Native American category: 3329 books
by John Wisdomkeeper
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
It is traditional for First Nation’s people to give thanks, and acknowledge our relationship, to the plants, animals, birds and creatures from the water, to show respect for their giving their spirits in order for others to survive. Traditionally elders say prayers to commemorate this sacrifice...
Connecting to Our Ancestral Past
Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems...
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including...
The Power of Place, the Problem of Time
Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly....
Telling it to the Judge
Taking Native History to Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s. For over twenty-five years he has been a part of landmark litigation concerning treaty rights, Aboriginal title, and Métis rights. In Telling...
Being Together in Place
Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites—the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory in British Columbia; the Wakarusa Wetlands...
Mission of Sorrows
Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691–1767
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Mission of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona served as a focal point of Jesuit missionary endeavor among the Pima Indians on New Spain's far northwestern frontier.
For three-quarters of a century, from the first visit by the renowned Eusebio Francisco Kino...
The Turtle's Beating Heart
One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low says, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.”
Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry...
At the Crossroads
Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier.
Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence....
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight
Indian Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866—during Red Cloud’s War (1866–1868)—a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment...
by Major Wesley M. Pirkle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This thesis will analyze Major General George Crook’s performance during the Sioux War of 1876-77 and attempt to answer whether or not Crook successfully fought the Native Americans by effectively implementing the concept of counterinsurgency compound warfare. Counterinsurgency Compound Warfare...
On the Land
Confronting the Challenges to Aboriginal Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1995
It is from the land that the Native peoples of Canada draw their strength.
If the people of Quebec claim a right to sovereignty, Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own.
The James...
Montana Battlefields, 1806-1877
Native Americans and the U. S. Army at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Montana's era of "Indian Wars" consisted of nearly a century of skirmishes, battles, and large-scale wars between the U.S. military and native nations, including Blackfeet, Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, Arapahos, Gros Ventres, and Nez Perces — and the army's Crow and Shoshone allies. These battlegrounds...
Navaho Weaving
Its Technic and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Navaho Indians probably adopted the art of weaving from captive Pueblo women in the early eighteenth century. They soon outstripped their teachers in the skill and quality of their work and today Navaho blankets, rugs and other items are known all over the world.
In this profoundly illustrated, first...