Native American category: 3329 books
The River Is in Us
Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections between environmental...
Resistance and Renewal
Surviving the Indian Residential School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior. Interviews with thirteen Natives, all former residents...
The Tanoak Tree
An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon. People’s radically different perceptions of it have ranged from treasured food plant to cash crop to trash tree. Having studied the patterns of tanoak use and abuse for nearly...
by Margaret M. Wheat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring...
by Dawn Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
by A. L. Kroeber
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
A Mission Record Of The California Indians by A. L. Kroeber
This is an 'interrogatorio,' a survey taken in 1811 by the Spanish government of Mexico regarding the status of the Native Californians at each mission in Alta California, translated and heavily annotated by A.L. Kroeber. Along with...
A Field of Their Own
Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to...
Allegories of Encounter
Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native...
Hemispheric Indigeneities
Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s...
Tribal Cultural Resource Management
The Full Circle to Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals. This book examines these developments from tribal perspectives, and articulates native views...
In the Belly of a Laughing God
Humour and Irony in Native Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
How can humour and irony in writing both create and destroy boundaries? In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States – Joy Harjo, Louise Halfe, Kimberly Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Diane Glancy, Jeannette Armstrong, Wendy Rose, and...
by Lisa J. M. Poirier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters...
Declared Defective
Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in...
The Reluctant Pilgrim
A Skeptic's Journey into Native Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones...