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American Indian UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS OUPRESS.COM American Indian CONTENTS Anthropology .................................1 Art & Photography .............................2 Biography & Memoir ............................5 History ......................................7 Literature ...................................14 Language ...................................16 Politics & Law ................................17 Chickasaw Press ..............................19 Cherokee National Press ........................21 Best Sellers ..................................22 Forthcoming Books Spring 2012 ..................28 For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about American Indians and we are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from the University of Oklahoma Press. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, 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 OUPRESS . COM ANTHROPOLOGY 1 Anthropology FORT CLARK AND ITS INDIAN NEIGHBORS A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4213-5 · 328 pages Fort Clark was a thriving trading post between 1830 and 1860 in what is today western North Dakota. It also served as a way station for artists, scientists, and other western chroniclers, including Maximilian of Wied, Karl Bodmer, and George Catlin, whose works are primary sources on the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record WIVES AND HUSBANDS Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History By Loretta Fowler $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4116-9 · 400 pages In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers’ understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter with Americans as government officials, troops, missionaries, and settlers moved west into Arapaho country. Through the life stories of individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates the experiences and actions of each cohort during a time when Americans tried to impose gender asymmetry and to undermine the Arapahos’ hierarchical age relations. GETTING GOOD CROPS Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870–1891 By Robert J. Bigart $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4133-6 · 304 pages In 1870, the Bitterroot Salish Indians—called “Flatheads” by the first white explorers to encounter them—were a small tribe living on the western slope of the Northern Rocky Mountains in Montana Territory. Pressures on the Salish were intensifying during this time, from droughts and dwindling resources to aggressive neighboring tribes and Anglo-American expansion. In 1891, the economically impoverished Salish accepted government promises of assistance and retreated to the Flathead Reservation, more than sixty miles from their homeland. BUFFALO INC. American Indians and Economic Development By Sebastian Felix Braun $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3904-3 · 280 pages Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values. PLAINS APACHE ETHNOBOTANY By Julia A. Jordan $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3968-5 · 240 pages Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany, Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning traditional Apache collection, preparation, and use of these plant species for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture. 2 ANTHROPOLOGY / ART & PHOTOGRAPHY 1 800 627 7377 “I CHOOSE Life” Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3941-8 · 384 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3961-6 · 384 pages For Navajo Indians, medical treatments such as surgery, blood transfusion and CPR conflict with their traditional understanding of health and well- being, investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing. PATTERNS OF EXCHANGE Navajo Weavers and Traders By Teresa J. Wilkins $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3757-5 · 248 pages The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders like John Lorenzo Hubbell who guided their production and controlled their sale. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving. Art & Photography THE EUGENE B. ADKINS COLLECTION Selected Works With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White $60.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4100-8 · 304 pages $29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4101-5 · 304 pages A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from the Adkins Collection . PLAINS INDIAN ART The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3061-3 · 224 pages The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (1909–97). Ewers’s publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in art and the cultures of the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewers’s writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992. ARAPAHO JOURNEYS Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation By Sara Wiles Foreword by Frances Merle Haas $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4158-9 · 256 pages In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. Wiles captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. OUPRESS . COM ART & PHOTOGRAPHY 3 SEARCH FOR THE NATIVE AMERICAN PUREBLOODS Third Edition By Charles Banks Wilson $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3285-3 · 64 pages Over several decades, renowned Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson sought out “purebloods” (that is, Indians of a single tribal heritage) of each of Oklahoma’s tribes to create a gallery of American Indian portraits. Search for the Native American Purebloods captures the state’s visual heritage in a series of seventy-seven remarkable pencil drawings, each accompanied by a narrative describing Wilson’s visits with the subject. Out of print since 2005, the book is once again available with the generous assistance of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. GENERATIONS The Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts Edited by James H. Nottage $75.00 Cloth · 978-0-9798495-1-0 · 460 pages Lavishly illustrated, Generations celebrates the nearly 800 works of Native American art in The Helen Cox Kersting Collection, including pottery, jewelry, baskets, weavings, katsinas, and paintings. Representing the work of Native artists from the late 1800s to the present, the collection demonstrates the survival and flowering of work by Navajo, Pueblo, and other American Indian artists across the generations. GRAND PROCESSION Contemporary Artistic Visions of American Indians The Diker Collection at the Denver Art Museum By Lois Sherr Dubin $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-914738-67-1 · 64 pages Grand Procession celebrates a remarkable new tradition-based, contemporary American Indian art form. From a heritage rooted in dolls and ledger-book drawings, a fresh and exciting sculptural art featuring human and animal figures has evolved since the mid-1980s. Typically around two feet tall and meticulously clothed in elaborate beaded and quilled ceremonial dress, the figures carefully emulate Plains and Plateau traditions of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. LIFE AT THE KIOWA, COMANCHE, AND WICHITA AGENCY The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4138-1 · 256 pages Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,” but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the