Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights

Essays on Law, Politics and Culture

Peter Kulchyski

Aboriginal rights are often assumed to belong to the broader category of human rights; Kulchyski makes a powerful argument against this. On the contrary, indigenous people across the world need...

Blasphemy

New and Selected Stories

Sherman Alexie

A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Sherman Alexie show­cases his many talents in Blasphemy,...

Border Wars

Tom Barry

Post-9/11 security anxiety. A renewed war on drugs. Inaction on immigration. Economic collapse. All of it makes for a combustible brew, and the fire is burning hottest on the Southwestern...

In the Courts of the Conqueror

The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided

Walter R. Echo-Hawk

The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural rights as indigenous peoples by American courts....

Territories in Resistance

A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements

Raul Zibechi

“Emancipation,” argues Raúl Zibechi, “is not an objective but a way of life.” For the last half century, new and emancipatory social formations have worked to carve out their own territories in...

The Hank Adams Reader

An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty

Hank Adams

Vine Deloria once said that Hank Adams was the most important Native American in the country. From his treaty rights work to his mediation of disputes between AIM and the US government in the...

Lakota Woman

Mary Crow Dog

Excellent book! Now in a new edition!Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on a South Dakota reservation. Rebelling against the...

Forbidden Sacraments

The Survival of Shamanism in Western Civilization

Donald P. Dulchinos

The indigenous practice of shamanism has been under siege for as long as Western European societies have practiced colonialism and Christian missionary work. Only very recently has there been a...

Nez Perce Indians

John Gerlach

In part eight of The Simple history zine series, J. Gerlach takes a good hard look at the Nez Perce Indians, also known as the Nimiipuu (or "the real people.") Over the course of 48 heavily...