Native American category: 3329 books
The Third Space of Sovereignty
The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
The imposition of modern American colonial rule has defined U.S.–indigenous relations since the time of the American Civil War. In resistance, Kevin Bruyneel asserts, indigenous political actors work across American spatial and temporal boundaries, demanding rights and resources from the government...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state,...
Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Gardens in the Dunes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her 1977 novel Ceremony. This guide, with chapters written by leading scholars of Native American literature,...
The Thames 1813
The War of 1812 on the Northwest Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The battle of the Thames was the culmination of a bloody campaign that saw American forces clash with the British and their Native American allies on multiple occasions. In a battle that included the future US president William Henry Harrison, American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry and the legendary...
by Latifau Joseph François
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Joseph François Lafitau is acknowledged as one of history’s most significant and interesting figures in the field of ethnology. Regarded as one of the first modern ethnographies, Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times, a publication of the Champlain Society,...
Great Basin Rock Art
Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of...
The Old American
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity. Set in New England and Canada...
The Hidden Children
The Heart-Warming Saga of an Unusual Friendship during the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This eBook edition of "The Hidden Children" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. 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...
by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The day I betrayed Isaac, I vowed never again to speak my native language in front of white men.
When America enters the Great War in 1917, Bertram Robert Dunn and his Choctaw buddies from Armstrong Academy join the army to protect their homes, their families, and their country. Hoping to find...
by Gilles R. G. Monif M.D
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
In the aftermath of the Wounded Knee uprising, a Native American Jurist leaves his position on the World Court and returns to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to defend members of the American Indian Movement from federal prosecution.
Following his assassination, Isaiah, his half-breed...
LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS – Complete Trilogy: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins
Historical Novels - The Life of European Settlers and Native Americans during the Colonization Period
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS – Complete Trilogy: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Littlepage Manuscripts follow three generations of a Dutch-originated family settling...
Peoples of the River Valleys
The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially...
by Cheryl L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This is the sweeping history of the Great Lakes Indigenous Anishinabe - First People; the Ojibwe-Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomi, Huron, Wyandotte, Iroquois and many other tribes connected to the Ottissippi - St. Clair River, Detroit River Strait, the great trade route to the center of the continent....
by William E. Unrau
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Santa Fe Trail Association Award of Merit
In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern...