"This book tells the story of how tribal nations and the U.S. Forest Service dealt with wholesale changes in forest ownership and forest use, changes that alternately alienated Indians from foresters or brought them together in cooperative endeavors"--
"In Native Science, Gregory Cajete initiates the reader into a timeless tradition of understanding, experiencing, and feeling the natural world. He explores and documents the Indigenous view of reality--delving into art, myth, ceremony, and symbol, as well as the practice of Nat…
A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them. This work is a contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and th…
Piñon country stretches from trans-Pecos Texas to the Santa Ynez Mountains of Souther California, and from the sound of Idaho deep into Mexico. This book tells the story of the piñon pine through time: geological, prehistoric, historic, and current and documents the relationship…
The cedar provided a wealth of raw materials vital to the early Northwest Coast Indian way of life, its art and culture. Author explains, through descriptions and drawings, the tools and techniques used, as well as the superbly crafted objects and their uses--all in the context …
The cedar provided a wealth of raw materials vital to the early Northwest Coast Indian way of life, its art and culture. Author explains, through descriptions and drawings, the tools and techniques used, as well as the superbly crafted objects and their uses--all in the context …
The cedar provided a wealth of raw materials vital to the early Northwest Coast Indian way of life, its art and culture. Author explains, through descriptions and drawings, the tools and techniques used, as well as the superbly crafted objects and their uses--all in the context …
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violen…
This controversial treatise focuses on the social and cultural issues involved in the invasion of the Americas by European nations. It describes the suppression or extermination of native cultures, and focuses on the cultural and ideological principles behind the colonization ef…
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the Indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violen…
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on h…