Native American category: 3329 books
The Native South
New Histories and Enduring Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship...
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Native America from 1890 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR
"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by *Choice
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press* is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth...
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on extensive interviews with Native American veterans...
Back to the Blanket
Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
For many hundreds of years, people wandered into the great northwest. They came from all directions across Canada and the United States. These early people were clever builders, engineers, and weavers. They loved games of skill. They created stories, songs and poetry. Although they spoke many different...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1933 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries....
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
The antiquity of Native American bounces back hundreds of years ago till the extant. The aboriginal inhabitants left their mark in many climates and tribes in the form of ethnicities, relic’s and registers made by the white voyagers. When European explorers set foot on American soil and had dealings...
by Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in our society, they too often remain the least understood and visible. Fictions and stereotypes predominate, obscuring substantive and fascinating facts about Native societies. The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists works to remedy...
The Cherokee Full Circle
A Practical Guide to Ceremonies and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
A comprehensive overview of Native American spiritual principles and their application for personal spirit-healing.
• Includes traditional sacred exercises, teaching tales, case studies, and suggested rituals for individual and group healing.
• Outlines the core principals of Native...
Native Hubs
Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources—particularly health care services—provided to Native Americans living on reservations....
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Author G.W. Mullins continues his highly successful Walking With Spirits Book Series with a sixth volume. This new installment in the series features new stories of the Native American Indians with new original art by award winning artist and illustrator C.L. Hause. Contained in 260 pages, "Walking...
The Earth Shall Weep
A History of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A sweeping, well-written, long-view history” of Native American societies and “a sad epic of misunderstanding, mayhem, and massacre” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this groundbreaking, critically acclaimed historical account of the Native American peoples, James Wilson weaves a historical narrative...