Native American category: 3329 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Is Cree really the sexiest of all languages? Do Native people have less or more public hair? Does Inuit sex have a dark side? These are some of the questions answered in this witty, thoughtful collection. Twelve important voices in the Native culture - including Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day...
Ipperwash
The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane. He died shortly after midnight the next day. George had been participating in a protest over land claims in Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been expropriated from the native Ojibwe after the Second...
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using...
by Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola, Carol Sarath, Bob Rosebrough
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Geography has conspired to make Gallup, New Mexico, a special place with unique people and a colorful history. It has been a place of struggle and extremes where cultures have clashed, mixed, and melded. Gallup is a community that is simultaneously challenging and uplifting, heartrending, and redemptive....
Fishing in Contested Waters
Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours...
Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs). What is unique in these settings is...
Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced
Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following...
by Richard Wagamese
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life.
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, Wagamese...
The Winged
An Upper Missouri River Ethno-ornithology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The Missouri River Basin is home to thousands of bird species that migrate across the Great Plains of North America each year, marking the seasonal cycle and filling the air with their song. In time immemorial, Native inhabitants of this vast region established alliances with birds that helped them...
God Is Red
A Native View of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition.
The Unredeemed Captive
A Family Story from Early America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704,...
“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”
Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”...
by Frances W Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency,...
Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Treaty Talks in British Columbia traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in the province. Since the second edition of this book was published in 2000, a number of significant developments have occurred: a controversial referendum on treaty mandates was held; the historic Tsawwassen...