Research as Resistance
This book brings together the theory and practice of anti-oppressive approaches to social science research. It is a work that will have a place in the classroom, as well as on the desks of researchers in agencies, governments, and private consulting practice. The first section of the book is devoted to the ontological and epistemological considerations involved in such research, including theorizing the self of the researcher. The second section of the book offers exemplars across a range of met...
The West and Beyond (The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies)
by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna
The West and Beyond explores the state of Western Canadianhistory, showcasing the research interests of a new generation ofscholars while charting new directions for the future and stimulatingfurther interrogation of our past. This dynamic collection encouragesdialogue among generations of historians of the West and amongpractitioners of diverse approaches to the past. It also reflects abroad range of disciplinary and professional boundaries, offering newways to understand the West.
Battle for Sitka,1802 -1804, Alaskan Tlingits, Russians and Native Allies in Russian America
by Alexander V Zorin
El Espiritu Religioso de Los Navajos (Religiones del Mundo)
by Lawrence E Sullivan
Living Rhythms: Lessons in Aboriginal Economic Resilience and Vision (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern, #37)
by Wanda A Wuttunee and Wanda Wuttunee
Kiumajut [Talking Back]: Game Management and Inuit Rights 1900-70 examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on two interrelated issues. The first is how a deeply flawed set of scientific practices for counting animal populations led policymakers to develop policies and laws intended to curtail the activities of Inuit hunters. Animal management informed by this knowledge became a justification for attempts to educate and, ultimately, to regulate Inuit hunters. The...
In 1542 members of the thriving Caddo Indian culture came face to face with Luis de Moscoso, successor to Hernando de Soto as leader of a Spanish exploration party. That encounter marked a turning point for this centuries-old people, whose history from then on would be dominated by the interaction of the native confederacies with the empires of various European adventurers and settlers.Much has been written about the confrontations of Euro-Americans with Native Americans, but most of it has focu...
Algonquian and Iroquois natives of the American Northeast were described in great detail by colonial explorers who ventured into the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, Gordon Sayre analyzes French and English accounts of Native Americans to reveal the rhetorical codes by which their cultures were represented and the influence that these images of Indians had on colonial and modern American society. By emphasizing...
Killing for Land in Early California - Indian Blood at Round Valley
by Frank , H. Baumgardner III
Social Life and Issues. Contemporary Native American Issues.
by Roe Walker Bubar and Irene S. Vernon
I Hear the Train (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies)
by Louis Owens
In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America. In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We join him in the fields, farms, and ranches of California. We follow his search for a lost brother and contemplate along with him old family photographs from Indian Territory and early Oklahoma. In a...
The first history of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley during the colonial era. Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg's Stealing Indian Women provides a novel overview of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley. His detailed study of a fascinating and convoluted criminal case involving various slave women and a m\u00e9tis (mixed-blood) woodsman named C\u00e9ladon illuminates race and gender relations, Creole culture,...
The Dakota people, alternatively referred to as Sioux Native Americans or Oceti Sakowin, have a storied history that extends to a time well before the arrival of European settlers. This work offers a comprehensive history of the Dakota people and is largely based on eyewitness accounts from the Dakota themselves, including legends, traditions, and winter counts. Included are detailed analyses of the various divisions of the Dakota people, including the Lakota and Nakota tribes. Topics explored i...