In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the cold and barren lands of the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents' promises of plentiful game, virgin land, and a lifestyle untainted by Western Influences, these "voluntary migrants," who soon numbered nearly ninety, found instead isolation, hunting limited by game preserve regulations, three months of total darkness each winter, and a government suddenly deaf to their pleas...
Positioning the Missionary examines Anglican missionary work in nineteenth-century British Columbia. Its chief protagonists are John Booth Good, an agent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Nlha7kapmx poeple of southwestern B.C. Asking why the Nkha7kapmx embraced Good, how he sought to evangelize and civilize them, and how they responded, it situates Good's mission at several scales: the local ethnographic literature; histories of contact and conflict in mainland B.C. from...
Ishi in Two Worlds A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
by Theodora Kroeber
Aboriginal Education in Canada
by John W. Friesen and Virginia Lyons Friesen
Mark My Words (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by Mishuana Goeman
Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization. Th...
Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities
Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries. Whether these industries can increase the well-being and sustainability of Canada's Arctic communities, however, is still open to question.Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities delves into the final research fin...
The Marvelous Country; Or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, the Apaches' Home
by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast (Handbook of North American Indians, #14)
by Raymond D Fogelson
League of the Ho-de-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois, Set (Research Source Works Series No. 185, #185)
by Lewis Henry Morgan
Intimate Indigeneities (Narrating Native Histories)
by Andrew Canessa
Drawing on extended ethnographic research conducted over the course of more than two decades, Andrew Canessa explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands through their own lived experiences and voices. He examines how gender, race, and ethnic identities manifest themselves in everyday interactions in the Aymara village. Canessa shows that indigeneity is highly contingent; thoroughly imbricated with gendered, racial, and linguistic identities; and informed b...
Art of the American Indian Frontier examines an incomparable collection of nineteenth-century Native American art from the North American Woodlands, Prairie, and Plains. The collection resulted from the efforts of Milford G. Chandler and Richard A. Pohrt, whose early childhood fascination with the Indian frontier past evolved into a deep and comprehensive interest in Native American ceremonies, beliefs, and art. Though neither was wealthy or enjoyed the sponsorship of a museum, they traveled ext...
A respected Native American Shaman takes you to the North section of the Rainbow Medicine Wheel, in which resides the brain/mind and the path of the soul. As you open up your mind and explore the feelings of the heart, you will understand the lessons of Trust, Limits, Expectations, Failure, Listening, Forgiveness, and Inner Peace, and encounter spirit guides and animal totems. Learn which medicines to use, explore the teachings of marriage and of soul retrieval, and walk on the Rainbow path to...
Absolutely authoritative and immediate, this is the story of the most powerful of American Indian tribes, the Comanches (they called themselves the "true human beings"), who rode into modern history in a headlong collision with western civilization. T. R. Fehrenbach here recreates their rise to power, from their first harsh struggles for survival in the Eastern Rockies through uncounted generations who desperately resisted privation and suffering until they encountered and mastered the horse (fi...
Achieve a wholeness of being by following the path of spirit medicine. With the help of a Native American shaman, develop an understanding of why you do what you do, and then use that knowledge to achieve a higher sense of self. Learn to perform numerous ancient ceremonies using herbs, cornmeal, and other natural objects. Create a spirit journal and make a variety of tools that will help you in your journey towards inner peace and knowledge. 160 pages, 16 b/w illus., 6 x 9.
Without a doubt, there is one event in the history of Native Americans that overshadows all others in its impact on their cultures--the discovery of the Western Hemisphere by European explorers. This pivotal motif is at the center of "The Native American Experience," which tells the story of America's native peoples from their Ice Age migration to the influence of Native American cultures today. After providing an overview of early tribal history, Jay Wertz examines tribes from coast to coast th...