Native American category: 3329 books
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each...
Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies
Conversations from Earth to Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in which...
The Tribal Moment in American Politics
The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In the “tribal moment in American politics,” which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.S. legal and political systems. The U.S. government responded characteristically, overall wielding...
The Cherokee Kid
Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And though most in his vast audience didn't know it, he was also the most famous Indian of his time. Those who know of Rogers's Cherokee heritage and upbringing tend to minimize its importance,...
by Bruce A. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
“HAIL! is the first Constitutional Epic-Saga of the Native Continent called Onkwehonweteh, The Land of the Real People… today known as America… that takes the reader back 450 years to America before Samuel de Champlain to the fascinating world of Native American politics, rivalry, and war which...
by Jack Darrell Crowder
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military—it would...
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu—literally “the Trail Where...
American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops...
Real Native Genius
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the...
by Jon Manchip White
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This book by the author of several outstanding studies of ancient peoples vividly recounts the story of the Native Americans — from their earliest beginnings as immigrants from the Asian mainland, to their lives as tragic figures on U. S. government-authorized reservations.
A story of great depth...
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth...
by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Collection of Native American myths, first published in 1856. According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans,...
The Color of the Land
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives...