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Matrons and Maids

Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934

The University of Arizona Press

This book recounts the fascinating story of the placing of Native American girls into the homes of white families for domestic service during their summer vacations from boarding schools run by the federal Office of Indian Affairs. It complicates our picture of “women’s work” and the complex involvement of white women as agents of colonization.

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My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell

Athabasca University Press

My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a simple and outspoken account of the sexual and psychological abuse that Arthur Bear Chief suffered during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation.

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American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment

University Press of Mississippi

How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices

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White Settler Reserve

New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian West

UBC Press

This innovative history of a reserve for Icelandic settlers connects the dots between immigration and Indigenous dispossession in western Canada.

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The Iconic North

Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

UBC Press

The Iconic North explores how the “modern” South crafted cultural images of a “primitive” North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.

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The Natchez Indians

A History to 1735

University Press of Mississippi

The most complete and detailed examination of a vanished tribe

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Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War

From Creation to Betrayal

University of Alabama Press

Explores how the Creek War of 1813–1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the United States’ Cherokee allies

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Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation

Town, Region, and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees

University Press of Florida
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Taking Charge

Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975–1993

The University of Arizona Press
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Attu Boy

A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

By Nick Golodoff; Edited by Rachel Mason; Preface by Brenda Maly
University of Alaska Press
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Nationhood Interrupted

Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

Co-founder of the international movement Idle No More, Sylvia McAdam shares nêhiyaw (Cree) laws so that future generations may understand and live by them, revitalizing Indigenous nationhood.

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Battle for the BIA

G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier

The University of Arizona Press
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The First Nations of British Columbia, Third Edition

An Anthropological Overview

UBC Press

The First Nations of British Columbia is a concise and accessible introduction to histories, cultures, and issues of the First Peoples of BC.

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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

UBC Press

This book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest.

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The National Council on Indian Opportunity

Quiet Champion of Self-Determination

University of New Mexico Press

In this book, the first study of the NCIO, historian Thomas A. Britten traces the workings of the council along with its enduring impact on the lives of indigenous people.

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"Good News from New England" by Edward Winslow

A Scholarly Edition

Edited by Kelly Wisecup
University of Massachusetts Press
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Imagining Geronimo

An Apache Icon in Popular Culture

University of New Mexico Press

Clements’s study examines Americans’ changing sense of Geronimo and looks at the ways Geronimo tried to maintain control of his own image during more than twenty years in which he was a prisoner of war.

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Written as I Remember It

Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

UBC Press

This extraordinary book not only offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the teachings of the Sliammon people, it also offers a fruitful model for collaborative research and life-history writing.

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Living with Whales

Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History

University of Massachusetts Press
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In the Smaller Scope of Conscience

The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990

The University of Arizona Press

 In the Smaller Scope of Conscience is a thoughtful and detailed study of the ins and outs of the four-year process behind the creation of NMAIA and NAGPRA. It is a singular contribution to the history of these issues, with the potential to help mediate the ongoing debate by encouraging all sides to retrace the steps of the legislators responsible for the acts.
 

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