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In considering the interplay between contemporary Protestant practice and native cultural traditions among Maya evangelicals, this work documents the processes whereby some Maya have converted to different forms of Christianity and the ways in which the Maya are incorporating Christianity for their own purposes.

In this study centering on the Cherokee Nation, we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries - removal, the Civil War and allotment of their lands - forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society.

For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. All aspects - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - figure into the Cherokee concept of good health. This title provides a portrait of Cherokee health issues.

Combining anthropology and history, David Carey uses both oral interviews and archival research to construct a history of the last 50 years in Guatemala from the perspective of present-day Mayan people. He compares the Maya-Kaqchikel's point of view with that of western scholars.

This study explores the power and atistry of prophecy among the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, who use predictions about the future to interpret the world around them.

In this study centering on the Cherokee Nation, we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries - removal, the Civil War and allotment of their lands - forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society.

In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the Catawba pottery traditions. He reconstructs sales circuits regularly traveled by Catawba peddlers and details particular techniques of the representative potters - factors such as clay selection, tool use, decoration, and firing techniques - which influence their styles.

A major economic industry among American Indian tribes is the public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues. Comparing the experiences of the Cherokee with the Florida Seminoles and Southwestern tribes, this work brings into focus the fine line between promoting and selling Indian culture.

The Choctaw Indians were peaceful farmers living in Mississippi and Alabama, until they were moved to Oklahoma in 1830. This guide to their ways includes descriptions of such subjects as clans, division of labour between the sexes, games, religion, war customs, and burial rites.

Reveals the commonality and diversity among Catawba, Midland, Santee, Natchez-Kusso, Varnertown, Waccamaw, Pee Dee, and Lumbee Indians of North and South Carolina, who have roots in pre-contact Cofitachequi, people of Indian identity; their heritage, culture, frustrations with the system, and joys in success of the younger generation.

For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. All aspects - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - figure into the Cherokee concept of good health. This title provides a portrait of Cherokee health issues.

Drawing on interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, the author offers accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened under the Virginia's Racial Integrity Law.