Speaking of Indians

Speaking of IndiansIntroduction by Vine Deloria Jr. Ella Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of language and the understanding necessary to bridge races. Originally published in 1944, this book is an important source of information about Dakota culture and a classic in its elegant clarity of insight. Beginning with a

Salmón focuses on an array of indigenous farmers who uphold traditional agricultural practices in the face of modern changes to food systems such as extensive industrialization and the genetic modification of food crops

with translations

while also working within institutions and a society that was created to oppress them

After oil was discovered beneath their land

In a place and time when Indigenous people often have to contend with representations that marginalize or devalue their intellectual and cultural heritage

and humiliating

In 1914 he began working with Alanson B

Dakota women's aesthetics

Peat compares the medicines

In this collection

Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492

A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today