Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Awakening Coast
An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua...
by Patrick Macklem
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
There is a unique constitutional relationship between Aboriginal people and the Canadian state – a relationship that does not exist between other Canadians and the state. It's from this central premise that Patrick Macklem builds his argument in this outstanding and significant work.
Why...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Including stories from the 1700s to today, Choctaw Tales showcases the mythic, the legendary and supernatural, the prophecies and histories, the animal fables and jokes that make up the rich and lively Choctaw storytelling tradition. The stories display intelligence, artistry, and creativity as Choctaw...
The Rotinonshonni
A Traditional Iroquoian History through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In The Rotinonshonni Through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera, Brian ‘Natoway’ Rice seeks to offer a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni (people of the longhouse). The book has its origins in Rice’s study with traditional Cayuga royaner Jacob Thomas,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Contributions by Keith A. Baca, Jeffrey P. Brain, Samuel O. Brookes, Ian W. Brown, Philip J. Carr, Jessica Crawford, Patricia Galloway, Alison M. Hadley, Christopher T. Hays, Edward R. Henry, Cliff Jenkins, Jay K. Johnson, Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty, Maria Schleidt, Mary Evelyn Starr, James B. Stoltman,...
by William A. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The most complete account of ancient man in the New York area ever published in one volume, this book traces a rich, 8000-year story of human prehistory. Beginning with the first known inhabitants, Paleo-Indian hunters who lived approximately 7000 B.C., the author gives a detailed chronological account...
by J. W. Vaughn
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Though the battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, received widespread publicity because of the magic personality of General George Armstrong Custer and the mystery surrounding the massacre of half of the 7th Cavalry regiment, the Battle of the Rosebud, thirty miles southeast and occurring one...
From Recognition to Reconciliation
Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.” Hailed at the time as a watershed moment in the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies...
by Jun U. Sunseri
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indigenous practices to negotiate strategic alliances with both sides of generations-old conflicts. The rich history of the southwestern community of Casitas...
Blood and Voice
Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Adulthood in the Navajo world is marked by the onset of menstruation in females and by the deepening of the voice in males. Accordingly, young adults must accept responsibility over the powers manifest in blood and voice: for women, the forces that control reproduction and growth; for men, the powers...
Hollow Justice
A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Conquest by Law
How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a Supreme Court decision of monumental importance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the English-speaking world. At the heart of the decision for Johnson v. M'Intosh was a "discovery doctrine" that gave rights of ownership to the...
by Mark Anthony Rolo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
". . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn back [35 years] to the day I learned she had passed on. But that autumn day of 1973 did not grip me with deep sadness, the burden of never seeing her...
by Dr. William R. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
No one knows how old the charming legends in this unusual book really are. By word of mouth they have been handed down from generation to generation among the Pahute Indians, one of the most ancient and primitive tribes on this continent, who settled centuries ago in what is now the state of Utah.
In...