Native American category: 3329 books
Town Creek Indian Mound
A Native American Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
The temple mound and mortuary at Town Creek, in Montgomery County, is one of the few surviving earthen mounds built by prehistoric Native Americans in North Carolina. It has been recognized as an important archaeological site for almost sixty years and, as a state historic site, has become a popular...
Surviving Genocide
Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned...
by Ken Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This book about the history of Native Americans in the United States is brought to you by the makers of the popular children's educational website Ducksters. Inside the book, you will learn about the culture of Native American tribes when Columbus first arrived including their art, religion,...
Working the Navajo Way
Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award
The Diné have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the...
Speculators in Empire
Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois,...
Red States
Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences...
White Grizzly Bear's Legacy
Learning to Be Indian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened I imagined that it talked to me. It seemed that it was telling me of how things once were. I began...
In Geronimo's Footsteps
A Journey Beyond Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
“Geronimo’s great-grandson recounts the famous Apache chief’s life in a riveting book” (Le Monde).
The name Geronimo came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the...
Recording Culture
Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers yet, until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ignored in the study of Native American expressive cultures. Recording Culture is an exploration of the Aboriginal music industry and the powwow social...
Land of the Tejas
Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texas during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Through this revolutionary approach, John Wesley Arnn reconstructs Native identity and social...
Imagic Moments
Indigenous North American Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns,...
Living Like Indians
1,001 Projects, Games, Activities, and Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
For children and adults alike, Living Like Indians is the essential guide to Native American recreation and activities. Written with recreation directors in mind, this wonderful field companion provides thoughtful learning activities along with a history of the Native Americans. Tracking, camping,...
Decolonizing the Diet
Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that Native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in “Virgin Soils” that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering with Native American...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Centennial Campaign of 1876 is a valuable example of warfare between the US and Native Americans. Originally conceived as a punitive campaign, three columns of combined cavalry and infantry...