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Shrouds of White Earth
(August 2010)
Gerald Vizenor - Author
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2011 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation
Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist’s long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris.
Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native American Indian artist illuminates, infuriates, and enchants. Dogroy Beaulie...(Read More) |
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Hocak Teaching Materials, Volume 1
(June 2010)
Elements of Grammar/Learner's Dictionary
Johannes Helmbrecht - Editor
Christian Lehmann - Editor
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Comprehensive bilingual dictionary of the Hocąk language.
The most comprehensive dictionary of the Hocąk language (formerly known as Winnebago) to date, this bidirectional Hocąk-English/English-Hocąk dictionary contains approximately 4,000 entries. Hocąk is a highly endangered North American Indian language spoken by less than two hundred people in different parts of Wisconsin...(Read More) |
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Hocak Teaching Materials, Volume 2
(June 2010)
Texts with Analysis and Translation, and an Audio-CD of Original Hocak Texts
Iren Hartmann - Editor
Christian Marschke - Editor
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Second volume of instructional materials for learning the original Hocąk language, featuring entire texts and a CD.
This second volume of teaching materials for the Hocąk language illuminates the intricacies of the spoken language by showing how the words and grammatical information given in volume 1 are used in actual speech. A range of entire texts is featured, accompanied by a detailed gr...(Read More) |
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Nantucket and Other Native Places
(May 2010)
The Legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little
Elizabeth S. Chilton - Editor
Mary Lynne Rainey - Editor
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An indispensable, up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Native peoples and earliest settlers of eastern Massachusetts.
The archaeology and histories of the Native peoples and earliest settlers of eastern Massachusetts come vividly to life in these pages. Leading archaeologists and anthropologists share the latest findings and interpretations on a wide range of topics, including the archaeology of the Jethro...(Read More) |
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Native Authenticity
(April 2010)
Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies
Deborah L. Madsen - Editor
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A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.
An indispensable resource for readers, students, and scholars of Native literatures in North America, Native Authenticity offers a clear, comprehensive, and systematic look at the diversity of critical approaches to the idea of “Indian-ness.” Some of the foremost transat...(Read More) |
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The Dance of Person and Place
(April 2010)
One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy
Thomas M. Norton-Smith - Author
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Uses the concept of “world-making” to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy.
Ever since first contact with Europeans, American Indian stories about how the world is have been regarded as interesting objects of study, but also as childish and savage, philosophically curious and ethically monstrous. Using the writings of early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists, early narratives...(Read More) |
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Fire Along the Sky
(February 2010)
Being the Adventures of Captain Shane Hardacre in the New World
Robert Moss - Author
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Revised and Expanded Edition containing the love letters of Valerie D’Arcy, complete and unexpurgated
A wildly entertaining historical adventure, deep inside the crucible in which America was forged.
“Splendidly researched and wildly amusing historical adventure … Tom Jones as The Deerslayer.” — Kirkus Reviews
Dearest S...(Read More) |
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Interior Landscapes, Second Edition
(August 2009)
Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors
Gerald Vizenor - Author
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The classic autobiography of the famous Indigenous writer and critic Gerald Vizenor.
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. Vizenor writes about his experiences as a tribal mixedblood in the new world of simulations; the themes in his autobiographical stories are lost me...(Read More) |
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The Specter of Sex
(August 2009)
Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States
Sally L. Kitch - Author
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Top Three Finalist - 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association
Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
Theories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in their focus on contem...(Read More) |
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The Firekeeper
(July 2009)
A Narrative of the New York Frontier
Robert Moss - Author
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An epic adventure based on the extraordinary historical story of Sir William Johnson and the author’s dreams of a Mohawk “woman of power” who lived three centuries ago.
“Robert Moss is a writer of considerable skill. In The Firekeeper, he shows a talent for accurate historical detail and an ability to recreate the past, both as it was and as it might have been. To read The Firekeeper is to be t...(Read More) |
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