Native American category: 3329 books
by Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. In addition to mining the best folkloric sources of the...
THE HIDDEN CHILDREN (Western Classic)
The Heart-Warming Saga of an Unusual Friendship during the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
It was the time of the American Revolution where both the Americans and the British were taking help from the Native Americans to win the war. The west was yet to become the west as we know of it today and primarily meant the entire area to the west of the river Hudson. In such times, going against...
From Daniel Boone to Captain America
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth century, American...
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography
In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations....
by James N. Leiker, Ramon Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers....
Twenty Thousand Mornings
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Immediately following the massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890), the well-known anthropologist James Mooney, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian, investigated the incident. His interest was primarily in the Indian background to the uprising. Admitting...
Braddock's Defeat
The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and while making their way to besiege...
Toward the Setting Sun
John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the...
An American Betrayal
Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite...
by Peter Skeene Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Among the first individuals to penetrate the vast wilderness of the American Far West were rugged trappers and traders. Many, in their dealings with Native Americans, witnessed a broad spectrum of tribal life. Peter Skeene Ogden (1794-1854), explorer, author, and Hudson’s Bay Company employee, was...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Cherokee people like all other Native American Indian tribes possess a huge oral history. Before the time of written words, the history, customs and skills of a tribe were passed down through word-of-mouth and storytelling. Today, it is still an important part of Cherokee life. Elder tribe members...
The Cherokee Rose
A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArthur “genius grant”, examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three contemporary young women who are drawn to the Georgia...
by Lewis Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In The Myths of the North American Indians, Lewis Spence offers insight into what is unique and distinctive about the Native-American cultures and peoples. Part ethnography, part history, and part literary study, this collection is accessible to academic scholars and mainstream readers alike. Spence...