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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In Progressive New World, Marilyn Lake seeks to explain the paradoxes of Progressive reform in the United States and Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when democratic practices such as women's and workers' rights, children's welfare, and indigenous assimilation existed alongside racial segregation and oppression of indigenous peoples. Lake demonstrates the critical importance of settler colonialism and its attitudes...
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
c2001-c2006
Language
English
Description
In this first of three volumes, Dorrien identifies the indigenous roots of American liberal theology and demonstrates a wider, longer-running tradition than has been thought. The tradition took shape in the nineteenth century, motivated by a desire to map a modernist "third way" between orthodoxy and rationalistic deism/atheism. It is defined by its openness to modern intellectual inquiry; its commitment to the authority of individual reason and experience;...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In The Teachers' Dilemma, Elisabeth Eittreim juxtaposes the Carlisle boarding school for Native Americans and the colonial school system in the Philippines to explore American attempts to assimilate colonized peoples through education. Eittreim focuses on the role of teachers, whose personal beliefs and circumstances often took precedence over the government's larger mission. Ultimately, she argues that the extent to which empire was shaped in the...
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The adoption of firearms by Native Americans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples--a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Native Americans' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that Indians prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An Enemy Such as This tells the story of the Casuses, a Navajo family whose lives overlay like a map onto the places and world-historical events at the heart of nineteenth and twentieth century colonial conquest.
"The remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence. Just weeks before police would kill him in Gallup, New Mexico, in March of 1973,...
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Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book explains how race, once a differentiating factor, became a major basis for stratification in America that pervaded scientific thought, religious doctrine, governmental policy, and the patterned actions of decision-makers in all sectors of social life"--
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From an acclaimed historian of early America, a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to the British colonies of North America and their involvements with each other and the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social, economic, and informal political connections that spanned the eastern Caribbean. Focusing on a chain of volcanic islands, each one visible from the next, whose societies developed outside the sphere of European rule until the end of the Seven Years'...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built to control the flow of the Colorado River throughout the Western United States. Completed in 1966, the dam continues to serve as a water storage facility for residents, industries, and agricultural use across the American West and to generate hydroelectric power for residents in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Nebraska. More than a massive...
Author
Series
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Denise Lajimodiere's fourth collection of poetry, His Feathers Were Chains, tells the hard truths of tribal history and culture, and personal experiences. The title comes from the author's sighting of a metal sculpture--made of welded-together farming implements--of an Indian warrior on horseback. Lajimodiere is an enrolled Citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Belcourt, North Dakota. She is one of the founders of the National Native American...
94) Voters' rights
Author
Series
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grey House Publishing is pleased to offer the eighth volume in a new series - Opinions Throughout History. Each single, in-depth volume is designed to follow the evolution of public opinion on a current, controversial topic as it changed throughout American history. Each volume includes a range of primary and secondary source documents, including newspaper and magazine articles, speeches, court decision, and other legislation. These documents are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Teachers of Color describes how racism serves as a continuous barrier against diversifying the teaching force and offers tools to support educators who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of Color on both a systemic and interpersonal level. Based on in-depth interviews, digital narratives, and questionnaires, the book analyzes the toll of racism on their professional experiences and personal well-being, as well as their resistance and reimagination...
96) The War of 1812
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This interesting book examines the events and people who were involved in the War of 1812 between the United States and what would later become Canada. Unusal for a war, the conflict ended with friendly relations established and no major loss of territory for either country. However, an examination of primary and secondary source materials reveals the War of 1812 is remembered differently in each country, as well as by the Indigenous peoples whose...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Florida may be best known for Walt Disney World, Key Lime pie, and flawless, white beaches, but there's much more to the Sunshine State than its tourist attractions. The oldest United States settlement, St. Augustine, was established on Florida's eastern coast in 1565, but the vibrant history of the state began much earlier. Explore the rich culture of the native people that populated the land for thousands of years before the subsequent European...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 644
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this contemporary openness Canada also has its own history to contend with; with a legacy of broken treaties and residential schools for its Indigenous peoples, making reconciliation between Canada and First Nations...
Author
Series
Publisher
Association for Asian Studies, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The primary theme of this work is the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese. The author's focus is on the Vietnamese people and their social, political, economic, and religious structures. More than any other Southeast Asian country, Vietnam experienced multiple intrusive and lengthy periods of colonial rule by foreign powers; yet, Vietnam should be understood and defined by its indigenous social patterns. So, while the book clearly delineates the influences...
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her discussion of the cinematic construction and transnational circulation of Aboriginality. The result is a broad interdisciplinary analysis of how Indigeneity...
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