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Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? In a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon Mihesuah offers an accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived.

Adds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. Verity McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed.

What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder's interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This book brings to light the little-known agrarian roots of an American department store chain.

When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colourful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers.

Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity.

Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, A. Gabriel Melendez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.

A common misperception is that Mayas have no languages of their own, only dialectos, and therefore live in silence. In reality, contemporary Mayas are anything but voiceless. This book is a collection of poems and short stories by indigenous authors from Chiapas, and is an inspiring testimony to their literary achievements.

Examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. Reclaiming this lost history, John Rhea looks at the cultural processes through which women were connected to Indian history.

Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. In Sea of Sand, Michael Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders.

Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone. This volume presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the western frontier.

The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies. In this book, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William Nester explains how and why the French were defeated.

The only comprehensive introduction designed specifically for those new to the study, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs uses a hands-on approach to teach learners the current state of Maya epigraphy.

Following Oklahoma's flagship school through decades that saw six US presidents, eleven state governors, and five university presidents, Volume 2 of The University of Oklahoma: A History documents the institution's evolution into a complex, diverse, and multifaceted seat of learning.

This exhaustive reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph - and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard Etulain assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity's legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives.

Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership that Native people face.

In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the US economy to those of American Indian peoples. In this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Post, its Navajo clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading.

The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used throughout this volume.

Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas, known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. The true story of Wil Usdi's life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by Cherokee author Robert Conley.

From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas's - and the America's - largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years.

Since it first appeared, Chiefs and Challengers has been recognised as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California. In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological scholarship and seldom-used documentary evidence.

In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented - both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible - a situation that Charles Esdaile seeks to address.

Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements.

Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the official state rock, or list the courses in the official state meal? The answers to these questions, and others you may not have thought to ask, can be found in this engaging collection of tales by David Dary.

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. "Strange Lands and Different Peoples" examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it.

Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six animal tales penned by Evans during his career.