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The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences, and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the Indigenous experience.
Covering both Canada's First Nations and the Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the world, the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past decade, and highlights the best new work that is emerging in the field. The World of Indigenous North America is a book for every scholar in the field to own and refer to often.
List of contents
Introduction
Section 1: Preludes
Chapter 1: Cahokia and the Earthworks of North America
Chapter 2: The Mayan Universe
Chapter 3: Anasazi
Chapter 4: Indigenous Alaska
Chapter 5: Mexico
Section 2: Geographies
Chapter 6: Yoemem
Chapter 7: Native Architecture
Chapter 8: Removal
Chapter 9: Urban Landscapes
Section 3: Survival and Persistence
Chapter 10: Revitalized Languages
Chapter 11: Indigenous Scientists
Chapter 12: Recognition and Rebuilding
Chapter 13: Whaling
Section 4: Aesthetics
Chapter 14: Music from Screech Songs to Hip Hop
Chapter 15: Film
Chapter 16: Writing
Chapter 17: The History of Books in the Indigenous Americas
Chapter 18: Drama
Section 5: Institutions
Chapter 19: Government and Governance
Chapter 20: Courts, Police, and the Law
Chapter 21: Education
Chapter 22: Health
Section 6: An Indigenous World?
Chapter 23: South America
Chapter 24: Hawai'i
Chapter 25: Pacific
Chatper 26: Maori
Chapter 27: Australia
Section 7: A Complex, Modern World
Chapter 28. Sexualities
Chapter 29: Gender
Chapter 30: Afro-Native Realities
Chapter 31: Chicano Indigeneity
Chapter 32: Disability in the Indigenous Americas
About the author
Robert Warrior is Director of American Indian Studies and Native American House, and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
