"The first book-length history of reproduction that centers [on] Native American women, Reproduction on the reservation documents the transformation of reproductive practices on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Relying on extensive archival research as well as oral histories that allow Native women to tell their own stories, this study integrates a local history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism...

A wise eagle teaches Native America boy Rain That Dances how healthy eating and exercise habits can help prevent diabetes.

Rain that Dances and his friends go to visit Mr. Eagle to find out ways to stay healthy and strong. Miss Rabbit is there and tells them how eating many different kinds and colors of vegetables will help them stay well.

This book tells the environmental justice story of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. Ringwood, New Jersey is home to the Turtle Clan, and many still live in the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. The landscape includes former iron mines, ceremonial stones, a forest in which people hunt for food, and a stew of chemical toxicants from a former Ford manufacturing plant. This project is grounded in a collaborative process; researchers from Rutgers University...

James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics -- the politics of ethnocide -- played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."

"In this new book ... we once again find our heroes working to improve the health of families on the Medicine Cave Indian Reservation. In this story, the focus is on Hummingbird as she pursues a 'giant plan' to grow huge fruits and vegetables that will provide abundant food to everyone. A bit full of herself, she believes that her 'giants' will make Native seeds and growing methods unnecessary. She is unaware, however, that Coyote is playing tricks...