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Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest

The Power of Indigenous Protest and the Birth of Daybreak Star Cultural Center

by Vera Parham
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017

On September 27, 1975, activist Bernie Whitebear (Sin Aikst) and Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman broke ground on former Fort Lawton lands, just outside Seattle Washington, for the construction of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. The groundbreaking was the culmination of years of negotiations and...

The A to Z of Early North America

by Cameron B. Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009

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...

Tales of the North American Indians

by Stith Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

The folklore and mythology of North American Indians is varied and wide-ranging, as shown in this carefully chosen representative sampling of Native American folktales. Assembled by noted folklorist Stith Thompson, the collection includes marvelous narratives from points as distant from one another...

Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today [2 volumes]

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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013

Despite the fact that 565 federally recognized tribes exist on the continent of North America, non-Native Americans typically know very little about the modern world of American Indians. In a few instances, the uneasy coexistence of the two cultures has served to create controversy, such as fake Indians...

Indian Spirit, Revised and Enlarged

Revised and Enlarged

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

Through its striking combination of stirring oratory and majestic portraiture from the Plains Indian pre-reservation “old-timers,” Indian Spirit reveals the very heart of the traditional Native American life-way: a world where dignity of soul, nobility of sentiments, discipline of gesture, and a...

American Indian Medicine Ways

Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing

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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the...

Domestic Subjects

Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

by Beth H. Piatote
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary...

Indians in the United States and Canada

A Comparative History, Second Edition

by Roger L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European...

The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore

The Perfect Guide to Creating Your Own Indian-Style Artifacts

by Julian Harris Salomon
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015

A fascinating introduction to a variety of Native American projects and history! Learn everything there is to know about Indian crafts and lore. Julian Harris Salomon takes you on a breathtaking journey of Native American customs and traditions. Originally published in 1928, this book is filled...

I Am, Who I Am

by Crow Agency Public Schools Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

I Am, Who I Amusing the arts to preserve traditional Apsalooke knowledge and strengthen the indigenous identity of Native children. Apsaalook Voices and Stories is inspired by the It Gets Brighter project with the IHS Partnership at Dartmouth College and a desire to strengthen the native identity...

Black, White, and Indian

Race and the Unmaking of an American Family

by Claudio Saunt
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005

Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often...

Crow Jesus

Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging

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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity. In this collection of narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke...

Corey Village and the Cayuga World

Implications from Archaeology and Beyond

by Michael Rogers, David Pollack, Wesley D. Stoner
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured...

Making Lamanites

Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000

by Matthew Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. While some dropped out of the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP), for others the months spent living with LDS families...

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