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Lakhota

Lakhota

An Indigenous History

by Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus

The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakȟóta culture and society, from their origins to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakȟóta voices and perspectives.
 

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

Powhatan People and the Color Line

by Laura J. Feller

Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions.

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain

Networks, Power, and Everyday Life

by Saara Kekki

Especially timely in its implications for debates over immigration and assimilation, Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain presents a remarkable opportunity to reconstruct a community created under duress within the larger American society, and to gain new insight into an American experience largely lost to official history.
 

Harnessing the Airplane

Harnessing the Airplane

American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903–1939

by Lori A. Henning

Harnessing the Airplane compares how the American and British armies dealt with this unique challenge. A multilayered look at a critical aspect of modern industrial warfare, this book examines the ramifications of technological innovation and its role in the fraught relationship that developed between traditional ground units and emerging air forces.

Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women’s National Indian Association

Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

A Legacy of Indian Reform

by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Foreword by Lori Jacobson

With reference to Quinton’s voluminous writings—including her letters, speeches, and newspapers articles—as well as WNIA literature, Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people with healthcare and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
 

Indian Cities

Indian Cities

Histories of Indigenous Urbanization

Edited by Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill and Andrew Needham

All the contributions to this volume show how, from colonial times to the present day, Indigenous people have shaped and been shaped by urban spaces. Collectively they demonstrate that urban history and Indigenous history are incomplete without each other.
 

A Life on Fire

A Life on Fire

Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

by Connie Cronley

In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States.

All the Water the Law Allows

All the Water the Law Allows

Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

by Christian S. Harrison

Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that governs water allocation from the Colorado River.

This Land Is Herland

This Land Is Herland

Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s

Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin

Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.
 

La Castañeda Insane Asylum

La Castañeda Insane Asylum

Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

by Cristina Rivera Garza

Translated by Laura Kanost

La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum—a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.

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