Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Before Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people...
Skin for Skin
Death and Life for Inuit and Innu
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination,...
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is the most renowned colonial uprisings in the history of the American Southwest. Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the...
Chicago’S Authentic Founder
Jean Baptiste Point Dusable or Haitian Secret Agent in the Old Northwest Outpost 1745-1818
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Chicagos Authentic Founder traces the life and time of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable from Haiti through Louisiana, Peoria, Chicago, and Saint-Charles, Missouri, where he died in 1818. It examines important historical events such as the foundation of Chicago, George Rogers Clarks conquest of the French...
Copper Mines, Company Towns
Indians, Mexicans, Mormons, Masons, Jews, Muslims, Gays, Wombs, Mcdonalds, and the March of Dimes: “Survival of the Fittest” in and Far Beyond the Deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Just as few natural species have withstood the test of ever-changing earth environments through time, relatively few human-created systems (e.g., companies, governments, religions, etc.) long survive their creation. What then is the secret of those that continue to defy these odds and what factors...
by Joseph T. Wilson, Annie Heloise Abel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This volume contains the complete text of two books about the important contributions of two ethnic groups whose exemplary military service during the United States Civil War are not as well known as they should be: African-Americans and Native Americans.
The two complete works included...
Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.
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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South
Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era...
The First Thanksgiving
A Selection from Mayflower (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The real story of the First Thanksgiving from the New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick
One of America’s most acclaimed historians takes on the nation’s First Thanksgiving, telling us the true story behind the tale we think we know so well. In this selection from the New...
by Luther Standing Bear
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton...
Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs). What is unique in these settings is...
Defiant Indigeneity
The Politics of Hawaiian Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
*"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K&*257;naka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form...
The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot
A Clan-Based Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories...
by Lisa J. M. Poirier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters...