This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries

In the pictures of the party

Chapter 1 discusses oral tradition and summarizes creation stories and migration stories that link the Ojibwe to other culturally and linguistically similar indigenous groups

compel us to reconsider our own current expectations about what Indian people should be

"Long-awaited and important

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property sexuality This study of three well-knownThe story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U. S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which U. S. society