Native American category: 3329 books
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological...
"All the Real Indians Died Off"
And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans
In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing...
by Kelly Fournel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Here are the biographies of ten inspirational native American women, including heroines of the past and those who are making history today, and their contributions to our daily lives and social fabric. This exciting work of nonfiction recounts their extraordinary work in such diverse fields as the...
Crossing Mountains
Native American Language Education in Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Collaboration among contemporary Native American communities and local public schools is vital for nurturing Native languages. Although public schools cannot bear the entire burden, Native-language education will remain on the margins without their support. Using case studies of school districts on...
Lakota Performers in Europe
Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition,...
The Students of Sherman Indian School
Education and Native Identity since 1892
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to "civilize" Indian children, which meant stripping them...
Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with...
by Alfred A. Cave
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Early in his career as an Indian fighter, American Indians gave Andrew Jackson a name—Sharp Knife—that evoked their sense of his ruthlessness and cruelty. Contrary to popular belief—and to many textbook accounts—in 1830, Congress did not authorize the forcible seizure of Indian land and the...
American Indian Education, 2nd Edition
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Before Europeans arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples spoke more than three hundred languages and followed almost as many distinct belief systems and lifeways. But in childrearing, the different Indian societies had certain practices in common—including training for survival and teaching...
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
**Zitkala-Sa was a 19th century Sioux author and activist, and this is a collection of Native American tales he compiled during trips to various reservations. **
Among Native American tribes, the Sioux are one of the best known and most important. Participants in some of the most...
LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Series: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie (Illustrated)
Historical Novels - The Life of Native Americans and European Settlers during the Colonization Period
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Series: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Leatherstocking Tales is a series...
by J. M. Barlog
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
The story our government never wanted revealed!
Real people. Real suffering. Real hate.
An emotionally gripping, brutally invasive tale of young Native Americans wrongly committed to our nation's only Indian insane asylum during the 1920s.
This powerful narrative is unputdownable,...
Meth Moon: To Hell & Back (Native American Fiction)
The Birds of Concho, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Meth Moon: To Hell and Back
(Native American Fiction Story)
Methamphetamine destroys families, and the soul of a culture that struggles to take care of its children. In Apache County, Arizona, where Concho is a tiny enclave of extraordinary beauty and American history of Mexicans and...
Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name
The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times--the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.
When the British,...