Indigenous peoples Books

Rudolph C. Ryser reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human...

This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts.An international range of contributors cover...

This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes...

A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization. In the Inuit homeland of Northern Labrador, however, that church is...

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and...

In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens. Yet these elementary education policies ignored,...

Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small...

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms -...

In June of 1876, the U.S. government's plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the...

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.In this groundbreaking work,...

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...

This unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Protestant mission and house of worship in the upper Midwest took root in the Oneida community. Personal bonds that...

Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new edition is informed by best practices to show how oral history can be done in different contexts.The Indigenous Oral History Manual: Canada...

This book is about the presence of the absent- the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores...

In a first-person narrative, a Lakota shaman blends an explanation of the mystery and ritual of the sacred pipe with a lively account of growing up Native American.

The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. As Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry. When teenagers they'd been jailed for being black...

Two journeys of love, sacrifice, and family:The Prayer of Atsena: In 1916, a young childless French-Canadian couple desperately pray a for a child of their own at Sainte Anne de Beaupre in Quebec. In the Shrine they are observed by their First Nation...

Deux parcours remplis d'amour, de sacrifice et de famille:La Prière d'Atsena: En 1916, un jeune couple canadien français sans enfant prie désespérément pour un enfant à Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré au Québec. Dans le sanctuaire, ils sont observés par leur...

This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems. .

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa. A considerable amount of research has been done during the twentieth century mainly...

In 1911-1912, French-Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a...

Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward...

Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequence, 1763-1765 is a compelling retelling of one of the most pivotal points in American colonial history, in which the Native peoples staged one of the most successful campaigns in three centuries of European...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications.  Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of...