Native American category: 3329 books
Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller.
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account...
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
From Creation to Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The Creek War of 1813–1814 is studied primarily as an event that impacted its two main antagonists, the defending Creeks in what is now the State of Alabama and the expanding young American republic. Scant attention has been paid to how the United States’ Cherokee allies contributed to the war...
by N. Bruce Duthu
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
A perfect introduction to a vital subject very few Americans understand-the constitutional status of American Indians
Few American s know that Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's distinct racial and ethnic groups: they are sovereign governments who engage in relations with...
American and Latin-American Indians:
A Brief and Informative Guide-And Much More
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2000
This brief informative guide to American, and Latin- American, Indians will save one much time and trouble when researching for reports or essays. I have covered as much as possible, with the intent of keeping it as brief as I possibly could.
This brief guide covers much more than the American...
by David Weston Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The extraordinary life of Lewis & Clark’s right-hand man
In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first U.S. expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the twenty-eight month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions.
• Provides a current and comprehensive analysis of contemporary...
by Vine, Jr. Deloria, Clifford M. Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Baffled by the stereotypes presented by Hollywood and much historical fiction, many other Americans find the contemporary American Indian an enigma. Compounding their confusion is the highly publicized struggle of the contemporary Indian for self-determination, lost land, cultural preservation, and fundamental...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
An Indian History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribes
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American...
by Richard White, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick...
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education
Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective,...
American Indian Policy in Crisis
Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In this book a distinguished authority in the field presents an account of United States Indian policy in the years 1865 to 1900, one of the most critical periods in Indian-white relations. Francis Paul Prucha discusses in detail the major developments of those years—Grant's Peace Policy, the reservation...
Kindred by Choice
Germans and American Indians since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for...
Like a Loaded Weapon
The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in the...
by Larry D. Keown
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
What is the First Step in Developing a Successful Business Relationship with any American Indian Tribe? Understanding that relationships come first and business comes second! That pearl of wisdom and others is what you will take away from Working in Indian Country. It is the definitive work on how...