Native American Studies list 9

Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana

by Kenneth Shields Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1998

For generations, the Native American people have been a society of great mystery. The Assiniboine and Sioux Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana are no exception. Althoughcenturies old, their culture is only now being rediscovered and explored. The idea to reveal some of their...

Native North American Armor, Shields, and Fortifications

by David E. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally...

Black Elk

The Life of an American Visionary

by Joe Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

Winner of the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Best Biography of 2016, True West magazine Winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award, Best Western Biography Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award...

The Geronimo Campaign

by Odie B. Faulk
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993

The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil War. The words addressed by Gatewood to Geronimo...

Masters of Empire

Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

by Michael McDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux,...

The Big Little Book of Native American Wit and Wisdom

by Anna Kolouthon
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013

In the late 1990s the email discussion group “Lost Indian Tribes Southeast” reached out to many small, scattered or “extinct” tribes and subtribes, including Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Shawnee, Powhatan, Yuchi (Euchee), Blackfoot, Moneton, Natchez, Yadkin, Occaneechi, Monacan...

Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement

by Bruce E. Johansen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Rising out of more than a century of poverty and pervasive repression, stoked by the example of the movement against the Vietnam War and the upheaval among black and Chicano civil-rights activists, the American Indian Movement shifted the debate over "the Indian problem" to a new level....

The Lives in Objects

Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast

by Jessica Yirush Stern
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion...

Native Roots

How the Indians Enriched America

by Jack Weatherford
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010

"Well written, imagery-ridden...A tale of what was, what became, and what is today regarding the Indian relation to the European civilization that 'grafted' itself onto this ancient system.'" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the New World...

The Book of Ceremonies

A Native Way of Honoring and Living the Sacred

by Gabriel Horn
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,...

Voices of the American Indian Experience [2 volumes]

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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012

Voices of the American Indian Experience provides unique insights into American Indian history by focusing on Indian accounts instead of on relying on other sources. As a result, their voices are clearer, and readers learn more about Indians directly from Indians, rather than through accounts that...

Native Apparitions

Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians

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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is a-da-yv-la-ti or a-da-yu-la-ti, meaning “something that appears.” In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced apparitions. While the Cherokee language recognizes that movies are not reality, Western audiences may on some level assume that film portrayals...

Native North Americans in Literature for Youth

A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12

by Alice Crosetto, Rajinder Garcha
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...

American Indian Educators in Reservation Schools

by Terry Huffman
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...