Native American category: 3329 books
by Kenneth Shields Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
In June of 1876, members of various northern Plains tribes gathered at the Little Bighorn River to form the largest Indian encampment in recorded American history. The huge gathering, called Tiospaye, encompassed over 1,000 lodges housing approximately 7,000 men, women, and children. The over 200 vintage...
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century
American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated through the first decade of the twenty-first century and contains a new chapter challenging Americans--Indian and non-Indian--to begin healing the earth. This analysis of the struggle to protect not only natural resources...
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 influential and interesting figures in the fields of ethnology and anthropology. The second volume of the Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times exhibits the progression of Lafitau’s practices...
LITTLEPAGE MANUSCRIPTS: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins (Complete Edition)
Historical Novels - The Life of European Settlers and Native Americans during the Colonization Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The Littlepage Manuscripts follow three generations of a Dutch-originated family settling in America, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. The trilogy is a fictional biography of the Littlepage family which explores the 18th century colony of New York. Novels focus mainly on issues of land ownership...
The North American Indian (Illustrated Edition)
History, Culture & Mythology of Apache, Navaho and Jicarillas Tribe with Original Photographic and Ethnographic Records
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The information that is to be gathered ... respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost." In 1906, J....
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience
The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1989, The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was successfully passed after a long and intense struggle. One year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) followed. These federal repatriation statutes—arguably some of the most important laws in...
Poison Arrows
North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arrows"...
Indian Spectacle
College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels....
Inter/Nationalism
Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“The age of transnational humanities has arrived.” According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian Studses and American Indian studies have more in common than one may think. In Inter/Nationalism, Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central...
Spilling the Beans Too
There Was an American Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Imagine living in a world that hates you, and becoming aware of this witnessing how that hate hurts your mother daily. At five I held my Ama's tired head and swore an oath, when I get big I will work hard so you won't be so tired. Look through my lens, and see Corporate America exploiting and overexposing...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Noted anthropologist James Mooney (1861–1921) spent much of his life studying American Indians. In North Carolina, he lived for several years with the Cherokee, studying their language, culture, and mythology. His research resulted in this comprehensive volume, comprising 126 Cherokee myths, including...
Professional Indian
The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son...
Early Native Americans in West Virginia
The Fort Ancient Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of...
The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
"How should we approach The History of the Five Indian Nations today? The book's information—rich as it is—should be critically interrogated and placed in social, political, and cultural context. The book reflects the outlook of a colonial British agent and, in a more general sense, of early modern...