Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century MidwestAn unprecedented study that puts mixed ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history. Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differentiated from nonmixed Indigenous people by U. S. government policy, their lives have continually been treated as peripheral to Indigenous societies. Mixed Blood Histories intervenes in this erasure. Using legal, linguistic, and family historical

from seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization

their citizens are guaranteed civil rights as citizens of the United States

the book introduces children to 12 traditional Navajo foods made with corn and teaches them their names in the Navajo language

yet she carries Kiju's teachings close

Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm

The New Voice of God documents how this adaptation--manifest in the translation of Christian texts into Cherokee--not only bridged two vastly different languages but also exposed deep philosophical differences

forcing her out of her home community―all because she married someone without status

drunken Indian

Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men

From the noir-tinged mystery of "Unholy Wine" to the gripping intensity of "Tukwut

Growing up in Yakima

The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty