by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, General Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Popular Archaeology, SAR Press
2015. Edited by Lynn H. Gamble
Some of the most complex hunter-gatherer societies on earth flourished along California’s rugged coastline, and this volume brings together an impressive group of experts to tell a story wrought in shell mounds, ancient fishhooks, buried villages, and rock paintings.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Cultural Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Linguistics, Resident Scholar, SAR Press, Southwest
2015. Erin Debenport
This ethnographic study of emergent literacy provides a complex picture of secrecy, intellectual property, and the formation of publics through its examination of the relationships between prevailing linguistic ideologies, intertextual connections, and the contexts surrounding the production of indigenous language texts.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press
2005. Edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and Michael Yellow Bird
This handbook covers a wide range of topics, including Indigenous governance, education, language, oral tradition, repatriation, images and stereotypes, and truth-telling. It aims to facilitate critical thinking while offering recommendations for fostering community discussions and plans for meaningful community action.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press
2012. Edited by Waziyatawin and Michael Yellow Bird
Included in this book are discussions of global collapse, what to consider in returning to a land-based existence, demilitarization for imperial purposes and re-militarization for Indigenous purposes, survival strategies for tribal prisoners, moving beyond the nation-state model, a land-based educational model, personal decolonization, decolonization strategies for youth in custody, and decolonizing gender roles.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Resident Scholar, SAR Press, Southwest
1999. Garrick Bailey and Roberta Glenn Bailey
While many Native Americans have subordinated their tribal identity to their identity as Indians, unique historical circumstances have allowed the Navajos to maintain their uniqueness. This book examines these circumstances over the century and more that the tribe has lived on the reservation.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press
2011. Joyce M. Szabo
Joyce Szabo’s examination of the two drawing books by Zotom and Howling Wolf encompasses their origins and the issues surrounding their commission as well as what the images say about their creators and their collector. Szabo augments the complete reproduction of each page with detail photographs of the drawings.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press, Southwest
2010. Edited by Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner
This book explores the ways people have transformed natural resources in the American Southwest into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large percentage of the Southwest’s total acreage, but much of the nation’s coal, oil, and uranium resources reside on tribal lands.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2001. Susan Brown McGreevy; Foreword by Kevin Navasie
Exploring the history and the current renaissance of basket making in the Native American Southwest, this lavishly illustrated volume features the work and words of the contemporary basket makers that participated in a Convocation at the School of American Research.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2002. Katherine L. Chase; Foreward by Diane Reyna
The book profiles ten outstanding painters representing seven different Pueblo Indian groups and the Navajo Nation who participated in a convocation at the Indian Arts Research Center at the SAR.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press
2014. William Y. Adams
In this volume, Adams addresses the idea that “the Indian,” as conceived by colonial powers and later by different postcolonial interest groups, was as much ideology as empirical reality. Adams surveys the policies of the various colonial and postcolonial powers, then reflects upon the great ideological, moral, and intellectual issues that underlay those policies.