From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called …
"Anton Treuer is a renowned author, speaker, language preservationist, scholar, etc. This young readers edition of the original book for adults from a university press includes new material for the younger lens. Organized by dozens of different questions, some weighty and some m…
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called …
"Anton Treuer is a renowned author, speaker, language preservationist, scholar, etc. This young readers edition of the original book for adults from a university press includes new material for the younger lens. Organized by dozens of different questions, some weighty and some m…
"The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage - a land route across the continent - in order t…
This dissertation explores the effects of settler colonialism on Great Lakes Indigenous peoples throughout the nineteenth century. It argues that as settler societies dispossessed Indigenous peoples from their lands in order to gain access to natural resources, they engaged in a…
The first Indian migrants to what was then known as Southern Rhodesia arrived at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the shadows of the white settler Pioneer Column that came from the south. As the British South Africa Company consolidated its hold over the territory, these m…
American high school, collegiate, and professional sports teams use Native American mascots and insignia. Oftentimes, the usage of these mascots has sparked intense debates about whether or not images schools and teams use are racially insensitive. Universities and professional …
In this thought-provoking book, Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the 16-century political de…
"Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and …
