Native American category: 3329 books
Settler Common Sense
Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political...
Native Apparitions
Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is a-da-yv-la-ti or a-da-yu-la-ti, meaning “something that appears.” In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced apparitions. While the Cherokee language recognizes that movies are not reality, Western audiences may on some level assume that film portrayals...
The World and All the Things upon It
Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award
Winner of NAISA's Best Subsequent Book Award
Winner of the Western History Association's John C. Ewers...
Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing...
Members of the Tribe
Native America in the Jewish Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian." Rubinstein argues that Jewish writers represented and identified with the figure of the American Indian...
The Gods of Indian Country
Religion and the Struggle for the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight over Indian Country sparked...
by Benjamin G. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
For fifty-four years in the 19th century, Benjamin Armstrong spent his life with Native American tribes, learning their customs and languages, and becoming the adopted son of a Chippewa chief. Armstrong sat before Presidents Filmore and Lincoln on separate occasions as interpreter and advocate for...
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms
Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images,...
History Is in the Land
Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Arizona’s San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological...
by James McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"If his sense of justice had led him to fine discrimination in these matters, the [Native American] would long ago have made an attack on the national Capitol." So wrote Indian Inspector and former agent for the Sioux, James McLaughlin, in 1910. Long used as a source for scholarship on the Battle...
Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories
Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as “Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,” the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations...
Choosing the Jesus Way
American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the Assemblies of God denomination, the story begins in 1918, when white missionaries fanned out from the South and Midwest to convert Native Americans in the...
Inventing the Savage
The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal;...
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Contributions by Allison Margaret Bigelow, Denise I. Bossy, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Alexandre Dub", Kathleen DuVal, Jonathan Eacott, Travis Glasson, Christopher Morris, Robert Olwell, Joshua Piker, and Joseph P. Ward
European Empires in the American South examines the process of European...