Showing titles in Indigenous Studies

An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. 

The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilization. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made groundbreaking contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, shows how there was no single rise and fall of the Maya but a series of births and collapses over a breathtaking span of nearly three millennia.

When Words Fail Us: Truth beyond time, is the powerful new work by acclaimed author and broadcaster Stan Grant. In this deeply reflective and timely book, Stan Grant – one of Australia’s most prominent voices on identity, nationhood and belonging – explores the fragility of language and the profound importance of listening and silence in an age of distracted, angry noise and disembodied algorithms.

The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens...

From Shawn Leonard, Indigenous medium and host of Spirit Talker, comes a guide for assembling your unique team of spirit totem animal guides to be your personal guides through your life. We are deeply connected to the animal nation, and through the four stages of life—Childhood, Youth...

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a...

New York Times Bestseller This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th...

A forensic history of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people crisis that unmasks the Americas’ oldest and most relentless crime: Native genocide “A phenomenal contribution to our understanding of the ongoing violence throughout the Americas against [MMIW2S].” —...

Reporting for her local newspaper, Odawa Anishinaabe journalist Sierra BiidaabanNadeau stumbles onto a family's—and a nation's—buried stories. In enrollment records of Michigan boarding schools, she finds the names of ten of her ancestors thrown into the maw of American settler colonialism...

在无休止的部落冲突与残酷生存压力中锻造出延续百年的原住民民主共治体系，这部硬核的北美政治史将彻底颠覆你对权力分配的现代认知。如果你正试图在通勤的碎片时间里寻找一段能引发深度现实反思的硬派历史，这场跨...

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve...

Difficulties are a part of life, but so is the wisdom that helps us overcome them. On Keep Going, Lakota elder and award-winning storyteller Joseph M. Marshall III offers the unique perspective of his people to remind us that the most important and enduring lessons come through the power of...

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far...

استمع لتاريخ تكساس من منظور الشعوب الأصلية، حيث تتجسد براعة البقاء والمقاومة في وجه الاستعمار بشجاعة. انغمس في تجربة صوتية تعليمية ملهمة ترافقك في تنقلاتك...

远在现代州界划定之前，广袤的大平原与墨西哥湾早已成为原住民部落在严酷自然与殖民扩张中捍卫家园的壮阔历史舞台。渴望摆脱单一视角、探寻真实北美往事的深度求知者，将在这段波澜壮阔的岁月中，听到那些被遗忘却...

استكشف التاريخ البشري الحقيقي خلف تماثيل المواي الغامضة، وكيف تمكن مجتمع معزول من بناء حضارة مذهلة بموارد محدودة. يغوص هذا السرد التاريخي العميق في بيئة المحيط...

Mergulhe na história e na arqueologia para entender como uma sociedade polinésia isolada ergueu monumentos colossais. Transforme seu trajeto diário em uma jornada imersiva pelo Pacífico, acompanhando navegadores audaciosos que dominaram um ambiente extremo e remoto. A narrativa recria a vida...

Un rivoluzionario sistema di consenso indigeno svela i segreti politici di una potente democrazia senza stato centrale. Ideale per chi cerca un ascolto storicamente immersivo durante i propri spostamenti, questo viaggio sonoro esplora le radici di un patto legislativo leggendario. Oltre le...

استكشف كيف شكلت ست أمم أصلية نظاما سياسيا معقدا وتوافقيا صمد لقرون أمام تحديات الاستعمار. هذا السرد التاريخي العميق يرافقك خلال أوقات تنقلك ليقدم لك رحلة فكرية...