Native American category: 3329 books
Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee
U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples--focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality,...
The Caddos and Their Ancestors
Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century. Employing the results of recent scientific...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Summary ofThe Earth is WeepingFrom Peter CozzensThe Epic Story of the Indian Warsfor the American WestBy Summary StationResearchers do not know how many people lived in the Americas before the arrival of the European conquistadors. However, they continue their investigation in order...
Native Memoirs from the War of 1812
Black Hawk and William Apess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American...
At the Border of Empires
The Tohono O'odham, Gender, and Assimilation, 1880-1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
The story of the Tohono O’odham peoples offers an important account of assimilation. Bifurcated by a border demarcating Mexico and the United States that was imposed on them after the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the Tohono O’odham lived at the edge of two empires. Although they were often invisible...
Universities and Indian Country
Case Studies in Tribal-Driven Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The book describes the “nation-building” strategy by which an increasing number of Native communities have set about reclaiming powers of self-determination, strengthening their cultures, and developing their economies. A piece of this movement has been the establishment of new models for tribally-driven...
Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans
Speaking in Red
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2004
Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health...
Dismembered
Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining. This depopulation is not being perpetrated by the federal government, but by Native governments that are banishing, denying, or disenrolling...
Bonds of Alliance
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, religious,...
Standing Up to Colonial Power
The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty...
by Donna Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in...
Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms
Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised...
WESTERN CLASSICS Ultimate Collection - 11 Novels in One Volume: Complete Leatherstocking Tales, The Littlepage Manuscripts Series, Wynadotte, The Wept Of Wish-Ton-Wish and more
The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie, Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, The Redskins, The Oak Openings and Other Adventure Novels= James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
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