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Unrecognized in California
Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States
With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United...
ISBN: 9780295752846
more detailsAlaska Native Resilience
Voices from World War II
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to...
ISBN: 9780295752525
more detailsPreoccupied
Indigenizing the Museum
interrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’...
ISBN: 9780912298023
more detailsSkidegate House Models
From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond
Explores the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii,...
ISBN: 9780295751047
more detailsTreaty Justice
The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States...
ISBN: 9780295752723
more detailsResisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed...
ISBN: 9780295752341
more detailsTengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska
A unique collaboration celebrating the importance of parkas in Yup'ik material culture
Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or...
ISBN: 9780295751740
more detailsNot Native American Art
Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions
Explores the making and meaning of so-called Native American art
The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking...
ISBN: 9780295751368
more detailsSettler Cannabis
From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous...
ISBN: 9780295751566
more detailsSharing Honors and Burdens
Renwick Invitational 2023
Celebrates the groundbreaking work of six contemporary craft artists from Indigenous Nations across the US
This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping...
ISBN: 9780937311882
more detailsJesintel
Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
A gathering of stories for all generations, past, present, and future
Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel—"to learn and grow together"—characterizes the...
ISBN: 9780295748641
more detailsCherokee Earth Dwellers
Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
Second place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize
A celebration of the Cherokee cosmos through creature names, stories, cultural concepts, and reflections
Ayetli gadogv—to "stand in the middle"—is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the...
ISBN: 9780295750187
more detailsThe Art of Ceremony
Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon
Celebrates Indigenous renewal through ceremony, understanding the impact of the past and the possibilities for the future
The practice of ceremony offers ways to build relationships between the land and its beings, reflecting change while drawing...
ISBN: 9780295750668
more detailsPeople of the Ecotone
Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History Association
Indigenous power in a significant cultural and ecological borderland
In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey...
ISBN: 9780295750880
more detailsUnsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of...
ISBN: 9780295750705
more detailsThe River That Made Seattle
A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
Restores the river to its central place in the city’s history
With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth...
ISBN: 9780295750989
more detailsLouisiana Creole Peoplehood
Afro-Indigeneity and Community
Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness...
ISBN: 9780295749495
more detailsA Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices...
ISBN: 9780295749525
more detailsUrban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
In Portland’s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand...
ISBN: 9780295749365
more detailsPainful Beauty
Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience
Showcases the vibrant practices of Tlingit women’s beadwork
For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a...
ISBN: 9780295748948
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