Category: Native American Studies

By Upendra Baxi

By Peter C. Rollins

ISBN-10: 0813120446

ISBN-13: 9780813120447

All too frequently Hollywood portrays local americans both as bloodthirsty savages, ever able to scalp the blameless and natural, or as noble shamans, flippantly sharing their gathered knowledge with the white guy. hardly has the Indian's personal view of himself or his tradition been represented in motion pictures or different visible media.This choice of essays deals either in-depth analyses of particular motion pictures and overviews of Hollywood's depiction of local american citizens from the times of silent motion pictures to Disney's Pocahontas. jointly, the writers discover the numerous ways that the differing portrayals -- damaging, sympathetic, or sensible -- have mirrored higher alterations in American society and their impression on our collective cultural existence.

By John H. Hann

ISBN-10: 0813008549

ISBN-13: 9780813008547

  John Hann focuses during this examine at the Apalachee Indians and their interactions with the Spanish throughout the old interval. Following an outline of the prehistoric Apalachee, Hann delves into the encounters among the Apalachee and the 1st eu intruders.  He synthesizes old and archaeological details at the institution and development of the western Florida missions, together with pertinent information from the well-liked and pivotal nation of San Luis de Talimali.   A sympathetic view of the tradition and customs of the ancient Apalachee and a translation of pop Paiva’s impassioned ball online game manuscript are via sections on Apalachee political constitution, language, demographic tendencies, and undertaking economy.  Hann concludes with facts at the demoralization of the Apalachee and its results at the missions and, finally, at the exile and extinction of the Apalachee humans.

By Colin G. Calloway

ISBN-10: 1584658444

ISBN-13: 9781584658443

Dartmouth collage begun lifestyles as an Indian university, a pretense that has given that been deserted. nonetheless, the establishment has a distinct, if advanced, courting with local american citizens and their historical past. starting with Samson Occom’s position because the first “development officer” of the school, Colin G. Calloway tells the total, advanced tale of Dartmouth’s historic and ongoing dating with local american citizens. Calloway recounts the struggles and achievements of Indian attendees and the heritage of Dartmouth alumni’s involvements with American Indian affairs. He additionally covers more moderen advancements, akin to the mascot controversies, the emergence of an lively local American pupil association, and the partial success of a promise deferred. this can be a attention-grabbing photo of an elite American establishment and its stricken courting— every now and then compassionate, from time to time conflicted—with Indians and local American tradition.

By Gerald T. Conaty

ISBN-10: 1771990171

ISBN-13: 9781771990172

In 1990, the Glenbow Museum took its first tentative steps towards repatriation by way of returning sacred gadgets to First international locations' peoples. those efforts drew harsh feedback from participants of the provincial govt. used to be it now not the museum's fundamental felony, moral, and fiduciary accountability to make sure the actual renovation of its collections? Undaunted via such feedback, greater than fifty medication bundles have been back to Blackfoot and Cree groups among the years of 1990 and 2000, at which era the 1st international locations Sacred Ceremonial items Repatriation Act (FNSCORA) ― nonetheless the one repatriation laws in Canada ― was once passed."We Are Coming Home!" is the tale of the hugely advanced strategy of repatriation as defined by way of these in detail all in favour of the paintings, particularly the Piikuni, Siksika, and Kainai elders who supplied crucial oversight and suggestions and Gerald Conaty, senior curator on the museum.

By Roger Echo-Hawk

ISBN-10: 1598745743

ISBN-13: 9781598745740

ISBN-10: 1598745751

ISBN-13: 9781598745757

ISBN-10: 159874576X

ISBN-13: 9781598745764

Someday on the finish of the 20 th century, Roger Echo-Hawk made up our minds to renounce being an Indian. After changing into an American Indian historian, he began to query our frequent reliance on an idea of race that the academy had long-since discredited, and launched into a private trip to giving up race himself. This passionate e-book bargains a strong meditation on racialism and a manifesto for making a global with out it. Echo-Hawk examines own identification, social routine, and policy—NAGPRA, Indian legislation, pink satisfaction, indigenous archaeology—showing how they depend on race and the way they need to circulate past it.

By Bruce Granville Miller

ISBN-10: 0803232217

ISBN-13: 9780803232211

ISBN-10: 0803282753

ISBN-13: 9780803282759

For the indigenous peoples of North the US, the background of colonialism has frequently intended a distortion of background, even, occasionally, a loss or distorted feel in their personal local practices of justice. How modern local groups have dealt fairly in a different way with this quandary is the topic of the matter of Justice, a richly textured ethnographic examine of indigenous peoples suffering to reestablish keep an eye on over justice within the face of conflicting exterior and inner pressures. The peoples mentioned during this booklet are the Coast Salish groups alongside the northwest coast of North the US: the higher Skagit Indian Tribe in Washington kingdom, the St?:lo state in British Columbia, and the South Island Tribal Council on Vancouver Island. the following we see how, regardless of their universal background and shut ties, each one of those groups has taken a unique path in knowing and constructing a method of tribal justice. Describing the results—from the gradually increasing independence and jurisdiction of the higher Skagit court docket to the cave in of the South Island Justice Project—Bruce G. Miller advances an ethnographically educated, comparative, traditionally dependent knowing of aboriginal justice and the actual dilemmas tribal leaders and neighborhood individuals face. His paintings makes a persuasive case for an indigenous sovereignty linked to tribally managed justice courses that realize variety and even as permit for inner dissent.

By Paul E. Minnis

ISBN-10: 0806131802

ISBN-13: 9780806131801

This reader in ethnobotany contains fourteen chapters prepared in 4 elements. Paul Minnis presents a basic creation; the authors of the part introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture).Ethnobotany: A Reader is meant to be used as a textbook in top department undergraduate and graduate classes in fiscal botany, ethnobotany, and human ecology. The ebook brings jointly for the 1st time formerly released magazine articles that offer different views on a large choice of issues in ethnobotany. participants comprise: Janis B. Alcorn, M. Kat Anderson, Stephen B. Brush, Robert A. Bye, George F. Estabrook, David H. French, Eugene S. Hunn, Charles F. Hutchinson, Eric Mellink, Paul E. Minnis, Brian Morris, Gary P. Nabhan, Amadeo M. Rea, Karen L. Reichhardt, Jan Timbrook, Nancy J. Turner, and Robert A. Voeks.

By Jill St. Germain

ISBN-10: 0803215894

ISBN-13: 9780803215894

Damaged Treaties is a comparative overview of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation targeting the 1st decade following the United States–Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six among Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label imposed by means of nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated within the ancient literature has obscured the implementation event of either local and non-Native members and distorted our figuring out of the relationships among them. accordingly, historians have neglected the position of the Treaty of 1868 because the software wherein the us and the Lakotas mediated the cultural divide isolating them within the interval among 1868 and 1875. In discounting the treaty historians have additionally did not have fun with the wider context of U.S. politics, which undermined a treaty method to the Black Hills situation in 1876. In Canada, nonetheless, the “broken treaties” culture has obscured the fairly diversified realizing of Treaty Six held via Canada and the Plains Cree. the lack of both get together to understand the other’s place fostered the harmful false impression that culminated within the Northwest uprising of 1885. within the first serious review of the implementation of those treaties, damaged Treaties restores Indian treaties to a crucial place within the research of Native–non-Native relatives within the usa and Canada. (20100601)

By Ronald N. Satz

ISBN-10: 0806134321

ISBN-13: 9780806134321

The Jacksonian interval has lengthy been well-known as a watershed period in American Indian coverage. Ronald N. Satz’s American Indian coverage within the Jacksonian period makes use of the views of either ethnohistory and public management to research the formula, execution, and result of govt rules of the 1830s and 1840s. In doing so, he examines the diversities among the rhetoric and the realities of these rules and furnishes a much-needed corrective to many simplistic stereo-types approximately Jacksonian Indian policy.