In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and fi

In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, "mixed bloods" were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were con

Cops don't respond to calls on Stag Hill. Neither does the fire department. The Ramapough Lenape, a destabilized people--origins uncertain, debated and mytholog

Ten diverse ethnographic case studies renew the anthropological perspective on property.

This book shows that without the cooperation of the"mixed-bloods," or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S. government in the nineteenth and e