Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country University of Oklahoma Press 1996 292 pages 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780806128139 Jennifer S.H. Brown, Professor of History University of Winnipeg For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to…

  • Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History University of Oklahoma Press 2012 520 pages Illustrations: 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps, 16 Tables 6.125 x 9.25 in Paperback ISBN: 9780806144870 Edited by: Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Carolyn Podruchny, Associate Professor of History York University, Toronto Brenda Macdougall, Associate Professor of…

  • Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…

  • Race, Descent, and Tribal Citizenship California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (April 2013) pages 23-47 Bethany R. Berger, Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law University of Connecticut What is the relationship between descent-based tribal citizenship requirements and race or racism? This essay argues that tribal citizenship laws that require Indian or tribal…

  • An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928) Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History page 179 James W. Duncan Tahlequah, Oklahoma Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any…

  • The Mestizo Concept: A Product of European Imperialism Onkwehón:we Rising: An Indigenouse Perspectic on Third Worldism & Revolution 2013-08-29 Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies University of California, Davis What is the concept of Mestizaje? What are its origins? What role does it have to play in the liberation, or rather the…

  • Bill to recognize Nansemonds passes committee Suffolk News-Herald Suffolk, Virginia 2014-04-02 A bill that would extend federal recognition to the Nansemond Indian Tribe and five others in Virginia passed the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday. The tribes, which also include the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock and Monacan, are officially recognized by the…

  • Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject Duke University Press 2010 344 pages 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4247-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4266-3 Kirsten Pai Buick, Associate Professor of Art History University of New Mexico Child of the Fire is the first book-length…

  • “Hiding in Plain Sight: Mixed Blood Families and Race in the 19th-Century United States West” Public Radio Tulsa Studio Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma 2014-03-25 Rich Fisher, General Manager & Host Our guest on ST is Anne Hyde, the William R. Hochman Professor of History at Colorado College. She’ll be giving the 2014 H.G. Barnard Distinguished Lecture,…

  • Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 University of Nebraska Press 2011 648 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2405-6 Anne F. Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of History Colorado College Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little…