D.A. - Native American Studies 1

The Passing of the Aborigines gathers Bates's newspaper pieces into a chronicle of Aboriginal life and colonial rupture across remote Australia. Mixing anecdotal reportage with ethnographic notes, i……続きを見る

The indigenous Navajo way of life has been in "survival mode" since the introduction of Eurocentric culture in the Americas. Darryl Benally tells the true story of what it is like growing up Navajo,……続きを見る

2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine King Philip's War was the most devastating conflict between Europeans and Native Americans in the 1600s. In this incisive account, award-winning auth……続きを見る

Reservation Capitalism: Economic Development in Indian Country supplies the true history, present-day circumstances, and potential future of Native American communities and economics. In this new ed……続きを見る

New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expan……続きを見る

For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional re……続きを見る

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identit……続きを見る

In "The American Race," Daniel G. Brinton embarks on an insightful examination of the diverse origins and cultural legacies of the Indigenous peoples of North America. This pioneering work, rooted i……続きを見る

Slavery was practiced in North America long before Europeans arrived on these shores, bringing their own version of this “peculiar institution.” Unlike the European institution, however, Native Amer……続きを見る

A compelling exploration of The Walam Olum, this book examines the purported translation of pictographs recounting the epic migration and history of the Delaware people. If authentic, it would stand……続きを見る

" . . . provides valuable information for the specialist in American studies, and for the anthropologist or folklorist focusing on food use, and may also be of interest to the general reading audien……続きを見る

Ancient Indigenous Cuisines explores the deep cultural and historical roots of Indigenous food traditions across the Americas, revealing how culinary practices are intertwined with ritual, identity,……続きを見る

In "Essays of an Americanist," Daniel G. Brinton delves into the intricate tapestry of American anthropology and ethnology. With a literary style that harmoniously blends eloquent prose and scholarl……続きを見る

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crève……続きを見る

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, ……続きを見る

On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was esta……続きを見る

An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeolo……続きを見る

After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with thre……続きを見る

The arrival of Europeans in the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, often neglected by historians of philosophy, is a crucial historical event that transformed modern thou……続きを見る

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title In 1769–1770, Spanish Catholic missionaries, soldiers, and Cochimí Indians of Baja California launched The Sacred Expedition to Alta California, to claim it fo……続きを見る

In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric t……続きを見る

Have you ever gazed at the stars and wondered what ancient stories they hold? Or felt a deep connection to nature, sensing there's more to the world than meets the eye? Journey into the heart of Nat……続きを見る

Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects w……続きを見る

Unraveling a complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering, Damming the Gila continues the story of the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle for the restoration of its water rights. ……続きを見る

A Native foster youth brings a completed Pfizer Corporation’s "PTSD Self-Quiz" she found in a U.S. Indian Health Service clinic waiting room to her psychologist, hoping a new diagnosis will allow he……続きを見る

This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible. ……続きを見る

From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley. The Willamette Valley is rich with historyーits riverbank……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2024 NCA Public Address Division’s Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award While research……続きを見る

In "Blackfeet Indian Stories," George Bird Grinnell compiles a rich tapestry of oral traditions from the Blackfeet Nation, presenting a collection that is both a cultural treasure and an artistic ac……続きを見る

A hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy, investigating what it means to be an intergenerational, Indigenous survivor of Residential Schools Jordan Abel’s new work grows out of the g……続きを見る