Michael Polsuns, Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations' Self-Government?, Foreword by Rarihokwats, is 256 pp., $90 cloth from Taylor and Francis at: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/.

University of Minnesota Press books include: Albert Memmi, Decolonization and the Decolonized (160 pp. for $17.95 Paper, $54.00 Cloth); John Bloom, To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools (192 pp. for $17.95 Paper, $54.00 Cloth); Kathy Davis Graves and Elizabeth Ebbott, Indians in Minnesota, Fifth Edition (352 pp. for $19.95 Paper, 60.00 Cloth),; Daniel Heath Justice, A Cherokee Literary History (296 pp. for$20.00 Paper, $60.00 Cloth); and Robert Warrior, The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, revealing the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing (280 pp. for $20.00 Paper, $60.00 Cloth), all from University of Minnesota Press, Suite 290, 111 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (612)627-1970, ump@umn.edu, http://www.press.uchicago.edu.

Relevant works from the University of Arizona Press include: Eileen Luna-Firebaugh, Tribal Policing: Asserting Sovereignty, Seeking Justice (176 pp., $23.96 paper); Miriam Jorgensen, Ed., Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (385 pp. for $20 paper, $40 cloth); Joanne McCloskey, Living Through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women’s Lives (240 pp. for $24,95 paper, $50 cloth); Stephen Hirst, I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People (276 pp. for $18.95 paper); Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History (176 pp. for $17.95 paper, $40 cloth); Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Reclaiming Dine History: The Legacy of Chief Manuelito and Juanita (264 pp. for $19.95 paper, $45 cloth); Richard J. Chacon and Ruben G. Mendoza Eds., North American Ritual Warfare and Ritual Violence (304 pp. for $50 cloth), and Latin American Ritual Warfare and Ritual Violence (304 pp. for $50 cloth); and Erin O’Connor, Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 (288 pp. for $49.95 cloth), all, plus $3 for first item, $2 for each additional,  shipping,  from the University of Arizona Press, 355 S. Euclid Ave., Suite 103, Tucson, AZ 85701, phone/fax (800) 426-3797,  www.upress.arizona.edu.

Books from Oregon State University Press include: Stephen Dow Beckham, Ed., Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries ($45.00 cloth); Edward C. Wolf, Klamath Heartlands, introducing the landmark plan by the Klamath Tribes of southern Oregon to restore the "remembered forest" of their former reservation ($19.95 paper); Elizabeth D. Jacobs, William Seaburg, Ed., The Nehalem Tillamook ($21.95 paper); Cheryl Wilfong, Following the Nez Perce Trail: A Guide to the Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail with Eyewitness Accounts, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded ($29.95 paper); and Roberta Ulrich, Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia, Second Edition ($19.95 paper), all, plus $3 for first item, $2 for each additional, shipping from Oregon State University Press: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/press/new.html, or order from University of Arizona Press (see above).

University of Illinois Press offerings include: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, New Indians: Old Wars (248 pp. for $32.95 cloth), and Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth (240 pp. for $19.95 paper); Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T, Nelson, Eds., Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective (312 pp. for $24.95 paper, $70 cloth); Jack D. Forbes, The American Discovery of Europe ($34.95 cloth); Carl J. Ekberg, Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country ($38 cloth); Esther Martinez, My Life in San Juan Pueblo: Stories of Esther Martinez ($24.95 paper); James A. Treat, Around the Sacred Fire, Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era (384 pp. for $30 paper); Susan Kalter, Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736-62 ($45 cloth); and Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten, Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia (304 pp. for $25 paper, $65 cloth), all, plus $5 for the first item, $1 for each additional, shipping, from University of Illinois Press, c/o Chicago Distribution Center,  11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628 (800)621-2736,  orders@press.uchicago.edu,  www,press.uillinois.edu.

Two new resource books from the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) and the Native Nations Institute (NNI) are The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under US Policies of Self-Determination (Available from: Oxford University Press (800)451-7556, www.oup.com/us/he); and Miriam Jorgensen,  Ed., Rebuilding Native Nations:  Strategies for Governance and Development (available from University of Arizona Press,(800)428-3797,  orders@uapress.arizona.edu.

Offerings from the University of Hawaii Press include: Serge Tcherkesoff and Francoise Douaire-Masadoun, Eds., The Changing South Pacific: Identities and Transformations (360 pp. for $25 paper); Mansel G. Blackford,  Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and its Consequences in the Pacific (280 pp. for $49 cloth; Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu,  Eds., The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives (432 pp. for $80 cloth); and Jeffrey Geiger, Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination (366 pp. for $69 cloth). All, plus $5 first item, $1 each additional, shipping, from University of Hawai’i Press, 1840 Kolawalu St., Honolulu, HI 96822 (808)956-8255, uhpbooks@hawaii.edu.

Titles from the Canadian Plains research Center at the University of Regina include (pricesin Canadian dollars): Christian Thompson, Saskatchewan First Nations: Lives Past and Present (151 pp. for $19.95 paper); Amelia M. Paget, People of the Plains ($14.95 paper); David G. Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study ($24 paper); Peter Douglas Elias, The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest: Lessons for Survival (262 pp. for $39.95 paper); L. James Dempsey, Warriors of the King: Prairie Indians in World War I (123pp. for $19.95 paper);        Edwin Thompson Denig, J.N.B. Hewitt, Ed., The Assiniboine (290 pp. for $24 paper); Terry Wotherspoon and Vic Satzewich,  First Nations: Race, Class, and Gender Relations (311 pp. for $24.95); Freda Ahenakew and H.C. Wolfart, kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa Our Grandmothers' Lives: As Told in Their Own Words (408 pp. for $29.95 paper); Edward Ahenakew and Ruth Matheson Buck, Voices of the Plains Cree (130 pp. for $18 paper); Patrick Douaud and Bruce Dawson, Plain Speaking: Essays on Aboriginal Peoples and the Prairie (115 pp. for $29.95 paper); Deanna Christensen, Ahtahkakoop : The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival 1816-1896 (844 pp. for $59.95); Hugh A. Dempsey, Big Bear : The End of Freedom (227 pp. for $19.95 paper); and Nicole St-Onge, Saint-Laurent, Manitoba: Evolving Metis Identities, 1850-1914 (137 pp. for $14.95 paper), All, in the U.S. plus $7 first item, $2 each additional,  shipping, from Canadian Plains research Center, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada (866)874-2257, canadian.plains@uregina.ca, http://www.cprc.uregina.ca.

Purich Publications offers the following volumes on Aboriginal issues (prices are the same in U.S. and in Canadian dollars): Walter Hildebrandt & Brian Hubner, The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself ($25); Office of the Treaty Commissioner (OTC), Treaty Implementation: Fulfilling the Covenant ($18.50); Harold Johnson, Two Families: Treaties and Government  ($20); Yale D. Belanger, Gambling with the Future: The Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming ($31); Harold LeRat with Linda Ungar, Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life on a Reserve ($20); James I. Reynolds, A Breach of Duty: Fiduciary Obligations and Aboriginal Peoples ($38.00); Kerry Wilkins, Ed., Advancing Aboriginal Claims: Visions/Strategies/Directions ($38); Thomas Isaac,  Aboriginal Law: Commentary, Cases and Materials, Third Edition ($50.00); Craig Proulx, Reclaiming Aboriginal Justice, Identity, and Community ($31); Paul L. A. H. Chartrand, foreword by Harry W. Daniels, Eds., Who Are Canada's Aboriginal Peoples? Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction ($37); Thomas Isaac, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in the Maritimes: The Marshall Decision and Beyond ($33); Robert Mainville, An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for their Breach ($27); John H. Hylton, Ed,. foreword by Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues, Second Edition ($40); F. Laurie Barron and Joseph Garcea,  Eds., Urban Indian Reserves: Forging New Relationships in Saskatchewan ($36); Ross Gordon Green, Justice in Aboriginal Communities: Sentencing Alternatives ($27); Joe Sawchuk. The Dynamics of Native Politics: The Alberta Metis Experience ($26); Marie Battiste and James (Sa'k'ej) Youngblood Henderson, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge ($36); and Brian Goehring, Indigenous Peoples of the World: An Introduction to their Past, Present and Future ($15.50), All from Purich Publishing Ltd., Box 23032, Market Mall Post Office, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7J 5H3, Fax: (306)373-5315 Phone: (306)373-5311, http://www.purichpublishing.com/aboriginal.htm.

University of Nebraska Press offerings include: David J. Wishart, Ed., Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians (254pp for $24.95 paper); Ken Zontek, Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison (263 pp. for $19.95 paper); Candace S. Greene and Russell Thornton, Eds., The Year the Stars Fell (370 pp. for $45 cloth); Margaret Connell Szasz Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783, with a new preface by the author (352 pp. for $24.95 paper); Cora Du Bois. The 1870 Ghost Dance (378 pp. for $19.95); Larissa Petrillo in collaboration with Melda and Lupe Trejo,  Introduction by Thomas Buckley, Being Lakota: Identity and Tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation (176 pp. for $35 cloth); Edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis, Foreword by Judith Antell, Preface by Brian Hosmer , Afterward by Shepard Krech III, Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (370 pp. for $24.95 paper); Valarie Lambert, Choctaw Nation (368 pp. for $45 cloth); Michael V, Coleman, American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A comparative Study (528 pp. for $49.95 cloth); William R Seaburg, Ed., collected by Elizabeth Jaobs, Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Tradition of Coquelle Thompson,  Upper Coquelle Athabaskan Indian (384 pp. for$39.95 cloth); Philip S. LeSourd, Translator and Ed., Tales from Maliseet Country: The Maliseet Texts of Karl V. Teeter (200 pp. for $40 cloth); and Theresa M. Schenk, William W. Warren: The Life and Times of an Ojibwe Leader (224pp. for $45 cloth), all from University of Nebraska Press, 1111 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE 68588 (800)755-1105, pressmail@uni.edu, www.nebraskapress.uni.edu.

University of Oklahoma Press books on Indigenous topics include: Bernd C. Peyer, Ed,, American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s-1930s - A survey of two centuries of Indian political writings (448 pp. for $26.95 paper); Robert J. Conley, Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer (160 pp. for $14.95 paper); Robert W. Larson, Gall: Lakota War Chief (320 pp. for $24.95 cloth); Robert M. Owens, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy (344 pp. for $34.95 cloth); Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder, American Indian Education: A History(384 pp for $19.95 paper);

Margaret Connell Szasz, Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (304 pp. for $34.95); Clarissa W. Confer, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War (216 pp. for $24.95 cloth); Clara Sue Kidwell, The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970 (344 pp. for $34,95 cloth); Kevin Mulroy, The Seminole Freedmen: A History (480 pp. for $36.95 cloth); Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (272 pp, for $24,95 cloth); Laura E. Matthew, Michel R. Oudijk, Eds., Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of MesoAmerica (320 pp. for $45 cloth), all, plus $5 for the first item, $1 for each additional, shipping, from University of Oklahoma Press, Attn: Order Department, 2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069 (800)627-7377, http://www.oupress.com.

Steve Wall, and Harvey Arden, Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders has just been republished by Simon & Schuster/Atria and is available at most book outlets including Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/158270158X/ref

=pd_rvi_gw_1/002-6357253-1518437). List price is 29.95.

Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson, Jennifer L., Robinson Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote is $24.99 Paper.

Daniel C. McCool, Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements And the Second Treaty Era is $22.95 paper.

Tim Giago, Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools, is 176 pages for $14.95 from Clear Light Publishing, 1-800-253-2747 or on line at www.clearlightbooks.com.

Ian Lilley, Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World is 192 pp. for $29.95 Paper from Left coast Press: http://www.lcoastpress.com.

In 2001, after years of interviewing their elders, the Sto:lo Nation of costal British Columbia published A Sto:lo Coast Salish Historical Atlas, including maps based on the elder's descriptions of the region's geography that show traditional uses of certain places and the natural resources that once grew there. The atlas has become a major tool in defining traditional Sto:lo areas, as the Sto:lo Nation negotiates its first draft treaty with the governments of Canada and British Columbia.

Robert J. Miller, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny is 216 pages for $49.95 from Greenwood Press, (800)225-5800, www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9011.aspx.

Betty Lou Hall and Monica Jae Hall, Shasta Nation is 128 pp. for $19.99 from Arcadia Publishing: http://www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Richard Witmer and Frederick J. Boehmke, “American Indian political incorporation in the post-Indian Gaming Regulatory Act era,” The Social Science Journal,  Vol. 44, No. 1, 2007, available at: www.sciencedirect.com.

Tribal Nations: The Story of Federal Indian Law is a new 60-minute film documentary produced by the Tanana Chiefs Conference and available in DVD from Amazon.com. It was filmed in 8 states and has interviews from Indian law scholars and leaders across the country including Charles Wilkinson, Matthew Fletcher, Stephen Pevar, David Case, Ada Deer, Gary LaRance, Kevin Washburn, and many others. It was written and directed by Lisa Jaeger. The film is available through Amazon.com Typing in 'federal Indian law,' Indian law,' or Tribal Nations into Amazon's search engine will take you to this DVD. http://www.amazon.com/ Discounts on multiple copies of the film are available from Tanana Chiefs directly. For pricing on multiple copies contact Lisa Jaeger at:lisa.jaeger@tananachiefs.org.

First Nations Films offers films on subjects from Spirituality to Land Claims to Traditional Music to Politics, at: www.firstnationsfilms.com, coyote00@telus.net or 604-990-9337.

The Oneida Indian Nation' of New York's Four Directions Productions put on the world premiere of its first 3-D animated short film at the Syracuse International Film Festival in Syracuse, NY, in April. The eight-minute film tells the story of the ancient Oneida legend of Raccoon and Crawfish. For more information go to www.4dpgroup.com.

HBO Films teamed with producers Dick Wolf and Tom Thayer  in putting on a feature adaptation of Dee Brown's 1971 book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Told primarily  through the eyes of three characters Charles Eastman, Sitting Bull and Senator Henry  Dawes, the film explores the  United States' obsession with its manifest destiny, detailing the economic, political and  social pressures that underpinned the  opening of the American West in the latter part of the 19th Century, and the tragic and  permanent impact this expansion had on  American Indian culture. The film was first shown on May 27.

American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Wednesday from 3pm to 4pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, and by Internet, including past programs, with Real Media Player, Winamp, & Itunes at http://www.kpfk.org. A recent program was, "Thwarting Racism in the Mass Media Industry."

The Papers of  Reuben Snake were donated to the National Museum of the American Indian, in late December.

The University of New Mexico Health Science Library and Informatics Center maintains the Native Health Research Database (NHRD), and Native Health History DataBase (NHHD), both at at hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd, or contact  the University of New Mexico Health Science Library and Informatics Center, MSC 09 5100, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505)272-0664, NHD@salud.umn.edu, hsc.umn.edu/library.