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CONTENTS

Archaeology & Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Biography & Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Politics & Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Bestsellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

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published award-winning books about the American Indian and weare proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog.For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visitour website at oupress.com. We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continuedsupport of the University of Oklahoma Press.Price and availability subject to change without notice.

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Archaeology & Anthropology★ NEW

Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial SphereBy A. Martin Byers$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-8688-7 · 440 PagesFound across the North American Eastern Woodlands are multiple Hopewellianmonumental earthworks, considered to be sites of funerary rituals and practices.Byers proposes they were “Ceremonial Spheres” and develops a complementaryheterarchical community model of their use in world renewal rituals. Detailedinterpretations of Hopewellian sites and their contents in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,and Georgia empirically anchor his claims.

Native Performers in Wild West ShowsFrom Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney By Linda Scarangella McNenly $24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4281-4 • 272 pages$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4846-5 • 272 pagesDrawing on interviews with contemporary performers and descendants oftwentieth-century performers, McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest newinterpretations of their performances and experiences. Some Native performerssaw Wild West shows not necessarily as demeaning, but rather as opportunities—for travel, for employment, for recognition, and for the preservation and

expression of important cultural traditions. Viewing the AncestorsPerceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwicˇ, and HisatsinomBy Robert McPherson$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4429-0 • 256 pagesArchaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian RoberMcPherson shows inViewing the Ancestors, their ndings may not tell the wholestory. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derivedfrom the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields amore complete history.

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From the Hands of a Weaver Olympic Peninsula Basketry through TimeEdited by Jacilee Wray Foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4245-6 • 264 pages$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4471-9 • 264 pages

Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central to thedaily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah culturesof Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of the essays collectedhere, who include Native people as well as academics, explore the commonalitiesamong these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving styles and techniques.

Yuchi FolkloreCultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community By Jason Baird JacksonContributions by Mary S. Linn

$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4397-2 • 304 pagesYuchi Folklore examines expressive genres and customs that have long been ofspecial interest to Yuchi people themselves. Beginning with an overview of Yuchihistory and ethnography, the book explores four categories of cultural expression:verbal or spoken art, material culture, cultural performance, and worldview. Indescribing oratory, food, architecture, and dance, Jackson visits and revisits thethemes of cultural persistence and social interaction, initially between Yuchi andother peoples east of the Mississippi and now in northeastern Oklahoma.


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Transforming EthnohistoriesNarrative, Meaning, and Community Edited by Sebastian Felix BraunAfterword 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 theteaching and writing of distinguished ethnohistorian Raymond J. DeMallie,whose exemplary combination of ethnographic and archival researchdemonstrates the ways anthropology and history can work together to createan understanding of the past and the present.Transforming Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic fromddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning placesfrom North Carolina to the Yukon.

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Arapaho Women’s Quillwork Motion, Life, and Creativity By Jeffrey D. Anderson$39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4283-8 • 216 pages$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5583-8 · 216 pagesAnderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork,Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studiedas the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges

predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacredpatterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized notindividual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivity—anapproach foreign to many outside observers.


Patterns of ExchangeNavajo Weavers and TradersBy Teresa J. Wilkins$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-3757-5 • 248 pages

$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4354-5 • 248 pages The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the resultof many historical inuences, particularly the interaction between Navajoweavers and the traders like John Lorenzo Hubbell who guided theirproduction and controlled their sale. Wilkins traces how the relationshipsbetween generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.

Mound Builders and Monument Makers ofthe Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600By Meghan C. L. Howey $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4288-3 • 320 pagesRising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial moundsand circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of theregion’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have longbeen treated as isolated nds and have never been connected to the socialdynamics of the time in which they were constructed. InMound Builders andMonument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600, Meghan C. L. Howeyuses archaeology to make this connection.


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Art & Photography★ NEW

A Place in the Sun The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin HenningsBy Thomas Brent Smith$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5198-4 · 208 pagesOf the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academybetween 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (1876–1936) and E. Martin Hennings(1886–1956) returned to the United States to foster the development of anational art. The two German American artists shared much in common,and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists.Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in theSun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy ofthese two important artists.

Painted Journeys The Art of John Mix Stanley By Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw $54.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4829-8 · 308 pages$34.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5155-7 • 308 pagesArtist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), one of the most celebrated

chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of hisown success. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’sextant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and amplereason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize gureof nineteenth-century American culture.

Surviving DesiresMaking 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 ofthe Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form inconstant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number ofdesires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individualentrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities.

A Strange MixtureBy Sascha T. Scott $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4484-9 • 280Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the NewMexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblopeoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters withPueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and ledthem to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In thisbook, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Puebloand Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confrontingsome of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.

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Art in MotionNative American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso

$25.00 Paper · 978-0-914738-63-3 · 108 pagesDistributed for Denver Art MuseumIn the summer of 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled Art inMotion: Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought , which brought artistsand scholars together to discuss American Indian art, using the idea of motionas a unifying theme. The perspectives explored in this volume reveal how scholaand artists with different backgrounds can employ overarching themes, such asmotion, to investigate topics in arts and culture.

North American Indian ArtMasterpieces and Museum Collections from the NetherlandsEdited by Pieter Hovens and Bruce Bernstein$39.95s Cloth • 978-3-9811620-8-0 • 320 pagesDistributed 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 Canadiasubarctic forests to the American Southwest preserved in Dutch museums. Manyof these rare material documents collected between the seventeenth and thetwenty-rst century have never been published before.

Conversations The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2015Edited by Ashley Holland and Jennifer C. McNutt $30.00s Paper · 978-0-9961663-0-0 · 136 pagesDistributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

Conversations: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2015, documents the strength,drama, determination, and storytelling genius of contemporary Native art and theartists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Mario Martinez (YaqPascua) and Eiteljorg Fellows Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Brenda

Mallory (Cherokee Nation), Da-ka-xeen Mehner (Tlingit/Nisgáa), and HollyWilson (Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma/Cherokee),Conversations continuesthe dialogue of contemporary Native American art and artistic expression.

RED The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland30.00s Paper · 978-0-9798495-7-2 · 136 pagesDistributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

RED, the eighth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museum’s acclaimed biennial art series,documents the strength, drama, determination, and humor of contemporaryNative art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Featured ArtistLawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffaloh(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 MorrisonBy W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4392-7 • 208 pages$29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4393-4 • 208 pages The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (1919–2000) has enjoyedwidespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures havebeen displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions. Yet because Morrisonartwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian heritage, it hasstirred debate about what it means to be a Native American artist. This stunningcatalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white images, showcases Morrisonwork across a spectrum of genres and media.


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Ernest L. Blumenschein The Life of an American Artist By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4334-7 • 384 pages

Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can beholdthe masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned intomemory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwestand its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos artcolony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character andlife experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of thetwentieth century.

The James T. Bialac Native American Art CollectionSelected Works With essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, RennardStrickland, 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 pagesPublished in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

One of the most important collections of modern Native American artassembled by one individual, the James T. Bialac Native American ArtCollection is an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works. Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collectioncomprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints,kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles.

The Eugene B. Adkins CollectionSelected 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 pagesA native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearlyfour decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native Americanand American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry,baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. Thisstunning volume features full-color reproductions of signicant works fromthe Adkins Collection.


Blackfoot War ArtPictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000By L. James Dempsey $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3804-6 · 488 pages$39.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5415-2 · 488 pagesIn this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Bloodtribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. Filledwith 160 images of startling beauty and power,Blackfoot War Arttells howpictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment.


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Ledger Narratives The Plains Indian Drawings of the LansburghCollection at Dartmouth CollegeEdited by Colin G. Calloway

With contributions by Michael Paul Jordan, Vera B. Palmer, JoyceSzabo, 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 isMark Lansburgh’s diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now heldby the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in thisimportant book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plainspeoples created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century.Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements oftheir warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency The Photographs of Annette Ross HumeBy Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4138-1 • 256 pagesAnadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,”but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette RossHume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving themany 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 Indiansshe encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for therst time.

Allan Houser Drawings The Centennial ExhibitionBy W. Jackson Rushing III and Hadley Jerman$15.95s Paper • 978-0-9851609-4-4 • 108 pagesDistributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

After training at The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s, theChiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser (1914–1994) had both commercial andcritical success as a painter and sculptor. Allan Houser Drawings: The CentennialExhibition offers a critical examination of Houser’s career as a draughtsman,from his early career to the rich body of work he produced late in life.

Hopituy Edited by heather ahtone and Mark T. Bahti$15.95s Paper • 978-0-9851609-3-7 • 96 pagesDistributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

This publication explores how Hopi artists express the relationship betweentraditional protocol, cultural beliefs, and artistic license. The essays providea helpful introduction to the artistic diversity that expresses the culture andbeliefs of the Hopi people and a narrative context for the full-color images ofselected works from the 2013 exhibition.

Spirit Red Visions of Native American Artists from the Rennard Strickland CollectionBy Rennard StricklandIntroduction by Mary Jo Watson

$15.95s Cloth • 978-0-9717187-5-3 • 124 pagesDistributed for Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Spirit Red was published in conjunction with the 2009 exhibition celebratingthe gift of Rennard Strickland’s signicant collection to the Fred Jones Jr.Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. The diverse collection ofNative American art was acquired over ve decades and includes more than200 works representing some of the most acclaimed artists of the twentiethcentury through the present.


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Scalping Columbus and other Damn Indian Stories Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright LiesBy 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 storiesthat are in part autobiographical and in part ctional. Narrated in a stylereminiscent of Indian oral tradition, Fortunate Eagle employs humor andsatire to entertain and challenge society. The stories range from the author’sexperiences as an activist in the Bay Area to his encounter with the Pope inRome and back to his childhood.

Blackfoot RedemptionA Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Connement, and Imperfect JusticeBy William E. Farr

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

A Cheyenne Voice The Complete John Stands In Timber InterviewsBy 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 byanthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882–1967). Recorded by Liberty in 1958 and 1959 when she was aschoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeasternMontana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 bookCheyenne Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of theinterviews, this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the

rst time.Under The EagleSamuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4389-7 • 288 pagesSamuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by theMarine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmitsecret communications on the battleeld. Based on extensive interviews withRobert S. McPherson,Under the Eagleis Holiday’s vivid account of his ownstory. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in whichthe narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

Twenty Thousand MorningsAn Autobiography By John Joseph MathewsEdited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4253-1 • 352 pagesWhen John Joseph Mathews began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he wasone of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a nationalaudience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature.Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’sintimate chronicle of his formative years.


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A Navajo Legacy The Life and Teachings of John Holiday By John Holiday and Robert McPherson$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4176-3 • 420 pages

For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched thesun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Authorand scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in ANavajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life.

Chief LocoApache Peacemaker By Bud Shapard$24.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4047-6 • 376 pages Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make alasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians haveignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded himas fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engagingbiography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chiefagainst the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removalof the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, andOklahoma.

PipestoneMy Life in an Indian Boarding SchoolBy Adam Fortunate Eagle$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4114-5 • 248 pagesBest 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 ayoung student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rarersthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrarywarrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleakand prisonlike.

Nicholas Black Elk Medicine Man, Missionary, MysticBy Michael F. Steltenkamp$24.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4063-6 • 256 pagesSince its publication in 1932,Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readersto appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’spopular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, anOglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the rst fuinterpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known othis American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.

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Education★ NEW

Voices of Resistance and RenewalIndigenous Leadership in EducationEdited by Dorothy Aguilera–Black Bear and John W. Tippeconnic III$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4867-0 • 224 pagesVoices of Resistance and Renewal provides a variety of philosophical principlesthat will guide leaders at all levels of education who seek to encourage self-determination and revitalization. It has important implications for the futureof Native leadership, education, community, and culture, and for institutionsof 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 SchoolBy Louellyn White$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4865-6 • 196 pagesSupported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: RecoveringLanguages and Literacies of the Americas

Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York,Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conict regarding

self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights toself-education. InFree to Be Mohawk , Louellyn White traces the history of theAFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, orprovincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and itsimpact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

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Teaching Indigenous StudentsHonoring Place, Community, and CultureEdited by Jon Reyhner

$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4699-7 • 232 pagesTeaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based education squarely intopractice. This volume, edited and with an introduction by leading AmericanIndian education scholar Jon Reyhner, brings together new and dynamicresearch from established and emerging voices in the eld of American Indianand Indigenous education.

The Students of Sherman Indian SchoolEducation and Native Identity since 1892By Diane Meyers Bahr $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4443-6 • 192 pagesSherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as PerrisIndian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with ninestudents. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boardingschools, was to “civilize” Indian children, which meant stripping them of theirNative culture and giving them vocational training. This book offers the rstfull history of Sherman Indian School’s 100-plus years, a history that reectsfederal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century.


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History★ NEW

“Hang Them All”George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858By Donald L. Cutler $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5337-7 · 392 pagesCol. George Wright’s 1858 campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeurd’Alene, and Palouse Indians of eastern Washington Territory was intendedto punish them for a recent attack on another army force. Today, many criticsview his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers and politicians ofthe time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the inland Northwestto settlement.“Hang Them All” offers a comprehensive account of Wright’scampaigns and explores the controversy that surrounds his legacy.

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Ioway LifeReservation and Reform, 1837–1860By Greg Olson$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5211-0 · 184 pagesIoway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways’ efforts to retaintheir tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha

Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from theagency’s les and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case studyin U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance.

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

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Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow American Indian MusicBy Craig Harris$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5168-7 · 280 pagesHeartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates, in depth, the vibrantsoundscape of Native North America, from the “heartbeat” of intertribaldrums and “warble” of Native utes to contemporary rock, hip-hop,and electronic music. Drawing on interviews with musicians, producers,ethnographers, and record-label owners, author and musician CraigHarris conjures an aural tapestry in which powwow drums and end-blownwoodwinds resound alongside operatic and symphonic strains, jazz andreggae, country music, and blues.


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Contesting the BorderlandsInterviews on the Early Southwest By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5194-6 · 280 pagesConict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest sinceprehistoric times. To explore the region’s complex past from prehistory tothe U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach.In interviews with ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjectsranging from warfare among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriageand peonage among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.

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Serving the NationCherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907By Julie L. Reed$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5224-0 · 376 pagesWell before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee peopleadministered their own social policy—a form of what today might be calledsocial welfare—based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinshipobligations, and communal landholding. Offering insights gleaned fromreconsidered and overlooked historical sources, this book enhances ourunderstanding of the history and workings of social welfare policy and

services, not only in the Cherokee Nation but also in the United States.★ NEW

A Field of Their Own Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941By John M. Rhea$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5227-1 · 312 pages A Field of Their Own examines nine key gures in American Indian scholarshipto reveal how women came to be identied with Indian history and why theyeventually claimed it as their own eld. From Helen Hunt Jackson to AngieDebo, the magnitude of their research, the reach of their scholarship, thepopularity of their publications, and their close identication with Indianscholarship makes their invisibility as pioneering founders of this specializedeld all the more intriguing.

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Blood on the Marias The Baker MassacreBy Paul R. Wylie$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5157-1 · 336 pagesWhile other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in relatedcontexts,Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the denitive treatmentit deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades oftension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-forgotten incident.


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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees Volume Six: March to Removal, Part 1,Safe in the Ancestral Homeland, 1821–1824

Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-7-2 · 568 pagesDistributed for Cherokee Heritage Press

Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, minutes,reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina toprovide a rsthand account of daily life among the Cherokee throughout thenineteenth century. Though written by missionaries from their perspective,these records provide much insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs,and personalities.

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Malinche, Pocahontas, and SacagaweaIndian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National SymbolsBy Rebecca Kay Jager $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4851-9 • 320 pages The rst Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied onNative women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. Thisstudy 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 symbolicrepresentation over time.

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

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Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula Who We Are, Second EditionEdited by Jacilee Wray Foreword by Patty Murray $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4670-6 • 232 pagesNative Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are traces the nine tribes’common history and each tribe’s individual story. This second edition isupdated to include new developments since the volume’s initial publication—especially the removal of the Elwha River dams—thus reecting the ever-changing 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 pagesFor more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied theU.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in thiscapacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had noparallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighborsand clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals aboutthe history of Navajo trading.

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial GermsAn Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824By Paul Kelton$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4688-1 • 296 pagesInCherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,” orthe widely held belief that Natives’ lack of immunities and their inept healerswere responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperboleroutinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he rmly shifts the focus tothe root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation—colonialism writlarge; not disease.

Red Dreams, White NightmaresPan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815By Robert M. Owens$32.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4646-1 • 320 pagesFrom the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. InRed Dreams, WhiteNightmares, Robert M. Owens views conicts between whites and Natives inthis era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricablyrelated struggles they were.

Americans RecapturedProgressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity By Molly K. Varley $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4493-1 • 240 pagesRevealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narrativeschanged over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, andethnographic and historical accuracy— Americans Recapturedshows that talesof Indian captivity were no more xed than American identity, but wereconsistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

Columns of VengeanceSoldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864By Paul N. Beck $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4344-6 · 320 pages$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4596-9 · 320 pagesBeck presents a full picture of the conict by utilizing the letters, diaries, andpersonal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions,as well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas. Drawing on a wealth ofrsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to

the overall Civil War experience,Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight intoan important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations againstthe Sioux.


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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

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4365-1 · 288 pagesDuring the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movementcalled Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. Whilesome dene the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there isone common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indiantakeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

American Indians in U.S. History Second EditionBy Roger L. Nichols

$24.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4367-5 • 216 pages This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from theirorigins to the present, has proven its value to both students and generalreaders in the decade since its rst publication. Now the second edition,drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social,economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-rst century. Useful featuresinclude new, brief biographies of important Native gures, an overallchronology, and updated suggested readings for each period of the past fourhundred years.

Chiefs and ChallengersIndian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906Second EditionBy George H. Phillips$26.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4490-0 • 384 pagesIn this second edition ofChiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story intothe twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropologicalscholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence. His narrativeincludes numerous eloquent testimonies from Indians, among them a student

at a government-run school who wrote to the U.S. president: “The whitepeople call San Jacinto rancho their land and I don’t want them to do it. Wethink it is ours, for God gave it to us rst.”

American Carnage Wounded Knee, 1890By Jerome Greene$34.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4448-1 • 620 pagesIn this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greene—renowned specialist on the Indianwars—explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrateshow it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, includingpreviously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from bothNative and non-Native perspectives, explaining the signicance of treaties,white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as inuentialfactors in what eventually took place.


Pre-Removal Choctaw History Exploring New PathsEdited by Greg O’Brien$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3916-6 · 256 pages$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4848-9 · 256 pagesDistinguished scholars James Taylor Carson, Patricia Galloway, and ClaraSue Kidwell join editor Greg O’Brien to present today’s most importantresearch, while Choctaw writer and lmmaker LeAnne Howe offers a vitalcounterpoint to conventional scholarly views. In a chronological survey oftopics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock of thegreat achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.


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The Darkest Period The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873By Ronald D. Parks

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

Speculators in EmpireIroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix By William J. Campbell$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4286-9 · 288 pages$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4665-2 · 288 pagesInSpeculators in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, landspeculation, and empire building that led up to the treaty. His detailed studyoverturns common assumptions about the roles of the Iroquois and Britishon the eve of the American Revolution. AsSpeculators in Empire shows, colonialand Native history are unavoidably entwined, and even interdependent.

Contours of a PeopleMetis Family, Mobility, and History Edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4487-0 · 520 pagesWriting about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issuesranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library ofCongress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintainingeconomic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and itspower in shaping identity will inuence and enlighten Canadian and Americanscholars across a variety of disciplines.

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


The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long IslandA History By John A. Strong$21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5413-8 · 352 pagesFew people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians,the region’s original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United

States—the Poospatuck Reservation—is located in Suffolk County, the denselpopulated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The UnkechaugIndians, known also by the name of their reservation, are recognized by theState of New York but not by the federal government.


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Framing the Sacred The Indian Churches of Early Colonial MexicoBy Eleanor Wake

$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5396-2 · 368 pagesIn Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico’sreligious structures reveals the indigenous people’s own decisions regardingthe conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message. The book is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects ofthese churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’sinuence on Mexican peoples.


We Know Who We AreMetis Identity in a Montana Community By Martha Harroun Foster $21.95s Paper · 9780806153483 · 304 pagesIn this rich examination of a Métis community—the rst book-length workto focus on the Montana Métis—Martha Harroun Foster combines social,political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted tochanging conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own uniqueculture and traditions.


Restoring a PresenceAmerican Indians and Yellowstone National Park By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5346-9 · 400 pagesRestoring a Presence is illustrated with historical and contemporaryphotographs and maps and features narratives on subjects ranging fromtraditional Indian uses of plant, mineral, and animal resources to conictsinvolving the Nez Perce, Bannock, and Sheep Eater peoples. Authors Nabokoand Loendorf provide a basis on which the National Park Service and otherfederal agencies can develop more effective relationships with Indian groupsin the Yellowstone region.


The Seminole FreedmenA History By Kevin Mulroy $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5347-6 · 480 pagesPopularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole

freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. NowKevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this labedenies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of thehistorical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces theemergence of Seminole-black identity and community from their eighteenth-century Florida origins to the present day.


The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New FranceBy William R. Nester

$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5189-2 · 516 pagesWhen the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North Americanempire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and WestAfrica. InThe French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the onlycomprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nesterexplains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinatingpersonalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, andtactics and determined North America’s destiny.


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Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian The Crime That Should Haunt AmericaBy Gary Clayton Anderson

$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5174-8 • 472 pagesInEthnic Cleansing and the Indian, Gary C. Anderson draws upon a vast wealthof previously unpublished sources to support his claim that the history ofEuroamerican and Native American interaction is not one of genocide, ashas often been claimed, but is, in almost all instances, more accurately called“ethnic cleansing.” Having dened ethnic cleansing, the author then seeksto trace its application and operation through American history from thecolonial era to about 1890.


CochiseFirsthand 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 pagesMuch of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports,eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticentchief granted in the last decade of his life.Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of theChiricahua Apache Chiefbrings together the most revealing of these documents

to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apacheleader. In particular, the interviews, many printed here for the rst time, arethe closest we will ever get to autobiographical material on this notable man,his life, and his times.


The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885By Helen Hunt JacksonEdited by Valerie S. Mathes$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5160-1 · 396 pages

Helen Hunt Jackson’s passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in thiscollection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been publishedbefore. With Valerie Sherer Mathes’s helpful notes, the letters reveal thebehind-the-scenes drama of Jackson’s involvement in Indian reform, which ledher to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.

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


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Wil UsdiBy Robert J. Conley Foreword by Luther Wilson

$14.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4659-1 • 160 pagesAdopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas(1805–93), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to havea distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the lastdecades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The trustory of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the nalpublished work of ction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.

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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and ExtinctionBy John Joseph MathewsEdited by Susan Kalter $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-5120-5 • 200 pagesMathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses.His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the ction of Jack Londoand Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originallyintended his nature stories for boys. But the stories transcend boundaries of

age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readerswith nature’s beauty but to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans,animals, and the landscapes in which they interact.

Grand AvenueA Novel in StoriesBy Greg SarrisAfterword by Reginald Dyck $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4834-2 • 248 pagesGrand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town ofSanta Rosa. Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the AmericanIndians form the core of these stories—tales of healing cures, poison, familyrituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see theirown foibles with a saving grace.

Creative Alliances The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry By Molly McGlennen$24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4482-5 • 230 pages Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nationscontinually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physicalhealth, and creative afliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennentells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre totranscend national and colonial boundaries and to fashion global dialoguesacross a spectrum of experiences and ideas.

Progressive TraditionsIdentity in Cherokee Literature and CultureBy Joshua B. Nelson$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4491-7 • 296 pagesSome noble Native people deantly defend their pristine indigenous traditionsin honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender theirculture and identities to white American economies and institutions. Thistraditionalist-versus-assimilationist divide is, Joshua B. Nelson argues, a falseone. To make his case that American Indians rarely if ever conform to suchsimplistic identications, Nelson considers the literature and culture of manyCherokee people.


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The Native American RenaissanceLiterary 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 publicationof N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winningHouse Made of Dawn in 1968continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writingfrom such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silkoconstitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native AmericanRenaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that eforescence.

Literacy and Intellectual Life in theCherokee Nation, 1820–1906By James W. Parins

$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4399-6 • 296 pagesMany Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes aslittle more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” InLiteracy andIntellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces therise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during thenineteenth century—a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.

The People Who StayedSoutheastern Indian Writing After RemovalBy 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 holdsome credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens ofthousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Actin 1830. Yet, as the editors of this volume amply demonstrate, a signicantIndian population remained behind after those massive relocations.

Pushing the Bear After the Trail of TearsBy Diane Glancy $14.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4069-8 • 176 pagesPushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never beforeexplored in ction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novelPushing the Bear: ANovel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokeebrothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows theirtravails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, andadjust to new realities.

Three Plays The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two WindowsBy N. Scott Momaday $24.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-3828-2 • 224 pagesLong a leading gure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhapsbest known for his Pulitzer Prize-winningHouse Made of Dawn and hiscelebration of his Kiowa ancestry,The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday hasalso made his mark in theatre through two plays and a screenplay. Publishedhere for the rst time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oraland literary traditions.


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


Cherokee Reference Grammar By Brad Montgomery-Anderson$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4342-2 • 536 pages$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4667-6 · 536 pagesSupported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas

The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing systein the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it wasrapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high

as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained used throughout this volume, the rst and only complete published grammarof the Cherokee language.

Arapaho Stories, Songs, and PrayersA Bilingual Anthology By Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. C’Hair $55.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4486-3 • 576 pagesMany of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although th

is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts existhat have never before been published—until now. Arapaho Stories, Songs, andPrayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrativetraditions 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 pagesManhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than ve hundred placenames in the Greater New York area, including the ve boroughs, westernLong Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New JerseyPennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorianspecializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous researchand deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding,place names.

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


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The Cherokee Syllabary Writing the People’s PerseveranceBy Ellen Cushman

$34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4220-3 • 256 pages$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4373-6 • 256 pagesSupported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas

In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced awriting system that he had been developing for more than a decade. Hiscreation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read andwrite within ve years and became a principal part of their identity. Thisgroundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution ofSequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms.

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

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Imagining Sovereignty Self-Determination in American Indian Law and LiteratureBy David J. Carlson$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5197-7 · 242 pages

In Imagining Sovereignty , Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middleground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonialpower. His work reveals the complementary ways in which legal and literarytexts have generated politically signicant representations of the world, whichin turn have produced particular effects on readers and advanced the cause oftribal self-determination.


Gathering the Potawatomi NationRevitalization and Identity

By Christopher Wetzel$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4669-0 • 216 pages$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4692-8 · 216 pagesSupported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas

Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentratedaround southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands acrossfour states, two countries, and a thousand miles.Gathering the PotawatomiNation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks athow marginalized communities adapt to social change, and reveals the criticalrole that culture plays in connecting the two.


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Claiming Tribal Identity The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment By Mark E. Miller Foreword by Chadwick Corntassel Smith

$29.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4378-1 • 490 pagesIn this study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previouslyunrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, andsometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribes—theCherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

A Gathering of StatesmenRecords of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826–1828By 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 turmoiland cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on theirnative lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed toOklahoma. This book makes available for the rst time a key legal documentfrom this turbulent period in Choctaw history.

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

Buying America from the Indians Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land RightsBy Blake A. Watson$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4244-9 • 512 pages Johnson v. McIntosh and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legaloverview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the NewWorld. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explainhow speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoplesthemselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, theAmerican Revolution, and ratication of the Articles of Confederation.

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting RightsBy Laughlin McDonald$26.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4240-1 • 264 pages The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in theSouth. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still dotoday. This book explores their ght for equal voting rights and carefullydocuments how non-Indian ofcials have tried to maintain dominance overNative peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.


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The Seminole Nation of OklahomaA Legal History By L. Susan Work $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4089-6 • 376 pages

When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was therst of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government.In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy itsnationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciouslyretained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence.Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney to presentthe rst legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.

The Choctaws in OklahomaFrom Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970By Clara Sue Kidwell$19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4006-3 • 344 pagesThe Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws’ removal from Mississippito Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe’ssubsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribalsovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws’remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a nationalidentity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.

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American Indians in U.S. History Second EditionBy Roger L. Nichols$24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4367-5

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial GermsAn Indigenous Nation’s Fightagainst Smallpox, 1518–1824By Paul Kelton$29.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-4688-1

Indian Tribes of OklahomaA GuideBy Blue Clark $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4061-2

Beginning CherokeeBy Ruth Bradley Holmesand Betty Sharp Smith$32.95s PAPER · 978-0-8061-1463-7

Under the EagleSamuel Holiday, NavajoCode Talker By Samuel Holiday andRobert S. McPherson$19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4389-7

The Sacred PipeBlack Elk’s Account of the SevenRites of the Oglala Sioux By Joseph Epes Brown$19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-2124-6

American CarnageWounded Knee, 1890By Jerome A. Greene$34.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-4448-1

Wil Usdi Thoughts from the Asylum,a Cherokee NovellaBy Robert J. Conley $14.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4659-1

Ojibwa Warrior Dennis Banks and the Rise of theAmerican Indian MovementBy Dennis Banks withRichard Erdoes$19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3691-2

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