Indigenous American Perspectives

"Novelist, poet, short story writer, film writer, artist, and essayist, Leslie Marmon Silko turns her cleansing fury, her sharp, clear vision, her eloquent voice, and her very special sensibility on a broad range of concerns, from the role rocks play in Native American culture to the injustices Native Americans face when confronting the Anglo-american legal system."

In the "tribal moment in American politics," which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.S. legal and political systems.

Makes available in a superb scholarly edition not only the first published autobiography by a native American (1829 originally), but also a range of historical, political, and personal writings. -- New York Times Book Review

This study reconstructs and analyzes the multiple legacies of the Mesquakie people. The author seeks to show how the complex story of their survival raises critical questions about the representation of Indians in American literature and history.

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown. For centuries, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. This book takes a familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and places Native Americans at the centre of the story.

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present.

In Indian Voices, Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most recent oral history--engagingly written in a style that entertains and informs--documents what Native Americans say about themselves, their daily lives, and the world around them.

This work is a comprehensive and region-wide synthesis of the history of the indigenous peoples of the northeastern corner of what is now the United States--New England--which includes the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

The founding idea of "America" has been based largely on the expected sweeping away of Native Americans to make room for EuroAmericans and their cultures.

In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples.

This absorbing book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American South.

An illuminating examination of colonization's ongoing cultural legacy.