Traditionally the Kuskokwim Eskimos of southwestern Alaska valued restraint, modesty, and deference traits for which they adopted the English word "bashful." However, since their first encounter with Western culture two hundred years have passed, and people are no longer willing to defer to Westerners.
"Bashful No Longer, " based on Russian-American Company records, writings of traders, missionaries, and explorers, newspaper accounts, and fieldwork conducted by the author, documents and describes culture change among the Kuskokwim Eskimos as first the Russians and then the Americans...
Traditionally the Kuskokwim Eskimos of southwestern Alaska valued restraint, modesty, and deference traits for which they adopted the English word ...
Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who, entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his whole tribe with learning-the only man in history to conceive and perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary.Soon after 1800, Sequoyah began to realize the magic of writing. He and other Indians of the time, who occasionally saw samples of writing, called these mysterious pages the white man's "talking leaf." He experimented aimlessly at first, but gradually his conception took practical shape. It was slow and laborious work for an untutored...
Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who, entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his whole tribe wit...
Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, "The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan" offers a full account of the Quiches, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The Quiches ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlan. Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers, priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life. He describes the fall of...
Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, "The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan" offers a full account of the Quiches, the m...
Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. "The Peyote Road" examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of peyote.
Thomas C. Maroukis has conducted extensive interviews with NAC members and leaders to craft an authoritative account of the church s history, diverse religious practices, and significant people. His book integrates a narrative...
Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a r...
Volume 247 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period Inscriptions is a guide to all the known hieroglyphic symbols of the Classic Maya script. In the New Catalog Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper have...
Volume 247 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history...
Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these rich and strange lands, as Hernan Cortes called them, and their many different peoples was brutal and prolonged. " Strange Lands and Different Peoples " examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it. The studies assembled here, focusing on the first century of colonial rule (1524 1624), discuss issues of conquest and resistance, settlement and colonization,...
Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these rich and strange land...
In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi are largely unknown among their non-Native neighbors and often misunderstood in scholarship. Jason Baird Jackson s "Yuchi Folklore," the result of twenty years of collaboration with Yuchi people and one of just a handful of works considering their experience, brings Yuchi cultural expression to...
In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language un...
The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy. Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day southern Mexico, and thousands more have migrated to locations throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In this comprehensive survey, Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky--both preeminent scholars of Mixtec civilization--synthesize a wealth of archaeological, historical, and...
The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate ...
Volume 246 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series "Little has been written on the tribal nations of the Plateau, much less on women's lives and experiences. Ackerman's book is a unique contribution because it makes a forceful case for taking the egalitarian complexion of Plateau tribes seriously."-Patricia C. Albers, author of Exhibitions, Powwows, and Feasts: Ceremonial Persistence under Change In the past, many Native American cultures have treated women and men as equals. In A Necessary Balance, Lillian A. Ackerman examines the balance of power and responsibility between men and...
Volume 246 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series "Little has been written on the tribal nations of the Plateau, much less on women's lives...
