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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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Psychology

Healing Through Art: Ritualized Space and Cree Identity

Healing Through Art: Ritualized Space and Cree Identity

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.

The Testimonial Uncanny: Indigenous Storytelling, Knowledge, and Reparative Practices

The Testimonial Uncanny: Indigenous Storytelling, Knowledge, and Reparative Practices

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. 

Cultural Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Indigenous Psychology

Cultural Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Indigenous Psychology

Author Carl Rather compares the similarities and differences of the three approaches to therapuetic treatments.

Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights

Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights

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.

Education

Crossing Mountains: Native American Language Education in Public Schools

Crossing Mountains: Native American Language Education in Public Schools

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.

Origins: A Sustainable Concept in Education

Origins: A Sustainable Concept in 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.

Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures

Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures

A comprehensive view of critical approaches to and theories about Indigenous literatures today, including considerations for classroom use.

Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities

Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities

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.

Business

Fighting Colonialism with Hegemonic Culture: Native American Appropriation of Indian Stereotypes

Fighting Colonialism with Hegemonic Culture: Native American Appropriation of Indian Stereotypes

Author Maureen Trudelle Schwarz explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them.

Native American Entrepreneurs

Native American Entrepreneurs

This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans.

Reclaiming Indigenous Planning

Reclaiming Indigenous Planning

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.

Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California

Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California

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.