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Constructing power & place in Mesoamerica : pre-Hispanic paintings from three regions
\"Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of cloth, and on ceramics.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years, participate in the complex Vaupés social system, characterized by long-standing linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies until the early part of the twentieth century, when increasing outside influence in the region triggered rapid social and linguistic change. Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people, and their language, though still used in traditional communities, is in risk of becoming endangered.
Kristine Stenzel draws on eight years of intensive work with the Kotirias to promote, record, and revitalize their language. Working with dozens of native speakers and drawing on numerous oral narratives and written texts, this book is the first comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few reference grammars of this language family.
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American indians and popular culture
\"Americans are still fascinated by the romantic notion of the \"noble savage,\" yet know little about the real Native peoples of North America. This two-volume work seeks to remedy that by examining stereotypes and celebrating the true cultures of American Indians today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kiowa Belief and Ritual
Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 pages of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These eyewitness and first-generation reflections on the horse and buffalo days are undoubtedly the best materials available for reconstructing pre-reservation Kiowa beliefs and rituals. The field school compiled massive data resulting in a number of publications on this formerly nomadic Plains tribe, though the planned collaborative ethnographies never materialized. The extensive Kiowa field notes, which contain invaluable information, remained largely unpublished until now.InKiowa Belief and Ritual, Benjamin R. Kracht reconstructs Kiowa cosmology during the height of the horse and buffalo culture from field notes pertaining to cosmology, visions, shamans, sorcery, dream shields, tribal bundles, and the now-extinct Sun Dance ceremony. These topics are interpreted through the Kiowa concept of a power force permeating the universe. Additional data gleaned from the field notes of James Mooney and Alice Marriott enrich the narrative. Drawing on more than thirty years of field experiences, Kracht's discussion of how indigenous notions of \"power\" are manifested today significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.
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Recovering Native American writings in the boarding school press
\"Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Students used their acquired literacy in English along with more concrete tools that the boarding schools made available, such as printing technology, to create identities for themselves as editors and writers. In these roles they sought to challenge Native American stereotypes and share issues of importance to their communities.
Writings by Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-sa), Charles Eastman, and Luther Standing Bear are paired with the works of lesser-known writers to reveal parallels and points of contrast between students and generations.Drawing works primarily from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania), the Hampton Institute (Virginia), and the Seneca Indian School (Oklahoma), Jacqueline Emery illustrates how the boarding school presses were used for numerous and competing purposes.While some student writings appear to reflect the assimilationist agenda, others provide more critical perspectives on the schools' agendas and the dominant culture.This collection of Native-authored letters, editorials, essays, short fiction, and retold tales published in boarding school newspapers illuminates the boarding school legacy and how it has shaped, and continues to shape, Native American literary production.
\"-- Provided by publisher.
Writings by Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-sa), Charles Eastman, and Luther Standing Bear are paired with the works of lesser-known writers to reveal parallels and points of contrast between students and generations.Drawing works primarily from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania), the Hampton Institute (Virginia), and the Seneca Indian School (Oklahoma), Jacqueline Emery illustrates how the boarding school presses were used for numerous and competing purposes.While some student writings appear to reflect the assimilationist agenda, others provide more critical perspectives on the schools' agendas and the dominant culture.This collection of Native-authored letters, editorials, essays, short fiction, and retold tales published in boarding school newspapers illuminates the boarding school legacy and how it has shaped, and continues to shape, Native American literary production.
\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From the Skin
In this volume, contributors demonstrate the real-world
application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own
communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility,
and justice-work that is from the skin . In From the
Skin , contributors reflect on and describe how they apply the
theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities,
programs, and organizations, and the ways the discipline has
informed and influenced the same. They show the ways these efforts
advance disciplinary theories, methodologies, and praxes. Chapters
cover topics including librarianship, health programs, community
organizing, knowledge recovery, youth programming, and gendered
violence. Through their examples, the contributors show how they
negotiate their peoples' knowledge systems with knowledge produced
in Indigenous studies programs, demonstrating how they understand
the relationship between their people, their nations, and academia.
Editors J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer propose and develop the
term practitioner-theorist to describe how the
contributors theorize and practice knowledge within and between
their nations and academia. Because they live and exist in their
community, these practitioner-theorists always consider how their
thinking and actions benefit their people and nations. The
practitioner-theorists of this volume envision and labor toward
decolonial futures where Indigenous peoples and nations exist on
their own terms. Contributors Randi Lynn
Boucher-Giago Elise Boxer Shawn Brigman J. Jeffery Clark Nick Estes
Eric Hardy Shalene Joseph Jennifer Marley Brittani R. Orona
Alexander Soto
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This benevolent experiment : indigenous boarding schools, genocide, and redress in Canada and the United States
\"A nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Dakota Way of Life
Ella Cara Deloria was the most prolific Native scholar of the greater Sioux Nation, and the results of her lifelong work comprise an essential source for the study of the greater Sioux Nation culture and language.
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The Sky Watched
A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and
tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new
poems
Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn,
The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life.
In English and Ojibwe, those assembled here-voices of history, of
memory and experience, of children and elders, Indian boarding
school students, tribal storytellers, and the Manidoog, the unseen
beings who surround our lives-come together to create a collective
memoir in poetry as expansive and particular as the starry sky.
This world unfolds in the manner of traditional Ojibwe
storytelling, shaped by the seasons and the stages of life, marking
the significance of the number four in the Ojibwe worldview.
Summoning spiritual and natural lore, award-winning poet and
scholar Linda LeGarde Grover follows the story of a family, a
tribe, and a people through historical ruptures and through
intimate troubles and joys-from the sundering of Ojibwe people from
their land and culture to singular horrors like the massacre at
Wounded Knee to personal trauma suffered at Indian boarding
schools. Threaded throughout are the tribal traditions and
knowledge that sustain a family and a people through hardship and
turmoil, passed from generation to generation, coming together in
the manifold power and beauty of the poet's voice.
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Oral history of the Yavapai
In the 1970s, the Fort McDowell Reservation in Arizona came under threat by a dam construction project that, if approved, would potentially flood most of its 24,680 acres of land. As part of the effort to preserve the reservation, Mike Harrison and John Williams, two elders of the Yavapai tribe, sought to have their history recorded as they themselves knew it, as it had been passed down to them from generation to generation, so that the history of their people would not be lost to future generations. In March 1974, Arizona State University anthropologist Sigrid Khera first sat down with Harrison and Williams to begin recording and transcribing their oral history, a project that would continue through the summer of 1976 and beyond. Although Harrison and Williams have since passed away, their voices shine through the pages of this book and the history of their people remains to be passed along and shared. Thanks to the efforts of Scottsdale, AZ resident and Orme Dam activist Carolina Butler, this important document is being made available to the public for the first time. Oral History of the Yavapai offers a wide range of information regarding the Yavapai people, from creation beliefs to interpretations of historical events and people. Harrison and Williams not only relate their perspective on the relationship between the \"\"White people\"\" and the Native American peoples of the Southwest, but they also share stories about prayers, songs, dreams, sacred places, and belief systems of the Yavapai.
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