Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life University of Alabama Press 2008 248 pages Quality Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-5488-6 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8173-1615-0 E Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8113-4    Rosemary Clark Whitlock, Monacan Indian and Independent Scholar The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia,…

  • Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880 Johns Hopkins University Press 2007 344 pages 11 halftones, 2 line drawings Hardback ISBN: 9780801886942; Paperback ISBN: 9780801898198 Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian…

  • The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes: an Advocate’s Chronicle University of Oklahoma Press May 1998 384 pages 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches ISBN-10: 0806130431; ISBN-13: 978-0806130439 Parker M. Nielson This book is out of print. In The Dispossessed, Parker M. Nielson chronicles the tragic story of the mixed-blood Utes. A leading Utah…

  • Last Child Henry Holt and Company (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2005 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-7739-1, ISBN10: 0-8050-7739-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4299-3709-2, ISBN10: 1-4299-3709-2 Michael Spooner, Director Utah State University Press A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world Rosalie’s biggest problem used…

  • Native, Aboriginal, Indigenous: Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Scholarship of Diversity, Conference Proceedings Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia April 2004 17 pages Jay Hansford C. Vest, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies University of North Carolina, Pembroke In 1948, sociologist William Gilbert wrote: “Indian blood still remains noticeable in…

  • For Maria Campbell, a Métis (“Halfbreed”) in Canada, the brutal realities of poverty, pain, and degradation intruded early and followed her every step. Her story is a harsh one, but it is told without bitterness or self-pity.

  • School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press) 2011-01-11 248 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8 Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating…

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…

  • White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2011-04-26 Tanya Lee Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy, Chickahominy Eastern Division, Nansemond, Rappahannock and Upper Mattaponi tribes and the Monacan Indian Nation. Chief Gene Adkins of…

  • Comparative studies of full and mixed blood North Dakota Indians Psychological Monographs Volume 50, Number 5 (1938) pages 116-129 DOI: 10.1037/h0093522 C. W. Telford The early comparative studies of Indian-white mixtures in America uniformly reported superior mental test performances of mixed as compared with full blood Indians. The tests used in these investigations were principally…