Native American category: 3329 books
by Jason Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Epidemic and deprivation were widespread among Native American tribes in the nineteenth century. The Ghost Dance asserted that Native Americans were God’s chosen people, attempting to restore Native American pride, dignity, power, and autonomy. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a combination of a curing...
by Lewis Spence
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Drawn from the myths and legends of the Algonquins, Iroquois, Sioux, Pawnee, and Northern and Northwestern Indians, these enchanting tales offer insights into tribal character and beliefs. Selected by the distinguished British anthropologist and folklorist Lewis Spence, they range in theme from romantic...
Individuality Incorporated
Indians and the Multicultural Modern
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Spanning the 1870s to the present, Individuality Incorporated demonstrates how crucial a knowledge of Native American-White history is to rethinking key issues in American studies, cultural studies, and the history of subjectivity. Joel Pfister proposes an ingenious critical and historical reinterpretation...
Our Beloved Kin
A New History of King Philip’s War
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America
With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the “First Indian War” (later named King Philip’s...
Warrior Nations
The United States and Indian Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining...
Native Cultures in Alaska
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.
Survival Schools
The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, “We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up.” In 1972,...
Hawaiian Blood
Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system...
A Culture's Catalyst
Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada. Inspired by their experience, they wrote...
by Charles Cleland, Bruce R Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Faith in Paper is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that together
have awakened a new day in Native American sovereignty and established the place of Indian...
The Modoc War
A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Climate change is today’s news, but it isn’t a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age...
Rachel's Children
Stories from a Contemporary Native American Woman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Rachel's Children is a true story, based on real events. It is an engaging and humorous account of a contemporary Ojibwa household and the woman and her children who are at its core. As their lives unfold, we understand how traditional beliefs and oral history help Rachel and her family cope as they...
An Unsettled Conquest
The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies...