Native American category: 3329 books
Cedar Woman
Cedar Woman Saga, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Winner of the Best Native American Fiction Award, and the first book of the Cedar Woman Saga, Cedar Woman is a powerful book filled with courage, romance and the beliefs, ceremonies and language of the Lakota Sioux. Volume II of the Cedar Woman Saga: New Apple Award winner "Spirit Woman."
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by Timothy J. Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
The newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential Native American Confederacy
More than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
The Crime That Should Haunt America
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it...
The Essential Writings of Charles Eastman
Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, The Soul of the Indian & From the Deep Woods to Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This carefully edited Charles Alexander Eastman collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a physician writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. The most popular of these myths usually are the ones dealing with Origins of people, places and things. These myths deal with both how the physical world as we know it came to be and how the many features...
Native Americans on Network TV
Stereotypes, Myths, and the "Good Indian"
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The American Indian has figured prominently in many films and television shows, portrayed variously as a villain, subservient friend, or a hapless victim of progress. Many Indian stereotypes that were derived from European colonial discourse—some hundreds of years old—still exist in the media...
The Book of Ceremonies
A Native Way of Honoring and Living the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Within these pages, celebrated Native American writer Gabriel Horn weaves a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of traditional stories, songs, and prayers that highlight the sacred Native way of life. Interwoven throughout this visionary work are detailed ceremonies and rituals for: Marriage, Pregnancy,...
Native North Americans in Literature for Youth
A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Native North Americans have rich and diverse cultures and traditions. However, many misconceptions, prejudices, and stereotypes exist due to the lack of understanding and ignorance of these cultures. It is important that children and adolescents learn about and appreciate the invaluable contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history,...
Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations
Traditional and Contemporary Native American Recipes: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In this gloriously photographed book, renowned photographer and Native American–food expert Lois Ellen Frank, herself part Kiowa, presents more than 80 recipes that are rich in natural flavors and perfectly in tune with today's healthy eating habits. Frank spent four years visiting reservations...
The Indian Great Awakening
Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle...
by Terry Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars. Utilizing numerous interviews and extensive fieldwork, Terry Huffman shows how they define their roles and judge their achievements. He examines the ways they address...
English Letters and Indian Literacies
Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools—including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine...
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit"...