2012-13 American Indian and Indigenous Studies Catalog

american indian and indigenous studies

New titles 2012–2013

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History and Culture

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Biography and Memoir

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Literature and Film

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For Young Readers

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Bestselling Books for Course Adoption

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Selected Backlist

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Ordering Information

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Journals 29

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Cover: From Witness. See page 5. “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book (plate no. 20), 1880–81,by Black Hawk (c. 1832–90) t0614.20.

Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, nyc.

The world’s linguistic diversity is diminishing, with more than two hundred languages declared extinct and thousands more endangered. As these languages disappear, deep stores of knowledge and cultural memory are also lost. The scholarly significance of these endangered and extinct languages and literacies provides the impetus for this collaborative initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The following two books are published as part of the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas (rlla) initiative, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

Defying Maliseet Language Death

This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people and their language, though still used in traditional communities, is rapidly becoming endangered. Kristine Stenzel draws on eight years of intensive work with the Kotirias to promote, record, and revitalize their language.

July 2013 • 536 pp. • 1 map, 15 figures, 38 tables $80.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2822-1 studies in the native languages of the americas series

Bernard C. Perley

Kristine Stenzel

Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada

The Maliseet language, as spoken in the Tobique First Nation of New Brunswick, Canada, is an endangered language that will either survive through revitalization or die off. This ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, examines the processes of both language death and survival and language’s relationship to indigenous identity.

“Perley’s detailed discussion of the local choices Maliseet community members have made, and continue to make, in regard to language maintenance could serve as a model for other indigenous communities who might be facing similar language and culture shifts.”

—Journal of Anthropological Research 2012 • 250 pp. • 1 map $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4363-7 $60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2529-9

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History & Culture

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize, 2010 Athearn Western History Association Prize, and 2010 Armitage-Jameson Prize

Call for Change

Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940

The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality Donald L. Fixico

“Donald Fixico challenges scholars of American and Indian history to revise their thinking, enlarge their ‘seeing,’ and engage in an effort to understand Native people and their communities. He constructs a convincing argument about the uniqueness of Indian history and his explanation for seeing the world through Indian lenses leads Fixico to craft a terminology that makes a great deal of sense.”—Margaret Connell Szasz, Regents Professor of Native American and Celtic History at the University of New Mexico June 2013 • 264 pp. • 10 diagrams $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4356-9

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon

Robin M. Wright Foreword by Michael J. Harner

Robin M. Wright tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon.

Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of religious power and knowledge.”

This volume is the first mapping of the sacred geography (“mythscape”) of the Northern Arawak–speaking people, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and other inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a whole.

June 2013 • 408 pp. • 18 photographs, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes $55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4394-1

White Mother to a Dark Race

Margaret D. Jacobs

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilation. This groundbreaking study examines the key roles white women played in these removal policies.

Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.

“An excellent model [that] should encourage further comparisons between federal Indian policy and other maternalist projects within the United States as well as intimate strategies in other colonial regimes.”—Western Historical Quarterly “A balanced, meticulously researched book filled with heartbreaking stories of loss and uplifting accounts of survival.”—Great Plains Quarterly “This book deserves wide readership in U.S. western history, women’s history, Indian history, and comparative ethnic studies.”

—Montana: The Magazine of Western History 2011 • 592 pp. • 24 photographs, 2 maps $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3516-8

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History & Culture In Sun’s Likeness and Power, 2-Volume Set

Cheyenne Accounts of Shield and Tipi Heraldry

James Mooney Transcribed and edited by Father Peter J. Powell

According to traditional Cheyenne belief, shields are living, spirit-filled beings, radiating supernatural power from the Supreme Being for protection and blessing. Shields stand at the nexus of several dimensions of Cheyenne culture, including spirituality, warfare, and artistic expression.

From 1902 to 1906, fifty Cheyenne elders spoke with famed ethnologist James Mooney, sharing with him their interpretations of shield and tipi heraldry. Mooney’s handwritten field notes of these conversations are the single best source of information on Plains Native shields and tipi art available and are a source of inestimable value today for both the Cheyennes and for scholars.

In 1955, with the blessing and permission of the Keepers of the Two Great Covenants and the Chiefs and Headmen of the Northern and Southern Cheyenne People, Father Peter J. Powell began a five-decade effort to help preserve the religion, culture, and history of the Cheyenne People for the generations ahead.

His transcriptions and annotations of famed ethnologist James Mooney’s notes from 1902 to 1906 on Cheyenne heraldry is the culmination of these efforts.

May 2013 • 1320 pp. • 198 illustrations (144 color plates, 54 b&w photographs), 82 symbols, index $250.00 • 978-0-8032-3822-0

From top: Bushyhead’s Whirler shield (top) and Bear Cap’s shield (bottom); Oómsh’s shield of Wolf Tongue or Flacco, horseback view; Woiftoish’s shield #2, rib shield. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution Press.

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History & Culture Reservation "Capitalism"

Economic Development in Indian Country Robert J. Miller Foreword by Tom Daschle

Indians are the poorest people in the United States, and their reservations are appallingly poverty-stricken; not surprisingly, they suffer from the numerous social pathologies that invariably accompany such economic conditions.

Historically, however, most tribal communities were prosperous, composed of healthy, vibrant societies sustained over hundreds and in some instances perhaps even thousands of years.

Reservation “Capitalism” relates the true history, describes present-day circumstances, and sketches the potential future of Indian communities and economics. Robert J. Miller focuses on strategies for establishing public and private economic activities on reservations and for creating economies in which reservation inhabitants can be employed, live, and have access to the necessities of life, circumstances ultimately promoting complete tribal self-sufficiency.

“Promises to be the definitive book on Native American entrepreneurship.”

—Rennard Strickland, Phillip Knight Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, University of Oregon “Miller’s book is not only practical but also realistic and timely. . . . This is recommended reading for tribal leaders, planners, Indian and non-Indian entrepreneurs and anyone interested in seeing a glimpse of the economic potential that lies in Indian country.”—Indian Country Today “While Miller’s fluid style makes his book accessible to the casual reader, the level of research and extensive endnotes make this book a viable choice as the primary textbook for a course on tribal economic development.”

—Great Plains Quarterly November 2013 • 220 pp. $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4631-7

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Native America, Discovered and Conquered

Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny

Robert J. Miller Foreword by Elizabeth Furse With a new afterword by the author

This study shows how the legal tradition of the Doctrine of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark Expedition gave rise to the cultural ideology of Manifest Destiny and the socio-political and legal consequences of these policies.

“A must read.”—Choice “To say this book is required reading for those wishing to understand American history is an understatement.”—Lincoln (ne) Journal Star 2008 • 240 pp. • 1 map $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1598-6 Winner of the oah’s Ray Allen Billington Prize, Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award, Caughey Western History Association Prize, Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Western Writers of America Spur Award, and Co-Winner of the oah’s Merle Curti Award

One Vast Winter Count

The Native American West before Lewis and Clark Colin G. Calloway

One Vast Winter Count traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count it offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. “[A] masterful synthesis of an extensive literature.”—Western Historical Quarterly “Will long remain the authoritative treatment of its subject.”—Atlantic Monthly 2006 • 631 pp. • Illus., maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6465-6 history of the american west series

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Coming Full Circle

Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest Suzanne Crawford O’Brien

Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health in several contemporary Coast Salish and Chinook communities in western Washington from 1805 to 2005. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien examines how these communities define what it means to be healthy, and how recent tribal community–based health programs have applied this understanding to their missions and activities. She also explores how contemporary definitions, goals, and activities relating to health and healing are informed by Coast Salish history and also by indigenous spiritual views of the body, which are based on an understanding of the relationship between self, ecology, and community.

November 2013 • 480 pp. • 18 images $90.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1127-8

American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953–2006 Roberta Ulrich

Roberta Ulrich provides a concise overview of all the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes from 1953 to 2006 and explores the enduring policy implications for Native peoples. This is the first book to consider all the terminations and restorations that occurred in the twentieth century as part of continuing policy while simultaneously detailing some of the individual tribal differences.

“Rich in facts and easy to read, the book details a little noticed chapter of present-day Indian politics of the USA.”—AmerIndian Research “Highly recommended”—Choice “For the general reader, [this book] provides a good overview of termination and its reversal and demonstrates how these factors influenced Indian identity.”—Western Historical Quarterly January 2013 • 334 pp. • 4 photographs, 1 appendix $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7157-9

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Borderlands and Transcultural Studies series Chiricahua and Janos

Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880 Lance R. Blyth

Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion, and how violence became the primary means by which relations were established, maintained, or altered both within and between communities.

“Blyth’s argument, as well as his narrative and use of traditional and nontraditional sources, is impressive and provides a framework for understanding the permeating role of violence in two borderlands communities.”

—Southwestern American Literature “Chiricahua and Janos represents a valuable addition to the growing literature examining violence in zones of intercultural contact, both in the Americas and around the globe.”

—Journal of Interdisciplinary History July 2012 • 296 pp. • 17 maps, 1 glossary $60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3766-7

Defending Whose Country?

Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War Noah Riseman

Defending Whose Country? is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific theater. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War. 2012 • 336 pp. • 24 photographs, 3 maps $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3793-3

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History & Culture

Lakota and Dakota Studies

The Great Sioux Nation

Witness

Edited by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz Foreword by Philip J. Deloria With a new introduction by the editor

Sitting in Judgment on America

A Hú kpaphˇa Historian’s Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas

Here is the story of the Sioux Nation’s fight to regain its land and sovereignty, highlighting the events of 1973–74, including the protest at Wounded Knee. It features pieces by some of the most prominent scholars and Indian activists of the twentieth century, including Vine Deloria Jr., Simon Ortiz, Dennis Banks, Father Peter J. Powell, Russell Means, Raymond DeMallie, and Henry Crow Dog. It also features primary documents and firsthand accounts of the activists’ work and of the trial.

May 2013 • 232 pp. • 21 photographs, 1 map $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4483-2

Josephine Waggoner Edited and with an introduction by Emily Levine Foreword by Lynne Allen

Witness is a collection of previously unpublished manuscript histories of the Lakota by a Lakota woman, Josephine Waggoner (1871–1943), based on interviews Waggoner had with some of the most prominent and well-known Lakota leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The first of Waggoner’s two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members. The second manuscript consists of Waggoner’s sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves.

Witness is augmented by extensive annotations and more than 100 photographs.

“Josephine Waggoner’s writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakotas. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source.”

—Raymond DeMallie, Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University November 2013 • 824 pp. • 26 color illustrations, 141 b&w illustrations (primarily photographs), 1 genealogy, 10 maps, 1 table, 7 appendixes $85.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4564-8

Eyewitness at Wounded Knee

Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter Introduction by Heather Cox Richardson The tragedy at Wounded Knee on a wintry day in December 1890 has often been written about, but the existing photographs have received little attention until now. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee brings together and assesses for the first time some 150 photographs that were made before and immediately after the massacre. Present at the scene were two itinerant photographers, George Trager and Clarence Grant Morelodge, whose work has never before been published.

For this Bison Books edition each image has been digitally enhanced and restored, making the photographs as compelling as the event itself.

2011 • 232 pp. • 150 photographs, 15 illustrations, 2 maps $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3609-7 great plains photography series

From Eyewitness at Wounded Knee. Nebraska State Historical Society: larence Moreledge’s photograph of a Sioux camp, #rg2845-8-5

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History & Culture A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 Rani-Henrik Andersson

Although the Lakota Ghost Dance has been the subject of much previous historical study, the views of the Lakota participants have not been fully explored, in part because they have been available only in the Lakota language. Here is a comprehensive history of the Lakota Ghost Dance, featuring a broad range of cross-cultural perspectives and recollections including hitherto untranslated Lakota accounts.

“A landmark book on the Lakota Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee.”—Choice “Highly recommended for all those wishing to learn more about this exceedingly important chapter in Native American–white relations.”

—Journal of American History “Demonstrates how understanding a particular tribe’s culture is fundamental in comprehending and writing its history.”—Studies in American Indian Literatures July 2013 • 462 pp. • 5 photographs, 7 illustrations, 1 table, 5 appendixes $35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4591-4

Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians Gregory O. Gagnon

Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians presents a picture of traditional Sioux culture and history and shows how the Sioux of today merge traditional customs and beliefs that have survived their tumultuous history with contemporary America. Topics include the development of the Sioux tribe, conflicts and wars with the United States, religion, economy, gender roles, lifestyles, arts, cuisine, education, social customs, and much more. “[A] well-balanced history and overview of Dakota and Lakota Siouans.”—Choice 2012 • 208 pp. • 25 photographs, 8 illustrations, 1 chronology, 1 glossary, 1 appendix $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4454-2

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Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians series Life among the Indians

First Fieldwork among the Sioux and Omahas

Alice C. Fletcher Edited and with an introduction by Joanna C. Scherer and Raymond J. DeMallie Alice C. Fletcher (1838–1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participantobservation ethnography. Life among the Indians is Fletcher’s popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886–87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881–82.

Fletcher’s account of her early fieldwork is available here for the first time, accompanied by an essay by the editors that sheds light on Fletcher’s place in the development of anthropology and the role of women in the discipline.

December 2013 • 448 pp. • 13 photographs, 37 drawings, 3 musical examples, 1 map, 1 appendix $65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4115-2 Winner of the 2011 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) Jack B. Martin With the assistance of Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt

This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the southern United States.

“This book is a very good, thorough reference grammar for Muskogee. . . . For those working with the language and its speakers, it is quite useful and will be an oft-referenced work.”

—Journal of Anthropological Research 2011 • 504 pp. • 1 illustration, 2 maps, 60 tables, 13 figures, 3 appendixes $75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1106-3

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History & Culture A Totem Pole History

The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire Pauline Hillaire Edited by Gregory P. Fields

Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894–1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter, Pauline Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale (b. 1929), who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father’s life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work.

A Totem Pole History contains 76 photographs, including Joe’s most significant totem poles, many of which Pauline watched him carve. She conveys with great insight the stories, teachings, and history expressed by her father’s totem poles. Eight contributors provide essays on Coast Salish art and carving, adding to the author’s portrayal of Joe’s philosophy of art in Salish life, particularly in the context of twentiethcentury intercultural relations.

December 2013 • 344 pp. • 76 photographs, 4 maps $40.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4097-1 Coast Salish Totem Poles, the media companion to A Totem Pole History, includes: • Two cds that feature Pauline Hillaire telling traditional stories associated with the totem poles and Joe Hillaire singing Lummi songs.

• A dvd that features Pauline showing viewers how to interpret the stories and history expressed in Joe’s totem poles. $19.95 • 978-0-8032-7186-9

From top: Centennial pole detail: the say-nilh-xay and cattails (front), 2010. Photo by Gregory P. Fields; Joe Hillaire carving the Centennial history pole, 1952. Photo by Jack Carver. Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, image number x4928.012a.

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Indians of the Southeast series

The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition

The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees (2-volume set)

This abridged edition of the The Moravian Springplace Mission offers selected excerpts from the definitive edition of the Springplace diary, enabling significant themes and events of Cherokee culture and history to emerge.

Anna’s carefully recorded observations reveal the Cherokees’ worldview and allow readers a glimpse into a time of change and upheaval for the tribe.

“McClinton’s excellent volume can be used in classrooms to highlight the effects of cultural change in an Indian community.”—North Carolina Historical Review 2010 • 184 pp. • 1 illustration, 2 maps $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2095-9

Edited and with an introduction by Rowena McClinton

Edited and with an introduction by Rowena McClinton Preface by Chad Smith

In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist Germanspeaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in presentday northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna’s death in 1821. The principal author of the diaries, Anna, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life.

Volume 1 includes diary entries from 1805– 13, a preface, and an introduction. Volume 2 includes diary entries from 1814–21, the editor’s epilogue, and a names index and a subject index for both volumes.

This two-volume set includes the entire text in translation as well as a critical apparatus, contextual introductory material, and extensive notes. Rowena McClinton’s translation from German script, an archaic writing convention, makes these primary eyewitness accounts available in English for the first time.

“McClinton’s translated and annotated edition of the Moravian Springplace Mission diaries must be recognized as a momentous work for scholars in a wide variety of fields.”

—Documentary Editing “The diaries are placed into context expertly and indexed exactly to render them even more fascinating and useful. This is a gargantuan achievement and a great step forward in Cherokee scholarship.”—Appalachian Heritage 2007 • 1283 pp. • 2 photographs, 5 maps, 3 appendixes, glossary, 2 indexes $99.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3266-2

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The Payne-Butrick Papers, 2-volume set

Edited and annotated by William L. Anderson, Jane L. Brown, and Anne F. Rogers

This two-volume set is the richest and most important extant collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees’ own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the PayneButrick papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This repository of information covers nearly all aspects of traditional Cherokee culture and history, including politics, myths, early and later religious beliefs, rituals, marriage customs, ball play, language, dances, and attitudes toward children.

“Will be used by scholars and, more important, larger numbers of Cherokee people can refer to them as well.”—Journal of American History “[The editors] have done a remarkable job of compiling the Payne-Butrick papers. . . . A must-have set for libraries, especially in the old Cherokee southeast and Oklahoma.”—Choice 2010 • 928 pp. $150.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2843-6

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Indians of the Southwest and South Winner of the 2010 Chicago Folklore Prize Named one of the 2010 Southwest Books of the Year by the Pima County Public Library

We Will Dance Our Truth

Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances David Delgado Shorter

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.

“Shorter breaks new ground in relating history and ethnography, in contributing to the study of Native American religions, and in emphasizing the significance of spatial relationships to cultural realities. The book will be appreciated as a contribution to Yoeme ethnography but also for its general importance in religious studies, performance theory, ethnicity, and ethnohistory.”—Journal of Folklore Research “A wonderful contribution to the literature of Native American and Indigenous studies and should prove incredibly useful in graduate (and some undergraduate) courses.”—Studies in American Indian Literatures 2009 • 390 pp. • 14 photographs, 2 tables $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1733-1

Indian Play

Indigenous Identities at Bacone College Lisa K. Neuman

Indian Play is an examination of how a small Baptist boarding school for Native Americans in Oklahoma transformed itself during the midtwentieth century from being a school designed to assimilate Native Americans into an institution that actively fostered and valued students’ Native identities. Through frequent use of humor and inventive wordplay to reference Indianness— “Indian play”—students articulated the (often contradictory) implications of being educated Indians in mid-twentieth-century America.

January 2014 • 392 pp. • 25 photographs, 8 drawings, 4 paintings, 2 maps $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4099-5

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The Archaeology of the Caddo Edited by Timothy K. Perttula and Chester P. Walker

The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around ad 800–900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. This volume reintroduces the Caddos’ heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity and provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples.

“A timely, useful volume. . . . Worth having, reading, and referencing.”—American Antiquity 2012 • 536 pp. • 113 figures, 43 tables $60.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2096-6

Becoming Melungeon

Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South Melissa Schrift

Melissa Schrift examines the ways in which the Melungeon ethnic identity in Appalachia has been socially constructed over time by various regional and national media, plays, and other forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how the social construction of this legend evolved into a fervent movement of a self-identified ethnicity in the 1990s. This insightful work examines shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity both in the local context of the Melungeons and more broadly in an attempt to understand the formation of ethnic groups and identity in the modern world.

May 2013 • 232 pp. • 2 appendixes $35.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7154-8

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History & Culture From Fort Marion to Fort Sill

A Documentary History of the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War, 1886–1913

Edited and annotated by Alicia Delgadillo, with Miriam A. Perrett

From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children who lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma from 1886 to 1913. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of these prisoners of war, including those originally classified as pows in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families, and second-generation pows who lived well into the twenty-first century.

Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than 60 previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity.

June 2013 • 456 pp. • 62 b&w images, 8 color plates,3 maps $70.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4379-8

Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era Edited and with an introduction by Jason Baird Jackson

This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi (Euchee) peoples prior to Removal corrects the historical record, which often submerges the Yuchi within the Creek Confederacy instead of acknowledging the Yuchi as a separate tribe. By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, the contributors shows that from the entrada of Hernando de Soto into the American South in 1541 to the maintenance of community and identity today, the Yuchis have persisted as a distinct people.

“The editor and contributors deserve congratulations for sustaining the nearly invisible Yuchi story line. Hope for future information rests in the questions raised by these and other scholars.”—Choice 2012 • 280 pp. • 8 illustrations, 6 maps, 6 tables $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4041-4

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Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone

The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall

“How did the complex Mississippian societies of the American South become the decentralized Indian societies of the eighteenth century? This volume’s fifteen contributors answer that question anew by employing the concept of a ‘shatter zone’ to identify the causes of instability and map its effects in time and place. Those achievements alone make Shatter Zone noteworthy.”

—Ethnohistory “An excellent snapshot of a welcome resurgence in sophisticated research on the pre- and early colonial South.”—American Historical Review “One of the most complete syntheses available of the impact of European colonization on Native people in the American South.”—American Antiquity 2009 • 536 pp. • 1 photo, 15 maps, 6 tables $35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1759-1

Households and Hegemony

Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power Cameron B. Wesson

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. Drawing together information from ethnohistoric records and data from one of the largest excavations in Alabama’s history (the Fusihatchee Project), Cameron B. Wesson examines the household and its changing relationship to tribal authority after contact with European traders and settlers beginning in the sixteenth century. Wesson demonstrates that change within Creek culture in the historic period was shaped by small-scale social units and individual decisions rather than by the effects of larger social and political events.

July 2013 • 256 pp. • 21 illustrations, 5 maps, 5 tables, index $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4695-9

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History & Culture

Indians of the West and Northwest Voices of the American West, 2 vols.

Eli S. Ricker Edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen

As the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker (1843–1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand.

“A gold mine of information.”—Great Plains Quarterly “A magnificent achievement to the oralhistory sources available on the American West. . . . The strength of the volumes is in the stories told by the interviewees, with their perspectives on key historical events from the Old West, which is equally suited to the student and the academic scholar.”—American Studies “Here is western history at its finest—vivid oral narratives that very well may become the stuff of prize-winning stories, novels, and films.” —Bloomsbury Review

Volume 1

The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919

2012 • 544 pp. • 16 illustrations, 1 map, 2 appendixes $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3996-8

Volume 2

The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919

2012 • 498 pp. • 10 illustrations, 1 map, 1 appendix $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3997-5

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Murder State

California’s Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 Brendan C. Lindsay

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy, calling attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide.

“One of the most important works ever published on the history of American Indians in California in the mid-nineteenth century.”

—Indian Country “A groundbreaking study that will change the historiography of California and genocide studies—a penetrating but readable book that will quickly become a classic.”—Larry Myers (Pomo), executive secretary of the California Native American Heritage Commission 2012 • 456 pp. • 2 tables $70.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2480-3

The Allotment Plot

Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance Nicole Tonkovich

The Allotment Plot reexamines the history of allotment on the Nez Perce Reservation from 1889 to 1892 to account for and emphasize the Nez Perce side of the story. By including the Nez Perce responses to allotment and detailing the tribe’s agency and interactions with allotment agents Alice C. Fletcher and E. Jane Gay, Nicole Tonkovich argues that the assimilationist aims of allotment ultimately failed due in large part to the agency of the Nez Perce people themselves throughout the allotment process.

Tonkovich provides a vital counternarrative of the allotment period, which is often portrayed as disastrous to Native polities.

2012 • 440 pp. • 63 illustrations, 10 maps, 1 table $65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7137-1

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The Island of the Anishnaabeg

Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Traditional Ojibwe Life-World Theresa S. Smith

The Island of the Anishnaabeg is a nuanced look at traditional Ojibwe religion and its structure, interpretation, and revival among contemporary Ojibwes.

“A thoroughly fascinating and carefully argued investigation of the Ojibwe religious cosmology exploring two critical mythic beings. . . . Extremely accessible.”—Religious Studies Review “Excellent scholarship, empathetic interpretation, and engaging. [Smith’s] book is enhanced by a clear prose augmented by wellselected pictures of artwork by Manitoulin Ojibwe which illustrate many points.”—North Dakota Quarterly “[Smith] provides valuable primary sources in contemporary religious thought and interestingly synthesizes much past material in the light of the present. Appropriate for crosscultural theology and philosophy courses as well as Native American studies, mythology, religious revitalization, and hermeneutics.”

—Choice 2012 • 248 pp. • 16 illustrations, 3 appendixes $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3832-9

Modern Blackfeet

Montanans on a Reservation

Malcolm McFee Introduction by Andrew R. Graybill

Modern Blackfeet sheds light on the politics, economics, society, and especially the acculturation of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The results of McFee’s long-term research among the Blackfeet in the 1950s and 1960s make it clear that acculturation is not simply a linear process of assimilation or a one-way cultural adaptation to the impact of Euro-American culture.

McFee reviews the changing policies of the U.S. government, which were directed initially at the destruction of all Native customs and values, then at the promotion of Blackfeet selfgovernment, and eventually at the threatened termination of their status.

January 2014 • 144 pp. • 16 photographs, 2 maps $20.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4643-0 12

Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions

Father Philip Rappagliosi Edited by Robert Bigart Translated from the Italian by Anthony Mattina and Lisa Moore Nardini Translated from the German by Ulrich Stengel These letters reveal the life of an Italian Jesuit as he worked at three missions in the northern Rocky Mountains from 1874 to 1878. Meticulously translated and carefully annotated, the letters of Father Philip Rappagliosi (1841–78) are a rare and rich source of information about the daily lives, customs, and beliefs of the many Native peoples that he came into contact with: Nez Perces, Kootenais, Salish Flatheads, Coeur d’Alenes, Pend d’Oreilles, Blackfeet, and Canadian Métis. These never-before-translated letters reveal the shifting, sometimes volatile relationship between the missionaries and the Native Americans.

March 2013 • 156 pp. • Map, 8 photographs $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4614-0

Tears of Repentance

Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England Julius H. Rubin

Tears of Repentance reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Protestant missionaries’ accounts of their ideals, purposes, and goals among the Native communities they served and of the religion as lived, experienced, and practiced among Christianized Indians, Julius H. Rubin offers a new way of understanding the motives and motivations of those who lived in New England’s early Christianized Indian village communities.

Tears of Repentance is an important contribution to American colonial and Native American history, offering new ways of examining how Native groups and individuals recast Protestant theology to restore their Native communities and cultures.

July 2013 • 424 pp. • 10 tables, 2 appendixes $75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4355-2

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History & Culture On Records

The White Earth Nation

Andrew Newman

Gerald Vizenor and Jill Doerfler Introduction by David E. Wilkins

Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory

Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations.

Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians and their encounters with settlers.

As Newman demonstrates, the quest for i deal records—authentic, authoritative, and objective, anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present—has haunted historical actors and scholars alike. On Records articulates surprising connections among colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material and visual cultures. Its comprehensive, probing analysis of historical evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of events and reveals new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past.

“A thoughtful meditation on how we know the past.”—Native American Studies 2012 • 328 pp. • 12 illustrations, 2 maps $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3986-9

Lethal Encounters

Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia

Alfred A. Cave

While the romanticized story of the Jamestown colony has been retold many times, the events following the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are less well known. This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony’s first century examines why the Anglo settlers were unable to establish a peaceful and productive relationship with the region’s native inhabitants and explains how the deep prejudices harbored by both whites and Indians, the incompatibility of their economic and social systems, and the leadership failures of protagonists such as John Smith, Powhatan, Opechancanough, and William Berkeley, contributed to this breakdown.

November 2013 • 216 pp. • 1 illustration $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4834-2

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Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, independent governance, traditional leadership values, and the importance of individual and human rights.

This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction

by David E. Wilkins, a legal and political scholar who was a special consultant to the White Earth Constitutional Convention; an essay by Gerald Vizenor, the delegate and principal writer of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler, who coordinated and participated in the deliberations and ratification of the Constitution.

Together these essays and the text of the Constitution provide direct insight into the process of the delegate deliberations, the writing and ratification of this groundbreaking document, and the current constitutional, legal, and political debates about new constitutions.

2012 • 112 pp. $16.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4079-7

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History & Culture

The Iroquoians and Their World series

From Homeland to New Land

A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600–1830 William A. Starna

Winner of the 2010 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives Winner of the 2010 Albert B. Corey Prize

The Texture of Contact

European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783 David L. Preston

The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution.

“Preston has created an original and stimulating narrative by engaging with frontier peoples on their own lands and on their own terms.”—Ethnohistory “A major contribution to the ever-growing body of academic studies about Indian-white interactions, both peaceful and bloody, in colonial North America. Preston’s presentation represents a sophisticated analysis that moves significantly beyond currently fashionable explanations about Indian-white interactions—and the reasons why harmony finally gave way to a bloody history of violence and the dispossession of Native Americans from their homelands.”—Pennsylvania History “Preston’s engaging writing style makes the book viable for assignment in upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, and all scholars in the field will need to grapple with the implications of his significant findings regarding the importance of local, ‘everyday,’ face-to-face interactions across cultural boundaries in early America.”—William and Mary Quarterly 2012 • 464 pp. • 12 illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4352-1

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This definitive history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s.

Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their consolidation at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and following their move to Oneida country in central New York at the end of the Revolution and their migration west.

June 2013 • 320 pp. • 3 illustrations, 11 maps $60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4495-5

Oneida Lives

Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas Edited by Herbert S. Lewis with L. Gordon McLester III Foreword by Gerald L. Hill

“Full of valuable history. . . . Selected from more than 500 biographical narratives, these 65 chronicles told by 58 men and women present a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s, before the Dawes Allotment Act, through World War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning of World War II. They present a remarkable picture of the people and the times.”

—Green Bay Press-Gazette “Beyond its obvious value to those interested in the Oneidas and other Native peoples of the region, [Oneida Lives] should appeal to readers interested in American Indian autobiography and everyday life in indigenous communities during the early twentieth century.”—Journal of Anthropological Research 2005 • 428 pp. • Illus. $32.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8043-4

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Biography & Memoir Katie Gale

A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay LLyn De Danaan

Here is the life story of Katie Gale, a strongwilled Native American woman who was born into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 1850s, just as settlers were migrating into what would become Washington State. With her people forced out of their accustomed hunting and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her fortune in Oyster Bay in that early outpost of multiculturalism—where Native Americans and immigrants from the eastern United States, Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, political, and legal power.

“LLyn De Danaan’s writing is big history made deeply human.”—Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place October 2013 • 336 pp. • 13 photographs, 1 map, 1 chronology $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3787-2

The Woman Who Loved Mankind

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder

Lillian Bullshows Hogan As told to Barbara Loeb and Mardell Hogan Plainfeather The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905–2003) grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. Here she recounts her own long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crows born to nomadic ways.

“This fascinating book is part autobiography, part history, part memoir, part cultural guide, and part poetry. . . . Loeb and Plainfeather made the wise decision to adopt an ethnopoetic approach to the reminiscences, thus preserving not only Lillian’s words but also the rhythm and structure of her speaking.”—Choice 2012 • 496 pp. • 23 illustrations, 1 map, 5 figures $60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1613-6 University of Nebraska Press | nebraskapress.unl.edu

Winner of the 2011 sabr Larry Ritter Award Winner of the 2010 Professional Football Researchers Association Nelson Ross Award

Native American Son

The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe Kate Buford

Native American Son is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete in U.S. history. It is the story of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.

“A professional biography has proved what sound research and skillful writing can do: reveal a singular man, animate the times of his life, and illuminate the complexities of our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to shape.”—American Heritage “The definitive biography of a legendary figure in American history, in and out of sports. . . . Essential.”—Library Journal “Brims with life.”—New York Times (Editors’ Choice) 2012 • 528 pp. • 51 illustrations $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4089-6

The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833–1849 Edited and with an introduction by Theresa M. Schenck

The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely reveal the twenty-four-year-old divinity student from Albany, New York, who gave up his preparation for the ministry in 1833 to become a missionary and teacher among the Ojibwes of Lake Superior. Ely’s singular and rich record provides unprecedented insight into early nineteenthcentury Ojibwe life and Ojibwe-missionary relations.

Theresa M. Schenck draws on a broad array of secondary sources to contextualize Ely’s journals for historians, anthropologists, linguists, literary scholars, and the Ojibwes themselves, highlighting the journals’ relevance and importance for understanding the Ojibwes of this era.

2012 • 520 pp. • 17 illustrations, 7 appendixes, 5 maps, 2 tables $65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7140-1 15

Biography & Memoir Cherokee Sister

The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818–1823 Edited and with an introduction by Theresa Strouth Gaul

Catharine Brown (1800?–1823) became Brainerd Mission School’s first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime.

Although she was once viewed by literary critics as a victim of missionaries who represented the tragic fate of Indians who abandoned their identities, Brown is now being reconsidered as a figure of enduring Cherokee revitalization, survival, adaptability, and leadership. Cherokee Sister collects all of Brown’s writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown’s biography and a drama and poems about her. This edition of Brown’s collected works and related materials firmly establishes her place in early nineteenthcentury culture and her influence on American perceptions of Native Americans.

January 2014 • 352 pp. • 1 photograph, 1 illustration $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4075-9

Winner of the Oklahoma Historical Society Best Book Award Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award

Some Things Are Not Forgotten A Pawnee Family Remembers Martha Royce Blaine

The Blaine family was among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1874–75. By the early twentieth century, disease and starvation had wiped out nearly three-quarters of the reservation’s population. Government boarding schools refused to teach Pawnee customs and language, and many Pawnees found themselves without a community when their promised land was allotted to individuals and the rest sold as “surplus” to white settlers.

Some Things Are Not Forgotten reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled the Blaine family to persevere during the reservation years. Perhaps most unforgettable are the childhood memories of Garland Blaine, the late husband of the author, who became head chief of the Pawnees in 1964.

2012 • 286 pp. • Illus, map $35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4527-3

Montana Memories

The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866–1950

Ida S. Patterson, with a biography of the author

by Grace Patterson McComas Montana Memories is the life story of a mixedblood Indian woman in western Montana and southern Alberta. Born in 1866 to a white trader and a Shoshone and Salish Indian mother, Emma Magee saw Montana change from Indian Country to a part of industrial America. When she was born, mixed-blood Indians were socially part of the white community in Montana.

By the time she died in 1950, however, mixedbloods were considered Indians.

2012 • 144 pp. • 6 photographs, index $10.95 paperback • 978-1-934594-08-7 Published by Salish Kootenai College Press

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American Indian Lives series Muscogee Daughter

My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant Susan Supernaw Foreword by Geary Hobson

Muscogee Daughter is the life story of an American Indian girl, Susan Supernaw, who overcame a childhood of poverty, physical disability, and abuse to become Miss Oklahoma in 1971 and eventually earn her American Indian name.

Revealing, humorous, and deeply moving.

Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a citizen of the world.

“A strong choice for a book group, or for readers interested in contemporary Native American memoirs. Supernaw’s life story is compelling—not only because of her one-of-akind experience, but also because of her ability to appeal to a universal readership.”—Foreword 2010 • 264 pp. • 25 illustrations, 1 genealogy $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2971-6

Searching for My Destiny George Blue Spruce Jr. As told to Deanne Durrett

Recognized as the first American Indian dentist in the United States and achieving the rank of assistant surgeon general, Dr. George Blue Spruce Jr. has succeeding in mainstream society while keeping Pueblo tradition in his heart.

“This remarkable story, told engagingly by Blue Spruce, provides scholars and students alike with the details of how self-determination played out through the work of American Indian professionals.”—New Mexico Historical Review “Vividly rendered. . . . All the young—and not-so-young—Native people who don’t believe that they can make anything of their lives should read this book.”—Native Peoples 2012 • 336 pp. • 32 photos $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4612-6 University of Nebraska Press | nebraskapress.unl.edu

Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer A Story of Survival

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Deeply immersed in her Hurton, Métis, and Cherokee heritage, this is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s searching account of her life as a mixedblood woman coming of age off reservation.

She shares insights touching on broader Native issues such as modern life in the diaspora; lack of a national eco-ethos; the threat of alcohol, drug abuse, and violence; and the ongoing onslaught on self amid a complex, mixed heritage. “[A] beautifully written, courageous memoir.”—Joyce Carol Oates “[Allison Hedge Coke] shows us ‘knowing’ in her unique and wonderful way.”—Simon J. Ortiz “An extraordinary story of survival, compassion, courage, and a balanced comprehension of acceptance and the will to live.”—Multicultural Review January 2014 • 224 pp. • 9 photographs $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4846-5

Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

John Milton Oskison Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré Though John Milton Oskison (1874–1947) was a well-known and prolific Cherokee writer, journalist, and activist, few of his works are known today. Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism. This first comprehensive collection of Oskison’s unpublished autobiography, short stories, autobiographical essays, and essays about life in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century fills a significant void in the literature and thought of a critical time and place in the history of the United States.

“Oskison cuts an unorthodox and compelling figure in this remarkable anthology.”—Publishers Weekly 2012 • 680 pp. $60.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3792-6

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Literature & Film Indigenous Films series Navajo Talking Picture Cinema on Native Ground Randolph Lewis

Randolph Lewis offers an insightful introduction and analysis of Navajo Talking Picture, in which he shows that it is not simply the first Navajo-produced film but also a path-breaking work in the history of indigenous media in the United States. Placing the film in a number of revealing contexts, including the long history of Navajo people working in Hollywood, the ethics of documentary filmmaking, and the often problematic reception of Native art, Lewis explores the tensions and mysteries hidden in this unsettling but fascinating film.

2012 • 248 pp. • 14 illustrations $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3841-1

The Fast Runner

Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat Michael Robert Evans

One of the most important Native films, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner was the first feature film written, directed, and acted entirely in Inuktitut, the language of Canada’s Inuit people, and it became an international phenomenon. Michael Robert Evans explores how the epic film artfully married the latest in video technology with the traditional storytelling of the Inuit.

Tracing Atanarjuat from inception through production to reception, Evans shows how the filmmakers managed this complex intercultural “marriage”; how Igloolik Isuma Productions, the world’s premier indigenous film company, works; and how Inuit history and culture affected the film’s production, release, and worldwide response.

“This will be a welcome reference book for any serious student of film studies, regardless of genre.”—ForeWord 2010 • 176 pp. • 9 photos, 1 map, 1 table $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2208-3

Smoke Signals

Native Cinema Rising

Sovereign Screens

Joanna Hearne

The most popular Native American film of all time, Smoke Signals is also an innovative work of cinematic storytelling that demands sustained critical attention in its own right. Joanna Hearne’s work foregrounds the voices of the filmmakers and performers—in interviews with Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre, among others—to explore the film’s audiovisual and narrative strategies for speaking to multiple audiences. In particular, Hearne examines the filmmakers’ appropriation of mainstream American popular culture forms to tell a Native story. This in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmark.

2012 • 280 pp. • 20 photographs, 1 appendix $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1927-4

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Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast Kristin L. Dowell

As the first ethnography of the Aboriginal media community in Vancouver, Sovereign Screens reveals the various social forces shaping Aboriginal media production including community media organizations and avant-garde art centers, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions. Kristin L. Dowell uses the concept of visual sovereignty to examine the practices, forms, and meanings through which Aboriginal filmmakers tell their individual stories and those of their Aboriginal nations and the intertribal urban communities in which they work. “[A] beautifully detailed ethnography of Vancouver’s growing Aboriginal media hub. . . . Dowell convincingly argues that Aboriginal media is an act of visual sovereignty.”—Jennifer Kramer, author of Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity December 2013 • 312 pp. • 21 photographs, 2 illustrations, 1 map $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4538-9

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Literature & Film

Reservation Reelism

Native Storiers: A series of American Narratives

Michelle H. Raheja

Chair of Tears

Winner of the 2011 Emory Elliott Book Award

Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who not only helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples but also, through their very participation, complicated the dominant, and usually negative, messages about Native peoples in film.

“An exceptional addition to the growing scholarship on American Indian representation in film, this book complicates the dichotomy of powerful Hollywood and Native victims.”

—Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education “Deeply researched and beautifully conceptualized and written, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of history, film, and indigenous cultural production.”—Western Historical Quarterly July 2013 • 358 pp. • 29 photographs, 1 illustration $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4597-6 2000 Society of Midland Authors Award, sponsored by the Society of Midland Authors, adult nonfiction category finalist

Gerald Vizenor

A pointed, satirical novel about a university’s Native American Indian Studies department and the department chair who remakes it, Chair of Tears is an irresistible story of original ideas that gets to the heart of questions about identity politics, multiculturalism, pedantry, and timely virtues.

“An intriguing, fun, and intelligent read.”

—Publishers Weekly “The gullibility of cultural studies departments is an easy target for satire and, after a long and distinguished career of activism and teaching, Gerald Vizenor has surely earned the right to poke as many academic eyes as he wants. . . . [Chair of Tears is] often bitterly funny, proving once again that this seasoned provocateur has the irony dogs well under his command.”—Shelf Awareness 2012 • 152 pp. $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3840-4 Finalist for the Violet Crown Award Winner of the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction

Bleed into Me

Celluloid Indians

A Book of Stories

Jacquelyn Kilpatrick

As Stephen Graham Jones tells it in one remarkable story after another, the life of an Indian in modern America is as rich in irony as it is in tradition. A noted Blackfeet writer, Jones offers a nuanced and often biting look at the lives of Native peoples from the inside.

“A collection of gutsy, ethereal stories about being Indian in the twenty-first century.”

—Montana Magazine “Gripping and visceral reading. . . . Jones shows talent.”—Publishers Weekly “The concluding story, ‘Discovering America,’ brilliantly encapsulates the whole collection. . . . Jones’s sardonic tale reveals the sort of casual stereotyping and prejudice that never seems to disappear."—Booklist 2012 • 152 pp. $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4350-7

Native Americans and Film “This is a seminal study of how Native Americans have been portrayed in film since the start of the film industry in this country. . . . This is much more than a book for film buffs; it’s about how stereotypes of Native Americans were created. . . . An elegantly thoughtful book.”—Kliatt “Any filmmaker seeking to present images draped in honesty should read this book. It is an absolute must.”—E. Donald Two-Rivers, author of Survivor’s Medicine 1999 • 261 pp. • Illus. $23.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7790-8

Stephen Graham Jones

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Literature & Film

The Blind Man and the Loon

The Story of a Tale

Craig Mishler Foreword by Robin Ridington

Dispatches from the Dakota War

The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, tracing the story’s emergence across Greenland and North America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual arts and other media such as film, music, and dance theater. Examining and comparing the story’s variants and permutations across cultures in detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller into his analysis of how the tale changed over time, considering how storytellers and the oral tradition function within various societies.

May 2013 • 288 pp. • 14 color illustrations, 14 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, 1 chart, 4 appendixes $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3982-1

Inside Dazzling Mountains

Southwest Native Verbal Arts Edited by David L. Kozak

This collection of new translations of Native oral literatures features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. It combines translations of recordings made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a rich array of newly recorded and produced materials, attesting to the continued vitality and creativity of contemporary Native languages in the Southwest.

David L. Kozak offers a wealth of editorial tools for interpreting songs, song sets, myths, stories, and chants of the Southwest, past and present.

January 2013 • 696 pp. • 6 illustrations, 3 tables $65.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1575-7 Native Literatures of the Americas series

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A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity

Mary Butler Renville Edited by Carrie Reber Zeman and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola Foreword by Gwen N. Westerman

This new annotated edition rescues from obscurity a crucially important work about the bitterly contested U.S.-Dakota War in Minnesota of 1862. Written by Mary Butler Renville, an Anglo woman, with her Dakota husband, John Baptiste Renville, the work details the Renvilles’ experiences as “captives” among their Dakota kin in the Upper Camp and chronicles the story of the Dakota Peace Party.

“An exemplary contribution to the literature of the Dakota War, a model of academic inquiry and deep understanding grounded in primary sources.”—Minnesota’s Heritage “This fascinating edition should help scholars to better understand the complexities of race, gender, and compassion through the voices of those who struggled with them in their own lives.”—Annals of Iowa 2012 • 408 pp. • 14 illustrations, 4 maps, 2 appendixes $60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3530-4

That Dream Shall Have a Name Native Americans Rewriting America David L. Moore

David L. Moore examines the works of five well-known Native American writers and their efforts, since the nation’s early days, to redefine an “America” and “American identity” that includes Native Americans. He focuses on the writing of Pequot Methodist minister William Apess in the 1830s; on Northern Paiute activist Sarah Winnemucca in the 1880s; on Salish/ Métis novelist, historian, and activist D’Arcy McNickle in the 1930s; on Laguna poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko; and on Spokane poet, novelist, humorist, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie in the latter twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

January 2014 • 488 pp. $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1108-7

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Literature & Film 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Pitch Woman and Other Stories

The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian Edited and with an introduction by William R. Seaburg Collected by Elizabeth D. Jacobs

The first published collection of oral traditions of Upper Coquille and other Athabaskan Indians from southwestern Oregon, this volume makes available the extensive fieldwork done by Elizabeth D. Jacobs in the 1930s.

“A gift to anthropology, linguistics, and folklore.”—Choice “Will become an essential volume and reference work to add to any library, personal or public, of Northwest Coast Indigenous anthropology or ethnohistory. Tribal scholars will appreciate its references to other similar oral histories throughout Oregon, Washington, and California.”—Oregon Historical Quarterly “Accessible to all audiences. Seaburg is to be applauded for this sensitive and exemplary rendering of oral narratives in this written text.”

—Pacific Northwest Quarterly 2012 • 310 pp. $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4494-8

Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis

The Indian Interpretation of the Origin of the People and Animals Narrated by George Sanders Collected and arranged by Katherine Van Winkle Palmer Introduction by Jay Miller

This collection of Chehalis folktales embodies a narrative tour de force that interweaves episodes into an integrated series of installments.

These tales are told by George Sanders, a master storyteller whose family included chiefs of the Nisqually Indian tribe, which lives south of what is now Tacoma, Washington.

Jay Miller introduces this new edition with a close look at the linguistic complexity of the region, which testifies to the rich diversity of the Americas before epidemics and dislocations took their devastating toll.

2012 • 242 pp. • 2 photographs, 18 illustrations, 1 glossary $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7150-0

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Sacred Sites

The Secret History of Southern California Susan Suntree Foreword by Gary Snyder Introduction by Lowell John Bean Photographs by Juergen Nogai

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 account of the evolution of the Southern California landscape, reflecting the riches of both Native knowledge and Western scientific thought.

“An outstanding literary work.”—Tribal College Journal “A geological and cultural human history of Southern California in verse? Impossible, right?

Not so, as this is exactly what California native Susan Suntree has done. And to Suntree’s credit, her performance of this ‘impossible’ feat is not only competent, it shines.”—Bloomsbury Review 2010 • 320 pp. • 30 illustrations, 1 map $34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3198-6

Old Indian Legends

Zitkala-Ša Foreword by Agnes M. Picotte Illustrated by Angel De Cora Early in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman named Zitkala-Ša published these fourteen Native legends that she had learned during her own childhood on the Yankton Reservation. She recorded from oral tradition the exploits of Iktomi the trickster, Eya the glutton, the Dragon Fly, and other magical and mysterious figures, human and animal, known to the Sioux.

“Like all folk tales they mirror the child life of the world. There is in them a note of wild, strange music. . . . I have read them with exquisite pleasure.”—Helen Keller “The legends are told in an easy, engaging style with a certain dramatic power.”—Agnes M. Picotte, University of South Dakota July 2013 • 216 pp. • 14 illustrations $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9903-0

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For Young Readers Bull Trout’s Gift

A Salish Story about the Value of Reciprocity Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Illustrated by Sashay Camel

For thousands of years the Salish and Pend d’Oreille Indians lived along the banks of the Jocko River, finding food and medicine in its plants and fish and in the game hunted on its floodplain. Featuring twenty-six lush watercolors, Bull Trout’s Gift examines the sacred and natural significance of the bull trout and the Tribes’ restoration project along the Jocko River of Montana, which courses through their reservation.

“A lovely book.”—Native Peoples 2011 • 70 pp. • 26 illustrations $21.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3491-8

Field Journal

The Explore the River Project

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Illustrated by Sashay Camel

The Field Journal (or Snqeymintn, “a place to write,” in Salish) is a lavishly illustrated field notebook. Meant to inform students, nature enthusiasts, and other lovers of the wilderness, the Field Journal is the place to conveniently record one’s observations about the Jocko River habitat but can also be used by nature enthusiasts everywhere to observe the watersheds in their own locales.

2011 • 120 pp. • 33 illustrations $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3528-1

Explore the River (DVD)

Bull Trout, Tribal People, and the Jocko River Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

This interactive dvd integrates scientific information about bull trout, state-of-the-art restoration strategies and techniques, and extensive historical information about the importance of fish to the Tribes. The dvd contains more than sixty hours of material and is structured so it can reach multiple audiences, from children to adults. $24.95 dvd • 978-0-8032-3788-9

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Explore the River Educational Project (2-book, 1-DVD Set) Bull Trout, Tribal People, and the Jocko River Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

Located on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have undertaken a large-scale watershed restoration project in an effort to benefit bull trout in the Jocko River drainage. An important component of this project is education and outreach, of which the centerpiece is a multimedia set of educational materials describing the ecology and importance of bull trout and its relationship with the Salish and Pend d’Oreille people. $44.95 set • 978-0-8032-3789-6

For Young Readers Standing Bear of the Ponca

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Illustrated by Thomas Floyd

Standing Bear of the Ponca tells the story of this historic leader, from his childhood education in the ways and traditions of his people to his trials and triumphs as chief of the Bear Clan of the Ponca Tribe.

“A terribly important, complex story of what it means to be human—to be a father, a leader, a civil rights hero—in simple, powerful, unadorned language accessible to one and all, but especially to children.”—Joe Starita, author of “I Am a Man”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice “Finally we have a children’s book that tells the story of the Ponca people who were for so long a forgotten tribe and presents an Indian hero for teachers to use in the classroom.”

—Judi M. gaiashkibos, executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs October 2013 • 56 pp. • 7 illustrations For ages 8 and up $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2826-9

Illustrations by Sashay Camel, from Bull Trout’s Gift. Reprinted by permission of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

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Also of Interest Called to Justice

Embracing Fry Bread

The Life of a Federal Trial Judge

Confessions of a Wannabe

Warren K. Urbom Foreword by William Jay Riley

Roger Welsch

Called to Justice is the memoir of Nebraska district federal judge Warren K. Urbom, who also served as the federal judge on the Wounded Knee trials in 1974.

“Judge Warren Urbom is a hero to the Sioux and many other Native Americans who witnessed his fairness, respect, and commitment to justice in the Wounded Knee trials over which he presided. That section of his brilliant and wonderfully written memoir is breathtaking, as are his accounts of other cases in his career as a federal judge. Most interesting is to learn about the man behind the robe, his life and humanity.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America 2012 • 384 pp. • 45 photographs, 1 appendix $36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3983-8 Law in the American West series

Roger Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture, which, beginning in earnest with the study of linguistic practices of the Omaha tribe during a college anthropology course, resulted in his becoming an adopted member and kin of both the Omaha and the Pawnee Tribes.

“Welsch’s natural warmth and skill as a storyteller and his obvious respect for the individuals he encounters, come through clearly in his writing, and it’s easy to see why so many people, from so many backgrounds, might be honored to call him ‘friend.’”—Publishers Weekly “This is a heartfelt and very personal story, rich in wry and self-deprecating humor.”

—Booklist 2012 • 272 pp. $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2532-9

Bestselling Books for Course Adoption One Vast Winter Count The Native American West before Lewis and Clark Colin G. Calloway

2006 • 631 pp. • Illus., maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6465-6

Boarding School Seasons American Indian Families, 1900–1940

Luther Standing Bear Introduction to the new Bison Books edition by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 2006 • 296 pp. • Illus. $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9332-8

The World of Túpac Amaru Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru

Brenda J. Child

2000 • 154 pp. • 16 photographs $15.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6405-2

The Blue Tattoo The Life of Olive Oatman

Ward Stavig

1999 • 356 pp. • Illus., maps $32.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-9255-0

Waheenee An Indian Girl’s Story

Margot Mifflin With a new postscript by the author

Gilbert L. Wilson

2011 • 288 pp. • 32 illustrations, 1 map $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3517-5

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My People the Sioux, New Edition

1981 • 189 pp. • Illus. $12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9703-6

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Selected Backlist Lakota Dictionary Lakota-English / English-Lakota, New Comprehensive Edition

Compiled and edited by Eugene Buechel and Paul Manhart 2002 • 530 pp.

$32.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6199-0

The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge History and Contemporary Practice Raymond A. Bucko

1999 • 340 pp. • Illus. $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6165-5 Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award Winner of the American Book Awards

Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949 Amanda J. Cobb

2007 • 208 pp. • Illus., maps $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6467-0

Life, Letters, and Speeches

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) Edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Donald B. Smith 2006 • 258 pp. • Map $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6463-2

Waterlily, New Edition

Ella Cara Deloria Biographical sketch of the author by Agnes Picotte 2009 • 296 pp.

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1904-5

Dakota Texts Ella Deloria

2006 • 280 pp.

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6660-5

We Talk, You Listen New Tribes, New Turf

Vine Deloria Jr. New introduction by Suzan Shown Harjo 2007 • 221 pp. • Appendix $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5985-0

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Beyond Conquest Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England Amy E. Den Ouden

2005 • 304 pp. • Illus. $22.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6658-2

The 1870 Ghost Dance Cora Du Bois

2007 • 368 pp. • 24 illustrations, map, table, index $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6662-9

Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937 Katherine Ellinghaus 2009 • 312 pp.

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2487-2 Winner of the European Association of American Studies Book Prize British Association for American Studies Book Prize Runner-up

White Man’s Club Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation Jacqueline Fear-Segal

2009 • 412 pp. • 20 photographs, index $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2788-0

Practicing Ethnohistory Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative Patricia Galloway

2006 • 456 pp. • Illus., maps $29.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7115-9

Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, Enlarged Edition Melvin R. Gilmore Illustrated by Bellamy Parks Jansen

1991 • 165 pp. • Illus. $12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7034-3

One Hundred Summers A Kiowa Calendar Record Candace S. Greene

2009 • 286 pp. • 65 color plates, 28 b&w images, 1 map $39.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1940-3

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Selected Backlist

The Year the Stars Fell Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian Edited by Candace S. Greene and Russell Thornton

2007 • 377 pp. • 14 color illustrations, 916 b&w illustrations, 2 charts, map, index $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2211-3

Native Americans and the Environment Perspectives on the Ecological Indian Edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis 2007 • 370 pp. • 3 figures, 3 tables, index $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7361-0

Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay 2002 • 152 pp. • Illus. $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8005-2

Plenty-coups Chief of the Crows (Second Edition) Frank B. Linderman

2002 • 204 pp. • 1 map, 9 photographs, glossary, index $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8018-2

The National Museum of the American Indian Critical Conversations Edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb

LaDonna Harris A Comanche Life

2008 • 518 pp. • 21 photographs $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1111-7

LaDonna Harris Edited by H. Henrietta Stockel

Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award

2006 • 160 pp. • Illus., map $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7360-3

The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island Red Power and Self-Determination

Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Devon Abbott Mihesuah

2005 • 218 pp. • Illus. $26.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3253-2

2008 • 312 pp. • 15 photographs $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1779-9

Winner of the 2005 Writer of the Year Award, sponsored by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, Research category

Comanche Ethnography Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie

Devon Abbott Mihesuah

Troy R. Johnson

Compiled and edited by Thomas W. Kavanagh 2008 • 571 pp. • 20 photos, 8 figures $55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2764-4

Epidemics and Enslavement Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715 Paul Kelton

2009 • 312 pp. • 10 maps, 2 tables, index $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2791-0

So You Want to Write About American Indians?

A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars 2005 • 164 pp.

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8298-8

Forgotten Tribes Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process Mark Edwin Miller

2006 • 356 pp. • Map $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8321-3

Coyote Stories

Native American Studies

Mourning Dove (Humishuma) Edited by Heister Dean Guie

2005 • 162 pp. • Illus., maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7829-5

1990 • 246 pp. • Illus. $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8169-1

Edited by Clara Sue Kidwell and Alan Velie

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The Jesus Road Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns

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Selected Backlist Winner of the 2002 McLemore Prize

Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830 Greg O’Brien

2005 • 166 pp. • Map $26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8622-1 Winner of the James Mooney Book Award Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize

Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835 Theda Perdue 1999 • 254 pp.

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8760-0

Anthropology Goes to the Fair The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Survivance Narratives of Native Presence Edited by Gerald Vizenor 2008 • 396 pp.

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1083-7

Lakota Belief and Ritual

James R. Walker Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner 1991 • 369 pp. • Illus. $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9731-9

Lakota Society

James R. Walker Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie

Nancy J. Parezo and Don D. Fowler

1992 • 243 pp. • Illus. $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9737-1

2009 • 552 pp. • 48 photographs, 2 maps, 10 tables, 12 appendixes, index $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2796-5

Powhatan’s Mantle Indians in the Colonial Southeast

Making the Voyageur World Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade

1991 • 355 pp. • Illus., maps $22.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-9727-2

Carolyn Podruchny

2006 • 416 pp. • Illus., maps $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8790-7

Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State

Edited by Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley

Powhatan Lords of Life and Death Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia Margaret Holmes Williamson

Jacki Thompson Rand

2008 • 344 pp. • 12 figures, 1 map $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6037-5

2008 • 210 pp. • 6 photographs, 1 figure, 3 tables, index $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3966-1

Remember This!

Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives

When You Sing It Now, Just Like New First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington

2006 • 346 pp. • Illus. $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9009-9

2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786–1859 F. Todd Smith

2008 • 320 pp.

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2077-5

My People the Sioux, New Edition Luther Standing Bear

Waziyatawin Angela Wilson With translations by Wahpetunwin Carolynn Schommer 2005 • 282 pp. • Illus. $32.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-9844-6

Dreams and Thunder Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera Zitkala-Ša Edited by P. Jane Hafen

2005 • 171 pp. • Illus. $15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9919-1

American Indian Stories, Second Edition Zitkala-Ša

2003 • 196 pp. • Illus. $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9917-7

2006 • 296 pp. • Illus. $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9332-8

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