A book series that, although examining the interrelationship of culture and environment, seeks to illuminate and define the Great Plains, its peoples, and its landscape through original monographs, edited collections, biographies, memoir, and comparative studies.
An Environmental History of the Red Rolling Plains
by Jahue Anderson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682831564
Pub Date: April 2023
An environmental history of the red rolling plains of Wichita Falls, Texas, detailing the region's past Progressive Era land ethics, water management, boom and bust oil towns, and natural resource allocation.
The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)
by P. Jane Hafen
Foreword by Margaret Noodin
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781682830451
Pub Date: May 2022
An essential collection of writings and speeches by Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, one of the twentieth century's most preeminent American Indian activists.
Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation
by Leo K. Killsback
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781682830376
Pub Date: October 2019
(Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works’ joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people. Dividing the story of the Cheyenne Nation into pre- and post-contact, A Sacred People and A Sovereign People lay out indigenously conceived possibilities for employing traditional worldviews to replace unhealthy and dysfunctional ones bred of territorial, cultural, and psychological colonization.
Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
by Leo K. Killsback
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781682830352
Pub Date: October 2019
(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced...
African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal,...
Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska
by Kurt E. Kinbacher
Foreword by Timothy R. Mahoney
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896728943
Pub Date: July 2015
Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups—Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese—that settled...
A Road to America’s Landscape, History, and Culture
by Markku Henriksson
Foreword by Susan A. Miller
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896728257
Pub Date: January 2014
When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” was one of only two he could recognize—in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would...
Some historians insist that Texas, with its heritage of slavery, segregation, and historic dependence upon cotton, is southern in character. Another group argues that the state is western, as evidenced by its cowboys, cattle drives, mountains, and desert. Still others brand it unique, having won its independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution and existing as an independent republic for ten years prior to joining the Union. With its immense land area, its diverse environment, cultures, and colorful history, and its larger-than-life legends, Texas does indeed seem like “a whole other country.” Throughout its existence, the Lone Star State has juggled a complicated assortment of identities. Its multiple characteristics often confuse observers and scholars—to the point that some ignore it altogether. Award-winning historian Glen Sample Ely seeks to set the record straight. Taking a fresh look at what exactly Texas is and what it is not, his groundbreaking work tackles...
And Other True Stories from the Nebraska–Pine Ridge Border Towns
by Stew Magnuson
Foreword by Pekka Hämäläinen
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896727182
Pub Date: November 2010
The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histories in sensational incidents and quiet human connections, many recorded in detail here for the first time. After covering racial unrest in the remote northwest corner of his home state of Nebraska in 1999, journalist Stew Magnuson returned four years later to consider the border towns’ peoples, their paths, and the forces that separate them. Examining Raymond Yellow Thunder’s death at the hands of four white men in 1972, Magnuson looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. Situating long-ranging repercussions within 130 years of context, he also recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird and tells the story of Whiteclay, Nebraska, the controversial border hamlet that continues to sell millions of cans of beer per year to the “dry” reservation....
In 1876, the United States launched the Great Sioux War without a formal declaration of war by Congress. During the nineteenth century, the rights of American Indians were frequently violated by the...
