Funded publications
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Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877
(2000)
Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877 is a comparison of United States and Canadian Indian policies with emphasis on the reasons these governments embarked on treaty-making ventures in the ...
New Perspectives on Native North America
(2006)
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological ...
Wooden Leg
(1962)
Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858–1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ...
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
(2007)
A comprehensive encyclopedia of Indians of the Great Plains, past and present.
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner, and Other Essays
(1996)
This provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in ...
Nickel Eclipse
(2011)
Nickel Eclipse is a merging of personal and cultural history. Structured in part like the alternating colored beads on a wampum belt, patterns emerge from this exploration of contemporary life on an eastern Indian reservation ...
Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century
(1994)
As the twentieth century began, Native Americans were reeling from a century of war, forced resettlement, and loss of indigenous control. In a narrative that is compellingly evenhanded and insightful, Donald L. Parman ...
Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923
(1994)
Founded near Jamestown, Virginia, in 1868, Hampton Institute educated almost 1400 members of sixty-five Indian tribes. Donal F. Lindsey examines the complex and changing interactions among Indigenous people, Blacks, and ...
Native American Representations
(2001)
From Columbus's journal jottings about "Indios" to the image of Sacagawea on the dollar coin, from the marauding Indians portrayed in the traditional western to the appearance of Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, ...
Team Spirits
(2001)
A growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, and so ...
Washakie
(1995)
Washakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace Raymond Hebard offers ...
Tears of Repentance
(2013)
Tears of Repentance reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing ...
American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006
(2010)
Roberta Ulrich provides a concise overview of all the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes from 1953 to 2006 and explores the enduring policy implications for Native peoples. This is the first book to ...
This Benevolent Experiment
(2015)
This Benevolent Experiment is a nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have ...
Redskins
(2016)
C. Richard King provides an in-depth examination of how the ongoing struggle over the Washington NFL franchise name raises questions about popular perceptions of American Indians, the cultural life of consumer brands, and ...
Myths of the Rune Stone
(2015)
In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher ...
The Dance Partner
(2005)
Diane Glancy sees books as being akin to maps, and often finds the Native American voices she writes about as she travels. Once, when driving through western Nevada, she stopped at Grant Mountain and Walker Lake, where the ...
Reginald and Gladys Laubin, American Indian Dancers
(2000)
Friends and cultural historians of many Indian families among the Sioux, Crow, and Shoshone-Bannock, Reginald and Gladys Laubin devoted their lives to preserving a vanishing culture by presenting authentic Indian dances, ...
The People and the Word
(2005)
Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents, The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected ...
American Pentimento
(2001)
American Pentimento traces the history of colonization and exploitation in the Americas coming to demonstrate how contemporary native struggles are decisively limited by embedded cultural assumptions this history has ...