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Native American and Indigenous Studies look for the books in this new series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies In this co-publishing endeavor, the University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society sponsor innovative scholarship in Native American history, ethnohistory, Indigenous legal and public policy studies, Indigenous religious studies, social work, and health. The series partnership emphasizes interdisciplinary work between history, anthropology, literary studies, geography, environmental sciences, legal studies, cultural history, and new social history. MARGARET D. JACOBS and ROBERT J. MILLER, series editors for book submission inquiries, contact: matthew bokovoy Senior Acquisitions Editor Native Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Borderlands History [email protected] heather stauffer Associate Acquisitions Editor [email protected] save 40% on all books in this catalog by using discount code 6NS9 nebraskapress.unl.edu Cover Image: Through the Horizon by Chehalis artist William Thoms, courtesy of the artist, great-grandson of George Sanders and great-great-nephew of Jonas Secena. b university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Bitterroot Standing Up to Colonial Power A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption The Lives of Henry Roe and Susan Devan Harness Elizabeth Bender Cloud Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to Renya K. Ramirez overcome the struggles of being an American Standing Up to Colonial Power is the first Indian child adopted by a white couple, and family-tribal history that focuses on the lives, living in the rural American West. activism, and intellectual contributions of “One Salish-Kootenai woman’s journey, this Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, memoir is a heart-wrenching story of finding and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an family and herself, and of a particularly Ojibwe, the author’s grandparents. horrific time in Native history. It is a strong “An important and informative examination and well-told narrative of adoption, survival, of the careers of two brilliant and proficient resilience, and is truthfully revealed.” activists.”—Jay Freeman, Booklist —Luana Ross (Bitterroot Salish), codirector of Native Voices Documentary Film at the “This is the first project authored by a descen- University of Washington dant of these leaders and offers a uniquely nuanced understanding of their activism. The “What does it mean to be Native when you book is a beautiful contribution to the liter- weren’t raised Native? What does it mean ature on the early twentieth-century Native when the members of your birth family who American experience and honors the life and remained on the reservation tell you that you legacy of two extraordinary leaders.” were lucky to be raised elsewhere, but you —Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), author of don’t feel lucky? Harness brings us right into Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native the middle of these questions and shows how America in National and Tribal Museums emotionally fraught they can be.” —(Minneapolis) Star Tribune “Renya Ramirez explores how Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe cultures influenced [her 2018 • 352 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 photographs grandparents’] shared visions. [and] $29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0746-3 discusses the vital work of these two leaders American Indian Lives Series in a deeply personal voice.”—Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial and Mexican California 2018 • 304 pp. • 6 x 9 • 19 photographs, index $29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1172-9 New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series university of nebraska press 1 In Defense of Loose Translations Of One Mind and Of An Indian Life in an Academic World One Government Elizabeth Cook-Lynn The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir the Early Republic that bridges the personal and professional Kevin Kokomoor experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Having An in-depth look at the formation of Creek spent much of her life illuminating the tragic politics and nationalism from the 1770s irony of being an Indian in America, this through the Red Stick War, when the provocative and often controversial writer aftermath of the American Revolution and narrates the story of her intellectual life in the the beginnings of American expansionism field of Indian studies. Cook-Lynn frames her precipitated a crisis in Creek country. life’s work as the inevitable struggle between the indigene and the colonist in a global “A stunning book about an indigenous people’s history. This memoir tells the story of how a valiant attempts to stand up to American thoughtful critic has tried to contribute to the expansionism through an internal political debate about indigenousness in academia. revolution—an attempt that ultimately failed, not because the Creeks could not realize “Elizabeth Cook-Lynn constructs indigeneity a new political order but because America as well as her own life while deconstructing would not let them. It is just brilliant.” U.S. settler colonialism. She is one of the —Robbie Ethridge, author of Mapping the world’s experts on the subject area, which Mississippian Shatter Zone gives the subjective text a solid foundation. The book is beautifully written, poetic, lyrical, February 2019 • 516 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 illustrations, a signature style. It is truly a brilliant work.” 3 maps, index $80.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9587-2 —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Indigenous Studies Series winner of the American Book Award 2018 • 232 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photographs $29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0887-3 American Indian Lives Series 2 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Russian Colonization of Alaska The Yamasee Indians Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial From Florida to South Carolina Development, 1741–1799 Edited and with an intro- Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv duction by Denise I. Bossy Translated by Richard L. Bland Foreword by Alan Gallay Russian Colonization of Alaska, the first • Winner of the 2019 William L. Proctor thorough examination of the origin and Award from the Historic St. Augustine evolution of Russian colonization in the Research Institute Americas, focuses on the politarist social and Archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida economic strategies that distinguished the and historians of the Native South, Spanish colonization of Alaska from similar processes Florida, and British Carolina address elusive occurring in the New World under the aegis questions about Yamasee identity, political of other European powers except Spain. This and social networks, and the fate of the book is based on extensive research, including Yamasees after the Yamasee War. funds, legislative acts, published documents, notes of pioneers, merchants, seafarers, and “A much-needed, remarkably thorough, and missionaries who visited Alaska, and also on impressively interdisciplinary investigation the extensive scientific literature created by of a critically important but all-too-often- domestic and foreign scholars. misunderstood Native nation. Anyone with an interest in the early American South and its “There has not been anything published in people should read this book.”—Joshua Piker, Russian or English (or any other language) editor of the William and Mary Quarterly that could compare with [this] in scope and theoretical sophistication.”—Sergei Kan, “This anthology makes a fine addition to the author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture extant scholarship on the Yamasee people, and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through offers a balanced juxtaposition of disciplinary Two Centuries and thematic approaches to the subject, and builds on the scholarship that has come 2018 • 354 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 4 illustra- before while casting an eye toward what might tions, 1 map, 1 glossary, 1 appendix, index be some promising areas for future study. The $70.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0762-3 chapters all interconnect in ways that bespeak a kind of collective and collaborative approach to the topic at hand.”—James Taylor Carson, author of Thee Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History 2018 • 372 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 photographs, 3 illustra- tions, 15 maps, 9 tables, index $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0760-9 university of nebraska press 3 Hemispheric Indigeneities When Dream Bear Sings Native Identity and Agency in Meso- Native Literatures of the Southern Plains america, the Andes, and Canada Edited by Gus Palmer Jr. Edited by Miléna Santoro and Foreword by Alan R. Velie Erick D. Langer A collection of songs, orations, myths, stories, Who is indigenous? Hemispheric Indigeneities legends, and other oral literatures from seven explores this question by looking at three of the major language groups of the Southern regions during the colonial period and the Plains: Muskogean, Uto-Aztecan, Caddoan, nineteenth and the twentieth centuries and Siouan, Algonquian, Kiowa-Tanoan, and demonstrates that being indigenous means Athabascan, and Tonkawa. something different depending on time and “The vital importance ofWhen Dream Bear place. This critical anthology brings together Sings cannot be expressed strongly enough. indigenous and nonindigenous scholars The editor offers the reader multiple, reflective specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, levels of understanding the stories and Native and Canada. The overarching theme is the ways of thinking about the world around