Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding
Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding provides an Indigenous view of the last one-hundred years of Native history and guides readers through a century of achievements. It examines the progress that Indians have accomplished in rebuilding their nations in the 20th century, revealing how Native communities...
States, American Indian Nations, and Intergovernmental Politics
Sovereignty, Conflict, and the Uncertainty of Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
American Indian nations are sovereign political entities within the United States. They have complex relationships with the federal government and increasingly with state governments. Regulatory conflict between Native nations and states has increased as Native nations have developed their own independent...
Native American Landmarks and Festivals
A Traveler’s Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Native American culture and the history of the United States has always held a fascination for history buffs, students, teachers, and seekers of spiritual enlightenment as well as general readers. United States and Native American history are intertwined. The cultures, heritage, and legacy of Indigenous...
Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity
The Gerald Vizenor Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
According to Kimberly Blaeser, Gerald Vizenor is "the most prolific Native American writer of the twentieth century," and Christopher Teuton rightfully calls him "one of the most innovative and brilliant American Indian writers" today." With more than 40 books of fiction,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Mention “American Indian,” and the first image that comes to most people’s minds is likely to be a figment of the American mass media: A war-bonneted chief. The Land O’ Lakes maiden. Most American Indians in the twenty-first century live in urban areas, so why do the mass media still rely...
American Indian Education
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
In this comprehensive history of American Indian education in the United States from colonial times to the present, historians and educators Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder explore the broad spectrum of Native experiences in missionary, government, and tribal boarding and day schools. This up-to-date...
Native Americans and Archaeologists
Stepping Stones to Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1997
Legal and economic factors have thrust American archaeology into a period of intellectual and methodological unrest. Issues such as reburial and repatriation, land and resource 'ownership,' and the integration of tradition and science have long divided archaeologists and Native American communities....
by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent...
Native American & Pioneer Sites of Upstate New York
Westward Trails from Albany to Buffalo
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Prior to the Revolutionary War, everything west of Albany was wilderness. Safer travel and the promise of land opened this frontier. The interaction between European settlers and Native Americans transformed New York, and the paths they walked still bear the footprints of their experiences, like the...
Empire of the People
Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...
The Inconvenient Indian
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Since 1975, when the U.S. government adopted a policy of self-determination for American Indian nations, a large number of the 562 federally recognized nations have seized the opportunity to govern themselves and determine their own economic, political, and cultural futures. As a first and crucial step...
"To Remain an Indian"
Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic ideal—one that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically...
by Joy Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit have interlinked Native American communities across centuries of civilization,...