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american indian and 

indigenous studies 

New titles 2012–2013 

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Contents 

History and Culture 1 

Biography and Memoir 15 

Literature and Film 18 

For Young Readers 22 

Bestselling Books 24 

for Course Adoption 

Selected Backlist 25 

Ordering Information 28 

Journals 29 

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Cover: From Witness. See page 5. “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book 

(plate no. 20), 1880–81,by Black Hawk (c. 1832–90) t0614.20. 

Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New 

York. Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, nyc. 

The world’s linguistic diversity is diminishing, with more than two hundred languages declared 

extinct and thousands more endangered. As these languages disappear, deep stores of knowledge 

and cultural memory are also lost. The scholarly significance of these endangered and 

extinct languages and literacies provides the impetus for this collaborative initiative supported 

by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

The following two books are published as part of the Recovering Languages and Literacies 

of the Americas (rlla) initiative, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

A Reference Grammar of Kotiria 

(Wanano) 

Kristine Stenzel 

This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria 

(Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language 

family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia 

and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain 

forest. Today the Kotirias number only about 

sixteen hundred people and their language, 

though still used in traditional communities, is 

rapidly becoming endangered. Kristine Stenzel 

draws on eight years of intensive work with the 

Kotirias to promote, record, and revitalize their 

language. 

July 2013 • 536 pp. • 1 map, 15 figures, 38 tables 

$80.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2822-1 

studies in the native languages 

of the americas series 

Defying Maliseet Language Death 

Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, 

and Identity in Eastern Canada 

Bernard C. Perley 

The Maliseet language, as spoken in the Tobique 

First Nation of New Brunswick, Canada, 

is an endangered language that will either 

survive through revitalization or die off. This 

ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a 

member of this First Nation, examines the processes 

of both language death and survival and 

language’s relationship to indigenous identity. 

“Perley’s detailed discussion of the local 

choices Maliseet community members have 

made, and continue to make, in regard to language 

maintenance could serve as a model for 

other indigenous communities who might be 

facing similar language and culture shifts.” 

—Journal of Anthropological Research 

2012 • 250 pp. • 1 map 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4363-7 

$60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2529-9 

For more information about the rlla initiative, 

visit recoveringlanguages.unl.edu/press.html

History & Culture 

Call for Change 

The Medicine Way of American Indian History, 

Ethos, and Reality 

Donald L. Fixico 

“Donald Fixico challenges scholars of American 

and Indian history to revise their thinking, 

enlarge their ‘seeing,’ and engage in an effort 

to understand Native people and their communities. 

He constructs a convincing argument 

about the uniqueness of Indian history and 

his explanation for seeing the world through 

Indian lenses leads Fixico to craft a terminology 

that makes a great deal of sense.”—Margaret 

Connell Szasz, Regents Professor of Native 

American and Celtic History at the University of 

New Mexico 

June 2013 • 264 pp. • 10 diagrams 

$50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4356-9 

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans 

of the Northwest Amazon 

Robin M. Wright 

Foreword by Michael J. Harner 

Robin M. Wright tells the life story of Mandu 

da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among 

the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. 

Wright, who has known and worked with da 

Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the 

story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ 

society, history, mythology, cosmology, and 

jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans 

are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of 

religious power and knowledge.” 

This volume is the first mapping of the sacred 

geography (“mythscape”) of the Northern 

Arawak–speaking people, demonstrating direct 

connections between petroglyphs and other 

inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a 

whole. 

June 2013 • 408 pp. • 18 photographs, 

7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes 

$55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4394-1 

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize, 

2010 Athearn Western History Association Prize, 

and 2010 Armitage-Jameson Prize 

White Mother to a Dark Race 

Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and 

the Removal of Indigenous Children in the 

American West and Australia, 1880–1940 

Margaret D. Jacobs 

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 

American Indians in the United States 

and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered 

a common experience at the hands of state 

authorities: the removal of their children to 

institutions in the name of assimilation. This 

groundbreaking study examines the key roles 

white women played in these removal policies. 

Although some white women developed caring 

relationships with indigenous children and 

others became critical of government policies, 

many became ensnared in this insidious 

colonial policy. 

“An excellent model [that] should encourage 

further comparisons between federal Indian 

policy and other maternalist projects within 

the United States as well as intimate strategies 

in other colonial regimes.”—Western Historical 

Quarterly 

“A balanced, meticulously researched book 

filled with heartbreaking stories of loss and 

uplifting accounts of survival.”—Great Plains 

Quarterly 

“This book deserves wide readership in 

U.S. western history, women’s history, Indian 

history, and comparative ethnic studies.” 

—Montana: The Magazine of Western History 

2011 • 592 pp. • 24 photographs, 2 maps 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3516-8 

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In Sun’s Likeness and Power, 

2-Volume Set 

Cheyenne Accounts of Shield and Tipi Heraldry 

James Mooney 

Transcribed and edited by 

Father Peter J. Powell 

According to traditional Cheyenne belief, 

shields are living, spirit-filled beings, radiating 

supernatural power from the Supreme Being 

for protection and blessing. Shields stand at 

the nexus of several dimensions of Cheyenne 

culture, including spirituality, warfare, and 

artistic expression. 

From 1902 to 1906, fifty Cheyenne elders 

spoke with famed ethnologist James Mooney, 

sharing with him their interpretations of shield 

and tipi heraldry. Mooney’s handwritten field 

notes of these conversations are the single best 

source of information on Plains Native shields 

and tipi art available and are a source of inestimable 

value today for both the Cheyennes and 

for scholars. 

In 1955, with the blessing and permission 

of the Keepers of the Two Great Covenants 

and the Chiefs and Headmen of the Northern 

and Southern Cheyenne People, Father Peter 

J. Powell began a five-decade effort to help 

preserve the religion, culture, and history of 

the Cheyenne People for the generations ahead. 

His transcriptions and annotations of famed 

ethnologist James Mooney’s notes from 1902 to 

1906 on Cheyenne heraldry is the culmination 

of these efforts. 

May 2013 • 1320 pp. • 198 illustrations (144 color 

plates, 54 b&w photographs), 82 symbols, index 

$250.00 • 978-0-8032-3822-0 

From top: Bushyhead’s Whirler shield (top) and Bear Cap’s 

shield (bottom); Oómsh’s shield of Wolf Tongue or Flacco, 

horseback view; Woiftoish’s shield #2, rib shield. National 

Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution Press. 

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Reservation "Capitalism" 

Economic Development in Indian Country 

Robert J. Miller 

Foreword by Tom Daschle 

Indians are the poorest people in the United 

States, and their reservations are appallingly 

poverty-stricken; not surprisingly, they suffer 

from the numerous social pathologies that invariably 

accompany such economic conditions. 

Historically, however, most tribal communities 

were prosperous, composed of healthy, vibrant 

societies sustained over hundreds and in some 

instances perhaps even thousands of years. 

Reservation “Capitalism” relates the true history, 

describes present-day circumstances, and 

sketches the potential future of Indian communities 

and economics. Robert J. Miller focuses 

on strategies for establishing public and private 

economic activities on reservations and for 

creating economies in which reservation inhabitants 

can be employed, live, and have access to 

the necessities of life, circumstances ultimately 

promoting complete tribal self-sufficiency. 

“Promises to be the definitive book on 

Native American entrepreneurship.” 

—Rennard Strickland, Phillip Knight Distinguished 

Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, 

University of Oregon 

“Miller’s book is not only practical but also 

realistic and timely. . . . This is recommended 

reading for tribal leaders, planners, Indian 

and non-Indian entrepreneurs and anyone 

interested in seeing a glimpse of the economic 

potential that lies in Indian country.”—Indian 

Country Today 

“While Miller’s fluid style makes his book 

accessible to the casual reader, the level of 

research and extensive endnotes make this book 

a viable choice as the primary textbook for a 

course on tribal economic development.” 

—Great Plains Quarterly 

November 2013 • 220 pp. 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4631-7 

Native America, Discovered 

and Conquered 

Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, 

and Manifest Destiny 

Robert J. Miller 

Foreword by Elizabeth Furse 

With a new afterword by the author 

This study shows how the legal tradition of the 

Doctrine of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark 

Expedition gave rise to the cultural ideology of 

Manifest Destiny and the socio-political and 

legal consequences of these policies. 

“A must read.”—Choice 

“To say this book is required reading for 

those wishing to understand American history is 

an understatement.”—Lincoln (ne) Journal Star 

2008 • 240 pp. • 1 map 

$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1598-6 

Winner of the oah’s Ray Allen Billington Prize, 

Western History Association’s John C. Ewers 

Award, Caughey Western History Association 

Prize, Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Western 

Writers of America Spur Award, and Co-Winner 

of the oah’s Merle Curti Award 

One Vast Winter Count 

The Native American West before Lewis 

and Clark 

Colin G. Calloway 

One Vast Winter Count traces the histories of the 

Native peoples of the American West from their 

arrival thousands of years ago to the early years 

of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict 

and change, One Vast Winter Count it offers a new 

look at the early history of the region by blending 

ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier 

history. 

“[A] masterful synthesis of an extensive 

literature.”—Western Historical Quarterly 

“Will long remain the authoritative treatment 

of its subject.”—Atlantic Monthly 

2006 • 631 pp. • Illus., maps 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6465-6 

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Coming Full Circle 

Spirituality and Wellness among Native 

Communities in the Pacific Northwest 

Suzanne Crawford O’Brien 

Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration 

of the relationships between spirituality 

and health in several contemporary Coast Salish 

and Chinook communities in western Washington 

from 1805 to 2005. Suzanne Crawford 

O’Brien examines how these communities define 

what it means to be healthy, and how recent 

tribal community–based health programs have 

applied this understanding to their missions 

and activities. She also explores how contemporary 

definitions, goals, and activities relating to 

health and healing are informed by Coast Salish 

history and also by indigenous spiritual views of 

the body, which are based on an understanding 

of the relationship between self, ecology, and 

community. 

November 2013 • 480 pp. • 18 images 

$90.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1127-8 

American Indian Nations from 

Termination to Restoration, 

1953–2006 

Roberta Ulrich 

Roberta Ulrich provides a concise overview of 

all the terminations and restorations of Native 

American tribes from 1953 to 2006 and explores 

the enduring policy implications for Native 

peoples. This is the first book to consider all 

the terminations and restorations that occurred 

in the twentieth century as part of continuing 

policy while simultaneously detailing some of 

the individual tribal differences. 

“Rich in facts and easy to read, the book details 

a little noticed chapter of present-day Indian 

politics of the USA.”—AmerIndian Research 

“Highly recommended”—Choice 

“For the general reader, [this book] provides 

a good overview of termination and its reversal 

and demonstrates how these factors influenced 

Indian identity.”—Western Historical Quarterly 

January 2013 • 334 pp. • 4 photographs, 

1 appendix 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7157-9 

Borderlands and 

Transcultural Studies series 

Chiricahua and Janos 

Communities of Violence in the Southwestern 

Borderlands, 1680–1880 

Lance R. Blyth 

Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches 

and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican 

borderlands reveals how no single entity had 

a monopoly on coercion, and how violence 

became the primary means by which relations 

were established, maintained, or altered both 

within and between communities. 

“Blyth’s argument, as well as his narrative 

and use of traditional and nontraditional sources, 

is impressive and provides a framework for 

understanding the permeating role of violence 

in two borderlands communities.” 

—Southwestern American Literature 

“Chiricahua and Janos represents a valuable 

addition to the growing literature examining 

violence in zones of intercultural contact, both 

in the Americas and around the globe.” 

—Journal of Interdisciplinary History 

July 2012 • 296 pp. • 17 maps, 1 glossary 

$60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3766-7 

Defending Whose Country? 

Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War 

Noah Riseman 

Defending Whose Country? is a comparative study 

of the military participation of Papua New 

Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific 

theater. In examining the decisions of state and 

military leaders to bring indigenous peoples 

into military service, as well as the decisions of 

indigenous individuals to serve in the armed 

forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact 

of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous 

soldiers in the Second World War. 

2012 • 336 pp. • 24 photographs, 3 maps 

$50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3793-3 

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Lakota and Dakota Studies 

Witness 

A Hú kpapȟa Historian’s Strong-Heart 

Song of the Lakotas 

Josephine Waggoner 

Edited and with an introduction by 

Emily Levine 

Foreword by Lynne Allen 

Witness is a collection of previously unpublished 

manuscript histories of the Lakota by a Lakota 

woman, Josephine Waggoner (1871–1943), 

based on interviews Waggoner had with some 

of the most prominent and well-known Lakota 

leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth 

centuries. 

The first of Waggoner’s two manuscripts 

presented here includes extraordinary firsthand 

and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members. 

The second manuscript consists of Waggoner’s 

sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota 

chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts 

and interviews with the men themselves. 

Witness is augmented by extensive annotations 

and more than 100 photographs. 

“Josephine Waggoner’s writings offer a 

unique perspective on the Lakotas. Witness will 

become a widely referenced primary source.” 

—Raymond DeMallie, Chancellors’ Professor of 

Anthropology and American Indian Studies at 

Indiana University 

November 2013 • 824 pp. • 26 color illustrations, 

141 b&w illustrations (primarily photographs), 

1 genealogy, 10 maps, 1 table, 7 appendixes 

$85.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4564-8 

The Great Sioux Nation 

Sitting in Judgment on America 

Edited by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz 

Foreword by Philip J. Deloria 

With a new introduction by the editor 

Here is the story of the Sioux Nation’s fight to 

regain its land and sovereignty, highlighting 

the events of 1973–74, including the protest 

at Wounded Knee. It features pieces by some 

of the most prominent scholars and Indian 

activists of the twentieth century, including 

Vine Deloria Jr., Simon Ortiz, Dennis Banks, 

Father Peter J. Powell, Russell Means, Raymond 

DeMallie, and Henry Crow Dog. It also features 

primary documents and firsthand accounts of 

the activists’ work and of the trial. 

May 2013 • 232 pp. • 21 photographs, 1 map 

$21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4483-2 

Eyewitness at Wounded Knee 

Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, 

and John E. Carter 

Introduction by Heather Cox Richardson 

The tragedy at Wounded Knee on a wintry day 

in December 1890 has often been written about, 

but the existing photographs have received little 

attention until now. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee 

brings together and assesses for the first time 

some 150 photographs that were made before 

and immediately after the massacre. Present 

at the scene were two itinerant photographers, 

George Trager and Clarence Grant Morelodge, 

whose work has never before been published. 

For this Bison Books edition each image has 

been digitally enhanced and restored, making 

the photographs as compelling as the event 

itself. 

2011 • 232 pp. • 150 photographs, 15 illustrations, 

2 maps 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3609-7 

great plains photography series 

From Eyewitness at Wounded Knee. Nebraska State Historical Society: 

larence Moreledge’s photograph of a Sioux camp, #rg2845-8-5 


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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 

The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 

Rani-Henrik Andersson 

Although the Lakota Ghost Dance has been the 

subject of much previous historical study, the 

views of the Lakota participants have not been 

fully explored, in part because they have been 

available only in the Lakota language. Here is 

a comprehensive history of the Lakota Ghost 

Dance, featuring a broad range of cross-cultural 

perspectives and recollections including hitherto 

untranslated Lakota accounts. 

“A landmark book on the Lakota Ghost 

Dance and Wounded Knee.”—Choice 

“Highly recommended for all those wishing 

to learn more about this exceedingly important 

chapter in Native American–white relations.” 

—Journal of American History 

“Demonstrates how understanding a particular 

tribe’s culture is fundamental in comprehending 

and writing its history.”—Studies in 

American Indian Literatures 

July 2013 • 462 pp. • 5 photographs, 

7 illustrations, 1 table, 5 appendixes 

$35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4591-4 

Culture and Customs of the Sioux 

Indians 

Gregory O. Gagnon 

Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians presents a 

picture of traditional Sioux culture and history 

and shows how the Sioux of today merge traditional 

customs and beliefs that have survived 

their tumultuous history with contemporary 

America. Topics include the development of the 

Sioux tribe, conflicts and wars with the United 

States, religion, economy, gender roles, lifestyles, 

arts, cuisine, education, social customs, 

and much more. 

“[A] well-balanced history and overview of 

Dakota and Lakota Siouans.”—Choice 


1 chronology, 1 glossary, 1 appendix 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4454-2 

Studies in the Anthropology 

of North American Indians 

series 

Life among the Indians 

First Fieldwork among the Sioux and Omahas 

Alice C. Fletcher 

Edited and with an introduction by Joanna C. 

Scherer and Raymond J. DeMallie 

Alice C. Fletcher (1838–1923), one of the few 

women who became anthropologists in the 

United States during the nineteenth century, 

was a pioneer in the practice of participantobservation 

ethnography. Life among the Indians 

is Fletcher’s popularized autobiographical 

memoir written in 1886–87 about her first 

fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas 

during 1881–82. 

Fletcher’s account of her early fieldwork is 

available here for the first time, accompanied 

by an essay by the editors that sheds light on 

Fletcher’s place in the development of anthropology 

and the role of women in the discipline. 

December 2013 • 448 pp. • 13 photographs, 

37 drawings, 3 musical examples, 1 map, 

1 appendix 

$65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4115-2 

Winner of the 2011 Leonard Bloomfield 

Book Award 

A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) 

Jack B. Martin 

With the assistance of Margaret McKane 

Mauldin and Juanita McGirt 

This volume is the first modern grammar of 

Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the 

languages of the southern United States. 

“This book is a very good, thorough reference 

grammar for Muskogee. . . . For those working 

with the language and its speakers, it is quite 

useful and will be an oft-referenced work.” 

—Journal of Anthropological Research 

2011 • 504 pp. • 1 illustration, 2 maps, 60 tables, 

13 figures, 3 appendixes 

$75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1106-3 


A Totem Pole History 

The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire 

Pauline Hillaire 

Edited by Gregory P. Fields 


Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894–1967) is recognized 

as one of the great Coast Salish artists, 

carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth 

century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter, 

Pauline Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale 

(b. 1929), who is herself a well-known cultural 

historian and conservator, tells the story of her 

father’s life and the traditional and contemporary 

Lummi narratives that influenced his work. 

A Totem Pole History contains 76 photographs, 

including Joe’s most significant totem poles, 

many of which Pauline watched him carve. She 

conveys with great insight the stories, teachings, 

and history expressed by her father’s totem 

poles. Eight contributors provide essays on 

Coast Salish art and carving, adding to the author’s 

portrayal of Joe’s philosophy of art in Salish 

life, particularly in the context of twentiethcentury 

intercultural relations. 


4 maps 

$40.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4097-1 

Coast Salish Totem Poles, the media companion 

to A Totem Pole History, includes: 

• Two cds that feature Pauline Hillaire 

telling traditional stories associated 

with the totem poles and Joe Hillaire 

singing Lummi songs. 

• A dvd that features Pauline showing 

viewers how to interpret the stories and 

history expressed in Joe’s totem poles. 

$19.95 • 978-0-8032-7186-9 

From top: Centennial pole detail: the say-nilh-xay and cattails (front), 2010. Photo by Gregory P. Fields; 

Joe Hillaire carving the Centennial history pole, 1952. Photo by Jack Carver. Whatcom Museum 

of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, image number x4928.012a. 


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Indians of the 

Southeast series 

The Moravian Springplace Mission 

to the Cherokees (2-volume set) 


Rowena McClinton 

Preface by Chad Smith 

In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist Germanspeaking 

group from Central Europe, founded 

the Springplace Mission at a site in presentday 

northwestern Georgia. The Moravians 

remained among the Cherokees for more than 

thirty years, longer than any other Christian 

group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served 

at the mission from 1805 until Anna’s death in 

1821. The principal author of the diaries, Anna, 

chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee 

daily life. 

Volume 1 includes diary entries from 1805– 

13, a preface, and an introduction. Volume 2 includes 

diary entries from 1814–21, the editor’s 

epilogue, and a names index and a subject index 

for both volumes. 

This two-volume set includes the entire text 

in translation as well as a critical apparatus, 

contextual introductory material, and extensive 

notes. Rowena McClinton’s translation from 

German script, an archaic writing convention, 

makes these primary eyewitness accounts available 

in English for the first time. 

“McClinton’s translated and annotated 

edition of the Moravian Springplace Mission 

diaries must be recognized as a momentous 

work for scholars in a wide variety of fields.” 

—Documentary Editing 

“The diaries are placed into context expertly 

and indexed exactly to render them even more 

fascinating and useful. This is a gargantuan 

achievement and a great step forward in Cherokee 

scholarship.”—Appalachian Heritage 

2007 • 1283 pp. • 2 photographs, 5 maps, 

3 appendixes, glossary, 2 indexes 

$99.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3266-2 

The Moravian Springplace Mission 

to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition 


Rowena McClinton 

This abridged edition of the The Moravian 

Springplace Mission offers selected excerpts 

from the definitive edition of the Springplace 

diary, enabling significant themes and events 

of Cherokee culture and history to emerge. 

Anna’s carefully recorded observations reveal 

the Cherokees’ worldview and allow readers a 

glimpse into a time of change and upheaval for 

the tribe. 

“McClinton’s excellent volume can be used in 

classrooms to highlight the effects of cultural 

change in an Indian community.”—North Carolina 

Historical Review 

2010 • 184 pp. • 1 illustration, 2 maps 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2095-9 

The Payne-Butrick Papers, 

2-volume set 

Edited and annotated by William L. Anderson, 

Jane L. Brown, and Anne F. Rogers 

This two-volume set is the richest and most important 

extant collection of information about 

traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of 

the Cherokees’ own records were lost during 

their forced removal to the west, the Payne- 

Butrick papers are the most detailed written 

source about the Cherokee Nation during the 

late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 

This repository of information covers nearly all 

aspects of traditional Cherokee culture and history, 

including politics, myths, early and later 

religious beliefs, rituals, marriage customs, ball 

play, language, dances, and attitudes toward 

children. 

“Will be used by scholars and, more important, 

larger numbers of Cherokee people can 

refer to them as well.”—Journal of American 

History 

“[The editors] have done a remarkable job 

of compiling the Payne-Butrick papers. . . . A 

must-have set for libraries, especially in the old 

Cherokee southeast and Oklahoma.”—Choice 

2010 • 928 pp. 

$150.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2843-6 



Indians of the 

Southwest and South 

Winner of the 2010 Chicago Folklore Prize 

Named one of the 2010 Southwest Books 

of the Year by the Pima County Public Library 

We Will Dance Our Truth 

Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances 

David Delgado Shorter 

In this innovative, performative approach to the 

expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples 

of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David 

Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh 

understanding of Yoeme worldviews. 

“Shorter breaks new ground in relating history 

and ethnography, in contributing to the study 

of Native American religions, and in emphasizing 

the significance of spatial relationships to 

cultural realities. The book will be appreciated 

as a contribution to Yoeme ethnography but also 

for its general importance in religious studies, 

performance theory, ethnicity, and ethnohistory.”—Journal 

of Folklore Research 

“A wonderful contribution to the literature 

of Native American and Indigenous studies and 

should prove incredibly useful in graduate (and 

some undergraduate) courses.”—Studies in 

American Indian Literatures 

2009 • 390 pp. • 14 photographs, 2 tables 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1733-1 

Indian Play 

Indigenous Identities at Bacone College 

Lisa K. Neuman 

Indian Play is an examination of how a small 

Baptist boarding school for Native Americans 

in Oklahoma transformed itself during the midtwentieth 

century from being a school designed 

to assimilate Native Americans into an institution 

that actively fostered and valued students’ Native 

identities. Through frequent use of humor and 

inventive wordplay to reference Indianness— 

“Indian play”—students articulated the (often 

contradictory) implications of being educated 

Indians in mid-twentieth-century America. 

January 2014 • 392 pp. • 25 photographs, 

8 drawings, 4 paintings, 2 maps 

$50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4099-5 

The Archaeology of the Caddo 

Edited by Timothy K. Perttula 

and Chester P. Walker 

The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands 

for more than 900 years beginning 

around ad 800–900, before being forced to 

relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind 

a spectacular archaeological record, including 

the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma 

as well as many other mound centers, plazas, 

farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. This 

volume reintroduces the Caddos’ heritage, 

creativity, and political and religious complexity 

and provides the most comprehensive overview 

to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the 

Caddo peoples. 

“A timely, useful volume. . . . Worth having, 

reading, and referencing.”—American Antiquity 

2012 • 536 pp. • 113 figures, 43 tables 

$60.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2096-6 

Becoming Melungeon 

Making an Ethnic Identity 

in the Appalachian South 

Melissa Schrift 

Melissa Schrift examines the ways in which the 

Melungeon ethnic identity in Appalachia has 

been socially constructed over time by various 

regional and national media, plays, and other 

forms of popular culture. Schrift explores how 

the social construction of this legend evolved 

into a fervent movement of a self-identified 

ethnicity in the 1990s. This insightful work 

examines shifting social constructions of race, 

ethnicity, and identity both in the local context 

of the Melungeons and more broadly in an 

attempt to understand the formation of ethnic 

groups and identity in the modern world. 

May 2013 • 232 pp. • 2 appendixes 

$35.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7154-8 


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From Fort Marion to Fort Sill 

A Documentary History of the Chiricahua 

Apache Prisoners of War, 1886–1913 

Edited and annotated by Alicia Delgadillo, 

with Miriam A. Perrett 

From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue 

documentation of the lives and fate of hundreds 

of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children 

who lived and died as prisoners of war in 

Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma from 1886 to 

1913. This outstanding reference work provides 

individual biographies for hundreds of these 

prisoners of war, including those originally 

classified as pows in 1886, infants who lived 

only a few days, children removed from families, 

and second-generation pows who lived well 

into the twenty-first century. 

Their biographies are often poignant and 

revealing, and more than 60 previously unpublished 

photographs give a further glimpse of 

their humanity. 

June 2013 • 456 pp. • 62 b&w images, 

8 color plates,3 maps 

$70.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4379-8 

Yuchi Indian Histories Before 

the Removal Era 


Jason Baird Jackson 

This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi 

(Euchee) peoples prior to Removal corrects the 

historical record, which often submerges the 

Yuchi within the Creek Confederacy instead of 

acknowledging the Yuchi as a separate tribe. By 

looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, 

linguistic, and archaeological record, the 

contributors shows that from the entrada of 

Hernando de Soto into the American South in 

1541 to the maintenance of community and 

identity today, the Yuchis have persisted as a 

distinct people. 

“The editor and contributors deserve congratulations 

for sustaining the nearly invisible 

Yuchi story line. Hope for future information 

rests in the questions raised by these and other 

scholars.”—Choice 

2012 • 280 pp. • 8 illustrations, 6 maps, 6 tables 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4041-4 

Mapping the Mississippian 

Shatter Zone 

The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional 

Instability in the American South 

Edited by Robbie Ethridge 

and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall 

“How did the complex Mississippian societies of 

the American South become the decentralized 

Indian societies of the eighteenth century? This 

volume’s fifteen contributors answer that question 

anew by employing the concept of a ‘shatter 

zone’ to identify the causes of instability and 

map its effects in time and place. Those achievements 

alone make Shatter Zone noteworthy.” 

—Ethnohistory 

“An excellent snapshot of a welcome resurgence 

in sophisticated research on the pre- and 

early colonial South.”—American Historical Review 

“One of the most complete syntheses available 

of the impact of European colonization on 

Native people in the American South.”—American 

Antiquity 

2009 • 536 pp. • 1 photo, 15 maps, 6 tables 

$35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1759-1 

Households and Hegemony 

Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, 

and Social Power 

Cameron B. Wesson 

The long-term significance of the household as a 

social and economic force—particularly in relation 

to authority positions or institutions—has 

remained relatively unexplored in North American 

archaeology. Drawing together information 

from ethnohistoric records and data from one of 

the largest excavations in Alabama’s history (the 

Fusihatchee Project), Cameron B. Wesson examines 

the household and its changing relationship 

to tribal authority after contact with European 

traders and settlers beginning in the sixteenth 

century. Wesson demonstrates that change 

within Creek culture in the historic period was 

shaped by small-scale social units and individual 

decisions rather than by the effects of larger 

social and political events. 

July 2013 • 256 pp. • 21 illustrations, 5 maps, 

5 tables, index 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4695-9 



Indians of the West 

and Northwest 

Voices of the American West, 2 vols. 

Eli S. Ricker 


Richard E. Jensen 

As the Old West became increasingly distant 

and romanticized in popular consciousness, 

Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker (1843–1926) 

began interviewing those who had experienced 

it firsthand. 

“A gold mine of information.”—Great Plains 

Quarterly 

“A magnificent achievement to the oralhistory 

sources available on the American West. 

. . . The strength of the volumes is in the stories 

told by the interviewees, with their perspectives 

on key historical events from the Old West, 

which is equally suited to the student and the 

academic scholar.”—American Studies 

“Here is western history at its finest—vivid 

oral narratives that very well may become 

the stuff of prize-winning stories, novels, and 

films.” —Bloomsbury Review 

Volume 1 

The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 

1903–1919 

2012 • 544 pp. • 16 illustrations, 1 map, 

2 appendixes 

$34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3996-8 

Volume 2 

The Settler and Soldier Interviews of 

Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 

2012 • 498 pp. • 10 illustrations, 1 map, 

1 appendix 

$34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3997-5 

Murder State 

California’s Native American Genocide, 

1846–1873 

Brendan C. Lindsay 

In the second half of the nineteenth century, 

the Euro-American citizenry of California 

carried out mass genocide against the Native 

population of their state, using the processes 

and mechanisms of democracy to secure land 

and resources for themselves and their private 

interests. Murder State is a comprehensive examination 

of these events and their early legacy, 

calling attention to the misuse of democracy to 

justify and commit genocide. 

“One of the most important works ever 

published on the history of American Indians in 

California in the mid-nineteenth century.” 

—Indian Country 

“A groundbreaking study that will change 

the historiography of California and genocide 

studies—a penetrating but readable book that 

will quickly become a classic.”—Larry Myers 

(Pomo), executive secretary of the California 

Native American Heritage Commission 

2012 • 456 pp. • 2 tables 

$70.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2480-3 

The Allotment Plot 

Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce 

Survivance 

Nicole Tonkovich 

The Allotment Plot reexamines the history of 

allotment on the Nez Perce Reservation from 

1889 to 1892 to account for and emphasize the 

Nez Perce side of the story. By including the 

Nez Perce responses to allotment and detailing 

the tribe’s agency and interactions with allotment 

agents Alice C. Fletcher and E. Jane Gay, 

Nicole Tonkovich argues that the assimilationist 

aims of allotment ultimately failed due in 

large part to the agency of the Nez Perce people 

themselves throughout the allotment process. 

Tonkovich provides a vital counternarrative of 

the allotment period, which is often portrayed 

as disastrous to Native polities. 

2012 • 440 pp. • 63 illustrations, 10 maps, 1 table 

$65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7137-1 


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The Island of the Anishnaabeg 

Thunderers and Water Monsters in 

the Traditional Ojibwe Life-World 

Theresa S. Smith 

The Island of the Anishnaabeg is a nuanced look 

at traditional Ojibwe religion and its structure, 

interpretation, and revival among contemporary 

Ojibwes. 

“A thoroughly fascinating and carefully 

argued investigation of the Ojibwe religious 

cosmology exploring two critical mythic beings. 

. . . Extremely accessible.”—Religious Studies 

Review 

“Excellent scholarship, empathetic interpretation, 

and engaging. [Smith’s] book is 

enhanced by a clear prose augmented by wellselected 

pictures of artwork by Manitoulin 

Ojibwe which illustrate many points.”—North 

Dakota Quarterly 

“[Smith] provides valuable primary sources 

in contemporary religious thought and interestingly 

synthesizes much past material in the 

light of the present. Appropriate for crosscultural 

theology and philosophy courses as 

well as Native American studies, mythology, 

religious revitalization, and hermeneutics.” 

—Choice 

2012 • 248 pp. • 16 illustrations, 3 appendixes 

$25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3832-9 

Modern Blackfeet 

Montanans on a Reservation 

Malcolm McFee 

Introduction by Andrew R. Graybill 

Modern Blackfeet sheds light on the politics, economics, 

society, and especially the acculturation 

of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The results 

of McFee’s long-term research among the 

Blackfeet in the 1950s and 1960s make it clear 

that acculturation is not simply a linear process 

of assimilation or a one-way cultural adaptation 

to the impact of Euro-American culture. 

McFee reviews the changing policies of the 

U.S. government, which were directed initially 

at the destruction of all Native customs and 

values, then at the promotion of Blackfeet selfgovernment, 

and eventually at the threatened 

termination of their status. 

January 2014 • 144 pp. • 16 photographs, 2 maps 

$20.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4643-0 

Letters from the Rocky Mountain 

Indian Missions 

Father Philip Rappagliosi 

Edited by Robert Bigart 

Translated from the Italian by Anthony Mattina 

and Lisa Moore Nardini 

Translated from the German by Ulrich Stengel 

These letters reveal the life of an Italian Jesuit 

as he worked at three missions in the northern 

Rocky Mountains from 1874 to 1878. Meticulously 

translated and carefully annotated, the 

letters of Father Philip Rappagliosi (1841–78) 

are a rare and rich source of information about 

the daily lives, customs, and beliefs of the 

many Native peoples that he came into contact 

with: Nez Perces, Kootenais, Salish Flatheads, 

Coeur d’Alenes, Pend d’Oreilles, Blackfeet, and 

Canadian Métis. These never-before-translated 

letters reveal the shifting, sometimes volatile 

relationship between the missionaries and the 

Native Americans. 

March 2013 • 156 pp. • Map, 8 photographs 

$25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4614-0 

Tears of Repentance 

Christian Indian Identity and Community 

in Colonial Southern New England 

Julius H. Rubin 

Tears of Repentance reexamines the familiar 

stories of intercultural encounters between 

Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in 

southern New England from the seventeenth 

to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on 

Protestant missionaries’ accounts of their ideals, 

purposes, and goals among the Native communities 

they served and of the religion as lived, 

experienced, and practiced among Christianized 

Indians, Julius H. Rubin offers a new way 

of understanding the motives and motivations 

of those who lived in New England’s early 

Christianized Indian village communities. 

Tears of Repentance is an important contribution 

to American colonial and Native American 

history, offering new ways of examining how 

Native groups and individuals recast Protestant 

theology to restore their Native communities 

and cultures. 

July 2013 • 424 pp. • 10 tables, 2 appendixes 

$75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4355-2 



On Records 

Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media 

of History and Memory 

Andrew Newman 

Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, 

memory, and media studies, On Records 

illuminates the problems of communication 

between cultures and across generations. 

Andrew Newman examines several controversial 

episodes in the historical narrative of the 

Delaware (Lenape) Indians and their encounters 

with settlers. 

As Newman demonstrates, the quest for ideal 

records—authentic, authoritative, and objective, 

anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present—has 

haunted historical actors and scholars 

alike. On Records articulates surprising connections 

among colonial documents, recorded oral 

traditions, and material and visual cultures. Its 

comprehensive, probing analysis of historical 

evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of 

events and reveals new insights into the divergent 

memories of a shared past. 

“A thoughtful meditation on how we know 

the past.”—Native American Studies 

2012 • 328 pp. • 12 illustrations, 2 maps 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3986-9 

Lethal Encounters 

Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia 

Alfred A. Cave 

While the romanticized story of the Jamestown 

colony has been retold many times, the events 

following the marriage of Pocahontas and 

John Rolfe are less well known. This in-depth 

narrative history of the interactions between 

English settlers and American Indians during 

the Virginia colony’s first century examines 

why the Anglo settlers were unable to establish 

a peaceful and productive relationship with 

the region’s native inhabitants and explains 

how the deep prejudices harbored by both 

whites and Indians, the incompatibility of their 

economic and social systems, and the leadership 

failures of protagonists such as John Smith, 

Powhatan, Opechancanough, and William 

Berkeley, contributed to this breakdown. 

November 2013 • 216 pp. • 1 illustration 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4834-2 

The White Earth Nation 

Ratification of a Native Democratic 

Constitution 

Gerald Vizenor and Jill Doerfler 

Introduction by David E. Wilkins 

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives 

ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the 

first indigenous democratic constitution, on 

a reservation in Minnesota. The White Earth 

Nation set out to create a constitution that 

reflected its own culture. The resulting document 

provides a clear Native perspective on 

sovereignty, independent governance, traditional 

leadership values, and the importance of 

individual and human rights. 

This volume includes the text of the Constitution 

of the White Earth Nation; an introduction 

by David E. Wilkins, a legal and political scholar 

who was a special consultant to the White Earth 

Constitutional Convention; an essay by Gerald 

Vizenor, the delegate and principal writer of the 

Constitution of the White Earth Nation; and 

articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by 

Jill Doerfler, who coordinated and participated 

in the deliberations and ratification of the 

Constitution. 

Together these essays and the text of the Constitution 

provide direct insight into the process 

of the delegate deliberations, the writing and 

ratification of this groundbreaking document, 

and the current constitutional, legal, and political 

debates about new constitutions. 

2012 • 112 pp. 

$16.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4079-7 


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The Iroquoians and 

Their World series 

Winner of the 2010 Annual Archives Award 

for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings 

of the New York State Archives 

Winner of the 2010 Albert B. Corey Prize 

The Texture of Contact 

European and Indian Settler Communities on 

the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783 

David L. Preston 

The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of 

Iroquois and European communities and 

coexistence in eastern North America before the 

American Revolution. 

“Preston has created an original and 

stimulating narrative by engaging with frontier 

peoples on their own lands and on their own 

terms.”—Ethnohistory 

“A major contribution to the ever-growing 

body of academic studies about Indian-white 

interactions, both peaceful and bloody, in 

colonial North America. Preston’s presentation 

represents a sophisticated analysis that 

moves significantly beyond currently fashionable 

explanations about Indian-white interactions—and 

the reasons why harmony finally 

gave way to a bloody history of violence and the 

dispossession of Native Americans from their 

homelands.”—Pennsylvania History 

“Preston’s engaging writing style makes 

the book viable for assignment in upper-level 

undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, 

and all scholars in the field will need to grapple 

with the implications of his significant findings 

regarding the importance of local, ‘everyday,’ 

face-to-face interactions across cultural boundaries 

in early America.”—William and Mary 

Quarterly 

2012 • 464 pp. • 12 illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables 

$25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4352-1 

From Homeland to New Land 

A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600–1830 

William A. Starna 

This definitive history of the Mahicans begins 

with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson 

River in 1609 and ends with the removal of 

these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. 

Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, 

and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as 

comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans 

while in their Hudson and Housatonic 

Valley homeland; after their consolidation at the 

praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; 

and following their move to Oneida country in 

central New York at the end of the Revolution 

and their migration west. 

June 2013 • 320 pp. • 3 illustrations, 11 maps 

$60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4495-5 

Oneida Lives 

Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas 

Edited by Herbert S. Lewis with 

L. Gordon McLester III 

Foreword by Gerald L. Hill 

“Full of valuable history. . . . Selected from more 

than 500 biographical narratives, these 65 

chronicles told by 58 men and women present 

a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s, 

before the Dawes Allotment Act, through World 

War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning 

of World War II. They present a remarkable 

picture of the people and the times.” 

—Green Bay Press-Gazette 

“Beyond its obvious value to those interested 

in the Oneidas and other Native peoples of the 

region, [Oneida Lives] should appeal to readers 

interested in American Indian autobiography 

and everyday life in indigenous communities 

during the early twentieth century.”—Journal of 

Anthropological Research 

2005 • 428 pp. • Illus. 

$32.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8043-4 


Biography 

& Memoir 

Katie Gale 

A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay 

LLyn De Danaan 

Here is the life story of Katie Gale, a strongwilled 

Native American woman who was born 

into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 

1850s, just as settlers were migrating into what 

would become Washington State. With her 

people forced out of their accustomed hunting 

and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island 

camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her 

fortune in Oyster Bay in that early outpost of 

multiculturalism—where Native Americans 

and immigrants from the eastern United States, 

Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, 

political, and legal power. 

“LLyn De Danaan’s writing is big history 

made deeply human.”—Coll Thrush, author 

of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over 

Place 

October 2013 • 336 pp. • 13 photographs, 1 map, 

1 chronology 

$29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3787-2 

The Woman Who Loved Mankind 

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder 

Lillian Bullshows Hogan 

As told to Barbara Loeb and Mardell Hogan 

Plainfeather 

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the 

twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan 

(1905–2003) grew up on the Crow reservation 

in rural Montana. Here she recounts her own 

long and remarkable life and the stories of her 

parents, part of the last generation of Crows 

born to nomadic ways. 

“This fascinating book is part autobiography, 

part history, part memoir, part cultural guide, 

and part poetry. . . . Loeb and Plainfeather 

made the wise decision to adopt an ethnopoetic 

approach to the reminiscences, thus preserving 

not only Lillian’s words but also the rhythm 

and structure of her speaking.”—Choice 

2012 • 496 pp. • 23 illustrations, 1 map, 5 figures 

$60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1613-6 

Winner of the 2011 sabr Larry Ritter Award 

Winner of the 2010 Professional Football 

Researchers Association Nelson Ross Award 

Native American Son 

The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe 

Kate Buford 

Native American Son is the first comprehensive 

biography of the legendary figure who defined 

excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, 

arguably the greatest all-around athlete in U.S. 

history. It is the story of a complex, iconoclastic, 

profoundly talented man whose life 

encompassed both tragic limitations and truly 

extraordinary achievements. 

“A professional biography has proved what 

sound research and skillful writing can do: 

reveal a singular man, animate the times of 

his life, and illuminate the complexities of 

our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to 

shape.”—American Heritage 

“The definitive biography of a legendary 

figure in American history, in and out of sports. 

. . . Essential.”—Library Journal 

“Brims with life.”—New York Times (Editors’ 

Choice) 

2012 • 528 pp. • 51 illustrations 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4089-6 

The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 

1833–1849 


Theresa M. Schenck 

The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely reveal the 

twenty-four-year-old divinity student from 

Albany, New York, who gave up his preparation 

for the ministry in 1833 to become a missionary 

and teacher among the Ojibwes of Lake 

Superior. Ely’s singular and rich record provides 

unprecedented insight into early nineteenthcentury 

Ojibwe life and Ojibwe-missionary 

relations. 

Theresa M. Schenck draws on a broad array 

of secondary sources to contextualize Ely’s journals 

for historians, anthropologists, linguists, 

literary scholars, and the Ojibwes themselves, 

highlighting the journals’ relevance and importance 

for understanding the Ojibwes of this era. 

2012 • 520 pp. • 17 illustrations, 7 appendixes, 

5 maps, 2 tables 

$65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-7140-1 


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Biography & Memoir 

Cherokee Sister 

The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 

1818–1823 


Theresa Strouth Gaul 

Catharine Brown (1800?–1823) became Brainerd 

Mission School’s first Cherokee convert to 

Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first 

Native American woman whose own writings 

saw extensive publication in her lifetime. 

Although she was once viewed by literary critics 

as a victim of missionaries who represented 

the tragic fate of Indians who abandoned their 

identities, Brown is now being reconsidered as a 

figure of enduring Cherokee revitalization, survival, 

adaptability, and leadership. Cherokee Sister 

collects all of Brown’s writings, consisting of 

letters and a diary, some appearing in print for 

the first time, as well as Brown’s biography and 

a drama and poems about her. This edition of 

Brown’s collected works and related materials 

firmly establishes her place in early nineteenthcentury 

culture and her influence on American 

perceptions of Native Americans. 

January 2014 • 352 pp. • 1 photograph, 

1 illustration 

$40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4075-9 

Winner of the Oklahoma Historical Society 

Best Book Award 

Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award 

Some Things Are Not Forgotten 

A Pawnee Family Remembers 

Martha Royce Blaine 

The Blaine family was among the Pawnees forcibly 

removed to Indian Territory in 1874–75. By 

the early twentieth century, disease and starvation 

had wiped out nearly three-quarters of the 

reservation’s population. Government boarding 

schools refused to teach Pawnee customs and 

language, and many Pawnees found themselves 

without a community when their promised land 

was allotted to individuals and the rest sold as 

“surplus” to white settlers. 

Some Things Are Not Forgotten reveals the 

strengths of character and culture that enabled 

the Blaine family to persevere during the reservation 

years. Perhaps most unforgettable are the 

childhood memories of Garland Blaine, the late 

husband of the author, who became head chief 

of the Pawnees in 1964. 

2012 • 286 pp. • Illus, map 

$35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4527-3 

Montana Memories 

The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky 

Mountain West, 1866–1950 

Ida S. Patterson, with a biography of the author 

by Grace Patterson McComas 

Montana Memories is the life story of a mixedblood 

Indian woman in western Montana and 

southern Alberta. Born in 1866 to a white trader 

and a Shoshone and Salish Indian mother, 

Emma Magee saw Montana change from Indian 

Country to a part of industrial America. When 

she was born, mixed-blood Indians were socially 

part of the white community in Montana. 

By the time she died in 1950, however, mixedbloods 

were considered Indians. 

2012 • 144 pp. • 6 photographs, index 

$10.95 paperback • 978-1-934594-08-7 

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Biography & Memoir 

American 

Indian Lives series 

Muscogee Daughter 

My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant 

Susan Supernaw 

Foreword by Geary Hobson 

Muscogee Daughter is the life story of an American 

Indian girl, Susan Supernaw, who overcame a 

childhood of poverty, physical disability, and 

abuse to become Miss Oklahoma in 1971 and 

eventually earn her American Indian name. 

Revealing, humorous, and deeply moving. 

Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native 

American identity among the distractions and 

difficulties of American life and of discerning 

an identity among competing notions of what 

it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a 

citizen of the world. 

“A strong choice for a book group, or for 

readers interested in contemporary Native 

American memoirs. Supernaw’s life story is 

compelling—not only because of her one-of-akind 

experience, but also because of her ability 

to appeal to a universal readership.”—Foreword 

2010 • 264 pp. • 25 illustrations, 1 genealogy 

$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2971-6 

Searching for My Destiny 

George Blue Spruce Jr. 

As told to Deanne Durrett 

Recognized as the first American Indian dentist 

in the United States and achieving the rank of 

assistant surgeon general, Dr. George Blue 

Spruce Jr. has succeeding in mainstream society 

while keeping Pueblo tradition in his heart. 

“This remarkable story, told engagingly by 

Blue Spruce, provides scholars and students 

alike with the details of how self-determination 

played out through the work of American 

Indian professionals.”—New Mexico Historical 

Review 

“Vividly rendered. . . . All the young—and 

not-so-young—Native people who don’t believe 

that they can make anything of their lives 

should read this book.”—Native Peoples 

2012 • 336 pp. • 32 photos 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4612-6 

Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer 

A Story of Survival 

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 

Deeply immersed in her Hurton, Métis, and 

Cherokee heritage, this is Allison Adelle Hedge 

Coke’s searching account of her life as a mixedblood 

woman coming of age off reservation. 

She shares insights touching on broader Native 

issues such as modern life in the diaspora; lack 

of a national eco-ethos; the threat of alcohol, 

drug abuse, and violence; and the ongoing onslaught 

on self amid a complex, mixed heritage. 

“[A] beautifully written, courageous memoir.”—Joyce 

Carol Oates 

“[Allison Hedge Coke] shows us ‘knowing’ in 

her unique and wonderful way.”—Simon J. Ortiz 

“An extraordinary story of survival, compassion, 

courage, and a balanced comprehension 

of acceptance and the will to live.”—Multicultural 

Review 

January 2014 • 224 pp. • 9 photographs 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4846-5 

Tales of the Old Indian Territory 

and Essays on the Indian Condition 

John Milton Oskison 

Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré 

Though John Milton Oskison (1874–1947) was 

a well-known and prolific Cherokee writer, 

journalist, and activist, few of his works are 

known today. Oskison left Indian Territory to 

attend college and went on to have a long career 

in New York City journalism. This first comprehensive 

collection of Oskison’s unpublished 

autobiography, short stories, autobiographical 

essays, and essays about life in Indian Territory 

at the turn of the twentieth century fills a 

significant void in the literature and thought 

of a critical time and place in the history of the 

United States. 

“Oskison cuts an unorthodox and compelling 

figure in this remarkable anthology.”—Publishers 

Weekly 

2012 • 680 pp. 

$60.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3792-6 


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Literature & Film 

Indigenous Films series 

Navajo Talking Picture 

Cinema on Native Ground 

Randolph Lewis 

Randolph Lewis offers an insightful introduction 

and analysis of Navajo Talking Picture, in 

which he shows that it is not simply the first 

Navajo-produced film but also a path-breaking 

work in the history of indigenous media in the 

United States. Placing the film in a number of 

revealing contexts, including the long history 

of Navajo people working in Hollywood, the 

ethics of documentary filmmaking, and the 

often problematic reception of Native art, Lewis 

explores the tensions and mysteries hidden in 

this unsettling but fascinating film. 


$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3841-1 

Smoke Signals 

Native Cinema Rising 

Joanna Hearne 

The most popular Native American film of all 

time, Smoke Signals is also an innovative work of 

cinematic storytelling that demands sustained 

critical attention in its own right. Joanna 

Hearne’s work foregrounds the voices of the 

filmmakers and performers—in interviews with 

Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre, among 

others—to explore the film’s audiovisual and 

narrative strategies for speaking to multiple 

audiences. In particular, Hearne examines 

the filmmakers’ appropriation of mainstream 

American popular culture forms to tell a Native 

story. This in-depth introduction and analysis 

expands our understanding and deepens our 

enjoyment of a Native cinema landmark. 

2012 • 280 pp. • 20 photographs, 1 appendix 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1927-4 

The Fast Runner 

Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat 

Michael Robert Evans 

One of the most important Native films, Atanarjuat, 

the Fast Runner was the first feature film 

written, directed, and acted entirely in Inuktitut, 

the language of Canada’s Inuit people, and it 

became an international phenomenon. Michael 

Robert Evans explores how the epic film artfully 

married the latest in video technology with the 

traditional storytelling of the Inuit. 

Tracing Atanarjuat from inception through 

production to reception, Evans shows how the 

filmmakers managed this complex intercultural 

“marriage”; how Igloolik Isuma Productions, 

the world’s premier indigenous film company, 

works; and how Inuit history and culture 

affected the film’s production, release, and 

worldwide response. 

“This will be a welcome reference book for 

any serious student of film studies, regardless 

of genre.”—ForeWord 

2010 • 176 pp. • 9 photos, 1 map, 1 table 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2208-3 

Sovereign Screens 

Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast 

Kristin L. Dowell 

As the first ethnography of the Aboriginal 

media community in Vancouver, Sovereign 

Screens reveals the various social forces shaping 

Aboriginal media production including community 

media organizations and avant-garde 

art centers, as well as the national spaces of 

cultural policy and media institutions. Kristin 

L. Dowell uses the concept of visual sovereignty 

to examine the practices, forms, and meanings 

through which Aboriginal filmmakers tell their 

individual stories and those of their Aboriginal 

nations and the intertribal urban communities 

in which they work. 

“[A] beautifully detailed ethnography of 

Vancouver’s growing Aboriginal media hub. 

. . . Dowell convincingly argues that Aboriginal 

media is an act of visual sovereignty.”—Jennifer 

Kramer, author of Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, 

and Nuxalk National Identity 


2 illustrations, 1 map 

$50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4538-9 



Winner of the 2011 Emory Elliott Book Award 

Reservation Reelism 

Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and 

Representations of Native Americans in Film 

Michelle H. Raheja 

Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length 

study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and 

spectators who not only helped shape Hollywood’s 

representation of Indigenous peoples 

but also, through their very participation, 

complicated the dominant, and usually negative, 

messages about Native peoples in film. 

“An exceptional addition to the growing 

scholarship on American Indian representation 

in film, this book complicates the dichotomy of 

powerful Hollywood and Native victims.” 

—Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher 

Education 

“Deeply researched and beautifully conceptualized 

and written, this volume will be of great 

interest to scholars of history, film, and indigenous 

cultural production.”—Western Historical 

Quarterly 

July 2013 • 358 pp. • 29 photographs, 

1 illustration 

$30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4597-6 

2000 Society of Midland Authors Award, 

sponsored by the Society of Midland Authors, 

adult nonfiction category finalist 

Celluloid Indians 

Native Americans and Film 

Jacquelyn Kilpatrick 

“This is a seminal study of how Native Americans 

have been portrayed in film since the start 

of the film industry in this country. . . . This 

is much more than a book for film buffs; it’s 

about how stereotypes of Native Americans 

were created. . . . An elegantly thoughtful 

book.”—Kliatt 

“Any filmmaker seeking to present images 

draped in honesty should read this book. It is an 

absolute must.”—E. Donald Two-Rivers, author 

of Survivor’s Medicine 

1999 • 261 pp. • Illus. 

$23.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7790-8 

Native Storiers: A series 

of American Narratives 

Chair of Tears 

Gerald Vizenor 

A pointed, satirical novel about a university’s Native 

American Indian Studies department and the 

department chair who remakes it, Chair of Tears 

is an irresistible story of original ideas that gets 

to the heart of questions about identity politics, 

multiculturalism, pedantry, and timely virtues. 

“An intriguing, fun, and intelligent read.” 

—Publishers Weekly 

“The gullibility of cultural studies departments 

is an easy target for satire and, after a 

long and distinguished career of activism and 

teaching, Gerald Vizenor has surely earned 

the right to poke as many academic eyes as he 

wants. . . . [Chair of Tears is] often bitterly funny, 

proving once again that this seasoned provocateur 

has the irony dogs well under his command.”—Shelf 

Awareness 

2012 • 152 pp. 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3840-4 

Finalist for the Violet Crown Award 

Winner of the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction 

Bleed into Me 

A Book of Stories 

Stephen Graham Jones 

As Stephen Graham Jones tells it in one remarkable 

story after another, the life of an Indian in 

modern America is as rich in irony as it is in 

tradition. A noted Blackfeet writer, Jones offers 

a nuanced and often biting look at the lives of 

Native peoples from the inside. 

“A collection of gutsy, ethereal stories about 

being Indian in the twenty-first century.” 

—Montana Magazine 

“Gripping and visceral reading. . . . Jones 

shows talent.”—Publishers Weekly 

“The concluding story, ‘Discovering America,’ 

brilliantly encapsulates the whole collection. 

. . . Jones’s sardonic tale reveals the sort of 

casual stereotyping and prejudice that never 

seems to disappear."—Booklist 

2012 • 152 pp. 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4350-7 

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The Blind Man and the Loon 

The Story of a Tale 

Craig Mishler 

Foreword by Robin Ridington 

The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a 

living Native folktale about a blind man who is 

betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision 

is magically restored by a kind loon. Folklorist 

Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, tracing the 

story’s emergence across Greenland and North 

America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual 

arts and other media such as film, music, and 

dance theater. Examining and comparing the 

story’s variants and permutations across cultures 

in detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller 

into his analysis of how the tale changed over 

time, considering how storytellers and the oral 

tradition function within various societies. 

May 2013 • 288 pp. • 14 color illustrations, 

14 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, 1 chart, 4 appendixes 

$50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3982-1 

Inside Dazzling Mountains 

Southwest Native Verbal Arts 

Edited by David L. Kozak 

This collection of new translations of Native oral 

literatures features songs, stories, chants, and 

orations from the four major language groups 

of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), 

Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. It combines 

translations of recordings made in the late nineteenth 

and early twentieth centuries with a rich 

array of newly recorded and produced materials, 

attesting to the continued vitality and creativity of 

contemporary Native languages in the Southwest. 

David L. Kozak offers a wealth of editorial 

tools for interpreting songs, song sets, myths, 

stories, and chants of the Southwest, past and 

present. 

January 2013 • 696 pp. • 6 illustrations, 3 tables 

$65.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1575-7 

Native Literatures of the Americas series 

A Thrilling Narrative of 

Indian Captivity 

Dispatches from the Dakota War 

Mary Butler Renville 

Edited by Carrie Reber Zeman and 

Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 

Foreword by Gwen N. Westerman 

This new annotated edition rescues from 

obscurity a crucially important work about the 

bitterly contested U.S.-Dakota War in Minnesota 

of 1862. Written by Mary Butler Renville, an 

Anglo woman, with her Dakota husband, John 

Baptiste Renville, the work details the Renvilles’ 

experiences as “captives” among their Dakota 

kin in the Upper Camp and chronicles the story 

of the Dakota Peace Party. 

“An exemplary contribution to the literature 

of the Dakota War, a model of academic inquiry 

and deep understanding grounded in primary 

sources.”—Minnesota’s Heritage 

“This fascinating edition should help 

scholars to better understand the complexities 

of race, gender, and compassion through the 

voices of those who struggled with them in 

their own lives.”—Annals of Iowa 

2012 • 408 pp. • 14 illustrations, 4 maps, 

2 appendixes 

$60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3530-4 

That Dream Shall Have a Name 

Native Americans Rewriting America 

David L. Moore 

David L. Moore examines the works of five 

well-known Native American writers and their 

efforts, since the nation’s early days, to redefine 

an “America” and “American identity” that 

includes Native Americans. He focuses on the 

writing of Pequot Methodist minister William 

Apess in the 1830s; on Northern Paiute activist 

Sarah Winnemucca in the 1880s; on Salish/ 

Métis novelist, historian, and activist D’Arcy 

McNickle in the 1930s; on Laguna poet and 

novelist Leslie Marmon Silko; and on Spokane 

poet, novelist, humorist, and filmmaker Sherman 

Alexie in the latter twentieth and early 

twenty-first centuries. 

January 2014 • 488 pp. 

$45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-1108-7 



2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 

Pitch Woman and Other Stories 

The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, 

Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian 


William R. Seaburg 

Collected by Elizabeth D. Jacobs 

The first published collection of oral traditions 

of Upper Coquille and other Athabaskan Indians 

from southwestern Oregon, this volume 

makes available the extensive fieldwork done by 

Elizabeth D. Jacobs in the 1930s. 

“A gift to anthropology, linguistics, and folklore.”—Choice 

“Will become an essential volume and 

reference work to add to any library, personal 

or public, of Northwest Coast Indigenous anthropology 

or ethnohistory. Tribal scholars will 

appreciate its references to other similar oral 

histories throughout Oregon, Washington, and 

California.”—Oregon Historical Quarterly 

“Accessible to all audiences. Seaburg is to 

be applauded for this sensitive and exemplary 

rendering of oral narratives in this written text.” 

—Pacific Northwest Quarterly 

2012 • 310 pp. 

$25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4494-8 

Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis 

The Indian Interpretation of the Origin 

of the People and Animals 

Narrated by George Sanders 

Collected and arranged by 

Katherine Van Winkle Palmer 

Introduction by Jay Miller 

This collection of Chehalis folktales embodies 

a narrative tour de force that interweaves episodes 

into an integrated series of installments. 

These tales are told by George Sanders, a 

master storyteller whose family included chiefs 

of the Nisqually Indian tribe, which lives south 

of what is now Tacoma, Washington. 

Jay Miller introduces this new edition with 

a close look at the linguistic complexity of the 

region, which testifies to the rich diversity of 

the Americas before epidemics and dislocations 

took their devastating toll. 


1 glossary 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7150-0 

Winner of the 2011 Southern California 

Independent Booksellers Association Award, 

nonfiction category 

Winner of the 2011 pen Oakland–Josephine Miles 

Literary Award 

Sacred Sites 

The Secret History of Southern California 

Susan Suntree 

Foreword by Gary Snyder 

Introduction by Lowell John Bean 

Photographs by Juergen Nogai 

A history that is equal parts science and mythology, 

Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision 

of a world composed of dynamic natural forces 

and mythic characters. The result is a singular account 

of the evolution of the Southern California 

landscape, reflecting the riches of both Native 

knowledge and Western scientific thought. 

“An outstanding literary work.”—Tribal College 

Journal 

“A geological and cultural human history of 

Southern California in verse? Impossible, right? 

Not so, as this is exactly what California native 

Susan Suntree has done. And to Suntree’s credit, 

her performance of this ‘impossible’ feat is not 

only competent, it shines.”—Bloomsbury Review 

2010 • 320 pp. • 30 illustrations, 1 map 

$34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3198-6 

Old Indian Legends 

Zitkala-Ša 

Foreword by Agnes M. Picotte 

Illustrated by Angel De Cora 

Early in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman 

named Zitkala-Ša published these fourteen Native 

legends that she had learned during her own 

childhood on the Yankton Reservation. She recorded 

from oral tradition the exploits of Iktomi 

the trickster, Eya the glutton, the Dragon Fly, and 

other magical and mysterious figures, human 

and animal, known to the Sioux. 

“Like all folk tales they mirror the child life 

of the world. There is in them a note of wild, 

strange music. . . . I have read them with exquisite 

pleasure.”—Helen Keller 

“The legends are told in an easy, engaging 

style with a certain dramatic power.”—Agnes M. 

Picotte, University of South Dakota 

July 2013 • 216 pp. • 14 illustrations 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9903-0 


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For Young Readers 

Bull Trout’s Gift 

A Salish Story about the Value of Reciprocity 

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 

Illustrated by Sashay Camel 

For thousands of years the Salish and Pend 

d’Oreille Indians lived along the banks of the 

Jocko River, finding food and medicine in its 

plants and fish and in the game hunted on its 

floodplain. Featuring twenty-six lush watercolors, 

Bull Trout’s Gift examines the sacred 

and natural significance of the bull trout and 

the Tribes’ restoration project along the Jocko 

River of Montana, which courses through their 

reservation. 

“A lovely book.”—Native Peoples 


$21.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3491-8 

Field Journal 

The Explore the River Project 


Illustrated by Sashay Camel 

The Field Journal (or Snqeymintn, “a place to 

write,” in Salish) is a lavishly illustrated field 

notebook. Meant to inform students, nature 

enthusiasts, and other lovers of the wilderness, 

the Field Journal is the place to conveniently 

record one’s observations about the Jocko River 

habitat but can also be used by nature enthusiasts 

everywhere to observe the watersheds in 

their own locales. 


$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3528-1 

Explore the River (DVD) 

Bull Trout, Tribal People, and the Jocko River 


This interactive dvd integrates scientific information 

about bull trout, state-of-the-art restoration 

strategies and techniques, and extensive 

historical information about the importance of 

fish to the Tribes. The dvd contains more than 

sixty hours of material and is structured so it 

can reach multiple audiences, from children to 

adults. 

$24.95 dvd • 978-0-8032-3788-9 

Explore the River Educational Project 

(2-book, 1-DVD Set) 

Bull Trout, Tribal People, and the Jocko River 


Located on the Flathead Reservation in western 

Montana, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

Tribes have undertaken a large-scale watershed 

restoration project in an effort to benefit bull 

trout in the Jocko River drainage. An important 

component of this project is education and 

outreach, of which the centerpiece is a multimedia 

set of educational materials describing 

the ecology and importance of bull trout and its 

relationship with the Salish and Pend d’Oreille 

people. 

$44.95 set • 978-0-8032-3789-6 

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For Young Readers 

Standing Bear of the Ponca 

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 

Illustrated by Thomas Floyd 

Standing Bear of the Ponca tells the story of this 

historic leader, from his childhood education 

in the ways and traditions of his people to his 

trials and triumphs as chief of the Bear Clan of 

the Ponca Tribe. 

“A terribly important, complex story of 

what it means to be human—to be a father, a 

leader, a civil rights hero—in simple, powerful, 

unadorned language accessible to one and all, 

but especially to children.”—Joe Starita, author 

of “I Am a Man”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for 

Justice 

“Finally we have a children’s book that tells 

the story of the Ponca people who were for so 

long a forgotten tribe and presents an Indian 

hero for teachers to use in the classroom.” 

—Judi M. gaiashkibos, executive director 

of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs 

October 2013 • 56 pp. • 7 illustrations 

For ages 8 and up 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2826-9 

Illustrations by Sashay Camel, from Bull Trout’s Gift. Reprinted 

by permission of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. 

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Also of Interest 

Called to Justice 

The Life of a Federal Trial Judge 

Warren K. Urbom 

Foreword by William Jay Riley 

Called to Justice is the memoir of Nebraska 

district federal judge Warren K. Urbom, who 

also served as the federal judge on the Wounded 

Knee trials in 1974. 

“Judge Warren Urbom is a hero to the 

Sioux and many other Native Americans who 

witnessed his fairness, respect, and commitment 

to justice in the Wounded Knee trials over 

which he presided. That section of his brilliant 

and wonderfully written memoir is breathtaking, 

as are his accounts of other cases in his career 

as a federal judge. Most interesting is to learn 

about the man behind the robe, his life and humanity.”—Roxanne 

Dunbar-Ortiz, author of The 

Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America 

2012 • 384 pp. • 45 photographs, 1 appendix 

$36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3983-8 

Law in the American West series 

Embracing Fry Bread 

Confessions of a Wannabe 

Roger Welsch 

Roger Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship 

with Native American culture, which, 

beginning in earnest with the study of linguistic 

practices of the Omaha tribe during a college 

anthropology course, resulted in his becoming 

an adopted member and kin of both the Omaha 

and the Pawnee Tribes. 

“Welsch’s natural warmth and skill as a storyteller 

and his obvious respect for the individuals 

he encounters, come through clearly in his 

writing, and it’s easy to see why so many people, 

from so many backgrounds, might be honored 

to call him ‘friend.’”—Publishers Weekly 

“This is a heartfelt and very personal story, 

rich in wry and self-deprecating humor.” 

—Booklist 

2012 • 272 pp. 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2532-9 

Bestselling Books for Course Adoption 

One Vast Winter Count 

The Native American West before Lewis and Clark 

Colin G. Calloway 

2006 • 631 pp. • Illus., maps 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6465-6 

Boarding School Seasons 

American Indian Families, 1900–1940 

Brenda J. Child 

2000 • 154 pp. • 16 photographs 

$15.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6405-2 

The Blue Tattoo 

The Life of Olive Oatman 

Margot Mifflin 

With a new postscript by the author 

2011 • 288 pp. • 32 illustrations, 1 map 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3517-5 

My People the Sioux, New Edition 

Luther Standing Bear 

Introduction to the new Bison Books edition by 

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 

2006 • 296 pp. • Illus. 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9332-8 

The World of Túpac Amaru 

Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru 

Ward Stavig 

1999 • 356 pp. • Illus., maps 

$32.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-9255-0 

Waheenee 

An Indian Girl’s Story 

Gilbert L. Wilson 

1981 • 189 pp. • Illus. 

$12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9703-6 


Selected Backlist 

Lakota Dictionary 

Lakota-English / English-Lakota, 

New Comprehensive Edition 

Compiled and edited by Eugene Buechel 

and Paul Manhart 

2002 • 530 pp. 

$32.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6199-0 

The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge 

History and Contemporary Practice 

Raymond A. Bucko 

1999 • 340 pp. • Illus. 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6165-5 

Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award 

Winner of the American Book Awards 

Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories 

The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 

1852–1949 

Amanda J. Cobb 

2007 • 208 pp. • Illus., maps 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6467-0 

Life, Letters, and Speeches 

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) 

Edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff 

and Donald B. Smith 

2006 • 258 pp. • Map 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6463-2 

Waterlily, New Edition 

Ella Cara Deloria 

Biographical sketch of the author by 

Agnes Picotte 

2009 • 296 pp. 

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1904-5 

Dakota Texts 

Ella Deloria 

2006 • 280 pp. 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6660-5 

We Talk, You Listen 

New Tribes, New Turf 

Vine Deloria Jr. 

New introduction by Suzan Shown Harjo 

2007 • 221 pp. • Appendix 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5985-0 

Beyond Conquest 

Native Peoples and the Struggle for History 

in New England 

Amy E. Den Ouden 

2005 • 304 pp. • Illus. 

$22.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6658-2 

The 1870 Ghost Dance 

Cora Du Bois 

2007 • 368 pp. • 24 illustrations, map, table, index 

$25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6662-9 

Taking Assimilation to Heart 

Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men 

in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937 

Katherine Ellinghaus 

2009 • 312 pp. 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2487-2 

Winner of the European Association 

of American Studies Book Prize 

British Association for American Studies 

Book Prize Runner-up 

White Man’s Club 

Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian 

Acculturation 

Jacqueline Fear-Segal 

2009 • 412 pp. • 20 photographs, index 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2788-0 

Practicing Ethnohistory 

Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, 

Constructing Narrative 

Patricia Galloway 

2006 • 456 pp. • Illus., maps 

$29.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7115-9 

Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri 

River Region, Enlarged Edition 

Melvin R. Gilmore 

Illustrated by Bellamy Parks Jansen 

1991 • 165 pp. • Illus. 

$12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7034-3 

One Hundred Summers 

A Kiowa Calendar Record 

Candace S. Greene 

2009 • 286 pp. • 65 color plates, 28 b&w images, 

1 map 

$39.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1940-3 


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The Year the Stars Fell 

Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian 

Edited by Candace S. Greene 

and Russell Thornton 

2007 • 377 pp. • 14 color illustrations, 

916 b&w illustrations, 2 charts, map, index 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2211-3 

Native Americans and the Environment 

Perspectives on the Ecological Indian 


Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis 

2007 • 370 pp. • 3 figures, 3 tables, index 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7361-0 

LaDonna Harris 

A Comanche Life 

LaDonna Harris 

Edited by H. Henrietta Stockel 

2006 • 160 pp. • Illus., map 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7360-3 

The American Indian Occupation of 

Alcatraz Island 

Red Power and Self-Determination 

Troy R. Johnson 


$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1779-9 

Comanche Ethnography 

Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, 

Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie 

Compiled and edited by Thomas W. Kavanagh 

2008 • 571 pp. • 20 photos, 8 figures 

$55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2764-4 

Epidemics and Enslavement 

Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 

1492–1715 

Paul Kelton 

2009 • 312 pp. • 10 maps, 2 tables, index 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2791-0 

Native American Studies 

Edited by Clara Sue Kidwell and Alan Velie 

2005 • 162 pp. • Illus., maps 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7829-5 

The Jesus Road 

Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns 

Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay 

2002 • 152 pp. • Illus. 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8005-2 

Plenty-coups 

Chief of the Crows (Second Edition) 

Frank B. Linderman 

2002 • 204 pp. • 1 map, 9 photographs, glossary, index 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8018-2 

The National Museum of the American Indian 

Critical Conversations 

Edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb 


$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1111-7 

Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award 

Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens 

Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness 

Devon Abbott Mihesuah 

2005 • 218 pp. • Illus. 

$26.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3253-2 

Winner of the 2005 Writer of the Year Award, 

sponsored by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers 

and Storytellers, Research category 

So You Want to Write About American 

Indians? 

A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars 

Devon Abbott Mihesuah 

2005 • 164 pp. 

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8298-8 

Forgotten Tribes 

Unrecognized Indians and the Federal 

Acknowledgment Process 

Mark Edwin Miller 

2006 • 356 pp. • Map 

$34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8321-3 

Coyote Stories 

Mourning Dove (Humishuma) 

Edited by Heister Dean Guie 

1990 • 246 pp. • Illus. 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8169-1 



Winner of the 2002 McLemore Prize 

Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830 

Greg O’Brien 

2005 • 166 pp. • Map 

$26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8622-1 

Winner of the James Mooney Book Award 

Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize 

Cherokee Women 

Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835 

Theda Perdue 

1999 • 254 pp. 

$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8760-0 

Anthropology Goes to the Fair 

The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

Nancy J. Parezo and Don D. Fowler 

2009 • 552 pp. • 48 photographs, 2 maps, 10 tables, 

12 appendixes, index 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2796-5 

Making the Voyageur World 

Travelers and Traders in the North American 

Fur Trade 

Carolyn Podruchny 

2006 • 416 pp. • Illus., maps 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8790-7 

Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion 

of the State 

Jacki Thompson Rand 

2008 • 210 pp. • 6 photographs, 1 figure, 3 tables, 

index 

$45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3966-1 

When You Sing It Now, Just Like New 

First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations 

Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington 

2006 • 346 pp. • Illus. 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9009-9 

2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 

From Dominance to Disappearance 

The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 

1786–1859 

F. Todd Smith 

2008 • 320 pp. 

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2077-5 

My People the Sioux, New Edition 

Luther Standing Bear 

2006 • 296 pp. • Illus. 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9332-8 

Survivance 

Narratives of Native Presence 

Edited by Gerald Vizenor 

2008 • 396 pp. 

$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1083-7 

Lakota Belief and Ritual 

James R. Walker 

Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner 

1991 • 369 pp. • Illus. 

$22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9731-9 

Lakota Society 

James R. Walker 

Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie 

1992 • 243 pp. • Illus. 

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9737-1 

Powhatan’s Mantle 

Indians in the Colonial Southeast 

Edited by Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, 

and M. Thomas Hatley 

1991 • 355 pp. • Illus., maps 

$22.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-9727-2 

Powhatan Lords of Life and Death 

Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century 

Virginia 

Margaret Holmes Williamson 

2008 • 344 pp. • 12 figures, 1 map 

$25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6037-5 

Remember This! 

Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives 

Waziyatawin Angela Wilson 

With translations by Wahpetunwin Carolynn 

Schommer 

2005 • 282 pp. • Illus. 

$32.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-9844-6 

Dreams and Thunder 

Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera 

Zitkala-Ša 

Edited by P. Jane Hafen 

2005 • 171 pp. • Illus. 

$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9919-1 

American Indian Stories, Second Edition 

Zitkala-Ša 

2003 • 196 pp. • Illus. 

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9917-7 


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American Indian Quarterly 

Amanda J. Cobb-Greetham, Editor 

Revitalized and refocused, American Indian 

Quarterly (aiq) is building on its reputation as 

a dominant journal in American Indian studies 

by presenting the best and most thoughtprovoking 

scholarship in the field. aiq is a 

forum for diverse voices and perspectives 

spanning a variety of academic disciplines. 

Native South 

Robbie Ethridge, Greg O’Brien, 

and Melanie Benson Taylor, Editors 

Native South focuses on the investigation of 

Southern Indian history with the goals of 

encouraging further study and exposing the 

influences of Indian people on the wider South. 

The journal does not limit itself to the study of 

the geographic area that was once encompassed 

by the Confederacy, but expands its view to the 

areas occupied by the pre- and post-contact 

descendants of the original inhabitants of the 

South, wherever they may be. 

Studies in American 

Indian Literatures 

Chadwick Allen, Editor 

Studies in American Indian Literatures (sail) is the 

only journal in the United States focusing exclusively 

on American Indian literatures. Broadly 

defining “literatures” to include all written, spoken, 

and visual texts created by Native peoples, 

the journal is on the cutting edge of activity in 

the field. 

Great Plains Quarterly 

Charles A. Braithwaite, Editor 

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of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. 

Anthropological Linguistics 

Douglas R. Parks, Editor 

Anthropological Linguistics provides a forum for 

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and cultures of the peoples of the world, 

especially the Native peoples of the Americas. 

Collaborative Anthropologies 

Charles Menzies, Susan Hyatt, 

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