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Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900–1600
University of Texas Press
Correlating climate change and archaeological data, an award-winning historian offers the first comprehensive overview of how the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age significantly impacted the Native cultures of the American Southwest, Southern Pl
Land of the Tejas
Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700
University of Texas Press
Examining the complex interactions of numerous distinct groups of native peoples over a 400-year period, this book presents an entirely new archaeological conceptualization of Texas that links prehistory and history into a single continuum.
Kiowa Ethnogeography
University of Texas Press
An enlightening study of more than 300 place names and geographical features that reveal a rich trove of findings related to Kiowa culture and history.
Historic Native Peoples of Texas
By William C. Foster; Introduction by Alston V. Thoms
University of Texas Press
The most complete, up-to-date portrait of Texas's Native peoples since W. W. Newcomb's 1961 book The Indians of Texas.
Poison Arrows
North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
University of Texas Press
A provocative, comprehensive survey of organic compounds used as poisons—on arrows and spears, in food, and even as insecticides—by numerous Native American tribes.
Unlearning the Language of Conquest
Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
Edited by Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs)
University of Texas Press
Seventeen sages respond to the destruction of Native American populations as evidenced in a variety of arenas--from law and literature to ecology and education.
American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations
Edited by Eric D. Lemont
University of Texas Press
Tribal leaders, academics, and legal practitioners offer a comprehensive overview of American Indian nations' governmental reform opportunities and challenges at the turn of the millennium.
The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs
Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era
By Tom Holm
University of Texas Press
How Native Americans' sense of identity and “peoplehood” helped them resist and ultimately defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society in the early twentieth century.
Indian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction
First Nations' Voices Speak Out
University of Texas Press
A social study examining the harmful stereotyping of First Nations peoples in television science fiction.
Native North American Armor, Shields, and Fortifications
University of Texas Press
David E. Jones offers the first systematic comparative study of the defensive armor and fortifications of aboriginal Native Americans.
The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II
University of Texas Press
Drawing on interviews with all surviving members of the Comanche Code Talkers, their original training officer, and fellow soldiers, as well as military records and news accounts, William C. Meadows follows the group from their recruitment and training to
Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies
Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present
University of Texas Press
An in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data.
Warm Springs Millennium
Voices from the Reservation
University of Texas Press
Stories from a Native American reservation, giving the voices of a living and viable people.
Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations
By Vine Deloria and David E. Wilkins
University of Texas Press
Two prominent scholars of American Indian law and politics undertake a full historical examination of the relationship between Indians and the United States Constitution that explains the present state of confusion and inconsistent application in U.S. Ind
Inventing the Savage
The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
By Luana Ross
University of Texas Press
How imprisoned Native American women are treated within the criminal justice system.
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court
The Masking of Justice
University of Texas Press
In this book, David Wilkins examines fifteen landmark cases in which the Supreme Court significantly curtailed Indian rights.
Surviving in Two Worlds
Contemporary Native American Voices
By Lois Crozier-Hogle, Darryl Babe Wilson, and Ferne Jensen; By (photographer) Giuseppe Saitta; Edited by Jay Leibold; Introduction by Greg Sarris
University of Texas Press
A collection of 26 interviews with Native American leaders.
The Karankawa Indians of Texas
An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change
University of Texas Press
The first modern, well-researched history of the Karankawa from prehistoric times until their extinction in the nineteenth century.
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
By Tom Holm
University of Texas Press
The experiences of Native American veterans in Vietnam and readjusting to civilian life.
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first single-volume source on these little-known peoples.
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