2014 American Indian Catalog

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For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press

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CONTENTS

Archaeology & Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Biography & Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Politics & Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Chickasaw Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Bestsellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

ON THE COVER:LONG MANDAN, TWO KETTLE LAKOTA. COURTESY STATE ARCHIVES OF THE

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.


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Archaeology & AnthropologyNEW

Viewing The AncestorsPerceptions of the Anaasz, Mokwic , and HisatsinomBy Robert S. McPherson

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4429-0 256 pages

Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian

Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell

the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with

knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and

Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

From the Hands of a WeaverOlympic Peninsula Basketry through Time

Edited by Jacilee Wray

Foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6 264 pages

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4471-9 264 pages

Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central

to the daily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah

cultures of Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of theessays collected here, who include Native people as well as academics, explore

the commonalities among these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving

styles and techniques.

Yuchi FolkloreCultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community

By Jason Baird Jackson

Contributions by Mary S. Linn

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4397-2 312 pages

Yuchi Folkloreexamines expressive genres and customs that have long been ofspecial interest to Yuchi people themselves. Beginning with an overview of

Yuchi history and ethnography, the book explores four categories of cultural

expression: verbal or spoken art, material culture, cultural performance, and

worldview. In describing oratory, food, architecture, and dance, Jackson

visits and revisits the themes of cultural persistence and social interaction,

initially between Yuchi and other peoples east of the Mississippi and now in

northeastern Oklahoma.

Transforming EthnohistoriesNarrative, Meaning, and CommunityEdited by Sebastian Felix Braun

Afterword by Raymond J. DeMallie

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4394-1 320 pages

The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the

teaching and writing of distinguished ethnohistorian Raymond J. DeMallie,

whose exemplary combination of ethnographic and archival research

demonstrates the ways anthropology and history can work together to create

an understanding of the past and the present. Transforming Ethnohistories

comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic fromfiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning places

from North Carolina to the Yukon.


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A R C H A E O L O G Y & A N T H R O P O L O G Y 1 8 0 0 6 2 7 7 3 7 7

Native Performers in Wild West ShowsFrom Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney

By Linda Scarangella McNenly

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4281-4 280 pages

Drawing on interviews with contemporary performers and descendants oftwentieth-century performers, McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest

new interpretations of their performances and experiences; she also uses

these insights to analyze archival materials, especially photographs. Some

Native performers saw Wild West shows not necessarily as demeaning, but

rather as opportunitiesfor travel, for employment, for recognition, and for

the preservation and expression of important cultural traditions.

Arapaho Womens QuillworkMotion, Life, and Creativity

By Jeffrey D. Anderson$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8

Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork,

Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied

as the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges

predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred

patterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized not

individual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivityan

approach foreign to many outside observers.

Patterns of ExchangeNavajo Weavers and Traders

By Teresa J. Wilkins

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4354-5 248 pages

The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result

of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo

weavers and the traders like John Lorenzo Hubbell who guided their

production and controlled their sale. Wilkins traces how the relationships

between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo

weaving.

Mound Builders and Monument Makers ofthe Northern Great Lakes, 12001600By Meghan C. L. Howey

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4288-3 320 pages

Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds

and circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the

regions ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have

long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the

social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed. In Mound

Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 12001600, Meghan

C. L. Howey uses archaeology to make this connection.

Fort Clark and its Indian NeighborsA Trading Post on the Upper Missouri

By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4213-5 328 pages

Fort Clark was a thriving trading post between 1830 and 1860 in what

is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists,scientists, and other western chroniclers, including Maximilian of Wied,

Karl Bodmer, and George Catlin, whose works are primary sources on

the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in the area. This book, by a team of

anthropologists, is the first to integrate new archaeological evidence with

the historical record.


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Wives and HusbandsGender and Age in Southern Arapaho History

By Loretta Fowler

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4116-9 400 pages

In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowlerdeepens readers understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural

encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and

was affected by the encounter with Americans as government officials,

troops, missionaries, and settlers moved west into Arapaho country.

Through the life stories of individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates the

experiences and actions of each cohort during a time when Americans

tried to impose gender asymmetry and to undermine the Arapahos

hierarchical age relations.

Buffalo Inc.American Indians and Economic Development

By Sebastian Felix Braun

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4372-9 280 pages

Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison

ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable

economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise

on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such

projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and

contemporary Lakota values.

Plains Apache EthnobotanyBy Julia A. Jordan

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3968-5 240 pages

Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people

were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. InPlains Apache

Ethnobotany, Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species

valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning

traditional Apache collection, preparation, and use of these plant species

for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture.

I Choose LifeContemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World

By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz

$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3941-8 384 pages

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3961-6 384 pages

For Navajo Indians, medical treatments such as surgery, blood

transfusion and CPR conflict with their traditional understanding of

health and well-being. This book investigates how Navajos navigate

their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness.

Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients

and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own

health and healing.

C O N N E C T W I T H U S

F A C E B O O K . C O M / O U P R E S S T W I T T E R . C O M / O U P R E S S

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Art & PhotographyNEW

REDThe Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland

Foreword by John Vanausdall

$30.00s Paper 978-0-9798495-7-2 136 pages

Distributed for The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

RED, the eighth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museums acclaimed biennial

art series, documents the strength, drama, determination, and humor of

contemporary Native art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work

of Featured Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish) and Eiteljorg

Fellows Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas Galanin(Tlingit/Aleut), Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Meryl

McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot).

Modern SpiritThe Art of George Morrison

By W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm

Foreword by Kay Walkingstick

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4392-7 208 pages

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4393-4 208 pages

The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (19192000) has enjoyed

widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures

have been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions. Yet because

Morrisons artwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian

heritage, it has stirred debate about what it means to be a Native American

artist. This stunning catalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white

images, showcases Morrisons work across a spectrum of genres and media.

Woody Crumbo

Contributions by Minisa C. Halsey, Ruthe B. Jones, Carole Klein,Robert Perry, and Kimberly Roblin

Photographs by Robert S. Cross

$24.95s Paper 978-0-9819799-5-3 148 pages

Distributed for Gilcrease Museum

Woodrow Wilson Crumbo and the oilman Thomas Gilcrease met for the first

time at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa in 1945. Gilcrease would eventually persuade

the young Crumbo to join him as artist-in-residence at the nascent Thomas

Gilcrease Museum. Potawatomi, French, and German by birth, Crumbo was

orphaned young and fostered within various Native traditions. His genius

knew no tribal borders, but he supported and promoted Indian art and artists

throughout his life.

Er nest L. BlumenscheinThe Life of an American Artist

By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7 384 pages

Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold

the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountainsor Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927or

Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned intomemory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest

and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art

colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and

life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the

twentieth century.


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A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit CountryVincent Soboleff in Alaska

By Sergei Kan

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6 284 Pages

This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in thelate 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs

of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose

community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian

Americans, so-called Creoles, who worked in a local fertilizer factory. Using a

Kodak camera, Soboleff, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, documented

the life of this multiethnic parish at work and at play until 1920.

The James T. Bialac Native American Art CollectionSelected Works

With essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, RennardStrickland, Christy Vezolles, Edwin L. Wade, and Mark Andrew White

$60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9 240 pages

$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0 240 pages

Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

One of the most important collections of modern Native American art

assembled by one individual, theJames T. Bialac Native American Art Collection is

an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works.

Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four

thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry,ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles.

The Eugene B. Adkins CollectionSelected Works

With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick,

B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White

$60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4100-8 304 pages

$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4101-5 304 pages

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (19202006) spent nearly

four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native Americanand American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry,

baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This

stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from

the Adkins Collection.

Ledger NarrativesThe Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh

Collection at Dartmouth College

Edited by Colin G. Calloway

With contributions by Michael Paul Jordan, Vera B. Palmer, Joyce Szabo,Melanie Benson Taylor, and Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote

$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4297-5 296 pages

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4298-2 296 pages

The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is

Mark Lansburghs diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held

by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this

important book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains

peoples created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century.

Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements oftheir warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers.


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Iroquois Art, Power, and HistoryBy Neal B. Keating

$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3890-9 360 pages

In this richly illustrated book, Neal B. Keating explores Iroquois visual

expression through more than five thousand years, from its emergencein ancient North America into the early twenty-first century. Keating

foregrounds the voices and visions of Iroquois peoples, revealing how they

have continuously used visual expression to adapt creatively to shifting

political and economic environments.

Plains Indian ArtThe Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers

Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3061-3 224 pages

The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom,

and inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (190997). Ewerss

publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in art

and the cultures of the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of

Ewerss writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art

Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992.

Arapaho JourneysPhotographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation

By Sara Wiles

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9 256 pages

In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived

for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community

structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. Wiles

captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look

at thirty years on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.

American Indians in British Art, 17001840By Stephanie Pratt

$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4200-5 228 pages

Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather

bonnet, and the answer will be Indian. Many works of art produced

by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American

Indians in British Art, 17001840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time

an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed

Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita AgencyThe Photographs of Annette Ross Hume

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1 256 pages

Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the Indian Capital of the

Nation, but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer

Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with

serving the many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned

when the U.S. government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the

twentieth century. Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and

the American Indians she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are

collected here for the first time.



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Blackfoot War ArtPictographs of the Reservation Period, 18802000

By L. James Dempsey

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3804-6 488 pages

In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey plumbs the breadth anddepth of warrior representational art. Filled with 160 images of startling

beauty and power,Blackfoot War Arttells how pictographs served as a record

of both tribal and personal accomplishment.

Lanterns on the PrairieThe Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock

Edited by Steven L. Grafe

$60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3 336 pages

$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4029-2 336 pages

In 1896, a young easterner named Walter McClintock arrived on the

Blackfeet Indian Reservation. A forest survey had brought him to Montana,

but a chance encounter with a part-Blackfeet scout led him instead to a

career as a chronicler of Plains Indian life. McClintock is now well known

as the author of two books about his experiences among the Blackfeet,

but only a few of his photographs have ever been published. This volume

features biographical and interpretive essays about McClintocks life and

work and presents more than one hundred of his little-known images.

In Contemporary RhythmThe Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein

By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham

$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3948-7 416 pages

The definitive retrospective on Ernest L. Blumenschein (18741960),

one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and perhaps the most

accomplished of all the painters associated with that organization.

Reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works

and historical photographs, this volume forms the most comprehensive

assemblage of his paintings ever published.

A Northern Cheyenne AlbumPhotographs by Thomas B. Marquis

Edited by Margot Liberty

Commentary by John Woodenlegs

$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0 304 pages

A Northern Cheyenne Albumpresents a rare series of never-before-published

photographs that document the lives of tribal people on the reservation

during the early twentieth-centurya period of rapid change. Reservation

physician and expert photographer Thomas B. Marquis captured Northern

Cheyenne life in numerous images taken from 1926 to 1935. After 1960,

former tribal president John Woodenlegs and others interviewed tribal

elders and, drawing on tape recordings, composed the photos lively

captions. Margot Liberty, editor of this volume, has added her own

descriptions, filling in details of Northern Cheyenne culture and history

from a scholars viewpoint.

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Biography & MemoirNEW

CochiseFirsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache ChiefBy Edwin R. Sweeney

$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4432-0 320 pages

Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military

reports, eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually

reticent chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts

of the Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these

documents to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of

the Apache leader.

NEW

Scalping Columbus and other Damn Indian StoriesTruths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies

By Adam Fortunate Eagle

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4428-3 216 pages

Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories is a collection of short stories

that are in part autobiographical and in part fictional. Narrated in a style

reminiscent of Indian oral tradition, Fortunate Eagle employs humor and

satire to entertain and challenge society. The stories range from the authorsexperiences as an activist in the Bay Area to his encounter with the Pope in

Rome and back to his childhood.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Blackfoot RedemptionA Blood Indians Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

By William E. Farr

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 344 pages

$21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4287-6 344 pages

Blackfoot Redemptionis the riveting account of a Canadian Blackfoot knownas Spopee and his unusual and haunting story. To reconstruct the events of

Spopees lifeat first traceable only through bits and pieces of information

William E. Farr conducted exhaustive archival research, digging deeply into

government documents and institutional reports to build a coherent and

accurate narrative and, through this reconstruction, win back one Indians life

and identity.

A Cheyenne VoiceThe Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews

By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8 504 pages

A Cheyenne Voicecontains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by

anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In

Timber (18821967). Recorded by Liberty in 1958 and 1959 when she was a

schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern

Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book Cheyenne

Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of the interviews,

this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the first time.


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Under The EagleSamuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 pages

Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by theMarine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit

secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews

with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagleis Holidays vivid account of his

own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in

which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

Twenty Thousand MorningsAn Autobiography

By John Joseph Mathews

Edited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4253-1 352 pages

When John Joseph Mathews began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he

was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a

national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper

of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Morningsis

Mathewss intimate chronicle of his formative years.

Valentine T. McgillycuddyArmy Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

By Candy Moulton

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-389-9 288 pages

Published by The Arthur H. Clark Company

On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp

Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor

forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before

him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to

encounters with such legendary western figures as Calamity Jane and Red

Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddys life encapsulated key events in American

history that changed the lives of Native people forever.

Mangas ColoradasChief of the Chiricahua Apaches

By Edwin R. Sweeney

$32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4239-5 608 pages

Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years.

During the last years of Mangass life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an

assault against white settlement in Apacheria that made the two of them

the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography

of the legendary chief, Ed Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in

which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his

brutal death.

A Navajo LegacyThe Life and Teachings of John Holiday

By John Holiday and Robert McPherson

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3 420 pages

For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched

the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley.Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively

and in A Navajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life.


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Chief LocoApache Peacemaker

By Bud Shapard

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4047-6 376 pages

Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lastingpeace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his

efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted

despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard

tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the

harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to

prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

PipestoneMy Life in an Indian Boarding School

By Adam Fortunate Eagle$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4114-5 248 pages

Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam

Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young

student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand

account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a contrary warrior by

disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.

N. Scott MomadayRemembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions

An Annotated Bio-bibliography

By Phyllis S. Morgan

$60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4054-4 400 pages

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of House Made of Dawn (1969)

and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American

literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the

most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an insightful new

biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the

work of others about him.

Nicholas Black ElkMedicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

By Michael F. Steltenkamp

$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4063-6 256 pages

Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to

appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardts popular

narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux

religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive

biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American

Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.

HistoryNEW

American Indians in U.S. HistorySecond Edition

By Roger L. Nichols$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4367-5 216 pages

This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their origins

to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in the

decade since its first publication. Now the second edition, drawing on the most

recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, and cultural

issues in the twenty-first century. Useful features include new, brief biographies of

important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested readings

for each period of the past four hundred years.


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NEW

Americans RecapturedProgressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity

By Molly K. Varley

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4493-1 240 pages

Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives

changed over timewith shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and

ethnographic and historical accuracyAmericans Recaptured shows that tales

of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were

consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

NEW

Chiefs and ChallengersIndian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 17691906

Second EditionBy George H. Phillips

$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4490-0 384 pages

In this second edition ofChiefs and Challengers,Phillips brings the story

into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and

anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence.

His narrative includes numerous eloquent testimonies from Indians,

among them a student at a government-run school who wrote to the U.S.

president: The white people call San Jacinto rancho their land and I dont

want them to do it. We think it is ours, for God gave it to us first.

NEW

Ethnic Cleansing and the IndianThe Crime That Should Haunt America

By Gary Clayton Anderson

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4421-4 472 pages

In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Gary C. Anderson draws upon a vast wealth

of previously unpublished sources to support his claim that the history of

Euroamerican and Native American interaction is not one of genocide, as

has often been claimed, but is, in almost all instances, more accuratelycalled ethnic cleansing. Having defined ethnic cleansing, the author then

seeks to trace its application and operation through American history from

the colonial era to about 1890.

NEW

The Darkest PeriodThe Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 18461873

By Ronald D. Parks

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4430-6 336 pages

Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma,the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council

Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D.

Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the

loss of the tribes original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas.

Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and

ethnographers in crafting this tale.

C O N N E C T W I T H U S

F A C E B O O K . C O M / O U P R E S S T W I T T E R . C O M / O U P R E S S

Y O U T U B E . C O M / O U P R E S S


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NEW

The Students Of Sherman Indian SchoolEducation and Native Identity since 1892

By Diana Meyers Bahr

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4443-6 192 pages

Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian

School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission,

like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to civilize Indian

children, which meant stripping them of their Native culture and giving them

vocational training. This book offers the first full history of Sherman Indian Schools

100-plus years, a history that reflects federal Indian education policy since the late

nineteenth century.

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Full-Court QuestThe Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the WorldBy Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-806-13973-9 496 pages

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4469-6 496 pages

Most fans of womens basketball would be startled to learn that girls teams were

making their mark more than a century agoand that none was more prominent than

a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like lambent

flames across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls

from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montanas first basketball champions.

Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, these young women introduced

an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy

declaring them champions.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Terrible JusticeSioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868

By Doreen Chaky

$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4652-2 408 pages

Terrible Justiceexplores relations not only between the Sioux and their opponents butalso the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving beyond earlier historians

focus on the Brul and Oglala bands, Chaky examines how the northern, southern, and

Minnesota Sioux bands all became involved in and were affected by the U.S. invasion.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Indians and EmigrantsEncounters on the Overland Trails

By Michael L. Tate

$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4654-6 352 pages

In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overlandtrails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized

by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and

Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading

goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to

overlanders.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

War Dance at Fort MarionPlains Indian War Prisoners

By Brad D. Lookingbill$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4467-2 308 pages

War Dance at Fort Mariontells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and

Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army. Held from

1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they participated in an

educational experiment, initiated by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, as an alternative to

standard imprisonment. This book, the first complete account of a unique cohort of

Native peoples, brings their collective story to life and pays tribute to their individual

talents and achievements.


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Getting Good CropsEconomic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the

Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 18701891

By Robert J. Bigart

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4133-6 304 pagesIn 1870, the Bitterroot Salish Indianscalled Flatheads by the first white

explorers to encounter themwere a small tribe living on the western slope of

the Northern Rocky Mountains in Montana Territory. Pressures on the Salish

were intensifying during this time, from droughts and dwindling resources

to aggressive neighboring tribes and Anglo-American expansion. In 1891,

the economically impoverished Salish accepted government promises of

assistance and retreated to the Flathead Reservation, more than sixty miles

from their homeland.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Speculators in EmpireIroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix

By William J. Campbell

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4665-2 296 pages

At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land

cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession

of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts

of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. In Speculators

in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, land speculation,and empire building that led up to the treaty. His detailed study overturns

common assumptions about the roles of the Iroquois and British on the eve

of the American Revolution.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Contours of a PeopleMetis Family, Mobility, and History

Edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4487-0 520 pages

What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world,and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness?

Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North

American people of mixed European and Native ancestry. Volume editors

Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the

concern with race and ethnicity to offer new ways of thinking about Metis

identity.

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Columns of VengeanceSoldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864By Paul N. Beck

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 328 pages

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 pages

In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the

Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Armys response to the

Dakota War of 1862. Rather than relying only on the official records of

the commanding officers involved, Beck presents a much fuller picture of

the conflict by consulting the letters, diaries, and personal accounts of the

common soldiers who took part in the expeditions, as well as rare personalnarratives from the Dakotas.


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Red Power RisingThe National Indian Youth Council And The Origins Of Native Activism

By Bradley Shreve

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 288 pages

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4365-1 288 pages

During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement

called Red Powera civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While

some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is

one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian

takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

Warrior NationsThe United States and Indian Peoples

By Robert L. Nichols$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4382-8 256 pages

During the century following George Washingtons presidency, the United

States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Nichols 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.

An Osage Journey to Europe, 18271830Three French Accounts

Edited and Translated by William Least Heat-Moon & James K. Wallace

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4403-0 168 pages

In 1827 six Osage peoplefour men and two womentraveled to Europe

escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where

three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately.

Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated,

and annotated here for the first time in English. Among the earliest writings

devoted to Osage history and culture, these works provide unique insightsinto Osage life and especially into European perceptions of American Indians.

Indian Tribes of OklahomaA Guide

By Blue Clark

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4061-2 416 pages

Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes

the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think

of the state as Indian Country. For more than half a century readers have

turned to Muriel H. WrightsA Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahomaas theauthoritative source for information on the states Native peoples. Now Blue

Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered

a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian

Country in recent years.

American Indians and the Mass MediaEdited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4234-0 312 pages

Most American Indians today live in urban areas, but the mass media stillrely on Indian imagery stuck in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The essays collected inAmerican Indians and the Mass Mediaexplore Native

experience and the mainstream medias impact on American Indian histories,

cultures, and communities.


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From Cochise to GeronimoThe Chiricahua Apaches, 18741886

By Edwin R. Sweeney

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4272-2 720 pages

In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, theChiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations

with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo,

Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders

Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent

period between Cochises death and Geronimos surrender in 1886.

Cherokee Nation in the Civil WarBy Clarissa W. Confer

$16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4267-8 216 pages

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War shows how the Cherokee people, who

had only just begun to recover from the ordeal of removal, faced an equally

devastating upheaval in the Civil War. Clarissa W. Confer illustrates how

the Cherokee Nation, with its sovereign status and distinct culture, had a

wartime experience unlike that of any other group of peopleand suffered

perhaps the greatest losses of land, population, and sovereignty.

Indian BluesAmerican Indians and the Politics of Music, 18791934

By John W. Troutman

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4269-2 320 pages

From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government

sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian

boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians

created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and

manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music

generate fear among government officials and opportunity for Native

peoples?

The Peyote RoadReligious Freedom and the Native American Church

By Thomas C. Maroukis

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4109-1 296 pages

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061- 4323-1 296 pages

Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote,

the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a

religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination

among American Indians today. The Peyote Roadexamines the history of the

NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of peyote.

Maroukis is a keen observer of contemporary Peyotism.Journal of

American History

Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest,7501750By William B. Carter

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4302-6 328 pages

When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically

viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athapaskans as marauders who

preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter nowoffers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental

and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among

Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish

settlement.


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LiteratureNEW

Creative AlliancesThe Transnational Designs of Indigenous Womens PoetryBy Molly McGlennen

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4482-5 230 pages

Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations

continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical

health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen

tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre to

transcend national and colonial boundaries and to fashion global dialogues

across a spectrum of experiences and ideas.

NEW

Progressive TraditionsIdentity in Cherokee Literature and Culture

By Joshua B. Nelson

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4491-7 296 pages

Some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions

in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their

culture and identities to white American economies and institutions. This

traditionalist-versus-assimilationist divide is, Joshua B. Nelson argues, a falseone. To make his case that American Indians rarely if ever conform to such

simplistic identifications, Nelson considers the literature and culture of many

Cherokee people.

The Native American RenaissanceLiterary Imagination and Achievement

Edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4402-3 368 pages

The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication

of N. Scott Momadays Pulitzer Prizewinning House Made of Dawn in 1968continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing

from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko

constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American

Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence.

Literacy and Intellectual Life in theCherokee Nation, 18201906By James W. Parins

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6 296 pages

Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as

little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of civilizing. In Literacy and

Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 18201906, James W. Parins traces the

rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the

nineteenth centurya time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.

Pushing the BearAfter the Trail of Tears

By Diane Glancy

$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4069-8 176 pages

Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees

resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before

explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A

Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee

brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend

Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows their

travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and


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adjust to new realities.

The People Who StayedSoutheastern Indian Writing After Removal

By Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4136-7 404 pages

The two-hundred-year-old myth of the vanishing American Indian still holds

some credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of

thousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act in

1830. Yet, as the editors of this volume amply demonstrate, a significant Indian

population remained behind after those massive relocations.

Three PlaysThe Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows

By N. Scott Momaday$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3828-2 224 pages

Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best

known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawnand his celebration of

his Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has also made his mark

in theatre through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time,

they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions.

LanguageNEW

Arapaho Stories, Songs, and PrayersA Bilingual Anthology

By Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. CHair

$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4486-3 584 pages

Many of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth

centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although this

is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts existthat have never before been publisheduntil now.Arapaho Stories, Songs, and

Prayersgives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative

traditions in all the richness of the original language.

Manhattan To MinisinkAmerican Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity

By Robert S. Grumet

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4336-1 296 pages

Manhattan to Minisinkprovides the histories of more than five hundred place names

in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island,

the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and

Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the regions

Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine

the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names.

Native American Placenames of the SouthwestA Handbook for Travelers

By William Bright

Edited by Alice Anderton & Sean ONeill

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8 174 pages

Written by distinguished linguist William Bright, the handbook is organized

alphabetically, and its entries for placesincluding towns, cities, counties,

parks, and geographic landmarksare concise and easy to read. Entries give the

state and county, along with all available information on pronunciation, the

name of the language from which the name derives, the names literal meaning,

and relevant history. In their introduction to the handbook, editors Alice

Anderton and Sean ONeill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation keys for

English and Native languages.


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The Cherokee SyllabaryWriting the Peoples Perseverance

By Ellen Cushman

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4220-3

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4373-6 256 pagesIn 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a

writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His

creationthe Cherokee syllabaryhelped his people learn to read and

write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This

groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of

Sequoyahs syllabary from script to print to digital forms.

Telling Stories in the Face of DangerLanguage Renewal in Native American Communities

Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4227-2 288 pages

The contributors to this volume explore Native American storytelling both as

a response to and a symptom of language endangerment. The essays show

how traditional stories, and their nontraditional written descendants, such as

poetry and graphic novels, help to maintain Native cultures and languages.

Choctaw Language and CultureChahta Anumpa, Volume 2

By Marcia Haag and Henry Willis

$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3855-8 184 pages

Building on the foundations laid by the first volume, this follow-up

text presents a more advanced linguistic study of Oklahoma Choctaw,

accompanied by short stories and anecdotes written by Choctaws in their

native language. Volume 2 of Choctaw Language and Cultureis designed to

help teachers and students alike further their understanding of Choctaw by

working with and mastering grammatically complex examples of its use.

Intermediate Creek

Mvskoke Emponvkv HokkolatBy Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, and Bertha Tilkens

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3996-8 352 pages

For those who have progressed beyond introductory lessons, Intermediate

Creek offers an expanded understanding of the language and culture of the

Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Indians. The first advanced textbook for

the language, this book builds on the grammatical principles set forth in the

authors earlier book,Beginning Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv, providing students

with knowledge crucial to mastering more complex linguistic constructions.

Politics & LawClaiming Tribal IdentityThe Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment

By Mark E. Miller

Foreword by Chadwick Corntassel Smith

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4378-1 480 pages

Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes?These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several

decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have

raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this study, Mark Edwin Miller

describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the

southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to

the dismay of the Five Tribesthe Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks,

and Seminoles.


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A Gathering of StatesmenRecords of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 18261828

By Peter P. Pitchlynn

Translated and edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis

Introduction by Clara S. Kidwell$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4349-1 176 pages

The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil

and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their

native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to

Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document

from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.

Oklahomas Indian New DealBy Jon S. Blackman

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4351-4 236 pages

The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by Congress in 1936,

brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRAs provisions, but included

other measures that applied only to Oklahomas tribal population. This

first book-length history of the OIWA explains the laws origins, enactment,

implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in

the Indian New Deal.

Buying America from the IndiansJohnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

By Blake A. Watson

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 254 pages

Johnson v. McIntoshand its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal

overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New

World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-

American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains

how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples

themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the

American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation. He

then focuses on the transactions at issue in Johnson between the Illinois andPiankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders

of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting RightsBy Laughlin McDonald

$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4240-1 362 pages

The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the

South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do

today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully

documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over

Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.

A rich and spirited account detailing how Native peoples have utilized the

1965 Voting Rights Act and the talents of ACLU attorneys to fight for the

right to vote.David E. Wilkins,co-author of Uneven Ground: American Indian

Sovereignty and Federal Law

The Seminole Nation in OklahomaA Legal History

By L. Susan Work

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4089-6 376 pages

When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the

first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government.

In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy

its nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation

tenaciously retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic

subsistence. Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney

to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.


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The Choctaws in OklahomaFrom Tribe to Nation, 18551970

By Clara Sue Kidwell

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4006-3 344 pages

The Choctaws in Oklahomabegins with the Choctaws removal from Mississippito Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribes

subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal

sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws

remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national

identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.

Peyote vs. the StateReligious Freedom on Trial

By Garrett Epps

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4026-1 296 pages

With the grace of a novel, this book chronicles the six-year duel between

two remarkable men with different visions of religious freedom in America.

Neither sought the conflict. Al Smith, a substance-abuse counselor to Native

Americans, wanted only to earn a living. Dave Frohnmayer, the attorney

general of Oregon, was planning his gubernatorial campaign and seeking care

for his desperately ill daughters. But before this constitutional confrontation

was over, Frohnmayer and Smith twice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to

decide whether the First Amendment protects the right of American Indians to

seek and worship God through the use of peyote. The Court finally said no.

On the Drafting of Tribal ConstitutionsBy Felix S. Cohen

Edited by David E. Wilkins

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3806-0 200 pages

Felix Cohen (19071953) was a leading architect of the Indian New Deal and

steadfast champion of American Indian rights. Appointed to the Department

of the Interior in 1933, he helped draft the Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their

governments. His Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions,submitted in November 1934, provided practical guidelines for that effort.

Forced FederalismContemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood

By Jeff Corntassel and Richard C. Witmer II

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4191-6 280 pages

Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted from self-

determination to Forced Federalism as indigenous nations in the United

States have encountered new threats from state and local tribes over such

issues as taxation, gaming, and homeland security. This book demonstrates

how todays indigenous nations have taken unprecedented steps to reorient

themselves politically in response to such challenges to their sovereignty.



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Cash, Color, and ColonialismThe Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment

By Rene Ann Cramer

$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3671-4 256 pages

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3987-6 256 pagesWithin the context of U.S.-Indian law, federal acknowledgment establishes

a trust relationship between an Indian tribe and the U.S. government. Some

tribes, however, have not been federally acknowledged, or, in more common

language, recognized. In Cash, Color, and Colonialism, Rene Ann Cramer

offers a comprehensive analysis of the federal acknowledgment process,

placing it in historical, legal, and social context.

Roots of ResistanceA History of Land Tenure in New Mexico

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3833-6 224 pages

In New Mexicoonce a Spanish colony, then part of MexicoPueblo

Indians and descendants of Spanish- and Mexican-era settlers still think of

themselves as distinct peoples, each with a dynamic history. At the core of

these persistent cultural identities is each groups historical relationship to

the others and to the land, a connection that changed dramatically when

the United States wrested control of the region from Mexico in 1848.

Uneven GroundAmerican Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law

By David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima

$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3395-9 336 pages

In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-

determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian

nations have been able to establish policies concerning health care,

education, religious freedom, law enforcement, gaming, and taxation. David

E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima discuss how the political rights and

sovereign status of Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored,

terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers as a result of theambivalent political and legal status of tribes under western law.

The Indian Reorganization ActCongresses and Bills

By Vine Deloria, Jr.

$75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3398-0 464 pages

In 1934, Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier began a series of

congresses with American Indians to discuss his proposed federal bill for

granting self-government to tribal reservations. In The Indian Reorganization

Act, Vine Deloria, Jr., compiled the actual historical records of those

congresses and made available important documents of the premier years of

reform in federal Indian policy as well as the bill itself.

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Footprints Still Whispering in the WindBy Margie Testerman

$20.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-11-4 80 pages

Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind showcases Testermans work as a tribute

to her Chickasaw people and to the natural world that influences every

aspect of their lives. Additionally, each poem is interpreted and illustrated

by a Chickasaw child. These illustrations beautifully complement Margie

Testermans poetry, while offering us insight into the vibrant imaginations of

todays children of the Chickasaw Nation.

Riding out the Storm19th Century Chickasaw Governors; Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy

By Phillip C. Morgan

$20.00s Cloth 978-2-935684-10-7 200 pages

Riding Out the Storm: 19th-Century Chickasaw Governors, Their Lives and Intellectual

Legacy profiles the lives of three nineteenth-century Chickasaw governors

Cyrus Harris, Winchester Colbert, and William L. Byrdin a different way.

Revealing the three leaders not merely as historic politicians, but as human

beings, Phillip Carroll Morgan portrays their personal and political lives

against literary backdrops relating directly to their experiences.

Chikasha StoriesVolume 3: Shared Wisdom

By Glenda Galvan

Illustrator Jeannie Barbour

$30.00 Cloth 978-1-935684-09-1 96 pages

Chikasha Stories, Volume Three: Shared Wisdom, completes Galvan and Barbours

invaluable series. Guaranteed to delight readers young and old, these storiestold in both Chickasaw and Englishserve as a valuable introduction to

the Chickasaw language. Shared Wisdomalso highlights the value placed on

storytellers and reveals why their role is so honored in the Chickasaw Nation.

Chikasha StoriesVolume Two: Shared Voices

By Glenda Galvan

Illustrations by Jeannie Barbour

$36.00 Cloth 978-1-935684-08-4 96 pages

When the idea of presenting Chickasaw stories in written form was first

suggested by tribal elder and storyteller Glenda Galvan, it quickly became

apparent that not all of those stories would fit in one book. Shared Voices

carries on the tradition of the first volume with six new tales, illustrated with

original artworks by award-winning Chickasaw artist Jeannie Barbour.

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Anompilbashsha Asilhha HolissoChickasaw Prayer Book

By the Chickasaw Language Committee

With Joshua D. Hinson, John P. Dyson, and Pamela Munro

$36.00s Leather Bound 978-1-935684-06-0 200 pagesAnompilbashsha Asilhha Holisso: Chickasaw Prayer Bookincludes topical prayers,

readings, and selected passages from the Holy Bible (King James Version)

presented in a bilingual Chickasaw and English format.

Chickasaw LivesVolume Four: Tribal Mosaic

By Richard Green

$24.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-07-7 200 pages

Richard Green presents twenty-six essays in six categories, representing a

wide range of topicsfrom eighteenth and nineteenth century sketches, to

books and treasures, and revivals. Readers are treated to stories that include

a Chickasaw citizens struggle with the aftermath of the 1995 bombing

of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, an exploration of the

mystique surrounding the tradition of Chickasaw warriors, and a Chickasaw

tribal donation to the United States to help fund the construction of the

Washington Monument in the 1800s.

Ilimpachi (Were Gonna Eat!)A Chickasaw Cookbook

By JoAnn Ellis and Vicki M. Penner

$30.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-03-9 160 pages

Recipes, reminiscences, and lessons in Chickasaw lifeways are the main

ingredients in Ilimpachi (Were Gonna Eat!): A Chickasaw Cookbook. Well-known

Chickasaw cooks JoAnn Ellis and Vicki M. Penner share more than forty

recipes, accompanied by scenes from their lives spent cooking, eating, and

growing up around foods prepared in Chickasaw kitchens and over outdoor

cooking fires.

Chikasha StoriesVolume One: Shared Spirit

By Glenda Galvan

Illustrated by Jeannie Barbour

$36.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-04-6 96 pages

In Chikasha Stories, Volume One: Shared Spirit, premier Chickasaw storyteller

and tribal elder Glenda Galvan tells traditional stories drawn from the tribes

oral traditions. Illustrating the tales are original artworks by award-winning

Chickasaw artist Jeannie Barbour. This long-awaited and much-needed

volume, a groundbreaking work for the Chickasaw Press, is the first of an

important series of books intended to revive and maintain the storytelling

tradition so vital to the roots of Chickasaw and Native culture.

Dynamic Chickasaw WomenBy Phillip C. Morgan and Judy G. Parker

$24.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-05-3 192 pages

It has become tradition for Chickasaw governor Bill Anoatubby to open

his public addresses with a tribute to the unconquered and unconquerable

warriors and to the dynamic women of the Chickasaw Nation. Researched

and written by Phillip C. Morgan and Judy G. Parker, Dynamic ChickasawWomenpresents biographies of carefully chosen dynamic women from the

histories of Indian Removal, Indian Territory, and early Oklahoma statehood.


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Under the Eagle

Samuel Holiday,

Navajo Code Talker

By Samuel Holiday andRobert S. McPherson

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978-0-8061-4389-7

Warrior Nations

The United States and

Indian Peoples

By Roger L. Nichols$19.95s PAPER

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Ojibwa Warrior

Dennis Banks and the Rise of the

American Indian Movement

By Dennis Banks withRichard Erdoes

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978-0-8061-3691-2

Crazy Horse

A Lakota Life

By Kingsley M. Bray

$24.95 PAPER

978-0-8061-3986-9

A Cheyenne Voice

The Complete John Stands in

Timber Interviews

By John Stands in

Timber and Margot Liberty

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978-0-8061-4379-8

From Cochise to Geronimo

The Chiricahua Apaches,

18741886

By Edwin R. Sweeney

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Arapaho Women's Quillwork

Motion, Life, and Creativity

By Jeffrey D. Anderson

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Pipestone

My Life in an Indian Boarding School

By Adam Fortunate Eagle

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A Guide to the Indian Tribes

of the Pacific Northwest

Third Edition

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American Indians and

the Mass Media

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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma

A Guide

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Full-Court Quest

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