Countering Colonization : native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630–1900

Devens, Carol

Berkeley  :  University of California Press,  1992

"With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Devens demonstrates that gender conflicts in Native American communities, which anthropologists considered to be "aboriginal," resulted in large part from women's and men's divergence over the acceptance of missionaries and their message.This book's perspective is unique in its focus on Native American women who acted to preserve their culture."publisher description

Discrepant Dislocations : feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories

John, Mary E.

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996

"Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related themes: the lines of tension marking U.S. feminism, especially as foregrounded by women of color; the inescapable complexities of feminist theory and practice in India; and the traffic - in theory, feminists, and women - between the two contexts. Emphasizing the discrepancies in the dislocations articulated by feminists unequally affected by the West and its power, John explores issues of displacement and otherness in contemporary culture." Publisher description

Grateful Prey : Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships

Brightman, Robert
Berkeley : University of California Press,  1993

"The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. Seeking an ideology, however, that incorporates Cree beliefs about human-animal differences and the relationships that should exist between them as hunter and prey, Brightman finds these beliefs to be disordered and unstable rather than systematic. Animals are represented as simultaneously more and less powerful than humans. The hunter-prey relationship is talked about as both collaborative and adversarial."Publisher's Description

Tsimshian mythology

Boas, Franz

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1916

Thirty-first annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1909-1910

Tsimshian texts

Boas, Franz

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1902

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 27

Learning from Experience : Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles

Moya, Paula M. L.
 Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002

"In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. This book provides eloquent analyses of such postmodernist feminists as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Norma Alarcón, and Chela Sandoval. It advances realist proposals for multicultural education and offers an understanding of the interpretive power of Chicana feminists. Learning from Experience enlarges our concept of identity and offers new ways to situate aspects of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in discursive and sociopolitical contexts."Publisher description

The short, swift time of gods on earth : the Hohokam chronicles

Bahr, Donald M.
University of California Press,  1994


"In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim."Publisher's Description

Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture

Modell, Judith S.
Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1994

This book is about the particular kind of kinship American adoption is .Publisher's Description