Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Ramona Ellen Skinner
January 17, 2019
This book explores the application of federal Indian policy to Alaska Natives in the 20th century, a process driven by the federal government's desire to acquire Indian land. Twentieth century Indian policy, as applied in Alaska, has oscillated between encouraging the privatization of land and ...
Kinship, Capitalism, Change: The Informal Economy of the Navajo, 1868-1995
1st Edition
By Michael J. Francisconi
October 10, 2016
First Published in 1998. Part of the Native Americans Interdisciplinary Perspectives series, this volume looks at the informal economy of the Navajo from 1868 to 1995. In this study Dine is used in place of Navajo when referring to the people. Since 1868 three major revolutions have integrated the ...
Ethnicity, Class, and the Indigenous Struggle for Land in Guerrero, Mexico
1st Edition
By Norberto Valdez
August 26, 2016
This study focuses on Amuzgo Indian communities of the Costa Chica of Guerrero state in Mexico in order to analyze the indigenous struggle for land and its relationship to ethnic identity and culture. Primary archival data and field research reveal a historical profile of this multi-ethnic region ...
Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Thurman Lee Hester, Jr.
August 26, 2016
Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty examines the connection between the well being of Indian people, the sovereignty of Indian Nations and the democratic principles on which the United States was founded. Problems faced by Native Americans in health, education and general welfare are linked...
Tribal Territory, Sovereignty, and Governance: A Study of the Cheyenne River and Lake Traverse Indian Reservations
1st Edition
By Erin Fouberg
August 24, 2016
The author explores how tribal governments have worked through the constraints of their eroded territory and sovereignty to provide effective leadership and governance....
Blood Matters: Five Civilized Tribes and the Search of Unity in the 20th Century
1st Edition
By Erik March Zissu
August 12, 2016
This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of peoplehood around the idea of blood....
The Power of the Land: Identity, Ethnicity, and Class Among the Oglala Lakota
1st Edition
By Paul Robertson
July 27, 2016
Power of the Land is the first in-depth look at the past 120 years of struggle over the Oglala Lakota land base on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota....
The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell: The Power of Women in Native American Literature
1st Edition
By Patrice Hollrah
July 21, 2016
From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of life, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal construct...
Repertoire, Authenticity and Introduction: The Presentation of American Indian Music in Oklahoma's Elementary Schools
1st Edition
By Robert J. Damm
May 13, 2016
This study provides new information regarding the instruction of American Indian music in Oklahoma, and shows the effect of demographic variables of teachers and students on pedagogical context and practice....
Rethinking the Native Hawaiian Past
1st Edition
By Kanalu G. Terry Young
May 13, 2016
This innovative study challenges scholars to rethink standard approaches to the study of Hawai'ian history by proposing a Native-centered historiography based on concepts derived from the Hawai'ian language and oral traditions. Historical approaches to traditional Hawai'i have tended to focus on ...
Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota: (Sioux Nation)
1st Edition
By James V. Fenelon
January 20, 2016
This ground-breaking work develops theories and methods of analyzing the United States' domination of Native Americans through a study of the Lakota society known as the Sioux Nation of Indians. Two centuries of struggle between nations and cultures during the U.S. expansion over North America are ...
Three Nations, One Place
1st Edition
By Martha McCollough
June 09, 2014
An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction. ...