Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
Featuring readings on four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education - cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality theory, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory - this book provides a comparison of each theoretical perspective's basic premise, fundamental assumptions regarding American Indian ......
Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 500-1000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state.
In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors' political resistance to the Canadian government amidst threats to the tribe's traditional political structures.
In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors' political resistance to the Canadian government amidst threats to the tribe's traditional political structures.
Argues that a refined concept of culture can be used by American courts to better analyze cases that cover the sense of community. Supreme Court Justices frequently justify their opinions in terms of the traditions and customs of a community. Yet, the rights and interests of entities that fit neither with the state nor the individual are treated ......
How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression
The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan's analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation's long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded ......
How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression
The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan's analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation's long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded ......
A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD
The Real Mound Builders of North America takes the standard position that the cultural communities of the Late Woodland period hiatus-when little or no transregional monumental mound building and ceremonialism existed-were the linear cultural and social ancestors of the communities responsible for the monumental earthworks of the unique ......
By focusing on the efforts of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women (CONAMI) to dismantle racism, sexism, ageism, and other forms of discrimination, this book challenges outdated assumptions about the roles of Indigenous people-especially women-in creating proactive, responsive, and socially progressive peace epistemologies.