Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, 50th Anniversary Edition (Nebraska, 2017). About the Book: Originally published in 1967, … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux!
The following is an excerpt from When Dream Bear Sings: Native Literatures of the Southern Plains (Nebraska, 2018) edited by Gus Palmer Jr. From the Introduction This book comprises Native literatures from storytellers of the Great Southern Plains. Many of the … Continue reading EXCERPT: When Dream Bear Sings
Tomorrow is National Bison Day! It is an annual commemoration of the ecological, cultural, historical and economic contribution of the American bison to the United States. National Bison Day has been held each year since 2012 on the first Saturday … Continue reading National Bison Day
Books Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing Roger Gilles Feature in the Guardian: “Gilles’s book is a window into a virtually unknown time in women’s sports, and it’s important because it adds to the history of female … Continue reading News and Reviews
From Ho-Chunk powwows and Chehalis stories to the saga of Chief Joseph and the making of the Cherokee Nation, UNP is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous Studies around. Spanning deft … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale
The South Dakota Festival of Books is Sept. 20-23 in Brookings and Sioux Falls. UNP will be showcasing books that celebrate the Midwest, Native stories and history and Bison Books favorites. Stop by the table for great deals on books … Continue reading 2018 South Dakota Festival of Books Preview
Mark Hollabaugh is author of The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos (Nebraska, 2017). His book examines nineteenth-century Lakota astronomy and its connection to their spirituality. The Spirit and the Sky will be available in paperback this … Continue reading From the Desk of Mark Hollabaugh: The Night the Stars will Fall
Robert Jarvenpa is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and a research associate at the New York State Museum. He is the coauthor of Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood: A Comparative … Continue reading From the Desk of Robert Jarvenpa: The Misuses of Biology
This week the American Indian Studies Center at University of California, Los Angeles and its Southern California co-hosts will welcome NAISA, the largest scholarly organization devoted to Indigenous issues and research. UNP will have new and notable titles on display at booth 212. Below is a sample of what you’ll find. Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation by Laura M. Furlan is a critical study of contemporary American Indian narratives set in urban spaces that reveals how these texts respond to diaspora, dislocation, citizenship, and reclamation. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations edited by Jacqueline … Continue reading NAISA preview
University of Nebraska Press author Margaret Jacobs was one of thirty-one scholars named a Carnegie Fellow this month. She is the first University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors awarded the honor. Jacobs was selected from more than 270 proposals and will be … Continue reading UNP author named Carnegie Fellow
