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The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806193106
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
In The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas, he presents his original 1933 fieldwork, along with details from the published and unpublished works of other researchers, to describe rituals, poetry, and songs drawn from his more than six decades of research among the Six Nations.
Indigenous War Painting of the Plains
An Illustrated History
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CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780806193649
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Offering first-time vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced each other and changed over time, and, finally, conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.
Tlacaelel Remembered
Mastermind of the Aztec Empire
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806192222
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
As Schroeder traces Tlacaelel through the annals, she also examines how his story was transmitted and transformed in later histories. The resulting work is the most complete and comprehensive account ever given of this significant figure in Mesoamerican history.
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two
Codical Texts
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806192215
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these painted manuscripts, and discuss current and past interpretations of these graphemes. Together the two volumes of the New Catalog represent the most significant updating of the sign lists for the Maya script proposed in half a century. They provide a cutting-edge reference tool critical to the research of Mesoamericanists in the fields of archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, and linguistics, and a valuable resource to scholars specializing in comparative studies of writing systems and related disciplines.
Lakhota
An Indigenous History
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806190754
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakȟóta culture and society, from their origins to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakȟóta voices and perspectives.
Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806191218
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory
Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
The Oneida Indians in the Age of Allotment, 1860-1920
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780806191065
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Oneida Indians, already weakened by their participation in the Civil War, faced the possibility of losing their reservation?their community?s greatest crisis since its resettlement in Wisconsin...
Tobacco Use by Native North Americans
Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806191287
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Recently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans continue to view tobacco-when used properly-as a life-affirming...
The Cayuse Indians
Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon Commemorative Edition
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806191195
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published...
The Kiowas
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806109879
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Kiowas were once, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Native tribes of the Great Plains. In The Kiowas, Mildred P. Mayhall tells the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to fierce Plains nomads, explains how they lived, and traces the development of their unique pictographic calendars. Finally, Mayhall relates how, after the Indian wars of the 1870s, the Kiowas were settled on a reservation in Oklahoma and integrated into American culture.
Through Indian Sign Language
The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889-1897
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806191089
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Scott ledgers contain an array of historic, linguistic, and ethnographic data-a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people. Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists.
Providing for the People
Economic Change among the Salish and Kootenai Indians, 1875-1910
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806183619
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Author Robert J. Bigart describes how the Salish and Kootenai tribes overcame daunting odds to maintain their independence and integrity through this dramatic transition-how, relying on their own initiatives and labor, they managed to adjust and adapt to a new political and economic order.
Strike Fear in the Land
Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806190044
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Written with literary flair, Strike Fear in the Land is an arresting saga of personalities and controversies, conveying as never before the turmoil of this pivotal period in Mesoamerican history.
Kiowa Military Societies
Ethnohistory and Ritual
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806190099
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity.
The Munsee Indians
A History
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806186528
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation. Now, The Munsee Indians deftly interweaves a mass of archaeological, anthropological, and archival source material to resurrect the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution.
Codex Chimalpahin
Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 2
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806169187
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Volume Two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extensive period. Included are the Exercicio quotidiano of Sahagun, for which Chimalpahin was the copyist, some unsigned Nahuatl materials, and a letter by Juan de San Antonio of Texcoco as well as a store of information about Nahua women, religion, ritual, concepts of conquest, and relations with Europeans.
The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806193106
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Indigenous War Painting of the Plains
An Illustrated History
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780806193649
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Tlacaelel Remembered
Mastermind of the Aztec Empire
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806192222
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two
Codical Texts
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806192215
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Lakhota
An Indigenous History
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806190754
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806191218
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory
Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
The Oneida Indians in the Age of Allotment, 1860-1920
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780806191065
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Tobacco Use by Native North Americans
Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806191287
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Cayuse Indians
Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon Commemorative Edition
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806191195
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Kiowas
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806109879
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Through Indian Sign Language
The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889-1897
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806191089
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Providing for the People
Economic Change among the Salish and Kootenai Indians, 1875-1910
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806183619
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Strike Fear in the Land
Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806190044
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Kiowa Military Societies
Ethnohistory and Ritual
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806190099
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Munsee Indians
A History
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806186528
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Codex Chimalpahin
Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 2
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806169187
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press