Category: Native American Studies

By Ronet Bachman

ISBN-10: 0865690154

ISBN-13: 9780865690158

This quantity is the 1st significant try to systematically learn the etiology of violence in American Indian groups. utilizing fieldwork in addition to quantitative and qualitative study, Bachman first provides an outline of yank Indians from ancient and modern views, prior to she focuses particularly on violence and its reasons. murder, suicide, and kin violence are analyzed extensive, and the harmful affects of alcohol and different addictive components are documented.

Dr. Bachman successfully makes use of own tales and narratives given through American Indians to demonstrate the dwelling truth at the back of the facts she provides. She concludes with a number of coverage suggestions that would be of curiosity not just to policymakers, but additionally to educational researchers and scholars in criminology, ethnic family, sociology, and anthropology.

By Neil A. Hamilton

ISBN-10: 0816045356

ISBN-13: 9780816045358

ISBN-10: 1438108087

ISBN-13: 9781438108087

By Libby Roderick

ISBN-10: 1602230919

ISBN-13: 9781602230910

Making up greater than ten percentage of Alaska's inhabitants, local Alaskans are the state's greatest minority crew. but so much non-Native Alaskans recognize unusually little in regards to the histories and cultures in their indigenous associates, or in regards to the vital matters they face. This concise e-book compiles commonly asked questions and offers informative and available responses that make clear a few universal misconceptions. With responses composed by way of students in the represented groups and reviewed by way of a panel of specialists, this easy-to-read compendium goals to facilitate a deeper exploration and richer dialogue of the complicated and compelling matters which are a part of Alaska local existence this present day. (20110301)

By Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, Bertha Tilkens

ISBN-10: 080613996X

ISBN-13: 9780806139968

In the event you have stepped forward past introductory classes, Intermediate Creek deals an increased figuring out of the language and tradition of the Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Indians. the 1st complicated textbook for the language, this e-book builds at the grammatical ideas set forth within the authors' previous publication, starting Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv, offering scholars with wisdom the most important to getting to know extra complicated linguistic buildings. listed here are transparent, entire factors of linguistic beneficial properties resembling using plural topic and item noun words; destiny annoying and intentive temper; instructions and causatives; postpositions and compound noun words; locatives; and sentences with a number of clauses. Linguistic anthropologist Pamela Innes and local audio system Linda Alexander and Bertha Tilkens have prepared the booklet a lot as they did starting Creek. every one bankruptcy starts with a presentation of the grammatical issues to be realized, through new vocabulary, workouts, an essay pertaining to the cloth to Muskogee and Seminole existence, and instructed readings. a variety of diagrams and tables reduction knowing, whereas an audio CD comprises examples of spoken Mvskoke--conversations, a narrative, and a lullaby--demonstrate the cadence and intonations of the language. Given resurgent curiosity within the Mvskoke language yet a paucity of lecture room assets for complicated learn, Intermediate Creek not just deals a realistic skill for studying but in addition marks an important step in conserving and revitalizing a major local language.

By Helen C. Rountree

ISBN-10: 0806128496

ISBN-13: 9780806128498

During this historical past, Helen C. Roundtree strains occasions that formed the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first stumble upon with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day lifestyle and courting to the nation of Virginia and the federal government.Roundtree’s exam of these 400 years misses now not a beat within the pulse of Powhatan existence. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the writer explores the variety continually stumbled on between Powhatan humans, and people people’s relationships with the English, the govt. of the fledgling usa, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective provider, and the civil rights stream.

By Peter Iverson; Jennifer Denetdale

ISBN-10: 0791085953

ISBN-13: 9780791085950

Lately, the Navajos were more and more venerated for his or her position as 'code talkers' in the course of international warfare II, as evidenced through the 2002 motion picture Windtalkers. The Navajos principally live on a 25,000-square-mile reservation within the 4 Corners quarter of the yankee Southwest. Into the fourth global -- The evolution of Navajo tradition -- The lengthy stroll -- The weaving jointly of a humans -- The time of cattle aid -- the fashionable Navajo period starts off -- The Navajo kingdom -- The Navajos within the twenty-first century

By James Kari, James A. Fall, William Bright, Shem Pete

ISBN-10: 1423715101

ISBN-13: 9781423715108

ISBN-10: 1889963577

ISBN-13: 9781889963570

Shem Pete (1896-1989), the colourful and terrific raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a wealthy legacy of information concerning the higher prepare dinner Inlet Dena'ina international. Pete was once the most flexible storytellers and historians in twentieth-century Alaska, and his lifetime shuttle map of roughly 13,500 sq. miles is without doubt one of the greatest ever documented during this measure of aspect wherever within the world.This accelerated variation of Shem Pete's Alaska offers 973 named areas in sixteen drainage-based chapters. The names shape a reconstructed community from the vantage issues of the existence reports of Shem Pete and different Dena'ina and Ahtna audio system. it truly is annotated with reviews and tales through Shem Pete and greater than 50 different participants, plus old references, vignettes, copious images, ancient maps, and shaded-relief placename maps. The authors supply viewpoint on Dena'ina language and tradition, in addition to a precis of Dena'ina geographic wisdom and placename examine methodology.This fantastically produced version is a treasure for all Alaskans and for someone attracted to the "personal connectedness to a stunning land" voiced by way of Dena'ina elders.From the foreword by means of William vivid: "Shem Pete's event and knowledge as an elder of the Dena'ina Athabascan Indians shine via this paintings just like the sun?€”as do the ability and devotion of James Kari, James Fall, and the opposite Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alaska local, and Anglo-American those who contributed to creating the ebook a fact. . . . we now have a quantity that gives a brilliant photograph of local Alaskan tradition, historical past, geography, and language, with further glimpses of oral literature and song. . . . All local American Peoples, certainly, all conventional groups on the earth will be lucky and proud to have this type of checklist in their existence and culture."

By Thomas Biolsi

ISBN-10: 0631226869

ISBN-13: 9780631226864

This significant other is constructed from 27 unique contributions via top students within the box and summarizes the kingdom of anthropological wisdom of Indian peoples, in addition to the heritage that received us to date.

By Brian Joseph Gilley

ISBN-10: 0803271263

ISBN-13: 9780803271265

By Kristin E. Pitt (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230115349

ISBN-13: 9780230115347

ISBN-10: 1349290637

ISBN-13: 9781349290635

This ebook contextualizes twenty first century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention inside a ancient framework of inter-American narratives. analyzing quite a number resources, Pitt unearths a power concentrate on the physique that hyperlinks modern practices of political terror to matters approximately corporality and sovereignty.