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Contemporary American Indian Studies

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The Other Movement

The Other Movement

Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South

by Denise E. Bates

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817356910

Pub Date: November 2022

Format: Paperback

Examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions
Sounds of Tohi

Sounds of Tohi

Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

by Lisa J. Lefler and Thomas N. Belt

Foreword by T. J. Holland and Pamela Duncan

Afterword by Tom Hatley

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817321192

Pub Date: September 2022

Format: Hardcover

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues
 
Those Who Remain

Those Who Remain

A Photographer's Memoir of South Carolina Indians

by Gene J. Crediford

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817381202

Pub Date: June 2011

Format: eBook

Through interviews and a generous photograph montage stretching over two decades, reveals the commonality and diversity among these people of Indian identity   When DeSoto (in 1540) and later Juan...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Harvest of Violence Revisited

Edited by Walter E. Little and Timothy J. Smith

Contributions by David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Timothy J. Smith, Abigail E Adams, J Jailey Philpot-Munson, Edward F. Fischer, Robert M. Carmack, Judith M. Maxwell, Jennifer Burrell, Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez, Barbara Bocek, Monica DeHart, Peter Benson and Liliana Goldin

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817355364

Pub Date: May 2009

Format: Paperback

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact...
Public Indians, Private Cherokees

Public Indians, Private Cherokees

Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground

by Christina Taylor Beard-Moose

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817355135

Pub Date: January 2009

Format: Paperback

Explores the major economic industry among American Indian tribes—public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues

Waccamaw Legacy

Waccamaw Legacy

Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival

by Patricia Barker Lerch

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817351243

Pub Date: November 2004

Format: Paperback

An insightful and informative look into the Waccamaw Siouan's quest for identity and survival

The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia

The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia

The Drums of Life

by Rosemary Clark Whitlock

Preface by J. Anthony Paredes

Introduction by Thomas John Blumer

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817354886

Pub Date: August 2008

Format: Paperback

Through interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, Whitlock provides first person accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened.
Re-Enchanting the World

Re-Enchanting the World

Maya Protestantism in the Guatemalan Highlands

by C. Mathews Samson

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817354275

Pub Date: July 2007

Format: Paperback

Against the backdrop of the 36-year civil war that ended in 1996 and the rise of the indigenous Maya Movement in the late 1980s, this work provides a unique portrait of social movements, cultural and human rights, and the role that religion plays in relation to the nation-state in post-conflict political processes. Re-enchanting the World fills a niche within the anthropological literature on evangelicals in Latin America during a time of significant social change.

Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power

Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power

Naiche's Puberty Ceremony Paintings

by Trudy Griffin-Pierce

Foreword by J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie M. Whittlesey

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817381349

Pub Date: April 2011

Format: eBook

A gripping story of the cultural resilience of the descendants of Geronimo and Cochise.               This book reveals the conflicting meanings of power held by the federal government...
From Princess to Chief

From Princess to Chief

Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina

by Priscilla Freeman Jacobs and Patricia Barker Lerch

Introduction by Patricia Barker Lerch

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817317973

Pub Date: August 2013

Format: Hardcover

A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina. 
 
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