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Boatema Boateng

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, mad... Lees meer

Remembering the Modoc War

Boyd Cothran

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general... Lees meer

Crooked Paths to Allotment

C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of sout... Lees meer

Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes

Rachel Corr

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered or died. In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the indigenous culture has st... Lees meer

Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

Michael J. Zogry

• Hardcover | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity Lees meer

Indigenous Writings from the Convent

Mónica Díaz

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María Magdalena, an indigenous noblewoman living in one of only three convents in New Spain that allowed Indians to profess... Lees meer

Creole Indigeneity

Shona N Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity , Sho... Lees meer

Crooked Paths to Allotment

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

• Hardcover | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of sout... Lees meer

We Are Our Language

Barbra A Meek

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding ... Lees meer

Mark My Words

Mishuana Goeman

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• 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, re... Lees meer

We Are an Indian Nation

Jeffrey P Shepherd

• Hardcover | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Though not as well known as the U.S. military campaigns against the Apache, the ethnic warfare conducted against indigenous people of the Colorado Riv... Lees meer

The Transit of Empire

Jodi A Byrd

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet V... Lees meer

Seasons of Change

Chantal Norrgard

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining a ... Lees meer

We are an Indian Nation

Jeffrey P Shepherd

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Though not as well known as the U.S. military campaigns against the Apache, the ethnic warfare conducted against indigenous people of the Colorado Riv... Lees meer

A Return to Servitude

M Bianet Castellanos

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved ... Lees meer

A Chosen People, a Promised Land

Hokulani K Aikau

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Christianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many indigenous peop... Lees meer

The Way of Kinship

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a lite... Lees meer

From Enron to Evo

Derrick Hindery

• Hardcover | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the extractive frontier deeper into Indigenous territories. Centering o... Lees meer

Sustaining the Cherokee Family

Rose Stremlau

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society ... Lees meer

Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

Michael J Zogry

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At... Lees meer

Trust in the Land

Beth Rose Middleton Manning

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• "The Earth says, God has placed me here. The Earth says that God tells me to take care of the Indians on this earth; the Earth says to the Indians tha... Lees meer

The Learned Ones

Kelly S McDonough

• Hardcover | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the "wise ones" of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial... Lees meer

Spaces between Us

Scott Lauria Morgensen

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that thes... Lees meer

Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman

Janis B Nuckolls

• Hardcover | Engels | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals ... Lees meer