Native American category: 3329 books
The Quest for Citizenship
African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the...
First Americans
U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A forgotten history that explores how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was...
Great Basin Indians
An Encyclopedic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including...
Disturbing Indians
The Archaeology of Southern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
How Faulkner, Welty, Lytle, and Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work.
In this book, Annette Trefzer argues that not only have Native Americans played an active role in the construction of the South’s cultural landscape—despite a history of colonization,...
The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession
The Marshall Trilogy Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These cases, Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), Cherokee...
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Resilience through Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Non-Indians have amassed extensive records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the era between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. But academia has largely ignored the stories of these leaders’ descendants—including accounts from the Shawnees’ own perspectives. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe...
Yuchi Folklore
Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi...
Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest
Intersections of Indigenous Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture.
The Red Land to the South
American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Cox—the decades between 1920 and 1960—have been called politically and intellectually moribund. On the contrary, Cox identifies a group of American Indian writers who share an interest in the revolutionary potential of the indigenous...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each...
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The Native Americans were the predominant people in the United States before the arrival of the colonists. The history of the natives was both fascinating and at the same time a lot more tragic. It is estimated that around 100 million native people inhabited in the continent before the arrival of...
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
"Whether your interest in Sioux folklore is great or small, you will find this a fascinating book to devour. Pick up a copy today and be thrilled." — The Reading Room
This accessible and affordable volume combines two essential collections by Sioux author Zitkala-Sa. American Indian Stories...
"That's What They Used to Say"
Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own...