Native American category: 3329 books
From The Heart
Voices of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first European set foot on it. Here, collected in one volume, is the...
The Lakota Way
Stories and Lessons for Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.
Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path...
So, How Long Have You Been Native?
Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s...
by Major B. C. Vickers USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
There can be no argument that the numerical advantage the Indians held during the battle of the Little Bighorn was a decisive factor in their overwhelming victory. However, numbers alone did not solely guarantee that the Indians would be able to annihilate five companies of the 7th Cavalry, kill over...
Red On Red
Native American Literary Separatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
An entertaining and enlightening proposal for a new way to read Native American literature.
The Land Has Memory
Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment...
Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the first time and also traces...
North, South, East, West
American Indians and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Vibrant photographs and moving quotes give tangible expression to a rich heritage of Native American beliefs and customs, and demonstrate how Native groups maintain viable cultures within mondern-day America.
by Jon S. Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Among the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s was legislation known as the Indian New Deal, whose centerpiece was the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934**.** Oddly, much of that law did not apply to Native residents of Oklahoma, even though a large percentage of the...
The Red Atlantic
American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature,...
The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history...
by William W. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway People has long been recognized as a classic source on Ojibwe history and culture. Warren, the son of an Ojibwe woman, wrote his history in the hope of saving traditional stories for posterity even as he presented to the American public a sympathetic view...
Preserving Early Texas History
Essays of an Eighth-Generation South Texan
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Through this second volume of selected essays, the author continues to bring attention to the Spanish Mexican foundation roots of Texas and the Southwest. As with volume 1, this book focuses on a most intriguing questionthat is, if mainstream historians tell us that Texas history begins in 1836 with...
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina
Their Origin and Racial Status
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson's Indians of North Carolina report, was an appeal to the state of North Carolina to create schools for the "Croatans" of Sampson County...