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Kay Walkingstick, Niagara 2022, oil on wood panel, 40" x 80", Collection of the New York Historical Society. kaywalkingstick.com
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Author and therapist Nadia Ferrara examines how individual experience of trauma is perceived, defined, and narrated by Cree individuals and discusses the role that Cree culture and Cree definitions of self play in therapy.
Through the study of Indigenous literary and artistic practices from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, Julia V. Emberley examines the ways Indigenous storytelling discloses and repairs the traumatic impact of social violence in settler colonial nations.
Author Carl Rather compares the similarities and differences of the three approaches to therapuetic treatments.
This analysis by an Indigenous feminist scholar challenges the United Nations-based human rights agendas and colonial theory that until now have shaped Indigenous models of self-determination.
The book centers the concept of "rematriation"--the concerted effort to place power, peace, and decision making back into the female space, land, body, and sovereignty--as a decolonial practice to combat injustice.
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact.
Using case studies of school districts on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, Crossing Mountains by Phyllis Ngai provides important insights about integrating Native-language learning into public education.
he authors examine how origins are played upon in many and varied educational contexts and propose alternative ways of dealing with and reinventing origins.
A comprehensive view of critical approaches to and theories about Indigenous literatures today, including considerations for classroom use.
An interdisciplinary showcase of the ways indigenous research methods can enhance scholarship in fields including education, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, social work, qualitative methodologies, and beyond.
A comprehensive resource that provides a vivid portrait of best practices for Native American students, as experienced by Native American educators.
Author Kim Cary Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the quintessential free state, not only because it was home to sizable populations of Indian groups and former slaves, but also because of its unique history of conflict over freedom during the antebellum period.
This book provides information about the importance of teaching American Indian students by bridging home and schools, using students' cultural capital as a springboard for academic success.
Author Maureen Trudelle Schwarz explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them.
This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans.
With examples from the Canadian Arctic to the Australian desert, contributors engage topics including Indigenous mobilization and resistance, awareness-raising and seven-generations visioning, Indigenous participation in community planning processes, and forms of governance.
Author Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation in Northern California.
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