American West University of Oklahoma Press

American West UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS OUPRESS.COM American West CONTENTS American Indian ...............................1 Art & Photography .............................3 Biography & Memior ............................7 Environment .................................12 History .....................................13 Literature & Fiction ............................19 Military History ..............................20 The Arthur H. Clark Company ....................22 Chickasaw Press ..............................26 Cherokee National Press ........................29 Best Sellers ..................................30 Forthcoming Books Spring 2011 ..................33 For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the West and we are proud to bring to you our new American West catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of OU Press. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visit our website at oupress.com. For a complete list of The Arthur H. Clark Company titles, please visit ahclark.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 ON THE COVER: RoDEO CowGIRLS BESSIE AND RubY DICKEY, TucumcaRI, NEW MEXICO, RoDEO, CIRca 1918. COURTESY NatioNAL cowboY AND WESTERN HERitaGE MUSEUM, MCCARROLL FAMILY TRUST COLLECTION, RC2006.076.045 oupress.com american indian 1 American Indian A GUIDE TO THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Third Edition By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins $26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4024-7 · 448 pages The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, this book has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities. DREAMING WITH THE ANCESTORS Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico By Shirley Boteler Mock $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4053-7 · 400 pages Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women’s roles have largely been absent from that discussion. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences. WAR PARTY IN BLUE Pawnee Indian Scouts in the U.S. Army By Mark van de Logt $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4139-8 · 368 pages Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American troops from disaster on the field of battle. In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and recounting hitherto neglected episodes. FROM COCHISE TO GERONIMO The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886 By Edwin R. Sweeney $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4150-3 · 640 pages In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise’s death and Geronimo’s surrender in 1886. THE PEYOTE ROAD Religious Freedom and the Native American Church By Thomas C. Maroukis $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4109-1 · 272 pages Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of Peyote. 2 american indian 1 800 627 7377 AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL VOTING RIGHTS By Laughlin McDonald $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4113-8 · 360 pages The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens. KIOWA MILITARY SOCIETIES Ethnohistory and Ritual By William C. Meadows $75.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4072-8 · 472 pages For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society. THE SEMINOLE NATION OF OKLAHOMA A Legal History By L. Susan Work $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4089-6 · 376 pages When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government. In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy its nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciously retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence. Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation. FULL COURT QUEST The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3973-9 · 496 pages Most fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago—and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like “lambent flames” across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montana’s first basketball champions. Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, these young women introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring them champions. Full-Court Quest offers a rare glimpse into American Indian life and into the world of women’s basketball before “girls’ rules” temporarily shackled the sport. INDIAN TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA A Guide By Blue Clark $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4060-5 · 416 pages Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide for information on the state’s Native peoples that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years. As a synthesis of current knowledge, this book places the state’s Indians in their contemporary context as no other book has done. oupress.com american indian/art & photography 3 CHOCTAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 1884–1907 By Devon Abbott Mihesuah $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4052-0 · 352 pages During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaults—usually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and pro- assimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation. THE INDIAN SOUTHWEST, 1580–1830 By Gary Clayton Anderson $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4067-4 · 384 pages In The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830 demonstrates that, in the face of European conquest, severe drought, and disease, Indians in the Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic, remaining independent actors and even prospering. Some tribes temporarily joined Spanish missions or assimilated into other tribes. Others survived by remaining on the fringe of Spanish settlement, migrating, and expanding exchange relationships with other tribes. Still others incorporated remnant bands and individuals and strengthened their economic systems. The vibrancy of southwestern Indian societies today is due in part to the exchange-based political economies their ancestors created almost three centuries ago. INDIAN ALLIANCES AND THE SPANISH IN THE SOUTHWEST, 750–1750 By William B. Carter $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4009-4 · 312 pages When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement. Art & Photography 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 many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S.

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