American Indian Studies: Culture, Language & Religion

A sourcebook that can enhance any reader's appreciation of both the writers and their works. Cross referencing allows readers to move easily among the listings, guiding them to other examples of an author's works and from character to character within a given novel.

Offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the early-twenty-first century, demonstrating how Euramerican and Native writers have drawn on discourses of sexuality in portraying Native peoples and their sovereignty.

Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force.

Documents what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and, in the process, examines the state of American Indian historical linguistics and the success and failure of its various methodologies.

In Algonquin Indian lore, Manitou is a supernatural power that permeates the world, a power that can assume the form of a deity referred to as The Great Manitou or The Great Spirit, creator of all things and giver of life. As European settlers made their way across the land, the confrontation between Christianity and Native American religions revealed itself in various ways.

Demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world.