by a scholar who was a native speaker of a mutually intelligible language

Robert Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated

A literary alchemist

even to scholars who specialize in Plains cultures

The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained Métis by a scholar who wasA Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained in Navajoland. As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, Stanley Milford Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was both expected and taboo, where shapeshifters roamed, witchcraft was a thing to be feared, and children were taught not to whistle at night. In his youth, Milford never went