Native American category: 3329 books
Reckonings
Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select...
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...
by Philip F. Gura
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked...
Peoples of the Inland Sea
Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European...
Native Land Talk
Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As...
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...
Native American Placenames of the Southwest
A Handbook for Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such well-known placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa originated?
Native American placenames like these occur all across the American Southwest. This...
by Patricia Barker Lerch, Lisa J. Lefler, Raymond D. Fogelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002
An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium.
Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession...
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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...
The Return of the Native
American Indian Political Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1990
An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the 16th century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations have shaped the Native American political identity and tactics in the ongoing struggle for power. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians...
by Bessie Evans, May G. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps that certain groups of Native Americans have used to express their dance ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée. Similarities to Oriental dances, classical ballet, Spanish and Russian variants,...
Deep Waters
The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher...
Native but Foreign
Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Winner, 2019 Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction Book, sponsored by Western Writers of America
In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining...
Indians on the Move
Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had...