Native American category: 3329 books
Tragic Encounters
The People's History of Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“Pulling from his epic A People’s History of the United States**, Smith creates a chronological history of Native Americans.” —**Library Journal
During the last years of his life, Page Smith—one of America’s greatest historians—concentrated on composing a history of Native Americans...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
*Includes pictures of art, artifacts, ruins, and more. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Ancient Pueblo and the Hopi*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.When European settlers and later American settlers came into contact with...
The Orders of the Dreamed
George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described...
Native American Mythology
Myths & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, Siouan and Zuñi
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This study presents the myths, beliefs and customs of the indigenous peoples in North America. This collection is comprised of many bodies of traditional narratives associated with religion from a mythographical perspective. Contents: The Myths of the North American Indians Myths of the Cherokee Myths...
The Longest Trail
Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Alvin Josephy Jr.’s groundbreaking, popular books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans, and set the course for modern Native American studies.This collection, which includes magazine articles, speeches, a white paper, and introductions and chapters of...
Florida's Seminole Wars
1817-1858
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Among the most well known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military...
by Vincent Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This inspiring collection of 10 biographies profiles outstanding leaders in the Native community who overcame personal challenges and accomplished extraordinary things. Featured profiles include the Golden Eagles Hotshots - a heroic group of Native American forest fighters; Patrick Brazeau - the National...
by Pekka Hamalainen (Hämäläinen)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military...
Indian Country
Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership,...
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula
Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are introduces readers to nine tribes: the Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah. Written by members of the Olympic Peninsula Intertribal Cultural Advisory Committee,...
by William Philo Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
William Phil Clark's classic work on Native American signs and culture is still considered a monumental achievement. Published posthumously after the young Clark died in 1884, it covers the words and phrases of many tribes. Clark was with General George Crook in late summer of 1876 during the Sioux...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Prior to contact with Europeans and, later, Americans, American Indian treaties assumed unique dimensions, often involving lengthy ceremonial meetings during which gifts were exchanged. Europeans and Americans would irrevocably alter the ways in which treaties were negotiated: for example, treaties...
Vanished in Hiawatha
The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often...
The White Man's Indian
Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in...