Books published by University of Nebraska Press

At the time of European contact with Native communities, the Caddos (who call themselves the Hasinai) were accomplished traders living in the southern plains. Drawing on interviews with Caddo speakers, tapes made by earlier researchers, and written accounts, this work provides an overview and analysis of Caddo grammar.

A memoir that describes an Omaha Indian, Hollis Dorion Stabler's experiences during World War II - tours of duty in Tunisia and Morocco as well as Italy and France, and the loss of his brother in battle. It tells of growing up as an Omaha Indian in the small-town Midwest of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s.

Born into the influential Ridge-Boudinot-Watie family, Elias Cornelius Boudinot was raised in the East after the assassination of his father, who helped found the first newspaper published by an Indian nation. This is a biography of Boudinot, a half-Cherokee, half-white man who lived on the cultural border of the two societies.

Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate - and often oppress - their native subjects. This title looks at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail to make fundamental ethnic and political distinctions in their work.

Formerly an independent tribe living along the North Fork of the Loup River in central Nebraska, the Skiris united with the South Band Pawnee groups in the late eighteenth century. This volume comprises approximately 4,500 entries that represent the basic vocabulary of the Skiri language.

Lt Charles B Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth US Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures.