Indigenous Studies Fall 2020
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A Bounded Land
A Different Manifest Destiny
Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada R. Cole Harris
U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in NineteenthCentury South America Claire M. Wolnisty
November 2020 304pp 4 colour photos, 14 maps, 3 tables 9780774864411 £26.99 / $39.95 HB UBC PRESS
October 2020 186pp Index 9781496207906 £40.00 / $50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In this beautifully crafted and written volume, Canada’s preeminent historical geographer traces how Canada’s geographical limitations have shaped the nature of its settler societies – from first contacts, to dispossession, to our current age of reconciliation. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Traces the ways southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor and explores how southern–Latin American networks spanned the years of the Civil War.
A Grammar of Patwin
A Grammar of Southern Pomo
Lewis Lawyer
Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas February 2021 468pp 17 illus., 1 map, 59 tables, 1 appendix 9781496221193 £70.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Neil Alexander Walker
February 2021 440pp 1 illus., 1 map, 52 tables, 2 appendixes, index 9781496222251 £33.00 / $40.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California.
Brings together two hundred years of word lists, notebooks, audio recordings, and manuscripts from archives across the United States and synthesizes this scattered collection into the first published description of the Patwin language.
A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1
Aboriginal Screen Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End
Phonology, Lexical Classes, Morphology Olga Lovick
Joanna Barrkman
September 2020 334pp 257 color illus., 2 maps 9780998044507 £48.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
February 2021 702pp 13 figures, 4 maps, 94 tables 9781496222275 £27.99 / $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Presents textile screen printing from five Aboriginal-owned art centers in the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Injalak Arts and Crafts Aboriginal Corporation, Bábbarra Women’s Centre, and Merrepen Arts, Culture and Language.
A comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of providing a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language.
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Anakú Iwachá
Bois-Brûlés
Yakama Legends and Stories Edited by Virginia R. Beavert, Michelle M. Jacob & Joana W. Jansen
The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette & Guillaume Marcotte
January 2021 336pp 60 color illus., 2 maps 9780295748245 £22.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
October 2020 320pp 20 photos, 4 maps, 1 table 9780774862332 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
English translations of stories that Yakama Tribal Elders recorded in several dialects of the Ichishkíin language. This new edition adds a preface from the Yakama Nation and essays on the history of the project.
Shatters the prevailing orthodoxy that Métis communities are found solely in western Canada. Reveals that a community still persists in Québec. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Caring for Eeyou Istchee
Dictionary of the Ponca People
Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory Edited by Monica E. Mulrennan, Colin H. Scott & Katherine Scott
Louis V. Headman & Sean O’Neill
October 2020 418pp 9781496204424 £27.99 / $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
August 2020 428pp 9 maps, 14 charts, 7 tables 9780774838597 £22.99 / $37.95 PB UBC PRESS
Presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in which children learned the language at home by listening to their elders.
How protected area creation presents a powerful vehicle for Indigenous stewardship, biological conservation, and cultural heritage protection. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Eagle Voice Remembers
An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World John G. Neihardt, Foreword by Coralie Hughes, Introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie
February 2021 324pp 9780803283985 £23.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Annotations add new clarity, introducing John G. Neihardt’s Eagle Voice Remembers to a new generation of readers and presenting a fresh understanding for fans of the original.
Herring and People of the North Pacific
Sustaining a Keystone Species Thomas F. Thornton & Madonna L. Moss
January 2021 342pp 3 maps, 4 charts, 5 tables, 14 b&w illus. 9780295748290 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748283 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products.
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Indigenous Dispossession
Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes
Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico M. Bianet Castellanos
War, Climate, and Culture Richard W. Edwards IV
Midwest Archaeological Perspectives September 2020 328pp 9780268108182 £27.99 / $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
December 2020 200pp 9781503614345 £21.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503603288 £74.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edwards explores how the inhabitants of the western Great Lakes region responded to the challenges of climate change, social change, and the increasingly violent physical landscape. As a case study, Edwards focuses on a group living in the Koshkonong Locality in what is now southeastern Wisconsin.
Examines how Maya families grapple with the ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. Castellanos relates Maya migrants’ experiences with housing and mortgage finance in Cancún, one of Mexico’s fastest-growing cities.
Indigenous Textual Cultures
Knowing Native Arts Nancy Marie Mithlo
September 2020 272pp 12 color photos, 27 b&w photos, 4 color illus. 9781496202123 £27.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Edited by Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson & Angela Wanhalla
Brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global settings. This contribution to the field of fine arts broadens the scope of discussions and offers insights that are often excluded from contemporary appraisals.
September 2020 376pp 15 illus. 9781478010814 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478009764 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity.
Mass Murder in California’s Empty Quarter
Memory and Landscape
Indigenous Responses to a Changing North Edited by Kenneth L. Pratt and Scott A. Heyes
A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria Ray A. March
February 2021 448pp 9781771993159 £34.00 / $44.99 PB ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 232pp 1 appendix 9781496217561 £21.99 / $27.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This beautifully illustrated volume documents how Indigenous communities in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia are seeking ways to maintain and strengthen their cultural identity while also embracing forces of disruption. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
In 2014, Cherie Rhoades became only the second woman, and the first Native American woman, to commit mass murder in the US. Ray A. March exposes a story of a community’s racism,Z and tribal treachery in a small Paiute tribe.
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Modernity through Letter Writing
Native Providence
Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast Patricia E. Rubertone
Cherokee and Seneca Political Representations in Response to Removal, 1830–1857 Claudia B. Haake
December 2020 468pp 26 photos, 7 maps, 1 appendix, index 9781496217554 £66.00 / $80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
September 2020 312pp 8 illus., 4 maps, index 9781496215673 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Reveals stories of Native urban life in Providence, Rhode Island, shaped by the dynamics of colonialism, race, and class and not least by the survivance of people who today live among the ruins of modernity.
Examines the diplomacy, protest, and petitioning by which Native writers developed strategies for negotiating the policies of Indian Removal and advocating for their own indigenous nations.
Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic
Pacifist Prophet
Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America Richard W. Pointer
Gary N. Wilson, Christopher Alcantara & Thierry Rodon
November 2020 424pp 2 photos, 4 figures, 4 maps, index 9781496222862 £28.99 / $36.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
August 2020 224pp 6 maps, 2 charts, 1 table 9780774863087 £18.99 / $32.95 PB UBC PRESS
Recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country.
Explores how three northern regions are reformulating the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state, and transforming Canadian federalism in the process. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Picturing Indians
Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens
Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 Liza Black
Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Devon A. Mihesuah
October 2020 366pp 2 photos, 1 filmography, index 9780803296800 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
At Table November 2020 400pp 57 recipes, 29 color photos, 1 table, 2 appendixes, index 9780803245259 £21.99 / $27.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Critically examines the inner workings of post– World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”
The acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of the North American continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.
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Relativization in Ojibwe
Rez Metal
Michael D. Sullivan
Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene Ashkan Soltani Stone & Natale A. Zappia
February 2021 392pp 1 illus., 45 tables, 1 appendix, index 9781496222268 £23.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Following previous dialect studies concerned primarily with varieties of Ojibwe spoken in Canada, Relativization in Ojibwe presents the first study of dialect variation for varieties spoken in the United States and along the border region of Ontario and Minnesota.
October 2020 114pp 41 photos 9781496205094 £12.99 / $16.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Captures the creative energy of indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular.
The Last Sovereigns
Russian Colonization of Alaska
Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas Robert M. Utley
Baranov’s Era, 1799–1818 Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv, Translated by Richard L. Bland
October 2020 200pp 13 photos, 5 illus., 3 maps, index 9781496220226 £19.99 / $24.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
November 2020 306pp 6 photos, 6 illus., 1 map, 8 tables, 1 glossary, 2 appendixes, index 9781496222169 £58.00 / $70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life—a nomadic life based on the buffalo—that was sacred to him and to his people.
First comprehensive study of the origin and evolution of the Russian state and Russians’ colonization of Siberia and North America. Covers political economy, history, and ethnography.
The Theatre of Regret
To Keep the Land for My Children’s Children
Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada David Gaertner
Documents of Salish, Pend d’Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1890–1899 Edited by Robert Bigart & Joseph McDonald
November 2020 290pp 9780774865357 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous–settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? The Theatre of Regret reveals the role that Indigenous and allied literatures play in challenging statecentred discourses of reconciliation in Canada. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
June 2020 360pp 22 illus., 1 map, index 9781934594278 £18.99 / $25.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A collection of primary documents about the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana between 1890 and 1899.
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Too Strong to Be Broken
Vanished in Hiawatha
The Life of Edward J. Driving Hawk Edward J. Driving Hawk & Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians CARLA JOINSON November 2020 424pp 20 photos, 3 appendixes, index 9781496223654 £19.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
American Indian Lives September 2020 200pp 11 photos, 1 illus., 1 genealogy 9781496222886 £22.99 / $27.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Follows Edward Driving Hawk’s emotional, physical, and financial hardships, survival both in and out of war, and the people who gave unwavering support through such trying times.
Voting in Indian Country
Xurt’an
The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha’ Suzanne Cook
The View from the Trenches Jean Reith Schroedel
October 2020 312pp 7 tables 9780812252514 £32.00 / $39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures November 2020 720pp 3 photos, 1 illus., 5 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes 9781496222244 £33.00 / $40.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Recent highlights
Voting in Indian Country uses conflicts over voting rights to understand the centuries-long fight for Native self-determination, using ethnographic data and weaving together history, politics, and law to provide a robust view of this often-ignored struggle for social justice.
Literary traditions of the Northern Lacandones, translated by a foremost linguist of the language.
Cataloguing Culture
Otherwise Worlds
Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation Hannah Turner
Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness Edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro & Andrea Smith
August 2020 256pp 23 photos, 13 tables 9780774863926 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study June 2020 400pp 9 illus. 9781478008385 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478007869 £91.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how colonialism operates in museum bureaucracies. Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over 200 years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Investigates the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness.
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