Native American category: 3329 books
Winning the West with Words
Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century...
Gathering Together
The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600?1870
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The book covers nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees’ first European contacts...
by Mary Rowlandson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
The wife of a minister in a small frontier town west of Boston, Mary Rowlandson was forced to leave her house in the late winter of 1676 after marauding Indians set the building on fire. "I had often before this said," she later wrote, "that if the Indians should come, I should chuse...
Contours of a People
Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth...
The Pueblo Revolt
The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern...
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies...
The Beginning and End of Rape
Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the...
Wild Men
Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also...
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Their Traditional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure...
Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
*Includes over 50 pictures of the civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya, Inca and Aztecs, from language to diet. *Comprehensively covers the civilizations' most famous characteristics, including Mayan astronomy, the Aztecs' infamous human sacrifice rituals,...
by Vine Deloria
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about US race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This “manifesto” provides valuable insights on...
Say We Are Nations
Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other...
by Steven Seagal, Tom Morrissey
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This is the story of an Arizona Tribal police officer who stumbles onto one of the of the biggest cases in the history of the Southwest. He is a member of an elite group within the Native American communities known as The Shadow Wolves. What comes with his discovery is the uncovering of massive corruption...