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Focuses on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century experiences of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, presenting a new brand of tribal history made possible by the emergence of tribal communities' own research centres and the resources afforded by the digital age.

An ode to both southwestern Oklahoma and rock music, Live from Medicine Park is a bittersweet reflection on the search for identity and purpose amid tragedy. As the novel reaches its climax, the central character sets out on one last adventure to set things right. Redemption may be possible - but only on its own terms.

Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity.

Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, A. Gabriel Melendez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.

Critical to understanding the nuances of Plains Indian strategy and tactics, the firsthand narratives in Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight reveal the true nature of this Native victory against regular army forces.

Among the diverse peoples who converged on America's mid-nineteenth western frontier were African American pioneers. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom's Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective.

From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history, but their later experiences remain largely missing from history. From Huronia to Wendakes seeks to fill this gap.

In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. This book is the memoir she wrote. It recounts her coming of age as a teacher, as well as what she taught her students.

Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as "a force of nature on the page and off." That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs.

The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West.

Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. In Sea of Sand, Michael Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders.

Examines the performance of the Allies' Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the bitter end. This book is a view of the Gallipoli Campaign unique in its detail and scope, as well as in its conclusions - a book that looks past myth and distortion to the facts of what happened.

The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies. In this book, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William Nester explains how and why the French were defeated.

When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth. His life changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union. This sympathetic but critical biography centres on his subsequent efforts to prevent war with Indians during the volatile 1860s.

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera's complex life in cinematic detail.

This lively history of an American civil and military engineering milestone draws on interviews with veterans and local residents and research in Canadian and US archives. The participants' stories provide humour and insights on the building of this transformational highway.

When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert". A "sea of grass", the llano appeared empty, flat, and barely habitable. Yet in this lyrical ecomemoir, Shelley Armitage charts a unique rediscovery of the largely unknown land, a journey at once deeply personal and far-reaching.

Helen Hunt Jackson's passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes's helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson's involvement in Indian reform.

Battlefield archaeologist Daniel Sivilich provides readers with the tools and techniques to unlock the stories of small shot in this book, the first definitive guide to identifying musket balls, from the oldest formed to those fired in the early nineteenth century.

Following Oklahoma's flagship school through decades that saw six US presidents, eleven state governors, and five university presidents, Volume 2 of The University of Oklahoma: A History documents the institution's evolution into a complex, diverse, and multifaceted seat of learning.

This exhaustive reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph - and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard Etulain assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity's legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives.

Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership that Native people face.

Readers of Rudolfo Anaya's fiction know the lyricism of his prose, but most do not know him as a poet. In this, his first collection of poetry, Anaya presents twenty-eight of his best poems, most of which have never before been published.

In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O'Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going.

With encounters with such legendary western as Crazy Horse and Calamity Jane, Valentine Trant O'Connell McGillycuddy's life encapsulated key events in American history. In this first biography of the man in seventy years, author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy's fascinating experiences on the northern plains.

For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the US economy to those of American Indian peoples. In this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Post, its Navajo clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading.

Hugh Lenox Scott spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian Territory. From 1891 to 1897, he commanded an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, Scott collected three volumes of information on American Indian life and culture. This remarkable resource appears here in full for the first time.

Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave "looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler." Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, "guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of." In this book, Karen Holliday Tanner and John Tanner, Jr., recount his colourful life.