Free Download Michelene E. Pesantubbee, "Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods "
English | ISBN: 1438482612 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 674 KB
Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

Free Download Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology By Maxine Oland; Siobhan M. Hart; Liam Frink
2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0816504083 | PDF | 5 MB
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories makes a vital contribution to the decolonization of archaeology by recasting colonialism within long-term indigenous histories. Showcasing case studies from Africa, Australia, Mesoamerica, and North and South America, this edited volume highlights the work of archaeologists who study indigenous peoples and histories at multiple scales.The contributors explore how the inclusion of indigenous histories, and collaboration with contemporary communities and scholars across the subfields of anthropology, can reframe archaeologies of colonialism. The cross-cultural case studies employ a broad range of methodological strategies-archaeology, ethnohistory, archival research, oral histories, and descendant perspectives-to better appreciate processes of colonialism. The authors argue that these more complicated histories of colonialism contribute not only to understandings of past contexts but also to contemporary social justice projects.In each chapter, authors move beyond an academic artifice of "prehistoric" and "colonial" and instead focus on longer sequences of indigenous histories to better understand colonial contexts. Throughout, each author explores and clarifies the complexities of indigenous daily practices that shape, and are shaped by, long-term indigenous and local histories by employing an array of theoretical tools, including theories of practice, agency, materiality, and temporality.Included are larger integrative chapters by Kent Lightfoot and Patricia Rubertone, foremost North American colonialism scholars who argue that an expanded global perspective is essential to understanding processes of indigenous-colonial interactions and transitions.

Free Download Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGJN3BX | 2023 | 5 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Narrator: Kaitlin B. Curtice
In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together. Curtice shows that we can learn to practice embodied ways of belonging and connection to ourselves and one another through everyday practices, such as getting more in touch with our bodies, resting, and remembering our ancestors. She explores four "realms of resistance"-the personal, the communal, the ancestral, and the integral-and shows how these realms overlap and why all are needed for our liberation. Listeners will be empowered to seek wholeness in whatever spheres of influence they inhabit.

Free Download Anne Digby, "Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1443821543 | 2010 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much-needed opportunity to explore new conceptual perspectives and encourages critical reflection on how scholars' research specialisms have influenced their approaches to the history of medicine and healing. The book includes contributions on different geographical regions in Asia, Africa and the Americas and within the varied contexts of Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch and British colonialisms. It deals with issues such as internal colonialism, the plural history of objects, transregional circulation and entanglement, and the historicisation of medical historiography. The chapters in the volume explore the scope for conceptual interaction between authors from diverse disciplines and different regions, highlighting the synergies and thematic commonalities as well as differences and divergences.

Free Download Lynn Swartley, "Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural development, and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia"
English | 2002 | pages: 223 | ISBN: 0415935644, 1138973319 | PDF | 5,7 mb
This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method into the contemporary Lake Titicaca Basin.

Free Download Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness by Leigh Joseph
English | March 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 1577152948 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 8.07 MB
Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge.

Free Download Public Policy and Indigenous Futures
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811993181 | 278 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political challenges in Australia, and explores Indigenous policy development and policy expertise. It critically considers current practices and issues central to policy change and Indigenous futures. The book foregrounds the resurgence that is taking place in Indigenous governing and policy-making, providing case studies of local and community-based policy development and implementation. The chapters highlight new Australian work on what is an international phenomenon.

Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father By Aparecida Vilaça
2021 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 1503629333 | PDF | 22 MB
Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari' people―but not with a new father. In Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin. Paletó―unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke―shines with life in Vilaça's account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his visits to Rio de Janeiro, deconstructs urban social conventions with ease and wit. Begun the day after Paletó's death at the age of 85, Paletó and Me is a celebration of life, weaving together the author's own memories of learning the lifeways of Indigenous Amazonia with her father's testimony to Wari' persistence in the face of colonization. Speaking from the heart as both anthropologist and daughter, Vilaça offers an intimate look at Indigenous lives in Brazil over nearly a century.

Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry By Nikki Hessell
2021 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1438484771 | PDF | 2 MB
Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

The Indigenous World 2002-2003 By Diana Vinding
2003 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 8790730747 | PDF | 9 MB
This book stands alone in its comprehensive presentation of current information affecting indigenous peoples in different regions throughout the world. With contributions from both indigenous as well as non-indigenous scholars and activists, it provides an overview of recent developments that have impacted indigenous peoples in North America, Central America, South America, Australia and the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.The Indigenous World 2002-2003 contains the most recent information available on international human rights efforts in addition to movements and changes in the indigenous organizational landscape. This book serves as an update on the state of affairs of indigenous peoples around the world by region and country. It also updates the human rights processes and other international processes such as the african Commision on Human and People's Rights.Diana Vinding is an anthropologist and project coordinator at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).