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CONTENTS

ANTHROPOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

BIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

FICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

LANGUAGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

NATIVE STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

WOMEN’S STUDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

For more than ninety years, the University of Oklahoma Press has
published award-winning books about the American Indian and we
are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog.
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Price and availability subject to change without notice.
On the cover: Dance shield, Kainai (Blood), Alberta, Canada, ca. 1880.
Courtesy Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.A.; The Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo
Culture Collection, acquired through the generosity of the Dyck family and additional gifts of the Nielson
Family and the Estate of Margaret S. Coe, NA.108.139

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ANTHROPOLOGY

Webs of Kinship
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
By Christina G. Hill
Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize suffering,
loss, and eventual extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories
Northern Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness,
and commitment to land and community. By reexamining Northern Cheyenne
removal, this book illustrates how the power of kinship has safeguarded the
nation’s political autonomy allowing the Cheyennes to shape their own story.
APRIL 2017 · 400 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · Hardcover · 978-0-8061-5601-9
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Crow Jesus
Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging
By Mark Clatterbuck
Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these
voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining
and reshaping each other to create a new religious identity. In this collection of
narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation in southeastern
Montana and three non-Native missionaries to the reservation describe how
Christianity has shaped their lives and their community through the years.
FEBRUARY 2017 · 280 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5587-6

Arapaho Women’s Quillwork

Motion, Life, and Creativity
By Jeffrey D. Anderson
In Arapaho Women’s Quillwork, Anderson brings this distinctly female art
form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of
both art history and anthropology. Beautifully illustrated with more than
50 color and black-and-white images, this book is the first comprehensive
examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.
SEPTEMBER 2016 · 256 PAGES · 8 × 10
$21.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5583-8

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow

American Indian Music
By Craig Harris
Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music
survives as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric
Powwow celebrates the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from
the “heartbeat” of intertribal drums and “warble” of Native flutes to rock,
hip-hop, and electronic music.
MAY 2016 · 280 PAGES · 6 × 9
$24.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5168-7
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ART

Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures

Art from the Paul Dyck Collection
By Emma I. Hansen
Over the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917–2006) assembled more
than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the buffalo-hunting
peoples of the Great Plains. Only with its acquisition by the Plains Indian
Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has this legendary collection
become available to the public. The Paul Dyck Collection provide a firsthand
glimpse into the traditions, adaptations, and innovations of Great Plains
Indian cultures.
MAY 2018 · 208 PAGES · 9 × 11
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Transnational Frontiers
The American West in France
By Emily C. Burns

When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York
Times reported that it would be “managed to suit French ideas.” For French
artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the construction of an
American cultural identity. Transnational Frontiers maps the complex cultural
exchanges that defined and altered images of the American West.
MAY 2018 · 248 PAGES · 9 × 11
$45.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-6003-0
THE CHARLES M. RUSSELL CENTER SERIES ON ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE
AMERICAN WEST

Five Years in America

The Menominee Collection Antoine Marie Gachet
By Sylvia S. Kasprycki
This unusually well documented collection, preserved at the Department of
Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, is here published for the first
time in its entirety as Five Years in America: The Menominee Collection of
Antoine Marie Gachet, together with a catalogue raisonné and a selection of
Gachet’s hitherto unpublished drawings.
APRIL 2018 · 96 PAGES · 8.25 × 10.8
$19.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-3-9811-6209-7
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Lakota Performers in Europe

Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
By Steve Friesen
In 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage.
The performers left behind 157 pieces of Lakota culture that they had used in
the exposition. Lakota Performers in Europe tells the story of these artifacts.
Portraying a time when American Indians appeared on the international stage
as ambassadors of the American West.
JUNE 2017 · 304 PAGES · 8.5 × 11
$39.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5696-5
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Frederick Weygold
Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians
Edited by Christian F. Feest and C. Ronald Corum
American artist, Frederick Weygold (1870-1941) made a lifelong study of Native
American art by drawing early objects from the Plains in German museum
collections. This book, based upon the voluminous body of his paintings,
drawings, and papers held by the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky,
offers a comprehensive account of Weygold’s life and achievements.
JANUARY 2017 · 272 PAGES · 9 × 10.5
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-3-9818-4120-6
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Art in Motion
Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought
Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso
In 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled Art in Motion:
Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought. The visionary talks
from Art in Motion have been adapted for publication and gathered together
with a new introduction by symposium organizer John P. Lukavic, associate
curator of native arts at the Denver Art Museum.
JULY 2016 · 108 PAGES · 8 × 9.25
$25.00s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-91473-863-3
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Blackfoot War Art

Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000
By L. James Dempsey
When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late
nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive
the rituals associated with war. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and
power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both
tribal and personal accomplishment. In this visually stunning survey, L. James
Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of
warrior representational art.
JANUARY 2016 · 488 PAGES · 8 × 10
$39.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5415-2

BIOGRAPHY

Ned Christie
The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
By Devon A. Mihesuah
For over a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and historians have
produced largely fictitious accounts of Ned Christie’s life. In a tour de force of
investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah, places Christie’s story within
the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American
sociopolitical conditions. More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the
making of an American myth.
MARCH 2018 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95 · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5910-2
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John Joseph Mathews

Life of an Osage Writer
By Michael Snyder
John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-
century authors. In this captivating biography, Michael Snyder provides
the first book-length account of this fascinating figure. The story he tells, of
one remarkable individual, is also the story of the Osage Nation, the state of
Oklahoma, and Native America in the twentieth century.
“[Michael] Snyder’s meticulous biography explodes long-standing myths about
Mathews. . . . In filling gaps both personal and cultural, the book does fine
service.” —Times Literary Supplement
FEBRUARY 2018 · 280 PAGES · 6 × 9
$21.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-6052-8
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Nicholas Black Elk

Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
By Michael F. Steltenkamp
Combining in-depth biography with its cultural context, Nicholas Black Elk:
Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic depicts a more complex Black Elk than has
previously been known: a world traveler who participated in the Battle of the
Little Bighorn yet lived through the beginning of the atomic age.
“Accessible and should be enjoyed by specialists and non-specialists alike...easily
the best reference work on Black Elk’s life to date.”—Seth Schermerhorn,
Arizona State University, Montana: The Magazine of Western History
SEPTEMBER 2017 · 296 PAGES · 5.5 × 8.5
$21.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5967-6

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By William Heath
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by Miami
Indians and adopted into the tribe, William Wells moved between two cultures all
his life. Vilified by some for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown
though he is worthy of comparison with frontiersmen like Daniel Boone and Davy
Crockett. Heath’s thoroughly researched book is the first biography of this man-
in-the-middle.
“One of the most important but shadowy characters from the story of the Old
Northwest is William Wells, the ‘white Indian,’ who lived and died between
two worlds in conflict. Heath brings a novelist’s graceful style and a historian’s
impeccable research to this fascinating biography.”—Paul Andrew Hutton,
author of Phil Sheridan and His Army
MARCH 2017 · 520 PAGES · 6 × 9
$26.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5750-4

Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
By Kathleen P. Chamberlain
A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-
Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his
better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. This biography portrays
Victorio as a leader who sought a peaceful homeland for his people in the face of
wrongheaded decisions from Washington.
JANUARY 2017 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$21.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5760-3
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Sign Talker
Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country
By Hugh Lenox Scott
Edited by R. Eli Paul
General Hugh Lenox Scott became the U.S. Army’s most accomplished
practitioner of Plains Indian Sign Language, a skill that brought him many
opportunities to interact with Native peoples. His aversion to violence and
abiding respect for American Indians earned him the reputation as one of the
most adept peacemakers ever to serve in the U.S. Army. Sign Talker gives new
insight into this soldier-diplomat’s experiences and accomplishments.
JULY 2016 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5354-4

EDUCATION

American Indian Education, 2nd Edition

A History
By Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder
The history of American Indian education is a story of how Euro-Americans
disrupted and suppressed cultural practices, and how Indians actively
preserved them. Thoroughly updated for this second edition, American Indian
Education is the most comprehensive single-volume account, useful for any
reader interested in the history and efficacy of educational reforms.
NOVEMBER 2017 · 408 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$29.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5776-4

Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
By Louellyn White
In 1979, during a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional
Mohawks asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the
loss of language and culture sparked the birth of the Akwesasne Freedom
School (AFS) and its grassroots, community-based approach. White presents
an in-depth picture of the AFS as a model of Indigenous holistic education
that incorporates traditional teachings and language immersion.
JULY 2016 · 196 PAGES · 6 × 9
$19.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5154-0
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FICTION

Chenoo
A Novel
By Joseph Bruchac
Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator
with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York—four hundred miles from
his tribal community on Abenaki Island. One night the phone rings. “We . .
. got . . . trouble,” Neptune’s cousin Dennis says. And trouble is where it all
starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki storyteller
Joseph Bruchac.
MAY 2016 · 224 PAGES · 6 × 9
$16.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5207-3
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HISTORY

Monsters of Contact
Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions
By Mark Van De Logt
A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked
cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature:
the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive with monsters. A daring
interpretation of Caddoan lore, Monsters of Contact puts oral traditions at the
center of historical inquiry and, in so doing, asks us to reconsider what makes
a monster.
JUNE 2018 · 336 PAGES · 6 × 9
$65.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-6014-6

Reservations, Removal, and Reform

The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi
Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the
role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was,
according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to “induce his Indian to labor in
civilized pursuits.” Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how the actions
of individual agents affected the lives of the Mission Indians of Southern
California.
JUNE 2018 · 344 PAGES · 6 × 9
$36.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5999-7

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs

An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824
By Paul Kelton
How smallpox caused widespread devastation during the colonization of the
Americas is a well-known story. But a more complex history of smallpox among
American Indians exists. Kelton shows us how Europeans and their American
descendants have obscured the past with the stories they left behind, and how
these stories have perpetuated a simplistic understanding of colonialism.
MAY 2018 · 296 PAGES · 6 × 9
$24.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-6098-6
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After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
By Paul L. Hedren
After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army
responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the
war effort. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L.
Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography
of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American
invaders.
MAY 2018 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$21.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-6044-3
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A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country

Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance
By Rani-Henrik Andersson
1890 marked the inception of the Ghost Dance religion, a critical moment
in Lakota history. Alarming government officials, the historical accounts
of the Ghost Dance were written by white Americans who opposed it. In A
Whirlwind Passed through Our Country presents accounts of divergent views
among the Lakota people and expands the narrative of the Ghost Dance.
MAY 2018 · 432 PAGES · 6 × 9
$39.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-6007-8
RECOVERING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES OF THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE

Beyond Bear’s Paw

The Nez Perce Indians in Canada
By Jerome A. Greene
In 1877, Nez Perce Indians were fleeing U.S. Army troops by heading to the
Canadian border. The army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains
in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and
most of his people surrendered. Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore
the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians and offers new perspectives on the Nez
Perces’ struggle for freedom and their cultural renewal.
MARCH 2018 · 264 PAGES · 6 × 9
$21.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-6045-0

Converting the Rosebud

Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916
By Harvey Markowitz
When Andrew Jackson’s removal policy failed to solve the “Indian problem,”
the federal government turned to religion for assistance. Catholic and
Protestant reformers founded reservation missions and schools, hoping to
“civilize and Christianize” their supposedly savage charges. Converting the
Rosebud illuminates the complexities of federal Indian reform, Catholic
mission policy, and pre- and post-reservation Lakota culture.
MARCH 2018 · 320 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5985-0
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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees

Volume Six: March to Removal, Part 1, Safe in
the Ancestral Homeland, 1821-1824
By C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, reports,
and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina to provide a
firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokee throughout the nineteenth
century. Though written by missionaries, these records provide much insight
into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and personalities.
JANUARY 2016 · 568 PAGES · 6 × 9
$50.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-9826-9077-2
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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees

Volume Seven: March to Removal, Part 2, Death
in the Land and Mission, 1825-1827
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck
Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, reports,
and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina to provide a
firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokees in the nineteenth century.
Though written by missionaries, these records give much insight into Cherokee
culture, society, customs, and personalities.
JANUARY 2018 · 538 PAGES · 6.46 × 9.26
$50.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-9826-9079-6
DISTRIBUTED FOR CHEROKEE HERITAGE PRESS

The Popular Frontier

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
Edited by Frank Christianson
In 1887, William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European
audiences, soaring to new heights of popularity. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
popularized a myth of American identity and shaped European perceptions of
the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore
the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West.
DECEMBER 2017 · 264 PAGES · 6 × 9
$32.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5894-5
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Blood on the Marias

The Baker Massacre
By Paul R. Wylie
When the gold rush started, pressure from Montana citizens to control the
Piegans led Generals Sherman and Sheridan to send in Major Eugene Baker
with tragic consequences. On January 23, 1870, Baker’s troops attacked a Piegan
village on the Marias River. Remembered as one of the most heinous incidents
of the Indian Wars, the Baker Massacre has often been overshadowed by the
Battle of the Little Bighorn and has never received full treatment until now.
“Blood on the Marias is nothing less than compelling. The writing is clear,
the research exhaustive, and the drama sinister and electric.”—William E.
Farr, author of Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder,
Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
OCTOBER 2017 · 336 PAGES · 6 × 9
$21.95 · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5974-4

Both Sides of the Bullpen

Navajo Trade and Posts
By Robert S. McPherson
Between 1880-1940, Navajo and Ute families and Anglos met in the “bullpens”
of trading posts to barter for goods. Both Sides of the Bullpen restores an
underappreciated era to the history of the American Southwest. Showing
us that for American Indians and white traders alike, barter was as much a
cultural expression as it was an economic necessity.
OCTOBER 2017 · 376 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5745-0
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“That’s What They Used to Say”

Reflections on American Oral Traditions
By Donald L. Fixico
Growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—
“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to
end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke
Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how
storytelling, legends and prophecies, oral histories, and creation myths knit
together and explain the Indian world.
“Once again Donald L. Fixico has produced a provocative work. In ‘That’s
What They Used to Say,’ he engages the reader in his examination of Indian
oral tradition, interweaving his own autobiography throughout.”—Blue
Clark, author of Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide
OCTOBER 2017 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5775-7

Wars for Empire

Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands
By Janne Lahti
After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands
remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States
government exerted control in the Southwest by conducting an extended
military campaign that culminated with the capture of Geronimo and the
forced removal of the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. Wars for Empire charts
these encounters and the cultural differences that shaped them
OCTOBER 2017 · 328 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5742-9

Depredation and Deceit

The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico
By Gregory F. Michno
The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed between 1796 and 1834 set up a
system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal
government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end
of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos
became experts in exploiting this system. Depredation and Deceit deepens—
and darkens—our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest.
SEPTEMBER 2017 · 336 PAGES · 6 × 9
$32.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5769-6

Land Too Good for Indians

Northern Indian Removal
By John P Bowes
The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc,
beginning with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and
follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. But Indian removal in the Old Northwest
was much more complicated. Land Too Good for Indians, takes a closer look
at northern Indian removal—amplifying the history of Indian removal in the
United States.
AUGUST 2017 · 328 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.125
$24.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5965-2
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The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

Resilience through Adversity
By Stephen Warren
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma focuses on the nineteenth- and
twentieth-century experiences of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, presenting a new
brand of tribal history made possible by the emergence of tribal communities’
own research centers and the resources afforded by the digital age.
AUGUST 2017 · 384 PAGES · 7 × 10
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5744-3

Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight

Indian Views
By John H. Monnett
The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the
U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. With no survivors on the U.S. side,
the only eyewitness accounts came from Lakota and Cheyenne participants.
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight presents these Native views. Critical to
understanding the nuances of Plains Indian strategy and tactics, the firsthand
narratives in Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight reveal the true nature of this
Native victory.
“Monnett has assembled an astute selection of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne
reminiscences of the Fetterman Fight in 1866. With new and incisive
commentary, Monnett provides a welcome and moving chronicle.”—Jerome
A. Greene, author of American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
MARCH 2017 · 248 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5582-1

Cherokee National Treasures

In Their Own Words
Edited by Shawna Morton-Cain and Pamela Jumper Thurman
Handed down over thousands of years, Cherokee origin stories intertwine to
form a rich history of oral and artistic traditions. The art objects unearthed
from prehistoric mounds throughout the southeastern United States evidence
the antiquity of this history. Stories in this book are intimate and told by the
artists, by family members, by friends in their own words.
JANUARY 2017 · 248 PAGES · 10 × 13
$29.95 · HARDCOVER · 978-1-9343-9718-3

From Huronia to Wendakes

Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650-1900
Edited by Thomas Peace and Kathryn Labelle
From the first contact with Europeans, the Wendat peoples have been an
intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples—
also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte—has been woven into the narratives
of European-Native encounters, the Wendats’ later experiences remain largely
missing from history.
“From Huronia to Wendakes makes an important scholarly intervention in the
study of Wendat people and histories providing a framework for partnerships
between scholars and Native communities. These contributors deliver an
example for similar scholarly work in the future.”—James Buss, author of
Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes
SEPTEMBER 2016 · 256 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5535-7
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“Hang Them All”

George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858
By Donald L. Cutler
Col. George Wright’s campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene,
Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory is noted for
its violence and bloodshed. Today, many critics view his actions as war crimes,
but among white settlers and politicians, Wright was a patriotic hero. “Hang
Them All” offers a comprehensive account of Wright’s campaigns and explores
the controversy surrounding his legacy.
JULY 2016 · 392 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Powder River
Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War
By Paul L. Hedren
The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when
Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of
Northern Cheyennes—Sioux allies—thereby propelling the Northern Plains
tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the Sioux spanned some eighteen
months, costing hundreds of lives on both sides, and many millions of dollars.
And it all began at Powder River.
“Powder River is the definitive examination of the disastrous battle that opened
the Great Sioux War. The research is extraordinarily deep and broad, and the
conclusions persuasive. Hedren pronounces judgment on culpable officers, and
rightly finds little to praise among anyone else.”—Robert M. Utley
JUNE 2016 · 472 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Ioway Life
Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860
By Greg Olson
The Ioways, an Indigenous people who inhabited most of present-day Iowa and
Missouri, were bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government
to restrict themselves to a small parcel of land west of the Missouri River.
The Ioways were promised that with hard work they could enter mainstream
American society. All that was required was that they forfeit everything that
made them Ioway.
MAY 2016 · 184 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Serving the Nation

Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907
By Julie L. Reed
Before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered
their own social policy. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated for social
good, was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of
Cherokee traditions in shaping a social welfare system and its influence on the
U.S. government’s social policies.
APRIL 2016 · 376 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Contesting the Borderlands

Interviews on the Early Southwest
By Deborah and Jon Lawrence
For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and Anglo-
Americans met, fought, and collaborated with one another in this border
area stretching from Texas through southern California. In interviews with
ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare
among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage among
Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.
“Deborah and Jon Lawrence deliver nothing less than an engaging and
stimulating experience that equips the reader with a thousand-year fusion of
borderlands ethnography and history. Insightful, broadly cross-disciplinary,
informative, and exceptionally readable, what these nine authors have to say
encapsulates the most recent and best borderlands interpretative scholarship.”—
Janet Fireman, former editor-in-chief, California History
APRIL 2016 · 280 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
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Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
By James B. Blackshear
Built in 1863, Fort Bascom defended Hispanic and Anglo-American settlements
in eastern New Mexico and far western Texas against Comanches and other
Southern Plains Indians until 1874. This first full account of the unique
challenges soldiers faced on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War
restores Fort Bascom to its rightful place in the history of the U.S. military and
of U.S.-Indian relations in the American Southwest.
MARCH 2016 · 272 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors

A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri
By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt Jr., and Randy H. Williams
A thriving fur trade post between 1830-1860, Fort Clark also served as a
way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western
chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. This is the first thorough
account of Fort Clark to be written by a team of anthropologists that integrates
new archaeological evidence with the historical record.
FEBRUARY 2016 · 328 PAGES · 6 × 9
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The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island

A History
By John A Strong
One of the oldest reservations in the United States—the Poospatuck
Reservation—is in Suffolk County, the densely populated eastern extreme of
the greater New York area. The Unkechaug Indians, known also by the name
of their reservation, are recognized by the State of New York but not by the
federal government. This narrative account is the first comprehensive history
of the Unkechaug Indians.
FEBRUARY 2016 · 352 PAGES · 5.5 × 8.5
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The Indian Trial

The Complete Story of the Warren Wagon Train
Massacre and the Fall of the Kiowa Nation
By Charles M. Robinson
Kiowa and Comanche raids on the Southern Plains in 1870–71 terrorized
settlers. The raids culminated in the Warren Wagon Train Massacre. The
Jacksboro Indian Trial led to a confrontation between the state of Texas, the
federal government, the Kiowa Nation, Comanches, and Cheyennes. This
narrative history explores the Little Arkansas and Medicine Lodge Treaties
and factions within the Kiowa Nation.
JANUARY 2016 · 204 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Restoring a Presence
American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf
Although new laws have been enacted giving American Indians access to
resources on public lands, Yellowstone historically has excluded Indians and
their needs from its mission. Drawing from archaeological records, Indian
testimony, tribal archives, and collections of early artifacts from the Park, the
authors trace the interactions of nearly a dozen Indian groups with each of
Yellowstone’s four geographic regions.
JANUARY 2016 · 400 PAGES · 7 × 10
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The Seminole Freedmen

A History
By Kevin Mulroy
Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen
of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy
examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them
their rightful distinctiveness.
“Mulroy’s book is sure to become the definitive account of the Seminole
Freedman experience, and his interpretation challenges long-held myths
concerning black-Indian relations in the American West. Mulroy has written
a marvelously challenging, engaging, and entertaining account of this
important saga in the history of the American West. This is history the way it
should be written.” –Great Plains Quarterly
JANUARY 2016 · 480 PAGES · 6 × 9
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We Know Who We Are

Metis Identity in a Montana Community
By Martha Harroun Foster
Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the
Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the
northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. In this examination
of a Métis community, Foster shows how its people have adapted to change
while retaining a sense of their own culture and traditions. Ultimately
addressing the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples
of mixed descent.
JANUARY 2016 · 320 PAGES · 6 × 9
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LANGUAGE

Cherokee Narratives
A Linguistic Study
By Durbin Feeling, William Pulte, Gregory Pulte
The stories of the Cherokee people presented here capture in written form
tales of history, myth, and legend for readers, speakers, and scholars of the
Cherokee language. This volume marks an unparalleled contribution to the
linguistic analysis, understanding, and preservation of the Cherokee language.
Cherokee Narratives spans the spectrum of genres, including humor, religion,
origin myths, trickster tales, historical accounts, and stories about the Eastern
Cherokee language.
JANUARY 2018 · 240 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5986-7
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Tonkawa Texts
A New Linguistic Edition
By Harry Hoijer
Translated by Thomas R. Wier
Much of what is known about Tonkawa—an “isolate” language, related to no
others—comes to us through the stories collected and translated by twentieth-
century anthropologist Harry Hoijer. These texts, constituting the entire
remaining oral literature of the Tonkawa people, are edited and presented here
in the original Tonkawa and newly translated into English, along with a new
and up-to-date grammatical description.
JANUARY 2018 · 312 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$45.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5899-0
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Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers

A Bilingual Anthology
By Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, and Willian J. C’Hair
Many of Arapaho narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although
this is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts
exist that have never been published—until now. Arapaho Stories, Songs, and
Prayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative
traditions in all the richness of their original language.
SEPTEMBER 2017 · 584 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
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Cherokee Reference Grammar

By Brad Montgomery-Anderson
The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing
system in the United States and the Cherokee syllabary is fully explained and
used throughout this volume. Cherokee Reference Grammar is presented in
accessible stages, moving from easier to more complex examples of linguistic
structures. Audio clips of various text examples throughout can be found on
the accompanying CD.
MARCH 2016 · 536 PAGES · 6 × 9
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NATIVE STUDIES

Stoking the Fire

Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970
By Kirby Brown
The years between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and the 1971 reemergence of
the Cherokee Nation are often seen as an intellectual, political, and literary
“dark age” in Cherokee history. A critical reading of the work of several
twentieth-century Cherokee writers, this book reveals the complicated ways
their writings reimagined, enacted, and bore witness to Cherokee nationhood
in the absence of a functioning Cherokee state.
JUNE 2018 · 296 PAGES · 6 × 9
$39.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-6015-3
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Back to the Blanket

Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
By Kimberly G. Wieser
Stories and artifacts carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing
to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven resistant—and
sometimes antithetical—to Western academic discourse. Exploring the
multimodal rhetorics that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser
argues for the rediscovery of traditional Native modes of communication—a
modern-day “going back to the blanket”.
NOVEMBER 2017 · 264 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Gathering the Potawatomi Nation

Revitalization and identity
By Christopher Wetzel
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, dispersed into nine
bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. Gathering
the Potawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi
nationhood, looks at how marginalized communities adopt to social change,
and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two.
JANUARY 2016 · 216 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Reservation Politics
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
By Raymond I. Orr
For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. But how has history
shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how different
tribes’ politics and internal conflicts have evolved over time, Reservation
Politics offers rare insight into the role of historical experience in the political
lives of American Indians.
FEBRUARY 2017 · 256 PAGES · 6 × 9
$34.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5391-9

Politics and Law

The Political Economy of North American Indians
By John H. Moore
This innovative collection of articles approaches American Indian history and
culture from a Marxist perspective. The contributors, from the United States
and Canada, have jumped the boundaries among the social sciences to consider
issues of macroeconomics and intercultural conflict. The result is a stimulating
and substantial contribution that will interest any reader concerned with
policy affecting North American Indians.
APRIL 2016 · 368 PAGES · 5.5 × 8.5
$19.95s · PAPERBACK · 978-0-8061-5352-0

Imagining Sovereignty
Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
By David J. Carlson
“Sovereignty” is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian
writing today—but its meaning and function are anything but universally
understood. In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a
discursive middle ground between tribal communities and the United States
as a settler-colonial power.
MARCH 2016 · 242 PAGES · 6 × 9
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WOMEN’S STUDIES

A Field of Their Own

Women and the American Indian History, 1830-1941
By John M. Rhea
Before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972,
a group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own. A
Field of Their Own examines nine figures in American Indian scholarship to
reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they
eventually claimed it as their own field.
“Masterfully weaving together life stories with intellectual and cultural history,
Rhea provides fascinating insights into the lives and legacies of nine women
scholars who definitively shaped the first century of historical writing about
Native Americans.”—C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, author of Crooked Paths to
Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War
APRIL 2016 · 312 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Colonial Intimacies
Interethnic kinships, Sexuality, and Marriage
in Southern California, 1769-1885
By Erika Perez
In Colonial Intimacies Pérez asks, how do intimate relationships reveal, reflect,
enable, or enact the sociopolitical dimensions of imperial projects? Colonial
Intimacies reveals, through the lens of social and familial intimacy, subtle tools
of conquest and acts of resistance and accommodation among indigenous
peoples, Spanish-Mexican settlers, Franciscan missionaries, and European
and Anglo-American merchants.
JANUARY 2018 · 408 PAGES · 6.125 × 9.25
$45.00s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5904-1
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Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea

Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
By Rebecca K. Jager
The first Europeans to arrive in America’s various regions relied on Native
women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of
three well-known female cultural intermediaries examines their initial contact
with Europeans and their work on multinational frontiers. Jager removes these
three famous icons from the realm of mythology and cultural fantasy and
situates each woman’s behavior in her own cultural context.
JULY 2016 · 368 PAGES · 6 × 9
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Red Bird, Red Power

The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša
By Tadeusz Lewandowski
This is the story of one of the most influential American Indian activists of
the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin,
dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Lewandowski
offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment
to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-
era reform movements.
MAY 2016 · 288 PAGES · 6 × 9
$29.95s · HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5178-6
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