New Books September 11, 2009

These books are now on display in Dafoe. If you wish to request one of them use the Request This Book link in BISON.

Why not write a review? If you want to write a review of any of the titles in this blog send it to me as a comment and I will post it.


Patricia Roberts Clark, Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms Cross Referenced. McFarland and company, 2009. Dafoe Reference E54.5 C55 2009.

This book is a useful reference tool that you might only use a few times in your life but it will be nice to have when you need it. There are 22 entries for variations of the name Ojibwa alone. It encompasses North Central and South American cultures.

Ruth M. Van Dyke, The Chaco Experience, School for Advanced Research Press, 2007. Dafoe E99 C37 V35 2007.

Archaeologist Van Dyke has produced a "...unique volume that does what no other...North American archaeology book does -- develop a phenomenological argument by literally walking us into Chaco" from the cover.




Barbara Perry, Policing Race and Place in Indian Country: Over and Under- Enforcement, Lexington Books, 2009. Dafoe E 98 C87 P44 2009.

Dr. Perry is a professor of criminology at U of Ontario Institute of Technology. This is the first study of how Native American communities are policed in ways that "...perpetuate both the criminalization and the victimization of Native Americans as nations and as individuals."

David J. Meltzer, First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America, University of California Press, 2009. Dafoe E77.9 M45 2009.

"In a remarkably comprehensive and lucid fashion, David Meltzer sythesizes the complex and commonly conflicting evidence of the earliest human presence in the Americas and provides an honestly told lesson about the workings of scientific thought." David Thomas, author of Skull Wars.


Robert G. Doucette, The Archival Resource Guide for Aboriginal Issues, Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2009. Dafoe E 97.9 D 69, 2009.

The current President of the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan, Robert Doucette has produced a comprehensive listing of resources about Saskatechewan Metis and First Nations communities held in the Saskatchewan Archives Board's large aboriginal collection. This is the first time an archival institution has cooperated with a private researcher to create such a guide.