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Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and no-nonsense practical advice about health and fitness, Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens, by the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah, draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.

Negro League ballplayers had been thrilling black fans since 1920. Although their games were ignored by white-owned newspapers and radio stations, black ballplayers became folk heroes in cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, and Washington DC, where the teams drew large crowds and became contributors to the local community life.

Too Strong to Be Broken follows Edward Driving Hawk's emotional, physical, and financial hardships between his military and home life, survival both in and out of war, and the people who have provided unwavering support through such trying times.

Sky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through.

A study of the significant role that Indigenous activists living in Chicago played in shaping local and national public perception of Native Americans in the early twentieth century.

Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family's wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof.

Sporting Realities is a collection that explores the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts.

This fourteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income.

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an Indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo-that was sacred to him and to his people.

This memoir recounts Bethany Maile's efforts, informed by a steady diet of "western" activities, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent.

Modernity through Letter Writing examines the discursive practices between Native and non-Native writers during the removal era. In this process of written diplomacy, protest, and petitioning, Native writers developed strategies for negotiating the policies of Indian Removal and advocating for their own indigenous nations.

This new edition of the first comprehensive history of the financing, construction, growth, and management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway includes nearly twenty-five more years of history.

Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. Linda Heidenreich coins the term nepantla(2) to mark figures who moved between cultures and genders.

Part cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.

Rez Metal showcases the sounds, images, and stories of Navajo heavy metal bands and Native heavy metalers while exploring the deep and life-affirming power of heavy metal music in Indian Country.

Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Sports Journalism tells the full story of American sports journalism and the notable changes in technology that have dramatically changed how Americans consumed it.

The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entree into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field.

An anthology of editorials, articles, and essays written and published by Indigenous students at boarding schools around the turn of the twentieth century.

Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers' role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.

Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy.

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula.

Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer bring together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia.

During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians¿ equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives¿appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi covers¿were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.War Paintings of the Tsuu T¿ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T¿ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T¿ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T¿ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T¿ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone¿s analysis furthers our understanding of Tsuu T¿ina pictographic war paintings in relation to the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the richest and most important Native American artistic and literary genres.

Offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. Written by one of America's most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Ted Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

Heart of Lions recounts the development of bicycle racing in the United States, explains why its popularity faded, and profiles major American cyclists from the past through the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland.

Offers an information about Dakota culture and a classic in its elegant clarity of insight. Beginning with a general discussion of American Indian origins, language families, and culture areas, the author focuses on her own people, the Dakotas, and the intricate kinship system that governed all aspects of their life.

Different Strokes closely examines how Black Americans are collectively faring in tennis, on the court and off.