages
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are traces the nine tribes
common history and each tribes individual story. This second edition is
updated to include new developments since the volumes initial publication
especially the removal of the Elwha River damsthus reflecting the everchanging environment for the Native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula.

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Hubbell Trading Post

Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest
By Erica Cottam
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4837-3 368 pages
For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the
U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoplesand in this
capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no
parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors
and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about
the history of Navajo trading.

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs

An Indigenous Nations Fight against Smallpox, 15181824
By Paul Kelton
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4688-1 296 pages
In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the virgin soil thesis, or
the widely held belief that Natives lack of immunities and their inept healers
were responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole
routinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to
the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulationcolonialism writ
large; not disease.

Red Dreams, White Nightmares

Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 17631815
By Robert M. Owens
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4646-1 320 pages
From the end of Pontiacs War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear
even paranoiadrove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White
Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in
this erainvariably treated as discrete, regional affairsas the inextricably
related struggles they were.

Americans Recaptured
Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
By Molly K. Varley
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4493-1 240 pages
Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives
changed over timewith shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and
ethnographic and historical accuracyAmericans Recaptured shows that tales
of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were
consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 320 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 320 pages
Beck presents a full picture of the conflict by utilizing the letters, diaries, and
personal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions,
as well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas. Drawing on a wealth of
firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to
the overall Civil War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into
an important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations against
the Sioux.

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Red Power Rising

The National Indian Youth Council and The Origins Of Native Activism
By Bradley Shreve
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 272 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4365-1 288 pages
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement
called Red Powera civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While
some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is
one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian
takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

American Indians in U.S. History

Second Edition
By Roger L. Nichols
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4367-5 216 pages
This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their
origins to the present, has proven its value to both students and general
readers in the decade since its first publication. Now the second edition,
drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social,
economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-first century. Useful features
include new, brief biographies of important Native figures, an overall
chronology, and updated suggested readings for each period of the past four
hundred years.

Chiefs and Challengers

Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 17691906
Second Edition
By George H. Phillips
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4490-0 384 pages
In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into
the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological
scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence. His narrative
includes numerous eloquent testimonies from Indians, among them a student
at a government-run school who wrote to the U.S. president: The white
people call San Jacinto rancho their land and I dont want them to do it. We
think it is ours, for God gave it to us first.

American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
By Jerome Greene
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 620 pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates
how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including
previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both
Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,
white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential
factors in what eventually took place.

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Pre-Removal Choctaw History

Exploring New Paths
Edited by Greg OBrien
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3916-6 256 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4848-9 256 pages
Distinguished scholars James Taylor Carson, Patricia Galloway, and Clara
Sue Kidwell join editor Greg OBrien to present todays most important
research, while Choctaw writer and filmmaker LeAnne Howe offers a vital
counterpoint to conventional scholarly views. In a chronological survey of
topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock of the
great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.

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The Darkest Period

The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 18461873
By Ronald D. Parks
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4845-8 336 pages
Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the
Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove,
Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the
story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribes
original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas.

Speculators in Empire
Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
By William J. Campbell
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4286-9 288 pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4665-2 288 pages
In Speculators in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, land
speculation, and empire building that led up to the treaty. His detailed study
overturns common assumptions about the roles of the Iroquois and British
on the eve of the American Revolution. As Speculators in Empire shows, colonial
and Native history are unavoidably entwined, and even interdependent.

Contours of a People
Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4487-0 520 pages
Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues
ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of
Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining
economic and social networks. The authors emphasis on geography and its
power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American
scholars across a variety of disciplines.

Big Sycamore Stands Alone

The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place
By Ian W. Record
$24.95s Cloth 978-08-061-3972-2 384 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5190-8 384 pages
Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing
Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. A landmark ethnohistory, Big
Sycamore Stands Alone documents a story that goes far beyond Cochise,
Geronimo, and the Chiricahuas. Records work is a trailblazing synthesis
of historical and anthropological materials that lends new insight into the
relationship between people and place.

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The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island

A History
By John A. Strong
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5413-8 352 pages
Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians,
the regions original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United
Statesthe Poospatuck Reservationis located in Suffolk County, the densely
populated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The Unkechaug
Indians, known also by the name of their reservation, are recognized by the
State of New York but not by the federal government.

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Framing the Sacred

The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico
By Eleanor Wake
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5396-2 368 pages
In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexicos
religious structures reveals the indigenous peoples own decisions regarding
the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message.
The book is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of
these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianitys
influence on Mexican peoples.

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We Know Who We Are

Metis Identity in a Montana Community
By Martha Harroun Foster
$21.95s Paper 9780806153483 304 pages
In this rich examination of a Mtis communitythe first book-length work
to focus on the Montana MtisMartha Harroun Foster combines social,
political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to
changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique
culture and traditions.

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Restoring a Presence
American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5346-9 400 pages
Restoring a Presence is illustrated with historical and contemporary
photographs and maps and features narratives on subjects ranging from
traditional Indian uses of plant, mineral, and animal resources to conflicts
involving the Nez Perce, Bannock, and Sheep Eater peoples. Authors Nabokov
and Loendorf provide a basis on which the National Park Service and other
federal agencies can develop more effective relationships with Indian groups
in the Yellowstone region.

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The Seminole Freedmen

A History
By Kevin Mulroy
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5347-6 480 pages
Popularly known as Black Seminoles, descendants of the Seminole
freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now
Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label
denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the
historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the
emergence of Seminole-black identity and community from their eighteenthcentury Florida origins to the present day.

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The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France
By William R. Nester
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5189-2 516 pages
When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American
empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West
Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only
comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester
explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating
personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and
tactics and determined North Americas destiny.

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Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian

The Crime That Should Haunt America
By Gary Clayton Anderson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5174-8 472 pages
In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Gary C. Anderson draws upon a vast wealth
of previously unpublished sources to support his claim that the history of
Euroamerican and Native American interaction is not one of genocide, as
has often been claimed, but is, in almost all instances, more accurately called
ethnic cleansing. Having defined ethnic cleansing, the author then seeks
to trace its application and operation through American history from the
colonial era to about 1890.

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Cochise
Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief
Edited by Edwin R. Sweeney
$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4432-0 348 pages
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5192-2 348 pages
Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports,
eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent
chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the
Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these documents
to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apache
leader. In particular, the interviews, many printed here for the first time, are
the closest we will ever get to autobiographical material on this notable man,
his life, and his times.

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The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 18791885

By Helen Hunt Jackson
Edited by Valerie S. Mathes
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5160-1 396 pages
Helen Hunt Jacksons passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this
collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published
before. With Valerie Sherer Mathess helpful notes, the letters reveal the
behind-the-scenes drama of Jacksons involvement in Indian reform, which led
her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.

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Chenoo
A Novel
By Joseph Bruchac
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5207-3 208 pages
Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with
a checkered past, lives in upstate New Yorkfour hundred miles from his tribal
community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. We . . . got .
. . trouble, Neptunes cousin Dennis says from the other end. And trouble is
where it all starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki
storyteller Joseph Bruchac.

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Wil Usdi
By Robert J. Conley
Foreword by Luther Wilson
$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4659-1 160 pages
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas
(180593), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have
a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last
decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer
James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true
story of Wil Usdis life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final
published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert
J. Conley.

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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

By John Joseph Mathews
Edited by Susan Kalter
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5120-5 200 pages
Mathews shows us the world through the animals eyes and ears and noses.
His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London
and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally
intended his nature stories for boys. But the stories transcend boundaries of
age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers
with natures beauty but to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans,
animals, and the landscapes in which they interact.

Grand Avenue
A Novel in Stories
By Greg Sarris
Afterword by Reginald Dyck
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4834-2 248 pages
Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of
Santa Rosa. Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American
Indians form the core of these storiestales of healing cures, poison, family
rituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their
own foibles with a saving grace.

Creative Alliances
The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Womens Poetry
By Molly McGlennen
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4482-5 230 pages
Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations
continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical
health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen
tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre to
transcend national and colonial boundaries and to fashion global dialogues
across a spectrum of experiences and ideas.

Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
By Joshua B. Nelson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4491-7 296 pages
Some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions
in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their
culture and identities to white American economies and institutions. This
traditionalist-versus-assimilationist divide is, Joshua B. Nelson argues, a false
one. To make his case that American Indians rarely if ever conform to such
simplistic identifications, Nelson considers the literature and culture of many
Cherokee people.

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The Native American Renaissance

Literary Imagination and Achievement
Edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4402-3 368 pages
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication
of N. Scott Momadays Pulitzer Prizewinning House Made of Dawn in 1968
continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing
from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko
constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American
Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence.

Literacy and Intellectual Life in the

Cherokee Nation, 18201906
By James W. Parins
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6 296 pages
Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as
little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of civilizing. In Literacy and
Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 18201906, James W. Parins traces the
rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the
nineteenth centurya time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.

The People Who Stayed

Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal
By Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4136-7 404 pages
The two-hundred-year-old myth of the vanishing American Indian still holds
some credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of
thousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act
in 1830. Yet, as the editors of this volume amply demonstrate, a significant
Indian population remained behind after those massive relocations.

Pushing the Bear

After the Trail of Tears
By Diane Glancy
$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4069-8 176 pages
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees
resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before
explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A
Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee
brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend
Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows their
travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and
adjust to new realities.

Three Plays
The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows
By N. Scott Momaday
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3828-2 224 pages
Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps
best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his
celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has
also made his mark in theatre through two plays and a screenplay. Published
here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral
and literary traditions.

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Through Indian Sign Language

The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 18891897
Edited by William C Meadows
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4727-7 520 pages
The Scott ledgers contain an array of historic, linguistic, and ethnographic
dataa wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people.
Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its
significance to anthropologists.

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Cherokee Reference Grammar

By Brad Montgomery-Anderson
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4342-2 536 pages
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4667-6 536 pages
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system
in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was
rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high
as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and
used throughout this volume, the first and only complete published grammar
of the Cherokee language.

Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers

A Bilingual Anthology
By Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. CHair
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4486-3 576 pages
Many of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although this
is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts exist
that have never before been publisheduntil now. Arapaho Stories, Songs, and
Prayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative
traditions in all the richness of the original language.

Manhattan to Minisink
American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity
By Robert S. Grumet
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4336-1 296 pages
Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place
names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western
Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian
specializing in the regions Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research
and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding,
place names.

Native American Placenames of the Southwest

A Handbook for Travelers
By William Bright
Edited by Alice Anderton and Sean ONeill
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8 174 pages
This handbook is organized alphabetically, and its entries for placesincluding
towns, cities, counties, parks, and geographic landmarksare concise and easy
to read. Entries give the state and county, along with all available information
on pronunciation, the name of the language from which the name derives,
the names literal meaning, and relevant history. In their introduction to the
handbook, editors Alice Anderton and Sean ONeill provide easy-to-understand
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The Cherokee Syllabary

Writing the Peoples Perseverance
By Ellen Cushman
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$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4373-6 256 pages
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a
writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His
creationthe Cherokee syllabaryhelped his people learn to read and
write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This
groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of
Sequoyahs syllabary from script to print to digital forms.

Telling Stories in the Face of Danger

Language Renewal in Native American Communities
Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4227-2 288 pages
The contributors to this volume explore Native American storytelling both as
a response to and a symptom of language endangerment. The essays show
how traditional stories, and their nontraditional written descendants, such as
poetry and graphic novels, help to maintain Native cultures and languages.

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Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
By David J. Carlson
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5197-7 242 pages
In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middle
ground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonial
power. His work reveals the complementary ways in which legal and literary
texts have generated politically significant representations of the world, which
in turn have produced particular effects on readers and advanced the cause of
tribal self-determination.

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Gathering the Potawatomi Nation

Revitalization and Identity
By Christopher Wetzel
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4669-0 216 pages
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Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
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Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated
around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across
four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. Gathering the Potawatomi
Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at
how marginalized communities adapt to social change, and reveals the critical
role that culture plays in connecting the two.

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Claiming Tribal Identity

The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
By Mark E. Miller
Foreword by Chadwick Corntassel Smith
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4378-1 490 pages
In this study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously
unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and
sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribesthe
Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

A Gathering of Statesmen
Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 18261828
By Peter P. Pitchlynn
Translated and edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis
Introduction by Clara S. Kidwell
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4349-1 176 pages
The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil
and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their
native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to
Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document
from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.

Oklahomas Indian New Deal

By Jon S. Blackman
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The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by Congress in 1936,
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the Indian New Deal.

Buying America from the Indians

Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights
By Blake A. Watson
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 512 pages
Johnson v. McIntosh and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal
overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New
World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing AngloAmerican views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains
how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples
themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the
American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation.

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights

By Laughlin McDonald
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4240-1 264 pages
The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the
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documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over
Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.

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A Legal History
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When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the
first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government.
In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy its
nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciously
retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence.
Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney to present
the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.

The Choctaws in Oklahoma

From Tribe to Nation, 18551970
By Clara Sue Kidwell
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4006-3 344 pages
The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws removal from Mississippi
to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribes
subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal
sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws
remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national
identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.

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