2016 American Indian Catalog

American Indian UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2016

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

For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the American Indian and we are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog.

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Price and availability subject to change without notice.

On the front: Zitkala-Ša, Sioux Indian and activist, courtesy of Gertrude Kasebier Collection, Division of Culture and the Arts, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

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Archaeology & Anthropology ★ NEW

Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere

By A. Martin Byers $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-8688-7 · 440 Pages Found across the North American Eastern Woodlands are multiple Hopewellian monumental earthworks, considered to be sites of funerary rituals and practices.

Byers proposes they were “Ceremonial Spheres” and develops a complementary heterarchical community model of their use in world renewal rituals. Detailed interpretations of Hopewellian sites and their contents in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Georgia empirically anchor his claims.

Native Performers in Wild West Shows From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney

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

Viewing the Ancestors Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwicˇ, and Hisatsinom

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

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

Yuchi Folklore Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community

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

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

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Arapaho Women’s Quillwork Motion, Life, and Creativity

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

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Patterns of Exchange Navajo Weavers and Traders

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

Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600

By Meghan C. L. Howey $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4288-3 • 320 pages Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed. In Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600, Meghan C. L. Howey uses archaeology to make this connection.

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Art & Photography ★ NEW

A Place in the Sun The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings

By Thomas Brent Smith $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5198-4 · 208 pages Of the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academy between 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (1876–1936) and E. Martin Hennings (1886–1956) returned to the United States to foster the development of a national art. The two German American artists shared much in common, and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists.

Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in the Sun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy of these two important artists.

Painted Journeys The Art of John Mix Stanley

By Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw $54.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4829-8 · 308 pages $34.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5155-7 • 308 pages Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture.

Surviving Desires Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest

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

A Strange Mixture

By Sascha T. Scott $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4484-9 • 280 Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.

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

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

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

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

Modern Spirit The Art of George Morrison

By W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm 39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4392-7 • 208 pages $29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4393-4 • 208 pages The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (1919–2000) has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures have been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions. Yet because Morrison’s artwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian heritage, it has stirred debate about what it means to be a Native American artist. This stunning catalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white images, showcases Morrison’s work across a spectrum of genres and media.

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Ernest L. Blumenschein The Life of an American Artist

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

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

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection Selected Works With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White $60.00 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4100-8 • 304 pages $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4101-5 • 304 pages A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from the Adkins Collection.

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Blackfoot War Art Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000

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

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

Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements of their warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4138-1 • 256 pages Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,” but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S. government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century.

Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the first time.

Allan Houser Drawings The Centennial Exhibition

By W. Jackson Rushing III and Hadley Jerman $15.95s Paper • 978-0-9851609-4-4 • 108 pages Distributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art After training at The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s, the Chiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser (1914–1994) had both commercial and critical success as a painter and sculptor. Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition offers a critical examination of Houser’s career as a draughtsman, from his early career to the rich body of work he produced late in life.

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

Spirit Red Visions of Native American Artists from the Rennard Strickland Collection

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

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Biography & Memoir ★ NEW

Red Bird, Red Power The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

By Tadeusz Lewandowski $29.95s Cloth · 978-08061-5178-6 · 288 Pages Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform .

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Brummett Echohawk Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist

By Kristin M. Younbgbull $24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4826-7 • 224 pages A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and counted coup as his grandfather had done during the Indian wars of the previous century.

This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as an “Indian artist.”

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Clyde Warrior Tradition, Community, and Red Power

By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4705-5 • 256 pages The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.

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William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By William Heath $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5119-9 · 520 pages Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.

Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

By Candy Moulton $26.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-389-9 • 296 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4841-0 • 296 pages On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary western figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddy’s life encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever.

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Scalping Columbus and other Damn Indian Stories Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies

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

Blackfoot Redemption A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

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

A Cheyenne Voice The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews

By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty $36.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4379-8 • 504 pages A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882–1967). Recorded by Liberty in 1958 and 1959 when she was a schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book Cheyenne Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of the interviews, this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the first time.

Under The Eagle Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

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

Twenty Thousand Mornings An Autobiography

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

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A Navajo Legacy The Life and Teachings of John Holiday

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

Chief Loco Apache Peacemaker

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

Pipestone My Life in an Indian Boarding School

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

Nicholas Black Elk Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

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

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Education ★ NEW

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

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Free to Be Mohawk Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School

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

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

The Students of Sherman Indian School Education and Native Identity since 1892

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

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History ★ NEW

“Hang Them All” George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858

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

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Ioway Life Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860

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

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Land Too Good for Indians Northern Indian Removal

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

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Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow American Indian Music

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

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Contesting the Borderlands Interviews on the Early Southwest

By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5194-6 · 280 pages Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. To explore the region’s complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach.

In interviews with ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.

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Serving the Nation Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907

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

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A Field of Their Own Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941

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

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Blood on the Marias The Baker Massacre

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

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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees Volume Six: March to Removal, Part 1, Safe in the Ancestral Homeland, 1821–1824 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-7-2 · 568 pages Distributed for Cherokee Heritage Press Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, minutes, reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina to provide a firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokee throughout the nineteenth century. Though written by missionaries from their perspective, these records provide much insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and personalities.

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Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

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

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A Call for Reform The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4363-7 • 248 pages Journalist, novelist, and scholar Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) remains one of the most influential and popular writers on the struggles of American Indians. This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in Southern California in the 1880s, the articles also offer insight into Jackson’s career.

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

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Hubbell Trading Post Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest

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

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824

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

Red Dreams, White Nightmares Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815

By Robert M. Owens $32.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4646-1 • 320 pages From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear— even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related struggles they were.

Americans Recaptured Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity

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

Columns of Vengeance Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864

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

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Red Power Rising The National Indian Youth Council and The Origins Of Native Activism

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

American Indians in U.S. History Second Edition

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

Chiefs and Challengers Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906 Second Edition

By George H. Phillips $26.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4490-0 • 384 pages In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence. His narrative includes numerous eloquent testimonies from Indians, among them a student at a government-run school who wrote to the U.S. president: “The white people call San Jacinto rancho their land and I don’t want them to do it. We think it is ours, for God gave it to us first.”

American Carnage Wounded Knee, 1890

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

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

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The Darkest Period The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873

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

Speculators in Empire Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix

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

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

Big Sycamore Stands Alone The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place

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

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The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island A History

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

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Framing the Sacred The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico

By Eleanor Wake $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5396-2 · 368 pages In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico’s religious structures reveals the indigenous people’s own decisions regarding the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message.

The book is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’s influence on Mexican peoples.

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We Know Who We Are Metis Identity in a Montana Community

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

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Restoring a Presence American Indians and Yellowstone National Park

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

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The Seminole Freedmen A History

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

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The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France

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

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Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian The Crime That Should Haunt America

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

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

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The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885

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

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Chenoo A Novel

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

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Wil Usdi

By Robert J. Conley Foreword by Luther Wilson $14.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4659-1 • 160 pages Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–93), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.

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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

By John Joseph Mathews Edited by Susan Kalter $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5120-5 • 200 pages Mathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses.

His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally intended his nature stories for boys. But the stories transcend boundaries of age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers with nature’s beauty but to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans, animals, and the landscapes in which they interact.

Grand Avenue A Novel in Stories

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

Creative Alliances The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry

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

Progressive Traditions Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture

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

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

Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906

By James W. Parins $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4399-6 • 296 pages Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century—a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.

The People Who Stayed Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal

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

Pushing the Bear After the Trail of Tears

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

Three Plays The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows

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

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Through Indian Sign Language The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897 Edited by William C Meadows $55.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4727-7 • 520 pages The Scott ledgers contain an array of historic, linguistic, and ethnographic data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people.

Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists.

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Cherokee Reference Grammar

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

Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers A Bilingual Anthology

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

Manhattan to Minisink American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity

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

Native American Placenames of the Southwest A Handbook for Travelers

By William Bright Edited by Alice Anderton and Sean O’Neill $19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4311-8 • 174 pages This handbook is organized alphabetically, and its entries for places—including towns, cities, counties, parks, and geographic landmarks—are concise and easy to read. Entries give the state and county, along with all available information on pronunciation, the name of the language from which the name derives, the name’s literal meaning, and relevant history. In their introduction to the handbook, editors Alice Anderton and Sean O’Neill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation keys for English and Native languages.

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The Cherokee Syllabary Writing the People’s Perseverance

By Ellen Cushman $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4220-3 • 256 pages $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4373-6 • 256 pages Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms.

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

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Imagining Sovereignty Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

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

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Gathering the Potawatomi Nation Revitalization and Identity

By Christopher Wetzel $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4669-0 • 216 pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4692-8 · 216 pages Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. Gathering the Potawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how marginalized communities adapt to social change, and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two.

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Claiming Tribal Identity The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment

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

A Gathering of Statesmen Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826–1828

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

Oklahoma’s Indian New Deal

By Jon S. Blackman $24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4351-4 • 236 pages The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by Congress in 1936, brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRA’s provisions, but included other measures that applied only to Oklahoma’s tribal population. This first book-length history of the OIWA explains the law’s origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.

Buying America from the Indians Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

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

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights

By Laughlin McDonald $26.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4240-1 • 264 pages The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.

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The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma A Legal History

By L. Susan Work $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4089-6 • 376 pages When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government.

In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy its nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciously retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence.

Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.

The Choctaws in Oklahoma From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970

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

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