Recent offerings from the University of New Mexico Press include: LaDonna Harris, Editor and Mentor; Stephen M. Sachs and Barbara Morris, General Authors; Deborah Esquibel Hunt, Gregory A. Cajete, Benjamin Broome, Phyllis M. Gagnier and Jonodev Chaudhuri, Contributing Authors, Recreating the Circle: The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination (a holistic book examining the original social-political-economic nature of American Indian Tradition, its disruption by colonialism, and what has been done, and still needs to be done Ð in the authorsÕ view Ð to return American Indian Nations to sovereignty, Self-Sufficiency and Harmony. The work also discusses the relevance of American Indian tradition both for Native Americans and the wider world. The volume indicates how the application of traditional Indigenous values appropriately for the current moment, with an eye to future development in the process of returning American Indian Nations to living well, while collaborating with their neighbors, provides excellent models for governance, development, education and other aspects of respectful and harmonious living. Scheduled to be available October, 2011, over 500 pp. for $75 cloth); and Frank D. Tikalsky, Catherine A. Euler, John Nagel, Ed., The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai: As Retold By Elders and Headmen Manakaja and Sinyella 1918Ð1921 ($27.96), all plus $5 for the first item and $1 for each additional, shipping, from the University of New Mexico Press, MSC04 2820, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 (505)272-7777 or (800)249-7737, http://www.unmpress.com/.
Walter Echo-Hawk, In The Courts Of The Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided is 560 pp. for $35 cloth, from Fulcrum Publishing, http://www.fulcrum-books.com/.
University of Arizona Press listings include: Malcolm D. Benally, Ed. & Trans., Bitter Watter: Dine Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute (176 pp. for $19.95 paper); Beth Rose Middleton, Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conversation (352 pp. for $35 paper); Paul M. Liffman, Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation: Indigenous Ritual, Land onflict, and Soverignty Claims (296 pp. for $96 cloth); Liliana R. Goldin, Global Maya: Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala (256 pp. for $24.95 paper), all from the University of Arizona Press, 355 S. Euclid Ave., Suite 103, Tucson, AZ 85701, phone/fax (800) 426-3797, www.upress.arizona.edu.
University of Nebraska Press offerings include: Catherine C. Robbins, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) (408 pp. for $26.95 paper); Leonard Carson Lambert jr., As told to Michael Lambert , Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood (208 pp. for $18.95 paper); Joy Porter, Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America (368 pp. for $60.00s hardcover); and Simone Poliandri, First Nations, Identity, and Reserve Life: The MiÕkmaq of Nova Scotia (376 pp. for $65 cloth), all, plus $5 for first item, $1 for each additional, from University of Nebraska Press, 1111 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE 68588 (800)755-1105, pressmail@uni.edu, www.nebraskapress.unl.edu.
Offerings from the University of Oklahoma Press (encompassing volumes from the Chickasaw Press) include: W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt Jr., Randy H. Williams Fort Clark And Its Indian Neighbors: A Trading Post On The Upper Missouri ($34.95 cloth); James N. Leiker, Ramon Powers The Northern Cheyenne Exodus In History And Memory ($34.95 cloth); Paul L. Hedren, After Custer: Loss And Transformation In Sioux Country ($24.95 cloth); Laughlin McDonald, American Indians And The Fight For Equal Voting Rights ($55 cloth); and
Phillip Carroll Morgan, Judy Goforth Parker, Dynamic Chickasaw Women ($20 cloth), all from the University of Oklahoma Press (800)627-7377, http://www.oupress.com/.
Books from the University of Hawaii Press include: Raylene Ramsey; Deborah Walker, Eds., Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of New Caledonia ($49 cloth); and Elfriede Hermann, Ed. Changing Contexts-Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania (512 pp. for $58 cloth). All from: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/.
Offerings fromhte University of Alaska Press include: Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, eds., Alaska Native Education: Views From Within (384 pp. for $20 paper); Clifton Bates and Michael J. Oleksa, Conflicting Landscapes: American Schooling/Alaska Natives (264 pp. for $19.95 paper); Harold Napoleon with Eric Madsen, Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being (76 pp. for $5.95 paper); and Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva, Khanty, People of the Tiaga: Surviving the Twentieth Century (Siberia) (327 pp. for $39.95 paper); plus The Dene-Yenisen Connection: Anthropological Paper of the University of Alaska, special issue ($40 for individuals, $100 for institutions), all, plus $5 shipping per item, from www.uapress.alaska.edu.
The Minnesota Historical Society Press books include: Anton Teruer, The Assassination of Hole in the Day (Ojibwe leader) (304 pp., $24 95 cloth, 20.95 E-book); and Thomas Peacock and Marlene Wisuri, Forward by Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa ($29.95 paper), all, plus $5 for the first item, $1 for each additional, shipping, from www.mhspress.org.
Ralph A. Rossum, The Supreme Court and Tribal Gaming: California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians is 216 pp. for $16. 95 paper, $34.95 cloth from University of Kansas Press, www.kansaspress.ku.edu.
Laura Evans, Power from Powerlessness: Tribal Governments, Institutional Niches, and American Federalism (2011), is available on Amazon.com for $55 cloth.
Jose Barreiri, Ed., Thinking Indian: A John Mohawk Reader is published by Fulcrum Publishing, and is 320 pages, available on Amazon.com for about $13.50.
Richard Kluger, The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native Americans is 330 pp. for $28.95 from Knopf.
Myla Vicenti Carplo, Indigenous Albuquerque, 208 pp. cloth, for $30.95 from Texas Tech University Press, www.ttuprss.org.
Francis L. OÕNeil and Paul W. Wittmer, Eds., Pueblo Indian History and Culture is 146 pp., for @4.95 from Clear Light Books: www.clearlightbooks.com.
The 2nd edition of the Directory of Grants for Native American Tribes and Organization is available
From: http://www.cdpublications.com/store/158.
Dale N. Smith, The Grey Ghost is $29.95 as a 6 hour audio book from http://www.sirenaudiostudios.com/greyghost.html. ÒDuring the late 60's and early 70's, Darryl FightsBear worked underground for the American Indian Movement, doing what only a handful of individuals would do or could do. The conspiracy to bring his operation down stretched from Montana to the halls of the nation's Capitol, from Canada to the Mexican border. For five years, his own tribal government, four federal agencies, and law enforcement agents in several states stayed on his tail, while a U.S. prosecutor sold his soul to the devil so he could destroy the young man known in underground circles as The Grey Ghost.Ó
Alan P. Garfinkel and Harold Williams, The Handbook of the Kawaiisu, includes a DVD with interview and traditional story by fluent Kawaiisu speaker Luther Girado. Nine experts contributed to the book, which has chapters on the Kawaiisu language, territory and ethnography, ethnohistory, precontact lifeways, basketry, prehistory and rock art, and important Kawaiisu sites. The volume is available from Wa-hi SinaÕavi Publications. Visit www.kawaiisu.org.
Survival International, December 10, 2010, released two short films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians in Brazil, to mark UN Human Rights Day. The film ÔOne must have courage reveals the Guarani's determination that their lands, which have been stolen from them to make way for ranches, soya and sugarcane plantations, must be returned to them. In the film The Gunmen, Guarani express their anger and apprehension as the ranchers who have taken over their lands employ gunmen to shoot at them. The films may be accessed at: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6743.
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