Ethnic Issues
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Performing Dreams: Discoveries of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil
$21.95 Add to cartGraham’s welcome study underscores the powerful and often-neglected potential of myths and myth-telling for the creation of cultural identity and social memory of among tribal peoples…. (–Choice)
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- Author: Graham, Laura R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1587361728
- Language: English
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Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the beginning, even before the wagon trains, African Americans have played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, they overcame the obstacles of wilderness, prejudice,… [more below]
- Author: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1450748783
- Language: English
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What the Elders Have Taught Us: Alaska Native Ways
$14.99 Add to cartAs Alaska’s Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words
- Author: Corral, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0882409093
- Language: English
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native Ind
$20.99 Add to cartDiscover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American Heritage
The mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too l
- Author: Alive, History Brought
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312252
- Language: English
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Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
$20.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time–from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court.
- Author: Kennedy, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593313364
- Language: English
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Words of the Inuit: A Semantic Stroll Through a Northern Culture
$34.95 Add to cartWords of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #7
- Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0887558623
- Language: English
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The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920
$21.95 Add to cartThis compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political rel… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, Melissa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282567
- Language: English
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The Dakota Way of Life
$36.95 Add to cart2023 Bronze Medal in Western Nonfiction for the Will Rogers Medallion Award
Ella Cara Deloria devoted much of her life to the study of the language and cult
2023 WHA Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award- Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
- Author: Deloria, Ella Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149623359X
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Add to cartCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
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Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
$27.95 Add to cartIn Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not … [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Wise, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262383
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Add to cartMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina
$12.00 Add to cartIn Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-style, and culture of the native people of the region b… [more below]
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0865263450
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research Into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$18.95 Read moreClassic work of black study refuting scientific racism
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575100
- Language: English
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Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life
$14.99 Add to cart“The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in… [more below]
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 4805317205
- Language: English
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The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story
$18.95 Add to cartWhen Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride’s family has done in raising a daught
- Author: Moua, Mai Neng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340364
- Language: English
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
$18.95 Read moreFrom hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story…. [more below]
- Author: Murray, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1645481298
- Language: English
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Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
$32.95 Add to cartWhy don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity?
In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red R
- Author: Fiola, Chantal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0887557708
- Language: English
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Indian Tales
$19.99 Add to cartHailed by Ezra Pound as the American Ovid and renowned as a linguist and a self-described amateur anthropologist, Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to cre
- Author: de Angulo, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475237
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- Language: English
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No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
$25.00 Read more- Author: Burley, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354820
- Language: English
