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For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the West and we are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visit our website at oupress.com. We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press. Price and availability subject to change without notice.
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Anthropology Buffalo Inc. American Indians and Economic Development By Sebastian Felix Braun $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3904-3 · 280 pages Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.
Plains Apache
Ethnobotany Julia A. Jordan
Foreword by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens
Plains Apache Ethnobotany By Julia A. Jordan $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3968-5 · 240 pages Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany, Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning traditional Apache collection, preparation, and use of these plant species for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture. “I Choose Life” Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3941-8 · 384 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3961-6 · 384 pages For Navajo Indians, medical treatments such as surgery, blood transfusion and CPR conflict with their traditional understanding of health and wellbeing, “I Choose Life” investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing. Patterns of Exchange Navajo Weavers and Traders By Teresa J. Wilkins $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3757-5 · 248 pages The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.
PHOTO CREDITS On the cover: Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), photograph by Joseph T. Keiley, courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Inside front cover: Three Sioux Indians on horseback facing front by pond on plains. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, courtesy Library of Congress.
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Art & Photography Blackfoot War Art Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000 By L. James Dempsey $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3804-6 · 488 pages In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment. Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock Edited by Steven L. Grafe $60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4022-3 · 336 pages $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4029-2 · 336 pages Lanterns on the Prairie explores the motivations of the players in McClintock’s story and the historic context of his engagement with the Blackfeet. The photographs themselves provide an irreplaceable visual record of the Blackfeet during a pivotal period in their history. In Contemporary Rhythm The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3937-1 · 416 pages $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7 · 416 pages The definitive retrospective on Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and perhaps the most accomplished of all the painters associated with that organization. Reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs, this volume forms the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published. As the only book of its kind available on this influential artist, it is a major contribution to American art history. Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West By John S. Hockensmith $49.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9975-7 · 204 Pages Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West is graced with stunning full-color photographs of modern horses that carry the distinctive traits of their Spanish, Arab, and Barb forebears. Captured visually in the rugged Rocky Mountains or the rolling grassy plains of the West, these horses are our shared living legacy. From the tender private moments between mare and foal to the aggressive determination of clashing stallions, Hockensmith throws open a breathtaking window on these horses’ lives. Dist. for John S. Hockensmith
A Northern Cheyenne Album Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis Edited by Margot Liberty Commentary by John Woodenlegs $29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3893-0 · 304 pages A Northern Cheyenne Album presents a rare series of never-before-published photographs that document the lives of tribal people on the reservation during the early twentieth-century—a period of rapid change. “For anyone interested in seeing a cultural transition chronicled in pictures and narratives, this book is a gold mine.”—Richard E. Littlebear, President of Chief Dull Knife College
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Charles M. Russell A Catalogue Raisonné Edited by B. Byron Price $125.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 · 352 pages Charles M. Russell is the most beloved artist of the American West. This work, the result of a decade of research and scholarship, features 170 color reproductions of his greatest works and six essays by Russell experts and scholars. Each book contains a unique key code granting access to the more than 4,000 works created and signed by Russell. Visit the website at www.russellraisonne.com. “A remarkable and timely achievement!” —Charles P. Schroeder, Executive Director, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Art from Fort Marion The Silberman Collection By Joyce M. Szabo $49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3883-1 · 208 pages $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3889-3 · 208 pages During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion, Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic memories of home. The Silberman Collection is an unusually complete group of images that illustrate the artists’ fascination with the world outside the southern plains, their living conditions and survival strategies as prisoners, and their reminiscences of pre-reservation life. The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4081-0 · 304 pages $39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4097-1 · 304 pages In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This handsome book—a companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price—showcases many of the artist’s best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style. Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet An Impressionist at Glacier National Park By William E. Farr $45.00 Hardcover · 978-0-8061-4014-8 · 256 pages, 122 color and b&w illus. Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet showcases the life and work of a German Impressionist artist, who portrayed a “vanished” West. This book marks both an appreciation of Seyler’s unique art and a fascinating glimpse into the promotion of a national park in its early years. Farr presents more than one hundred images—many in color—including Seyler’s major works from Glacier, other paintings from his European years, and historic photographs from the park.
Fire Light The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist By Linda M. Waggoner $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3954-8 · 352 pages Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (1869–1919) painted Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing image to illuminate De Cora’s life and artistry, which until now have been largely overlooked by scholars.
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Biography & Memoir Nicholas Black Elk Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic By Michael F. Steltenkamp $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4063-6 · 296 pages Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others. Coach Tommy Thompson and the Boys of Sequoyah By Patti Dickinson $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4070-4 · 256 pages When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead, it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others. Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coach—a Cherokee legend whose story is remembered by many and is now finally told for a wider audience. Inkpaduta Dakota Leader By Paul N. Beck $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3950-0 · 176 pages Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta the reputation of being the most brutal of all the Sioux leaders. Paul N. Beck now challenges a century and a half of bias to reassess the life and legacy of this important Dakota leader. Crazy Horse A Lakota Life By Kingsley M. Bray $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3785-8 · 528 pages $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3986-9 · 528 pages Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse’s contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse’s inner and public life. Victorio Apache Warrior and Chief By Kathleen P. Chamberlain $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3843-5 · 272 pages A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain expands our understanding of Victorio’s role in the Apache wars and brings him into the center of events.
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Sacagawea’s Child The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau By Susan M. Colby $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4098-8 · 206 pages Sacagawea’s Child follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, a boy born at the forefront of westward expansion in the early nineteenth century. Author Susan M. Colby details Charbonneau family history, analyzing the characters and cultures of Jean-Baptiste’s father, Toussaint, a French fur trader, and Sacagawea, his Shoshoni and Hidatsa mother. Cherokee Thoughts Honest and Uncensored By Robert J. Conley $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3943-2 · 196 pages Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what it means to be Cherokee. As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts will intrigue tribal members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people. Gall Lakota War Chief By Robert W. Larson $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3830-5 · 320 pages $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4036-0 · 320 pages This first-ever scholarly biography of Gall broadens our understanding of the man, tracing his evolution from a fearless warrior at the Little Bighorn to a representative of his people. Filling many gaps in our understanding of this warrior and his relationship with Sitting Bull, this engaging biography also offers new interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay to rest the contention that Gall was “Custer’s Conqueror.” William Wayne Red Hat, Jr. Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows By William Wayne Red Hat, Jr Edited by Sibylle M. Schlesier $21.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3959-3 · 176 pages As Keeper of the Arrows, William Wayne Red Hat, Jr., is charged with protecting one of the most sacred possessions of the Cheyenne people and serves his tribe as a revered cultural authority. Through his words, we meet an intelligent, humble man who cares deeply about the perpetuation of his people’s cultural identity and the preservation of their beliefs.
History Indian Tribes of Oklahoma A Guide By Blue Clark $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4060-5 · 416 pages Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.
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The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830 Ethnogenesis And Reinvention By Gary Clayton Anderson $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4067-4 · 384 pages In The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830, Gary Clayton Anderson argues that, in the face of European conquest and severe droughts that reduced their food sources, Indians in the Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic. Native People of Southern New England, 1650-1775 By Kathleen J. Bragdon $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4004-9 · 312 pages Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communities continued to thrive alongside English colonists. In this sequel to her Native People of Southern New England, 1500–1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon continues the Indian story through the end of the colonial era and documents the impact of colonization. Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 By William B. Carter $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4009-4 · 312 pages When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement. To Change Them Forever Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893–1920 By Clyde Ellis $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3991-3 · 288 pages Reservation boarding schools represented an important component in the U.S. government’s campaign in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to “civilize” American Indians according to Anglo-American standards. The history of the Rainy Mountain School in southwestern Oklahoma reveals much about the form and function of the Indian policy and its consequences for the Kiowa children who attended the school. Heart of The Rock The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz By Adam Fortunate Eagle $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3989-0 · 232 pages Adam Fortunate Eagle’s Heart of the Rock is an intimate memoir of the two-year invasion and occupation of Alcatraz by American Indians and of the events leading up to it. Illustrated with photographs that capture the people, places, and actions involved, this book brings these turbulent times vividly to life. “Fortunate Eagle’s witty and impassioned recollections will be appreciated by anyone interested in American history or the political upheavals of the 1960’s.” — Publishers Weekly
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The Munsee Indians A History By Robert S. Grumet $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4062-9 · 464 pages The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation. Now, The Munsee Indians deftly interweaves a mass of archaeological, anthropological, and archival source material to resurrect the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution. Reflections on American Indian History Honoring the Past, Building a Future Edited by Albert L. Hurtado $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3896-1 · 176 pages As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together thus far. Now five premier scholars in American Indian history, along with a tribal leader who has placed an indelible mark on the history of her people, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing Indians today. Coming Down From Above Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions By Lee Irwin $75.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3966-1 · 528 pages For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This first comprehensive survey of prophetic movements in Native North America tells how religious leaders blended indigenous beliefs with Christianity’s prophetic traditions to respond to those challenges. The Black Hawk War of 1832 By Patrick J. Jung $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3994-4 · 288 pages In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Patrick J. Jung here re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States, a conflict that decimated Black Hawk’s band. Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, and drawing on recent ethnohistorical interpretations, Jung shows that the outcome can be understood only by discussing the complexity of intertribal rivalry, military ineptitude, and racial dynamics. The Campo Indian Landfill War The Search for Gold in California’s Garbage By Dan McGovern $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4095-7 · 352 pages In The Campo Indian Landfill War, Dan McGovern explores the controversial topic of “environmental justice” through the story of the Campo tribe’s struggle to develop its isolated and impoverished reservation by building a commercial garbage facility to serve the cities of Southern California. McGovern focuses on the individuals who personify the conflict. “McGovern fully conveys the passions of his protagonists, but he remains scrupulously fair…With a novelist’s eye for character and a trenchant wit, he tells a compelling and entertaining story.” —William P. Clark, Secretary of the Interior under President Ronald Reagan
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Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907 By Devon Abbott Mihesuah $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4052-0 · 352 pages During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaults—usually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and pro-assimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation. The Seminole Freedmen A History By Kevin Mulroy $36.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3865-7 · 480 pages Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the emergence of Seminole-black identity and community from their eighteenth-century Florida origins to the present day. The American Indian Past and Present, Sixth Edition Edited by Roger L. Nichols $39.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3856-5 · 448 pages Widely used in university courses on Native American history through five editions, The American Indian: Past and Present has been thoroughly revised to present an up-to-date view of Indian heritage. This timely anthology brings together pieces written over the last thirty years that represent some of the best scholarship available. A Nation of Statesmen The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815–1972 By James W. Oberly $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3932-6 · 352 pages Contrary to the impression left by James Fenimore Cooper’s famous novel Last of the Mohicans, the Mohican people, also known as the StockbridgeMunsee Indians, did not disappear from history. Rather, despite obstacles, they have retained their tribal identity to this day. In this first history of the modern-day Mohicans, James W. Oberly narrates their story from the time of their relocation to Wisconsin through the post–World War II era. Pre-Removal Choctaw History Exploring New Paths Edited by Greg O’Brien $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3916-6 · 256 pages In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going. In a chronological survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.
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The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory Nimiipuu Survival By J. Diane Pearson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3901-2 · 416 pages Following the Nez Perce War of 1877, federal representatives promised the Nimiipuu who surrendered with Chief Joseph repatriation to their Pacific Northwest homes. Instead, they were driven into exile. This book tells the story of the Nimiipuu captivity and deportation and offers an in-depth analysis of the resistant Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Palus bands during their incarceration. Full-Court Quest The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World By Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3973-9 · 496 pages World champions. And yet their triumphs were forgotten—until Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith chanced upon a team photo of the girls from the Fort Shaw Indian boarding school in Montana and embarked on a tenyear journey of discovery. Their in-depth research and extensive collaboration with the teammates’ descendents and tribal kin have resulted in a narrative as entertaining as it is authentic. Big Sycamore Stands Alone The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place By Ian W. Record $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3972-2 · 384 pages Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society. Journey to the West The Alabama and Coushatta Indians By Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3940-1 · 304 pages When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms. In this book, Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and revealing how their shared experience affected their identity. Making Peace with Cochise The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen Edited by Edwin R. Sweeney $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3978-4 · 208 pages In the autumn of 1872, Brigadier General Oliver O. Howard and his aid-de-camp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizona’s rocky Dragoon Mountains in search of the elusive Chiricahua Apache chief, Cochise. They sought to convince him that the bloody fighting between his people and the Americans must stop. Cochise had already reached that conclusion, but he had found no American official he could trust. Joseph Sladen’s journal—enriched by Edwin R. Sweeney’s introduction, epilogue, and lively notes—is a unique source on Chiricahua lifeways and an engrossing tale of travel and adventure.
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Forgotten Fires Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness By Omer C. Stewart Edited and with an introduction by Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3423-9 · 348 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4037-7 · 348 pages A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made a significant impact across a wide range of environments. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart’s original research and insights, first presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World By Margaret Connell Szasz $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3861-9 · 304 pages The Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) was founded in 1709 by Scottish Lowlanders for the education of Highlanders: specifically to convert them from the Gaelic language to English, from the Episcopal faith to Presbyterianism, and from latent Jacobitism to loyalty to the crown. In this first book-length examination of the SSPCK, Margaret Connell Szasz explores the origins of the Scottish Society’s policies of cultural colonialism and their influence on two disparate frontiers. Featuring more than two dozen illustrations, Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans brims with intriguing comparisons and insights into two cultures on the cusp of modernity. Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy By Robert M. Owens $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3842-8 · 344 pages Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest. Indian Blues American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890–1934 By John W. Troutman $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4019-3 · 320 pages From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. In this innovative study, John W. Troutman explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautaqua circuits. “John Troutman brilliantly explores the emergence of a new world of Native music and dance in the early 1900s. Long awaited and well worth the wait, this book makes a major contribution to the literature on twentieth-century politics and culture.” —Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing India
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Language Choctaw Language and Culure Chahta Anumpa, Volume 2 By Marcia Haag and Henry Willis $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3855-8 · 128 pages Building on the foundations laid by the first volume, this follow-up text presents a more advanced linguistic study of Oklahoma Choctaw, accompanied by short stories and anecdotes written by Choctaws in their native language. Intermediate Creek Mvskoke Emponvkv Hokkolat By Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, and Bertha Tilkens $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3996-8 · 320 pages For those who have progressed beyond introductory lessons, Intermediate Creek offers an expanded understanding of the language and culture of the Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Indians. The first advanced textbook for the language, this book builds on the grammatical principles set forth in the authors’ earlier book, Beginning Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv, providing students with knowledge crucial to mastering more complex linguistic constructions. Let’s Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli’ By Pamela Munro and Catherine Willmond $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3926-5 · 432 pages Let’s Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli’ is both the first textbook of the Chickasaw language and its first complete grammar. A collaboration between Pamela Munro, a linguist with an intimate knowledge of Chickasaw, and Catherine Willmond, a native speaker, this book is designed for beginners as well as intermediate students. Osage Dictionary By Carolyn Quintero $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3844-2 · 480 pages The Osage language was spoken until recently by tribal members in northeastern Oklahoma. No longer in daily use, it was in danger of extinction. Carolyn Quintero, a linguist raised in Osage County, worked with the last few fluent speakers of the language to preserve the sounds and textures of their complex speech. Osage Dictionary is the definitive lexicon for that tongue, enhanced with thousands of phrases and sentences that illustrate fine points of usage.
Literature On Native Ground Memoirs and Impressions By Jim Barnes $16.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4092-6 · 296 pages On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barnes’s boyhood in rural southeastern Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II through his mature years as an internationally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and Welsh ancestry, Barnes is often identified as a Native American poet. He emphasizes his desire to be recognized for his art, not his blood. Yet he speaks eloquently here of his attachment to his “native ground,” the Choctaw region in Oklahoma—for him “the land where memory dwells.” This edition features a new postscript by the author.
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Muting White Noise Native American and European American Novel Traditions By James H. Cox $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3679-0 ·352 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4021-6 · 352 pages In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white massproduced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism. Pushing the Bear After the Trail of Tears By Diane Glancy $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4069-8 · 176 pages Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’ resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows their travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and adjust to new realities. Three Plays The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows By N. Scott Momaday $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3828-2 · 224 pages Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has also made his mark in theater through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions. Art as Performance, Story as Criticism Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics By Craig S. Womack $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4064-3 · 376 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4065-0 · 376 pages Inventive and often outrageous, Art as Performance, Story as Criticism turns traditional literary criticism on its head, rejecting distanced, purely theoretical argumentation for intimate engagement with literary works. Focusing on Native American literature, Womack mixes forms and styles. He is unafraid to combine meticulous research and carefully considered historical perspectives with personal reactions and reflections. Reasoning Together The Native Critics Collective Edited by Craig S. Womack, Daniel Heath Justice and Christopher B. Teuton $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3887-9 · 416 pages This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Contributors include: Janice Acoose, Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Phillip Carroll Morgan, Kimberly Roppolo, Cheryl Suzack, Christopher B. Teuton, Sean Teuton, Robert Warrior, and Craig S. Womack.
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Politics & Law Where the Pavement Ends Five Native American Plays By William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3265-5 · 192 pages $16.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4096-4 · 192 pages Where the Pavement Ends comprises five of Yellow Robe’s most poignant and powerful plays: The Star Quilter, the Body Guards, Rez Politics, The Council, and Sneaky. Based on his experiences on the Fort Peck Indian reservation, these plays combine raw reservation reality with subtle humor. By exploring various aspects of the Native American experience, including tribal autonomy, ecology, Indian/White relations, and identity, the plays offer a unique and fresh perspective on humanity. The Choctaws in Oklahoma From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970 By Clara Sue Kidwell $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3826-8 · 334 pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4006-3 · 334 pages The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws’ removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe’s subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws’ remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles. Forced Federalism Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood By Jeff Corntassel and Richard C. Witmer II $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3906-7 · 272 pages Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted from selfdetermination to “Forced Federalism” as indigenous nations in the United States have encountered new threats from state and local tribes over such issues as taxation, gaming, and homeland security. This book demonstrates how today’s indigenous nations have taken unprecedented steps to reorient themselves politically in response to such challenges to their sovereignty. Cash, Color, and Colonialism The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment By Renée Ann Cramer $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3671-4 · 224 pages Within the context of U.S.-Indian law, federal acknowledgment establishes a trust relationship between an Indian tribe and the U.S. government. Some tribes, however, have not been federally acknowledged, or, in more common language, “recognized.” In Cash, Color, and Colonialism, Reneé Ann Cramer offers a comprehensive analysis of the federal acknowledgment process, placing it in historical, legal, and social context. Peyote vs. the State Religious Freedom on Trial By Garrett Epps $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4026-1 · 296 pages Garrett Epps tracks the landmark case from the humblest hearing room to the Supreme Court chamber—and beyond. This paperback edition includes a new epilogue by the author that explores a retreat from the ruling since it was handed down in 1990. Weaving fascinating legal narrative with personal drama, Peyote vs. the State offers a riveting look at how justice works—and sometimes doesn’t—in America today.
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Chickasaw Press Chickasaw Renaissance By Phillip Carroll Morgan $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-8-7 · 240 pages When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, the U.S. government declared Chickasaw titles to tribal lands null and void. The Chickasaw Nation was, in effect, legally abolished. Yet for the next sixty years, the Chickasaws struggled to regain their sovereign identity, and eventually, in 1970, Congress enacted legislation allowing the Five Tribes, including the Chickasaws, to elect their own governing officers. In 1983, the Chickasaws adopted a new constitution for their nation. In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation. Chickasaw Unconquered and Unconquerable By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham and Linda Hogan $34.95s Cloth · 978-1-55868-992-3 · 128 pages From their homelands in the Southeast, to their removal to Indian Territory, to their status as a thriving nation today, the Chickasaw people represent one of the most resilient cultures in American history. Through vivid photographs and insightful essays, this book tells the incredible story of the Chickasaws. Chickasaw Lives Volume One: Explorations in Tribal History By Richard Green $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-1-8 · 238 pages Arriving from the west ages ago, Chickasaws settled in a portion of southeastern North America. They soon became embroiled in the deadly quest of European colonial powers to extend their empires to the New World. By the 1730s, the Chickasaws were targeted for extermination. But, as Richard Green shows in Chickasaw Lives, the Chickasaw people survived and prospered. Then their one-time ally, the United States, forced the tribe to move west to Indian Territory. After several years of despondency, the people were again building a great nation. With some Americans clamoring for Oklahoma statehood, the U.S. government set a date to extinguish the tribe’s government and land base. Here for the first time is a selection of articles and essays that explain why that did not happen.
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Chickasaw Lives Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories By Richard Green $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-6-3 · 240 pages The second volume in a series of Chickasaw Lives to be published, this book contains 33 articles that focus on 36 tribal members, including extraordinary performers, artists, athletes, and warriors. These Chickasaw luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw Nation attorney general who previously rode with the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, an internationally renowned performance artist, a Harvard researcher who investigates and reports on economic conditions in Indian Country, and three successive Chickasaw governors who played crucial roles in the twentieth-century revitalization of the tribe.
A Nation in Transition Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaws, 1898–1939 By Michael Lovegrove $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-7-0 · 256 pages Douglas Henry Johnston was governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1898 to 1902 and from 1904 to 1939. His tenure in this position is the longest of any American Indian chief executive. In this much-anticipated biography, Michael Lovegrove chronicles Johnston’s remarkable political life, telling the story of how he led his people—with diplomacy and efficiency—through the devastating dissolution of tribal lands at the beginning of the twentieth century and through the contentious struggles in the three decades that followed.
Uprising Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art By Robert Perry $29.95s Cloth ·978-0-9797858-5-6 · 256 pages The life of Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo (1912–1989) parallels the twentieth-century evolution of American Indian art. An accomplished Native dancer, flutist, silversmith, and poet, Crumbo is perhaps best known today for his oil paintings and silk screens—revolutionary artworks that were denigrated by some critics at first but that helped move Indian art to museums of fine art, as well as its markets. Now the life story of an Indian artist who often went against the grain is told by an accomplished Indian storyteller.
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Chickasaw Press Edmund Pickens (Okchantubby) First Elected Chickasaw Chief, His Life and Times By Juanita J. Keel Tate $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-2-5 · 108 pages Edmund Pickens lived through a crucial period in Chickasaw history. During Removal in 1836, he traveled with his wife and children on the sad journey from the Chickasaw homelands to Indian Territory. Like other Chickasaws, he faced many hardships after settling in the new territory. But as Juanita J. Keel Tate shows in this first book-length account of Pickens’s life and times, he persevered and triumphed as a statesman and tribal leader.
They Know Who They Are Elders of the Chickasaw Nation By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-4-9 · 144 pages In August 2004, Oklahoma Centennial project artist Mike Larsen approached Chickasaw Nation leaders with an idea to honor living Chickasaw elders—sages of his own tribe. He wanted to learn about their families and hear their stories, and he wanted to connect with their Chickasaw strength and spirit. Larsen’s vision was to paint a series of portraits of these elders. They Know Who They Are is a stunning collection of living Chickasaw elders.
Never Give Up! The Life of Pearl Carter Scott By Paul F. Lambert $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-0-1 · 278 pages Paul F. Lambert recounts the remarkable life of Pearl Carter Scott, child aviator, single mother, and revered Chickasaw elder. Born in 1915 and raised in Marlow, Oklahoma, Pearl Carter enjoyed a privileged childhood. Her white father was a gifted businessman who happened to be blind. Her mother was half Chickasaw and half Choctaw. When Pearl was twelve, she met Wiley Post, who was just beginning his aviation career, and he taught the adventurous young girl how to fly.
Picked Apart the Bones By Rebecca Hatcher Travis $14.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-3-2 · 64 pages For Rebecca Hatcher Travis, writing a book of poems is similar to growing a pecan tree. Both take a long time to develop. For the poems in this exquisite collection, “the seeds were planted in childhood and earth, and blossomed with family and love.” Hatcher Travis bases her poems on memories of her Chickasaw family and the Oklahoma landscapes surrounding her as a child. The poems also are testimonies to the ancestors who have passed on to the next life.
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Forthcoming Books Pipestone My Life in an Indian Boarding School By Adam Fortunate Eagle $19.95 Original Paperback · 978-0-8061-4114-5 · 248 Pages Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.
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Kiowa Military Societies Ethnohistory and Ritual By William C. Meadows $75.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4072-8 · 456 Pages William C. Meadows provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs, Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women’s groups. Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s.
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N. Scott Momaday Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography By Phyllis S. Morgan $60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4054-4 · 352 Pages This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on N. Scott Momaday: an insightful new biography and extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of what he has written and what others have written about him. The comprehensive bibliography of Momaday’s published works catalogs his output through mid-2009, from his edited anthology of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman’s poetry to his own New and Collected Poems. Listed are his books along with stories, essays, poems, newspaper columns, forewords, play scripts, interviews, and anthologies containing his writings.
Chief Loco Apache Peacemaker By Bud Shapard $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4047-6 · 376 Pages In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Based on extensive research, including interviews with Loco’s grandsons and other descendants, Shapard’s biography is an important counterview for historians and buffs interested in Apache history and a moving account of a leader ahead of his time.
The Seminole Nation in Oklahoma A Legal History By Susan L. Work $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4089-6 · 376 Pages When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reinvent its government. In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy its nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciously retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence. Here, L. Susan Work draws on her expertise as an attorney and former tribal consultant to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.
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