From the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age to the American Indian of the 20th century, this book encompasses the whole historical and cultural range of Indian life in Corth, Central, and South America, and also discusses the plight of …
A portrait of the Iroquois nation during America's colonial period offers insight into their influence over regional politics, their active participation in period trade, and their neutral stance throughout the Anglo-French imperial wars. "More than perhaps any other Native Ame…
In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence--perpetrated by the state and by society at large--and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abu…
A comprehensive study of the Indians of Texas from prehistoric to modern times.
The Indians of Texas is an excellent and long-needed survey of the ethnography of the Indian Tribes who resided within the present limits of Texas since the beginning of the historic period.
The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention. White settlers did learn a few plant-based remedies from the Indians, and a few prairie plants were prescribed …
"Mary-Ellen Kelm's Colonizing Bodies which examines the impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia during the first half of the twentieth century. Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows h…
"Mary-Ellen Kelm's Colonizing Bodies which examines the impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia during the first half of the twentieth century. Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows h…
"This book offers a historic and anthropological perspective from which to understand the fragility of isolated indigenous groups in the face of contact with outside society. It helps us appreciate the importance, in terms of cultural and biological diversity, of safeguarding th…
"A long way from Montana Territory, Falcon MacCallister is back east, visiting his family, with Buffalo Bill Cody by his side. When the government asks both men to take a break from being famous to get back to fighting, Falcon and Buffalo Bill head west into a hornet's nest of t…
