The Supreme Court’s Silent Revolution By Dewi Ioan Ball
The Erosion of Tribal Power shines muchneeded light on crucial changes to federal Indian law between 1959 and 2001 and discusses how tribes have dealt with the political and economic consequences of the Court’s decisions. $39.95s HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5565-4 · 400 PAGES ◆ AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2017
American Indian Education, 2nd Edition A History By John Reyhner and Jeanne Eder
American Indian Education recounts that history from the earliest missionary and government attempts to Christianize and “civilize” Indian children to the most recent efforts to revitalize Native cultures and return control of schools to Indigenous peoples. $29.95s PAPER · 978-0-8061-5776-4 · 408 PAGES ◆ AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2017
“That’s What They Used to Say”
Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions By Donald L. Fixico
Sharing these stories, and the larger story of where they come from and how they work, “That’s What They Used to Say” offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and infinitely complex permutations. $34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5775-7 · 272 PAGES ◆ AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2017
Both Sides of the Bullpen Navajo Trade and Posts By Robert S. McPherson
In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped and defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. $34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5745-0 · 376 PAGES
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The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico Gregory F. Michno
The Trade and Intercourse Acts were manipulated by Anglo-Americans who ensured the continuation of the very conflicts that they claimed to abhor, and that the acts were designed to prevent. In bringing these machinations to light, Michno’s book deepens—and darkens—our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest.
Resilience through Adversity Edited by Stephen Warren
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma focuses on the nineteenth- and twentiethcentury experiences of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, presenting a new brand of tribal history made possible by the emergence of tribal communities’ own research centers and the resources afforded by the digital age.
Lakota Performers in Europe
Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind By Steve Friesen with Francois Chladiuk
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. In Lakota Performers in Europe, author Steve Friesen tells the story of these artifacts, forgotten until recently, and of the Lakota performers who used them.
◆ AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2017
Wars for Empire
Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands By Janne Lahti
$39.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5696-5 · 304 PAGES DISTRIBUTED FOR ZKF PUBLISHERS
By comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history of settler colonialism with worldwide significance.
American Indian
$34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5742-9 · 328 PAGES
UNIVERSIT Y OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
◆ AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2017
Back to the Blanket
Exploring the multimodal rhetorics—oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic—that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication—a modern-day “going back to the blanket,” or returning to Native practices. $39.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5727-6 · 264 PAGES
ON THE FRONT AND IN THE CATALOG: JEROME LITTLE ELK (LAKOTA), A PERFORMER IN BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST, 1900. PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM RAU. BUFFALO BILL
$29.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5354-4 · 272 PAGES
$34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5601-9 · 400 PAGES
$34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5744-3 · 384 PAGES
Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies By Kimberly G. Wieser
$29.95s PAPER · 978-0-8061-5587-6 · 280 PAGES
By reexamining the most tumultuous moments of Northern Cheyenne removal, this book illustrates how the power of kinship has safeguarded the nation’s political autonomy even in the face of U.S. encroachment, allowing the Cheyennes to shape their own story.
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Frederick Weygold
Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians Edited by Christian F. Feest and C. Ronald Corum
Frederick Weygold (1870–1941), American artist and self-trained ethnographer, is today almost unknown outside German-speaking Europe. This book offers a comprehensive account of Weygold’s life and achievements as an artist, collector, educator, and social activist. $29.95s CLOTH · 978-3-9818412-0-6 · 272 PAGES
John Joseph Mathews Life of an Osage Writer By Michael Snyder
John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. In this captivating biography, Michael Snyder provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure. $34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5609-5 · 280 PAGES
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Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country By Hugh Lenox Scott Edited by R. Eli Paul
A graduate of West Point, General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) belonged to the same regiment as George Armstrong Custer. Sign Talker, an annotated edition of Scott’s memoirs, gives new insight into this soldier-diplomat’s experiences and accomplishments.
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood By Christina Gish Hill
◆ AVAILABLE AUGUST 2017
Sign Talker
In this collection of narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation in southeastern Montana and three non-Native missionaries to the reservation describe how Christianity has shaped their lives, their families, and their community through the years.
Webs of Kinship
$32.95S CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5769-6 · 336 PAGES
MUSEUM AND GRAVE, LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, GOLDEN, COLORADO.
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Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging Edited by Mark Clatterbuck
American Indian
The Erosion of Tribal Power
University of Oklahoma
Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage $34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5391-9 · 256 PAGES
Crow Jesus
Depredation and Deceit
OUPRESS.COM · OUPRESSBLOG.COM
Reservation Politics points to two types of historical experience relevant to the construction of tribes’ political and economic worldviews: historical trauma, such as ethnic cleansing or geographic removal, and the incorporation of Indian communities into the market economy.
◆ AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2017
2800 VENTURE DRIVE · NORMAN, OK 73069-8216
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict By Raymond I. Orr
UNI VER SIT Y O F O KL AHO M A PR ESS
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Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight Indian Views Edited by John H. Monnett
The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. This book presents accounts of the battle from Lakota and Cheyenne participants, drawn from previously published sources as well as newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders. $29.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5582-1 · 248 PAGES
From Huronia to Wendakes Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900 Edited by Thomas Peace and Kathryn Magee Labelle
From Huronia to Wendakes seeks to fill this gap, countering the common impression that these peoples disappeared after 1650, when they were driven from their homeland Wendake Ehen, also known as Huronia, in modern-day southern Ontario. $34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5535-7 · 256 PAGES
Travels in North America, 1832–1834
A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied By Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp Edited by Marsha V. Gallagher
The two explorers experienced the American frontier just before its transformation by settlers, miners, and industry. This succinct record of their expedition invites new audiences to experience an enthralling journey across the early American West. $34.95s CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5579-1 · 624 PAGES DISTRIBUTED FOR THE CHEROKEE NATION
Cherokee National Treasures In Their Own Words Edited by Shawna Morton-Cain and Pamela Jumper Thurman
Currently, there are ninety-four individuals who have been designated Cherokee National Treasures. These powerful stories of Cherokee National Treasures are captivating and leave lasting impressions of Cherokee life, values, and artistic traditions—cultural treasures that continue into the twenty-first century. $29.95 CLOTH · 978-1-934397-18-3 · 248 PAGES
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