Native American category: 3329 books
by Kathleen Bragdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of scholarship,...
Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with...
by Frederick Douglass, Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818– February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery...
by Lieutenant Colonel Lowell Steven Yarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The American Indian policy, formulated at the turn of the 19th century, significantly impacted the national military strategy. President Jefferson’s plan for Indian removal became the cornerstone for federal policy. Congress would bear the responsibility for crafting the nation’s Indian policies,...
by Ken Lizzio
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Experience the majesty and terror of the Gold Rush firsthand
While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff’s—widely regarded as the best and most accurate—provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a...
The Popular Frontier
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American...
'If You Knew the Conditions'
A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) provided some services prior to 1908, it was not until then that the Indian Medical Service was established...
American Indianology 101
A profile of Today's American Indian population, tribes and reservations.
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The primary Mission of this book is to help educate the public about American Indians by providing information about today's population, tribes and reservations. Secondly, to help those millions of American Indians who have become diconnected from their tribes, to reconnect through genealogy research.
Inside the Eagle's Head
An American Indian College
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a selfdescribed National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIPI is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government...
Hopi Runners
Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy...
by Janet Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A stirring story of love and passion on the Trail of Tears from New York Times–bestselling author Janet Dailey, America’s first lady of romance.
Temple Gordon’s family is one of the oldest, and proudest, to call Cherokee country home. Although their house may look like a southern plantation,...
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017
Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe,...
by Timothy R. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The compiler Timothy Jenkins in his 1883 book "The Ten Tribes of Israel" gathers together a vast array of different facts, stories, legends, anecdotes, archaeological discoveries, language comparisons, etc., from a vast array of different sources to support the claim first propounded by...
Blood Moon
An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century—a “riveting…engrossing…‘American Epic’” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.
“A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash...