Research and Publications:

The following list contains a select few of the recent articles, essays, and research projects that the Institute has been involved with over the last number of years; this is by no means a complete list (many of our projects are confidential and cannot be listed or released; only underlined titles are public.). The Institute conducts research in a wide variety of topics dealing with indigenous peoples, including: historical use studies; ethnographic and cultural impact assessments; NAGPRA, NHPA, NRDA, and other government mandated cultural perspective studies; Environmental Impact Assessments; ethnobotanical and ethnozoological studies; specialized research; health related studies; as well as literature reviews, bibliographic compilations, and textual accuracy reviews. Please contact us to see how we may help you with your research needs. Underlined titles are available for download.

• Barnhill, John. (2010). Stealing the Gila: The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921.
• Singh, Navin K. (2010). The Concept of Indigenous Peoples in Asia: A Resource Book.
• Marsh, Dawn. (2010). A People's History of Florida 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State.
• Primuth, Richard. (2010). Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation.
• Fairbanks, Jennifer. (2010). Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians: Soul Journeys, Metamorphosis, and Near-Death Experiences.
• Paci, Chris. (2010). One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan.
• Reyhner, Jon. (2010). Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country.
• Burke, Brianna. (2010). Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong.
• Barnhill, John. (2010). Criminal Justice in Native America.
• Newman, Rachel. (2010). Developing Zapatista Autonomy: Conflict And NGO Involvement In Rebel Chiapas.
• Jones, Peter N. (2010). Using Genetic Material in Cultural Affiliation Studies: Cautions and Limitations for NAGPRA Cases.
• Srikanth, H. (2010). Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Accommodation in Canada and India.
• Burbank, Carol (2010). Native American Performance and Representation.
• Waskey, Jeff (2010). Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders.
• Iflbacher-Fox, Stephanie (2010). Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.
• Carlisle, Jeff (2010). The Lipan Apache: People of Wind and Lightning.
• Barnhill, John (2010). Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl.
• Chaves, Kelly (2010). Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821.
• Powers, Luke (2010). The Chief's Prophecy: Survival Of The Northern Cheyenne Nation.
• White, Ashanti (2010). Finding Dahshaa: Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada.
• Ranogajec, Paul (2009). The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana.
• Jones, Peter N. (2009) Coolidge, Frederick L.; and Wynn, Thomas. The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking. PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, September 23. Vol. 54, Release 38, Article 1.
• Barnhill, John. (2009). A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943.
• Forss, Matthew J. (2009). The Last of the Shor Shamans.
• Shantz, Jeff. (2009). Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective.
• Chaves, Kelly K. (2009). Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization.
• Murguia, Salvador J. (2009). The Headman Was a Woman: The Gender Egalitarian Batek Of Malaysia.
• Waskey, Andrew J. (2009). Peyote Vs the State: Religious Freedom on Trial.
• Buchholtz, Debra. (2009). William Wayne Red Hat, Jr.: Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows.
• Jones, Peter N. (2009). A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë.
• Shannon, Matthew. (2009). Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist.
• Salter, John. (2009). The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers.
• Galvin, Margaret. (2009). The Women's Warrior Society.
• Forss, Matthew J. (2009). Decolonizing Conservation: Caring for Maori Meeting Houses Outside of New Zealand.
• Barnhill, John. (2009). Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood.
• Bauu Institute. (2009). Prehistoric Populations, Genetic Data, and Cultural Affiliation with Native American Indians.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2009). Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, and Ethnography.
• Bauu Institute. (2009). Migration, Indigenous Peoples, and Identity: An Archaeological Case from the Great Basin Region of North America.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2009). Defining Indigenous People’s Identity in the Law: An Example from New Zealand/Aotearoa.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2009). Preservation of Indigenous People's History: An Example from the Tule River Native American Indian Tribal History Project.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2009). Long-Term Impacts to Indigenous People's Lands from Electric, Gas, and Energy Corridors and Projects: A Case from Native North America.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2009). A Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast.
• Bauu Institute. (2009). A New Understanding of the Archaic Period in the Southeast of North America: A Reappraisal of the Archaeological Evidence.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Multiple Colonizations and Many Routes in the Peopling of the Americas: Evidence Sheds Light on the First Native American Indians.
• Jones, Peter N. (2008). Shamans and Shamanism: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Terms Use in North America. Boulder, CO: Bauu Press. Click to Buy Secure via Amazon
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Archaeology, Cultural Transmission, and the Indigenous Native American Indians of the Great Basin Region of North America.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Reinventing the Lacandon: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Prehistoric Native Americans and the Folsom Technology: Cultural Affiliation from the Late Pleistocene to the Prehistoric.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Common Pool Resources, Natural Resources, and Indigenous Peoples.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Ecotourism, Indigenous Peoples, and the Peruvian Amazon.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Archaeology and Collaboration with Local Indigenous Peoples: An Example from the Central Andes of South America.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern California.
• Stapp, Darby, and Jones, Peter N. (2008). The Appeal Decision. In Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One. Heather Burke, Claire Smith, Dorothy Lippert, Joe Watkins, and Larry Zimmerman, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
• Jones, Peter N.; and Stapp, Darby. (2008). An Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks’ Kennewick Man Decision. In Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One. Heather Burke, Claire Smith, Dorothy Lippert, Joe Watkins, and Larry Zimmerman, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
• Stapp, Darby; and Jones, Peter N. (2008). 9th Circuit’s Decision on the Kennewick Man Appeal. In Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One. Heather Burke, Claire Smith, Dorothy Lippert, Joe Watkins, and Larry Zimmerman, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Indigenous Peoples of Tibet.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia.
• Wensing, Enrico. (2008). I Am Sustainability: How The Human Body Can Save The Planet. Boulder, CO: Bauu Press. Click to Buy Secure via Amazon.
• Jones, Peter N. (2008). Cultural Resources and Visitor Experience. Headlands Institute Environmental Impact Assessment. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service. Total Quality NEPA.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Intellectual Property, Indigenous Peoples, and the Law.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Sandia Cave, New Mexico: Is There Evidence for a Late Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas?
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). The BaKa and Bambendzele Indigenous People of Central Africa.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). The Kalenjin Indigenous People of Western Kenya, Africa.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Methods of Assimilation: Australian Aboriginals and Native American Examples.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). The Indigenous Nomadic Peoples of South Asia: Current Impacts.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Native American Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Indigenous Native Americans and Recognition within the State: The Case of Pennsylvania.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). The Raika Indigenous Peoples of Rajasthan, India.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Indigenous Native Americans Who Have Received the Medal of Honor.
• Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources. (2008). Indigenous First Nation Peoples and the Managemetn of Cultural Heritage in British Columbia.
• Stapp, Darby. (2008). Nez Perce Country by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Indigenous Native American Fishing in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Lithic Projectile Points and the Great Basin Region of North America.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Indigenous Native American Epistemology: An Example from the Menominee of Wisconsin.
• Joseph, Young. (1879). A Native American's View of Indian Affairs in the United States. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). The Sovereign Status of Native American Indigenous People's Nations in the United States.
• Bauu Institute. (2008). Culture Groups in Late Pleistocene North America.
• Jones, Peter N. (2007). The Native American Church, Peyote, and Health: Expanding Consciousness for Healing Purposes. Contemporary Justice Review, 10(4): 411-426.
• Moondancer and Strong Woman. (2007). A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present. Boulder, CO: Bauu Press. Click to buy Secure on Amazon.
• Bauu Institute. (2007). Archaeology and the Peopling of the Americas: New Evidence from Texas Pushes the Entry Date Back to the Pleistocene.
• Bauu Institute. (2007). How the First American Indians Subsisted in the Great Plains of North America 10,000 Years Ago.
• Bauu Institute. (2007). American Indians and Plants in the Great Basin: An Ancient Relationship.
• Bauu Institute. (2007). Did Europeans Discover the Americas Before Columbus?
• Bauu Institute. (2007). What Do Molecular Genetic Studies Tell Us About the Peopling of the Americas?
• Gelder, Melinda. (2006). Meeting the Enemy, Becoming A Friend. Boulder, CO: Bauu Institute Press. Click to buy Secure on Amazon.
• Jones, Peter N. (2006). Shamanism: An Inquiry into the History of the Scholarly Use of the Term in English-Speaking North America. Anthropology of Consciousness, 17(2): 4-32.
• Guglinski, Wladimir. (2006). Quantum Ring Theory: Foundations for Cold Fusion. Boulder, CO: Bauu Institute Press. Click to buy Secure on Amazon.
• Jones, Peter N. (2005). The American Indian Church and its Sacramental Use of Peyote: A Review for Professionals in the Mental Health Arena. Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 8(4): 277-290.
• Jones, Peter N. (2005). Fishing through Identity: A Preliminary Impact Analysis to the Nez Perce as a Result of the Damming of the Clearwater and Snake Rivers. Cultural Dynamics, 17(2): 155-192.
• Jones, Peter N. (2005). Respect for the Ancestors: American Indian Cultural Affiliation in the American West. Boulder, CO: Bauu Institute Press. Click to buy Secure on Amazon.
• Walker, Deward E., Jr. and Jones, Peter N. (2005). No Children Left Behind: Implementing the Multicultural Curriculum. High Plains Applied Anthropologist 25(1): 23-32.
• Hazen, Jennifer, LeJeune, Kate, Humphries, Susan, and Jones, Peter N. (2005). Data Evaluation and Preliminary Evaluation of Injuries, Yerington Mine, Yerington, Nevada. Prepared for Yerington Paiute Tribe (#SC10599).
• Jones, Peter N. (2005). Cultural Uses of Natural Resources by the Walker River and Yerington Paiute Tribe: A Literature Review and Data Gap Analysis. Prepared for Yerington Mine Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Board of Trustees and Stratus Consulting (#S012-4C-0697).
• Jones, Peter N. (2004). Shamanism in North America: A Comprehensive Bibliography on the Use of the Term. Boulder, CO: Bauu Institute Press.
• Jones, Peter N. (2004). American Indian mtDNA and Y Chromosome Genetic Data and the Peopling of the Americas. Boulder, CO: Bauu Institute Press. Click to buy Secure on Amazon.
• Jones, Peter N. (2004). American Indian mtDNA and Y Chromosome Studies: The Current State of the Field. Westminster, CO: International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management (#DE-FG03-00ER63004).
• Jones, Peter N. (2004). Ultrarunners and Chance Encounters with “Absolute Unitary Being.” Anthropology of Consciousness, 15(2): 39-50.
• Jones, Peter N. (2003). The Ethical System of Yoga. JOY: The Journal of Yoga, 3(9), 1-4.
• Jones, Peter N. & Stapp, Darby. (2003). An Anthropological Perspective on Magistrate Jelderks' Kennewick Man Decision. High Plains Applied Anthropologist, 23(1): 1-16.
• A Comprehensive Bibliography of documents pertaining to the Washo Tribe of Nevada and California. Bauu Institute: Boulder 2002
• A Comprehensive Bibliography of documents pertaining to the Shoshone-Paiute. Bauu Institute: Boulder 2002
• American Indian Ethnobotanical uses of Native Plant Species of the American West. Contains over 30,000 entries on plants, their uses, and locations. In press.
• Front Range Alpine Trail Running Guide. Trail running guide of the Colorado Front Range with topographical and profile maps. Contains an appendix discussing the psychoneurophysiological processes that take place on ultra-distance runs. $12.95.
• Jones, Peter N. (2003). Old World Infectious Diseases in the Plateau Area of North America during the Protohistoric: Rethinking Our Understanding of "Contact" in the Plateau. Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 37(1): 1-26.
• Jones, Peter N. (2002). Certain Limitations in the Current Use of mtDNA and Y Chromosome Testing to Infer American Indian Demographic History and Cultural Affiliation. The AnthroGlobe Journal, Winter, 1-32.
• Walker, Deward E., Jr. & Jones, Peter N. (2000). Anthropology, Tribes, and The Transformation of American Anthropology: A Few Observations. In High Plains Applied Anthropologist, Vol. 20, No. 1.
• Walker, Deward E., Jr. & Jones, Peter N. (2000). Other Perspectives on the Kennewick Man Controversy. In American Anthropologist, Vol. 102, No. 4.
• The Nez Perce. Essay for University of Washington/Library of Congress publication.
• Walker, Deward E., Jr. & Jones, Peter N. Implementing the Multicultural Curriculum. In Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, Vol. 32, No.2, Fall 1998.
• Jones, Peter N. (1999). Feasibility Study for Implementation of an Adventure Based Cruise Line in the Caribbean. Prepared for Rhumba Cruises, November, 1999.

Book Reviews Include:

• The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana.
• Coolidge, Frederick L.; and Wynn, Thomas. The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking. PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, September 23. Vol. 54, Release 38, Article 1.
• The Last of the Shor Shamans.
• Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective.
• Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization.
• The Headman Was a Woman: The Gender Egalitarian Batek Of Malaysia.
• Peyote Vs the State: Religious Freedom on Trial.
• William Wayne Red Hat, Jr.: Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows.
• A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë.
• Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist.
• A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
• The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
• The Women's Warrior Society
• Decolonizing Conservation: Caring for Maori Meeting Houses Outside of New Zealand.
• Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood.
• Scoping the Amazon: Image, Icon, and Ethnography.
• The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast.
• Reinventing the Lacandon: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas.
• Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern California.
• Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes.
• Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia.
• Archaeology, Skeletons, and Indigenous Peoples: Three Books Set the Future Direction.
• The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.
• Nez Perce Country by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
• Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country
• Healing Secrets of the Native Americans: Herbs, Remedies, and Practices that Restore the Body, Refresh the Mind, and Rebuild the Spirit
• The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America
• Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Education, and Multicultural Development in Peru
• Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990
• Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
• American Indians and National Parks
• Tribal Cultural Resource Management: The Full Circle to Stewardship.
• Spirit, Mind, and Brain: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion. In PsycCRITIQUES, July 2007.
• White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains, by Stan Hoig. In H-Net List for American Indian Studies, September 2006.
• Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and The Battle for Native American Identity, by David Hurst Thomas. In American Anthropologist, Vol. 102, No. 4.
• Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man, by Roger Downey. In American Anthropologist, Vol. 102, No. 4.
• Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River, by Roberta Ulrich. In Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Winter 2001.
• 'Keeping the Lakes' Way': Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World among an Invisible People, by Paula Pryce. In Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Winter 2001.
• Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast, by Hilary Stewart.
• Several hundred books have been reviewed for McGraw-Hill, Penguin-Putman, and several other large publishing houses for textual accuracy and comprehensiveness.