Native American category: 3329 books
by Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
"Has a many-sided appeal …. This stimulating book is one of the few that really deserve the over-worked term, a human document." — Publishers Weekly.
In the first of his memoirs, the popular Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman recounted his traditional upbringing among the Santee...
Pontiac's War
Its Causes, Course and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Pontiac’s War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequence, 1763-1765 is a compelling retelling of one of the most pivotal points in American colonial history, in which the Native peoples staged one of the most successful campaigns in three centuries of European contact. With his balanced analysis of the...
Engines of Diplomacy
Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system was designed to strengthen economic ties between...
Where the Lightning Strikes
The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in...
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American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum [2 volumes]
From Counting Coup to Wampum
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native...
by Jason Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
For centuries, American descendants of Europeans enacted purposed plans for ridding themselves of what they saw as problems created by Native Americans. Some of these plans were intended to wipe out Native Americans entirely while some others were meant to curtail efforts of Native Americans, push...
How the West Was Drawn
Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a...
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Dictated by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities...
Pen and Ink Witchcraft
Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,...
by George Catlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Crow, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Sioux, Comanche, Mandan, Choctaw, Cheyenne, Winnebago, Creek, Assiniboin; wild prairies teeming with buffalo; the sacred site of Catlinite stone — all were subjects of Catlin's letters and paintings. For eight years (1832–39) George Catlin ventured among the Indians of...
by Cameron B. Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains. Although these practices were...
Awakening First People
“America’s first printed Bible in an Algonquin language was just the beginning of a re-emerging work among Native American’s.”
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Native American Christians, the” sleeping giant” of evangelism are being called upon by Jesus Christ, like never before, to be voices of healing, lead a Biblical awakening and move of the Holy Spirit in the land. He’s calling them to rise as spiritual warriors into their place of leadership...
Both Sides of the Bullpen
Navajo Trade and Posts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural...
Learning Native Wisdom
What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Scientific evidence has made it abundantly clear that the world's population can no longer continue its present rate of consuming and despoiling the planet's limited natural resources. Scholars, activists, politicians, and citizens worldwide are promoting the idea of sustainability, or systems and...