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2024-12-26

  Farina King, "Din茅 d贸贸 G谩amalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

In this deeply personal account, University of Oklahoma associate professor of Native American Studies Dr. Farina King describes the history and present of聽Din茅 d贸贸 G谩amalii, Navajo people who, in her words, "walk a Latter-day Saints pathway."聽The book...
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2024-12-22

  Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)

For much of her life, Angelique Renville had decisions made for her. Where to live, who to live with, where to attend school, what to do with her land. That changed in 1863 when she made a plan and successfully hatched her plan to escape, living the en...
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2024-12-18

  Stephanie Rutherford, "Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)

A wolf鈥檚 howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and ...
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2024-12-09

  Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the king of Spain. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, imperial control of the North American continent remained an open question. ...
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2024-12-06

  Armand Garnet Ruffo, "The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2022)

Armand Garnet Ruffo's staggeringly powerful poetry collection,聽The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow,聽was published in spring 2024 by Wolsak & Wynn. This collection of poems and lyric essays brings to life not only the story of the famed ...
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2024-11-30

  Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)

California has more unrecognized Native tribes than any other state - what led to this strange state of affairs, and what does this mean in practice?聽 In聽Unrecognized in聽California:聽Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission聽Indians聽(U...
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2024-11-18

  D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed account of the colony's population. Among the groups included in this report was an often-overlooked segment鈥擭ative Americans, who comprised roughly a quar...
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2024-11-10

  Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

An聽Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods:聽Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript聽(University of Nebraska Press, 2024)聽is the first comprehensive comparison of two of the greatest epics of the Indige...
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2024-10-28

  Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)

In聽Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas:聽A聽Zooarchaeological Historical Study聽(University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduct...
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2024-10-14

  Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)

The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to 1815. In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Lalawethika (soon to be known as "the Prophet") had a vision for an Indian revitalization movement that would...
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