American Indian

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2015

American Indian
CONTENTS
Archaeology & Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Art & Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Politics & Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Best Sellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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On the cover: Detail from The Last of the Race, Tompkins H.

Matteson, 1847. Oil on canvas; 39 50 in. (101 127 cm).
Courtesy New York Historical Society, gift of Edwin W. Orvis

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Archaeology & Anthropology

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Native Performers in Wild West Shows

From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney
By Linda Scarangella McNenly
$34.95s 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; she also uses these
insights to analyze archival materials, especially photographs. Some Native
performers saw Wild West shows not necessarily as demeaning, but rather
as opportunitiesfor travel, for employment, for recognition, and for the
preservation and expression of important cultural traditions..

Viewing the Ancestors

Perceptions of the Anaasz, Mokwic, 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.

From the Hands of a Weaver

Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
Edited by Jacilee Wray
Foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis
$45.00s 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.

Arapaho Womens Quillwork

Motion, Life, and Creativity
By Jeffrey D. Anderson
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8 216 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 connectivityan
approach foreign to many outside observers.

Patterns of Exchange
Navajo Weavers and Traders
By Teresa J. Wilkins
$34.95s Paper 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, 12001600
By Meghan C. L. Howey
$45.00s 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 regions
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, 12001600, Meghan C. L. Howey uses
archaeology to make this connection.

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Art & Photography

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Painted Journeys
The Art of John Mix Stanley
By Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw
Foreword by Bruce B. Eldridge
$54.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4829-8 308 pages
$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5155-7 308 pages
This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanleys extant
art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunityand ample reason
to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of
nineteenth-century American culture.
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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.
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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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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.

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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, the ninth iteration of
the Eiteljorg Museums acclaimed biennial art series, 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/Nisga), 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
Foreword by John Vanausdall
$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 Museums 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
Foreword by Kay Walkingstick
$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 (19192000) has enjoyed
widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures
have been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions. Yet because
Morrisons 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 Morrisons work across a spectrum of genres and media.

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.

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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 three-dimensional
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 (19202006) 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.

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 Lansburghs 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.

Iroquois Art, Power, and History

By Neal B. Keating
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3890-9 360 pages
In this richly illustrated book, Neal B. Keating explores Iroquois visual
expression through more than five thousand years, from its emergence
in ancient North America into the early twenty-first century. Keating
foregrounds the voices and visions of Iroquois peoples, revealing how they
have continuously used visual expression to adapt creatively to shifting
political and economic environments.

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Plains Indian Art

The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers
Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3061-3 224 pages
The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and
inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (190997). Ewerss publications
have long been required reading for anyone interested in art and the cultures
of the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewerss writings
presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other
periodicals between 1968 and 1992.

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
Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition offers a critical examination of
Housers 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 Stricklands 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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Arapaho Journeys
Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation
By Sara Wiles
$34.95s 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. 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.

Biography & Memoir

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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 (19391968) 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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Big Sycamore Stands Alone

The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place
By Ian W. Record
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3972-2 384 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. 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.

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Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux
By Candy Moulton
$34.95s 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. McGillycuddys life encapsulated key events in American history
that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, award-winning author Candy Moulton explores
McGillycuddys fascinating experiences on the northern plains.

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 authors
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 Indians 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 and his unusual and haunting story. To reconstruct the events of
Spopees lifeat first traceable only through bits and pieces of information
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 Indians 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 (18821967). 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.

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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 Holidays 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 Mathewss
intimate chronicle of his formative years.

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
$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
$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
$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.

Education
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Voices of Resistance and Renewal

Indigenous Leadership in Education
Edited by Dorothy AguileraBlack 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
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 Schools 100-plus years, a history that reflects
federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century.

History
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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 Americas 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
Euro-Americans, 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
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 Jacksons 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 tribes individual story. This second edition is
updated to include new developments since the volumes initial publication
especially the removal of the Elwha River damsthus 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 peoplesand 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.
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Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs

An Indigenous Nations Fight against Smallpox, 15181824

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 depopulationcolonialism writ large; not disease.
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Red Dreams, White Nightmares

Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 17631815
By Robert M. Owens
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4646-1 320 pages
From the end of Pontiacs War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear
even paranoiadrove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White
Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in
this erainvariably treated as discrete, regional affairsas the inextricably
related struggles they were.
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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 timewith shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and
ethnographic and historical accuracyAmericans 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.

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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 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?

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.
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Chiefs and Challengers

Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 17691906
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 dont 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
Foreword by Thomas Powers
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 620 pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores 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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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
Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes?
These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several
decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have
raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. 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 Tribesthe Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks,
and Seminoles.
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The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France
By William R. Nester
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4435-1 516 pages
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5189-2 516 pages
The French and Indian War was the worlds first truly global conflict. 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 Americas destiny.
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Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian

The Crime That Should Haunt America
By Gary Clayton Anderson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4421-4 472 pages
$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, 18791885

By Helen Hunt Jackson
Edited by Valerie S. Mathes
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3090-3 400 pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5160-1 396 pages
Helen Hunt Jacksons 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 Mathess helpful notes, the letters reveal the
behind-the-scenes drama of Jacksons involvement in Indian reform, which led
her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.
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Pre-Removal Choctaw History

Exploring New Paths
Edited by Greg OBrien
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-3916-6 282 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4848-9 282 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.
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An Osage Journey to Europe, 18271830

Three French Accounts
Edited and Translated by William Least Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4403-0 168 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4708-6 168 pages
In 1827 six Osage peoplefour men and two womentraveled to Europe
escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where
three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately.
Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated,
and annotated here for the first time in English. Among the earliest writings
devoted to Osage history and culture, these works provide unique insights
into Osage life and especially into European perceptions of American Indians.
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The Darkest Period

The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 18461873
By Ronald D. Parks
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4430-6 336 pages
$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
tribes original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes
use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in
crafting this tale.

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Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868
By Doreen Chaky
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-414-8 412 pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4652-2 412 pages
Terrible Justice explores relations not only between the Sioux and their opponents
but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving beyond earlier
historians focus on the Brul and Oglala bands, Chaky examines how the
northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became involved in and were
affected by the U.S. invasion.
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Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 328 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 pages
In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the
Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Armys response to the
Dakota War of 1862. Rather than relying only on the official records of
the commanding officers involved, Beck presents a much fuller picture of
the conflict by consulting 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.
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Indians and Emigrants

Encounters on the Overland Trails
By Michael L. Tate
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3710-0 352 pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4654-6 352 pages
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on
the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far
more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed
hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds
Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading goods and news with each
other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders.
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War Dance at Fort Marion

Plains Indian War Prisoners
By Brad D. Lookingbill
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4467-2 308 pages
War Dance at Fort Marion tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche,
and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army.
Held from 1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they
participated in an educational experiment, initiated by Captain Richard Henry
Pratt, as an alternative to standard imprisonment. This book, the first complete
account of a unique cohort of Native peoples, brings their collective story to life
and pays tribute to their individual talents and achievements.

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Speculators in Empire
Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
By William J. Campbell
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4286-9 296 pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4665-2 296 pages
At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest
land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained
possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that
encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and
West Virginia. 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.
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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
What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their
world, and how do family, community, and location shape their
consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the
northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native
ancestry. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda
Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity to offer new
ways of thinking about Metis identity.
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Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce

Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu
By Allen V. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans
Foreword by Frederick E. Hoxie
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-9834059-8-6 332 pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-9834059-9-3 332 pages
Distributed for The Dakota Institute
Nez Perce historian Allen Pinkham and Steve Evans have examined
the journals of Lewis and Clark with painstaking care to tease out
new insights about what Lewis and Clark wrote about their hosts the
Nez Perce. Pinkham and Evans evaluate both what Lewis and Clark
understood and what they misunderstood in the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu)
lifeway and political structure. More particularly they have re-examined
the journals for clues about how the Nez Perce reacted to the bearded
strangers. They have also gathered together and put into print for the first
time the stands of a surprisingly rich Nez Perce oral tradition.

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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
(180593), 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 Usdis 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 Matthews
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 natures beauty but to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans,
animals, and the landscapes in which they interact.
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Grand Avenue
A Novel in Stories
By Greg Sarris
Afterword by Reginald Dyck
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4834-2 248 pages
Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form
the core of these storiestales 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 Womens 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.

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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.

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 Momadays Pulitzer Prizewinning 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, 18201906
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, 18201906, James W. Parins traces the
rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the
nineteenth centurya 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.

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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 theatre through two plays and a screenplay. Published
here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral
and literary traditions.

Language
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Through Indian Sign Language

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
dataa 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
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. CHair
$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 publisheduntil 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 regions
Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine
the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names.

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Native American Placenames of the Southwest

A Handbook for Travelers
By William Bright
Edited by Alice Anderton & Sean ONeill
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8 174 pages
Written by distinguished linguist William Bright, the handbook is organized
alphabetically, and its entries for placesincluding towns, cities, counties,
parks, and geographic landmarksare 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 names literal
meaning, and relevant history. In their introduction to the handbook, editors
Alice Anderton and Sean ONeill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation
keys for English and Native languages.

The Cherokee Syllabary

Writing the Peoples Perseverance
By Ellen Cushman
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4220-3 256 pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4373-6 256 pages
In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a
writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His
creationthe Cherokee syllabaryhelped 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
Sequoyahs 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.

Politics & Law

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Gathering the Potawatomi Nation

Revitalization and Identity
By Christopher Wetzel
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4669-0 216 pages
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. How is it, author
Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different
characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries, have reclaimed
their common cultural heritage in recent years as the Potawatomi Nation?
And why a nationnot a band or a tribein an age when nations seem
increasingly impermanent? Gathering thePotawatomi Nation explores the
recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how marginalized
communities adapt to social change, and reveals the critical role that culture
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A Gathering of Statesmen
Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 18261828
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.

Oklahomas 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 IRAs provisions, but included
other measures that applied only to Oklahomas tribal population. This
first book-length history of the OIWA explains the laws 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. He
then focuses on the transactions at issue in Johnson between the Illinois and
Piankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders
of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.

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American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights

By Laughlin McDonald
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4113-8 360 pages
$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.
A rich and spirited account detailing how Native peoples have utilized the
1965 Voting Rights Act and the talents of ACLU attorneys to fight for the
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