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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 —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of $80.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9587-2 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 changing understanding of indigeneity from us.”—Blue Clark, author of Lone Wolf v. first contact to the contemporary period Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at in three of the world’s major regions of the End of the Nineteenth Century indigenous peoples. “To my knowledge, this is the most com- “This collection makes a tremendous contribu- prehensive collection of oral literature of tion to burgeoning discussions of Indigeneity. the Plains that has ever been produced. I In rich and fascinating detail, each chapter especially appreciate the diversity of tribal elaborates processes and meanings of ‘being’ perspectives rendered here and the way that and ‘becoming’ Indigenous across time and the text accounts for the intricacies, including geographic space in the Americas. It is sure problems and possibilities, of transcription.” to enrich hemispheric and global dialogue —Lindsey Claire Smith, editor of American about the nuances, diversity, complexities, and Indian Quarterly contradictions of Indigeneity both historically and in the contemporary world.” 2018 • 402 pp. • 7 x 10 • 1 illustration, 1 map, index —Laura R. Graham, coeditor of Performing $75.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8400-5 Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contempo- Native Literatures of the Americas and rary Experiences Indigenous World Literatures Series 2018 • 450 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 illustrations, 6 maps, 2 tables, index $80.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0662-6

4 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Indians in the United States Sovereign Schools and Canada How Shoshones and Arapahos Created A Comparative History, Second Edition a High School on the Wind River Roger L. Nichols Reservation Drawing on a vast array of primary and Martha Louise Hipp secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the changing relationships between Native the early battles for reservation public schools peoples and whites, from colonial times to the through sustained Native community activism. present. “Taking readers through the rocky terrain “A watershed study. . . . There is certainly of state and federal government politics no better place to begin and continue on matters of Indians in general and those the comparison of the United States and specifically related to the Northern Arapaho Canada.”—Tony Gulig, Canadian Journal on the Wind River reservation, Martha Hipp of History masterfully blends historical and personal “The range of Nichols’s book is impressive and accounts of Arapahos who, though scarred by conveys an excellent overview of the changing Anglocentric government policies, persevered position of Native peoples in American and to assert their sovereignty in establishing their Canadian history. It will appeal to both the schools.”—Neyooxet Greymorning, professor specialist and the novice.”—Historical Journal of anthropology and Native American studies of Massachusetts at the University of Montana “Balanced and objective and a trustworthy “I am reminded of the struggles, obstacles, bar- point of departure for anyone curious about riers, and economic racism that the founders the subject. This will be a standard reference of Wyoming Indian High School endured; work for years to come.”—William T. Hagan, this only made them more determined to American Indian Libraries Newsletter achieve their goal to establish a public high school. The grassroots effort of the Native 2018 • 534 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 illustrations, 5 maps, community followed its own path to self-de- index $40.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0483-7 termination at Wind River.” —W. Patrick Goggles, former Wyoming state representative and former chairman of the Wyoming Indian School Board May 2019 • 288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 13 photographs, 2 maps, index $29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0885-9

university of nebraska press 5 Messianic Fulfillments Ecology and Ethnogenesis Staging Indigenous Salvation in America An Environmental History of the Wind Hayes Peter Mauro River Shoshones, 1000–1868 With an interdisciplinary approach drawing Adam R. Hodge from religious studies and the histories of Ecology and Ethnogenesis presents an impressive popular science and art, Messianic Fulfill- longue durée narrative of Eastern Shoshone his- ments explains American ethnohistorical tory from roughly 1000 CE to 1868, analyzing encounters in the seventeenth, eighteenth, the major environmental developments that and nineteenth centuries through the lens of influenced Shoshone culture and identity. artistic works by evangelically inspired Anglo American artists and photographers. “How do humans evolve as distinct ethnic groups over time and space? Adam Hodge pushes that “Messianic Fulfillments offers an important historical question backward—centuries before contribution to art history with interpre- Euroamerican contact—to reconstruct the tations of paintings and images of Native roots of Shoshone ethnogenesis. His analysis peoples and other ‘subaltern groups.’ It of the interplay between cultures and dynamic examines the vicissitudes of ideas and artistic environments is broadly conceived and deeply renderings about race from colonial America interdisciplinary. A masterful methodological to the present as presented in the epilogue. approach.” Mauro’s writing style will engage general —David Rich Lewis, emeritus professor of readers, undergraduates, and more advanced history at Utah State University scholars alike.”—Julius H. Rubin, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of “This is a wide-ranging, methodologically Saint Joseph vigorous, and wonderfully multifaceted study of the Eastern Shoshone Indians. . . . Here [they] “Messianic Fulfillments makes a substantial emerge as creative and superbly adaptive people contribution to the fields of race, religion, and who have for centuries drawn power—eco- American history and studies and also contrib- nomic, political, and spiritual—from land that utes to work in visual and material religious sustains them in ways that are both profound culture.”—Jennifer Snead, University of New and surprising. Adam Hodge illuminates Mexico Health Sciences Center those dynamics with skill and verve.”—Pekka August 2019 • 300 pp. • 6 x 9 • 11 photographs, 35 Hämäläinen, author of The Comanche Empire illustrations, index April 2019 • 354 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 figures, 5 maps, 1 $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9995-5 table, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0151-5 New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series

6 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Unfair Labor? The Dakota Sioux Experience American Indians and the 1893 World,s at Flandreau and Pipestone Columbian Exposition in Chicago Indian Schools David R. M. Beck Cynthia Leanne Landrum Unfair Labor? breaks new ground by telling Cynthia Leanne Landrum illuminates the the stories of individual laborers, naming evolving relationship between the Dakota names, and uncovering the untold story of Sioux community and the schools and the roles that Indians involved in the 1893 surrounding region, as well as the commu- World’s Fair played in the changing economic nity’s long-term effort to maintain its role as conditions of tribal peoples and redefinition caretaker of the “sacred citadel” of its people. of their place in the American socioeconomic “Landrum’s work provides thorough insti- landscape. tutional histories of the Flandreau and “Dave Beck makes a critical contribution to the Pipestone boarding schools and explains how emergent literature on Native labor, globaliza- changing federal Indian policies impacted tion, and the new histories of capitalism, while those who taught, administered, and attended always centering indigenous people’s efforts to them. She also includes a collection of survive, adapt, and thrive.”—Philip J. Deloria, personal reflections, some heartbreaking and author of Indians in Unexpected Places some uplifting, by those who passed through “David Beck’s rigorously researched and those schools.”—Tim Garrison, coeditor of engagingly written book is a long-awaited The Native South: New Histories and Enduring examination of Native American participation Legacies in the 1893 World’s Fair. . . . Unfair Labor?—a “This book will appeal to both scholars in fascinating and deeply illuminating analysis of the field and to descendants of the schools’ Indigenous labor at the World’s Fair—makes students. I especially appreciate Landrum’s a superb contribution to our understanding of inclusion of the specter of race science regard- Native life in the late nineteenth century.” ing student evaluations at the schools. She also —Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), author of has further clarified and added greater nuance Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native to the discussion of the Puritan ‘praying America in National and Tribal Museums towns’ and provided a valuable discussion July 2019 • 330 pp. • 6 x 9 • 32 photographs, 10 of the self-pedagogy of the Five Civilized illustrations, 5 maps, 2 tables, 1 appendix, index Tribes.”—Hayes P. Mauro, author of The Art of $65.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0683-1 Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School March 2019 • 312 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1207-8

university of nebraska press 7 Walking to Magdalena Life of the Indigenous Mind Personhood and Place in Tohono O'odham Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Songs, Sticks, and Stories Red Power Movement Seth Schermerhorn David Martínez Walking to Magdalena examines how the David Martínez examines the early activism, Tohono O’odham of southern Arizona have life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr., the most made Christianity their own by focusing on influential indigenous activist and writer of the annual pilgrimage the O’odham make to the twentieth century and one of the intellec- Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. tual architects of the Red Power movement. “Theoretically informed and tangibly grounded “Martínez charts a framework for future in respectful relationships with Tohono intersectional analysis, providing an import- O’odham elders, Walking to Magdalena is as ant contribution to the growth of American humble a book as it is game-changing. We Indian intellectualism. This book offers a mag- come to think differently about pilgrimage, nificent appraisal of Vine Deloria Jr.’s legacy the indigenization of Christianity, and what it and the power of critical thought.” might mean to become fully human.” —Rebecca Tsosie, Regents’ Professor of Law —Michael D. McNally, John M. and at the University of Arizona Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religion at “David Martínez transcends hagiography in Carleton College this complex analysis of four key early works “Walking to Magdalena makes important con- by Vine Deloria Jr. This fascinating book takes tributions to the field of indigenous religious a deep dive into Deloria’s thinking. Martínez studies. The work will also be of interest to does an admirable job of both placing these those doing fieldwork with Native communi- works in the historical context of turbulent ties, regardless of the specific field of research. changes in Indian affairs in the United . . . The writing is some of the clearest States and illuminating Deloria’s intellectual academic writing I’ve read. The author has a acumen as he challenged federal bureaucrats, unique gift for writing direct, simple sentences, academia, the public at large, and, perhaps yet within an insightful, engaging narrative.” most significantly, Indian Country to rethink —David Delgado Shorter, author of We Will the place of American Indians in the United Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme States.”—David R. M. Beck, professor of Performances Native American Studies at the University of April 2019 • 258 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 1 map, Montana 2 appendixes, index August 2019 • 498 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0685-5 $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1190-3 New Visions in Native American and New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series Indigenous Studies Series

8 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com In the Lands of Fire and Sun Invisible Reality Resistance and Accommodation in the Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Huichol Sierra, 1723–1930 Supernatural World of the Blackfeet Michele McArdle Stephens Rosalyn R. LaPier A history of western Mexico’s Huichol • Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award people, an indigenous group that resisted and • Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award selectively adapted to colonial Spanish and Mexican life rather than fully assimilating into Rosalyn R. LaPier presents an unconventional, the Hispanic fold. creative, and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family “[Stephens] weaves a concise, accessible stories, and traditional knowledge learned from narrative of the Huichol from the conquest to elders along with personal reflections of her own the present day, paying particular attention to journey learning Blackfeet stories. The result is a their resistance to missionizing and continual nuanced look at the history of the Blackfeet and dogged defense of their lands in times of peace their relationship with the natural world. and war. Stephens highlights the paradox of Huichol indigenous identity: the fact that “An excellent contribution to the scholarship on a people perennially fractured by political the Blackfeet and to the scholarship on indige- and local identities might still so successfully nous peoples generally.”—Ted Binnema, Journal maintain their ethnic identity and autonomy. of Anthropological Research There is no better single introduction to the “[Invisible Reality] conveys the self-respect and study of Huichol history.” confidence that paternalist governance and —P. R. Sullivan, Choice poverty could not defeat.”—Choice “A much-needed addition to the scholarship “Rosalyn LaPier guides us through the meanings on the Huichol and on indigenous peoples in the Blackfeet community has attached to the Mexico more generally. Unlike most studies of plants and natural phenomena that surround indigenous peoples, In the Lands of Fire and them and at the same time makes clear the Sun effectively spans the colonial and modern boundless complexity and stunning beauty of periods, demonstrating the incredible conti- this indigenous cultural tradition.” nuity in Huichol resistance and adaptation. —Frederick E. Hoxie, editor of The Oxford . . . It will be an excellent choice for single-se- Handbook of American Indian History mester surveys of Mexican history as well as upper-division and graduate courses in history, 2017 • 246 pp. • 6 x 9 • 24 photographs, 4 maps, anthropology, and indigenous studies.” index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0150-8 —Andrae Marak, dean of the College of Arts $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1477-5 and Science at Governors State University New Visions in Native American and Indigenous 2018 • 222 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 photographs, 5 illustra- Studies Series tions, 5 maps, index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8858-4 university of nebraska press 9 Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Walter Harper, Alaska Berens River Native Son A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth Mary F. Ehrlander in Conversation • 2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Edited and with an introduc- Library Association tion by Jennifer S. H. Brown • 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell Mary F. Ehrlander illuminates the remarkable recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son life of Walter Harper, a traditionally raised of (Northern Barred Owl), Ochiipwamoshiish Koyukon Athabascan of Irish-Athabascan at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of descent who was a leader of his people during 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely across his brief life. the lives of four generations of Anishinaabeg along the Berens River in Manitoba and “[A] wonderfully written testament to a life northwestern Ontario. of adventure. The Walter Harper we come to know is immensely likable, and his escapades “These stories are not merely interwoven with irresistible. He was one of the great Alaskans life situations; they are an integral part of of his time. This book is a fitting tribute.” life. This book is an immense contribution to —David A. James, Anchorage Daily News its field. It brings to life the people, prac- tices, and stories that were real and alive one “Not only a fine work of history but a rousing hundred years ago. The stories themselves give adventure tale and a love story. This is a great extraordinary insights into the daily personal book.”—Terrence M. Cole, professor of his- lives of the Berens River Ojibwe.”—Theresa tory at the University of Alaska Fairbanks M. Schenck, professor emerita of American “A fine biography of a young man of talent Indian studies at the University of Wiscon- and energy who successfully coped with two sin–Madison cultures during a time of rapid change in “The book’s focus and strength is its very Alaska. Mary Ehrlander has employed crisp detailed contextualization and annotation and enlightening prose to illuminate both the of Bigmouth’s tales.”—Alice Beck Kehoe, era and the history of the Yukon region.” author of North America Before the European —John Bockstoce, Arctic historian and Invasions, Second Edition archaeologist 2018 • 246 pp. • 6 x 9 • 15 photographs, 2017 • 216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 31 illustrations, 3 maps, 1 map, index index $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0225-3 $29.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9590-2 New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series

10 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Upward, Not Sunwise Perishing Heathens Resonant Rupture in Navajo Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Neo-Pentecostalism Christian Indians in Antebellum America Kimberly Jenkins Marshall Julius H. Rubin Upward, Not Sunwise examines how Navajo Perishing Heathens tells the stories of mission- neo-Pentecostals adapt music, dance, and ary men and women who between 1800 and language at tent revivals to spread a religious 1830 responded to the call to save Native peo- movement both wholly Navajo and radically ples through missions—including the Osages new. in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in “Marshall’s book is based on several years of Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples ethnographic research in Navajo communities in the Michigan Territory. Julius H. Rubin in the southwestern United States. The only also recounts the lives of Native converts, lengthy study of Navajo Pentecostalism that many of whom were from mixed-blood métis has been published to date, it deftly tackles families and were attracted to the benefits of the problem of rupture and continuity among education, literacy, and conversion. Pentecostal converts, and shows that Navajo “This book is built on an incredible range of Pentecostals reject, reinterpret, remake, and sources, and Rubin’s theoretical treatment of conserve traditional beliefs and practices conversion is both welcome and excellently in intricate and sometimes conflicting ways. done. A must read for those interested in the Marshall pursues a pioneering approach to religious dimensions of Indian politics in the indigenous Pentecostalism that will interest early nineteenth century.”—A. R. McKee, folklorists.”—Ethan Sharp, Journal of Folklore Choice Research “Rubin has successfully captured the image “Marshall’s ethnography is refreshingly of a nation forged by widespread evangelical engaging as it explores the complexities of peoplehood in nineteenth-century America contemporary neo-Pentecostalism among that titillates the reader's intellectual and emo- Navajos in the Navajo Nation. It adds a much- tional sides. Bolstering his career-long work as needed chapter about the diversity of religious a religious and cultural scholar, Rubin engages experiences among Navajos and speaks to readers in an expertly crafted interdisciplinary larger issues about global Christianity.” work that appeals to scholars, students, and —Anthony K. Webster, author of Intimate the eager novice interested in religion, history, Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry and sociology.”—Kara Jo Wilson, Chronicles 2016 • 270 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 illustrations, 2 maps, of Oklahoma 2 tables, index 2017 • 276 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 photograph, 3 tables, $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6976-7 index $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-8888-1 $50.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0187-4

university of nebraska press 11 Kiowa Belief and Ritual Religious Revitalization among Benjamin R. Kracht the Kiowas Benjamin R. Kracht reconstructs Kiowa The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity cosmology during the height of the horse and Benjamin R. Kracht buffalo culture from field notes pertaining to Framed by theories of syncretism and revi- cosmology, visions, shamans, sorcery, dream talization, Religious Revitalization among the shields, tribal bundles, and the now-extinct Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and Sun Dance ceremony. These topics are ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth interpreted through the Kiowa concept century. of a power force permeating the universe. Additional data gleaned from the field notes “Encyclopedic. . . . The Santa Fe materials take of James Mooney and Alice Marriott enrich center stage but are also supplemented by the narrative. previous and subsequent research by scholars like Mooney. The result is what could hardly “Benjamin Kracht provides keen insight be imagined as a more complete summary of into the belief system and worldview of the a people’s beliefs and rituals at a particular Kiowa people. This ethnographic window moment in time—a moment that had just reveals what is sacred, powerful, and spiritual ended when the data were collected and among this warrior people of the southern that, despite all of the tribulations and losses plains. Kracht’s scholarship advances our faced by the Kiowa, continues not only to be understanding of the true reality of the remembered but to reverberate through their Kiowas.”—Donald L. Fixico, Distinguished culture.”—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Foundation Professor of History at Arizona Review Database State University “Demonstrates a remarkable knowledge and “Makes a significant contribution to our familiarity with Kiowa life, history, and understanding of Plains indigenous religion, traditions, both past and present. . . . This and offers Kiowa community members an book is a model of excellence in anthropo- engaging link to their indigenous heritage.” logical historiography, offering a multitude of —Andrew McKenzie, Great Plains Quarterly cogent insights and many remarkable, moving 2017 • 402 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 15 illustra- Kiowa testimonies—an engaging, informative tions, 1 chronology, index book!”—Lee Irwin, professor of religious $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0053-2 studies at the College of Charleston Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians Series 2018 • 342 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 3 illustra- tions, index $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0458-5

12 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com All My Relatives Recovering Native American Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, Writings in the Boarding and Ritual School Press David C. Posthumus Edited by Jacqueline Emery All My Relatives demonstrates the significance • 2018 Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best of a new animist framework for understand- Edited Collection Winner ing North American indigenous ontology • 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and how an expanded notion of personhood serves to connect otherwise disparate and This is the first comprehensive collection of inaccessible elements of Lakota ethnography. writings by students and well-known Native This book offers new insights into traditional American authors who published in boarding Lakota culture for a deeper and more endur- school newspapers during the late nineteenth ing understanding of indigenous cosmology, and early twentieth centuries. Students used ontology, and religion. their acquired literacy in English along with more concrete tools that the boarding schools “In this superb ethnography of North Ameri- made available, such as printing technology, to can animism, David Posthumus paints a vivid create identities for themselves as editors and and poetic picture of what it meant for the writers. In these roles they sought to challenge nineteenth-century Lakota Sioux to live in Native American stereotypes and share issues a world beyond the human that they shared of importance to their communities. with scores of animal persons and spirits. A remarkable achievement.”—Philippe Descola, “Timely and important. . . . Now, more than author of Beyond Nature and Culture ever, with the call for a ‘national identity,’ . . . we should be educating our citizens on how “All My Relatives is very strong in its command our past governments have attempted to of Lakota sources, notably the writings of the shape the ‘American.’ Emery’s book provides Delorias, of ethnohistorical records, and of us with a rich resource of stories gathered relevant secondary sources.” from the voices of the students who were part —Jennifer S. H. Brown, professor emerita of of Carlisle founder Richard Henry Pratt’s history at the University of Winnipeg vision.”—Lydia Presley, Great Plains Quarterly 2018 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 illustrations, 3 maps, 2017 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 illustrations, index index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7675-8 $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9994-8 New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series

university of nebraska press 13 A Pictographic History A Fur Trader on the of the Oglala Sioux, Upper Missouri 50th Anniversary Edition The Journal and Description of Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794–1796 Amos Bad Heart Bull Jean-Baptiste Truteau Text by Helen H. Blish Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, Introduction by Mari Sandoz Douglas R. Parks, and Introductions to the Robert Vézina new edition by Emily Levine and Candace Greene • 2018 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award from the Western History Association Originally published in 1967, this remarkable pictographic history was drawn by Amos Bad This is the first annotated scholarly edition of Heart Bull (Oglala Lakota) between 1890 and Jean-Baptiste Truteau’s journal of his voyage on 1913. Helen H. Blish provides ethnological the Missouri River in the central and northern and historical background and interprets Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description the content. This fiftieth anniversary edition of the upper Missouri. Along with this new provides a fresh perspective on Bad Heart translation, which includes facing French- Bull’s drawings through digital scans of the English pages, the editors shed new light on original photograph plates created when Blish Truteau’s description of the upper Missouri and was doing her research. acknowledge his journal as the foremost account of Native peoples and the fur trade during the “Invaluable volume.”—Ann Billesbach, eighteenth century. Nebraska History “One of the most complete, well-edited, and best “The significance of Amos Bad Heart Bull’s ethnographic and geographical late eighteenth- work to our understanding of Plains Indian century fur trading accounts to ever be published. history cannot be overstated. It is an unpar- . . . A must-read for First Nation people, alleled Native account documenting Oglala historians, ethnologists, linguists, historical Lakota life during the tumultuous period of reenactors, and professional and laypersons alike the 1860s to the 1910s.”—Christina E. Burke, and will continue to be the aller á for historical curator of Native American and non-Western reference work for the Upper Missouri River fur art at the Philbrook Museum of Art trade era for generations to come.” 2017 • 648 pp. • 9 x 12 • 32 color illustrations, —Kenneth Carstens, Michigan Historical Review 458 b&w illustrations, 8 photographs, index 2017 • 728 pp. • 7 x 10 • 9 figures, 7 maps, 7 tables, $95.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0359-5 2 diagrams, index $100.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4427-6 Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians Series

14 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Situational Identities along the Science, Sexuality, and Race in Raiding Frontier of Colonial the United States and Australia, New Mexico 1780–1940 Jun U. Sunseri Gregory D. Smithers Jun U. Sunseri examines pluralistic commu- This revised and expanded edition of nities that navigated between colonial and Gregory D. Smithers’s sociohistorical tour indigenous practices to negotiate strategic de force examines the entwined formation alliances with both sides of generations-old of racial theory and sexual constructs within conflicts. settler colonialism in the United States and “[Sunseri’s] work is personal, innovative, Australia from the Age of Revolution to the and effective in its use of disparate sources, Great Depression. Smithers builds on recent from scientific analysis to oral history, and scholarship to illuminate both the subject of provides the reader with a well-reasoned and the scientific study of race and sexuality and supported argument for cultural fluidity and the national and interrelated histories of the continuation on the New Mexico colonial United States and Australia. borderlands.”—Peg Kearney, Journal of “A shining example of how to do comparative Arizona History and transnational history.” “Offers a strong foundation on which to build —American Historical Review future place-based historical archaeologies in “A keen critique of the impossible logic of the Southwest, deeply informed by those who racism in two major settler societies anxious have thought with the land for generations.” to strengthen their sense of nationhood.” —Valerie Bondura, Society for Historical —Philippa Levine, Mary Helen Thompson Archaeology Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the “Will set the bar for archaeological and anthro- University of Texas at Austin pological research into genízaro communities 2017 • 516 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 illustrations, 1 table, index like Casitas.”—Bonnie J. Clark, author of On $35.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9591-9 the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado 2018 • 240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 16 illustra- tions, 5 maps, 4 tables, 39 graphs, index $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9639-8 Historical Archaeology of the American West Series

university of nebraska press 15 Blood Will Tell Ute Land Religion in the Native Americans and Assimilation Policy American West, 1879–2009 Katherine Ellinghaus Brandi Denison Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying cen- Ute Land Religion is a regional history of trality of “blood” that shaped official ideas contact between Utes and white settlers from about who was eligible to be defined as Indian 1879 to 2009 that examines the production of by the General Allotment Act in the United an idealized American religion in the Ameri- States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of can West through the intersection of religion, blood quantum and how the concept came land, and cultural memory. to dominate Native identity and national “Beautifully written, clear, and compelling. status between 1887 and 1934 and how related Ute Land Religion is grounded on a solid exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess understanding of history, while also providing Native people of their land. insightful interpretation and theoretical “A valuable contribution to studies of the nuance.”—Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, author allotment era in particular and to studies of of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Well- U.S.–American Indian relations and settler ness among Native Communities in the Pacific colonialism in general.”—John R. Gram, Northwest Southwestern Historical Quarterly “This terrific book shows how white settlers “A significant contribution to how we interpret in Colorado used the construct of ‘Ute Land assumptions about ethnicity, skin color, Religion’ to justify their appropriation of and cultural behavior—from low-level civil Native land, how Ute people both resisted servants to official ideology to indigenous and participated in that invention, and how notions of identity. It is a welcome addition the category of religion has functioned in to furthering our understanding of blood the making and remaking of the American quantum and Native American policy.” West.”—Tisa Wenger, author of We Have a —Ryan W. Schmidt, Great Plains Quarterly Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Con- 2017 • 234 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 illustrations, index troversy and American Religious Freedom $40.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-2543-5 2017 • 330 pp. • 6 x 9 • 16 illustrations, 4 maps, New Visions in Native American and index Indigenous Studies Series $55.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7674-1 New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series

16 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Colonized through Art Carlisle Indian Industrial School American Indian Schools and Art Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Education, 1889–1915 Reclamations Marinella Lentis Edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose Colonized through Art explores how art education was used as an instrument for This collection interweaves the voices of the “colonization of consciousness,” which students’ descendants, poets, and activists, policy makers hoped would reshape with cutting edge research by Native and Indigenous peoples’ minds by instilling non-Native scholars to reveal the complex values and ideals of Western society while history and enduring legacies of the school simultaneously maintaining a political, social, that spearheaded the federal campaign for economic, and racial hierarchy. Indian assimilation. “Readers who are interested in the residential “Indigenous voices are at the center of the schools, art education, the Arts and Crafts work. . . . These indigenous voices connecting Movement, or the implementation of federal past and present reinforce the editors’ larger Indian policy at the onset of the twentieth effort to historicize, reclaim, and commemo- century will findColonized through Art rate the Carlisle Indian School.” an original and engrossing addition to the —Hilary N. Green, Journal of the Gilded Age existing literature in these areas. Lentis and Progressive Era greatly expands our understanding of how “[A] compelling gathering of work. . . . the residential schools promoted assimila- Remarkable.”—Indian Country Today tion through art and of the ways that Native students used their art for creative expressions “By bringing together such a diverse range of resistance.”—Melissa D. Parkhurst, Western of voices—academics and non-academics, Historical Quarterly Native and non-Natives—to speak about the history and legacy of what remains the most “A thorough historical account of how white, well-known Indian boarding school, this book Euro-American superintendents, curriculum does us all a great service. The contributors writers, and teachers implemented cultural share their important stories with exceptional assimilation, which was manifested in public grace, insight, and power.” displays through nineteenth- and early twenti- —Stephen Amerman, professor of history at eth-century boarding schools.”—Kevin Slivka, Southern Connecticut State University History of Education Quarterly 2018 • 414 pp. • 6 x 9 • 29 photographs, 2 maps, 1 2017 • 450 pp. • 6 x 9 • 52 illustrations, 12 tables, 3 chronology, index appendixes, index $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0769-2 $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-5544-9 Indigenous Education Series

university of nebraska press 17 Indigenous Media and The Native South Political Imaginaries in New Histories and Enduring Legacies Contemporary Bolivia Edited by Tim Alan Garrison Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal and Greg O’Brien • Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award A state-of-the-field volume of southern Native for Best Research Work in Anthropology American history that focuses on the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Spanning such Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the subjects as Seminole–African American political dimension of indigenous media pro- kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt duction and distribution as a means by which and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence, indigenous organizations articulate new Indian captives and American empire, and sec- claims on national politics in Bolivia, a coun- ond-wave feminist activism among Cherokee try experiencing one of the most notable cases women in the 1970s, The Native South offers of social mobilization and indigenous-based a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical constitutional transformation in contempo- methodology and evolving research in south- rary Latin America. ern Native American history. “A fascinating ground-up view of an extraor- “Reveals how the history of the Native South dinary group of Bolivian activist filmmakers and Native southerners is a dynamic form of deploying media to fortify the indigenous historical inquiry, a testimony to the skill of movement through light and sound.” the contributors and an enduring testimony —Brooke Larson, Hispanic American Histor- to the pathbreaking scholarship of Michael ical Review Green and Theda Perdue.”—G. D. Smithers, “Indispensable reading for anyone interested Choice in the social, political, and cultural trans- “Whether we train future historians, or future formations taking place in Bolivia at the teachers, nurses, or pilots, any professor's beginning of the twenty-first century. . . . A greatest legacy is her or his students. In The tremendously important contribution to the Native South the editors Tim Alan Garrison field.”—Freya Schiwy, author ofIndianizing and Greg O’Brien have assembled the Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Ques- students of Theda Perdue and the late Mike tion of Technology Green to prove this point forcefully and 2017 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 1 map, 4 beautifully.”—Matthew Jennings, Journal of tables, index American History $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9687-9 August 2019 • 306 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index $30.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1663-2

18 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Salish Blankets People of the Saltwater Robes of Protection and Transformation, An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon Symbols of Wealth Charles R. Menzies Leslie H. Tepper, Janice George, • 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Willard Joseph Charles R. Menzies explores the history of Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing Salish weaving through technical and anthro- on the people and their enduring place in the pological lenses, illuminating the essential modern world. The Gitxaala Nation has called role Salish women have played as weavers and the rugged north coast of British Columbia examining how blankets provide quiet yet home for millennia, proudly maintaining its significant contributions to human history, territory and traditional way of life. culture, and fine art. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are objects of extraor- “People of the Saltwater brings to the schol- dinary complexity, said to preexist in the arship of the Native Northwest Coast the supernatural realm and made manifest in the traditional ways the Git lax m'oon exist in rela- natural world through ancestral guidance. tionship with the lands they inhabit and the resources they husband.”—Melonie Ancheta, “This beautifully designed book represents the American Indian Quarterly future of indigenous material culture studies. . . . It is a literary act of reconciliation and “An important contribution to scholarship an educational celebration, a most welcome about First Nations of the Northwest contribution to museum and indigenous Coast.”—Eric Oakley, Pacific Northwest studies.”—Robert E. Walls, Journal of Folklore Quarterly Magazine Research “Highly personal, enjoyably engaging, and a “Contributes to an emerging collaborative welcome contribution to community-based literature documenting Salish art and material scholarship on the Northwest Coast. . . . heritage through the centuries.” Menzies’s analysis adds a clear voice to conver- —Kaitlin McCormick, Canadian Journal of sations about the impacts of global industrial Native Studies processes on local peoples.” —Thomas McIlwraith, author of“We Are Still 2017 • 224 pp. • 6 x 9 • 47 color photographs, 13 illustrations, 1 map, 11 tables, 2 appendixes, index Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from $40.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9692-3 Northern British Columbia 2016 • 198 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 photographs, 2 maps, 1 table, index $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-8808-9

university of nebraska press 19 Declared Defective The Bungling Host Native Americans, Eugenics, and the The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature Myth of Nam Hollow Daniel Clément Robert Jarvenpa Translated by Peter Frost Robert Jarvenpa offers both an intriguing Daniel Clément examines the “Bungling Host” history of the mixed-race Native Americans tale known in a multitude of indigenous cul- named the “Nam,” who originated from west- tures in North America and beyond. In this ern New England, and a critical reevaluation groundbreaking work he reveals fuller mean- of one of the earliest eugenics family studies, ing to these stories than previously recognized The Nam: A Study in Cacogenics, written and underscores the limits of structuralism in in 1912 by the leading eugenicists Arthur H. understanding them. Estabrook and Charles B. Davenport. “Anthropologists have been analyzing the “Declared Defective will be of interest to schol- oral stories of Aboriginal cultures for a long ars of Native North America, the Progressive time. Aboriginal peoples have also been Era, the history of science, and race and untangling the stories told to them by their ethnicity.”—Mikaëla M. Adams, Journal of elders. Daniel Clément weaves these two American Ethnic History perspectives together to get at the meaning of these ‘myths.’”—Stephen J. Augustine, “A well-researched, fast-paced, compact, and hereditary chief, Mi’kmaq Grand Council gracefully written examination of Progres- sive Era eugenics and the complex origins, “The introduction is one of the most readable historical development, and significance of critiques of structuralism I have ever seen. It a mixed-race, outcast community. Declared is nuanced yet accessible and poses terrific Defective is an important contribution to questions about structuralism. I can imagine the history of anthropology, science, racial this [book] as a central resource for indig- thought, and Native Americans.” enous scholars, historians, naturalists, and —John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Dis- anthropologists. It contributes greatly to the tinguished Professor of American History at comparative study of mythology and contem- the University of North Carolina at Charlotte porary studies of structural analysis.” —Thomas McIlwraith, assistant professor of 2018 • 258 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, 1 illustration, anthropology at the University of Guelph 3 maps, 2 tables, 8 charts, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0200-0 2018 • 570 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 maps, 16 tables, Critical Studies in the 46 figures History of Anthropology Series $70.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0087-7 $40.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0605-3

20 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Bending Their Way Onward Rivers of Sand Creek Indian Removal in Documents Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Edited and annotated by Ethnic Cleansing in the American South Christopher D. Haveman Christopher D. Haveman • 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title • 2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Between 1827 and 1837 approximately Alabama Historical Association twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were • 2017 James Mooney Award transported across the Mississippi River, exiting their homeland under extreme duress Most Creeks were relocated through a and complex pressures. Bending Their Way combination of coercion and negotiation. Onward is a collection of letters, journals, and Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel muster rolls describing the travels of Creek were forced to make concessions in order to Indians as they moved from present-day Ala- gain the compliance of the headmen and their bama to present-day Oklahoma in 1827–38. people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents “Fast earning a reputation for being one of to weave narratives of resistance and survival, the most insightful historians of the Native making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to South, Haveman adds to his impressive record the ethnohistory of American Indian removal. of scholarship with what amounts to the best single volume yet published of annotated pri- “Haveman exposes various methods of ethnic mary sources on Creek Indian removal. . . . An cleansing . . . all the while retaining a focus invaluable collection of archival documents on the plight of Creeks and their continued that will be welcomed by professional histori- survival and pride despite the tragic events ans and advanced undergraduate and graduate endured.”—Melanie Vasselin, Native Ameri- students.”—G. D. Smithers, Choice can and Indigenous Studies “These documents complicate and humanize “A testament to exhaustive research and the process without excusing or vindicating judicious analysis.”—Bryan Rindfleisch, the agents involved or reducing the Creeks to H-AmIndian passive victims.”—Andrew K. Frank, Allen “A fascinating work.”—J. R. Burch Jr., Choice Morris Associate Professor of History at Florida State University 2016 • 438 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 illustrations, 29 maps, 1 table, index 2018 • 864 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 illustrations, 17 maps, $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7392-4 index Indians of the Southeast Series $85.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9698-5

university of nebraska press 21 The Turtle's Beating Heart Horace Poolaw, Photographer of One Family's Story of Lenape Survival American Indian Modernity Denise Low Laura E. Smith Foreword by Linda Poolaw In this exceptional book, former Kansas poet laureate Denise Low recovers the life A tour de force of art and cultural history, and times of her grandfather, Frank Bruner Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American (1889–1963), whose expression of Delaware Indian Modernity illuminates the life of one of (Lenape) identity was largely discouraged by Native America’s most gifted, organic artists mainstream society. As an adult, Low comes and documentarians and challenges readers to understand her grandfather’s legacy of to reevaluate the seamlessness between the persecution and heroic survival in the south- creative arts and everyday life through its ern plains of the early 1900s, where the Ku depiction of one man’s lifelong dedication to Klux Klan attacked Native people along with art and community. other ethnic minorities. As Low unravels this “Poolaw’s photographs, and Smith’s narration hidden family history of the Lenape diaspora, of where they fit in the Kiowa story, impart she discovers the lasting impact of trauma and a welcome perspective on Kiowa history and substance abuse, the deep sense of loss and culture. Smith powerfully illustrates how, shame related to suppressed family emotions, when viewed through the eyes of Poolaw, and the power of collective memory. Kiowa people—like other Americans—are “An engagingly written mix of research, report- actively negotiating present and future age, and memoir, infused with the passion of identities in a rapidly globalizing world.” discovery.”—Kirkus Reviews —Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Power of Kiowa Song “This book is a deep and important gift from a master word crafter.”—Kim Shuck, World “Horace Poolaw’s photography provides an Literature Today important historical look at Kiowa life in the early twentieth century because he captured 2017 • 200 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 26 illustrations, 1 map $24.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-9493-6 daily life as it happened. . . . [It] benefits from American Indian Lives Series the ample inclusion of Poolaw photographs throughout.”—Chronicles of Oklahoma “A fascinating profile of the life and times of a photographer whose work has been largely overlooked by mainstream art and photo- graphic historians.”—Marilyn Gates, New York Journal of Books 2016 • 232 pp. • 6 x 9 • 85 photographs $45.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-3785-8

22 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com The Mayans Among Us Native Diasporas Migrant Women and Meatpacking Indigenous Identities and on the Great Plains Settler Colonialism in the Americas Ann L. Sittig and Martha Edited by Gregory D. Smithers Florinda González and Brooke N. Newman Ann L. Sittig and Martha Florinda González The arrival of European settlers in the focus on the unique experiences of Central Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways and American indigenous immigrants to the Great the effects of colonialism shattered Native Plains. Mayan immigrants, many of whom are communities. Forced migration and human political refugees from repressive, war-torn trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, lan- countries, share their concerns and hopes guages, and people. Native Diasporas gathers as they negotiate their new home, culture, the work of leading scholars in examining a language, and life in Nebraska. Longtime range of Native peoples and their influences Nebraskans share their perspectives on the through reaggregation. These diverse and immigrants as well. wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous “Fascinating reading. . . . I wish this were understandings of self-identification, com- required reading for all our politicians and munity, and culture through the speeches, policy makers. I recommend it to all who cultural products, intimate relations, and yearn to understand the America we live in political and legal practices of Native peoples. today.”—Mary Pipher, author of The Middle “Fascinating case studies that simultaneously of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the value local nuance and transnational/global American Community contexualization across more than three cen- “[This] is an essential read to understand turies of history. They also offer fresh insights modern Mayan women and the issues they in the study of indigenous identities.”—Joseph face. All students and experts of Latin Genetin-Pilawa, Western Historical Quarterly America and Mayan civilization must read “This text is not only a timely addition to the it.”—Washington Book Review Native American and American Indian stud- 2018 • 216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 31 photographs, 2 maps, ies discourse, but it also introduces a fresh way 1 glossary, index of discussing indigeneity and the complicated $17.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0847-7 experience of those communities impacted by settler colonialism.”—Clementine Bordeaux, American Indian Culture and Research Journal 2014 • 524 pp. • 6 x 9 • 14 illustrations, index $45.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-3363-8 Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series

university of nebraska press 23 A Listening Wind Welcome to the Oglala Nation Native Literature from the Southeast A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Edited and with an introduc- Political History tion by Marcia Haag Edited by Akim D. Reinhardt “Marcia Haag displays intimate awareness Welcome to the Oglala Nation is a political while skillfully articulating the complexities of history of the Oglala Lakota set in the context Native American survivance in the southeast- of colonialism that includes primary docu- ern U.S. . . . Care has been taken to record ments and a bibliographic essay of modern these gems in a context that respects their scholarship. individuality and enhances awareness within and outside of their respective tribal com- “More than a documentary reader. Through a munities.”—Douglas Suano Bootes, World combination of primary documents, historical Literature Today narrative, and historiography, Akim Rein- hardt provides a comprehensive overview “This collection, which covers a greater of more than 500 years of Oglala Lakota diversity of tribes than most studies of [the political history.”—Margaret Huettl, Great Southeast], will be an asset to specialists, Plains Quarterly students, and those with a general interest in Southern studies. Its presentation of “Reinhardt has produced an accessible storytelling with scholarly context is especially collection of resources that both novices and valuable.”—Lindsey Claire Smith, editor of scholars will find useful.”—David Christensen, American Indian Quarterly Kansas History “This book is a pleasure to read. The strong aes- “A very thorough, accurate, and powerful col- thetic appeal of Southeastern Native narrative lection of primary source documents. . . . The is apparent in the contributors’ fine renderings publication is a very useful teaching tool and of the tales, and their commentaries show a valuable source of information for interested the importance of the stories in the lives and readers.”—Tribal College Journal expectations of Southeastern narrators and 2015 • 306 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 map, index audiences past and present.” $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6846-3 —Margaret Holmes Williamson, author of Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia 2016 • 366 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 illustration, 1 map $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-6287-4 Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures Series

24 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Ho-Chunk Powwows and the This Benevolent Experiment Politics of Tradition Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, Grant Arndt and Redress in Canada and the Grant Arndt shows how the dynamism of United States powwows within Ho-Chunk life has changed Andrew Woolford greatly during the past two centuries, as • 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title has the balance of tradition and modernity within community life. This groundbreaking This Benevolent Experiment is a nuanced study of powwow culture investigates how comparative history of Indigenous boarding the Ho-Chunk people create cultural value schools in the United States and Canada. through their public ceremonial performances, Because of differing historical, political, and the significance that dance culture provides structural influences, the two countries have for the acquisition of power and recognition arrived at two very different responses to the inside and outside their communities, and harm caused by assimilative education. how the Ho-Chunk people generate concepts “Well written, intelligently organized, meticu- of the self and their society through dancing. lously researched, and offers original content. “A creatively conceptualized, well-written, and Woolford provides an important addition meticulously researched volume that extends to the growing and rich literature about our understanding of the Ho-Chunk experi- American Indian genocide and boarding ence in the twentieth century and the history schools.”—Clifford E. Trafzer,American of cultural performance.”—Amy Lonetree, Historical Review Public Historian “Scholars of indigenous boarding schools will “Arndt’s depth of knowledge of the topic and find Woolford’s book a valuable tool in ana- excellent scholarship shine in this book.” lyzing and describing the destructive power —Julie Goodrich, Iowa History Journal of these institutions.”—John Gram, Western Historical Quarterly “A fine work and a welcome addition to the lit- erature. Arndt elaborates nuanced meanings “A must-read for the experts and students of of Ho-Chunk powwows in historical and cul- North American history and Native Amer- tural context, and just as important, he does icans alike.”—Arif Jamal, Washington Book much to uncover the more complex workings Review and dynamics of powwows today.” 2018 • 450 pp. • 6 x 9 • 12 photographs, 1 illustra- —Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Power of tion, index Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0386-1 Indigenous Education Series 2016 • 352 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, index $60.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-3352-2

university of nebraska press 25 Song of Dewey Beard So, How Long Have You Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn Been Native? Philip Burnham Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide • 2015 Spur Award in Best Western Biography Alexis C. Bunten The biography of Dewey Beard, a Minnecon- • 2016 Alaskana Award from the Alaska jou Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Library Association Bighorn, survived Wounded Knee, traveled Alexis C. Bunten provides a firsthand account with William Cody, experienced the contin- of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural ued exploitation of the government during tourism industry through the summer tour World War II, and felt the effects of Black season as she is hired and trained and eventu- Hills tourism and Hollywood Indians. ally becomes a guide. An Alaska Native and “Burnham reignites a too-little told story of anthropologist, she spent two seasons working one of the most extraordinary figures of Great for a tribally owned tourism business that Plains history.”—Kevin Hooper, Great Plains markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Quarterly “A terrific exploration of Alaska Native cultural “Excellent.”—Paul Beck, Western Historical identity and a welcome addition to both Quarterly anthropology and history.”—Ross Coen, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “Burnham’s engaging, sometimes haunting book, with words and stories of Beard’s “A case study of what small-scale, traditional descendants, tells nearly as much about societies are experiencing all around the world, contemporary reservation life as about the this is a groundbreaking work and a riveting extraordinary man of the title. Their memo- read.”—Peter Nabokov, author of Where ries and their life lessons, painful, moving and the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American frequently funny, are revelations of a largely Indian Sacred Places unseen side of the America created during the “An enjoyable mix of ethnographic study and long life of the Little Big Horn’s last survi- personal memoir in this account of navigating vor.”—Elliott West, History Book Club the cultural contradictions and tensions of 2018 • 294 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 1 gen- being a Native Alaskan tour guide and anthro- ealogy, 4 maps, index pologist.”—Publishers Weekly $19.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0767-8 2015 • 272 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 9 photographs, index $26.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-3462-8

26 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com City Indian A Generation Removed Native American Activism in Chicago, The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous 1893–1934 Children in the Postwar World Rosalyn R. LaPier and Margaret D. Jacobs David R. M. Beck In this powerful blend of history and family • 2016 Robert G. Athearn Award from the stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Western History Association Jacobs examines how government authorities in the post–World War II era removed thou- is a study of the significant role City Indian sands of American, Australian, and Canadian the diverse indigenous community living in indigenous children from their families and Chicago played in shaping local and national placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive public perception of Native Americans families. in modern society. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century “A moving, significant book. Justice, Jacobs of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago explains, will come only when nonindigenous voiced their opinions about political, social, people acknowledge the damage done. A Gen- educational, and racial issues. eration Removed makes a major contribution toward bringing the story to light. It remains “A most important addition to the literature for the rest of us to read and teach it.” on Native activism, the history of Indigenous —Sherry Smith, representation, and urban history.” Western Historical Quarterly —Coll Thrush, Michigan Historical Review “A powerful eye-opener, covering a piece of history we push under the carpet at our own “A substantial contribution to emerging schol- peril.”—Alan Porter, arship on Native Americans and cities.” Saskatchewan History —Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Reimagin- “An important book that effectively researches ing Indian Country and narrates a difficult and upsetting topic 2015 • 296 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 illustrations, 3 tables, that has been all but ignored by mainstream index American society for far too long.” $40.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4839-7 —Akim Reinhardt, Nebraska History 2014 • 400 pp. • 6 x 9 • 16 illustrations, 1 table, index $29.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-5536-4

university of nebraska press 27 A Century of Coast Salish History Media Companion to the Book Rights Remembered Pauline Hillaire Edited by Gregory P. Fields A Century of Coast Salish History includes two audio CDs of traditional Lummi songs and songs and stories for children. It also features a DVD about the past century of Coast Salish life at Lummi, with an oral history account by Pauline R. Hillaire. 2016 • 1 DVD and 2 audio CDs: oral history, songs, and stories; 152 minutes run time $39.95 • 978-0-8032-9481-3

Rights Remembered Rights Remembered is a remarkable histori- A Salish Grandmother Speaks on cal narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer American Indian History and the Future Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Pauline R. Hillaire Whale. A direct descendant of the immedi- Edited by Gregory P. Fields ate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative life experiences, Lummi oral traditions preserved and passed on to her, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast to tell the story of settlers, government officials, treaties, reserva- tions, and the colonial relationship between Coast Salish and the white newcomers. “This book should be read by anyone interested in the Native perspective on the history of the Pacific Northwest.”—Daniel L. Boxberger, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “Comparable in scope to the work of Vine Deloria, this book provides a much-needed perspective on American history and the encounter between Native people and Euro-Americans in the Pacific Northwest. It is an invaluable contribution.” —Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, author of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest 2016 • 484 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 photographs, 2 illustrations, 9 maps, 3 appendixes, index $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4584-6 American Indian Lives Series

28 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Witness “In this sensitively edited and translated A Húŋkpapha Historian’s Strong-Heart volume, Emily Levine performs a work of recovery mirroring that of Lakota amateur Song of the Lakotas historian Josephine Waggoner (d. 1943) Josephine Waggoner herself: distilling for scholars a disciplined but Edited and with an wide-ranging gathering of historical materials introduction by Emily Levine that might otherwise have been forever lost. Foreword by Lynne Allen The list of archives consulted is impressive, • 2015 J. Franklin Jameson Award from the and the attention to Lakota expression and American Historical Association Waggoner’s intention extremely conscientious. Well illustrated and annotated, it is a major • 2014 Nebraska Book Award in Nonfiction/ editorial achievement.” Reference from Nebraska Center for —American Historical Association the Book “An essential text for all students, professors, • 2014 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award scholars, and general readers interested in the from the Western History Association history, culture, and traditions of the Oceti Witness offers a rare participant’s perspective Sakowin Oyate, the Seven Council Fires of on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations.” Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggon- —Brian J. Twenter, Studies in American er’s two manuscripts presented here includes Indian Literatures extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to his- “An unprecedented addition to the field of torical stories by tribal members. The second Dakota/Lakota scholarship.” consists of Waggoner’s sixty biographies of —Shannon D. Smith, Nebraska History Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with 2013 • 824 pp. • 7 x 10 • 26 color illustrations, 115 the men themselves. Together these singu- b&w photographs, 26 b&w illustrations, 1 genealo- gy, 10 maps, 1 table, 7 appendixes, index lar manuscripts provide new and extensive $85.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4564-8 information on the history, culture, and expe- riences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples. university of nebraska press 29 Dawnland Voices Sky Loom An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from Native American Myth, Story, and Song New England Edited and with an introduc- Edited by Siobhan Senier tion by Brian Swann This pathbreaking anthology calls attention to Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to both classic and contemporary literary works Native American myths, stories, and songs from ten New England indigenous nations: drawn from previous collections by acclaimed the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Mohegan, translator and poet Brian Swann. With a Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom is Penobscot, Schaghticoke, and Wampanoag. a stunning collection that provides a glimpse into the intricacies and beauties of story and “[Dawnland Voices] puts another nail in the myth, placing them in their cultural, historical, coffin of the persistent fantasy that ‘real’ Indi- and linguistic contexts. ans and their traditions have vanished east of the Mississippi.”—Joy Porter, Times Literary “A lovely, readable, and fascinating collec- Supplement tion.”—G. D. Macdonald, Choice “A significant contribution to Native American “The key to the value of this effort is Swann’s and indigenous studies and to U.S. litera- refined taste for the field; he gives the reader ture.”—S. K. Bernardin, Choice the benefit of his experience. . . . Sky[ Loom] will quickly prove its value to American “An impressive collection, useful to anyone Indian Studies programs, folkloristics, and interested in literature and history, and espe- ethnolinguistics.” cially useful for educators who teach anything —Paul Apodaca, Western Folklore in regard to New England.”—Sharity Bessett, Studies in American Indian Literatures “Because of the great diversity in approach and content, this text as a whole or selected chap- “Anyone with any interest in American ters could serve as an excellent resource for Indian literature or indigenous literature of folklore and linguistic undergraduate courses any kind will treasure this innovative book. and graduate seminars.”—Joe Uchihrehuh Siobhan Senier and her learned contributors Stahlman, Journal of Folklore Research show us a New England and an America that have been here all along without most Amer- 2014 • 558 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 illustrations $40.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-4615-7 icans suspecting it.”—Robert Dale Parker, Native Literatures of the Americas and author of The Invention of Native American Indigenous World Literatures Series Literature 2014 • 716 pp. • 7 x 10 • 1 drawing $35.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-4686-7

30 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Indian Slavery in All Indians Do Not Live in Tee- Colonial America pees (or Casinos) Edited and with an introduc- Catherine C. Robbins tion by Alan Gallay Both a tribute to the unique experiences of • 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title individual Native Americans and a celebration The essays in this collection use the compli- of the values that draw American Indians cated dynamics of Indian slavery as a lens together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees through which to explore both Indian and (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native European societies and their interactions, as life. Through dozens of interviews, Robbins well as relations between and among Native draws out the voices of Indian people, some groups. well-known and many at the grassroots level, working quietly to advance their communities. “Unlike Hernando de Soto’s slaving and The result is a rich account of Native Ameri- stealing expedition in the mid-sixteenth-cen- can life in contemporary America, revealing tury Southeast, this collection leaves us with not a monolithic “Indian” experience of a wealth of pearls.”—Tiya Miles, Journal of teepees or casinos, but rather a mosaic of American History diverse peoples. “This is a tremendously valuable book. . . . “Inspiring. . . . A monumental step forward in There is no better single-volume introduction understanding today’s Indian country." to the history of Indian slavery in early Amer- —Melvin Jordan, Indian Country Today ica. All serious students of early American history, the colonial South, and slavery in “[A] sharp, readable blend of history, cultural general will benefit from time spent with this commentary, and advocacy.” edited collection.”—Jon Parmenter, Journal of —Publishers Weekly Southern History “A plethora of resources readily available to “A splendid anthology, full of rigorously anyone willing to look beyond the popular researched and strongly written essays that culture’s stereotypes of American Indians.” will rapidly become must-reading for histori- —Chérie Newman, High Country News ans of early America.”—P. Harvey, Choice 2011 • 408 pp. • 6 x 9 • 24 illustrations, 1 map, index $29.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-3973-9 2015 • 448 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 maps, index $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-6849-4

university of nebraska press 31 Muscogee Daughter Reservation Reelism My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Repre- Susan Supernaw sentations of Native Americans in Film Foreword by Geary Hobson Michelle H. Raheja Muscogee Daughter is the life story of an Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book- American Indian girl, Susan Supernaw, who length study of the Indigenous actors, overcame a childhood of poverty, physical dis- directors, and spectators who helped shape ability, and abuse to become Miss Oklahoma Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous in 1971 and eventually earn her American peoples. Movies and visual culture generally Indian name. Revealing, humorous, and have provided the primary representational deeply moving. Muscogee Daughter is the story field Indigenous images have been displayed of finding a Native American identity among to non-Native audiences. These films have the distractions and difficulties of American been influential in shaping perceptions of life and of discerning an identity among com- Indigenous peoples as a dying race or inher- peting notions of what it is to be a woman, a ently unwilling to adapt to change but also Native American, and a citizen of the world. signify some degree of Native presence in a “A strong choice for a book group, or for culture that largely defines Native peoples as readers interested in contemporary Native absent or separate. American memoirs. Supernaw’s life story is “Deeply researched and beautifully concep- compelling—not only because of her one- tualized and written, this volume will be of of-a-kind experience, but also because of her great interest to scholars of history, film, and ability to appeal to a universal readership.” indigenous cultural production.” —Foreword Reviews —Beth H. Piatote, Western Historical 2010 • 264 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 25 illustrations, 1 Quarterly genealogy, index “A fascinating resource for those interested in $29.95 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-2971-6 American Indian Lives Series the history of Native Americans in film, the contradictions of racial visual representations, and the emergence of a Native filmmaking aesthetic.”—J. Ruppert, Choice 2013 • 358 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 29 photographs, 1 illustration, index $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-4597-6

32 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Navajo Talking Picture Smoke Signals Cinema on Native Ground Native Cinema Rising Randolph Lewis Joanna Hearne Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one The most popular Native American film of of the earliest and most controversial works all time, Smoke Signals is also an innovative of Native cinema. It is a documentary by Los work of cinematic storytelling that demands Angeles filmmaker Arlene Bowman, who sustained critical attention in its own right. travels to the Navajo reservation to record Joanna Hearne’s work foregrounds the the traditional ways of her grandmother voices of the filmmakers and performers—in in order to understand her own cultural interviews with Sherman Alexie and director heritage. For reasons that have often confused Chris Eyre, among others—to explore the viewers, the filmmaker persists despite her film’s audiovisual and narrative strategies for traditional grandmother’s forceful objections speaking to multiple audiences. In particular, to the apparent invasion of her privacy. What Hearne examines the filmmakers’ appropria- emerges is a strange and thought-provoking tion of mainstream American popular culture work that abruptly calls into question the forms to tell a Native story. This in-depth issue of insider versus outsider and other introduction and analysis expands our assumptions that have obscured the complexi- understanding and deepens our enjoyment of ties of Native art. a Native cinema landmark. Randolph Lewis offers an insightful introduc- “Joanna Hearne’s book is a cogent and valuable tion and analysis of Navajo Talking Picture, addition to the body of work on Smoke the first Navajo-produced film that is also a Signals and Native cinema. . . . Her extremely path-breaking work in the history of indige- detailed reading of the film, her trenchant nous media in the United States. Placing the analysis of the strategies it uses to speak to film in a number of revealing contexts, includ- multiple audiences, and her examination of ing the long history of Navajo people working the current state of Native cinema make this in Hollywood, the ethics of documentary a valuable resource for both teachers and filmmaking, and the often problematic recep- scholars.”—Laura Beadling, Western Historical tion of Native art, Lewis explores the tensions Quarterly and mysteries hidden in this unsettling but 2012 • 280 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 20 photographs, fascinating film. 1 appendix, index 2012 • 248 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 14 illustrations, index $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-1927-4 $30.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-3841-1 Indigenous Films Series Indigenous Films Series

university of nebraska press 33 Xurt'an Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley The End of the World and Other Myths, Histories Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography Northern Lacandones of Naha' David V. Kaufman Suzanne Cook Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories A comprehensive collection of Lacandon Maya offers a stunning relational analysis of social, oral literature, including narratives, myths, cultural, and linguistic change in the Lower songs, and ritual speeches. Mississippi Valley from 500 to 1700 CE. “This is a very valuable piece of work for folk- “Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories lorists and linguists and is a huge contribution assembles a wide range of information about to scholarship in this area. I applaud Cook for the peoples, cultures, migrations, archeologi- including oral traditions recorded from Lacan- cal traditions, and languages of the area called don women. Lacandon women are largely the Lower Mississippi Valley. Scholars will ignored in the Lacandon ethnographic litera- welcome the compilation and analysis of so ture and archaeology, and until now I know of many interrelated aspects of this area.” no compilation of Lacandon women’s stories. —Marcia Haag, professor of linguistics at the This is an outstanding service to the field.” University of Oklahoma —R. Jon McGee, professor of anthropology at “Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories Texas State University offers a composite portrait of the past based “The author’s attention to detail is unparalleled. on evidence from linguistics, ethnography, The scope and quality of the narratives will take and history, while shedding light on the move- your breath away.”—Barry Carlson, editor of ment of ideas across linguistic and cultural Northwest Coast Texts: Stealing Light boundaries. As such, it provides a compelling reconsideration of life in the Mississippi August 2019 • 536 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 1 Valley, an area that has attracted broad public illustration, 5 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes $70.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-7155-5 interest for generations.”—Sean O’Neill, Native Literatures of the Americas and associate professor of anthropology at the Indigenous World Literatures Series University of Oklahoma August 2019 • 240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 photographs, 9 illustrations, 2 maps, 16 tables, 1 appendix, index $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0997-9 34 university of nebraska press | nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Chehalis Stories Upper Perené Arawak Narratives Edited by Jolynn Amrine Goertz of History, Landscape, and Ritual with the Confederated Tribes of Elena Mihas the Chehalis Reservation With Gregorio Santos Pérez $75.00 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0101-0 and Delia Rosas Rodríguez $35.00 • paperback • 978-1-4962-0765-4 $65.00 • hardcover • 978-0-8032-4537-2 $35.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-8564-4 Defying Maliseet Language Death Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, World-Making Stories and Identity in Eastern Canada Maidu Language and Community Renewal Bernard C. 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American Indian Quarterly Native South LINDSEY CLAIRE SMITH, EDITOR ALEJANDRA DUBCOVSKY, MELANIE BENSON TAYLOR, AND Revitalized and refocused American Indi- ROSE STREMLAU, EDITORS an Quarterly (aiq) is building on its repu- tation as a dominant journal in American Native South focuses on the investiga- Indian studies by presenting the best and tion of Southern Indian history with the most thought-provoking scholarship in goals of encouraging further study and the field, aiq is committed to publishing exposing the influences of Indian people work that contributes to the development on the wider South. The journal does not of American Indian studies as a field and limit itself to the study of the geographic to the sovereignty and continuance of area that was once encompassed by American Indian nations and cultures. the Confederacy, but expands its view to the areas occupied by the pre- and post-contact descendants of the original Anthropological Linguistics inhabitants of the South, wherever they DOUGLAS R. PARKS, EDITOR may be. Anthropological Linguistics provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peo- Studies in American ples of the world, especially the Native Indian Literatures peoples of the Americas. Embracing the SIOBHAN SENIER AND field of language and culture broadly JUNE SCUDELER, EDITORS defined, the journal includes articles and Studies in American Indian Literatures research reports addressing cultural, (sail) is the only journal in the United historical, and philological aspects of States focusing exclusively on American linguistic study. Indian literatures. Broadly defining “liter- atures” to include all written, spoken, and visual texts created by Native peo- Collaborative Anthropologies ples, the journal is on the cutting edge CHARLES R. MENZIES, EDITOR of activity in the field. sail is a journal of Collaborative Anthropologies is a forum the Association for the Study of American for dialogue with a special focus on the Indian Literatures. collaboration that takes place between and among researchers and commu- Orders for these journals may nities of informants, consultants, and collaborators. It features essays that are be placed online at descriptive as well as analytical from all nebraskapress.unl.edu or subfields of anthropology and closely by telephone at 402-472-8536 related disciplines. University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska–Lincoln 1111 Lincoln Mall PO Box 880630 Lincoln, NE 68588-0630 Potoma Book s c ON ALLBOOKS 40% SAVE SAVE CATALOG IN THIS