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Anthropology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Art & Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.

Politics & Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.

Best Sellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ..

Chickasaw Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Cherokee National Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.

Forthcoming Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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On the front: Pawnee scouts Coo towy goots oo ter a oos (“Blue Hawk”) (standing) and
Tuc ca rix te ta ru pe row (“Coming Around With The Herd”). Photograph by William Henry Jackson.
Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (neg. 01308A1).
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Anthropology
Wives and Husbands
Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History
By Loretta Fowler
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4116-9 · 400 pages
In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers’
understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring
how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter
with Americans as government officials, troops, missionaries, and settlers moved
west into Arapaho country. Fowler examines Arapaho history from 1805 to 1936
through the lens of five cohorts, groups of women and men born during different
year spans. Through the life stories of individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates
the experiences and actions of each cohort during a time when Americans tried
to impose gender asymmetry and to undermine the Arapahos’ hierarchical age
relations.

Getting Good Crops

Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the
Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870–1891
By Robert J. Bigart
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4133-6 · 304 pages
In 1870, the Bitterroot Salish Indians—called “Flatheads” by the first white explorers
to encounter them—were a small tribe living on the western slope of the Northern
Rocky Mountains in Montana Territory. Pressures on the Salish were intensifying
during this time, from droughts and dwindling resources to aggressive neighboring
tribes and Anglo-American expansion. In 1891, the economically impoverished
Salish accepted government promises of assistance and retreated to the Flathead
Reservation, more than sixty miles from their homeland.

Buffalo Inc.
American Indians and Economic Development
By Sebastian Felix Braun
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3904-3 · 280 pages
Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching
in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development
program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux
Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how
they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.

Plains Apache Ethnobotany

By Julia A. Jordan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3968-5 · 240 pages
Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well
acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany, Julia A.
Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and
preserves a wealth of detail concerning traditional Apache collection, preparation,
and use of these plant species for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture.

“I Choose Life”
Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World
By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
$50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3941-8 · 384 pages
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3961-6 · 384 pages
For Navajo Indians, medical treatments such as surgery, blood transfusion and CPR
conflict with their traditional understanding of health and well-being, I Chose Life
investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world
while coping with illness. Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by
Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their
own health and healing.
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Patterns of Exchange
Navajo Weavers and Traders
By Teresa J. Wilkins
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3757-5 · 248 pages
The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result
of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo
weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their
sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were
convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-
American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of
Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of
Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.

Art & Photography

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency
The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume
By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4138-1 · 256 pages
Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,”
but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross
Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the
many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S.
government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century.
Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians
she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the
first time.

Building One Fire

Art and World View in Cherokee Life
By Chadwick Smith, Rennard Strickland, and Benny Smith
$24.95 Cloth · 978-1-61658-960-8 · 224 pages
In Building One Fire, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith and
renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author Rennard Strickland present a
unique look at Cherokee art through the lens of Cherokee philosophy. Since the
time when Water Spider brought the gift of fire to the Cherokee people, the One
Fire, “the Ancient Lady,” has been at the center of Cherokee spiritual life.

Blackfoot War Art

Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000
By L. James Dempsey
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3804-6 · 488 pages
In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey plumbs the breadth and
depth of warrior representational art. 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.

Lanterns on the Prairie

The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock
Edited by Steven L. Grafe
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4022-3 · 336 pages
$39.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4029-2 · 336 pages
Lanterns on the Prairie explores the motivations of the players in McClintock’s
story and the historic context of his engagement with the Blackfeet. The
photographs themselves provide an irreplaceable visual record of the Blackfeet
during a pivotal period in their history.
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In Contemporary Rhythm
The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein
By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7 · 416 pages
The definitive retrospective on Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), one of the
founders of the Taos Society of Artists and perhaps the most accomplished of all
the painters associated with that organization. Reproducing masterworks from a
new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs, this volume
forms the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.

Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West

By John S. Hockensmith
$49.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9975-7 · 275 color illus. · 204 Pages
Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West is graced with stunning full-color
photographs of modern horses that carry the distinctive traits of their
Spanish, Arab, and Barb forebears. Captured visually in the rugged Rocky
Mountains or the rolling grassy plains of the West, these horses are our
shared living legacy. From the tender private moments between mare and foal
to the aggressive determination of clashing stallions, Hockensmith throws
open a breathtaking window on these horses’ lives.
Dist. for John S. Hockensmith

A Northern Cheyenne Album

Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis
Edited by Margot Liberty
Commentary by John Woodenlegs
$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3893-0 · 304 pages
A Northern Cheyenne Album presents a rare series of never-before-published
photographs that document the lives of tribal people on the reservation during
the early twentieth-century—a period of rapid change. Reservation physician
and expert photographer Thomas B. Marquis captured Northern Cheyenne
life in numerous images taken from 1926 to 1935. After 1960, former tribal
president John Woodenlegs and others interviewed tribal elders and, drawing
on tape recordings, composed the photos’ lively captions. Margot Liberty,
editor of this volume, has added her own descriptions, filling in details of
Northern Cheyenne culture and history from a scholar’s viewpoint.

Charles M. Russell
A Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by B. Byron Price
$125.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 · 352 pages
Charles M. Russell is the most beloved artist of the American West. This
work, the result of a decade of research and scholarship, features 170 color
reproductions of his greatest works and six essays by Russell experts and
scholars. Each book contains a unique key code granting access to the more
than 4,000 works created and signed by Russell. Visit the website at
www.russellraisonne.com.

Art from Fort Marion

The Silberman Collection
By Joyce M. Szabo
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3883-1 · 208 pages
$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3889-3 · 208 pages
During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion,
Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that
conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic memories of
home. The Silberman Collection is an unusually complete group of images
that illustrate the artists’ fascination with the world outside the southern
plains, their living conditions and survival strategies as prisoners, and their
reminiscences of pre-reservation life.
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The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell

A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture
Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli
$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4081-0 · 304 pages
$39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4097-1 · 304 pages
In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell
depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This
handsome book—a companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A
Catalogue Raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price—showcases many of the artist’s
best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet

An Impressionist at Glacier National Park
By William E. Farr
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4014-8 · 256 pages
German Impressionist artist Julius Seyler had already made a name for
himself in Europe when America beckoned. While in St. Paul, Minnesota, he
encountered Louis Hill, head of the Great Northern Railroad, who wanted to
encourage travel to Montana’s newly created Glacier National Park. To that
end, Hill enticed the adventuresome Seyler to visit this majestic landscape
and to see the Blackfeet Indians who lived there. This book marks both
an appreciation of Seyler’s unique art and a fascinating glimpse into the
promotion of a national park in its early years.

Fire Light
The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist
By Linda M. Waggoner
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3954-8 · 352pages
Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (1869–1919) painted
Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago
childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing
image to illuminate De Cora’s life and artistry, which until now have been
largely overlooked by scholars.

Biography & Memoir

Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
By Bud Shapard
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4047-6 · 376 pages
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.

Pipestone
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
Afterword by Laurence M. Hauptman
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4114-5 · 248 pages
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969,
Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a
young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare
firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary
warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak
and prisonlike.
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N. Scott Momaday
Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography
By Phyllis S. Morgan
Introduction by Kenneth Lincoln
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4054-4 · 400 pages
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn (1969)
and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American
literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks
the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an
insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his
own work and the work of others about him.

Nicholas Black Elk

Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
By Michael F. Steltenkamp
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4063-6 · 256 pages
Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers
to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s
popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an
Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full
interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of
this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.

Coach Tommy Thompson and the Boys of Sequoyah

By Patti Dickinson
Foreword by Chadwick Smith
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4070-4 · 256 pages
When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian
boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead,
it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others.
Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coach—a Cherokee
legend whose story is remembered by many and is now finally told for a wider
audience.

Inkpaduta
Dakota Leader
By Paul N. Beck
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3950-0 · 176 pages
Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta participated in some of the most decisive
battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer’s defeat at the Little
Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit
Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta the reputation of being the most brutal of all
the Sioux leaders. Paul N. Beck now challenges a century and a half of bias to
reassess the life and legacy of this important Dakota leader.

Crazy Horse
A Lakota Life
By Kingsley M. Bray
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3785-8 · 528 pages
$24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3986-9 · 528 pages
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a
greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real
Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest,
reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray
has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse’s contemporaries and consulted modern
Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse’s inner and public life. To this day,
Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative,
offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in
American Indian and United States history.
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Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
By Kathleen P. Chamberlain
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3843-5 · 272 pages
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. In presenting the story of this
nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain
expands our understanding of Victorio’s role in the Apache wars and brings him
into the center of events.

Sacagawea’s Child
The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau
By Susan M. Colby
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4098-8 · 206 pages
Sacagawea’s Child follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, a boy born at the
forefront of westward expansion in the early nineteenth century. Author Susan M.
Colby details Charbonneau family history, analyzing the characters and cultures
of Jean-Baptiste’s father, Toussaint, a French fur trader, and Sacagawea, his
Shoshoni and Hidatsa mother.

Cherokee Thoughts
Honest and Uncensored
By Robert J. Conley
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3943-2 · 196 pages
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J.
Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26
essays laced with humor, understatement, and even open sarcasm, this popular
writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what it means to be
Cherokee. As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts will intrigue tribal
members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people.

Viola Martinez, California Paiute

Living in Two Worlds
By Diana Meyers Bahr
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3514-4 · 214 pages
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4159-6 · 214 pages
The life story of Viola Martinez, an Owens Valley Paiute Indian of eastern
California, extends over nine decades of the twentieth century. Viola experienced
forced assimilation in an Indian boarding school, overcame racial stereotypes
to pursue a college degree, and spent several years working at a Japanese
American internment camp during World War II. Finding herself poised
uncertainly between Indian and white worlds, Viola was determined to turn her
marginalized existence into an opportunity for personal empowerment. In Viola
Martinez, California Paiute, Diana Meyers Bahr recounts Viola’s extraordinary life
story and examines her strategies for dealing with acculturation.

Gall
Lakota War Chief
By Robert W. Larson
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3830-5 · 320 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4036-0 · 320 pages
This first-ever scholarly biography of Gall broadens our understanding of the
man, tracing his evolution from a fearless warrior at the Little Bighorn to a
representative of his people. Filling many gaps in our understanding of this warrior
and his relationship with Sitting Bull, this engaging biography also offers new
interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay to rest the contention that Gall was
“Custer’s Conqueror.”
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History
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest
Third Edition
By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins
Foreword by Clifford E. Trafzer
$26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4024-7 · 448 pages
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to British Columbia.
For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has
served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of
renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent
political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities.

Dreaming with the Ancestors

Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico
By Shirley Boteler Mock
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4053-7 · 400 pages
Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly
attention, but women’s roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now
a scholar who gained an insider’s perspective into the Black Seminole community
in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their
contributions. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that
Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of
African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences.

War Party in Blue

Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
By Mark van de Logt
Foreword by Walter R. Echo-Hawk
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4139-8 · 368 pages
Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee
Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led
missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks
against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American troops from
disaster on the field of battle. In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of
the Pawnee scouts from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served
and recounting hitherto neglected episodes.

From Cochise to Geronimo

The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886
By Edwin R. Sweeney
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4150-3 · 640 pages
In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua
Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government
further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his
previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer
a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise’s death and Geronimo’s
surrender in 1886.

Beyond Bear’s Paw

The Nez Perce Indians in Canada
By Jerome A. Greene
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4068-1 · 264 pages
In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army
troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez
Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the
White Mother, Queen Victoria. But 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.
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The Peyote Road

Religious Freedom and the Native American Church
By Thomas C. Maroukis
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4109-1 · 272 pages
Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote, the Native
American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has
become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The
Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the
controversial use of Peyote.

Kiowa Military Societies

Ethnohistory and Ritual
By William C. Meadows
$75.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4072-8 · 472 pages
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.

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma

A Guide
By Blue Clark
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4060-5 · 416 pages
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest
Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian
Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide
to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state’s
Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian
Country in recent years.

Indian Blues
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934
By John W. Troutman
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4019-3 · 320 pages
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to
control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same
time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical
performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice
of music generate fear among government officials and opportunity for Native peoples?

William Clark
Indian Diplomat
By Jay H. Buckley
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3911-1 · 320 pages
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4145-9 · 320 pages
For three decades following the expedition with Meriwether Lewis for which he is best
known, William Clark forged a meritorious public career that contributed even more to
the opening of the West: from 1807 to 1838 he served as the U.S. government’s most
important representative to western Indians. This biography focuses on Clark’s tenure as
Indian agent, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis.

The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830

Ethnogenesis and Reinvention
By Gary Clayton Anderson
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4067-4 · 352 pages
In The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830, Gary Clayton Anderson argues that, in the face of
European conquest and severe droughts that reduced their food sources, Indians in the
Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic.
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The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850–1980

By E. A. Schwartz
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-2906-8 · 368 pages
$26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4161-9 · 372 pages
From 1855 to 1856 in western Oregon, the Native peoples along the Rogue
River outmaneuvered and repeatedly drove off white opponents. In The Rogue
River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850–1980, historian E. A. Schwartz explores
the tribal groups’ resilience not only during this war but also in every period of
federal Indian policy that followed.
“[This book] is the first detailed history of many native groups from western
Oregon. It is a significant and revealing study, broad in scope and implications,
and it will change the way we view the past of Native Americans of the Pacific
Northwest.” —Clifford E. Trafzer, author of The Kit Carson Campaign

Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750

By William B. Carter
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4067-4 · 384 pages
When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically
viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed
on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a
multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social
change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples
created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement

Native People of Southern New England, 1650–1775

By Kathleen J. Bragdon
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4004-9 · 312 pages
Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England
declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communities
continued to thrive alongside English colonists. In this sequel to her Native
People of Southern New England, 1500–1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon continues the
Indian story through the end of the colonial era and documents the impact of
colonization.

The Munsee Indians

A History
By Robert S. Grumet
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4062-9 · 464 pages
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.

Reflections on American Indian History

Honoring the Past, Building a Future
Edited by Albert L. Hurtado
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3896-1 · 176 pages
As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future
armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them
together thus far. Now five premier scholars in American Indian history, along
with a tribal leader who has placed an indelible mark on the history of her
people, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing
Indians today.
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Coming Down From Above

Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions
By Lee Irwin
$75.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3966-1 · 528 pages
For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt
to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This first
comprehensive survey of prophetic movements in Native North America tells
how religious leaders blended indigenous beliefs with Christianity’s prophetic
traditions to respond to those challenges.

The Black Hawk War of 1832

By Patrick J. Jung
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3994-4 · 288 pages
In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge
a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and
Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Patrick J. Jung here re-examines
the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States,
a conflict that decimated Black Hawk’s band. Correcting mistakes that plagued
previous histories, and drawing on recent ethnohistorical interpretations, Jung
shows that the outcome can be understood only by discussing the complexity of
intertribal rivalry, military ineptitude, and racial dynamics.

The Campo Indian Landfill War

The Search for Gold in California’s Garbage
By Dan McGovern
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4095-7 · 352 pages
In The Campo Indian Landfill War, Dan McGovern explores the controversial
topic of “environmental justice” through the story of the Campo tribe’s
struggle to develop its isolated and impoverished reservation by building
a commercial garbage facility to serve the cities of Southern California.
McGovern focuses on the individuals who personify the conflict.

Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907

By Devon Abbott Mihesuah
$32.95s Hardcover · 978-0-8061-4052-0 · 352 pages
During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of
Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts,
and assaults—usually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by
Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored
murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal
members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and pro-
assimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation.

The American Indian

Past and Present, Sixth Edition
Edited by Roger L. Nichols
$39.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3856-5 · 448 pages
Widely used in university courses on Native American history through five
editions, The American Indian: Past and Present has been thoroughly revised to
present an up-to-date view of Indian heritage. This timely anthology brings
together pieces written over the last thirty years that represent some of the
best scholarship available.
The readings offer a broad overview of indigenous peoples of North America
from first contact to the present, showing how Indians relied on their cultural
strengths and determination to retain their independent identities. These essays
trace the ever changing situations of Indians as both tribes and individuals. They
bring readers through Native victory and military defeat, relocation, mandatory
acculturation, and militant protests to the present era of self-determination,
when the meaning of Native identity is sometimes hotly debated.
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Pre-Removal Choctaw History

Exploring New Paths
Edited by Greg O’Brien
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3916-6 · 256 pages
In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically
reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien
brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal
where Choctaw history has been and where it is going. In a chronological
survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock
of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.

The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory

Nimiipuu Survival
By J. Diane Pearson
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3901-2 · 416 pages
Following the Nez Perce War of 1877, federal representatives promised the
Nimiipuu who surrendered with Chief Joseph repatriation to their Pacific
Northwest homes. Instead, they were driven into exile. This book tells the story
of the Nimiipuu captivity and deportation and offers an in-depth analysis of the
resistant Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Palus bands during their incarceration.

Full-Court Quest
The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3973-9 · 496 pages
Most fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’
teams were making their mark more than a century ago—and that none
was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school
in Montana. Playing like “lambent flames” across the polished floors of
dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed
the state to emerge as Montana’s first basketball champions. Taking their
game to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, these young women introduced
an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a
trophy declaring them champions.

Big Sycamore Stands Alone

The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place
By Ian W. Record
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3972-2 · 384 pages
Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing
Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving
relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring
power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society.

Journey to the West

The Alabama and Coushatta Indians
By Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3940-1 · 304 pages
When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth
century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the
Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their
ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms. In this
book, Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas
and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century
settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and
revealing how their shared experience affected their identity.
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Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer

William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
By Robert M. Owens
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3842-8 · 344 pages
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4198-5 · 344 Pages
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry
Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth
president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early
years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens
of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development
of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.

Literature
The People Who Stayed
Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal
By Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4136-7 · 404 pages
The two-hundred-year-old myth of the “vanishing” American Indian still holds some
credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of thousands of Indians
were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Yet, as the editors of this
volume amply demonstrate, a significant Indian population remained behind after those
massive relocations.

Pushing the Bear

After the Trail of Tears
By Diane Glancy
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4069-8 · 176 pages
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’ resettlement in the
hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction. In this sequel to
her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy
continues the tale of Cherokee brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families,
as well the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows
their travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and adjust
to new realities.

On Native Ground
Memoirs and Impressions
By Jim Barnes
$16.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4092-6 · 296 pages
On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barnes’s boyhood in rural southeastern Oklahoma
during the Great Depression and World War II through his mature years as an interna-
tionally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and Welsh ancestry, Barnes is often identified as
a Native American poet. He emphasizes his desire to be recognized for his art, not his
blood. Yet he speaks eloquently here of his attachment to his “native ground,” the Choc-
taw region in Oklahoma—for him “the land where memory dwells.” This edition features
a new postscript by the author.

Muting white noise

Native American and European American Novel Traditions
By James H. Cox
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3679-0 ·352 pages
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4021-6 · 352 pages
In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our
imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom
the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes
American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings
of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from
which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and
enabling colonialism.
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Three Plays
The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows
By N. Scott Momaday
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3828-2 · 224 pages
Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best
known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his celebration of his
Kiowa ancestry, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday has also made his mark in
theater through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they
display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions.

Art as Performance, Story as Criticism

Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics
By Craig S. Womack
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4064-3 · 376 pages
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4065-0 · 376 pages
Inventive and often outrageous, Art as Performance, Story as Criticism turns traditional
literary criticism on its head, rejecting distanced, purely theoretical argumentation
for intimate engagement with literary works. Focusing on Native American
literature, Womack mixes forms and styles. He is unafraid to combine meticulous
research and carefully considered historical perspectives with personal reactions
and reflections.

Reasoning Together
The Native Critics Collective
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3887-9 · 416 pages
This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing
community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the
aesthetics of individual literary representation. Contributors include: Janice Acoose,
Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Phillip Carroll Morgan,
Kimberly Roppolo, Cheryl Suzack, Christopher B. Teuton, Sean Teuton, Robert
Warrior, and Craig S. Womack.

Language
Choctaw Language and Culture
Chahta Anumpa, Volume 2
By Marcia Haag and Henry Willis
$26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3855-8 · 128 pages
Building on the foundations laid by the first volume, this follow-up text presents a
more advanced linguistic study of Oklahoma Choctaw, accompanied by short stories
and anecdotes written by Choctaws in their native language. Volume 2 of Choctaw
Language and Culture is designed to help teachers and students alike further their
understanding of Choctaw by working with and mastering grammatically complex
examples of its use. It marks the first such advanced textbook of Choctaw as well as
the first easily available reference grammar for teachers.

Intermediate Creek
Mvskoke Emponvkv Hokkolat
By Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, and Bertha Tilkens
$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3996-8 · 320 pages
For those who have progressed beyond introductory lessons, Intermediate Creek offers
an expanded understanding of the language and culture of the Muskogee (Creek)
and Seminole Indians. The first advanced textbook for the language, this book builds
on the grammatical principles set forth in the authors’ earlier book, Beginning Creek:
Mvskoke Emponvkv, providing students with knowledge crucial to mastering more
complex linguistic constructions.
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Let’s Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli’

By Pamela Munro and Catherine Willmond
$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3926-5 · 432 pages
Let’s Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli’ is both the first textbook
of the Chickasaw language and its first complete grammar. A collaboration
between Pamela Munro, a linguist with an intimate knowledge of Chickasaw,
and Catherine Willmond, a native speaker, this book is designed for beginners
as well as intermediate students.
Osage Dictionary
By Carolyn Quintero
$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3844-2 · 480 pages
The Osage language was spoken until recently by tribal members in
northeastern Oklahoma. No longer in daily use, it was in danger of
extinction. Carolyn Quintero, a linguist raised in Osage County, worked
with the last few fluent speakers of the language to preserve the sounds
and textures of their complex speech. Osage Dictionary is the definitive
lexicon for that tongue, enhanced with thousands of phrases and
sentences that illustrate fine points of usage.

Politics & Law

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights
By Laughlin McDonald
$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4113-8 · 360 pages
The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the
South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do
today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully
documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over
Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

A Legal History
By L. Susan Work
Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4089-6 · 376 pages
When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation
was the first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its
government. In the face of an American legal system that sought either
to destroy its nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole
Nation tenaciously retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and
economic subsistence. Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as
a tribal attorney to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century
Seminole Nation.

The Choctaws in Oklahoma

From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970
By Clara Sue Kidwell
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4006-3 · 334 pages
The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws’ removal from
Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of
the tribe’s subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert
tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the
Choctaws’ remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing
a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.
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Peyote vs. the State

Religious Freedom on Trial
By Garrett Epps
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4026-1 · 296 pages
With the grace of a novel, this book chronicles the six-year duel between
two remarkable men with different visions of religious freedom in America.
Neither sought the conflict. Al Smith, a substance-abuse counselor to Native
Americans, wanted only to earn a living. Dave Frohnmayer, the attorney
general of Oregon, was planning his gubernatorial campaign and seeking care
for his desperately ill daughters. But before this constitutional confrontation
was over, Frohnmayer and Smith twice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to
decide whether the First Amendment protects the right of American Indians
to seek and worship God through the use of peyote. The Court finally said no.

On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions

By Felix S. Cohen
Edited by David E. Wilkins
Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3806-0 · 200 pages
Felix Cohen (1907–1953) was a leading architect of the Indian New Deal and
steadfast champion of American Indian rights. Appointed to the Department
of the Interior in 1933, he helped draft the Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their
governments. His “Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions,”
submitted in November 1934, provided practical guidelines for that effort.

Forced Federalism
Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood
By Jeff Corntassel and Richard C. Witmer II
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4191-6 · 272 Pages
Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted from self-
determination to “Forced Federalism” as indigenous nations in the United
States have encountered new threats from state and local tribes over such
issues as taxation, gaming, and homeland security. This book demonstrates
how today’s indigenous nations have taken unprecedented steps to reorient
themselves politically in response to such challenges to their sovereignty.

Cash, Color, and Colonialism

The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment
By Renée Ann Cramer
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3987-6 · 224 Pages
Within the context of U.S.-Indian law, federal acknowledgment establishes
a trust relationship between an Indian tribe and the U.S. government. Some
tribes, however, have not been federally acknowledged, or, in more common
language, “recognized.” In Cash, Color, and Colonialism, Reneé Ann Cramer
offers a comprehensive analysis of the federal acknowledgment process,
placing it in historical, legal, and social context.

Roots of Resistance
A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Foreword by Simon J. Ortiz
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3833-6 · 224 pages
In New Mexico—once a Spanish colony, then part of Mexico—Pueblo
Indians and descendants of Spanish- and Mexican-era settlers still think of
themselves as distinct peoples, each with a dynamic history. At the core of
these persistent cultural identities is each group’s historical relationship to
the others and to the land, a connection that changed dramatically when the
United States wrested control of the region from Mexico in 1848.
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on the U.S. postage stamp honoring the Oklahoma centennial—is visible and
prominent. In 2005, leaders of the Chickasaw Nation commissioned Larsen
to create twenty-four oil portraits of living Chickasaw elders. After those
paintings were completed, the Chickasaws commissioned a second series of
twenty-four portraits—showcased in this handsome, full-color volume.

Chickasaw Removal
By Amanda L. Paige, Fuller L. Bumpers, and Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.
$20.00s Cloth · 978-1-935684-00-8 · 220 pages
In the early nineteenth century, the Chickasaw Indians were a beleaguered
people. Anglo-American settlers were streaming illegally into their homelands
east of the Mississippi River. Then, in 1830, the Indian Removal Act forced
the Chickasaw Nation, along with other eastern tribes, to remove to Indian
Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. This book provides the most detailed
account to date of the Chickasaw removal, from their harrowing journey west
to their first difficult years in an unfamiliar land.

Chickasaw
Unconquered and Unconquerable
By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and Linda Hagan
Introduction by Bill Anoatubby
Photography by David G. Fitzgerald
$34.95s Cloth · 978-1-55868-992-3 · 128 pages
From their homelands in the Southeast, to their removal to Indian Territory,
to their status as a thriving nation today, the Chickasaw people represent one
of the most resilient cultures in American history. Through vivid photographs
and insightful essays, this book tells the incredible story of the Chickasaws.
Featuring the award-winning photography of David Fitzgerald and essays
by Chickasaw writers Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and
Linda Hogan, this authoritative book brings alive the unique history and
identity of the Chickasaws. Handsomely produced, Chickasaw: Unconquered and
Unconquerable is the winner of a gold medal for design from the Independent
Publishers Association.

Chickasaw Renaissance
By Phillip Carroll Morgan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-8-7 · 240 pages
In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the
Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the
dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation. A sequel to
the award-winning book Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable, this equally
beautiful volume features more than 100 new images by celebrated Oklahoma
photographer David G. Fitzgerald. His stunning portraits of tribal elders and
numerous other subjects are supplemented by historical photographs from
the Chickasaw Nation archives.
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Chickasaw Lives
Volume Three: Sketches of Past and Present
By Richard Green
$20.00s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-9-4 · 250 pages
Sketches of Past and Present is the third volume in the Chickasaw
Lives series. In contrast to a conventional, chronological history,
Green’s book is a fascinating amalgam of Chickasaw epochs
and characters, grouped under headings of common themes.
The reader is treated to stories of great Chickasaw athletes in
the twentieth century, as well as an essay on the significance to Chickasaw
history of the 1729 Natchez uprising.

Chickasaw Lives
Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-6-3 · 240 pages
The second volume in a series of Chickasaw Lives to be published,
this book contains 33 articles that focus on 36 tribal members,
including extraordinary performers, artists, athletes, and warriors.
These Chickasaw luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist,
a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw
Nation attorney general who previously rode with the notorious outlaw Billy
the Kid, an internationally renowned performance artist, a Harvard researcher
who investigates and reports on economic conditions in Indian Country,
and three successive Chickasaw governors who played crucial roles in the
twentieth-century revitalization of the tribe.

Chickasaw Lives
Volume One: Explorations in Tribal History
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-1-8 · 238 pages
Green explains how the tribe kept body and soul together until
tribal government could be reconstituted and revitalized after the
United States in the 1960s stopped attempting to vanquish tribal
governments.
The twenty-nine articles featured here are arranged chronologically from
prehistory into the modern era. Topics include the Mound Builders, the epic
battle with Hernando de Soto, European colonial manipulations and wars,
Removal to Indian Territory, the land-allotment period, and the Chickasaw
Nation’s revitalization in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Chickasaw Press
Never Give Up!
The Life of Pearl Carter Scott
By Paul F. Lambert
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-0-1 · 278 pages
Paul F. Lambert recounts the remarkable life of Pearl Carter Scott, child
aviator, single mother, and revered Chickasaw elder. Born in 1915 and raised
in Marlow, Oklahoma, Pearl Carter enjoyed a privileged childhood. Her white
father was a gifted businessman who happened to be blind. Her mother was
half Chickasaw and half Choctaw. When Pearl was twelve, she met Wiley Post,
who was just beginning his aviation career, and he taught the adventurous
young girl how to fly.

Edmund Pickens (Okchantubby)

First Elected Chickasaw Chief, His Life and Times
By Juanita J. Keel Tate
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-2-5 · 108 pages
Edmund Pickens lived through a crucial period in Chickasaw history. During
Removal in 1836, he traveled with his wife and children on the sad journey
from the Chickasaw homelands to Indian Territory. Like other Chickasaws, he
faced many hardships after settling in the new territory. But as Juanita J. Keel
Tate shows in this first book-length account of Pickens’s life and times, he
persevered and triumphed as a statesman and tribal leader.

They Know Who They Are

Elders of the Chickasaw Nation
By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-4-9 · 108 pages
In August 2004, Oklahoma Centennial project artist Mike Larsen approached
Chickasaw Nation leaders with an idea to honor living Chickasaw elders—
sages of his own tribe. He wanted to learn about their families and hear their
stories, and he wanted to connect with their Chickasaw strength and spirit.
In the Larsen studio, carefully rendered sketches progressed from paper
to canvas to yield the 24 remarkable paintings reproduced in this volume.
Martha Larsen has written a richly detailed narrative, based on each elder’s
interview, documenting his or her cultural beliefs, experiences, and history.

Picked Apart the Bones

By Rebecca Hatcher Travis
$14.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-3-2 · 64 pages
For Rebecca Hatcher Travis, writing a book of poems is similar to growing a
pecan tree. Both take a long time to develop. For the poems in this exquisite
collection, “the seeds were planted in childhood and earth, and blossomed
with family and love.” Hatcher Travis bases her poems on memories of her
Chickasaw family and the Oklahoma landscapes surrounding her as a child. The
poems also are testimonies to the ancestors who have passed on to the next life.
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Cherokee National Press

The Development of Law and Legal Institutions among
the Cherokees
By Thomas Lee Ballenger
Foreword by Chadwick Smith
$35.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-2-7 · 230 pages
Before the arrival of Europeans to North America, Cherokee Indians practiced
a form of justice called blood law, or clan law. In this system, responsibility
for the punishment of a homicide fell to the clan of the victim. In the
nineteenth century, following the forced removal of tribal members to Indian
Territory, the Cherokee Nation developed a court system that is still in use
today. In this thorough account, Thomas Lee Ballenger traces the history of
Cherokee justice from its traditional beginnings to the development of its
modern-day institutions.

Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees

Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
Volume One:
Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission, 1752–1802
$50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-0-3 · 426pages
Volume Two:
Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School, 1802–1805
$50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-1-0 · 426pages
In the mid-eighteenth century, members of the Moravian Church, which
had its origins in Central Europe, began conducting mission work among
the Cherokee people. Their archives, now housed in North Carolina, include
valuable records of their contact with the Cherokees. Drawing from these
archives, these two volumes offer a firsthand account of daily life among the
Cherokees during the years 1752–1805. Although written by missionaries and
from their perspective, the documents contained in these volumes—ranging
from reports and minutes to diaries and correspondence—provide great insight
into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and personalities during this period.
The first volume describes initial contact between the Moravians and
Cherokees during the French and Indian War and the Revolution, exploratory
visits by Moravian missionaries into the Cherokee Nation, and the founding
of a mission—called Springplace—in northern Georgia.
The second volume ends with the year 1805. As the Moravians occupy
Springplace, they begin to spread the Gospel. The Cherokees, in turn, are
interested in schooling for their children, who need new tools to deal with the
encroachment of white settlers upon their land and life.
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Forthcoming Books Spring 2011

First Manhattans
A Brief History of the Munsee Indians
By Robert S. Grumet
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4163-3 · 384 Pages
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.
First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the author’s comprehensive
The Munsee Indians, resurrects the lost history of this forgotten people, from their
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Navajo Legacy
The Life and Teaching of John Holiday
By John Holiday
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For more than ninty years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the
sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Calley. at an early
age, Holiday began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessing
way ceremony, and as a youth, he performed rainmaking ceremonies and
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The Jar of Severed Hands

The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770–1810
By Mark K. Santiago
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4177-0 · 264 Pages
More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the
region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under
attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago’s gripping account of Spanish efforts to
subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial
period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.

Red Power Rising

The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
By Bradley Shreve
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4178-7 · 272 pages
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement
called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While
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one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian
takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?
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Arapaho Journeys
Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation
By Sara Wiles
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In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for
centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures
that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. By the mid-nineteenth
century, however, as Anglo-Americans pushed west, Northern Arapaho life
changed dramatically. Although forced to relocate to a reservation, the people
endured and held on to their traditions. Today, tribal members preserve the
integrity of a society that still fosters living ni’iihi’, as they call it, “in a good way.”
Award-winning photographer Sara Wiles captures that life on film and in words
in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years of Northern Arapaho life on the
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Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux
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$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-389-9 · 288 Pages
On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson
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Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary
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that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army
Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, the first biography of the man in seventy years, award-
winning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s fascinating experiences
on the northern plains as topographer, cartographer, physician, and Indian agent.

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