Native American category: 3329 books
The Newspaper Warrior
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been...
Contemporary Native Fiction
Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist...
When Did Indians Become Straight?
Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism,...
Xiipúktan (First of All)
Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance...
by John Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“AN ENJOYABLE READ . . . renders an anxious excitement as the undeserved hardships of a single American family unfold. . . . Truly, a story with a viewpoint and tradition not often told: that of the American Indian.”
—Chief Hatcher of the Waccamaw Tribe
“PANTHER IN THE SUN is a powerful...
Ethnology and Empire
Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize
Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about
words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples
and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the
emergence...
by Chief Joseph, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Chief Joseph•The autobiographical Chief Josephs Own Story“Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat all people as they treated us; that we should never be the first...
by Erika T. Wurth
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Blurbs from Donald Ray Pollack and Sandra Cisneros indicate major crossover potential with Latinos and fans of gritty realism.
Author is already celebrated and respected in Native American community.
Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Author...
by Carolyn Niethammer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings.
She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses.
Frequently...
Messengers of the Wind
Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
"Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide."
--The Minnesota Daily
In Messengers...
Dancing Otters and Clever Coyotes
Using Animal Energies, the Native American Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
In many Native American traditions, animals are considered to be our older, wiser brothers and sisters. Their behavior can teach us to better understand ourselves, heal old wounds, adapt to new situations, or warn us of dangers. Dancing Otters and Clever Coyotes shows us how to interpret our physical...
by Daniel G. Brinton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
American Hero-Myths, published in 1882, is a book written by Daniel G. Brinton that provides an excellent look at Native American myths and religion. A table of contents is included.
Making Home Work
Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate...