Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Columbus and Other Cannibals
The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s...
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that...
Cahokia
Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization
While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings...
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World
American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Apache Reservation
Indigenous Peoples and the American State
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
"Indian reservations" were the United States' ultimate solution to the "problem" of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its...
The Indian To-day
The Past and Future of the First American
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Indian To-day
The Past and Future of the First American
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
I. The Indian as He Was
II. The How and the Why of Indian Wars
III. The Agency System: Its Uses and Abuses
IV. The New Indian Policy
V. The Indian in School
VI. The...
The Westo Indians
Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A comprehensive study that rescues the Westo from obscurity.
The Westo Indians, who lived in the Savannah River region during the second half of the 17th century, are mentioned in few primary documents and only infrequently in secondary literature. There are no known Westo archaeological sites;...
No Bone Unturned
Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has...
by Ellen Sue Turner, Thomas R. Hester, Richard L. McReynolds
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes...
Comanches
The History of a People
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American...
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic),...
Cherokee Blue Eyes
Keeping the Heritage Alive
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2000
There is nothing more sacred than remembering your Native American ancestors whose tears still remain. Cherokee Blue Eyes beckons you to reach deep into your soul and honor those before you. The author describes his views of such a gesture and the controversy that one may face while doing so. Running...
Aztalan
Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear?
Birmingham and...
by Aileen O’Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In the late 1920s, an elderly Navaho leader, anxious to preserve the myths of his people before they were lost in the tide of modern civilization, asked Aileen O'Bryan to record the tales he told her and to publish them in a book. The storyteller was Sandoval, Hastin Tlo'tsi hee (or Old Man Buffalo...