Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Xiipúktan (First of All)
Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance...
Ethnology and Empire
Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize
Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about
words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples
and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the
emergence...
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula
Who We Are, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The nine Native tribes of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula—the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah—share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare, and kinship, as well as reverence for the...
Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee
U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples--focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality,...
by Jason Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
For centuries, American descendants of Europeans enacted purposed plans for ridding themselves of what they saw as problems created by Native Americans. Some of these plans were intended to wipe out Native Americans entirely while some others were meant to curtail efforts of Native Americans, push...
Awakening First People
“America’s first printed Bible in an Algonquin language was just the beginning of a re-emerging work among Native American’s.”
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Native American Christians, the” sleeping giant” of evangelism are being called upon by Jesus Christ, like never before, to be voices of healing, lead a Biblical awakening and move of the Holy Spirit in the land. He’s calling them to rise as spiritual warriors into their place of leadership...
by W. Ben Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to Native American lore, history, and tradition. From how to pronounce Native American names to their dance rituals and famous figures, this guide contains a wealth of information and is highly recommended for those with an interest in Native American culture....
Creek Paths and Federal Roads
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In Creek Paths and Federal Roads, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states, from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each...
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience
The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1989, The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was successfully passed after a long and intense struggle. One year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) followed. These federal repatriation statutes—arguably some of the most important laws in...
The Politics of Memory
Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa—a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historians...
The Lumbee Indians
An American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different...
Voices of Fire
Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi’iaka
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hi‘iaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism—first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry. But far from quaint tales for amusement, the Pele and...