Native American category: 3329 books
American Indian Business
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian� and Alaska Native�owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012�a time when the total number of US businesses increased by just 2 percent�and receipts grew from $34.4 million in 2002 to $8.8 billion in 2012....
Crooked Paths to Allotment
The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Remarkable for their eloquence, depth of feeling, and oratorical mastery, these 82 compelling speeches encompass five centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous people. Beginning with a 1540 refusal by a Timucua chief to parley with Hernando de Soto ("With such a people I want no peace"),...
Sifters
Native American Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau...
Indian Tribes of Oklahoma
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma...
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula
Who We Are, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The nine Native tribes of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula—the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah—share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare, and kinship, as well as reverence for the...
Living Histories
Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has...
by Karen Herndon
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Can history be fun? When kids follow Grace (a fifth grader) as she explores her Cheyenne history through interesting stories about people and events, fun activities, tasty recipes, old and new photographs, maps, interviews, and thoughtful questions, it is fun. This book looks at history from an American...
by Linda LeGarde Grover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Set in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics...
The Life and Traditions of the Red Man
A rediscovered treasure of Native American literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published by Nicolar in 1893, this is one of the few sustained narratives in English composed by a member of...
Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work...
The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The riveting story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a compelling conflict that unfolded in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857.
When appointed Washington’s first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, an ambitious military man turned...
by Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at Boston University School of Medicine, he accepted an appointment to a South Dakota Indian reservation,...
Cattle Colonialism
An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates...