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Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
University Press of Colorado
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
University Press of Colorado
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.
Objects of Survivance
A Material History of the American Indian School Experience
University Press of Colorado
Rejecting the narrative that archival objects preserve dying Native cultures, Objects of Survivance reframes the Bratley Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, showing how tribal members have reconnected to these items, embracing them as part of their past and reclaiming them as part of their contemporary identities.
Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language
University Press of Colorado
An examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi.
The Arapaho Language
By Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss, Sr.
University Press of Colorado
The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document Arapaho's interesting features, including a pitch-based accent system with no exact Algonquian parallels, radical innovations in the verb system, and complex contrasts between affirmative and non-affirmative statements.
They Sang for Horses
The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore
University Press of Colorado
They Sang for Horses, first published in 1966 and now considered a classic, remains the only comprehensive treatment of the profound mystical influence that the horse has exerted for more than three hundred years.
Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes
Edited by Davíd Carrasco; Foreword by William L. Fash
University Press of Colorado
A result of four years of cooperative research between the University of Colorado and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (formerly available as To Change Place) offers new interpretive models from the fields of archaeoastronomy, history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology.
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