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[Community profiles.

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1973-<1984 >
Book

Alaska native languages : a bibliographical catalogue

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Krauss, Michael E.,
1980-
Book

Native American arts

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[[1968-]
Native American arts
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Alexandrovsk, English Bay in its traditional way.

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Naaqsugenarqelriit.

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1969-
Naaqsugenarqelriit.
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Celebration program

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1982-
Celebration program Program guide
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Fieldiana. Anthropology.

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1945-
Fieldiana. Anthropology. Fieldiana, Anthropol. Anthropology Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909). Anthropological series
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Voices and images of Nunavimmiut.

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2010-
1st ed.
Book

Good medicine books

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Hungrywolf, Adolf,
1970-
Book Other

Aleutian voices

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2014-
Aleutian voices
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Ilagiinniq : interviews on Inuit family values from the Qikiqtani Region

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©2011-
"Through interviews with current elders from three regions of Nunavut, Ilagiinniq: Interviews on Inuit Family Values provides a wealth of information on traditional family life. Covering relationships between siblings, elders and grandchildren, uncles and aunts, husbands and wives, and in-laws, this book is an indespensible resource of information on how Inuit families traditionally lived, and how traditional ways can be implemented in the modern world."--Pub. desc.
Book

Unipkaaqtuat Arvianit = Traditional Inuit stories from Arviat

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Kalluak, Mark,
[2009-]
A collection of traditional Inuit stories from Arviat.
Book

Kappianaqtut : strange creatures and fantastic beings from Inuit myths and legends

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Christopher, Neil,
©2011-
"Each volume in the Kappianaqtut series provides readers with an in-depth academic examination of two mythological creatures from Inuit mythology. The series examines Inuit myths from an ethnographic perspective and fosters discussion on the variations and multiple representations of the myths and creatures in question.
Book

Windows to the land : an Alaska Native Story

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Ferguson, Judy,
[2013]
Regular print

Annual report

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1973-
Annual report Honoring Bristol Bay Native veterans 1998 Landscape of promise 2004 Work in progress 2005 Three cultures, one corporation: continuing the traditions 2008
Report of one of the Alaska Native corporations created as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. The Bristol Bay Native Corporation represents some people of the Central Yupik, Alutiik, and Denaina groups.
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Sun tracks.

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[c1971-]
Sun tracks. Suntracks
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University of Oregon anthropological papers.

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University of Oregon anthropological papers. Univ. Or. anthropol. pap. Anthropological papers
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Native languages of the Americas

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c1976-
Book

NSRG

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NSRG Northern Science Research Group NCRC
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Yale University publications in anthropology.

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1964- [no. 1, 1970]
Yale University publications in anthropology.
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Fireweed = Cillqaq.

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c1980-
Fireweed = Cillqaq. Cillqaq
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Sapir-Fredson Stories

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1974-
Book

Atightumun liitusit

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Satre, Sharon Pungowiyi.
[197-?-]
Book

Ethnohistoric study of Haida acculturation

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Smith, Ruth Elaine.
1982-<1983>
Book

Language documentation and description.

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2003-
Language documentation and description.
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Lore of the In?piat : the elders speak = Uqaaqtuaõnich Iñupiat : ultuqqanaat uqaaqtuaqtut.

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<1989-1992>
1st ed.
Book

The American Indian reader

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[1972-]
Book

The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas.

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1996-
Book

Kwikpagmiut.

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Kwikpagmiut.
Serial

Journal of Northwest anthropology. Memoir.

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2002-
Journal of Northwest anthropology. Memoir. J. Northwest anthropol. Mem. JONA. Memoir Northwest anthropological research notes. Memoir
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Annual report

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Annual report Highlights 2016-
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Contributions to circumpolar anthropology.

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c2001-
Contributions to circumpolar anthropology.
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Annual education report

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Annual education report
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Taniisix?.

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1980-
Taniisix?.
Serial Other

Handbook of North American Indians

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<1978-2022 >
Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples.
Book

Ayumiim ungipaghaatangi = Stories of long ago

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1971-
Book

American Indian basketry.

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©1980-©1983.
American Indian basketry. American Indian basketry magazine American Indian basketry and other native arts
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Indigenous educational models for contemporary practice : in our mother's voice

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2000-<2008>
What is the philosophy that should drive native education policy and practice? In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on the individual educational philosophies of the participants and captures the essence of each in a dynamic, transformational, and holistic model, "Go to the Source" which forwards a collective vision for a native language and culture-based educational philosophy that native educational leaders and teachers, policymakers, and curriculum developers can use to ground their work.
Book

Ozette archaeological project research reports

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1991-<2019>
Book

Trends in Indian health

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1989-
Trends in Indian health Trends Ind. health Chart series book
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First Alaskans : the magazine of Native peoples, communities and ways of life.

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[2020]-
First Alaskans : the magazine of Native peoples, communities and ways of life. First Alaskans (Online) First Alaskans
Electronic resource

Wintermoot

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Shafer, Nathan,
[2022]
First trade edition.
Book

Northwest Coast hall : educator's guide

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2024
Book

Haa k??oosteeyée ayá.

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1973-
Haa k??oosteeyée ayá. Haa k??usteeyée ayá Tlingit s'ka l'nee gee
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The Council.

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The Council. Tanana Chiefs Conference council
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Indigenous and decolonizing studies in education.

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2018-
Indigenous and decolonizing studies in education.
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A grammar of Upper Tanana

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Lovick, Olga Charlotte,
[2020-]
"A Grammar of Upper Tanana is a comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of providing a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language"--
Book

Changed forever : American Indian boarding-school literature

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Krupat, Arnold,
[2018]-
"Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics (topoi) and places (loci)of the boarding schools. Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students, imposing on them the regimentation of Clock Time, compulsory religious instruction and practice, and corporal punishment, among others. These topics occur in a variety of places, like the Dormitory, the Dining Room, the Chapel, and the Classroom. Krupat's close readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical context as well as critical commentary. In her study of the Chilocco Indian School, K. Tsianina Lomawaima asked poignantly, "What has become of the thousands of Indian voices who spoke the breath of boarding-school life?" Changed Forever lets us hear some of them." -- Publisher's description
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Cross-cultural issues in Alaskan education

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1977-<1982>
Contain papers focusing on educational policy, educational development, community/school issues and teaching/learning issues relating to native people in Alaska.
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Qiñiqtuagaksrat utuqqanaat iñuunia?ninisiqun : the traditional land use inventory for the mid-Beaufort Sea.

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c1980-
Book

Alaska Native directory.

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Alaska Native directory.
Serial Other

Kuhaantí : lingít shkalneegí haa ?atx'i kagéiyi yís

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2023
"Tells the story of the orphan Sahaan as she journeys through difficult times and learns life lessons that teach her the importance of the tribal value of respect."--Provided by publisher
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??ina h?nau = Birth land

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McDougall, Brandy N?lani,
[2023]
"'?ina H?nau / Birth Lands is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ??iwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy N?lani McDougall. These poems cycle through sacred and personal narratives while exposing and fighting ongoing American imperialism, settler colonialism, militarism, and social and environmental injustice to protect the ??ina and its people"--
Book

The dall sheep dinner guest : Iñupiaq narratives of northwest Alaska

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Anderson, Wanni W.
2023.
First paperback edition.
Book

COCOPA DICTIONARY [electronic resource].

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CRAWFORD, JAMES.
[2023]
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource].

The dall sheep dinner guest [electronic resource] : Iñupiaq narratives of northwest Alaska

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Anderson, Wanni W.
2023.
First paperback edition.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource] :

Indigenous periodicals

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2023
Book

JAJ : a Haida manga

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Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll,
[2023]
Book

Indigenous research design : transnational perspectives in practice

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2023.
Book

Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years

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Harjo, Joy,
[2023]
First edition.
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
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Tender violence in US schools : benevolent Whiteness and the dangers of heroic White womanhood

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Bauer, Natalee K?haulani,
2023.
"Within educational research, the over-disciplining of Black and Indigenous students is most often presented as a problem located within pathologized or misunderstood communities. That is, theories and proposed solutions tend toward those that ask how we can make students of color from particular backgrounds more suited to U.S. educational standards rather than questioning the racist roots of those standards. Tender Violence in US Schools takes as a provocation this "discipline gap," in exploring a thus far unconsidered stance and asking how white women (the majority of U.S. teachers) have historically understood their roles in the disciplining of Black and Indigenous students, and how and why their role has been constructed over time and space in service to institutions of the white settler colonial State"--
Book

Goodnight Naruto Runners a Cyberingian Bedtime Story [from the Worlds of Wintermoot]

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Shafer, Nathan,
2023
Book

Creating subject headings for Indigenous topics : a culturally respectful guide

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Sapon-White, Richard,
[2023]
Book

The Gwich'in climate report

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Gilbert, Matt,
[2023]
"A regional climate impact and adaptation report, The Gwich'in Climate Report is a compilation of interviews between Matt Gilbert and northern Alaska Gwich'in Athabascan community members, elders, hunters, and trappers. It explores Gwich'in insight and wisdom about ecology, climate, and the effects of climate change on their landscapes and culture"--
Book

Project 562 : changing the way we see Native America

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Wilbur, Matika,
[2023]
First edition.
"A photographic celebration of contemporary Native American life and an examination of important issues the community faces today by the creator of Project 562, Matika Wilbur"--
Book

Multiliteracies pedagogy and language teaching : stories of praxis from indigenous communities

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Siekmann, Sabine,
2023.
This volume offers an approach to language and literacy instruction that brings together theoretical concepts of multiliteracies and second language acquisition. This approach is illustrated through examples of innovative teacher-generated action research conducted in Indigenous and English, dual language and immersion classrooms, all situated in the context of language and cultural maintenance and revitalization. These examples of praxis help to bridge the gap between theory and practice in Indigenous language and literacy teaching. The volume draws on critical theories of praxis and the concept of multiliteracies and multimodalities, with specific attention to the design cycle as a way to conceptualize and engage in praxis through research and pedagogy. The authors trace teacher trajectories relating to (language) teaching and their positionalities in language revitalization and maintenance efforts by using a participatory teacher action research approach. The final chapter brings together Indigenous and western onto-epistemological and methodological perspectives in a conversation among two western and an Indigenous scholar, who have been working together with the teacher-researchers whose stories are presented in this volume. This volume is of interest to scholars, graduate students, educational practitioners and educational leaders interested in multiliteracies, multimodalities, teacher action research, and Indigenous pedagogies.
Book

Wildlife stewardship on tribal lands : our place is in our soul

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2023.
"The editors have brought together a volume of papers and essays written by tribal fish and wildlife managers and researchers about the work they do. This book will help wildlife professionals and conservationists in private and public sectors draw lessons from the expertise of indigenous peoples in North America, and advise them on how best to incorporate long-established successful Native methods in their own practices"--
Book

My side of the river : an Alaska Native story

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Kelly, Elias,
[2023]
"Elias Kelly's "My Side of the River" combines memoir and the stories of his elders with the impact of resource conservation on Native Alaskan communities to discuss the impact of federal and state regulations on traditional life and subsistence methods of Native Alaskans"--
Book

God is red : a native view of religion

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Deloria, Vine,
2023.
50th anniversary edition. Fourth edition.
"Vine Deloria, Jr. was named by TIME magazine as one of the greatest religious thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a leading Native American thinker whose research, writings, and teachings on history, law, religion, and politics changed the face of Indian Country, and his influence continues to impact present and future generations of Native and non-Native Americans alike. He has authored many acclaimed and bestselling books, including The World We Used to Live In; Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths; Red Earth, White Lies; Spirit and Reason; and Custer Died for Your Sins. Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation said of him, "All humans benefited from the knowledge Vine shared with us." Vine Deloria, Jr. died in 2005"--
Book

Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology

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2023.
"A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls a Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl and snatch the foolish whistlers in the dark. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear-and even follow you home. In twenty-five wholly original and shiver-inducing tales, bestselling and award-winning authors including Tommy Orange, Rebecca Roanhorse, Cherie Dimaline, Waubgeshig Rice, and Mona Susan Power introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon"--
Book

Wintermoot book five: Slack tides

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Shafer, Nathan,
2023
The continuing adventures of indigenous Alaskan cyberpunk superheroes of the Wintermoot universe.
Book

Creating subject headings for Indigenous topics : a culturally respectful guide

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Sapon-White, Richard,
March 2023.
Book

The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

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Blackhawk, Ned,
[2023]
"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America." --
Book

Cancer among Alaska Native people : an executive summary of the Alaska Native Tumor Registry's 50-year report

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[2023]
Book

Coloring iqalluut - fish

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Sholl, Hanna Agasuuq,
2023
First edition.
Book

Inuit and explorers

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Harper, Kenn,
2022.
"In the fifth volume of the In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History series, Kenn Harper shares tales of European explorers who came to the Arctic seeking adventure, riches, and the elusive Northwest Passage, and Inuit they encountered there. Inuit were invaluable in adding to Western knowledge of the Arctic, serving as guides, clothing-makers, and interpreters. But not every meeting was friendly. This collection sheds light on Inuit who played a pivotal role in the expeditions of some of the most famous Arctic explorers, including the unfortunate John Franklin. This volume also includes dozens of rare, historical photographs."--
Book

The Routledge international handbook of Indigenous resilience

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2022.
Electronic resource

Indigenous knowledge and mental health : a global perspective

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2022]
Electronic resource

The Routledge companion to global indigenous history

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2022.
"The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics of the present and future, ranging across vast geographical distances and deep time periods. The volume starts with an introduction that explores definitions of Indigenous peoples, followed by six thematic sections which each have a global spread: European uses of history and the positioning of Indigenous people as history's outsiders; their migrations and mobilities; colonial encounters; removals and diasporas; memory, identities and narratives; deep histories and pathways towards future Indigenous histories that challenge the nature of the history discipline itself. This book illustrates the important role Indigenous history and Indigenous knowledges for contemporary concerns, including climate change, spirituality and religious movements, gender negotiations, modernity and mobility, and the meaning of 'nation' and the 'global'. Reflecting the state of the art in Indigenous global history, the contributors suggest exciting new directions in the field, examine its many research challenges and show its resonances for a global politics of the present and future. This book is invaluable reading for students in both undergraduate and postgraduate Indigenous history courses"--
Book

The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation : return, reconcile, renew

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2022.
Book

Echoes of the supernatural : the graphic art of Robert Davidson

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Wyatt, Gary,
[2022]
Book

Preventing child maltreatment in the U.S. : American Indian and Alaska Native perspectives

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Ross, Royleen
[2022]
"This book is part of a concentrated series of books that examines child maltreatment across minoritized, cultural groups.Specifically, this volume addresses American Indian and Alaska Native populations. However, in an effort to contextualize the experiences of 574 federally recognized tribes and 50+ state recognized tribes, as well as villages, the authors focus on populations within rural and remote regions and discuss the experiences of some tribal communities throughout US history. It should be noted that established research has primarily drawn attention to the pervasive problems impacting Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. Aligned with an attempt to adhere to a decolonizing praxis, the authors share information in a strength-based framework for the Indigenous communities discussed within the text. The authors review federally funded programs (prevention, intervention, and treatment) that have been adapted for tribal communities (e.g., Safecare) and include cultural teachings that address child maltreatment. The intention of this book is to inform researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates about the current state of child maltreatment from an Indigenous perspective"--
Electronic resource

So you girls remember that : memories of a Haida elder

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Bellis, Gaadgas Nora,
[2022]
"Collected wisdoms, reflections and stories from Indigenous Elder Naanii Nora of the Haida Nation. So You Girls Remember That is an oral history of a Haida Elder, Naanii Nora, who lived from 1902 to 1997. A collaborative effort, this project was initiated and guided by Charlie Bellis and supported and encouraged by Maureen McNamara and other community volunteers. The resulting book, compiled by Jenny Nelson, is a window into Nora's life and her family--from the young girl who "used to sing all the time" and was always bossing her brothers around, to stories of Nora's father born in a canoe travelling to the mainland, to days spent picking berries and afternoons canning and cooking--these are stories of childhood; of people and place, seasons and change; life stages and transitions such as moving and marriage; and Haida songs and meanings. This book also contains the larger story of Nora's times, a representation of changing political relationships between Canada and the Haida people and a personal part of the Haida tale. What ultimately shines through is Nora's singular and dynamic voice speaking with the wisdom of years. For example, on giving advice she says: "I like to give anybody advice because when you're young you don't know nothing on this world. What's coming; what's going ... You have to remember it's a steep hill; you're right on the top. You slide down anytime if you don't be careful." This is a work of great generosity, expressing Nora's spirit of living--her joy, humour, spirituality and resourcefulness; her love of children, music and social life; her kindness, strong will and creativity; and her spirit that has nurtured a community and endures to this day."--
Book

Raven's echo

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Hoffmann, Robert Davis,
2022.
"In Raven's Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann's poetry grapples with reconstructing a life within Tlingit tradition and history. The destructiveness of colonialism brings a profound darkness to some of the poems in Raven's Echo, but the collection also explores the possibility of finding spiritual healing in the face of historical and contemporary traumas"--
Book

OUR KNOWLEDGE IS NOT PRIMITIVE [electronic resource]

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Geniusz, Wendy Makoons.
2022.
1ST ED.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource]

Dempsey Bob : in his own voice

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Bob, Dempsey,
[2022]
Book

Glory and exile : Haida history robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Kardosh, Robert,
[2022]
Book

Dancing Indigenous worlds : choreographies of relation

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Shea Murphy, Jacqueline,
[2022]
"Jacqueline Shea Murphy brings contemporary Indigenous dance makers into the spotlight, putting critical dance studies and Indigenous studies in conversation with one another in fresh and exciting new ways. Exploring Indigenous dance from North America and Aotearoa (New Zealand), she shows how dance artists communicate Indigenous ways of being, and generate a political force, engaging Indigenous understandings and histories"--
Book

Night of the living rez

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Talty, Morgan,
2022.
First US edition.
"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family's unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's projects the past onto her grandson; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. A collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction"--
Book

The seven circles : indigenous teachings for living well

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Luger, Chelsey,
[2022]
First edition.
"A revolutionary wellness guide rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge, offering wisdom for spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing from Native American wellness activists"--
Book

A minor chorus : a novel

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Belcourt, Billy-Ray,
[2022]
First edition.
"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"--
Book

Trickster Academy

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Davis, Jenny L.
[2022]
"Trickster Academy is a full-length collection of poems that explore the experience of being Native in Academia-from land acknowledgment statements to the criteria for tenure and the histories of using Native American remains within Anthropology. Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy, a university space run by and meant for training "tricksters," this collection moves between the personal dynamics of a two-spirit Indigenous woman in spaces where there are few others, and a "trickster's" critique of those same spaces. But these realities aren't specific only to those in academic positions-from leaving home, to being the only Indian in the room, to having to deal with the constant pressures to being a 'real Indian', they are shared experiences of Indians across many different regions, and all of us who live among tricksters"--
Book

Food Sovereignty and Self-Governance Workshop Summary Reports : Inuit Coming Together from Across Alaska and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
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A life painted in yarn : a biography of Tlingit Chilkat weaver Clara Newman Benson (Deink?ul.?t)

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Jones, Zachary R.
[2022]
"Published through Sealaska Heritage's Box of Knowledge series, this essay by Zachary Jones, Ph.D., provides the first biography of Tlingit Chilkat weaver Clara Newman Benson (Deink1ul.?t) (1856-1935) of Klukwan, Alaska, and attributes her artistic creations. Benson was a significant weaver of her day and prolific producer of Chilkat weavings that function as ceremonial objects within the Tlingit community."--
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The Routledge international handbook of Indigenous resilience

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
"This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource to the subject of Indigenous resilience. Indigenous Peoples demonstrate considerable resilience despite the social, health, economic, and political disparities they experience within surrounding settler societies. This book considers Indigenous resilience in many forms: cultural, spiritual, and governance traditions remain in some communities and are being revitalized in others to reclaim aspects of their cultures that have been outlawed, suppressed, or undermined. It explores how Indigenous people advocate for social justice and work to shape settler societies in ways that create a more just, fair, and equitable world for all human and non-human beings. Divided into five sections: From the Past to the Future, Pillars of Indigeneity, The Power in Indigenous Identities, The Natural World, Reframing the Narrative: From Problem to Opportunity and comprised of 25 newly commissioned chapters from Indigenous scholars, professionals and community members from traditions around the world, this book will be a useful tool for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of manifestations of wellness and resilience. This handbook will be of particular interest to all scholars, students and practitioners of social work, social care and human services more broadly, as well as those working in sociology, development studies and environmental sustainability"--
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NACAQ : how to make an Alutiiq beaded headdress

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2022]
"It takes thousands of tiny glass beads and hours of handwork to construct an Alutiiq woman's nacaq-headdress. Now, you can learn to make this graceful garment. Open this booklet for step-by-step instructions on nacaq manufacture. Find a supply list, measurements for leather pieces, bead counts, and knot tying directions. It's all provided by cultural expert Kayla McDermott and accompanied by online video tutorials at www.alutiiqmuseum.org. "--Page 4 of cover.
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Shoshone-Paiute reliance on fish and other riparian resources

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Walker, Deward E.,
[2022]
The Shoshone-Paiute of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation (DVIR) are traditional fishing tribes of the northern Great Basin at the virtual upper end of the salmon migration route through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and into Nevada. The Tribes have been increasingly deprived of salmon by the sequence of dams constructed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, resulting in significant cultural, dietary, and even economic losses. The Shoshone-Paiute have, in fact, been among those Tribes most affected by the reduction in fish passage due to dams, irrigation, industrialization, and other factors such that they do not have local access to salmon at this time. Because of these developments, the Shoshone-Paiute have been forced to increasingly expand their geographic range to the far reaches of their homeland and beyond in search of still existing salmon runs. Phase I of this research reviews the published literature concerning Shoshone-Paiute fishing and documents the processes by which the Shoshone-Paiute have systematically been deprived of their fishing resource through the developments, their loss of ready accessibility to this vital resource on the DVIR, the continuing importance of fish to the Shoshone-Paiute people, and the Tribes' claims of fishing rights to realize changes in the dams' operation or other mitigation measures. It is clear that the right of the Shoshone-Paiute to continue fishing remains in effect despite the absence of fish runs proceeding from the Pacific to their homeland. Phase II examines three river systems in the Great Basin: the Owyhee, the Bruneau, and the Jarbidge and attempts to suggest potential traditional fishing sites and areas based on several criteria.
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Thunderous

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Smoker, M. L.
2022.
First US edition.
"If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage! Pursued by the trickster Raven, Aiyana struggles to get back home, but is helped by friends and allies she meets along the way. Her dangerous journey through the Spirit World tests her fortitude and challenges her to embrace her Lakota heritage. But will it be enough to defeat the cruel and powerful Raven?"--Provided by publisher.
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A snake falls to Earth

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Little Badger, Darcie,
2022.
Large print edition.
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
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Circumpolar Inuit protocols : for equitable and ethical engagement

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
"[The Circumpolar Inuit Protocols for Equitable and Ethical Engagement] should be accepted and seen by others as an invitation to consult and cooperate with Inuit by illustrating for researchers, decision-makers, and others what is needed to genuinely be responsive to the urgent call for recognizing the interrelated, interdependent, and indivisible rights of Inuit."
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Indigenous women's voices : 20 years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith's decolonizing methodologies

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
"When Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples By Linda Tuhiwai Smith was first published it ignited a passion for research change that respected Indigenous peoples, knowledges and campaigned to reclaim indigenous ways of knowing and being. At a time when Indigenous voices were marginalised, Decolonizing Methodologies advocated an Indigenous viewpoint that represented the daily struggle to be heard and to find a place in academia for Indigenous peoples. Professor Smith's ground-breaking text has been a key influence in highlighting the historical harms and barriers from Western research, as much as a handbook for the everyday attempts to decolonize research from an Indigenous perspective. Twenty years on this collection celebrates the breadth and depth of how Indigenous writers are shaping the post-colonial research worlds today. Contributions from Indigenous female researchers this collection offers the much needed academic space to distinguish methodological approaches and overcome the novelty confines of being marginal voices"--
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Workbook : to accompany a practical grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo language by Steven A. Jacobson

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Charles, Walkie.
2022
Second edition.
"The purpose of this workbook is to provide learners of Yugcetun (the Yup'ik language) with a tangible guide into the use of A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Language published by Steve Jacobson in 1995."
Book

Marvel voices : heritage.

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2022]
"Today's hottest Native American and Indigenous talent make their mark with stories that explore the rich heritage of Marvel's incredible cast of Indigenous characters!"--
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American Indian Studies : Native PhD graduates gift their stories

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
"American Indian Studies is an edited volume that gathers together the stories of Native American doctoral graduates of the American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, the first AIS program in the United States to offer a PhD. It provides a forum for ten Native graduates to assess and communicate the impact that earning a doctorate in AIS from the UA has had in their personal and professional lives, and to share their stories with a broader audience. Offering personal accounts of the challenges that Native peoples face on the road to, through, and beyond graduate education, these autobiographical essays tackle themes including a commitment to tribal community, the need for Indigenous grounded and supported doctoral education, individual perseverance, the importance of faculty/program support, academic training for a future career, career trajectories, family and personal challenges, and persistence"--
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All that we say is ours : Guujaaw and the reawakening of the Haida Nation

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Gill, Ian,
[2022]
Paperback edition.
"An important volume documenting the struggles of the Haida People and their fight for self-determination, now available in paperback. Haida Gwaii is Canada's Galapagos, a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty. It is also the ancient homeland of the Haida Nation. In the 1970s the Haida joined forces with environmentalists in a high-profile struggle to save the islands after decades of rapacious logging. The battle found powerful expression through Gidansda Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw, the visionary artist, drummer and orator who would later become president of the Council of the Haida Nation. The victories over logging interests are just one highlight in the Haida's epic, decades-long struggle to take back control of their own destiny. In 2004, they filed suit against British Columbia and Canada, laying claim to their entire traditional territory. Combining first-person accounts with vivid prose, Ian Gill captures the excitement of their struggle, from high-octane logging blockades to defiant legal challenges. Guujaaw's audacity, eloquence, tactical skills and deep knowledge of his homeland put him at the heart of the struggle, and this book reveals the extraordinary role he played in this incredible story. In chronicling the Haida's political and cultural renaissance, Gill has crafted a gripping, multilayered narrative that has reverberated far beyond the shores of Haida Gwaii."--
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Converging empires : citizens and subjects in the north Pacific borderlands, 1867-1945

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Geiger, Andrea A. E.,
[2022]
"Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the north Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II"--
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Man made monsters

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Rogers, Andrea L.,
2022.
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
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Here now : Indigenous arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2022]
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National recognition of the traditional cultural significance of X'unáx?i (Indian Point)

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Worl, Rosita K?aaháni,
2022
Book

Alutiiq traditions : an introduction to the Native culture of the Kodiak Archipelago

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Steffian, Amy F.,
2022.
Fourth edition.
Book

Atiqput : Inuit oral history and project naming

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2022]
"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life. - Piita Irniq For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming's methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization."--
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Dance of the returned

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Mihesuah, Devon A.,
2022.
"The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it seems to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. And that she must accept her destiny of violence and peacekeeping"--
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The Routledge handbook of language revitalization

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon, and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy;language in educational institutions and in the home;new methodologies and venues for language learning;and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.
Book

North American genocides : indigenous nations, settler colonialism, and international law

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Whitt, Laurelyn,
2022.
First paperback edition.
Book

Restoring the kinship worldview : indigenous voices introduce 28 precepts for rebalancing life on planet Earth

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Jacobs, Donald Trent,
[2022]
"A collection of 28 excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders that reflect the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts, accompanied by analysis"--
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Tribal sovereignty in Alaska : how it happened, what it means

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Mitchell, Donald,
[2022]
"Tribal Sovereignty in Alaska is the first comprehensive history of the Alaska Native tribal sovereignty movement. In 1932, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur explained that "the United States has had no treaty relations with any of the aborigines of Alaska nor have they been recognized as the independent tribes with a government of their own. The individual native has always and everywhere in Alaska been subject to the white man's law, both Federal and territorial, civil and criminal." As a continuation of that policy, in 1971 when Congress settled Alaska Native land claims by enacting the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, at the request of Native leaders, it required Alaska Natives to incorporate business corporations under the laws of the State of Alaska that then were conveyed land in fee title. But today the Secretary of the Interior and those same Native leaders are adamant that there are more than two hundred federally-recognized tribes in Alaska whose Alaska Native members are "sovereign" and whose governing bodies possess "inherent" governmental authority. Tribal Sovereignty in Alaska tells the story of that dramatic reversal of federal Indian policy in exhaustively researched detail"--
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Fresh banana leaves : healing indigenous landscapes through indigenous science

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Hernandez, Jessica,
[2022]
"...Jessica Hernandez-Maya Ch'orti' and Zapotec environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Piña Soul-introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vision of land stewardship that heals rather than displaces, that generates rather than destroys. She breaks down the failures of western-defined conservatism and shares alternatives, citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle; her family's fight against ecoterrorism in Latin America; and holistic land management approaches of Indigenous groups across the continent. Through case studies, historical overviews, and stories that center the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous Latin American women and land protectors, Hernandez makes the case that if we're to recover the health of our planet-for everyone-we need to stop the eco-colonialism ravaging Indigenous lands and restore our relationship with Earth to one of harmony and respect." --
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Fevered star

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Roanhorse, Rebecca,
2022.
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
"The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as far-flung enemies gather and the war in the heavens is reflected upon the earth. And for Serapio and Naranpa, both now living avatars, the struggle for free will and personhood in the face of destiny rages. How will Serapio stay human when he is steeped in prophecy and surrounded by those who desire only his power? Is there a future for Naranpa in a transformed Tova without her total destruction?"--
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K?áa eetí g?aax?í : the last cry : a review of the southeast Alaska Native mortuary complex

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Worl, Rosita K?aaháni,
2022.
Book

Southeast Alaska Native cultural memorial ceremonies manual

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2022.
Book

The upper Tanana Dene : people of this land

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Simeone, William E.,
[2023]
"This volume conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders. Oral accounts reveal a unique perspective and offer commentary on continuity and change over the past hundred years. These narratives, along with photographs and illustrations, show the history of the region alongside a portrait of the people themselves."--
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Seeing red : Indigenous land, American expansion, and the political economy of plunder in North America

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Witgen, Michael John,
[2022]
"Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence rested with the Anishinaabeg themselves. Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century, they leveraged their political savvy to advance a dual citizenship that enabled mixed-race tribal members to lay claim to a place in U.S. civil society. Telling the stories of mixed-race traders and missionaries, tribal leaders and territorial governors, Witgen challenges our assumptions about the inevitability of U.S. expansion. Deeply researched and passionately written, Seeing Red will command attention from readers who are invested in the enduring issues of equality, equity, and national belonging at its core"--
Electronic resource

Lingít g?unéi sh tóo dultóow x'úx' = Workbook for beginning to study Lingít

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Twitchell, Lance A.,
[2022]
2nd edition.
Book

I'm a killer whale : the process of cultural identity development from the perspectives of young indigenous children

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Lunda, Angela,
2022.
This qualitative single case study examined the phenomenon of cultural identity development from the perspective of young Indigenous children situated within the context of their southeast Alaskan community. Decades of assimilationist policies have eroded cultural identity among many Indigenous Alaskans, yet a strong cultural identity is known to be a protective factor for Indigenous peoples. Building on Indigenous identity development theory, the study sought to answer the research questions: (1) How do young children demonstrate their cultural identity through interactions on the Land? (2) How do community organizations support cultural identity development (CID) in young Indigenous children? (3) What role do peers play in nurturing cultural identity development (CID)? And (4) How do teachers and families nurture CID? The primary data source was video collected by children wearing forehead cameras as they engaged in semi-structured activities on the Land; video data were augmented by surveys, interviews, children's drawings, and careful observations. These methods allowed the researcher to examine the child's lived experiences to begin to untangle the rich interactions between children, the Land, parents, and educators, and to describe CID nurturing factors. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to discover themes and patterns in the data. Findings reveal that children demonstrate their Indigenous identity by learning and exhibiting traditional ecological knowledge, which includes intricate knowledge of the Land, subsistence practices, and core cultural values. The process of cultural identity development was supported by the community through vision and funding for cultural initiatives. Peers, parents, and educators contributed to the cultural identity development of the young participants by enacting moves to increase confidence and competence on the Land. This study has implications for policymakers, educators, families, and others interested in nurturing healthy identity development among young Indigenous children.
Electronic resource

Wayi wah! : Indigenous pedagogies : an act for reconciliation and anti-racist education

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Chrona, Jo,
[2022]
Electronic resource

Catching the light

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Harjo, Joy,
[2022]
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure--to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
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Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Hämäläinen, Pekka,
[2022]
First edition.
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals. From the Iroquois in the Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains, and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast, Native nations frequently decimated white newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists' land greed grew more extravagant, Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures. By 1776, various colonial powers claimed nearly all of the continent, but Indigenous peoples still controlled it--as Hämäläinen points out, the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North America in neat, color-coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact, Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century, with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn, which was not an American blunder, but an all-too-expected outcome. Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of "colonial America" is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. The evidence of Indigenous defiance is apparent today in the hundreds of Native nations that still dot the United States and Canada. Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history.
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Old woman with berries in her lap : poems

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Prescott, Vivian Faith,
[2022]
First edition.
"Through a single descendant's voice that speaks to the Sámi diaspora, this collection of poems is a journey through colonialism, transgenerational trauma, and identity. Many have heard of the Sámi reindeer herders brought to Alaska by Sheldon Jackson in the 1800s, but not much is known about the Sámi diaspora experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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The gift of the Middle Tanana : Dene pre-colonial history in the Alaskan interior

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Smith, Gerad M.,
[2022]
"In this book, Gerad Smith explores the history, ethnography, and archaeological record of the Native people living in the Middle Tanana Valley in Alaska during the late Holocene. Smith illustrates how the role of deep-play rituals of reciprocity shaped a traditional society that has lasted over a thousand years"--
Book

Blood snow

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Okpik, Dg Nanouk,
[2022]
First edition.
"A collection of poetry by dg nanouk okpik"--
Book

Pollution is colonialism

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Liboiron, Max,
2021.
Electronic resource

Material traditions [DVD] : voices from cedar

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"In 2015, the Alaska office of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center hosted a week-long artists' residency at the Anchorage museum, bringing together Southwest Alaska carvers John Hudson (Tsimshian), Norman Jackson (Tlingit) and Donald Varnell (Haida). During the residency in Anchorage and at a weekend workshop in Ketchikan that followed, John Hudson taught students how to carve a whistle from red cedar. The educational videos presented here introduce the Southeast Alaska tradition of making wind instruments, with a focus on the whistle. John, a Master artist, shares his in-depth knowledge, and he teaches about the materials, tools and techniques for making a cedar whistle."--Provide by publisher
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD] :

The structure of days out : with storytellers, hunters and their descendants in a Native Alaskan community, 1973-1981

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Lowenstein, Tom,
2021.
Book

Unigkuat : Kodiak Alutiiq Legends

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Action and mystery, long journeys and valuable lessions - these are the ingredients of Alutiiq legends. In a village terrified by an enormous octopus, people work together to kill the beast. A young man apprentices to a whaler and learns mysterious secrets about hunting the largest sea mammels. A community mistreats Raven and his grandmother, and the people die of starvation. This book shares sixty-two traditiional tales from Alaksa's Kodiak Archipelago, compiled from stories told by Alutiiq Elders over the past 150 years. In each legend, readers learn about the Alutiiq world-the origins of the moon and the sun, how animals can sometimes appear as people, the importance of respectful hunting, and most of all how generosity, bravery, and perseverance are essential to a happy and successful life. Illustrated with images by contemporary community artists" -- Back cover.
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Adjusting the lens : indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation."--
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The gatherings : reimagining Indigenous-settler relations

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Hager, Shirley N.,
[2021]
"Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory - a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes - a group of Native and non-Native individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. What price do we pay for the tragic, unresolved, and fraught relationship between generations of settlers and Indigenous peoples of the land? Can the divide be bridged and, if so, how? Meeting over several years in long-weekend gatherings, in a Wabanaki-led traditional Council format, assumptions were challenged, perspectives upended, and stereotypes shattered. Alliances and friendships were formed that endure to this day. The Gatherings tells the moving story of these meetings in the words of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants. Reuniting to reflect on how their lives were changed by their experiences and how they continue to be impacted by them, the participants share the valuable lessons they learned. Themes emerge, such as the mutual benefits that can be achieved by coming together; what meeting in a Talking Circle, surrounded by ceremony, taught the participants; and what Indigenous ways of knowing can teach us all. The participants were given a rare window into one another's lives and, in The Gatherings, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers may come to view one another with new eyes. The many voices represented in The Gatherings offer insights and strategies that can inform change at the individual, group, and systems levels. These voices affirm that authentic relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples - with their attendant anxieties, guilt, anger, embarrassments, and, with time, even laughter and mutual affection -- are key to our shared futures here in North America. Now, more than ever, it is critical that we come together to reimagine Indigenous-settler relations."--
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Inventing the thrifty gene : the science of settler colonialism

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Hay, Travis,
[2021]
"Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable healthcare, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of "Aboriginal diabetes" and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to type-II diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer genes. Hay's study begins with Charles Darwin's travels and his observations on the Indigenous peoples he encountered to set the context for Canadian histories of medicine and colonialism, which are rooted in Victorian science and empire. It continues in the mid-twentieth century with a look at nutritional experimentation during the long career of Percy Moore, the medical director of Indian Affairs (1946-1965). Hay then turns to James Neel's invention of the thrifty gene hypothesis in 1962 and Robert Hegele's reinvention and application of the hypothesis to Sandy Lake First Nation in northern Ontario in the 1990s. Finally, Hay demonstrates the way in which settler colonial science was responded to and resisted by Indigenous leadership in Sandy Lake First Nation, who used monies from the thrifty gene study to fund wellness programs in their community. Inventing the Thrifty Gene exposes the exploitative nature of settler science with Indigenous subjects, the flawed scientific theories stemming from faulty assumptions of Indigenous decline and disappearance, as well as the severe inequities in Canadian healthcare that persist even today."--
Electronic resource

Dadibaajim : returning home through narrative

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Agger, Helen,
[2021]
"Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg to the care, use, and occupation of their Trout Lake homelands. When Agger's mother, Dedibaayaanimanook, was born in 1922, the community had limited contact with Euro-Canadian settlers and still lived throughout their territory according to seasonal migrations along agricultural, hunting, and fishing routes. By the 1940s, colonialism was in full swing: hydro development had resulted in major flooding of traditional territories, settlers had overrun Trout Lake for its resource, tourism, and recreational potential, and the Namegosibii Anishinaabe were forced out of their homelands in Treaty 3 territory, north-western Ontario. Agger mines an archive of treaty paylists, census records, and the work of influential anthropologists like A.I. Hallowell, but the dadibaajim narratives of eight community members spanning three generations form the heart of this book. Dadibaajim provide the framework that fills in the silences and omissions of the colonial record. Embedded in Anishinaabe language and epistemology, they record how the people of Namegosibiing experienced the invasion of interlocking forces of colonialism and globalized neo-liberalism into their lives and upon their homelands. Ultimately, Dadibaajim is a message about how all humans may live well on the earth."--
Electronic resource

Papers of the Fiftieth Algonquian Conference

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarship from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, education, ethnography, history, Indigenous studies, language studies, literature, music, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Contributors often cite never-before-published data in their research, giving the reader a fresh and unique insight into the Algonquian peoples and rendering these papers essential reading for those interested in studying Algonquian society."--
Electronic resource

Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Devens, Carol.
2021.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Electronic resource

Singing for Power [electronic resource] : The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona.

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Underhill, Ruth Murray.
2021.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.
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JLC Title 245h [electronic resource] :

To make my name good : a reexamination of the southern Kwakiutl potlatch

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Drucker, Philip,
[2021]
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Electronic resource

The Routledge handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
Electronic resource

The Hatak witches

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Mihesuah, Devon A.,
[2021]
"After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children's Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. The detectives are baffled at the lack of fingerprints, footprints, or any obvious means to enter the locked building. The only initial clues are owl feathers found scattered in the basement. While perusing old archival records, Monique discovers that the motive for the crimes was to steal an ancient and deformed half-human, half-bird skeleton from the seldom-used and neglected physical anthropology archives known as the 'Room of Secrets.' She consults with her uncle, the spiritual leader Leroy Bear Red Ears, who concludes that the stolen remains are those of Hatak haksi, a witch and the matriarch of the Crow family, a group of centuries-old Choctaws who can shift into ishkitini-great horned owls. The witch's pelvis was left behind, however, because it did not fit through the air duct the owls used to escape the museum. Monique, Leroy, and Chris, along with her cousins Dustin and Andrew, plan to confront the Crows. The problem is that the Crows inhabit the Choctaws' mythological underground tunnel, the dark passage the tribe traveled after their creation eons ago. One of the cave's entrances is located on Chalakwa Ranch, a property owned by Monique's cousin Andrew. It is a treacherous place for the group to challenge the Crow family, but aided by Leroy's wisdom, the witch's missing pelvis, and the unexpected appearance of the Old Ones who guard the lands of Choctaw afterlife, Monique and her colleagues manage to defeat the Crows"--
Book

Sustaining Indigenous languages : connecting communities, teachers, and scholars

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

What kind of ancestor do you want to be?

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
"What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? challenges our relationship to the environment and to each other, not only now but across generations. It is an important question for our time, when communities have become fragmented by a global consumer society, when our selves have become isolated in a competitive and technology-driven economy, and when our spiritual, social, and ecological impacts on human and other-than-human beings extend farther than ever imagined due to globalization and climate change. Through interviews and poetic snapshots into the experience of Indigenous people and others, this book demands that the reader think about how contemporary concerns oblige us to see ourselves as someone's future ancestor and, in turn, creates for the reader a different way of looking at his or her traditions and self"--
Book

Tetsó?t'iné verb grammar : tetsó?t'iné yatié k'ízí? t'at'ú henadhër yatié e?tth'i e?aníílye

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Jaker, Alessandro,
[date of publication not identified]
Book

Native actors and filmmakers : visual storytellers

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Robinson, Gary,
[2021]
"Twelve biographies follow the career paths of Native people who work in the complex entertainment industry, either in front of or behind the camera. Included are descriptions of what each member of a production team does, as well as advice on what it takes to get started in the entertainment industry"--
Book

An ethnohistory of the Chisana River basin

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Easton, Norman Alexander,
2021.
Book

We all go back to the land : the who, why, and how of land acknowledgements

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Keeptwo, Suzanne,
[2021]
"Land Acknowledgements often begin academic conferences, cultural events, government press gatherings, and even hockey games. They are supposed to be an act of Reconciliation between Indigenous people in Canada and non-Indigenous Canadians, but they have become so routine and formulaic that they have sometimes lost meaning. Seen more and more as empty words, some events have dropped Land Acknowledgements altogether. Métis artist and educator Suzanne Keeptwo wants to change that. She sees the Land Acknowledgement as an opportunity for Indigenous people in Canada to communicate their worldview to non-Indigenous Canadians--a message founded upon Age Old Wisdom about how to sustain the Land we all want to call home."--
Book

Resilience through writing : a bibliographic guide to Indigenous-authored publications in the Pacific Northwest before 1960

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Walls, Robert E.,
2021.
Book

Ts?exeey iin Naabia Niign xah nahiholnegn : women tell stories about Northway

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Sam, Avis,
2021
"The bilingual stories in this book illustrate the rapidly changing world of the Upper Tanana Dene in Northway, Alaska. Avis Sam, Sherry Demit-Barnes, and the late Darlene Northway tell traditional stories, relate historical events, share their memories, and offer teachings for the young. They are passionate about their language and deeply knowledgeable about their traditional culture." --from back cover.
Book

Enduring critical poses : the legacy and life of Anishinaabe literature and letters

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition"--
Electronic resource

The deaths of Sybil Bolton : oil, greed, and murder on the Osage Reservation

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

McAuliffe, Dennis,
2021.
Electronic resource

What was said to me : the life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan woman

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Peter, Ruby,
2021.
"A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one's place in the world. This first-person oral history--the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum--documents a period of profound social change through the lens of Sti'tum'atul'wut--also known as Mrs. Ruby Peter--a Cowichan elder who made it her life's work to share and safeguard the ancient language of her people: Hul'q'umi'num'. Over seven decades, Sti'tum'atul'wut mentored hundreds of students and teachers and helped thousands of people to develop a basic knowledge of the Hul'q'umi'num' language. She contributed to dictionaries and grammars, and helped assemble a valuable corpus of stories, sound and video files--with more than 10,000 pages of texts from Hul'q'umi'num' speakers--that has been described as "a treasure of linguistic and cultural knowledge." Without her passion, commitment and expertise, this rich legacy of material would not exist for future generations. In 1997 Vancouver Island University anthropologist Helene Demers recorded Sti'tum'atul'wut's life stories over nine sessions. The result is rich with family and cultural history--a compelling narrative of resistance and resilience that promises to help shape progressive social policy for generations to follow."--
Electronic resource

Our relations... the mixed bloods : indigenous transformation and dispossession in the western great lakes

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Nesper, Larry,
[2021]
Electronic resource

Indigenous languages and the promise of archives

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

JLC Corporate Author Translating across Time and Space: Endangered Languages, Cultural Revitalization, and the Work of History (Symposium), (2016 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
[2021]
"Explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society's Library materials as twenty-first century scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities"--
Electronic resource

Determination of Alaska Native status under the Marine Mammal Protection Act : a research report

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Langdon, Steve,
2021
Book

Inuinnaqtun English : Dictionary

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021
Second edition.
Book

"The Spirit Wraps Around You" welcome

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"The Spirit Wraps Around You exhibit at the Alaska State Museum looks at the history of Northwest Coast weaving and features 24 Chilkat and Ravenstail robes. Artists, dancers, and the community welcome these robes to the Museum."--Publishers website
Electronic resource

The Spirit Wraps Around You closing ceremony

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"The Spirit Wraps Around You: Northern Northwest Coast Native Textiles brought together two dozen Chilkat and Ravenstail woven robes for the first time. To celebrate the robes, their histories, and their weavers at the end of the exhibit, members of a Southeast dance group donned a selection of the robes and danced them into the collections storage area at the Alaska State Museum."--Publishers website
Electronic resource

A history of Native textiles on the northern northwest coast

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Henrikson, Steve,
[2021]
"Curator of Collections Steve Henrikson discusses the history of northern Northwest Coast Native textiles featured in The Spirit Wraps Around You exhibit at the Alaska State Museum."--Publishers website
Electronic resource

The Spirit Wraps Around You with Steve Henrikson

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Tour The Spirit Wraps Around You: Northern Northwest Coast Native Textiles with Alaska State Museum Curator of Collections Steve Henrikson. The exhibit traces the history of the sacred textiles known today as "Ravenstail" and "Chilkat" robes."--Publishers website
Electronic resource

FINE IN THE WORLD : lumbee language in time and place.

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
Electronic resource

Native foodways : indigenous North American religious traditions and foods

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures"--
Electronic resource

The Indigenous paleolithic of the western hemisphere

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Steeves, Paulette F. C.,
2021.
The Indigenous paleolithic of the western hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 years ago) but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years. Steeves discusses the political history of American anthropology to focus on why pre-Clovis sites have been dismissed by the field for nearly a century. She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations. Additionally, she highlights the work and struggles faced by a small yet vibrant group of American and European archaeologists who have excavated and reported on numerous pre-Clovis archaeology sites. In this first book on Paleolithic archaeology of the Americas written from an Indigenous perspective, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere includes Indigenous oral traditions, archaeological evidence, and a critical and decolonizing discussion of the development of archaeology in the Americas.
Electronic resource

Rock art in an indigenous landscape : from Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Lenik, Edward J.,
[2021]
"Examines a host of rock art sites from Nova Scotia to Maryland"--
Electronic resource

The sentence : a novel

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Erdrich, Louise,
[2021].
First edition.
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
Content Time Period d2019 d2020
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Urban indigenous youth reframing two-spirit

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Laing, Marie,
2021.
"This book offers insights from young trans, queer and two-spirit Indigenous people in Toronto who examine the breadth and depth of meanings that two-spirit holds. Tracing the refusals and desires of these youth and their communities, Urban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two-Spirit expands critical conversations on queerness, Indigeneity, and community and simultaneously troubles the idea that articulating a definition of two-spirit is a worthwhile undertaking. Beyond the expansion of these conversations, this book also seeks to empower community members, educators, and young people - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous - to better support the self-determination of trans, queer and two-spirit Indigenous youth. By including a research zine and community discussion guidelines, Laing demonstrates the possibility of powerful change that comes from Indigenous people creating spaces to share knowledge with one another"--
Book

We all go back to the land : the who, why, and how of land acknowledgements

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Keeptwo, Suzanne,
[2021]
Electronic resource

Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai,
2021.
Third edition.
"To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.Now in its eagerly awaited third edition, this bestselling book includes a co-written introduction features contributions from indigenous scholars on the book's continued relevance to current research. It also features a chapter with twenty-five indigenous projects and a collection of poetry." -- provided by publisher.
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The man of the moon : and other stories from Greenland

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Bjerre, Gunvor,
2021.
English edition.
"Based primarily on explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen's transcriptions of oral tales, the stories in this anthology of old Greenlandic myths and legends have been passed down through generations. This collection features stories about children and young people--stories that were told in the depths of winter, that the youngest listeners would one day tell to their own children."--
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Nedí nez? = Good medicine : poems

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Campbell, Tenille K.,
[2021]
"A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedí nez? (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates--not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship Indigenous women have with mainstream society, this poetry collection doesn't shy away from depicting the gorgeous diversity in decolonized desire. Instead, Campbell creates the most intimate of spaces, where the tea is hot and a seat is waiting at the kitchen table, surrounded by the tantalizing laughter of aunties telling stories. These wise, jubilant poems chronicle many failed attempts at romance, with the wry humour needed to not take these heartbreaks personally, and the growth that comes from sitting in the silence of living a solo life in a world that insists everyone should be partnered up. With a knowing smile, this book side-eyes the political existence and celebrates the lived experience of an Indigenous woman falling in love and lust with those around her--but, most importantly, with herself."--
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Mitoni niya nêhiyaw - nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya = Cree is who I truly am - me, I am truly a Cree woman

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Whitecalf, Sarah,
[2021]
"Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918-20, to murder committed in a jealous rage, to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who grant her healing powers upon her release. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the impacts of colonialism but also, in a key chapter, with her loneliness while tending a relative's children in a place far from home--and away from the company of other women. Her experiences and reactions throw fresh light on the lives lived by Plains Cree women on the Canadian prairies over much of the twentieth century. Sarah Whitecalf (1919-1991) spoke Cree exclusively, spending most of her life at Nakiwacîhk / Sweetgrass Reserve on the North Saskatchewan River. This is where Leonard Bloomfield was told what would be collected as Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree in 1925 and where a decade later David Mandelbaum apprenticed himself to Kâ-miyokîsihkwêw / Fineday, the step-grandfather in whose family Sarah Whitecalf grew up. In presenting a Cree woman's view of her world, these memoirs directly reflect the spoken word: Sarah Whitecalf's reminiscences are here printed in Cree exactly as she recorded them, with a close English translation on the facing page. These chapters constitute an autobiography of great personal authority and rare authenticity."--
Electronic resource

Sho Sho Esquiro : Doctrine of Discovery

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021
"Sho Sho Esquiro: Doctrine of Discovery features exquisite fashion, textiles and paintings by artist Sho Sho Belelige Esquiro (Kaska Dena/Cree/Scottish). Sho Sho's creative vision balances the beauty of her clothing with powerful symbolism that is meant to prompt important discussions. These are stories that need to be heard." -- from page 6.
Book

Ircenrraat : other-than-human persons in Southwest Alaska

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Rearden, Alice,
2021.
"During the authors' many discussions with Yup'ik elders in southwest Alaska, the subject of ircenrraat, the little people, would pop up. They are said to be miniature and very crafty, and they exist in a different dimension with the ability to appear and disappear as they please in our world. People who have encountered them have seen them hunting, fishing, and gathering together as our own people do. Ircenrraat was written under the auspices of Calista Education and Culture and prepared by the Alaska Native Language Center. The 549-page paperback also contains 24 maps and photographs."--Calista Education and Culture website (http://www.calistaeducation.org/featured-books.html).
Book

The Red Deal : Indigenous action to save our earth

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
"As the Red Nation proclaims, it is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen and come together to confront climate disaster, and build a world where all life can thrive. The Red Deal is a political program for the liberation that emerges from the oldest class struggle in the Americas-the fight by Native people to win sovereignty, autonomy, and dignity. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a call for action to everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. Offering a profound vision for a decolonial society, The Red Deal is not simply a response to the Green New Deal, or a "bargain" with the elite and powerful. It is a deal with the humble people of the earth; an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives; and a pact with movements for liberation, life, and land for a new world of peace and justice that must come from below and to the left"--
Book

Indigenous research of land, self, and spirit

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021].
"This book explores recurrent generational implications and ongoing challenges with land dispossession, relocation, reacquisition, governmental influences, and economic impacts to contemporary indigenous land cultures"--
Electronic resource

Redesigning teaching, leadership, and indigenous education in the 21st century

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
"This book explores the changes and challenges that educational systems encounter as they increase the use of technology and the flattening of access to education from an international perspective"--
Electronic resource

Pollution is colonialism

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Liboiron, Max,
2021.
"An interdisciplinary book written by Métis scientist and activist Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism shows how doing environmental research and activism is often premised on a colonial worldview even when practitioners are working towards benevolent goals. The book lays out key terms and a framework for understanding scientific research methods as ways of being in the world that can align with or against colonialism. Liboiron models an anti-colonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous concepts of land, ethics, and relations, all while taking up the project of Western science, dealing with issues of compromise and conflicting ideas of good relations"--
Book

Black sun

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Roanhorse, Rebecca,
2021.
First Saga Press paperback edition.
"A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man's mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade"--
Book

Louise Erdrich's justice trilogy : cultural and critical contexts

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Louise Erdrich is one of the most important, prolific, and widely read contemporary Indigenous writers. Much of the growing body of scholarship on Erdrich analyzes earlier novels (especially Love Medicine, Tracks, and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse). This collection of essays focuses specifically on the three novels that comprise Erdrich's justice trilogy-The Plague of Doves (2008), The Round House (2012), and LaRose (2016)-which are set in northern North Dakota, where small towns and reservation life bring together a vibrant cast of characters whose lives are shaped by history, identity, and community. The volume consists of an introduction and nine essays, and includes contextual materials (reader's guide chapters and a glossary of non-English words for all three novels, plus an interview with Erdrich)"-- Provided by publisher.
Book

Routledge handbook of indigenous wellbeing

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
Book

Encountering the sovereign other : Indigenous science fiction

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Brown Spiers, Miriam C.,
[2021]
"Encountering the Sovereign Other proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous science fiction, placing Native theorists like Vine Deloria Jr., and Gregory Cajete in conversation with science fiction theorists like Darko Suvin, David Higgins, and Michael Pinsky. Miriam C. Brown Spiers analyzes four novels: William Sanders's The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, Stephen Graham Jones's It Came From Del Rio, D. L. Birchfield's Field of Honor, and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears. For these writers, science fiction is a useful compass for navigating and surviving the distinct challenges of the twenty-first century"--
Book

Routledge handbook of critical indigenous studies

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
Book

We are the land : a history of Native California

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Akins, Damon B.,
[2021]
"Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood-paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish Missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today's casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policy-makers interested in a history that centers the native experience"--Provided by publisher.
Book

The plague of doves : a novel

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Erdrich, Louise,
2021.
First Harper Perennial Olive Edition.
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
Book

Take home a treasure from Alaska : buy authentic Alaska Native art.

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
Book

Nang jáadaa sg1áana 'láanaa aa isdáayaan

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"When a woman is carried off by killer whales, her husband embarks on a journey to get her back. Originally published in English as The Woman Carried Away by Killer Whales, this traditional Haida story has been translated into Xaad Kíl, the Haida language."--Dust jacket flap
Book

Tlingit dictionary

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Twitchell, Lance A.,
2021.
First edition.
Book

Inventing the thrifty gene : the science of settler colonialism

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

The 500 years of Indigenous resistance comic book

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Hill, Gord,
[2021]
Revised and expanded.
"A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas. When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in colour for the first time. The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book powerfully portrays flashpoints in history when Indigenous peoples have risen up and fought back against colonizers and other oppressors. Events depicted include the Spanish conquest of the Aztec, Mayan and Inca empires; the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890; the resistance of the Great Plains peoples in the 19th century; and more recently, the Idle No More protests supporting Indigenous sovereignty and rights in 2012 and 2013, and the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Canadian events depicted include the Oka crisis in 1990, the Grand River land dispute between Six Nations and the Government of Canada in 2006, and the Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline protests in 2020. With strong, plain language and evocative illustrations, this revised and expanded edition of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book reveals the tenacity and perseverance of Indigenous peoples as they endured 500-plus years of genocide, massacre, torture, rape, displacement, and assimilation: a necessary antidote to conventional histories of the Americas. The book includes a foreword by Pamela Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor, and political commentator."--
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Herring and people of the North Pacific : sustaining a keystone species

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Thornton, Thomas F.,
[2021]
"Herring (Clupea pallasii) is vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically is the most important fish species in the northern hemisphere, where it is valued for its oil, bait, eggs, and sac roe. This comprehensive case study traces the development of fisheries in Southeast Alaska from pre-contact indigenous relationships to herring to the post-contact fisheries, with comparative reference to other North Pacific cultures. Its interdisciplinary approach, which combines ethnological, historical, archaeological, and political perspectives, makes Herring and People in the North Pacific unique in literature on indigenous peoples, fisheries management, and marine social-ecological systems.Among the volume's findings are that: *present herring stocks, even in highly productive areas of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, are being managed in a depleted status, representing a fraction of their historical abundance and distribution; * significant long-term impacts on herring distribution and abundance have been anthropogenic; * human dependence on herring as a food resource evolved through interactions with key spawning areas with abundant substrates for egg deposition (such as macrocystis kelp, rockweed, and eelgrass); and * maintenance of diverse spawning locations in Southeast Alaska is critical to conserving intraspecies biodiversity. Local and traditional knowledge (LTK)-in combination with archeological, historical, and biological data-is shown to play a critical role in developing understanding of marine ecology, valuation of herring in North Pacific social-ecological systems, and restoration of herring stocks toward their former abundance"--
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Violence and indigenous communities : confronting the past and engaging the present

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2021.
"This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, survival, and healing"--
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A girl called Echo. Vol. 4, Road allowance era

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Vermette, Katherena,
[2021]
"In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster Town" in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
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Library and information studies for Arctic social sciences and humanities

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2021.
"Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include: the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers and students working the fields of library, archival and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe"--
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Staging indigeneity : salvage tourism and the performance of Native American history

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Phillips, Katrina M.,
[2021]
"As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like 'Tecumseh!' in Chillicothe, Ohio, and 'Unto These Hills' in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisive book reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls 'salvage tourism' - a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing"--
Book

Firekeeper's daughter

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Boulley, Angeline,
2021.
First edition.
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Plants of Haida Gwaii = X?aadaa gwaay gud gina k?'aws = X?aadaa gwaayee guu ginn k?'aws

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Turner, Nancy J.,
[2021]
Third edition.
"For many thousands of years the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii have been home to the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of Haida knowledge holders and botanical experts, is a detailed and insightful record of the traditional uses of over 150 species of native plants. Moreover, it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia. The Haida names of these plants indicate their importance, as do the many narratives featuring them. From the ts'uu--massive western red-cedars--of the forests which provide wood used for canoes, house posts, poles and boxes, and bark carefully harvested for weaving mats, baskets and hats, to the ngaal--tough, resilient fronds of giant kelp--used to harvest herring eggs, the botanical species used by the Haida are found from the ocean to the mountain tops, and are as important today as ever before. With over 250 photographs and illustrations, this book is both beautiful and informative."--
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Sustainable tradition : the beauty of the northern sea otter in Alaska native art.

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2021.
Book

Sugar Falls : a residential school story

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Robertson, David,
[2021]
10th anniversary edition.
"From Governor-General's Award-winning writer David A. Robertson comes this special edition of the timeless graphic novel that introduced the world to the awe-inspiring resilience of Betty Ross, and shared her story of strength, family, and culture. A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalled the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that gave her the resilience, strength, and determination to survive. Sugar Falls is based on the true story of Betty Ross, Elder from Cross Lake First Nation. We wish to acknowledge, with the utmost gratitude, Betty's generosity in sharing her story. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Sugar Falls goes to support the bursary program for The Helen Betty Osborne Memorial Foundation. This 10th-anniversary edition brings David A. Robertson's national bestseller to life in full colour, with a foreword by Senator Murray Sinclair, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and a touching afterword from Elder Betty Ross herself"--
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Where the power is : Indigenous perspectives on Northwest Coast art

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Duffek, Karen,
2021.
"Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of ¿?¿art¿?¿ or ¿?¿artifact¿?¿ and embody distinct ways of knowing and being in the world. Dozens of Indigenous artists and community members visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to engage with these objects and learn from the hands of their ancestors. The photographs and their commentaries speak to the connections between tangible and intangible cultural belongings; how ¿?¿art¿?¿ remains part of Northwest Coast peoples¿?¿ ongoing relationships to their territories and governance; Indigenous experiences of reconnection, reclamation, and return; and critical and necessary conversations around the role of museums."--
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Guide to sources for the study of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Volume 1

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2021
December 18, 2021 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). The settlement of 44 million acres of land and close to a billion dollars is the largest settlement of Native land claims in American history. The Act created a new reality for Alaska Natives with greater political, social and economic power, and changed the way that the United States government settles Native land claims. The Act produced a corporate structure designed to provide economic incentives for twelve regional corporations to build equity for their shareholders. Since passage, ANCSA has transformed the economic landscape of Alaska with the Native owned regional corporations bringing wealth and providing major stimulus to the state’s economy. However, ANCSA extinguished Aboriginal title to the land and Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights, severely restricting the extent of Native control over the land ceded to them. ANCSA is often viewed as an historic movement that culminated in the 1971 settlement, but it is also a continually evolving significant part of Native life that has been amended over the years to address issues such as who owns shares, how earnings are distributed, and how provisions can be made for encouraging and facilitating Native hire. The Alaska Historical Society wanted to recognize the movement that led to ANCSA and its evolving significance. This “Guide to Resources for the Study of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)” is the result of a year-long effort to locate primary archival, published and on-line sources useful to anyone interested in learning about ANCSA.
Electronic resource

Guide to sources for the study of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Volume 2 : Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), bibliography

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2021
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 USC 1601-1624) -- Public Law 92-203, approved December 18, 1971 (85 Stat. 688) has been the subject of a number of bibliographies compiled since the act was passed in 1971. They include stand-alone publications and ones that are in published books about the act. The bibliography that follows was initiated for commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the landmark legislation, especially to add sources published since the 40th anniversary and to be helpful for a researcher initiating a study. The first publications generally provided background historical context and summarized the law, although from the start critics of the legislation published works expressing their concerns. After the regional and village corporations organized and land selections started, sections of the act needed clarification, and Congress began to amend the law. Numerous articles appeared in legal journals as issues such as the extinguishment of aboriginal hunting and fishing rights, tax issues, the revenue sharing plans, and tribal sovereignty were debated and clarified. As the twenty-year implementation period neared 1991, writers assessed the law’s successes and failures. Several movement leaders wrote memoirs. Historians began to write books, with context as well as details of implementation of the act and to interpret the impact of the legislation on Alaska Native people, the State of Alaska, and federal Indian policy. In addition to printed works, radio and television programs, oral history projects, films, video productions, and recently, podcasts have been produced.
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Guide to sources for the study of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Volume 3 : resources for teaching ANCSA at 50

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2021
Teaching about ANCSA upon its 50th anniversary presents numerous challenges, but also several significant opportunities for developing a deeper understanding of the complex issues facing Alaska Natives, neighboring non-Native peoples, and the State of Alaska. The history of the birth of ANCSA, its passage, and its impact over the first forty years is well known and the subject of numerous studies. Since the passage of ANCSA in 1971, the Alaska Native community, the University of Alaska, Alaskool, Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native organizations, the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, the Alaska Humanities Forum, and the Alaska State Department of Early Education have devoted considerable professional energies and expertise developing and offering the tools for examining and teaching about this extraordinary legislation up to 2020. Currently, in 2021, there are well developed syllabi for elementary students (3rd grade), early high school students (9th grade), and for college/university students in lower as well as upper division courses. The purpose of this guide to resources for teaching ANCSA at 50 is to add to and build upon the two principle syllabi that currently exist: (1) the Alaskool online course elementary and high-school students developed by Paul Ongtagook and Claudia Dybdahl; and (2) the 2011 online upper-division university level class developed originally by Professor Gordon Pullar (UAF Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development RD 493/693 — Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Pre-1971 to present] and taught subsequently by Professor Dixie Dayo and Professor Diane Benson. There are other teacher guides readily available, such as “A Moment in Time--ANCSA: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act” (the Education Department of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center), and a new syllabus for public schools has been developed by Joel Isaac on behalf of the Anchorage School District (not yet published; due in 2022, but included in the addendum to this guide). Because the topic of ANCSA at its half-century anniversary is so complex and the resources so many and varied, it seems the most helpful initial tool for teachers and/or community leaders seeking to lead discussions is to organize a resource aid useful and accessible to teachers and/or community leaders to review the historical narrative and introduce the topics. Because there are many excellent histories and syllabi devoted to understanding and teaching about ANCSA from its inception to the present, the “Guide to the Teaching Resources” seeks to focus on several “enduring critical issues” as identified by scholars, teachers, and Alaska Native leaders to add to the basic architecture for teaching ANCSA at 50. This Resource Guide is envisioned also as an introduction for instructors to the several “enduring critical issues” facing the Alaska Native and non-Native communities in the context of ANCSA legislation after half-a-century of experience. The single most important and accessible collection of materials useful for teaching about ANCSA, its origins, the drama of the passage of the Act, and many of the commentaries about the meaning and impact of ANCSA may be found in: http://www.alaskool.org/java/teachers_tour/tour1.html. NOTE: Navigate to “Revisiting the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)” – an important resource for many basic documents and discussions about the origins and development of ANCSA.
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The arts of Indigenous health and well-being

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2021.
"Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the “good life”, or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic expression furthers cultural continuity and resilience, community connection, and kinship to push back against forces of fracture and disruption imposed by colonialism. The need for healing—not only individuals but health systems and practices—is clear, especially as the trauma of colonialism is continually revealed and perpetuated within health systems. The field of Indigenous health has recently begun to recognize the fundamental connection between creative expression and well-being. This book brings together scholarship by humanities scholars, social scientists, artists, and those holding experiential knowledge from across Turtle Island to add urgently needed perspectives to this conversation. Contributors embrace a diverse range of research methods, including community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous youth, artists, Elders, and language keepers. The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being demonstrates the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions. This book will resonate with health practitioners, community members, and any who recognize the power of art as a window, an entryway to access a healthy and good life."--
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Iqsanim Ancirsuutii = Iqsani's trout hook

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Drabek, Alisha S.,
[2021]
"A fictional story about a family who lived in Larsen Bay about 300 years ago. This family spent their summers at Karluk Lake, fishing and preparing food for the winter. Through this story we learn about the daily activities at fish camp and the ways Alutiiq people used natural resources like fish, cottonwood, feathers, and berries. This story is inspired by the finds from an ancestral Alutiiq village, studied by archaeologists. At the end of the book readers learn about these finds and their connections to Iqsani's story."--Publisher's website
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Addressing a complex resource conflict : humans, sea otters, and shellfish in Southeast Alaska

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Ibarra, Sonia Natalie,
2021.
Complex resource conflicts may benefit from the inclusion of social-ecological systems approaches that recognize the complex linkages between humans and their environment. Competition for shared shellfish resources by sea otters and humans in Southeast Alaska has caused food security concerns, cultural and economic losses, and uncertainty about the future of various fisheries, including rural subsistence-based fisheries. In rural Alaska Native communities, access to subsistence resources are critical to maintaining a way of life, with deeply rooted knowledge systems that are tied to the land, water, and natural resources. This dissertation documents Indigenous and local knowledge of Alaska Native customary and traditional food experts, sea otter hunters, and elders (hereafter harvest experts) to understand empirical observation and interpretations of restoring balance with sea otters. This work took place within the traditional territories of the Tlingit and Haida people of Southeast Alaska in four rural communities, Kake, Klawock, Craig, and Hydaburg. With Tribal leaders and harvest experts, my collaborators and I used a participatory framework that became a formal partnership to co-develop study goals, objectives, and methodology. Through a multiple evidence-based approach, I co-conducted semidirected and site visit interviews, structured questionnaires, mapping exercises, and participant observation in all four communities, and intertidal bivalve (shellfish) surveys in Hydaburg and Kake. Qualitative and quantitative approaches revealed local and Indigenous knowledge about sea otters caused changes to subsistence shellfish resources and harvesting patterns that included declines in availability and spatial extent of shellfish harvests, and shifts in shellfish harvest hotspots. Community adaptive strategies to observed shellfish declines include shifting harvest locations away from sea otter presence. Community management recommendations about restoring balance with sea otters include increasing sea otter hunting locally using spatially explicit techniques. Financial subsidies for sea otter hunters, creating local tanneries, legal changes to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and market creation and development for sea otter handicrafts were noted as solutions to barriers of local implementation to management recommendations. Commercial and charter fisheries are other factors that have contributed to shellfish declines. Butter clam (Saxidomus gigantea) size and density declined with increased distance to community and increased sea otter activity near Hydaburg, demonstrating the influence of sea otters and human harvests on bivalve population dynamics. Application of these results about Indigenous knowledge, management, and governance systems to sea otter management in Alaska could create a more inclusive, equitable and community-driven management approach.
Electronic resource

An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Mays, Kyle,
[2021]
Electronic resource

Iljuwas : kihlguula kil 'yuwans = Bill Reid : to speak with a golden voice

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
Book

Traditional ecological knowledge : learning from indigenous practices for environmental sustainability

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
First paperback edition.
Book

So much more than art : Indigenous miniatures of the Pacific Northwest

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Davy, Jack,
2021.
"Miniatures - canoes, houses and totems, and human figurines - have been produced on the Northwest Coast since at least the sixteenth century. What has motivated Indigenous artists to produce these tiny artworks? Through case studies and conversations with artists themselves, So Much More Than Art convincingly dismisses the persistent understanding that miniatures are simply children's toys or tourist trinkets. Jack Davy's highly original exploration of this intricate pursuit demonstrates the importance of miniaturization as a technique for communicating complex cultural ideas between generations and communities, as well as across the divide that separates Indigenous and settler societies."--
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Sound relations native ways of doing music history in Alaska

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Perea, Jessica Bissett,
[2021]
"Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to amplify the broader significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. The book offers radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit music across a range of genres-from hip hop to Christian hymnody and drumsongs to funk and R&B - to register how a density (not difference) of Indigenous ways of musicking from a vast archive of presence sounds out radical and relational entanglements between structures of Indigeneity and colonialism. The research aims to dismantle stereotypical understandings of "Eskimos," "Indians," and "Natives" by addressing the following questions: What exactly is "Native" about Native music? What does it mean to sound (or not sound) Native? Who decides? And how can in-depth analyses of Native music that center Indigeneity reframe larger debates of race, power, and representation in twenty-first century American music historiography? Instead of proposing singular truths or facts, this book invites readers to consider the existence of multiple simultaneous truths, a density of truths, all of which are culturally constructed, performed, and in some cases politicized and policed. A sound relations approach endeavors to advance a more Indigenized music studies and a more sounded Indigenous studies that works to move beyond colonial questions of containment - "who counts as Indigenous" and "who decides" - and measurement - "how much Indigenous is this person/performance" - and toward an aesthetics of self-determination and resurgent world-making"--
Book

Reading life with Gwich'in : an educational approach

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Laurens Loovers, Jan Peter,
[2021]
Book

Indigenous methodologies : characteristics, conversations, and contexts

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Kovach, Margaret,
[2021].
Second edition.
« An innovative and important contribution to Indigenous research approaches, this revised second edition provides a framework for conducting Indigenous methodologies, serving as an entry point to learn more broadly about Indigenous research. »--
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The indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Steeves, Paulette F. C.,
[2021]
"The Indigenous Paleolithic presents evidence that archaeology sites, Paleo environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations between the eastern and western hemispheres that predate Clovis (11,200 years ago)"--
Book

Routledge handbook of critical indigenous studies

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
Electronic resource

Royally wronged : the Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous peoples

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"The Royal Society of Canada's mandate is to elect to its membership leading scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, lending its seal of excellence to those who advance artistic and intellectual knowledge in Canada. Duncan Campbell Scott, one of the architects of the Indian residential school system in Canada, served as the society's president and dominated its activities; many other members - historically overwhelmingly white men - helped shape knowledge systems rooted in colonialism that have proven catastrophic for Indigenous communities. Written primarily by current Royal Society of Canada members, these essays explore the historical contribution of the RSC and of Canadian scholars to the production of ideas and policies that shored up white settler privilege, underpinning the disastrous interaction between Indigenous peoples and white settlers. Historical essays focus on the period from the RSC's founding in 1882 to the mid-twentieth century; later chapters bring the discussion to the present, documenting the first steps taken to change damaging patterns and challenging the society and Canadian scholars to make substantial strides toward a better future. The highly educated in Canadian society were not just bystanders: they deployed their knowledge and skills to abet colonialism. This volume dives deep into the RSC's history to learn why academia has more often been an aid to colonialism than a force against it. Royally Wronged poses difficult questions about what is required - for individual academics, fields of study, and the RSC - to move meaningfully toward reconciliation."-- $cProvided by publisher.
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Celebrating 50 years of ANCSA

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
Book

Written by the body : gender expansiveness and indigenous non-cis masculinities

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Tatonetti, Lisa,
[2021]
"Examines the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film"--
Book

Native foodways : indigenous North American religious traditions and foods

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures"--
Book

Wise practices : exploring Indigenous economic justice and self-determination

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insights grounded in lived experience. Covering such critical topics as economic justice and self-determination, and the barriers faced in pursuing each, Wise Practices sets out to understand the issues not in terms of sweeping empirical findings but rather the particular experiences of individuals and communities. The choice to focus on specific practices of law and governance is a conscious rejection of idealized theorizing about law and governance and represents an important step in the existing scholarship. The volume offers readers a broad scope of perspectives, incorporating contemporary thought on Indigenous law and legal orders, the impact of state law on Indigenous peoples, theories and practices of economic development, and grounded practices of governances. While the authors address a range of topics, each does so in a way that sheds light on how Indigenous practices of law and governance support the social and economic development of Indigenous peoples."--
Book

Alaska Native health status report

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021
Third edition.
"This report provides one way to help monitor the health of the Alaska Native population and how far we have come on the path to becoming 'the healthiest people in the world.'" --from page 1, Introduction.
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Cancer in Alaska Native people 1969-2018 : the 50-year report.

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021
"This report summarizes fifty years of data on cancer among Alaska Native (AN) people. Cancer is the leading cause of death among AN people, accounting for over a fifth of all deaths." --from page 21, Executive Summary (Introduction)
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Aazheyaadizi : worldview, language and the logics of decolonization

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Freeland, Mark D.,
[2021]
"A study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines that demonstrates the significant relationship between a clearly defined theory of worldview and the logics of decolonization for Indigenous thought and praxis"--
Electronic resource

A grammar of Patwin [electronic resource]

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Lawyer, Lewis C.,
[2021]
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource]

Time, typology, and point traditions in North Carolina archaeology : formative cultures reconsidered

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Daniel, I. Randolph,
[2021]
"A reconsideration of the projectile point typology originally set out in the landmark publication The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont by Joffre Coe in 1964"--
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Manteo's world : Native American life in Carolina's Sound Country before and after the Lost Colony

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Rountree, Helen C.,
2021.
"Roanoke. Manteo. Wanchese. Chicamacomico. These place names along today's Outer Banks are a testament to the Indigenous communities that thrived for generations along the Carolina coast. Though most sources for understanding these communities were written by European settlers who began to arrive in the late sixteenth century, those sources nevertheless offer a fascinating record of the region's Algonquian-speaking people. Here, drawing on decades of experience researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke colonists encountered in the 1580s"--
Electronic resource

Settler memory : the disavowal of indigeneity and the politics of race in the United States

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Bruyneel, Kevin,
[2021]
Electronic resource

Brothers of Coweta : kinship, empire, and revolution in the eighteenth-century Muscogee world

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Rindfleisch, Bryan C.,
[2021]
"[Examines] how family and clan fundamentally structured the Creek world, and ... how a particular family and clan emerged out of the historical shadows to become central players in the Creek world and shaped the forces of empire, colonialism, and revolution that transformed the South during the eighteenth-century. The manuscript pieces together the story of a specific Creek Indian family in eighteenth-century America, and their experiences at the crossroads of the British, French, and Spanish empires in the American South. ... for the most part, scholars of early America and Native America have been unable (and in some cases unwilling) to fully appreciate the kinship, clan, and familial dynamics of Indigenous groups in North America ... However, European authorities, imperial agents, merchants, and a host of other individuals left a surprising paper trail when it came to two Creek personalities: Escotchaby and Sempoyaffee of Coweta, brothers. By following that trail and drawing upon the broader literature related to the Creek Indians in the eighteenth-century, Rindfleisch seeks to recover the intensely intimate and familial dimensions of the Creek world ... The central importance of family and clan in the eighteenth-century Creek world has yet to be fully explored or articulated by scholars of early America and Native America. Instead, historians have demonstrated how one's loyalties to a talwa or community like Coweta, regional identities like Upper Creeks and Lower Creeks, or even national aspirations of a Creek Nation or Confederacy proved foundational throughout a Creek person's life. And while scholars concede that 'family was...a critical component of eighteenth-century Creek local life, particularly for structuring political relations within a community,' there is little that historians understand about the importance of family and clan within the Creek world ... Yet the central premise of the book is to suggest that we can in fact understand and read more into the ways in which family and clan directed the Creek world, as much as - if not more than - talwa, region, and nation"--
Electronic resource

Women of the Dawn [electronic resource].

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

McBride, Bunny.
2021.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource].

Stories from Saddle Mountain : autobiographies of a Kiowa family

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Tongkeamha, Henrietta,
[2021]
"Stories from Saddle Mountain recounts family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century. Henrietta Apayyat (1912-93) grew up and married near Saddle Mountain, where she and her husband raised five sons and five daughters. She began penning her memoirs in 1968, including accounts about a Peyote meeting, revivals and Christmas encampments at Saddle Mountain Church, subsistence activities, and attending boarding schools and public schools. When not in school, Henrietta spent much of her childhood and adolescence close to home, working and occasionally traveling to neighboring towns with her grandparents, whereas her son Raymond Tongkeamha left frequently and wandered farther. Both experienced the transformation from having no indoor plumbing or electricity to having radios, televisions, and JCPenney. Together, their autobiographies illuminate dynamic changes and steadfast traditions in twentieth-century Kiowa life in the Saddle Mountain countryside. "--
Electronic resource

Boarding school voices : Carlisle Indian School students speak

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Krupat, Arnold,
2021.
Boarding School Voices is an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian School and a study of that writing.
Electronic resource

Gens du fleuve, gens de l'île : Hochelaga en Laurentie iroquoienne au XVIe siècle

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Viau, Roland,
[2021]
"Roland Viau propose un fascinant portrait d'Hochelaga avant 1600. À partir des connaissances acquises par l'archéologie, l'ethnohistoire et l'ethnologie sur les sociétés amérindiennes, et en exploitant les documents historiques disponibles, l'auteur replace d'abord Hochelaga au centre d'un vaste réseau fluvial s'étirant du lac Ontario au golfe du Saint-Laurent. Il dresse ensuite l'inventaire des ressources des Hochelaguiens, recrée minutieusement leur mode de vie, l'univers symbolique de la chasse, de l'agriculture. Il aborde la division sexuelle du travail, les règles de classification du végétal, l'ancienneté et la diversité du maïs. Il s'intéresse à la guerre, avançant l'idée d'un lien particulier avec les pratiques funéraires. Enfin, il fait revivre l'imaginaire au sens d'une cosmovision: nature de la guerre, condition d'esclave, exercice de la sexualité et de la parenté, rapports hommes-femmes. Les colonisateurs européens ont constaté avec étonnement que cette Laurentie iroquoienne s'est volatilisée entre 1545 et 1585. Personne, à ce jour, n'a pu apporter d'explication convaincante à ce phénomène. Guerre? Migration? Refroidissement climatique? Épidémie associée à la « mondialisation » des microbes? Viau examine rigoureusement ces hypothèses, retenant pour l'essentiel la dernière et validant la probabilité que les Iroquoiens du Saint-Laurent aient résisté à l'envahissement français et contribué à leur refoulement. Il introduit en cela un beau renversement du récit historique colonial traditionnel. Et que serait-il advenu d'éventuels survivants? Pourrait-on encore aujourd'hui trouver des traces de leurs migrations, de leur intégration au sein d'autres nations? Gens du fleuve, gens de l'île apporte une contribution majeure aux débats actuels sur les origines autochtones de Montréal. Ce livre, qui prend souvent les allures d'une magnifique « enquête policière », constitue la première et remarquable synthèse de l'histoire de Montréal au XVIe siècle, à la fois savante et accessible."--
Electronic resource

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America [electronic resource] : Material Culture in Motion, C. 1780 - 1980.

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Lemire, Beverly.
2021.
An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource] :

Falls of the Ohio River : archaeology of Native American settlement

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years"--
Electronic resource

Staging indigeneity : salvage tourism and the performance of Native American history

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Clackamas Chinook performance art : verse form interpretations

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Howard, Victoria,
[2021]
Carefully edited by Catharine Mason, Clackamas Chinook Performance Art pairs performances with biographical, family, and historical content that reflects Victoria Howard?s ancestry, personal and social life, education, and worldview.
Electronic resource

L'EMPIRE FACE AUX RENARDS : LA CONDUITE POLITIQUE D'UN CONFLIT FRANCO-AMERINDIEN (1712-1738) [electronic resource].

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Loffreda, Raphaël.
2021.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource].

Space-time colonialism : Alaska's indigenous and Asian entanglements

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Pegues, Juliana,
[2021]
"As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire. In this richly theorized work, Juliana Hu Pegues evaluates four key historical periods in U.S.-Alaskan history: the Alaskan purchase, the Gold Rush, the emergence of salmon canneries, and the World War II era. In each, Hu Pegues recognizes colonial and racial entanglements between Alaska Native peoples and Asian immigrants. In the midst of this complex interplay, the American colonial project advanced by differentially racializing and gendering Indigenous and Asian peoples, constructing Asian immigrants as "out of place" and Alaska Natives as "out of time." Counter to this space-time colonialism, Native and Asian peoples created alternate modes of meaning and belonging through their literature, photography, political organizing, and sociality"--
Electronic resource

Follow the water

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Lowry, Chag,
[2021]
"In 1911, the Indigenous man known as Ishi was found, starving and alone, in northern California. Taken to a museum in San Francisco as a living display, Ishi was not able to speak in his language with anyone else. Follow the Water visualizes part of Ishi's story as imagined by writer Chag Lowery (Achumawi/Maidu/Yurok) and artist Rahsan Ekedal..."--Back cover.
Book

Sitting at their feet : = gookwaii eeghai dhidii : a young Gwich'in Athabascan's memoir

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Gilbert, Matt,
[2021]
"A Gwich’in Athabascan man’s coming-of-age story in the mountains of northern Alaska, during his people’s shift into the modern world. Starting with his childhood, where he sits at the feet of the last traditional Elders tribe tell old stories. They raise and inspire him, as he enters his tumultuous yet adventuresome teen and early adult years. Travelling many places, he searches for the best education. He returns and finishes college at home and becomes a community leader among his Alaska Native people. He travels the reservations in the states to gather support for them and takes up his Elders’ fight for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the new global crisis of climate change. As he nears his 30th birthday, life calms down and he goes back to school. He returns to his village and translates the stories of his now-deceased-Gwich’in-Elders with his grandfather for his Masters Thesis. Thus, sitting at their feet and listening to their stories once again, as a grown and seasoned leader, yet still humbled by them."--Publisher's description.
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Gwichya Gwich'in Googwandak : the history and stories of the Gwichya Gwich'in, as told by the Elders of Tsiigehtshik

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Heine, Michael K.,
[2021]
Third edition.
Book

Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities."--
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Cordage from the Ozette village archaeological site : a technological, functional, and comparative study

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Croes, Dale R.,
[2021]
Book

Tetso¿·¿¿t'??ne¿¿ Dictionary : Testo¿·¿¿t'??ne¿¿ Yat??e¿¿ K'??¿¿z??¿·¿¿ T'as??¿¿e Hudz?? ¿¿Er??ht¿¿'??¿¿s

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Cardinal, Emerence,
[date of publication not identified]
"This book is a dictionary of the Tetso¿·¿¿t¿?¿??ne¿¿ dialect of De¿ne Su¿·¿¿??ne¿¿ (Chipewyan), spoken in Canada¿?¿s Northwest Territories. With nearly 7,300 entries, it is the largest dictionary of any De¿ne Su¿·¿¿??ne¿¿ dialect. The dictionary reflects Dene cultural values and worldviews. The dictionary is also unique on account of the dialect represented in it, and the way in which it is represented. The Tetso¿·¿¿t¿?¿??ne¿¿ dialect is spoken today primarily in the communities of Yellowknife and ¿¿u¿¿tse¿lk¿?¿e¿¿¿?¿a dialect that anthropologists had previously declared extinct." --from publisher's site.
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We are not a vanishing people : the Society of American Indians, 1911-1923

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Maroukis, Thomas Constantine,
[2021]
"The early twentieth-century roots of modern American Indian protest and activism are examined in We Are Not a Vanishing People. It tells the history of Native intellectuals and activists joining together to establish the Society of American Indians, a group of Indigenous men and women united in the struggle for Indian self-determination"--
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The spirit wraps around you : northern Northwest Coast Native textiles

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Henrikson, Steve,
[2021]
"This catalog accompanies the 2021 exhibition at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau and traces the history of the sacred textiles known today as raven's tail and Chilkat robes. Masterfully woven by Native women from the plush white fur of mountain goats, this art was born long before the arrival of Euro-American visitors to the shores of the northern Gulf of Alaska and carries forward to the present. Robes are used in sacred ceremonies, where leaders and dancers wear them to display their clan crests, and where the spirits of the ancestors gather." --
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We had a little real estate problem : the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Nesteroff, Kliph,
2021.
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
Book

The removed : a novel

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Hobson, Brandon,
[2021]
First edition.
"Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson"--
Book

Painful beauty : Tlingit women, beadwork, and the art of resilience

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Smetzer, Megan A.,
[2021]
"For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women's resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S'eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women's artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast"--
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The Diné reader : an anthology of Navajo literature

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
"This is the first anthology to bring together Diné writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose into a single collection of Navajo literature. The book includes author biographies and interviews with a selections of the writers' most important creative work, as well as a chronology and resources for teachers and readers"--
Book

Edward S. Curtis: unpublished Alaska, photographs & personal journal

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Curtis, Edward S.,
2021.
First edition.
Book

Chickaloonies 1. First frost

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Macheras, Dimi.
©2021.
"In a time of perpetual darkness, two Alaskan Native kids go on a quest to become the greatest storytellers the world has ever seen! Using the teachings of their grandmother, the language of their tribe, and their imaginations, Mister Yelly and Sasquatch E. Moji will journey to foreign lands to learn from other cultures, share the knowledge of their own and maybe even save the village! An all ages, Alaskan tribal adventure about legends, language, magic and the journey of discovering one’s own story in our ever changing world" -- Publisher's website.
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An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States

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Mays, Kyle,
[2021]
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America. Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart. Whether to end African enslavement and Indigenous removal or eradicate capitalism and colonialism, Mays show how the fervor of Black and Indigenous peoples calls for justice have consistently sought to uproot white supremacy. Mays uses a wide-array of historical activists and pop culture icons, "sacred" texts, and foundational texts like the Declaration of Independence and Democracy in America. He covers the civil rights movement and freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, and explores current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture. Mays compels us to rethink both our history as well as contemporary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity. Includes an 8-page photo insert featuring Kwame Ture with Dennis Banks and Russell Means at the Wounded Knee Trials; Angela Davis walking with Oren Lyons after he leaves Wounded Knee, SD; former South African president Nelson Mandela with Clyde Bellecourt; and more. -- Provided by publisher.
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Black snake : Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and environmental justice

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Todrys, Katherine Wiltenburg,
[2021]
"Black Snake" tells the story of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline through the influential activism of four women from Standing Rock and Fort Berthold Reservations"--
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Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Saunt, Claudio,
2021
First edition.
"A masterful and unsettling history of the forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s. On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and possessions stolen through fraud, intimidation, and murder. Thousands lost their lives. In this powerful, gripping book, Claudio Saunt upends the common view that "Indian Removal" was an inevitable chapter in US expansion across the continent. Instead, Saunt argues that it was a contested political act-resisted by both indigenous peoples and US citizens-that passed in Congress by a razor-thin margin. In telling the full story of this systematic, state-sponsored theft, Saunt reveals how expulsion became national policy, abetted by southern slave owners and financed by Wall Street. Moving beyond the familiar story of the Trail of Tears, Unworthy Republic offers a fast-paced yet deeply researched account of unbridled greed, government indifference, and administrative incompetence. The consequences of this vast transfer of land and wealth still resonate today"--
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The only good Indians : a novel

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Jones, Stephen Graham,
2021.
First Saga Press paperback edition.
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends."--Provided by publisher.
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Native women : changing their worlds

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Cutright, Patricia J.,
[2021]
"Native women have filled their communities with strength and leadership, both historically and as modern-day warriors. The twelve Native American and First Nations women featured in this book overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism. Such determination and courage reflect the essence of the traditional Cheyenne saying: "A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground"--
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Art of the Northwest coast

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Jonaitis, Aldona,
[2021]
Second edition.
"Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although non-Natives often claimed that First Nations cultures were disappearing, Northwest Coast Native people continued to make art during the painful era of colonization, often subtly expressing resistance to their oppressors and demonstrating the resilience of their heritage. Integrating the art's development with historical events following contact with Euro-Americans sheds light on the creativity of artists as they appropriated and transformed foreign elements into uniquely Indigenous statements. A new chapter discusses contemporary artists, including Marianne Nicholson, Nicholas Galanin, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Sonny Assu, who address pressing issues ranging from Indigenous sovereignty and destruction of the environment to the power of Native women and efforts to work with non-Natives to heal the wounds of racism and discrimination"--
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Living nations, living words : an anthology of first peoples poetry

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
First edition.
"A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.""--
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The politics of the canoe

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

[2021]
"Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies."--
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Spíl?x?m : a weaving of recovery, resilience, and resurgence

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Campbell, Nicola I.,
[2021]
"Nicola I. Campbell, a N?e?kepmx, Syilx, and Métis woman living in British Columbia, offers deeply moving and highly engaging non-fiction stories interwoven with poetry that trace her efforts to overcome adversity and trauma in her early years, and find strength and resilience through her creative works."--
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A river's many faces : depictions of life on the Yukon River by Charles O. Farciot and Willis E. Everette, 1882-1885, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2021.
This booklet chiefly is a description of the Yukon River residents in the 1880s. It contains mainly reproductions of photogrpahs by Charles O. Farciot and drawings by Willis E. Everette, who visited that area during that time. These illustrations depict the local Native peoples and settlements by newcomers.
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Defending the Arctic refuge : a photographer, an Indigenous nation, and a fight for environmental justice

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Dunaway, Finis,
[2021]
"Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. 'Defending the Arctic Refuge' tells the improbable story of how the people fought back"--
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Dog flowers : a memoir

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Geller, Danielle,
[2021]
First edition.
"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller masterfully intertwines wrenching prose with archival documents to create a deeply moving narrative of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, and the family we are given, and the ones we choose"--
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Fighter in velvet gloves : Alaska civil rights hero, Elizabeth Peratrovich student/teacher

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Boochever, Annie,
2021.
""No Natives Allowed!" blared the storefront sign at the young Tlingit Indian girl. The sting of those words would stay with Elizabeth Peratrovich all her life. They would also make her deter-mined to work for change. Years later, a seasoned fighter for equality, she would deliver her own eloquent message, one that helped change Alaska and the nation forever. Writ-ten in collaboration with Elizabeth's eldest son and only living child, Roy Peratrovich Jr., Fighter in Velvet Gloves tells the life story of this inspirational Alaskan and American hero, for readers 10 and up. This book is intended as a study guide for teachers and students to use with Fighter in Velvet Gloves"--
Book

Dark traffic

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Kane, Joan Naviyuk,
[2021]
Book

Aadé s'áxt' haa jeet kawdihayi yé

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Worl, Miranda Rose K?aagwéil,
[2020]
"Raven's Niece sets out to save her village in this modern take on the Tlingit oral traditions of Raven and origin stories. Originally published as How Devil's Club Came to Be, this book has been translated into Lingít, the Tlingit language."--Dust jacket flap
Regular print

Am'ala

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Katasse, Frank Henry Kaash,
[2020]
"In this traditional Tsimshian story, a young man who is teased by his brothers for being lazy and dirty trains secretly with a spirit and gains superhuman strength. He takes on warriors, animals, and even a mountain before facing his greatest challenge - the world itself. Originally published in English, this book has been translated into Sm'algya?x, the Tsimshian language."--Dust jacket flap
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Indigenous futurisms : transcending past/present/future

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©2020
Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future investigates a major trend in Contemporary Native Art--the rise of futuristic or science-fiction inspired Native American art. The essays and artworks present the future from a Native perspective and illustrate the use of Indigenous cosmology and science as part of tribal oral history and ways of life. Several of the artists use sci-fi related themes to emphasize the importance of Futurism in Native cultures, to pass on tribal oral history and to revive their Native language. However, Indigenous Futurism also offer a way to heal from the traumas of the past and present--the post-apocalyptic narratives depicted in some of the artworks are often reality for Indigenous communities worldwide.
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Moonshot : the Indigenous comics collection. Volume 2

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2020.
Comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling, from dozens of creators.
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Come home, Indio : a memoir

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Terry, Jim (Artist),
[2020].
First edition.
"A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to provide an escape from increasing loneliness and alienation. Terry also shares with the reader in exquisite detail the process by which he finds hope and gets sober, as well as the powerful experience of finding something to believe in and to belong to at the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance at Standing Rock."--Amazon.
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Nax?too.aat! s'áaxw yéi daané ?a haa atx?aayí daat shalneek

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Lindoff, Hannah,
[2020]
"Learn about Southeast Alaska Native subsistence activities and foods. Readers travel on a journey through the seasons while exploring Native traditions, cultural values, and the beautiful and bountiful Southeast Alaskan landscape. Originally published in English as Let's go! a harvest story, this book has been translated into Lingít, the Tlingit language."--Dust jacket flap
Regular print

Following the good river : the life and times of Wa'xaid

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Penn, Briony,
[2020]
First edition.
Book

The Cambridge history of Native American literature

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

2020.
"Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by particularly divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel; quixotic and quotidian. Above all, its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet expectations both external and internal. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of both Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. This book has a chronological structure. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: "Traces & Removals" (pre-1870s); "Assimilation and Modernity" (1879-1967); "Native American Renaissance" (post-1960s); and "Visions & Revisions" (21st century). These rubrics highlight the various ways Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a History of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies"--
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Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

Low, Denise,
[2020]
"Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the Dodge City ledger art booklets-created by Wild Hog, Porcupine, and possibly Tangled Hair, Left Hand, Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, and Blacksmith - that document a Native perspective at the cusp of reservation life in 1879"--
Electronic resource

The Commissioners of Indian Affairs : the United States Indian Office and the making of federal Indian policy, 1824 to 2017

2024-06-01T20:26:44Z

DeJong, David H.,
[2020]
"For more than two hundred years, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of t he American government have had a hand in shaping the course of federal Indian policy, or the legal relationship between the American federal government and the now more than 570 federally recognized tribal governments in the United States. Since 1824, it has been the responsibility of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (called the United States Indian Service until 1947) to support, enact, and administer the executive orders, congressional legislation, an d Supreme Court rulings relevant to Indian Country. In that time, a handful of policies, shaped by various, sometimes competing, and always changing attitudes toward Indians in the United States, have determined how and to what ends the BIA has approached its mission. Policies of civilization, emigration, reservations, assimilation, acculturation, termination, and consumerism, have and continue to dictate the terms and means by which the federal government administers Indian affairs in fulfillment of its constitutional and treaty obligations. In "A Most Anonymous Position," David H. DeJong has written the first comprehensive history of federal Indian policy based on these policy strands and their enforcement by BIA commissioners and their assistant secretaries. BIA commissioners have always had enormous power to dictate the fate of Indians and their lands, a power that DeJong shows has been wielded in different ways and has changed with policy through the years"--
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Dammed : the politics of loss and survival in Anishinaabe Territory

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Luby, Brittany,
[2020]
"Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the health and economy of their communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories. The same hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral history, and environmental observation, Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the twentieth century."--
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Modeling entradas : sixteenth-century assemblages in North America

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[2020]
"This volume brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages, providing insights into the sixteenth-century indigenous communities of North America and the colonizing efforts of Spain"--
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Too strong to be broken : the life of Edward J. Driving Hawk

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Driving Hawk, Edward J.,
[2020]
"Too Strong to Be Broken follows Edward Driving Hawk's emotional, physical, and financial hardships between his military and home life, survival both in and out of war, and the people who have provided unwavering support through such trying times"--
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Modernity through letter writing : Cherokee and Seneca political representations in response to removal, 1830-1857

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Haake, Claudia B.,
2020
"Modernity through Letter Writing examines the discursive practices between both Native and non-Native writers during the Era of Removal. In this process of written diplomacy, protest, and petitioning, Native writers developed strategies for negotiating the policies of Indian Removal and advocating for their own Indigenous nations"--
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Knowing Native arts

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Mithlo, Nancy Marie,
[2020]
""Knowing Native Arts" brings Nancy Marie Mithlo's Native, insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus"--
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Rez metal : inside the Navajo Nation heavy metal scene

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Soltani Stone, Ashkan,
[2020]
"Rez Metal showcases the sounds, images, and stories of Navajo heavy metal bands and Native heavy metalers while exploring the deep and life-affirming power of heavy metal music within Indian Country"--
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The last sovereigns : Sitting Bull and the resistance of the free Lakotas

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Utley, Robert M.,
[2020]
The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo-that was sacred to him and to his people.
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Haboo : Native American stories from Puget Sound

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[2020]
Second edition.
"The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound were an important part of the oral tradition by which beliefs, values, and customs were handed from one generation to another. Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian, grew up at a time when many of the old social patterns survived and when everyone still spoke the ancestral language. As an adult, when she realized that native language and culture were being forgotten, she began to work with linguists and anthropologists in recording and translating as much of the Lushootseed oral tradition as possible. Haboo is her collection of thirty-three stories"--
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Point of Pines Pueblo : a mountain Mogollon aggregated community

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Stone, Tammy,
[2020]
"The University of Arizona ran archaeological field schools at Point of Pines Pueblo between 1947 and 1960. This pueblo is an 800-room site occupied between AD 1250-1400 in the Mogollon Highlands of central Arizona. Although Stone previously published evidence for this Pueblo being a Mogollon multiethnic community with Kayenta migrants (Stone 2015), descriptions of the complete architectural and excavation data have never been published. These remain in field notes and were utilized by Stone for this project. This site is considered important for addressing current questions in archaeology today-migration, ethnic interactions, and community organization."--
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Authority, autonomy, and the archaeology of a Mississippian community

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Nelson, Erin S.,
[2020]
This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Mississippi Delta, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the fifteenth century.
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Contact, colonialism, and native communities in the Southeastern United States

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[2020]
The years 1500-1700 AD were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, "Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States" presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans.
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With the wind and the waves : a guide to mental health practices in Alaska Native communities

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Droby, Ray M.,
[2020]
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Papers of the Forty-Ninth Algonquian Conference

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[2020]
"Papers of the Algonquian Conference is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarship from an annual international forum that focuses on topics related to the languages and cultures of Algonquian peoples. This series touches on a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, education, ethnography, history, Indigenous studies, language studies, literature, music, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Contributors often cite never-before-published data in their research, giving the reader a fresh and unique insight into the Algonquian peoples and rendering these papers essential reading for those interested in studying Algonquian society."--
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The wake of the unseen object

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Kizzia, Tom,
2020.
New edition.
"When The Wake of the Unseen Object was published in 1991, I imagined it might reach readers as a work of "literary travel," a genre then filling the shelves at the front of bookstores. The understated arc of the book, after all, was the education of a traveler: his progress, from early awkward door-to-door questioning to a deeper understanding and sense of place. His lessons in paying attention and seeing the world as it is, unburdened by romanticism or its inverse, disillusion. His struggles to free himself from that peculiar little character who shows up briefly in Chapter Two, "the God of Things as They Ought to Be." This new edition of the book reproduces the text as it originally appeared, without corrections or updates. Terms such as "Eskimo" and "Indian," now subject to reconsideration but common and accepted in that day, remain in place, along with then-standard applications of the words "Inupiat" and "Inupiaq," as noun and adjective"--
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Spirit lands of the eagle and bear : Numic archaeology and ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and borderlands

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[2020]
"Exploring advances in prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through analysis of archaeological and historic research from the earliest established presence more than a thousand years ago to the forced removal of tribes to reservations in the mid-nineteenth century"--
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The storied landscape of Iroquoia : history, conquest, and memory in the Native northeast

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Anderson, Chad
[2020]
"In The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia, Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland. Throughout this period of European colonization, the Haudenosaunee remained the dominant power in their homelands and one of the most important diplomatic players in the struggle for the continent upon European settlement of North America by the Dutch, British, French, Spanish, and Russians"--
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Famine pots : the Choctaw-Irish gift exchange, 1847-present

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[2020]
"The book explores the story of the $710 sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 and provides further context and consideration of the gift"--
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Nunakun-gguq ciutengqertut they say they have ears through the ground : animal essays from Southwest Alaska

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Fienup-Riordan, Ann,
[2020]
"Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected over decades of research, this book explores the ancestral relationship between Yup'ik people and the natural world of Southwest Alaska. Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut studies the overlapping lives of the Yup'ik with native plants, animals, and birds, and traces how these relationships transform as more Yup'ik relocate to urban areas and with the changing environment. The book is presented in bilingual format, with facing-page translations, and will be hailed as a milestone work in the anthropological study of contemporary Alaska"--
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Yungcautnguuq nunam qainga tamarmi = All the land's surface is medicine : edible and medicinal plants of southwest Alaska

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Fienup-Riordan, Ann,
[2020]
"In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free months, including gathering greens during spring, picking berries each summer, harvesting tubers from the caches of tundra voles, and gathering a variety of medicinal plants. The book is intended as a guide to the identification and use of edible and medicinal plants in southwest Alaska, but also as an enduring record of what Yup'ik men and women know and value about plants and the roles plants continue to play in Yup'ik lives"--
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Walking Dena'ina : a cultural landscape report for the Telaquana Trail

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Deur, Douglas,
2020
The Telaquana Trail is an ancient pathway ascending from the shores of Qizhjeh Vena, Lake Clark, through tundra and timbered valleys, into a high-elevation expanse of rolling tundra and smaller interior lakes nearly 50 miles north of Lake Clark. The pathway is an ancestral corridor used by Native peoples since the beginning of remembered time. Though the archaeological record of the trail is still coming into focus, it lends us important clues about the trail and how it was used. For example, archaeological evidence at places like Twin Lakes and Snipe Lake suggests that ancestral Native communities occupied and traveled along what is today the Telaquana Trail soon after the glaciers retreated from the landscape, millennia ago. The depth of human association with the trail is thus considerable and profound. And as a pathway lined with places of ancestral importance, linking modern Native communities to one-another and to places of reliable substance harvests, it continues to be valued by Dena'ina people today.
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Clearly indigenous : native visions reimagined in glass

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Chambers, Letitia,
2020.
"The expertise of Native glass artists, in combination with the stories of their cultures, has produced a remarkable new artistic genre. This flowering of glass art in Indian Country is the result of the coming together of two movements that began in the 1960s-the contemporary Native arts movement, championed by Lloyd Kiva New, and the studio glass art movement, founded by American glass artists such as Dale Chihuly, who started several early teaching programs. Taken together, these two movements created a new dimension of cultural and artistic expression. The glass art created by American Indian artists is not only a personal expression but also imbued with cultural heritage. Whether reinterpreting traditional iconography or expressing current issues, Native glass artists have created a rich body of work. These artists have melded the aesthetics and properties inherent in glass art with their respective cultural knowledge. The result is the stunning collection of artwork presented here. A number of American Indian artists were attracted to glass early in the movement, including Larry "Ulaaq" Ahvakana and Tony Jojola. Among the second generation of Native glass blowers are Preston Singletary, Daniel Joseph Friday, Robert "Spooner" Marcus, Raven Skyriver, Raya Friday, Brian Barber, and Ira Lujan. This book also highlights the glass works of major multimedia artists including Ramson Lomatewama, Marvin Oliver, Susan Point, Haila (Ho-Wan-Ut) Old Peter, Joe David, Joe Fedderson, Angela Babby, Ed Archie NoiseCat, Tammy Garcia, Carol Lujan, Rory Erler Wakemup, Lillian Pitt, Adrian Wall, Virgil Ortiz, Harlan Reano, Jody Naranjo, and several others. Four indigenous artists from Australia and New Zealand, who have collaborated with American Indian artists, are also included. This comprehensive look at this new genre of art includes multiple photographs of the impressive works of each artist"--
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Making history : the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts : Institute of American Indian Arts

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2020.
First edition.
"Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indian studies. Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers-students, educators, collectors, and the public-in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors. By highlighting the rich resources and history of the Institute of American Indian Arts, the only tribal college in the nation devoted to the arts whose collections reflect the full tribal diversity of Turtle Island, these essays present a best-practices approach to understanding Indigenous art from a Native-centric point of view. Topics include biography, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, coding, arts critique, curation, and writing about Indigenous art. Featuring two original poems, ten essays authored by senior scholars in the field of Indigenous art, nearly two hundred works of art, and twenty-four archival photographs from the IAIA's nearly sixty-year history, Making History offers an opportunity to engage the contemporary Native Arts movement"--
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