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The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own des...

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A baffling museum murder that appears to be the work of twisted human killers results in an unexpected and violent confrontation with powerful shape-shifters for Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk. Blending tribal beliefs and myths into a modern context, The Hatak Witches continues the storyline of Choctaw cosmology and cultural survival that are prominent in Devon A. Mihesuah's award-winning novel, The Roads of My Relations.

Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. Trophy Award, Best Non-Fiction BookWho was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of "Ned" Christie's life. Now, in a tour de force of investigative sc...

Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and practical advice about health, fitness, and activism, Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens, by the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah, draws on the rich indigenous heritage of Native North America to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life. This edition is revised and updated.

Continues the dialogue launched in the anthology "Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians". Written by Native scholars from diverse disciplines, this book offers different approaches to incorporating Indigenous values and perspectives into the research methodologies and interpretive theories of scholarly disciplines.

Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of "Ned" Christie's life. Now, in a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah offers a far more accurate depiction of C...

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The relationship between Native Americans and the academic community has become especially rocky in recent years. Both groups are grappling with troubling questions about research ethics, methodology, and theory in the field and in the classroom. With lively prose and telling arguments, NATIVES AND ACADEMICS lends clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarship.

I've traveled a lot of roads, but never alone. My relations are with me", says Billie McKenney, one of the matriarchs of the complex family of Choctaws searching for peace as the white world rapidly encroaches on their tribal land, politics, and values. In her first collection of stories, Native American writer Devon A. Mihesuah chronicles the lives of several generations of a close-knit Choctaw family as they are forced from their traditional...

So You Want to Write about American Indians? is the first of its kind--an indispensable guide for anyone interested in writing and publishing a novel, memoir, collection of short stories, history, or ethnography involving the Indigenous peoples of the United States. In clear language illustrated with examples--many from her own experiences--Choctaw scholar and writer Devon Abbott Mihesuah explains the basic steps involved with writing about Am...

Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and no-nonsense practical advice about health and fitness,

Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education. Devon Mihesuah explores its curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy. Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. 24 photos. 240 pp.

In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, scholarly, an...

After Tuli Black Wolf rescues hunters on the Grand Canyon's North Rim, she must hike the Dodson Trail in Big Bend National Park to save her mother. Tuli faces intense heat, a lacerated foot and a mountain lion. The is the second book in this series. See also: Grand Canyon Rescue: A Tuli Black Wolf Adventure

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Devon Abbott Mihesuah is a professor of applied indigenous studies and history at Northern Arizona University. She is the editor of the American Indian Quarterly and numerous books on Native history and culture, including Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains and Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s on his family's allotment outside of Duncan, Oklahoma, the author was a member of a family of farmers so successful that they hired black sharecroppers and often helped feed their poorer white neighbors. This title discusses the early history of the his family.

Continuing the thought-provoking dialogue launched in the acclaimed anthology "Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, leading Native scholars from diverse disciplines and communities offer uncompromising assessments of current scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities awaiting them in the Ivory Tower. The issues covered are vital and extensive, including how activism shapes the careers of Na...