Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Aboriginal Music in Contemporary
Echoes and Exchanges
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis music in Canada is dynamic and diverse, reflecting continuities with earlier traditions and innovative approaches to creating new musical sounds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada narrates a story of resistance and renewal, struggle and success, as indigenous...
Financial Competency . . . a Roadmap to Financial Well Being
Create the Life You Want to Live!!
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Financial Competency takes the approach that we cannot manage our financial resources if we don't have resources to manage. The book deals with the issues of employment & being a "valued employee" and how to bring value to your job. The book explores the dynamics of basic wealth management,...
A Land Not Forgotten
Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada’s Indigenous people. "A Land Not Forgotten" examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cultural, educational, and health consequences of those disruptions. This multidisciplinary...
#IdleNoMore
and the Remaking of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands of Aboriginal people and their supporters took to the streets, shopping...
Truth and Indignation
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it is unfolding. Niezen uses interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission to raise important questions:...
Mythology and Values
An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this book, Katherine Spencer examines Navaho cultural values by studying a specific subset of Navaho mythology: chantway myths, part of ceremonies performed to cure illness. She begins with a summary of the general plot construction of chantway myths and the value themes presented in these plots.,...
The White Shaman Mural
An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that...
O'odham Creation and Related Events
As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The origin stories of the O’odham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a handful of books. This volume—the third full O’odham telling of ancientness to appear in print—brings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist...
by Beatrice Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
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Ma A-Poi-Yaa-Kii-Ko-Wan Kii Mii-Ksi Niooks-Koh-Kiaa-Yoiksi
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
I am focusing on children's books because this is where we need to start in saving our language. I plan on publishing more books for children in the near future. My books will be in written form and audio format so children can read along as I tell the story. It will not only be educational it will...
by E. A. Brininstool
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“No one survived in Custer’s immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in Troopers with Custer. Some of the veterans who...
Combat Engineer, Pacific Theater
Daily Life in an Army Construction Battalion in World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Combat Engineer, Pacific Theater looks at the daily lives of ordinary young men who found themselves with a unique job to do at an extraordinary time and place in history. It tells the mostly untold story of the armys combat engineering battalions in the Pacific in World War II. As their name implies,...
The Knowledge Seeker
Embracing Indigenous Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
"An essential book." Brian Rice, author of The Rotinonshonni and Seeing the World with Aboriginal Eyes "As more people ripen to understand the new world holocaust of our First Nations, Blair Stonechild's book is timely. To bring to light the spiritual relationships, attitudes, and practices...
by Cyrus Wells Shores
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Gunneson City Sheriff “Doc” Cyrus Wells Shores (1844-1934)—nicknamed after the doctor who delivered him in Hicksville, Detroit in 1844—became well-known as a Colorado lawman for bringing down local criminals without parading his authority or a display of guns.
Born in the village of...