Native American and Indigenous Studies

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The Heart as a Drum

Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry

By Robin Riley Fast
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

An accessible introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry by Native Americans

The Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi

Change and Continuity

By Mischa Titiev
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

Under the Campus, the Land

Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, History, American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan

A critical examination of the role of U.S. universities in colonization

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance

By Monique Mojica & Brenda Farnell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies

Faith in Paper

The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties

By Charles E. Cleland
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, History, American History, American Studies

A comprehensive reference on the litigation of Indian treaty rights in the upper Great Lakes region

Footpaths and Bridges

Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive

Edited by Rebecca Ann Howard & Shirley Annette Huston-Findley
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women

Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance during the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900

By Edmund Jefferson Danziger
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies

The story of how Great Lakes Indians survived the early reservation years

Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth

By Keewaydinoquay Peschel
Edited by Lee Boisvert
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Nature

The stories of the Michigan childhood of a girl of both Anishinaabeg and English descent

The Indians of Hungry Hollow

By Bill Dunlop, Marcia Fountain-Blacklidge, and Chippewa
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, History, American History, History

Moving stories of struggle, survival, love, and hope from a 1930s northern Michigan Native American community

Arboretum America

A Philosophy of the Forest

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Guidebook

A passionately intelligent, exquisitely illustrated guide to the native trees of the North American continent that offers an informative and entertaining blueprint for rebuilding the biosphere

At the Risk of Being Heard

Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial States

Edited by Bartholomew Crispin Dean & Jerome Meyer Levi
Subjects: Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Political Science, International Relations

An analysis of indigenous rights and the challenges confronting indigenous peoples in the twenty-first century

La Partera

Story of a Midwife

New Edition

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Health & Medicine, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The story of one woman's life in rural New Mexico and of her emergence as a community leader

Crashing Thunder

The Autobiography of an American Indian

By Paul Radin
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Biography
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A brotherly companion to Nancy Lurie's Mountain Wolf Woman

The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

All My Relatives

Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures

By Bonnie TuSmith
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, African American Studies

Challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism

Rites of Conquest

The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans

By Charles E. Cleland
Subjects: Anthropology, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, History, American Studies

A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region

Indian Names in Michigan

By Virgil Vogel
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies

Vogel traces the origin of hundreds of Indian place names

Language and Art in the Navajo Universe

By Gary Witherspoon
Subjects: Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Studies

Studies Navajo culture as reflected in its art and use of language

The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760

By W. Vernon Kinietz
Subjects: Anthropology, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The stories of the Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa tribes in the years before contact with European settlers

Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder

The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian

Edited by Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A classic ethnography of continuing importance

Eastern Ojibwa

Grammatical Sketch, Texts and Word List

By Leonard Bloomfield
Subjects: American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies

Iroquois Culture History in the Niagara Frontier Area of New York State

By Marian E. White
Subjects: Archaeology, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Series: Anthropological Papers Series
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