Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art

Describes the history, modern and traditional cultural practices and economies, geographic background, and ongoing oppression and struggles of the Ainu.

Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistan

In 2008, 140 years after it had annexed Ainu lands, the Japanese government shocked observers by finally recognizing Ainu as an Indigenous people. In this momen