Native American category: 3329 books
The Cherokee Herbal
Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
A practical guide to the medicinal uses of over 450 plants and herbs as applied in the traditional practices of the Cherokee.
• Details the uses of over 450 plants for the treatment of over 120 ailments.
• Written by the coauthor of Medicine of the Cherokee (40,000 copies sold).
•...
Cajun By Any Other Name
Recovering the Lost History of a Family and a People
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Readers of Cajun By Any Other Name live the experience of Acadian ancestors whose lives were shattered by a forced expulsion from Nova Scotia in 1755 - from their exile in Maryland and re-emergence in the Louisiana parishes - and join a search for an identity nearly destroyed by re-tooled surnames,...
Chiefs and Challengers
Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with non-Indians...
Red Dreams, White Nightmares
Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably...
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys
A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
by Ernest Thompson Seton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Naturalist and artist Ernest Thompson Seton was a founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America who introduced many elements of Native American lore to scouting rituals. In this comprehensive collection of his most interesting stories, crafts, games, and other activities related to outdoor life, Seton...
The Real All Americans
The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.
If...
All Our Relations
Native Struggles for Land and Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Winona LaDuke is a leading Native American historian and scholar.
All Our Relations is a seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This classic book has been widely taught in universities. South End let it go out of print, creating pent up demand.
LaDuke ran as Ralph Nader's running...
Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians
How a Dog Kennel Owner Created the NFL's Most Famous Traveling Team
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
At the beginning of the Roaring Twenties the NFL was just a footnote within the landscape of American sports. The early pro game was played on dirt fields by vagabond athletes who would beat up or punch out their opponent for fifty dollars a game. But one team was different than the rest: the Oorang...
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by N. Scott Momaday
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic from N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author
A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather’s, wedding...
by Edward Proctor Hunt, Peter Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A masterpiece of Pueblo Indian mythology, now in a restored edition
Edward Proctor Hunt, a Pueblo Indian man, was born in 1861 in the mesa-top village of Acoma, New Mexico, and initiated into several secret societies, only to later break with his people’s social and religious codes. In 1928,...
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Who were the first real Americans? In this book you will be introduced to the American Indians, their society and their culture! You’ll learn amazing facts which you never would have guessed, from cuisine and sports to crafts, pottery, sculptures or even ships.
”The American Indians” will interest...
Sorrow of the Earth
Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants.
Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild West shows were performed to packed houses across the world, holding audiences spellbound with...
by Alexei Auld
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Out of the fry bread pan, into the fire! Native American law student Crispy Calusa had big dreams when he left home for the Big Apple, but it's a whole different world off the Rez. While striving for an education, he's managed to piss off the city’s locals. And that’s not even the awkward part....