MBR: The Native American Shelf
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The Early Chickasaws
Fulsom Charles Scrivner
Vantage Press
419 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016
0533150876 $10.00 www.amazon.com
The Early Chickasaws: Profile Of Courage by Fulsom Charles Scrivner is
an inherently interesting and well written collective study of the
Chickasaw people from their arrival into the North American continent
across the Bering Strait to their forced removal by the United States
military to the Oklahoma territory in the earlier part of American
western development. This in-depth and highly accurate historical
survey and study of the Chicksaw Nation gives contemporary readers a
welcome perspective into the cultural struggle and the battles fought
throughout this Native American people's history. The Early Chickasaws
is a very highly recommended contribution to Native American Studies
for its outstanding documentation and research of the Chickasaws and is
easily accessible to all non-specialist general readers with an
interest in the Chickasaw Nation and 19th Century Native American
history.
The Tipi
Adolf Hungrywolf
Native Voices
PO Box 99, Summertown, TN 38483
1570671745 $17.95 www.bookpubco.com
The Tipi: Traditional Native American Shelter by author and
photographer Adolf Hungrywolf is a comprehensive, informative, and
profusely illustrated study of the Native American tipi and the many
variations, uses, and understandings of this famed aboriginal
structure. Introducing readers to a compendium of expert commentaries
on the construction, stability, historical understanding and use of
this portable nomadic structure, The Tipi accurately addresses every
concern, issue and intricacy of the tipi's interesting history within
the context of Native American cultures. A seminal contribution to
personal and academic Native American Studies library reference
collections, The Tipi is a very highly recommended book for those in
study of Native American culture and history.
Learning To Write "Indian"
Amelia V. Katanski
University of Oklahoma Press
4100 28th Avenue, NW, Norman, OK 73069
0806137193 $24.95 www.oupress.com
Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American
Indian Literature by Amelia V. Katanski (Marlene Crandell Francis
Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan) is a
historically accurate documentation of the forced assimilation of the
Native American youth during the transition into the twentieth-century.
As Learning To Write "Indian" investigates and deftly examines the
hardships and pains that the American Indians were faced with, having
to attend schools which denied them their families and tribes, their
languages and religions, their culture. An invaluable contribution to
Native American Studies, Learning To Write "Indian" is very strongly
recommended to any American historian or enthusiast, students of the
American Indian culture, and the non-specialist general reader with an
interest in American history.
The Americas Might Have Been
Julian Granberry
The University of Alabama Press
PO Box 870380, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
0817351825 $55.00 uapress.ua.com
A work of detailed and painstaking scholarship, The Americas Might Have
Been: Native American Social Systems Through Time by Julian Granberry
(Language Coordinator with Native American Language Services in
Florida) is an in-depth study of the Native American populations and
their positions of power before during, and after the arrival of
Christopher Columbus and the Europeans in 1492. As an informative and
scholarly analytical survey of the many Native American nations ranging
from the southern, central, and northern America, The Americas Might
Have Been covers the Mayan, Incan, and Iroquois Confederacy, as well as
the Eskimo, Taino Arawak, Navajo, Pueblo, Aztec nations, and others,
providing an impressive account of the many Native American national
social systems. The Americas Might Have Been is especially recommended
to all students of the Native American history, as well as
non-specialist general readers with an interest anthropology,
linguistics, and ethnohistory, and pre-Columbian American History.
The Dance Partner
Diane Glancy
Michigan State Univ. Press
1405 S. Harrison Road, #25, Manley Miles Bldg., E. Lansing, MI
48823-5202
087137573 $19.95 www.msupress.msu.edu
Collections strong in Native American literature and writings will find
Diane Glancy's search of Native American culture shines through in her
short stories, which begin in the present and move back in Native
American history. Tales survey over a hundred years of Native history
and provide poignant reflections on spirituality, massacres and more.
The People And the Word
Robert Warrior
University of Minnesota Press
111 - 3rd Avenue South, #290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
0816646171 $19.95 www.upress.umn.edu
Any collection strong in Native American history, culture or nonfiction
in particular will want to add THE PEOPLE AND THE WORD: READING NATIVE
NONFICTION: it's a literary exploration of the Native tradition of
nonfiction which is accessible by both high school and college-level
students, and provides an excellent survey of Native American writers
and the critical and literary analysis which may be applied to their
works. From making spiritual or emotional connections to learning about
the wellsprings of experience which foster these works, THE PEOPLE AND
THE WORD provides an excellent foundation for understanding.
Woven Stories
Andrea M. Heckman
University of New Mexico Press
MSC11 6290, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
0826329349 $45.00 www.unmpress.com
WOVEN STORIES: ANDEAN TEXTILES & RITUALS is a specialty item
recommended for two very different collections: college-level art
libraries, and college-level studies specializing in other cultures.
The Quechua people of southern Peru may be farmer but they are also
weavers from generations past, and their textiles are imbedded with
local symbols and processes with a long past. Quchua weavers work in
textile forms and designs not seen elsewhere in the Andes: Heckman
provides a powerful ethnographic account of these textiles and their
role in Quechua daily life, linking patterns and designs with the
larger fabric of Andean society. Color photos of both textiles and
peoples pack a cultural and artistic survey unique in its offerings.
Discovering North American Rock Art
Lawrence Loendorf, et.al., Editors
University of Arizona Press
355 South Euclid Avenue, #103, Tucson, AZ 85719
0816524831 $55.00 www.uapress.arizona.edu
Rock paintings and carvings are found across North America from the
south to Canada, and have led to many studies and regional
distinctions. Finally here's a title to pull it all together: a
scholarly college-level discussion of the extent of North American rock
art research which examines sites from the different regions and draws
together different approaches to rock art studies. Even more important,
DISCOVERING NORTH AMERICAN ROCK ART contrasts changing perceptions on
rock art styles and history and will reach both students of
archaeology, Native American studies and primitive art history with its
newfound insights.
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