Books published by University of Oklahoma Press

Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America. Thia book examines the multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh account of America's westward expansion.

Offers a celebration of women's contributions to Oklahoma's recent past. The book records defining moments in women's lives - whether surviving the Oklahoma City bombing or surviving abuse - and represents a wide range of professions, lifestyles, and backgrounds to show how extraordinary lives have grown from the seeds of ordinary girlhoods.

Exploring the formal and informal struggles over acknowledgment, Renee Ann Cramer argues that we cannot fully understand the process until we understand three contexts within which it operates: the growth of casino interests since 1988, the prevalence of racial attitudes concerning Indian identity, and the colonial legacy of US-Indian law.

If language encapsulates worldview, as the principle of linguistic relativity suggests, then this region's linguistic diversity is puzzling. Analyzing patterns of linguistic accommodation as seen in the semantics of space and time, grammatical classification, and specialized cultural vocabularies, O'Neill resolves the apparent paradox by assessing long-term effects of contact.

Loss and renewal in the lives of an individual and a community

Shows that concepts of Indigenous autonomy and self-governance have been vital to Native nations throughout history. The book also helps scholars better understand the historic policy shift brought about by the Indian Reorganization Act.