In this highly original and moving volume, an anthropologist, a historian, and a Native singer come together to reveal the personal and cultural power of Christian faith among the Kiowas of southweste
The wildlife management controversy over the deer on the Kaibab Plateau, north of the Grand Canyon, remains one of the best-known examples of nature's balance being upset by human efforts to protect a
"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists high
John Hersey (1914–93) was a correspondent for Time and Life magazines when in 1942 he was sent to cover Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific. While there, Hersey obse
In the mid-1970s, the Mashantucket Pequot tribe had only one member - an elderly woman who pleaded with her grandson to come live on the impoverished reservation and save it from falling into governme
This supplement is perfect for individuals seeking greater understanding of the haftarot as independent literary entities and in the larger context of the Torah cycle and Jewish life; for leaders of a
Chaplain Richard M. Budd has made a welcome, concise, well written and researched contribution to an overlooked chapter in chaplain history. Anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how
The surrender of Geronimo in 1886 did not mark the end of Apache resistance to white encroachment. Over the next four decades, rumors persisted about a band of "wild" Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Who
In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery
Korn, a Philadelphia rabbi and Naval Reserve chief chaplain who died in 1979, chronicles roles Jews played in the US Civil War and attitudes toward them. The book includes the preface to the 1961 seco
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressColorado is considered by many to be the promised land of lost treasure. Silver miners, gold prospectors, government agents, crooked Ar
Critics have called David Lavender a "master storyteller" (Library Journal), his prose "virile, disciplined, yet personal" (New York Times), and his book "a balanced, learned, and lively history of an
Mitzvot traditionally form the bond between God and individual, God and Israel. JPS is proud to release a gift edition of its acclaimed translation of the Torah. With its elegantly designed slipcase,
Profiles the teacher who died with the NASA crew when the Challenger exploded in 1986, and describes the various ways her enthusiasm for learning and exploration, determination to teach children, and
How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly "Indian" customs come to be accepted - socially and legally - as I
Customers who place a standing order for the Tests in Print series or the Mental Measurements Yearbook series will receive a 10% discount on every volume. To place your standing order, please call 1-8
Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act embroiled the plains states in a struggle that presaged the war to come, the irrepressible Erastus F. Beadle left his home in Buffalo, New York, and set out f
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressExperience the world of 1492 through the eyes of a young Basque adventurer who, born to a family of whalers, feels the calling of the se
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressCorporal Burke Langdon thought he was escaping from the doldrums of frontier Army life when he was assigned to take six strange-looking
The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942) took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally turbulent era in its history. He was at the Red Cloud Agency when Red
The Fourth Century tells of the quest by young Mathieu Beluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique. Aware that the officially recorded version he learned in school omits and distort
The teachers of Hasidism gave new life to the literary tradition of parable, a story that teaches a spiritual or moral truth. In The Hasidic Parable, acclaimed author Aryeh Wineman takes readers throu
In 12 essays reprinted from journals and anthologies, Guy (history, U. of Arizona) explores topics ranging from public health and child welfare to criminality and industrialization. Their unifying the
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressTwelve evocative essays contributing to the research about writer/intellectual Vardis Fisher and his missing place in A
A thrilling young adult novel that captures the horrors of the Spanish Inquisistion and the strength and determination of one young girl to preserve her family and culture at any cost.
The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second
Willa Cather's close friend and travelling campanion presents a portrait of the well-known author, describing her personality, appearance, relationships, and response to life's hardships and triumphs.
In an incisive and wide-ranging critique of ethnohistory and historical anthropology, Michael E. Harkin develops an innovative approach to understanding the profound cultural changes experienced durin
Presents a biography of the naturalist and writer, describing how his work stems from his loveless childhood with a mentally ill mother and traveling salesman father and his determination to succeed.
One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark's “Voyage of Discovery” (1804–1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo
In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today exp
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressHistorian Brigham Madsen has devoted much of his career to telling the story of the Shoshoni. The tribe once occupied a huge region that
Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898–1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix
Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their Native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds t
Gulick, a Northwest history writer with 30 books to his credit including Roll On, Columbia and Chief Joseph Country , maintains that the Northwest has its share of interesting outlaws, and if only
Oneida elder Elm first told the story to linguist Lounsbury in 1971; the transcription and translation into parallel columns of original Oneida and English were completed with the help of Antone, a re
The result of more than ten years of research, A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee draws on the expertise of a linguist and a native Creek speaker to yield the first modern dictionary of the Creek language
A Primer of Italian Fascism makes available for the first time in English translation the key documents pertaining to one of our century’s defining mass political movements. Whereas existing anthologi
Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological tex
