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American Indian
For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the  West and we are proud to bring to you our new American Indian catalog. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visit our website at oupress.com.  We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Contents
 anthropology 1  art & photography 2 biography & memoir 4 history 5 language 11 literature 11 politics & law 13 chickasaw press 14 best sellers 17 forthcoming books 24
 
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By Sebastian Felix Braun
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3904-3 · 280 pagesSome American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fullled expectations and how they t with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.
Plains aPaChe ethnobotany 
By Julia A. Jordan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3968-5 · 240 pagesResidents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native ora of the region. In
Plains Apache Ethnobotany,
 Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning traditional Apache collection, preparation, and use of these plant species for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture.
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By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
$50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3941-8 · 384 pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3961-6 · 384 pagesFor Navajo Indians, medical treatments such as surgery, blood transfusion and CPR conict with their traditional understanding of health and well-being,
“I Choose Life” 
 investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Schwarz reveals the ideological conicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing.
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By Teresa J. Wilkins
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3757-5 · 248 pages The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical inuences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In
Patterns of Exchange,
 Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.
Anthropology
PHOTO CREDITS
On the cover:
 Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), photograph by Joseph T. Keiley, courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Inside front cover:
 Three Sioux Indians on horseback facing front by pond on plains. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, courtesy Library of Congress.
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 Julia A. Jordan
ForewordbyPaulE.MinnisandWayneJ.Elisens

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