Celebrating One and All

About an exhibition seeking to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada.

Has a chapter by Nicholas C. Zaferatos, “Planning in Native American Reservation Communities: Sovereignty, Conflict, and Political Pluralism,” which addresses how Reservations practice principles of urban planning.

"The chapters in this book reveal how anthropology, archaeology, and cultural heritage have shaped the collective ideological construction of Indigenous cultures, while actively empowering the voices that disrupt conventional tropes and narratives of ‘’prehistory.””

In this authoritative study, David L. Moore examines the works of five well-known Native American writers and their efforts, beginning in the colonial period, to redefine an “America” and “American identity” that includes Native Americans...

On order. " Having proven scientifically what Indigenous cultures have always known about nature's glorious mutualism, Simard calls for the protection of all ecosystems so that all of life will endure. A masterwork of planetary significance."

It is the story of the brave and resourceful Indian peoples who once inhabited the spacious valleys and plains of Los Angeles and Orange counties in Southern California.

About America's original holistic medicine, a powerful means of healing the body, balancing the emotions, and renewing the spirit.

"highlights how interventions into the hegemony of biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature...covers tuberculosis, and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnolgy and the problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry..."

Explores a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada.

A book about the Juaneno Acjachema, an indigenous people of California.

This study corrects the misperceptions of the American West based on representations from novels and films and shows how western history was--and is--a vast economic event.

The essays in this volume offer rich and diverse perspectives on the encounter between Indigenous music and digital technologies

Semiannual journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

Members of the Los Angeles area's Gabrielino-Tongva community reflect on what it means to be Gabrielino-Tongva today.

A twenty-two acre strip of land—known as Puvungna—lies at the edge of California State University’s Long Beach campus. The land, indisputably owned by California, is also sacred to several Native American tribes...

Includes accounts of Pueblo skywatching and photographs of ceremonial kivas that help elucidate the rich astronomical knowledge of the Pueblo people.

A case study of intertribal casino disputes that showcase how "corruptiuon and greed can be traced back to conflicts within historical, social and political contexts of colonisation..."

Demonstrates how not only did the Alcatraz occupation and the American Indian Movement contribute to the formation of Red Power but documents how the National Indian Youth Council that formed in Gallup, New Mexico was a major influence.

This book introduces indigenous perspectives and traditions as articulated by indigenous authors whose voices have been a vital, if often overlooked component of the American dialogue for more than 400 years...

Examines anger in the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, Pauline Johnson, and Sarah Winnemucca..

The open access journal publishes research on settler colonialism as a distinct social and historical formation, involving areas like history, law, indigenous and genocide studies.

A survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakota and relates Lakota astronomy to their cultural practices and beliefs.

"an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts..."

Exhibition catalog of California's Native fine art movement since the 1960s featuring the work of 20 artists and a discussion of an additional 20 artists covered in essays.

Explores American Indians' history and relation with government

A brief history of American Indians

Japanese translation of Henri Favre's work about Indigenismo, a political ideology in several Latin American countries which emphasizes the relationship between the nation state and indigenous nations and indigenous minorities.

Korean diasporas in Mexico and their great experience encountering with American Indians.

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation...

The author uses a mélange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems.

In a collection of autobiographical essays, the author reflects on what it means to be a native American woman...

Presents a collection of photographs and writings by Native Americans reflecting contemporary Indian life

A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice

In the book, the Native American poet describes the impact of his mixed ancestry on his life and work.

One of the author's most famous books, it addresses stereotypes of Indians and challenged white audiences to take a new look at the history of United States western expansion, noting its abuses of Native Americans.

nila northSun is a Native American poet and tribal historian. northSun's gritty, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets.

the fascinating life account by Charles A. Eastman, the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine.

The massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U.S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history...the Native American Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. This book received in 1981 Pushcart Prize.

The first published collection of Indigenous women's writing in North America, as well as the first anthology edited by an aboriginal woman.

The rich, varied work of 36 contemporary Native American poets of stature is sampled in this welcome anthology.

The book which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds...

The poet of Germanic and Aleut descent addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

The classic memoir by one of the most celebrated Indigenous writers of the modern era, Interior Landscapes offers an unforgettable glimpse of the life and world of Gerald Vizenor...

This collection of 58 poems deftly blends allegory and narrative while speaking eloquently of the joy and pain of living in two worlds: the Cherokee tradition of her father and the German-English world of her mother. "Selected by Nicholas Christopher as the 1988 Capricorn Poetry Prize Winner"

Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the victors, the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.

A novel on the Anishinaabe Indians, tracing their struggle to restore their culture and regain their land. From the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s, to the 1970s occupation by Indian militants of the Minnesota White Earth Reservation, to the present problems of alcoholism and sexual abuse.

"In her tiny volume of a dozen poems, a Hopi-Miwok-Cornish Indian seeks to define the predicament of those whose culture seems at times more familiar to anthropologists than to themselves..."

The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.

The author investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist's eye and a critic's mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.

Drawing from the oral history of his people before the coming of Europeans, the recorded history since, and his own lifetime among them, John Joseph Mathews created a truly epic history.

The indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling...eatures a wealth of native research and hundreds of interviews with indigenous scholars and activists.

In this latest work by the prominent historian, Deloria turns his audacious intellect and fiery indignation to an examination of modern science as it relates to Native American oral history and exposes the myth of scientific fact, defending Indian mythology as the more truthful account of the history of the earth...

A humorous exploration of serious subjects: the effect of Christianity on Native Americans, cultural assimilation and its impact on relations between Indian men and Indian women.

This groundbreaking work argued that the dominant cultural view of Native American societies was biased and that European explorers and colonizers understood Native Peoples through the patriarchal lens...

Draws on his childhood teaching and ancestral ideals to counter the research written by outsiders who treated the Dakotas’ ancient worldviews chiefly as a matter of curiosity...

The intertwining of two love stories results in a strangely compelling take on matters of the heart in Treuer's third novel (after The Hiawatha). Dr. Apelles, a Native American who translates Native American texts...

Silko takes readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, weaving tales from both sides of her family's past into her observations, and using the turquoise stones that she finds on her walks to unite the strands of her stories

When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature...

the first novel by Native American author James Welch, whose parents were Blackfeet and A'aninin; he grew up on their reservations

"The first novel about a Native American woman by a Native American woman in fifty years, this mesmerizing work tells the story of Ephanie, a half-breed who seeks herself through her roots. "

Offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture...

Tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the US Government during the 1960s and 70s...

Documentary of the 35-year fight of Carrie Dann and Mary Dann against the U.S. government's attempts to take over traditional Shoshone land in Nevada, part of 60 million acres guaranteed to them in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.

Features native American traditions of North America, including Inuit drum dances, Canadian Haida totem pole ceremony and potlatch and songs and dances of the Kwakiutl; also included are numerous Nez Perce ceremonial and memorial songs, war dance, and soup dance songs; a Flathead hoop dance; Yakima women's songs, a Shoshone hoop dance and war dance.

Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900 -- in the span of a single lifetime -- the prairie was steadily transformed to farmland...

American Indian and Eskimo concepts about music general fit into a functional conceptual framework. Listeners are advised to be aware of the perceived purpose of a composition than its aesthetics.

Record of the massive peaceful resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the Dakota Access Pipeline through their land and underneath the Missouri River.

a moving story of the Native Americans, ranchers, government officials and environmental activists currently battling over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison...

About Edward S. Curtis, a driven, pioneer photographer who set out in 1900 to document traditional Indian life...

Follows the fortunes of two enemy camps as they struggle over the fate of the free-flowing Animas River in Colorado...

The story of the prominent early Canadian literary figure - who was also a civil servant responsible for a brutal Native assimilation program.

Eugene "Gene Boy" Benedict left the Odanak Indian Reserve at the age of 15; adrift at 17 he joined the U.S. Marines on a dare, and ended up in the midst of the Vietnam War...

Exploration of the intertwined lives of people and corn, capturing the traditional, spiritual, economic and political importance of this sacred plant in the lives of Indigenous peoples in the Amercas.

Tells the story of four battles in which Native American activists are fighting to preserve their land and culture...

Across the USA, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religion...

At 14,162 feet, rising from the surrounding forest, Mount Shasta dominates the landscape of northern California...

Contrasts the experiences of Mayan families who came to Indiantown, Florida as refugees fleeing the violence in Guatemala in the early 1980s, with the struggles of those continuing to arrive in search of better lives.

An examination of the prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico...

This documentary captures the journey of legendary master hula teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawai'i as they prepare to compete in the world's largest hula festival. Beyond deep-rooted stereotypes of 'grass skirt girls', the film tells a story of Hawaiian pride as the men celebrate their 30th anniversary in continuing the revival of men dancing the hula.

The four-part series, the documentary "explores the world created by America's First Peoples.." The four episodes are 1) The Roots 2) The Governments 3) the Cities 4) The Resistance, Survival, Revial of Native America.

In part the story of Aborginal athletes blocked from entering the 1967 Winnipeg Pan American Games with the Games torch; but also the story of a segregated school system, and survival, hope and reconciliation.

A deeply personal family film that follows Kate Beane, an urban, Dakota scholar, and her family as they trace the remarkable life of their celebrated relative, Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman), an important author, activist, lecturer, and one of the first Native American doctors.

The story of the 1990 mob attack on a convoy of Mohawk women, children and elders.

One gene exposes a nation's dark past. A Navajo couple with two children born with an extremely rare genetic disorder investigate the cause of the outbreak.

Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice.

Story of the Elwha River from the late 1800's to the present, showing the effects of the Elwha dams on the Klallam tribe, the salmon population, and the city of Port Angeles, WA.

Soto's journey as an openly gay man of Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate worlds which shaped this important artist