New Books November 2, 2009

Todd Leahy and Raymond Wilson, Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements, Scarecrow Press, 2008. Dafoe Reference E93 L43 2008.

This useful reference book, with introductory essay and bibliography by two Kansas academics, contains entries on the political, economic and social movements through which Native Americans have attempted to accomodate themselves to the ongoing pressures of the European invasion of their land.

Dewi Ball and Joy Porter, Competing Voices from Native America, Greenwood Press, 2009. dafoe E77 C743 2009.

Part of the "Fighting Words" series this book presents a collection of first hand accounts and documents dealing with controversial subjects in Native American relations with whites. Differing points of view are represented in original accounts, newspaper stories, letters etc. and the sources are chosen to encourage discussion and further research in high school and University classrooms.





Norman Hallendy, Tukiliit: The Stone People Who Live in the Wind, An introduction to Inuksuit and Other Stone Figures of the North. Douglas and McIntyre, 2009. Dafoe E99 E7 H255 2009.


Hallendy, a former senior civil servant, has travelled extensively in the Arctic and has photographed a huge array of stone figures, both inuksuit and others less familiar. All have meaning as memorials, markers for good fishing, sacred places or guides for important trails. The book is a collection of his photographs with captions and explanations.

Lance Foster, The Indians of Iowa, University of Iowa Press, 2009.

Dafoe E78 I6 F67 2009.

Foster, a member of the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, has written a dictionary style account of the various First Nations cultures in Iowa.












Diane Payment, The Free People - Li Gens Libres: A History of the Metis Community of Batoche, Saskatchewan, University of Calgary Press, 2009.
Dafoe E99 M47 P38 2009.


Payment, an historian with Parks Canada who has written extensively on the Metis gives us a revised and updated edition of her 1990 study. "Her inquiry draws on a range of written historical sources, both Metis and non-Metis, as well as more recent oral history narratives and personal observations". (from the book cover.)