Native American Studies category: 1415 books
This Indian Country
American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are...
The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs
Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order to turn them into farmers and sent their children to boarding schools for indoctrination into the English language,...
American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World
The Conquest of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time...
Rez Life
An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A prize-winning writer offers “an affecting portrait of his childhood home, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and his people, the Ojibwe” (The New York Times).
A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America....
Conquest
Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted...
Decolonizing Museums
Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye...
NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS
collected 16361919
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
* An important book about one of the world's most inspirational yet least-known mythologies, written by an expert in the genre.
* One of the most comprehensive collections of its kind. Based on three years' research through hundreds of archives, revealing a treasure trove of material, some never before...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The stories of Native American Indians have always possessed some greater meaning. They are often based in nature or about animals. And even though the tribes may vary in location or beliefs, deep within you will find a common thread. Respect for nature can be heard in stories from tribes from Canada...
Voices in the Stones
Life Lessons from the Native Way
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
“Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land. Though he doesn’t know it yet, he has come here to learn from us.” — A Shoshone elder The genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades,...
Remnants of a Shattered Past
A Journey of Discovery and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Remnants of a Shattered Past presents a revolutionary view of the causes behind the challenges many Native Americans face today as a result of historical trauma. The story of the Native American people is told in two ways in this creative non-fiction literary work. Brunners retelling of the Native...
Red Land, Red Power
Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture....
Wiping the War Paint off the Lens
Native American Film and Video
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With their cameras, they capture the lives of Native people, celebrating community, ancestral lifeways,...
by Alex Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Did Native Americans suffer genocide? This controversial question lies at the heart of Native America and the Question of Genocide. After reviewing the various meanings of the word “genocide,” author Alex Alvarez examines a range of well-known examples, such as the Sand Creek Massacre and the...
Native Nations
Cultures and Histories of Native North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Combining historical background with discussion of contemporary Native nations and their living cultures, this comprehensive text introduces students to some of the many indigenous peoples in North America. The book is organized into parts corresponding to regional divisions within which similar,...