Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
American Indian Stories (1921) is remarkable for being perhaps the first literary work by a Native-American woman created without the mediation of a non-Native interpreter, or collaborator. Zitkala-Sa vividly articulates her disillusionment with the harshness of American-Indian boarding schools and the...
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.American Indian Stories (1921) is remarkable for being perhaps the first literary work by a Native-American woman created without the mediation of a non-Native interpreter, or collaborator. Zitkala-Sa vividly articulates...
by Carolyn Niethammer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings.
She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses.
Frequently...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The legend of the Native American Medicine Man goes back for thousands of years. Many of the Native Americans turned to the Medicine Man for the knowledge of mixing herbs, roots and other natural plants that helped to heal various medical conditions. But remedies were not the only part of the healing...
Settler Common Sense
Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1933 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural,...
Black, White, and Indian
Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often...
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization.
This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American...
Making Home Work
Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Continuing the series The Best Native American Myths, Legends, and Folklore, Volume 3 offers an enjoyable look into the history of the Native American Indian.
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person,...
The Color of the Land
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives...
Members of the Tribe
Native America in the Jewish Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian." Rubinstein argues that Jewish writers represented and identified with the figure of the American Indian...
Acts of Rebellion
The Ward Churchill Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society.
"The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians...
Shadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest�s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossession...