American Indian Studies

Find overviews on a wide variety of cultural topics and traditions, including food, festivals, technology, dwellings, and much more. See the category index in v. 3, p. 1029, for places to start. Volume 3 also has a list of films dealing with American Indians on p. 888.

Essays detail the history of cultural regions followed by snapshots of individual tribes, including descriptions of traditional customs, dwellings, diet, notable arts, technology, transportation, and more.

Find descriptions of and further readings for hundreds of Native American inventions and innovations, from food and agriculture to medicine, tools, mathematics, and more.

Explore the lives and work of contemporary American Indian artists working in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as crafts such as basketry and weaving.

Look here for short biographies and discographies of hundreds of Native musicians, interspersed with short essays on music genres such as contemporary, flute, peyote ritual, and powwow music.

Find descriptions and the cultural contexts of the traditional dress and ornamentation of American Indian tribes, arranged by region. Several historical photographs are included.

As women's studies departments and programs undergo rapid transformation in higher education, there has been a burgeoning demand for instructional material that addresses feminist and queer studies at all levels in the curricula. Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and TransnationalReader reflects this vibrantly expanding field and meets the urgent need for theory courses.Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader is not simply a feminist theory text that includes queer theories; rather, it theorizes at the intersection of feminist and queer theories, and by doing so, transforms and reshapes the boundaries of the fields. The book invitesstudents to think critically about the limitations of understanding feminist theory as separate, but tangentially related, to queer theory and moves them beyond transnationalism as "additive" to U.S.-centered intersectional perspectives. The book frames feminist and queer inquiry as beingarticulated through each other and within a global context. It also provide new voices - scholarly, activist, and creative--inside and outside the U.S. that are shaping the field and selections that highlight the importance of im/migration and borders as well as science, technology, and digitalcultures.

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. This landmark book includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts.

The epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life.

This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Indigenous film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities Two draws on American Indian studies, film studies, art history, cultural studies, visual culture studies, women's studies, and postcolonial studies.

Encompasses all major tribal areas: the Southwest, California, the Pacific Northwest, the Eskimos of Canada and Alaska, the Plains and the Eastern Woodlands. Numerous colour photographs.

A splendidly illustrated introduction to the rich history of Native American art, distinguished by its broad coverage and nuanced discussion.

This beautifully designed, full-colour book presents a collection of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects produced by Canada's First Peoples - including some that are roughly 12,000 years old - that represent spectacular expressions of creativity and ingenuity.