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

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

""Mixed Blood" Indians looks at a fascinating array of such birth- and kin-related issues as they were alternately misunderstood and astutely exploited by both

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

In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood—as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship—that have stood