North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes is volume 467 in Osprey Publishing's Men-at-Arms series. All titles in the series are well-researched and contain full-colour plates of the uniforms or clothing worn by military forces of the past and present. This volume covers the Great Lakes Woodland cultural region and includes information about Ojibwe, Huron, Wyandot, Miami, Potawatomi, Winnebago, Sac and Fox, Odawa, Petun, and Kickapoo Nations cultural clothing styles.
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by historian Richard White is part of Cambridge University Press series, Studies in North American Indian History. This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations|stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning.
In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox Nations on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Patrick J. Jung re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States, a conflict that decimated Black Hawk's band.
Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing is a collection of 16 essays about First Nations and Metis women in eastern North American history. How can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This question is answered by this landmark anthology, an essential guide to the significance, experiences, and histories of Native women.
Indians in Minnesota is the fifth edition of the League of Women Voters of Minnesota title first issued in 1962. The goal of the first edition was to provide comprehensive information about the lives of Minnesota Indians and their relationships with federal, state, and local governments. This edition brings the information up-to-date with details about the Ojibwe and Dakota people living on reservations and in the urban areas of Minnesota. The research is based on information from the 2000 Minnesota census as well as interviews with Ojibwe tribal members.
Six Native American artists selected for the Migrations exhibition by the Tamarind Institute. They include Steven Deo, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Ryan Lee Smith, Star Wallowing Bull, and Marie Watt. In addition to the art, essays by Jo Ortel, Lucy Lippard, Kathleen Howe, and Gerald McMaster contribute expert analyses of Native American art. Ortel, an associate professor of art history at Beloit College, defines "Migrations" as it applies to this project. Lippard is an art critic and author whose essay discusses the cultural baggage forced upon the American Indian.
UNAVAILABLE Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region is a reprint from the 33rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1919. This reissue of Melvin Gilmore's (1868-1949) University of Nebraska thesis describes the ethnobotany of the Missouri River Valley. Gilmore conducted his research with various members of the Ponca, Teton Dakota, Omaha, and Pawnee Nations of the Plains.
Reuben Snake - Your Humble Serpent is the biography of a Winnebago (Ho Chunk) visionary and activist. Born in 1937 in Nebraska, Reuben Snake attended a private boarding school run by missionaries, and later joined the United States Army as a Green Beret. Anthropologist Jay C. Fikes who worked with Reuben and taped several interviews months before he died in 1993 retells his life story.
One Nation Under God - The Triumph of the Native American Church is a compilation of essays, first person testimonials, and legal documents about the significance of the Native American Church, and the importance of religious freedom in the United States. Reuban Snake (1920-1993) was a leader in the Native American Church and an elder of the Hochunk (Winnebago) people who struggled to see the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedoms Act Amendments. His writings clearly express the importance of his religious teachings gained from being a member of the Native American Church.