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American Indiancontents Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Biography & Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. Politics & Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Best Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.. Chickasaw Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Cherokee National Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Forthcoming Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about American Indians and we are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visit our website at oupress.com. We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press. Price and availability subject to change without notice.

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Anthropologywives and hUsBands gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History By Loretta Fowler $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4116-9 400 pages In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter with Americans as government officials, troops, missionaries, and settlers moved west into Arapaho country. Fowler examines Arapaho history from 1805 to 1936 through the lens of five cohorts, groups of women and men born during different year spans. Through the life stories of individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates the experiences and actions of each cohort during a time when Americans tried to impose gender asymmetry and to undermine the Arapahos hierarchical age relations. getting good croPs economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 18701891 By robert J. Bigart $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4133-6 304 pages In 1870, the Bitterroot Salish Indianscalled Flatheads by the first white explorers to encounter themwere a small tribe living on the western slope of the Northern Rocky Mountains in Montana Territory. Pressures on the Salish were intensifying during this time, from droughts and dwindling resources to aggressive neighboring tribes and Anglo-American expansion. In 1891, the economically impoverished Salish accepted government promises of assistance and retreated to the Flathead Reservation, more than sixty miles from their homeland. BUffalo inc. American Indians and economic Development By Sebastian Felix Braun $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3904-3 280 pages Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values. Plains aPache ethnoBotany By Julia A. Jordan $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3968-5 240 pages Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany, Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning traditional Apache collection, preparation, and use of these plant species for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture. i choose life Contemporary Medical and religious Practices in the Navajo World By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz $50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3941-8 384 pages $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3961-6 384 pages For Navajo Indians, medical treatments such as surgery, blood transfusion and CPR conflict with their traditional understanding of health and well-being, I Chose Life investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing.

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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 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 who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to AngloAmerican buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.

Art & Photographylife 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. BUilding one fire Art and World View in Cherokee Life By Chadwick Smith, rennard Strickland, and Benny Smith $24.95 Cloth 978-1-61658-960-8 224 pages In Building One Fire, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith and renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author Rennard Strickland present a unique look at Cherokee art through the lens of Cherokee philosophy. Since the time when Water Spider brought the gift of fire to the Cherokee people, the One Fire, the Ancient Lady, has been at the center of Cherokee spiritual life. Blackfoot war art Pictographs of the reservation Period, 1880-2000 By L. James Dempsey $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3804-6 488 pages In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey 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. lanterns on the Prairie The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock edited by Steven L. grafe $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3 336 pages $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4029-2 336 pages Lanterns on the Prairie explores the motivations of the players in McClintocks story and the historic context of his engagement with the Blackfeet. The photographs themselves provide an irreplaceable visual record of the Blackfeet during a pivotal period in their history.

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in contemPorary rhythm The Art of ernest L. Blumenschein By Peter H. Hassrick and elizabeth J. Cunningham $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3948-7 416 pages The definitive retrospective on Ernest L. Blumenschein (18741960), one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and perhaps the most accomplished of all the painters associated with that organization. Reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs, this volume forms the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published. sPanish mUstangs in the great american west By John S. Hockensmith $49.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-9975-7 275 color illus. 204 Pages Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West is graced with stunning full-color photographs of modern horses that carry the distinctive traits of their Spanish, Arab, and Barb forebears. Captured visually in the rugged Rocky Mountains or the rolling grassy plains of the West, these horses are our shared living legacy. From the tender private moments between mare and foal to the aggressive determination of clashing stallions, Hockensmith throws open a breathtaking window on these horses lives.dist. for John s. hockensmith

a northern cheyenne alBUm Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis edited by Margot Liberty Commentary by John Woodenlegs $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0 304 pages A Northern Cheyenne Album presents a rare series of never-before-published photographs that document the lives of tribal people on the reservation during the early twentieth-centurya period of rapid change. Reservation physician and expert photographer Thomas B. Marquis captured Northern Cheyenne life in numerous images taken from 1926 to 1935. After 1960, former tribal president John Woodenlegs and others interviewed tribal elders and, drawing on tape recordings, composed the photos lively captions. Margot Liberty, editor of this volume, has added her own descriptions, filling in details of Northern Cheyenne culture and history from a scholars viewpoint. charles m. rUssell A Catalogue raisonn edited by B. Byron Price $125.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3836-7 352 pages Charles M. Russell is the most beloved artist of the American West. This work, the result of a decade of research and scholarship, features 170 color reproductions of his greatest works and six essays by Russell experts and scholars. Each book contains a unique key code granting access to the more than 4,000 works created and signed by Russell. Visit the website at www.russellraisonne.com. art from fort marion The Silberman Collection By Joyce M. Szabo $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3883-1 208 pages $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3889-3 208 pages During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion, Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic memories of home. The Silberman Collection is an unusually complete group of images that illustrate the artists fascination with the world outside the southern plains, their living conditions and survival strategies as prisoners, and their reminiscences of pre-reservation life.

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the masterworks of charles m. rUssell A retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli $65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4081-0 304 pages $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4097-1 304 pages In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This handsome booka companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonn, edited by B. Byron Priceshowcases many of the artists best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style. JUliUs seyler and the Blackfeet An Impressionist at glacier National Park By William e. Farr $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4014-8 256 pages German Impressionist artist Julius Seyler had already made a name for himself in Europe when America beckoned. While in St. Paul, Minnesota, he encountered Louis Hill, head of the Great Northern Railroad, who wanted to encourage travel to Montanas newly created Glacier National Park. To that end, Hill enticed the adventuresome Seyler to visit this majestic landscape and to see the Blackfeet Indians who lived there. This book marks both an appreciation of Seylers unique art and a fascinating glimpse into the promotion of a national park in its early years. fire light The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist By Linda M. Waggoner $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3954-8 352pages Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (18691919) painted Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing image to illuminate De Coras life and artistry, which until now have been largely overlooked by scholars.

Biography & Memoirchief loco Apache Peacemaker By Bud Shapard $34.95s 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 Afterword by Laurence M. Hauptman $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.

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n. scott momaday remembering Ancestors, earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography By Phyllis S. Morgan Introduction by Kenneth Lincoln $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4054-4 400 pages N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of House Made of Dawn (1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him. nicholas Black elk Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic By Michael F. Steltenkamp $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4063-6 256 pages Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardts popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others. coach tommy thomPson and the Boys of seqUoyah By Patti Dickinson Foreword by Chadwick Smith $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4070-4 256 pages When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead, it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others. Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coacha Cherokee legend whose story is remembered by many and is now finally told for a wider audience. inkPadUta Dakota Leader By Paul N. Beck $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3950-0 176 pages Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custers defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta the reputation of being the most brutal of all the Sioux leaders. Paul N. Beck now challenges a century and a half of bias to reassess the life and legacy of this important Dakota leader. crazy horse A Lakota Life By Kingsley M. Bray $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3785-8 528 pages $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3986-9 528 pages Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accountsand draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographiesto expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horses contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horses inner and public life. To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.

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victorio Apache Warrior and Chief By Kathleen P. Chamberlain $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3843-5 272 pages A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching AngloAmericans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his betterknown contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain expands our understanding of Victorios role in the Apache wars and brings him into the center of events. sacagaweas child the life and times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) charbonneau By Susan M. Colby $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4098-8 206 pages Sacagaweas Child follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, a boy born at the forefront of westward expansion in the early nineteenth century. Author Susan M. Colby details Charbonneau family history, analyzing the characters and cultures of Jean-Baptistes father, Toussaint, a French fur trader, and Sacagawea, his Shoshoni and Hidatsa mother. cherokee thoUghts Honest and Uncensored By robert J. Conley $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3943-2 196 pages Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his peoples history, and what it means to be Cherokee. As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts will intrigue tribal members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people. viola martinez, california PaiUte Living in Two Worlds By Diana Meyers Bahr $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3514-4 214 pages $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4159-6 214 pages The life story of Viola Martinez, an Owens Valley Paiute Indian of eastern California, extends over nine decades of the twentieth century. Viola experienced forced assimilation in an Indian boarding school, overcame racial stereotypes to pursue a college degree, and spent several years working at a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Finding herself poised uncertainly between Indian and white worlds, Viola was determined to turn her marginalized existence into an opportunity for personal empowerment. In Viola Martinez, California Paiute, Diana Meyers Bahr recounts Violas extraordinary life story and examines her strategies for dealing with acculturation. gall Lakota War Chief By robert W. Larson $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3830-5 320 pages $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4036-0 320 pages This first-ever scholarly biography of Gall broadens our understanding of the man, tracing his evolution from a fearless warrior at the Little Bighorn to a representative of his people. Filling many gaps in our understanding of this warrior and his relationship with Sitting Bull, this engaging biography also offers new interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay to rest the contention that Gall was Custers Conqueror.

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Historya gUide to the indian triBes of the Pacific northwest Third edition By robert H. ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins Foreword by Clifford e. Trafzer $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4024-7 448 pages The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities. dreaming with the ancestors Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico By Shirley Boteler Mock $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4053-7 400 pages Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but womens roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insiders perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences. war Party in BlUe Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army By Mark van de Logt Foreword by Walter r. echo-Hawk $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4139-8 368 pages Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American troops from disaster on the field of battle. In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and recounting hitherto neglected episodes. from cochise to geronimo The Chiricahua Apaches, 18741886.. By edwin r. Sweeney $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4150-3 640 pages In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochises death and Geronimos surrender in 1886. Beyond Bears Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada By Jerome A. greene $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4068-1 264 pages In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bears Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered.

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the Peyote road religious Freedom and the Native American Church By Thomas C. Maroukis $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4109-1 272 pages Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of Peyote. kiowa military societies ethnohistory and ritual By William C. Meadows $75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4072-8 472 pages Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity. indian triBes of oklahoma A guide By Blue Clark $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4060-5 416 pages Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as Indian Country. For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wrights A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the states Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years. indian BlUes American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879193.4 By John W. Troutman $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4019-3 320 pages From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and opportunity for Native peoples? william clark Indian Diplomat By Jay H. Buckley $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3911-1 320 pages $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4145-9 320 pages For three decades following the expedition with Meriwether Lewis for which he is best known, William Clark forged a meritorious public career that contributed even more to the opening of the West: from 1807 to 1838 he served as the U.S. governments most important representative to western Indians. This biography focuses on Clarks tenure as Indian agent, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis. the indian soUthwest, 15801830 ethnogenesis and reinvention By gary Clayton Anderson $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4067-4 352 pages In The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830, Gary Clayton Anderson argues that, in the face of European conquest and severe droughts that reduced their food sources, Indians in the Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic.

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the rogUe river indian war and its aftermath, 18501980 By e. A. Schwartz $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-2906-8 368 pages $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4161-9 372 pages From 1855 to 1856 in western Oregon, the Native peoples along the Rogue River outmaneuvered and repeatedly drove off white opponents. In The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 18501980, historian E. A. Schwartz explores the tribal groups resilience not only during this war but also in every period of federal Indian policy that followed. [This book] is the first detailed history of many native groups from western Oregon. It is a significant and revealing study, broad in scope and implications, and it will change the way we view the past of Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. clifford e. trafzer, author of The Kit Carson Campaign indian alliances and the sPanish in the soUthwest, 7501750 By William B. Carter $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4067-4 384 pages When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement native PeoPle of soUthern new england, 16501775 By Kathleen J. Bragdon $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4004-9 312 pages Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communities continued to thrive alongside English colonists. In this sequel to her Native People of Southern New England, 15001650, Kathleen J. Bragdon continues the Indian story through the end of the colonial era and documents the impact of colonization. the mUnsee indians A History By robert S. grumet $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4062-9 464 pages The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the worlds most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation. Now, The Munsee Indians deftly interweaves a mass of archaeological, anthropological, and archival source material to resurrect the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution. reflections on american indian history Honoring the Past, Building a Future edited by Albert L. Hurtado $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3896-1 176 pages As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together thus far. Now five premier scholars in American Indian history, along with a tribal leader who has placed an indelible mark on the history of her people, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing Indians today.

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coming down from aBove Prophecy, resistance, and renewal in Native American religions By Lee Irwin $75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3966-1 528 pages For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This first comprehensive survey of prophetic movements in Native North America tells how religious leaders blended indigenous beliefs with Christianitys prophetic traditions to respond to those challenges. the Black hawk war of 1832 By Patrick J. Jung $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3994-4 288 pages In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Patrick J. Jung here re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States, a conflict that decimated Black Hawks band. Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, and drawing on recent ethnohistorical interpretations, Jung shows that the outcome can be understood only by discussing the complexity of intertribal rivalry, military ineptitude, and racial dynamics. the camPo indian landfill war the search for gold in californias garbage By Dan Mcgovern $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4095-7 352 pages In The Campo Indian Landfill War, Dan McGovern explores the controversial topic of environmental justice through the story of the Campo tribes struggle to develop its isolated and impoverished reservation by building a commercial garbage facility to serve the cities of Southern California. McGovern focuses on the individuals who personify the conflict. choctaw crime and PUnishment, 18841907 By Devon Abbott Mihesuah $32.95s Hardcover 978-0-8061-4052-0 352 pages During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaultsusually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and proassimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation. the american indian Past and Present, Sixth edition edited by roger L. Nichols $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3856-5 448 pages Widely used in university courses on Native American history through five editions, The American Indian: Past and Present has been thoroughly revised to present an up-to-date view of Indian heritage. This timely anthology brings together pieces written over the last thirty years that represent some of the best scholarship available. The readings offer a broad overview of indigenous peoples of North America from first contact to the present, showing how Indians relied on their cultural strengths and determination to retain their independent identities. These essays trace the ever changing situations of Indians as both tribes and individuals. They bring readers through Native victory and military defeat, relocation, mandatory acculturation, and militant protests to the present era of self-determination, when the meaning of Native identity is sometimes hotly debated.

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Pre-removal choctaw history exploring New Paths edited by greg OBrien $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3916-6 256 pages In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg OBrien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going. In a chronological survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory. the nez Perces in the indian territory Nimiipuu Survival By J. Diane Pearson $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3901-2 416 pages Following the Nez Perce War of 1877, federal representatives promised the Nimiipuu who surrendered with Chief Joseph repatriation to their Pacific Northwest homes. Instead, they were driven into exile. This book tells the story of the Nimiipuu captivity and deportation and offers an in-depth analysis of the resistant Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Palus bands during their incarceration. fUll-coUrt qUest The girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3973-9 496 pages Most fans of womens basketball would be startled to learn that girls teams were making their mark more than a century agoand that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like lambent flames across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montanas first basketball champions. Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, these young women introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring them champions. Big sycamore stands alone The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place By Ian W. record $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3972-2 384 pages Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society. JoUrney to the west The Alabama and Coushatta Indians By Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3940-1 304 pages When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms. In this book, Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and revealing how their shared experience affected their identity.

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mr. Jeffersons hammer william henry harrison and the origins of american indian Policy By robert M. Owens $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3842-8 344 pages $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4198-5 344 Pages Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrisons career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.

Literaturethe 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. on native groUnd memoirs and impressions By Jim Barnes $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4092-6 296 pages On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barness boyhood in rural southeastern Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II through his mature years as an internationally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and Welsh ancestry, Barnes is often identified as a Native American poet. He emphasizes his desire to be recognized for his art, not his blood. Yet he speaks eloquently here of his attachment to his native ground, the Choctaw region in Oklahomafor him the land where memory dwells. This edition features a new postscript by the author. mUting white noise Native American and european American Novel Traditions By James H. Cox $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3679-0 352 pages $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4021-6 352 pages In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism.

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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 theater through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions. art as Performance, story as criticism reflections on native literary aesthetics By Craig S. Womack $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4064-3 376 pages $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4065-0 376 pages Inventive and often outrageous, Art as Performance, Story as Criticism turns traditional literary criticism on its head, rejecting distanced, purely theoretical argumentation for intimate engagement with literary works. Focusing on Native American literature, Womack mixes forms and styles. He is unafraid to combine meticulous research and carefully considered historical perspectives with personal reactions and reflections. reasoning together The Native Critics Collective $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3887-9 416 pages This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Contributors include: Janice Acoose, Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Phillip Carroll Morgan, Kimberly Roppolo, Cheryl Suzack, Christopher B. Teuton, Sean Teuton, Robert Warrior, and Craig S. Womack.

Languagechoctaw langUage and cUltUre chahta anumpa, volume 2 By Marcia Haag and Henry Willis $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3855-8 128 pages Building on the foundations laid by the first volume, this follow-up text presents a more advanced linguistic study of Oklahoma Choctaw, accompanied by short stories and anecdotes written by Choctaws in their native language. Volume 2 of Choctaw Language and Culture is designed to help teachers and students alike further their understanding of Choctaw by working with and mastering grammatically complex examples of its use. It marks the first such advanced textbook of Choctaw as well as the first easily available reference grammar for teachers. intermediate creek Mvskoke emponvkv Hokkolat By Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, and Bertha Tilkens $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3996-8 320 pages For those who have progressed beyond introductory lessons, Intermediate Creek offers an expanded understanding of the language and culture of the Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Indians. The first advanced textbook for the language, this book builds on the grammatical principles set forth in the authors earlier book, Beginning Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv, providing students with knowledge crucial to mastering more complex linguistic constructions.

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lets sPeak chickasaw, chikashshanomPa kilanomPoli By Pamela Munro and Catherine Willmond $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3926-5 432 pages Lets Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa Kilanompoli is both the first textbook of the Chickasaw language and its first complete grammar. A collaboration between Pamela Munro, a linguist with an intimate knowledge of Chickasaw, and Catherine Willmond, a native speaker, this book is designed for beginners as well as intermediate students. osage dictionary By Carolyn Quintero $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3844-2 480 pages The Osage language was spoken until recently by tribal members in northeastern Oklahoma. No longer in daily use, it was in danger of extinction. Carolyn Quintero, a linguist raised in Osage County, worked with the last few fluent speakers of the language to preserve the sounds and textures of their complex speech. Osage Dictionary is the definitive lexicon for that tongue, enhanced with thousands of phrases and sentences that illustrate fine points of usage.

Politics & Lawamerican indians and the fight for eqUal voting rights By Laughlin McDonald $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4113-8 360 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. the seminole nation of oklahoma A Legal History By L. Susan Work Foreword by Lindsay g. robertson $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 978-0-8061-4006-3 334 pages The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribes subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.

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Peyote vs. the state religious Freedom on Trial By garrett epps $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4026-1 296 pages With the grace of a novel, this book chronicles the six-year duel between two remarkable men with different visions of religious freedom in America. Neither sought the conflict. Al Smith, a substance-abuse counselor to Native Americans, wanted only to earn a living. Dave Frohnmayer, the attorney general of Oregon, was planning his gubernatorial campaign and seeking care for his desperately ill daughters. But before this constitutional confrontation was over, Frohnmayer and Smith twice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the First Amendment protects the right of American Indians to seek and worship God through the use of peyote. The Court finally said no. on the drafting of triBal constitUtions By Felix S. Cohen edited by David e. Wilkins Foreword by Lindsay g. robertson $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3806-0 200 pages Felix Cohen (19071953) was a leading architect of the Indian New Deal and steadfast champion of American Indian rights. Appointed to the Department of the Interior in 1933, he helped draft the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their governments. His Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions, submitted in November 1934, provided practical guidelines for that effort. forced federalism Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood By Jeff Corntassel and richard C. Witmer II $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4191-6 272 Pages Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted from selfdetermination to Forced Federalism as indigenous nations in the United States have encountered new threats from state and local tribes over such issues as taxation, gaming, and homeland security. This book demonstrates how todays indigenous nations have taken unprecedented steps to reorient themselves politically in response to such challenges to their sovereignty. cash, color, and colonialism The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment By rene Ann Cramer $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3987-6 224 Pages Within the context of U.S.-Indian law, federal acknowledgment establishes a trust relationship between an Indian tribe and the U.S. government. Some tribes, however, have not been federally acknowledged, or, in more common language, recognized. In Cash, Color, and Colonialism, Rene Ann Cramer offers a comprehensive analysis of the federal acknowledgment process, placing it in historical, legal, and social context. roots of resistance A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico By roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Foreword by Simon J. Ortiz $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3833-6 224 pages In New Mexicoonce a Spanish colony, then part of MexicoPueblo Indians and descendants of Spanish- and Mexican-era settlers still think of themselves as distinct peoples, each with a dynamic history. At the core of these persistent cultural identities is each groups historical relationship to the others and to the land, a connection that changed dramatically when the United States wrested control of the region from Mexico in 1848.

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Chickasaw PressProUd to Be chickasaw By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen $25.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-01-5 130 pages Among Oklahoma painters, Mike Larsen is a living legend. His workfrom a twenty-six-foot mural in the Oklahoma state capitol to a painting appearing on the U.S. postage stamp honoring the Oklahoma centennialis visible and prominent. In 2005, leaders of the Chickasaw Nation commissioned Larsen to create twenty-four oil portraits of living Chickasaw elders. After those paintings were completed, the Chickasaws commissioned a second series of twenty-four portraitsshowcased in this handsome, full-color volume. chickasaw removal By Amanda L. Paige, Fuller L. Bumpers, and Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. $20.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-00-8 220 pages In the early nineteenth century, the Chickasaw Indians were a beleaguered people. Anglo-American settlers were streaming illegally into their homelands east of the Mississippi River. Then, in 1830, the Indian Removal Act forced the Chickasaw Nation, along with other eastern tribes, to remove to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. This book provides the most detailed account to date of the Chickasaw removal, from their harrowing journey west to their first difficult years in an unfamiliar land. chickasaw Unconquered and Unconquerable By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-greetham, and Linda Hagan Introduction by Bill Anoatubby Photography by David g. Fitzgerald $34.95s Cloth 978-1-55868-992-3 128 pages From their homelands in the Southeast, to their removal to Indian Territory, to their status as a thriving nation today, the Chickasaw people represent one of the most resilient cultures in American history. Through vivid photographs and insightful essays, this book tells the incredible story of the Chickasaws. Featuring the award-winning photography of David Fitzgerald and essays by Chickasaw writers Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and Linda Hogan, this authoritative book brings alive the unique history and identity of the Chickasaws. Handsomely produced, Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable is the winner of a gold medal for design from the Independent Publishers Association. chickasaw renaissance By Phillip Carroll Morgan $34.95s Cloth 978-0-9797858-8-7 240 pages In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation. A sequel to the award-winning book Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable, this equally beautiful volume features more than 100 new images by celebrated Oklahoma photographer David G. Fitzgerald. His stunning portraits of tribal elders and numerous other subjects are supplemented by historical photographs from the Chickasaw Nation archives.

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chickasaw lives Volume Three: Sketches of Past and Present By richard green $20.00s Cloth 978-0-9797858-9-4 250 pages Sketches of Past and Present is the third volume in the Chickasaw Lives series. In contrast to a conventional, chronological history, Greens book is a fascinating amalgam of Chickasaw epochs and characters, grouped under headings of common themes. The reader is treated to stories of great Chickasaw athletes in the twentieth century, as well as an essay on the significance to Chickasaw history of the 1729 Natchez uprising. chickasaw lives Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories By richard green $24.95s Cloth 978-0-9797858-6-3 240 pages The second volume in a series of Chickasaw Lives to be published, this book contains 33 articles that focus on 36 tribal members, including extraordinary performers, artists, athletes, and warriors. These Chickasaw luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw Nation attorney general who previously rode with the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, an internationally renowned performance artist, a Harvard researcher who investigates and reports on economic conditions in Indian Country, and three successive Chickasaw governors who played crucial roles in the twentieth-century revitalization of the tribe. chickasaw lives Volume One: explorations in Tribal History By richard green $24.95s Cloth 978-0-9797858-1-8 238 pages Green explains how the tribe kept body and soul together until tribal government could be reconstituted and revitalized after the United States in the 1960s stopped attempting to vanquish tribal governments. The twenty-nine articles featured here are arranged chronologically from prehistory into the modern era. Topics include the Mound Builders, the epic battle with Hernando de Soto, European colonial manipulations and wars, Removal to Indian Territory, the land-allotment period, and the Chickasaw Nations revitalization in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Cherokee National Pressthe develoPment of law and legal institUtions among the cherokees By Thomas Lee Ballenger Foreword by Chadwick Smith $35.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-2-7 230 pages Before the arrival of Europeans to North America, Cherokee Indians practiced a form of justice called blood law, or clan law. In this system, responsibility for the punishment of a homicide fell to the clan of the victim. In the nineteenth century, following the forced removal of tribal members to Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation developed a court system that is still in use today. In this thorough account, Thomas Lee Ballenger traces the history of Cherokee justice from its traditional beginnings to the development of its modern-day institutions. records of the moravians among the cherokees edited by C. Daniel Crews and richard W. Starbuck Volume One: early Contact and the establishment of the First Mission, 17521802 $50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-0-3 426pages Volume Two: Beginnings of the Mission and establishment of the School, 18021805 $50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-1-0 426pages In the mid-eighteenth century, members of the Moravian Church, which had its origins in Central Europe, began conducting mission work among the Cherokee people. Their archives, now housed in North Carolina, include valuable records of their contact with the Cherokees. Drawing from these archives, these two volumes offer a firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokees during the years 17521805. Although written by missionaries and from their perspective, the documents contained in these volumesranging from reports and minutes to diaries and correspondenceprovide great insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and personalities during this period. The first volume describes initial contact between the Moravians and Cherokees during the French and Indian War and the Revolution, exploratory visits by Moravian missionaries into the Cherokee Nation, and the founding of a missioncalled Springplacein northern Georgia. The second volume ends with the year 1805. As the Moravians occupy Springplace, they begin to spread the Gospel. The Cherokees, in turn, are interested in schooling for their children, who need new tools to deal with the encroachment of white settlers upon their land and life.

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Forthcoming Books Spring 2011first manhattans a Brief history of the munsee indiansBy robert S. grumet $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4163-3 384 Pages The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the worlds most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation. First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the authors comprehensive The Munsee Indians, resurrects the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution.

navaJo legacy the life and teaching of John holidayBy John Holiday 24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3 420 pages For more than ninty years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Calley. at an early age, Holiday began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessing way ceremony, and as a youth, he performed rainmaking ceremonies and practiced healing.

the Jar of severed hands the spanish deportation of apache Prisoners of war, 17701810By Mark K. Santiago $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4177-0 264 Pages More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiagos gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.

red Power rising the national indian youth council and the origins of native activismBy Bradley Shreve $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 272 pages During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Powera civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

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araPaho JoUrneys Photographs and stories from the wind river reservationBy Sara Wiles $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9 256 pages In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, as Anglo-Americans pushed west, Northern Arapaho life changed dramatically. Although forced to relocate to a reservation, the people endured and held on to their traditions. Today, tribal members preserve the integrity of a society that still fosters living niiihi, as they call it, in a good way. Award-winning photographer Sara Wiles captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years of Northern Arapaho life on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.

valentine t. mcgillycUddy army surgeon, agent to the siouxBy Candy Moulton $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-389-9 288 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 Trant OConnell McGillycuddys life (18491939) encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, the first biography of the man in seventy years, awardwinning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddys fascinating experiences on the northern plains as topographer, cartographer, physician, and Indian agent.

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