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Warrior nations : the United States and Indian peoples
\"During the century following George Washington's presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols's response to the question, \"Why did so much fighting take place?\" Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well as how they differed. He writes about the fights between the United States and the Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware tribes in the Ohio Valley, the Creek in Alabama, the Arikara in South Dakota, the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Wisconsin, the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota, the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Colorado, the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona, and the Nez Perce in Oregon and Idaho. Virtually all of these wars, Nichols shows, grew out of small-scale local conflicts, suggesting that interracial violence preceded any formal declaration of war. American pioneers hated and feared Indians and wanted their land. Indian villages were armed camps, and their young men sought recognition for bravery and prowess in hunting and fighting. Neither the U.S. government nor tribal leaders could prevent raids, thievery, and violence when the two groups met. In addition to U.S. territorial expansion and the belligerence of racist pioneers, Nichols cites a variety of factors that led to individual wars: cultural differences, border disputes, conflicts between and within tribes, the actions of white traders and local politicians, the government's failure to prevent or punish anti-Indian violence, and Native determination to retain their lands, traditional culture, and tribal independence. The conflicts examined here, Nichols argues, need to be considered as wars of U.S. aggression, a central feature of that nation's expansion across the continent that brought newcomers into areas occupied by highly militarized Native communities ready and able to defend themselves and attack their enemies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Incarceration of Native American Women
In The Incarceration of Native American Women , Carma
Corcoran examines the rising number of Native American women being
incarcerated in Indian Country. With years of experience as a case
management officer, law professor, consultant to tribal defenders'
offices, and workshop leader in prisons, she believes this upward
trajectory of incarceration continues largely unacknowledged and
untended. She explores how a combination of F. David Peat's gentle
action theory and the Native traditional ways of knowing and being
could heal Native American women who are or have been incarcerated.
Colonization and the historical trauma of Native American
incarceration runs through history, spanning multiple generations
and including colonial wartime imprisonment, captivity, Indian
removal, and boarding schools. The ongoing ills of childhood abuse,
domestic violence, sexual assault, and drug and alcohol addiction
and the rising number of suicides are indicators that Native people
need healing. Based on her research and work with Native women in
prisons, Corcoran provides a theory of wellness and recovery that
creates a pathway for meaningful change. The Incarceration of
Native American Women offers students, academics, social
workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice system a new
method of approach and application while providing a deeper
understanding of the cultural and historical experiences of Native
Americans in relation to criminology.
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Glittering world : Navajo jewelry of the Yazzie family
\"Glittering World tells the remarkable story of Navajo jewelry--from its ancient origins to the present--through the work of the gifted Yazzie family of Arizona. Jewelry has long been an important form of artistic expression for Native peoples in the Southwest; its diversity of design reflects a long history of migrations, trade, and cultural exchange. Exceptional jewelry makers who have been active for nearly eight decades, the Yazzies are strongly rooted in and inspired by these traditions and values. Their works emphasize reciprocity, harmony, balance, and respect for family. As the companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York exhibit of the same name, this book is richly illustrated with images of these beautifully crafted treasures, bringing to light some of the finest indigenous art being created in the world today. Its informative and lively narrative complements these stunning images to illuminate the fascinating story of continuity, change, and survival embodied by Navajo jewelry\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Relating indigenous and settler identities : beyond domination
\"In this era of recognition and reconciliation in settler societies indigenous peoples are laying claims to tribunals, courts and governments and reclaiming extensive territories and resource rights, in some cases even political sovereignty. But, paradoxically, alongside these practices of decolonization, settler societies continue the work of colonization in myriad everyday ways. This book explores this ongoing colonization in indigenous-settler identity politics in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. These four are part of the 'Post-British World' and share colonial orientations towards indigenous peoples traceable to their European origins. The book identifies a shared settler imaginary that continues to constrain indigenous possibilities while it fails to deliver the redemption and unified nationhood settler peoples crave. Against this colonizing imaginary this book argues for the need for a new relational imaginary that recognizes the autonomy of indigenous ways of being, living and knowing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Perennial Ceremony
Travel through a garden's seasons toward healing,
reclamation, and wholeness-for us, and for our beloved relative,
the Earth
In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa
Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile
her Christianity and Dakota spirituality, discovering solace and
ceremony in communing with the earth. Observing and embracing the
cycles of her garden, she awakens to the constant affirmation that
healing and wellness can be attained through a deep relationship
with land, plants, and waters. Dakota people call this way of
seeing and being in the world mitakuye owasin: all my
relations. Perennial Ceremony brings us into this
relationship, as Peterson guides us through the Dakota seasons to
impart lessons from her life as a gardener, gatherer, and lover of
the land.
We see the awakening of Wetu (spring), a transitional
time when nature comes alive and sweet sap flows from maples, and
the imperfect splendor of Bdoketu (summer), when rain
becomes a needed and nourishing gift. We share in the harvesting
wisdom of Ptaŋyetu (fall), a time to savor daylight and
reap the garden's abundance, and the restorative solitude of
Waniyetu (winter), when snow blankets the landscape and
sharpens every sound. Through it all, Peterson walks with us along
the path that both divides and joins Christian doctrine, everyday
spiritual experience, and the healing powers of Indigenous wisdom
and spirituality.
In this intimate seasonal cycle, we learn how the garden becomes
a healing balm. Peterson teaches us how ceremony may be found
there: how in the vegetables and flowers, the woods, the hillsides,
the river valley-even in the feeding of friends and family-we can
reclaim and honor our relationship with Mother Earth. She
encourages us to bring perennial ceremony into our own lives,
inviting us on a journey that brings us full circle to makoce
kiŋ mitakuye: the land is my relative.
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The Cherokee kid : Will Rogers, tribal identity, and the making of an American icon
\"Ware's book challenges the common view that famous Oklahoman humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935) was disengaged from his Cherokee roots and/or that those roots were superfluous at best. Amy Ware, on the contrary, argues that Rogers's legitimate Cherokee heritage remained a self-defining aspect of his life, his work, and his principles\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Selected Works of Ora Eddleman Reed
The Selected Works of Ora Eddleman Reed collects the
writings of Ora Eddleman Reed with an introduction that
contextualizes her as an author, a publishing pioneer, a New Woman,
and a person with a complicated lineage. \"Little Writer\" Ora V.
Eddleman (pseudonym Mignon Schreiber) was only eighteen when she
published her first work in the Indian Territory newspaper Twin
Territories , which she edited for much of its brief run. This
publication promoted the literary works of Muskogee Creek poet
Chinnubbie Harjo (Alexander Posey), Cherokee historian Joshua Ross,
and Muskogee Creek chief Pleasant Porter. In the advice column
\"What the Curious Want to Know,\" Eddleman Reed answered readers
from around the country who had ignorant impressions of Indian
Territory (and whose questions, notably, she did not include). Such
columns were accompanied by pieces that amount to some of the
earliest Native historiography by an American woman claiming
Indigenous heritage. Twin Territories was directed at both
Natives and non-Natives and had a national readership. The
heterogeneous form of the newspaper gave room for healthy internal
debate on controversial ideas like Indigenous sovereignty and
assimilation, affirming Native Americans as a significant, diverse
collective. In this first book of Eddleman Reed's work, Cari M.
Carpenter and Karen L. Kilcup revive the writings of an important
author, publisher, and activist for Cherokee rights.
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Performing indigeneity : global histories and contemporary experiences
\"This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of \"being\" indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can \"be\" indigenous in public spaces. Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases \"indigeneity\" excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Unconquerable
Unconquerable is John Milton Oskison's biography of John
Ross, written in the 1930s but unpublished until now. John Ross was
principal chief of the Cherokees from 1828 to his death in 1866.
Through the story of John Ross, Oskison also tells the story of the
Cherokee Nation through some of its most dramatic events in the
nineteenth century: the nation's difficult struggle against
Georgia, its forced removal on the Trail of Tears, its internal
factionalism, the Civil War, and the reconstruction of the nation
in Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Ross remains one of
the most celebrated Cherokee heroes: his story is an integral part
not only of Cherokee history but also of the history of Indian
Territory and of the United States. With a critical introduction by
noted Oskison scholar Lionel Larré, Unconquerable sheds
light on the critical work of an author who deserves more attention
from both the public and scholars of Native American studies.
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