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After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist Theresa May developed a play to give voice to the central spiritual and cultural role of salmon in tribal life. Salmon Is Everything presents the script of that play, along with essays by artists and collaborators that illuminate the process of creating and performing theatre on Native and environmental issues.

Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when viable alternatives to federal assimilation policies arose.

How Native Hawaiians' experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions

Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity

In "Roots of Our Renewal, " Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences for Cherokee society, Carroll shows that the

To Win the Indian Heart: Music At Chemawa Indian School is an exploration of the crucial role music played at the longest-operating federal boarding school for Indian children--both as a tool of assimilation and resilience.

Examines the day-to-day reality of implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The diverse contributors to this volume reflect the viewpoints of tribes, museums, federal agencies, attorneys, academics, and others invested in the landmark act.