Native American category: 3329 books
by William C. Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Native American artists are among the most skilled practitioners of beadwork, and this classic study — based on the extensive collections in the Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian — offers a well-illustrated look at the extraordinary variety of beadwork methods and their spectacular...
Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which...
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.
Upon its original publication...
Ties That Bind
The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together...
Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity
The Gerald Vizenor Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
According to Kimberly Blaeser, Gerald Vizenor is "the most prolific Native American writer of the twentieth century," and Christopher Teuton rightfully calls him "one of the most innovative and brilliant American Indian writers" today." With more than 40 books of fiction,...
Native Americans in the School System
Family, Community, and Academic Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she evaluates historical, ethnographic, and quantitative...
by J.E. Luebering
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
With the advent of European colonization, the North American landscape and the indigenous cultures that inhabited it changed irrevocably. While a large part of Native Americans’ past has been marked by struggles for equality and sovereignty, a survey of the early history of various tribes reveals...
by Kenneth Shields Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1998
For generations, the Native American people have been a society of great mystery. The Assiniboine and Sioux Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana are no exception. Althoughcenturies old, their culture is only now being rediscovered and explored. The idea to reveal some of their...
by David E. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally...
Black Elk
The Life of an American Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Winner of the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Best Biography of 2016, True West magazine
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award, Best Western Biography
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award...
by Odie B. Faulk
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993
The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil War. The words addressed by Gatewood to Geronimo...
by Theda Perdue;Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent...
"That the People Might Live"
Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That...
Masters of Empire
Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux,...