Native American category: 3329 books
What the Elders Have Taught Us
Alaska Native Ways
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
As Alaska’s Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words, What the Elders Have Taught Us pays tribute to the first Alaskans and the ancient values they...
by Judy Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Windows to the Land, Volume I is the Great Land’s history told through the first people of Alaska, from the Aleutians, through Southeast, around the coast, across the vast Interior to Prince William Sound. Windows, Vol. I is the untold story of the Alaska Native land claims forerunners whose fire...
Trans-Indigenous
Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in...
Buried in Shades of Night
Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, published in 1682, is often considered the first “best seller” to be published in North America. Since then, it has long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian captivity. After an attack on the...
by Corbin Harney
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Corbin Harney’s long life encompassed remarkable changes in the lives of Native Americans and in the technological and political development of the world. Born into an impoverished Western Shoshone family on the Nevada-Idaho border and orphaned as a newborn, he was brought up by grandparents who...
The Lumbee Indians
An American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different...
Native Wisdom for White Minds
Daily Reflections Inspired by the Native Peoples of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
You don't have to be white to have a white mind.
What is a white mind? As Anne Wilson Schaef learned during her travels throughout the world among Native Peoples, anyone raised in modern Western society or by Western culture can have a white mind. White minds are trapped in a closed system of thinking...
by Mark Q. Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native Peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures....
Writing Indian Nations
Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans...
by Brandi Denison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the...
by Robert R. McCoy, Steven M. Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The history of American Indians is an integral part of American history overall—a part that is often overlooked. History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots provides a broad chronological overview of Native American history that challenges readers to grapple with the elemental themes of...
by Roger L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This one-volume narrative history of American Indians in the United States traces the experiences of indigenous peoples from early colonial times to the present day, demonstrating how Indian existence has varied and changed throughout our nation’s history. Although popular opinion and standard histories...
Alaska Native Tribes,ANCSA Corporations, and Other Organizations
Origins, Purposes, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Learn about Alaska's unique indigenous people who have lived thousands of years in a subsistence economy and unconquered. See how today's Alaska Native people exhibit remarkable resilience and adaptability despite the arrival of foreigners to Alaska in the mid-1700s, who sought natural resources and...
Anglo-Native Virginia
Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virginia. Virginians were unique in their interaction with Native peoples in part because of their tributary system, a practice that became codified with the...