American West UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS 2014 American West CONTENTS American Indian . 1 Art & Photography . 4 Biography and Memoir . 8 Fiction . 12 History . 13 The Arthur H . Clark Company . 20 New in Paperback . 24 For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the American West and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press or the Arthur H. Clark Company, please visit our website at oupress.com. We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press. Price and availability subject to change without notice. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS OUPRESS.COM · OUPRESSBLOG.COM THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION. WWW.OU.EDU/EOO OUPRESS.COM AMERican INDIAN 1 American Indian Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian The Crime That Should Haunt America By Gary Clayton Anderson $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4421-4 · 472 Pages In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians. American Indians in U.S. History CONTENTS Second Edition By Roger L . Nichols American Indian . 1 $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4367-5 · 216 Pages This second edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information Art & Photography . 4 about Indian social, economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-first century. American Indians in U.S. History, Second Edition includes new, brief biographies Biography and Memoir . 8 of important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested readings for each period of the past four hundred years. Fiction . 12 Progressive Traditions Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture History . 13 By Joshua B . Nelson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4491-7 · 296 Pages The Arthur H . Clark Company . 20 Progressive Traditions identifies an “indigenous anarchism,” a pluralist, New in Paperback . 24 community-centered political philosophy that looks to practices that preceded and surpass the nation-state as ways of helping Cherokee people prosper. This critique of the common call for expansion of tribal nations’ sovereignty over their citizens represents a profound shift in American Indian critical theory and challenges contemporary indigenous people to rethink power among nations, communities, and individuals. Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies By Adam Fortunate Eagle $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4428-3 · 216 Pages Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as “Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,” the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations of his own Native American experience in tones ranging from “gut-busting laughter to pissed-off anger.” Americans Recaptured Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity By Molly K . Varley $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4493-1 · 240 Pages Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape. 2 AMERican INDIAN 1 800 627 7377 Chiefs and Challengers Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906 Second Edition By George Harwood Phillips $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4490-0 · 384 Pages Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with non-Indians intruding into their territories. This new edition describes the indigenous cultures of southern California and offers a detailed history of the repercussions of Euro-American colonization. Cochise Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief By Edwin r . Sweeney $49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4432-0 · 336 Pages Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports, eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these documents to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apache leader. The Darkest Period The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873 By Ronald D . Parks $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4430-6 · 328 Pages In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe’s original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and local particulars such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail. The Students of Sherman Indian School Education and Native Identity since 1892 By Diana Meyers Bahr $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4443-6 · 192 Pages Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to “civilize” Indian children, which meant stripping them of their Native culture and giving them vocational training. This book offers the first full history of Sherman Indian School’s 100-plus years, a history that reflects federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century. Viewing the Ancestors Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwicˇ, and Hisatsinom By Robert S . McPherson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4429-0 · 256 Pages Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history. CONNECT WITH US FACEBOOK.COM/OUPRESS TWITTER.COM/OUPRESS YOUTUBE.COM/OUPRESS OUPRESS.COM AMERican INDIAN 3 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 By James W . Parins $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4399-6 · 296 Pages In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century-a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe. Warrior Nations The United States and Indian Peoples By Roger L . Nichols $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4382-8 · 256 Pages During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’ response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well as how they differed. A Cheyenne Voice The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4379-8 · 504 Pages Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people —much of it previously unavailable. Transforming Ethnohistories Narrative, Meaning, and Community Edited by Sebastian Felix Braun $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4394-1· 272 Pages Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. Transforming Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic from fiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning places from North Carolina to the Yukon. Claiming Tribal Identity The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgement By Mark E . Miller $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4378-1 · 480 Pages In this revealing study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. CONNECT WITH US FACEBOOK.COM/OUPRESS TWITTER.COM/OUPRESS YOUTUBE.COM/OUPRESS 4 AMERICAN INDIAN/ART & PhotogRAPHY 1 800 627 7377 A Gathering of Statesmen Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826–1828 By Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Translated and Edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4349-1 · 180 Pages The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document from this turbulent period in Choctaw history. Native American Placenames of the Southwest A Handbook for Travelers By William Bright $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4311-8 · 176 Pages This user-friendly guide-covering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas-provides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of southwestern placenames.