The Future of Indigenous Peoples: Strategies for Survival and Development (Hardcover)

Edited by Duane Champagne and Ismael Abu-Saad, 2003 This collection of articles is the outcome of an international gathering of scholars to discuss the future of indigenous peoples throughout the world. The contributors examine contemporary conditions of indigenous peoples, explore future possibilities for social, economic, and political survival and development, and offer strategies for shaping … Read more

American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 44, No. 2 (2020)

As a public service, UCLA American Indian Studies Center Press is providing the following research information free of charge. Please note that most of the research materials featured here are copyright protected. You may freely use any of the information for your own work, but you must seek permission to reprint any of the documents … Read more

American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 44, No. 3 (2020)

As a public service, UCLA American Indian Studies Center Press is providing the following research information free of charge. Please note that most of the research materials featured here are copyright protected. You may freely use any of the information for your own work, but you must seek permission to reprint any of the documents … Read more

What’s an Indian Woman to Do? and Other Plays

Mark Anthony Rolo, 2010 With an introduction by Marcie Rendon What`s an Indian Woman to Do? and Other Plays merges farce and tragedy to reveal hidden realities of modern Native American life. This collection by the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe playwright addresses Indian casinos, sexual abuse, appropriation of Native culture, and the … Read more

Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women

Edited by Jaye T. Darby and Stephanie Fitzgerald, 2003 Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women`s Theater showcases the exciting range of Native women`s theater today from the dynamic fusion of storytelling, ceremony, music, and dance to the bold experimentation of poetic stream-of-consciousness and Native agit-prop. While negotiating complex issues, including family, community, … Read more

Evening at the Warbonnet and Other Plays

By Bruce King, 2007 The five plays in this collection by Bruce King offer a ride into an American Indian twilight zone that the author has been exploring for much of his career. The abnormal, often surreal settings of these plays provide a backdrop for his observations on the eternal struggle between good and evil … Read more

Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook (Paper)

By Hanay Geiogamah, 2011 Approaching Native American theater as ceremonial performance comprised of centuries-old tribal traditions and aesthetic concepts, Hanay Geiogamah combines his thirty-five years of creative and experimental work and research in Native theater to illuminate the elements of myth, spirituality, and ceremony and their integration into dramatic performances. Specific observations on how ritual … Read more

Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook (Hardcover)

By Hanay Geiogamah, 2011 Approaching Native American theater as ceremonial performance comprised of centuries-old tribal traditions and aesthetic concepts, Hanay Geiogamah combines his thirty-five years of creative and experimental work and research in Native theater to illuminate the elements of myth, spirituality, and ceremony and their integration into dramatic performances. Specific observations on how ritual … Read more