2006, ISBN: 6d45b5a22fa978061439d3a58a3b8001

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Fine Trade Paperback Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992. First Thus. 8vo Clean 189 pp. NOT a library book Important study of Ojibway or early 'Chippewa' Social life, child life. G… Mehr…

Fine Trade Paperback Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992. First Thus. 8vo Clean 189 pp. NOT a library book Important study of Ojibway or early 'Chippewa' Social life, child life. Great section of native Tattoo techniques by a native. From Spiritual life to food gathering, birch bark canoes, sweats, Midewiwin, tipi shaking. Amazing b/w photos. Extensive star knowledge time gathering using north star. Land to the West after death.Great clean shape. No underlines Great inscription on first free endpaper. Extraordinary inner look of Ojibway.We wrap with care since 1977, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992, University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work. At the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine's influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), author Donna M. Cassidy brilliantly appraises the contemporary social, political, and economic realities that shaped Hartley's landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native regionÑthe North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast, and Mount KatahdinÑproducing work that demands an interpretive approach beyond art history's customary biographical, stylistic, and thematic methodologies. Cassidy, sensitive to the psychological and gender analysis traditionally central to interpretations of Hartley, becomes the first scholar to reassess his late work in light of contemporary American perceptions of race, ethnicity, place, and history. This remarkable new book resonates not only as a seminal Hartley study and a complex art and cultural period history, but as a superb example of applied early twentieth-century American intellectual history informed by an impressive command of primary and secondary interdisciplinary literature. Numerous and rich illustrations, as well as transcriptions of several key essays by Hartley, some never before published, including "This Country of Maine" (1937-38), round out this insightful, nuanced, and revolutionary treatment. Donna M. Cassidy's Marsden Hartley will engage general readers as well as scholars and students. "Despite his reputation as an aesthete unaffected by social concerns, Cassidy argues, Hartley's late paintings look like works by a savvy operator who reinvented himself as a native-born painter in order to take advantage of the newfound popularity of a state that had added the 'Vacationland' slogan to its license plates in 1936. Traveling to scenic parts of Maine he'd never visited before, Hartley drew inspiration for the expressionist paintings of lighthouses, Mount Katahdin, and the like that he painted before his death in 1943 from the postcards and brochures he picked up."ÑBoston Globe "[H]ighly readable, thoroughly researched, and thoughtfully conceived . . . Highly recommended."ÑChoice "This study represents a decade-and-a-half of the author's meticulous research, as she carefully reconstructs the social and cultural bases underpinning the representational strategies that Hartley adopted as he purposefully crafted his own artistic identity during the later phase of his career, circa 1934-43. Cassidy's text is itself an impressively multi-layered, composite work that is a product not only of modernist art history but of rigorous cross-disciplinary inquiry in American Studies and New England Studies. This book represents the product of the sustained thought and probing inquiry Cassidy has devoted to these fascinating and complicated subjects. Cassidy has produced an archivally solid and conceptually powerful account of Hartley that suggestively extends the familiar parameters of the artistic monograph, just as she critically repositions Hartley's paintings, writings, and rhetoric within an expandedÑand evermore complexÑCollege Art Reviews "Donna Cassidy offers us the most complete portrait we have of Marsden Hartley as an artist. Without ignoring the recent scholarship on Hartley's sexuality, Cassidy returns him to his own sense of himselfÑone he arrived at with great struggle, to be sureÑas a native of Maine, an artist who said what he had to say through the means of his local landscape and neighbors. Building on a decade of her own work, Cassidy convincingly presents Hartley not as an isolated, tortured genius, but someone fully aware of the art world he is operating in, an arena that after the early 1920's was not 'modernist' but 'Americanist.' The larger issue the book tackles is modernism itself: it is a very welcome addition to the state of that question."ÑBruce Robertson, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chief Curator, Art of the Americas, and Deputy Director, Art Programs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art "This is a fresh and forceful study. Cassidy places Hartley's writings and paintings of the late 1930s and early 1940s within the discourses of New England tourism, primitivism, Regionalism, and Nazism, giving us a complex picture of the aging artist seeking to become the 'painter from Maine.' Lucidly written, this book integrates art history and cultural studies in exemplary fashion."ÑWanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Beyond Hartley the Modernist ¥ I. Painting and Marketing Region ¥ The "Painter from Maine" and New England Regionalism ¥ Consumerism, Tourism, and Regional Art ¥ II. Inventing the Past ¥ Autobiography: Creating the Self, Region, and Nation ¥ The Lincoln Portraits: Between Autobiography and Public History ¥ Autobiography and Public History ¥ Artifacts and the Historical Landscape ¥ III. Representing the Folk ¥ The Folk and the Modernist Primitive ¥ The Working-Class Male Body: Masculinity, Homosexuality, and Nation ¥ The North Atlantic Folk and Racial Discourse ¥ Appendixes: Essays by Marsden Hartley - A "New England on the Trapeze" ¥ B "The Six Greatest New England Painters" ¥ C "On the Subject of Nativeness - A Tribute to Maine" ¥ D "This Country of Maine" ¥ "George Fuller" ¥ "The Nordica Homestead" ¥ "Fanny [sic] Hardy Eckstorm - Penobscot Man" ¥ Notes ¥ Bibliography ¥ Index. Donna M. Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine, and the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (1997). "Cassidy has written a courageous book . . . show[ing] how Hartley integrated his prejudices into his artistic program. Hartley's art and life hold important lessons about the value of studying art in cultural context and the danger of the self-censorship that kept earlier generations of Americans from studying Nazi art and recognizing . . . uncomfortable links."ÑNew York Times Book Review ISBN: 1584654465., University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2005, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2013. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern New Mexico facilitated the diffusion of both spirits and habits of over-drinking within Native American cultures. Unrau investigates how it came about that distilled alcohol, designated illegal under penalty of federal fines and imprisonment as a trade item for Indian people, was nevertheless easily obtainable by most Indians along the Taos and Santa Fe roads after 1821. Unrau reveals how the opening of those overland trails, their designation as national roads, and the establishment of legal boundaries of "Indian Country" all combined to produce an increasingly unstable setting in which Osage, Kansa, Southern Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Comanche peoples entered into an expansive trade for alcohol along these routes. Unrau describes how Missouri traders began meeting Anglo demand for bison robes and related products, obtaining these commodities in exchange for corn and wheat alcohol and ensnaring Prairie and Plains Indians in a market economy that became dependent on this exchange. He tells how the distribution of illicit alcohol figured heavily in the failure of Indian prohibition, with drinking becoming an unfortunate learned behavior among Indians, and analyzes this trade within the context of evolving federal Indian law, policy, and enforcement in Indian Country. Unrau's research suggests that the illegal trade along this route may have been even more important than the legal commerce moving between the mouth of the Kansas River and the Mexican markets far to the southwest. He also considers how and why the federal government failed to police and take into custody known malefactors, thereby undermining its announced program for tribal improvement. Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe cogently explores the relationship between politics and economics in the expanding borderlands of the United States. It fills a void in the literature of the overland Indian trade as it reveals the enduring power of the most pernicious trade good in Indian Country. "In this articulate discussion Unrau argues persuasively that the federal surveys of trails onto the southern plains after 1821 encouraged small time traders to open an illegal liquor-based trade with Indians there for buffalo robes. He concludes that this brought a persistent instability to the region and destruction to its tribes during the next fifty years."ÑRoger L. Nichols, author of Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans "This fascinating studyÑby a leading historian of Indian historyÑis both a very good read and a significant contribution to the history of the West and the Santa Fe Trail."ÑDavid Dary, author of The Santa Fe Trail "Helps solve the puzzle of how Indian Country became the United StatesÑand the human costs of that transition."ÑAnne F. Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 "Focusing on the actions of larger-than-life characters, Unrau presents a fast-paced and succinct study."ÑMichael L. Tate, author of Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails WILLIAM E. UNRAU is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Wichita State University and author of ten previous books about Native Americans, including The Rise and Fall of Indian Country; White Man's Wicked Water; and, with Craig Miner, the classic The End of Indian Kansas: A History of Cultural Revolution."A fast-paced and succinct study of one of the most persistent problems facing Indian-white relations during the first half of the nineteenth century. - Unrau focuses on the actions of larger-than-life characters to demonstrate why the national efforts at limiting alcohol stocks in the Indian country failed and how this failure precipitated other interracial problems." - Michael L. Tate, author of Indians and Emigrants, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2013, [Richmond Hill, Ontario] : Firefly Books, 2012, 2004, 2012. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 152 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm ; ISBN: 9781770851580 ((pbk.)); 1770851585 ((pbk.)); National Library: (AMICUS)000040608082; 20129019925; 016111929 LCCN: 2012-462824 ; LC: VM353; Dewey: 623.82/019 ; OCLC: 785765255 ; Profiles the life and work of Edwin Tappan Adney, who preserved the history of Native and fur trade bark canoe construction in North America by building historically accurate canoe models using authentic materials and traditional techniques. Includes photographs of 110 models with captions explaining the source, building techniques and materials used for each canoe. Originally published in 2004./ "Published in association with the Mariners' Museum."/ Includes photographs of canoe models by Edwin Tappan Adney from the Mariners' Museum collection./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-149) and index. ; " The definitive reference to indigenous peoples' watercraft around the world. Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was an artist, writer, ethnographer, historian and modelmaker of unparalleled ability. He tirelessly documented the cultures and languages of vanishing native cultures. His most enduring legacy is the extraordinary 110 birchbark canoe models he handbuilt to exacting standards. The models, now held at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, were built to ensure future canoe builders had exact reproductions for reference. These historically accurate, 1:5 scale models were meticulously researched, and traditionally constructed using the identical materials of the originals. Many are based on canoes that were the last example of their type. Before such a canoe disintegrated, Adney measured and recorded its dimensions, consulted with native builders and studied historical photographs and paintings. ; The canoe models are organized into eight distinct groups: Maritimes, Eastern Woodland, Northwest, Lower British Columbia, Fur Trade, Amur Valley, Asia, South America. ; Each canoe model is beautifully photographed and accompanied by captions that outline the craft's origins, uses and technical details. Adney's amazing technical drawings for the models are also included. " ; VG., [Richmond Hill, Ontario] : Firefly Books, 2012, 2004, 2012, Toronto: Prentice Hall [0-13-040667-8] 2003. (Trade paperback) 186pp. Very good plus. Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on the bottom edge, and pages 85-88 are dog-eared. "Aboriginal Policing: A Canadian Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural, historical, legal, and political bases for Aboriginal policing in Canada. Cummins and Steckley discuss Native politicing traditions; the impact of policing on Canada's First Nations; the U.S. Experience as it provides perspective in Canada; contemporary issues and Native policing arrangements; experiences of Native police officers; and future trends in the field". (Indians of North America, Aboriginal Peoples, First Nations--Canada, Indians of N.A., Justice, Police, Police Officers)., Prentice Hall, Brooklyn, N.Y. Seattle: Brooklyn Museum ; In association with University of Washington Press, 2011. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. As New.. Physical description; xiv, 239 p.: ill. (chiefly col.), 1 col. map; 29 cm. Notes; ""Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tipi : Heritage of the Great Plains, organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Museum, Feb. 18-May 15, 2011; Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, Jun. 17-Sep. 11, 2011; Minnesota History Center, spring 2012""--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Map of the Great Plains -- The tipi: heritage of the Great Plains / Nancy B. Rosoff -- pt. 1. The quintessential American architectural form -- The art of tipi living / Emma I. Hansen -- The Arapaho tipi / Dennis Sun Rhodes -- Ashtáahile (Crow tipis) / Heywood and Mary Lou Big Day -- The rain-in-the-face tipi liner / Susan Kennedy Zeller -- A modern Cheyenne-Arapaho tipi liner / Harvey Pratt -- Of tipis and stereotypes / Bently Spang -- pt. 2. The center of family life -- ""To honor her kindred"": women's arts centered in the tipi / Barbara A. Hail -- Kiowa beadwork in the twenty-first century / Teri Greeves -- Tipis and the warrior tradition / Daniel C. Swan and Michael P. Jordan -- The tipi of the Kiowa Tonkongya (Black Leggings Warrior Society) / Dixon Palmer and Lyndreth Palmer -- Growing up on the Plains / Christina E. Burke. Summary; The tipi is an iconic symbol of Native North American culture, recognized throughout the world. Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains reveals the history and significance of this remarkable architectural form from the 1830s to the present. Ideally suited to a nomadic lifestyle on the Plains, the tipi was the heart of Plains social, religious, and creative traditions. Trade and innovation brought new materials and ways of living to Plains people. As the nomadic way of life gave way to more permanent settlements, the tipi evolved in form but remained central to Plains culture and identity. The book examines the history and continuing tradition of the tipi by focusing on tribes from three geographical regions: the Blackfeet, Crow, Shoshone, and Northern Cheyenne in the north; the Arapaho and many Sioux groups, including Dakota, Yankton, Yanktonai, Lakota, Hunkpapa, and Oglala, in the central plains; and the Pawnee, Osage, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, Comanche, and Plains Apache in the south. Included are first-person narratives by Native people - elders, artists, military veterans, and an architect - that tell of the lasting cultural significance of the tipi within an ongoing process of cultural and artistic interpretation. The volume is richly illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs and artwork. Art made by women, who were the tipi makers and owners, include furnishings, clothing, and accessories. Associated with tipi-centered family life, these objects feature intricate beadwork, quill embroidery, and painting. Other artwork relates to the male warrior tradition: tipi liners, traditionally painted by men with their war exploits, as well as other objects associated with warfare and warrior societies. Children's life in the tipi is illustrated by cradles, garments, toys, and games. Works by contemporary Native artists represent modern interpretations of traditional forms. Dispelling stereotypes of the tipi as a picturesque vestige of the past, Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains demonstrates how the tipi remains a part of a living culture deeply rooted in tradition. Review: This book is a fine introduction to Plains Indian culture... the book shows the value of enlivening old collections with new materials and perspectives... -- Lindea Sundstrum, Museum Anthropology Review. Subjects; Tipis - Great Plains - Exhibitions. Indians of North America - Dwellings - Great Plains - Exhibitions. Great Plains - Social life and customs - Exhibitions. Art of indigenous peoples ; Folk art. Western & Pacific Coast states. HISTORY / Native American. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. Indians of North America - Great Plains - Social life and customs., Brooklyn, N.Y. Seattle: Brooklyn Museum ; In association with University of Washington Press, 2011, Cambridge Scholars, 2010. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, x + 380 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. In a very good, bright dust jacket. -- As the title indicates, Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation points towards the International American Studies Societys aims to promote cross-disciplinary study and teaching of the Americas regionally, hemispherically, nationally and transnationally. But it also reflects, less strategically but more forcefully, the heterogeneous and often unexpected themes, topics and motifs addressed in this forum. These articles are revealing in that they give face and expression to the evolving trends and preoccupations in the field. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the essays explore key questions in International American Studies: what have been the symbolic and material relations between the Americas and the USA, and between America and the World? What are the meanings and workings of these four entities when examined across nations, cultures and languages? In what ways does American experience contribute to the global (re-)production of social, cultural and economic practices? -- Contents: Haunts & Homes of International American Studies [AS] / Susana Araújo; Displacing AS: Updates & Debates [Convergences: IASA in 2007 / Paul Giles; Concentric Hemispheres: AS & Comparative Literature / Djelal Kadir; How USA Transnational Studies Reinforce American Exceptionalism / Jennifer Gurley; Transatlantic Relationships in Higher Education: AS & Impact of the Bologna Process / Ulla Kriebernegg & Roberta Maierhofer; Towards De-centering: Challenges in Theorizing International AS / Evan Heimlich; AS Without a Ground: Relational Questions from a War Zone / Patrick McGreevy; North AS at the University of Tehran / Seyed Mohammad Marandi; Where Is the USA? A View from Croatia / Stipe Grgas]; Representations of Nativeness and Métissage [Transdifference as a Strategy of Resistance in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus / Christina Judith Hein; Cultural Genocide in Linda Hogan's Historical Fiction & Self-Telling; Native Memoir: Writing a Life, Breaking 'Silences All Around'; Who Was Tituba? Transoceanic Crossings & Creative Translations; 'I' Is Where the Encounter Takes Place: Autobiography as an Act of Translation in Sarah Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes; Whitey in the Woodpile: Problem of European Ancestry in Métis Literature; Memory, Identity, Community: White & Métis Writers of French Ancestry Writing Their Subjectivities at the Beginning of the 21st Century]; Transoceanic Exchanges & Cultural Translations [From Cádiz to Montevideo or the Transatlantic Journey of Murga; Prehistory of the British Invasion: Transatlantic Exchange of Folk Music Tradition; Land of Museums, Home of the Hyperreal: America as the Simulation of the Past in the Discourse of Three Postmodern European Intellectuals; Re-interpreting Japanese Canadian Community Movement from Transcontinental and Transpacific Perspectives; Poe's Nevermore, Lisbon's Ravens & Portuguese Ideology of Saudade; Trans/lating Tom: Dramatic Versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Spain & Spanish Americas]; Performing the Americas & Challenging Americas' Performance [TransAmerica? Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity / Stefan Brandt; Greek Slave: Elision and Disjunction in American Anti-slavery Imagery; Uruguayan Songs of Melancholy Displacement in Latin America / Fernando Andacht; Dance on the Transcultural Hyphen: Dis-placement and Re-placement in Contemporary New World African Fiction; Chameleonic Transformations and Reincarnations: Promises and Perspectives in the Americas; Trans/plantation: Sowing Unsustainability; Riding Blackships to Iwo Jima? Transnational Exchanges and Changing Images of Japan in the United States; Trans/lating the War on Terror for Turkey: The United States, Honor and The Valley of the Wolves; Race Politics in an Age of Autogenic Warfare], Cambridge Scholars, 2010, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the famous personages involved, paying scant attention to how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral history, Living with Strangers reveals how the nineteenth-century Sioux were a people of the borderlands. The Sioux made great tactical use of the Canada-United States boundary. They traded with the Mtis of CanadaÑoften in contraband goods such as arms and ammunitionÑand tried to get better prices from European traders by drawing the Hudson's Bay Company into competition with American traders. They opened negotiations with both Canadian and American officials to determine which government would accord them better treatment, and they used the boundary as a shield in times of warfare with the United States. Until now, the Canadian-American borderlands and the people who live there have remained a blind spot in Canadian and American nationalist historiographies. Living with Strangers takes readers beyond the traditional dichotomy of the Canadian and the American West and reveals significant and previously unknown strands in Sioux history. David G. McCrady is an independent historian living in Winnipeg. "Highly recommended."ÑA. B. Kehoe, Choice "The text is richly narrated with competing definitions of borderlands, discussions of emerging 'middle grounds,' portrayals of transboundary peoples, and examples of cultural mediation, especially those involving the Mtis. Most important, Living with Strangers is a superb example of reporting history of the northern borderlands. Unlike the Spanish borderlands, which receive frequent attention from scholars, encounters on the Canadian-U.S. borders are still largely unexplored . . . McCrady should be commended for blurring boundaries and producing a unified history of the Sioux in the nineteenth century . . . . A long-overdue and superb treatment of this topic."ÑJames T. Carroll, Great Plains Quarterly "This is much to compliment in Living with Strangers. It shifts the historical border focus from Canada-United States national studies by uncovering northern Sioux border history and explaining tribal relationship with the international boundary." ÑRichmond L. Clow, Journal of American History "This [book] will work well for courses on the Northern Plains, the North American West, and Native American/First Nations history. Especially useful for class settings will be the introductory and concluding chapters that spell out reasons to study comparative and transnational history. . . . [Living with Strangers] presents a deep sense of place and adds significantly to historians' growing understanding of the borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests."ÑSterling Evans, American Historical Review McCrady masters the secondary literature and extensive documentary evidence from both the United States and Canada, using archival material located in repositories ranging from Alberta to Oklahoma (and seemingly everywhere in between). Developing such historiographical bilingualism is no easy feat, but the payoffs, as shown in Living with Strangers, are legion, most especially in transcending the provincial narratives of the singular nation-state. . . . Living with Strangers is highly worthwhile. McCrady has written a careful, thoroughly researched ethnohistorical study that is sure to serve as a model for other scholars (in North America and elsewhere) interested in the importance of borders in the lifeways of indigenous peoples."ÑH-Net Book Reviews H-Canada "[This book] makes an enormous contribution to the history of the Canadian-American borderlands; the northern Great Plains and the region's Indian tribes; and, of equal importance, to our understanding of the different ways Canadian and American history gets written. . . . This work thus re-shapes our fundamental understanding of the Sioux's roles and choices in the nineteenth century. . . . The book is another excellent contribution to the rapidly expanding field of Canadian-American borderlands scholarship and its trans-national approach to Sioux history is further evidence that a borderlands approach has a great deal to offer historians on both sides."ÑH-Net Book Reviews H-Amindian "An ambitious and valuable study that begins to map out important dimensions of the complex history of the Sioux of the borderlands."ÑSarah Carter, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Living with Strangers attempts to cast the history of the Sioux in a different light by introducing a borderlands paradigm to the historiography. This new angle not only sheds light on where the Sioux existed but also about the way in which they lived. McCrady skillfully shows how the Sioux were not passive victims of assimilation but were active participants in shaping their own destiny and the borderlands were integral to this agency. . . . McCrady's work is a welcomed addition to the histiography and examines an important, but neglected, part of the West's history."ÑCraig Greenham, Journal of the West "McCrady's mastery of Canadian and U.S. sources is impressive. . . . Living with Strangers will be a necessary source to consult when examining other works on the trans-border region because of its importance as a new baseline study, and especially because it has references to other aboriginal groups: Metis, Assiniboine, Blackfoot divisions, Gros Ventre, Plains Ojibwa, Crows, among others."ÑDavid R. Miller, editor of The First Ones: Readings in Indian/Native Studies "David McCrady performs a very valuable service by providing both a chronology and the concept of borderlands to understand the Sioux and their relations to other Native groups and the different state powers. It is an important subject and one that gives us a different picture of the Native diplomacy, treaty-making war, and reservation-making that constituted what Richard Maxwell Brown has called the 'western wars of incorporation.' Bridging two national historiographies, Living with Strangers makes a real contribution to our understanding of Sioux history."ÑGerhard Ens, author of Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century 2006 Clio Prize, sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association, prairies region category winner. 2006 Margaret McWilliams Award, sponsored by the Manitoba Historical Society, scholarly book category finalist., University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006<

2006, ISBN: 6d45b5a22fa978061439d3a58a3b8001

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the… Mehr…

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the famous personages involved, paying scant attention to how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral history, Living with Strangers reveals how the nineteenth-century Sioux were a people of the borderlands. The Sioux made great tactical use of the Canada-United States boundary. They traded with the Mtis of CanadaÑoften in contraband goods such as arms and ammunitionÑand tried to get better prices from European traders by drawing the Hudson's Bay Company into competition with American traders. They opened negotiations with both Canadian and American officials to determine which government would accord them better treatment, and they used the boundary as a shield in times of warfare with the United States. Until now, the Canadian-American borderlands and the people who live there have remained a blind spot in Canadian and American nationalist historiographies. Living with Strangers takes readers beyond the traditional dichotomy of the Canadian and the American West and reveals significant and previously unknown strands in Sioux history. David G. McCrady is an independent historian living in Winnipeg. "Highly recommended."ÑA. B. Kehoe, Choice "The text is richly narrated with competing definitions of borderlands, discussions of emerging 'middle grounds,' portrayals of transboundary peoples, and examples of cultural mediation, especially those involving the Mtis. Most important, Living with Strangers is a superb example of reporting history of the northern borderlands. Unlike the Spanish borderlands, which receive frequent attention from scholars, encounters on the Canadian-U.S. borders are still largely unexplored . . . McCrady should be commended for blurring boundaries and producing a unified history of the Sioux in the nineteenth century . . . . A long-overdue and superb treatment of this topic."ÑJames T. Carroll, Great Plains Quarterly "This is much to compliment in Living with Strangers. It shifts the historical border focus from Canada-United States national studies by uncovering northern Sioux border history and explaining tribal relationship with the international boundary." ÑRichmond L. Clow, Journal of American History "This [book] will work well for courses on the Northern Plains, the North American West, and Native American/First Nations history. Especially useful for class settings will be the introductory and concluding chapters that spell out reasons to study comparative and transnational history. . . . [Living with Strangers] presents a deep sense of place and adds significantly to historians' growing understanding of the borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests."ÑSterling Evans, American Historical Review McCrady masters the secondary literature and extensive documentary evidence from both the United States and Canada, using archival material located in repositories ranging from Alberta to Oklahoma (and seemingly everywhere in between). Developing such historiographical bilingualism is no easy feat, but the payoffs, as shown in Living with Strangers, are legion, most especially in transcending the provincial narratives of the singular nation-state. . . . Living with Strangers is highly worthwhile. McCrady has written a careful, thoroughly researched ethnohistorical study that is sure to serve as a model for other scholars (in North America and elsewhere) interested in the importance of borders in the lifeways of indigenous peoples."ÑH-Net Book Reviews H-Canada "[This book] makes an enormous contribution to the history of the Canadian-American borderlands; the northern Great Plains and the region's Indian tribes; and, of equal importance, to our understanding of the different ways Canadian and American history gets written. . . . This work thus re-shapes our fundamental understanding of the Sioux's roles and choices in the nineteenth century. . . . The book is another excellent contribution to the rapidly expanding field of Canadian-American borderlands scholarship and its trans-national approach to Sioux history is further evidence that a borderlands approach has a great deal to offer historians on both sides."ÑH-Net Book Reviews H-Amindian "An ambitious and valuable study that begins to map out important dimensions of the complex history of the Sioux of the borderlands."ÑSarah Carter, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Living with Strangers attempts to cast the history of the Sioux in a different light by introducing a borderlands paradigm to the historiography. This new angle not only sheds light on where the Sioux existed but also about the way in which they lived. McCrady skillfully shows how the Sioux were not passive victims of assimilation but were active participants in shaping their own destiny and the borderlands were integral to this agency. . . . McCrady's work is a welcomed addition to the histiography and examines an important, but neglected, part of the West's history."ÑCraig Greenham, Journal of the West "McCrady's mastery of Canadian and U.S. sources is impressive. . . . Living with Strangers will be a necessary source to consult when examining other works on the trans-border region because of its importance as a new baseline study, and especially because it has references to other aboriginal groups: Metis, Assiniboine, Blackfoot divisions, Gros Ventre, Plains Ojibwa, Crows, among others."ÑDavid R. Miller, editor of The First Ones: Readings in Indian/Native Studies "David McCrady performs a very valuable service by providing both a chronology and the concept of borderlands to understand the Sioux and their relations to other Native groups and the different state powers. It is an important subject and one that gives us a different picture of the Native diplomacy, treaty-making war, and reservation-making that constituted what Richard Maxwell Brown has called the 'western wars of incorporation.' Bridging two national historiographies, Living with Strangers makes a real contribution to our understanding of Sioux history."ÑGerhard Ens, author of Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century 2006 Clio Prize, sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association, prairies region category winner. 2006 Margaret McWilliams Award, sponsored by the Manitoba Historical Society, scholarly book category finalist., University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006<

2010, ISBN: 6d45b5a22fa978061439d3a58a3b8001

[SC: 17.25], [PU: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-0900-7, Toronto, On], SIOUX, AMERICAN HISTORY, CANADA-US RELATIONS, CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS, SIOUX NATION, HISTORY NOISBN, [978-1-4… Mehr…

[SC: 17.25], [PU: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-0900-7, Toronto, On], SIOUX, AMERICAN HISTORY, CANADA-US RELATIONS, CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS, SIOUX NATION, HISTORY NOISBN, [978-1-4426-0900-7] 2010. (Mass market paperback) As new. 168pp. "Living with Strangers tells the story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century. David G. McCrady's award-winning study crosses national boundaries to examine how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, including Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral histories, McCrady reveals that the nineteenth-century Sioux acted with spirited self-interest across the Canadian-American border.The Sioux's shifting tactical use of the Canada-United States boundary helped them to create cross-border trading competitions, to open negotiations with both governments to determine which country would accord them better treatment, and to use the border as a shield in times of war with the United States. Living with Strangers takes readers beyond the traditional dichotomy of the Canadian and the American West to reveal significant and previously unknown strands in Sioux history.".<

2010, ISBN: 6d45b5a22fa978061439d3a58a3b8001

[SC: 19.21], [PU: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-0900-7, Toronto, On], SIOUX, AMERICAN HISTORY, CANADA-US RELATIONS, CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS, SIOUX NATION, HISTORY NOISBN, [978-1-4… Mehr…

[SC: 19.21], [PU: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-0900-7, Toronto, On], SIOUX, AMERICAN HISTORY, CANADA-US RELATIONS, CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS, SIOUX NATION, HISTORY NOISBN, [978-1-4426-0900-7] 2010. (Mass market paperback) As new. 168pp. "Living with Strangers tells the story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century. David G. McCrady's award-winning study crosses national boundaries to examine how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, including Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral histories, McCrady reveals that the nineteenth-century Sioux acted with spirited self-interest across the Canadian-American border.The Sioux's shifting tactical use of the Canada-United States boundary helped them to create cross-border trading competitions, to open negotiations with both governments to determine which country would accord them better treatment, and to use the border as a shield in times of war with the United States. Living with Strangers takes readers beyond the traditional dichotomy of the Canadian and the American West to reveal significant and previously unknown strands in Sioux history.".<

2010, ISBN: 6d45b5a22fa978061439d3a58a3b8001

[SC: 20.6], [PU: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-0900-7, Toronto, On], SIOUX, AMERICAN HISTORY, CANADA-US RELATIONS, CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS, SIOUX NATION, HISTORY NOISBN, [978-1-44… Mehr…

[SC: 20.6], [PU: University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-0900-7, Toronto, On], SIOUX, AMERICAN HISTORY, CANADA-US RELATIONS, CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS, SIOUX NATION, HISTORY NOISBN, [978-1-4426-0900-7] 2010. (Mass market paperback) As new. 168pp. "Living with Strangers tells the story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century. David G. McCrady's award-winning study crosses national boundaries to examine how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, including Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral histories, McCrady reveals that the nineteenth-century Sioux acted with spirited self-interest across the Canadian-American border.The Sioux's shifting tactical use of the Canada-United States boundary helped them to create cross-border trading competitions, to open negotiations with both governments to determine which country would accord them better treatment, and to use the border as a shield in times of war with the United States. Living with Strangers takes readers beyond the traditional dichotomy of the Canadian and the American West to reveal significant and previously unknown strands in Sioux history.".<