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CONTENTS
ANTHROPOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
BIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
FICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
LANGUAGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
NATIVE STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
WOMEN’S STUDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Family and the Estate of Margaret S. Coe, NA.108.139
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Webs of Kinship
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
By Christina G. Hill
Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize suffering,
loss, and eventual extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories
Northern Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness,
and commitment to land and community. By reexamining Northern Cheyenne
removal, this book illustrates how the power of kinship has safeguarded the
nation’s political autonomy allowing the Cheyennes to shape their own story.
APRIL 2017 · 400 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · Hardcover · 978-0-8061-5601-9
NEW DIRECTIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Crow Jesus
Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging
By Mark Clatterbuck
Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these
voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining
and reshaping each other to create a new religious identity. In this collection of
narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation in southeastern
Montana and three non-Native missionaries to the reservation describe how
Christianity has shaped their lives and their community through the years.
FEBRUARY 2017 · 280 PAGES · 6 × 9
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ART
Transnational Frontiers
The American West in France
By Emily C. Burns
When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York
Times reported that it would be “managed to suit French ideas.” For French
artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the construction of an
American cultural identity. Transnational Frontiers maps the complex cultural
exchanges that defined and altered images of the American West.
MAY 2018 · 248 PAGES · 9 × 11
$45.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-6003-0
THE CHARLES M. RUSSELL CENTER SERIES ON ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE
AMERICAN WEST
Frederick Weygold
Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians
Edited by Christian F. Feest and C. Ronald Corum
American artist, Frederick Weygold (1870-1941) made a lifelong study of Native
American art by drawing early objects from the Plains in German museum
collections. This book, based upon the voluminous body of his paintings,
drawings, and papers held by the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky,
offers a comprehensive account of Weygold’s life and achievements.
JANUARY 2017 · 272 PAGES · 9 × 10.5
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-3-9818-4120-6
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Art in Motion
Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought
Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso
In 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled Art in Motion:
Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought. The visionary talks
from Art in Motion have been adapted for publication and gathered together
with a new introduction by symposium organizer John P. Lukavic, associate
curator of native arts at the Denver Art Museum.
JULY 2016 · 108 PAGES · 8 × 9.25
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BIOGRAPHY
Ned Christie
The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
By Devon A. Mihesuah
For over a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and historians have
produced largely fictitious accounts of Ned Christie’s life. In a tour de force of
investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah, places Christie’s story within
the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American
sociopolitical conditions. More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the
making of an American myth.
MARCH 2018 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95 · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5910-2
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Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
By Kathleen P. Chamberlain
A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-
Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his
better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. This biography portrays
Victorio as a leader who sought a peaceful homeland for his people in the face of
wrongheaded decisions from Washington.
JANUARY 2017 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Sign Talker
Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country
By Hugh Lenox Scott
Edited by R. Eli Paul
General Hugh Lenox Scott became the U.S. Army’s most accomplished
practitioner of Plains Indian Sign Language, a skill that brought him many
opportunities to interact with Native peoples. His aversion to violence and
abiding respect for American Indians earned him the reputation as one of the
most adept peacemakers ever to serve in the U.S. Army. Sign Talker gives new
insight into this soldier-diplomat’s experiences and accomplishments.
JULY 2016 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5354-4
EDUCATION
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
By Louellyn White
In 1979, during a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional
Mohawks asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the
loss of language and culture sparked the birth of the Akwesasne Freedom
School (AFS) and its grassroots, community-based approach. White presents
an in-depth picture of the AFS as a model of Indigenous holistic education
that incorporates traditional teachings and language immersion.
JULY 2016 · 196 PAGES · 6 × 9
$19.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5154-0
NEW DIRECTIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES
FICTION
Chenoo
A Novel
By Joseph Bruchac
Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator
with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York—four hundred miles from
his tribal community on Abenaki Island. One night the phone rings. “We . .
. got . . . trouble,” Neptune’s cousin Dennis says. And trouble is where it all
starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki storyteller
Joseph Bruchac.
MAY 2016 · 224 PAGES · 6 × 9
$16.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5207-3
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HISTORY
Monsters of Contact
Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions
By Mark Van De Logt
A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked
cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature:
the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive with monsters. A daring
interpretation of Caddoan lore, Monsters of Contact puts oral traditions at the
center of historical inquiry and, in so doing, asks us to reconsider what makes
a monster.
JUNE 2018 · 336 PAGES · 6 × 9
$65.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-6014-6
After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
By Paul L. Hedren
After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army
responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the
war effort. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L.
Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography
of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American
invaders.
MAY 2018 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$21.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-6044-3
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Powder River
Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War
By Paul L. Hedren
The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when
Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of
Northern Cheyennes—Sioux allies—thereby propelling the Northern Plains
tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the Sioux spanned some eighteen
months, costing hundreds of lives on both sides, and many millions of dollars.
And it all began at Powder River.
“Powder River is the definitive examination of the disastrous battle that opened
the Great Sioux War. The research is extraordinarily deep and broad, and the
conclusions persuasive. Hedren pronounces judgment on culpable officers, and
rightly finds little to praise among anyone else.”—Robert M. Utley
JUNE 2016 · 472 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5383-4
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Ioway Life
Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860
By Greg Olson
The Ioways, an Indigenous people who inhabited most of present-day Iowa and
Missouri, were bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government
to restrict themselves to a small parcel of land west of the Missouri River.
The Ioways were promised that with hard work they could enter mainstream
American society. All that was required was that they forfeit everything that
made them Ioway.
MAY 2016 · 184 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5211-0
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Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
By James B. Blackshear
Built in 1863, Fort Bascom defended Hispanic and Anglo-American settlements
in eastern New Mexico and far western Texas against Comanches and other
Southern Plains Indians until 1874. This first full account of the unique
challenges soldiers faced on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War
restores Fort Bascom to its rightful place in the history of the U.S. military and
of U.S.-Indian relations in the American Southwest.
MARCH 2016 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5209-7
Restoring a Presence
American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf
Although new laws have been enacted giving American Indians access to
resources on public lands, Yellowstone historically has excluded Indians and
their needs from its mission. Drawing from archaeological records, Indian
testimony, tribal archives, and collections of early artifacts from the Park, the
authors trace the interactions of nearly a dozen Indian groups with each of
Yellowstone’s four geographic regions.
JANUARY 2016 · 400 PAGES · 7 × 10
$29.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5346-9
LANGUAGE
Cherokee Narratives
A Linguistic Study
By Durbin Feeling, William Pulte, Gregory Pulte
The stories of the Cherokee people presented here capture in written form
tales of history, myth, and legend for readers, speakers, and scholars of the
Cherokee language. This volume marks an unparalleled contribution to the
linguistic analysis, understanding, and preservation of the Cherokee language.
Cherokee Narratives spans the spectrum of genres, including humor, religion,
origin myths, trickster tales, historical accounts, and stories about the Eastern
Cherokee language.
JANUARY 2018 · 240 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5986-7
RECOVERING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES OF THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE
Tonkawa Texts
A New Linguistic Edition
By Harry Hoijer
Translated by Thomas R. Wier
Much of what is known about Tonkawa—an “isolate” language, related to no
others—comes to us through the stories collected and translated by twentieth-
century anthropologist Harry Hoijer. These texts, constituting the entire
remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, are edited and presented here
in the original Tonkawa and newly translated into English, along with a new
and up-to-date grammatical description.
JANUARY 2018 · 312 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$45.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5899-0
RECOVERING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES OF THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE
NATIVE STUDIES
Reservation Politics
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
By Raymond I. Orr
For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. But how has history
shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how different
tribes’ politics and internal conflicts have evolved over time, Reservation
Politics offers rare insight into the role of historical experience in the political
lives of American Indians.
FEBRUARY 2017 · 256 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5391-9
Imagining Sovereignty
Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
By David J. Carlson
“Sovereignty” is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian
writing today—but its meaning and function are anything but universally
understood. In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a
discursive middle ground between tribal communities and the United States
as a settler-colonial power.
MARCH 2016 · 242 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5197-7
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WOMEN’S STUDIES
Colonial Intimacies
Interethnic kinships, Sexuality, and Marriage
in Southern California, 1769-1885
By Erika Perez
In Colonial Intimacies Pérez asks, how do intimate relationships reveal, reflect,
enable, or enact the sociopolitical dimensions of imperial projects? Colonial
Intimacies reveals, through the lens of social and familial intimacy, subtle tools
of conquest and acts of resistance and accommodation among indigenous
peoples, Spanish-Mexican settlers, Franciscan missionaries, and European
and Anglo-American merchants.
JANUARY 2018 · 408 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$45.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5904-1
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