Native American Studies category: 1415 books
American Indians
Stereotypes & Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous...
by William B. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William B. Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to...
Living Histories
Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History
Fascinating Biographies of Heroic Leaders and the Tragic Tales That Changed the Path of This Proud Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines...
Dancing Otters and Clever Coyotes
Using Animal Energies, the Native American Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
In many Native American traditions, animals are considered to be our older, wiser brothers and sisters. Their behavior can teach us to better understand ourselves, heal old wounds, adapt to new situations, or warn us of dangers. Dancing Otters and Clever Coyotes shows us how to interpret our physical...
Healers on the Mountain
and Other Myths of Native American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit. Mythology is essential to this healing process. The belief stories within these pages reflect a culture that holds...
The Wisdom of the Native Americans
Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The teachings of the Native Americans provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning. Taken from writings, orations, and recorded observations...
X-Marks
Native Signatures of Assent
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under...
Erotics of Sovereignty
Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote “the Indian’s sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community.”...
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs
An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that’s precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,”...
Blood and Land
The Story of Native North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First...
Individuality Incorporated
Indians and the Multicultural Modern
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Spanning the 1870s to the present, Individuality Incorporated demonstrates how crucial a knowledge of Native American-White history is to rethinking key issues in American studies, cultural studies, and the history of subjectivity. Joel Pfister proposes an ingenious critical and historical reinterpretation...
Rich Indians
Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas...
Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
According to a dichotomy commonly found in studies of American Indians, some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their culture and identities to white American economies and institutions....