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The 1870 Ghost Dance
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 19.95The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this ?great wave,? as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native Californians, some of whose contemporary individual and... more...
Africa on Six Wheels
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 17.95?I think I get it,? Betty Levitov?s youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. ?You?ve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you?ll do just about anything.? The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take thirteen kids from a small midwestern liberal arts college on a three-month trek across Africa. more...
American Silence
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 29.95In American Silence , a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams , Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler,... more...
Andean Tragedy
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 60.00The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile?s and Peru?s armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples... more...
Because a Fire Was in My Head
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 24.95Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real?but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate (or Katherine, or Kate of the Prairie, or Katrina) is about to undergo... more...
Being Lakota
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 35.00Being Lakota explores contemporary Lakota identity and tradition through the life-story narratives of Melda and Lupe Trejo. Melda Trejo, née Red Bear (1939?), is an Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation, while Lupe Trejo (1938?99) is Mexican and a long-time resident at Pine Ridge. more...
Bigger than Life
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 24.95Nelson Gross led an outsized life?one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways. more...
Branch Rickey
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 34.95He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881?1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport?not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey?the man sportswriters dubbed ?The Brain,? ?The Mahatma,? and, on occasion, ?El Cheapo??Lee Lowenfish tells the full and colorful... more...
Buffalo Nation
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 19.95The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zontek?s account of Native peoples? efforts to repopulate the Plains with a healthy, viable bison population. more...
Choctaw Nation
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 45.00Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws of southeastern Oklahoma, who have responded to a number of hard-hitting assaults on Choctaw sovereignty and nationhood by rebuilding their tribal nation. more...









