Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Author G.W. Mullins continues his highly successful Walking With Spirits Book Series with a sixth volume. This new installment in the series features new stories of the Native American Indians with new original art by award winning artist and illustrator C.L. Hause. Contained in 260 pages, "Walking...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Four is a huge collection of Native American history. Following on the heels of the highly successful first three volumes, this fourth set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready and awaiting the fifth.
Through storytelling,...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Two is a huge collection of Native American history. It features stories, tales, legends, quotes and more. Following on the heels of the highly successful first volume, this second set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Five is a huge collection of Native American history. Following on the heels of the highly successful first four volumes, this fifth set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready and waiting for more.
Through storytelling,...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Three is a huge collection of Native American history. It features stories, tales, legends, quotes and more.
Following on the heels of the highly successful first two volumes, this third set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave...
The Native American Mascot Controversy
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once considered a benign practice, numerous studies have proved just the opposite: that the use of Native American mascots in educational institutions has...
Native Students at Work
American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers,...
The Girl in the Photograph
The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations—and offers hope for the future**.**
On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune....
Native American DNA
Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of DNA testing has further...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries....
Reimagining Indian Country
Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas. Still, scholars, policymakers, and popular culture often regard Indians first as reservation peoples, living apart from non-Native Americans. In this book, Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding...
by Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in our society, they too often remain the least understood and visible. Fictions and stereotypes predominate, obscuring substantive and fascinating facts about Native societies. The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists works to remedy...
Holding Our World Together
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities...