Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Real Indians
Identity and the Survival of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and...
Making Marriage
Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The debate over the meaning of marriage in the United States and specifically in Minnesota is not a recent development. From 1820 to 1845, when the first significant numbers of Americans arrived in the region now called Minnesota, they carried the belief that good government and an orderly household...
On the Land
Confronting the Challenges to Aboriginal Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1995
It is from the land that the Native peoples of Canada draw their strength.
If the people of Quebec claim a right to sovereignty, Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own.
The James...
Indigenous Recall (Vol. 1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
The Return to Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Ebook - Indigenous Recall: The Return to Sanity is the indigenous edition of Vol.1 Lipstick and War Crimes Book Series by Ray Songtree, and was produced specifically for indigenous descendants, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Australians, South Americans, Africans, and Asians.
Indigenous...
Dakota Women's Work
Creativity, Culture, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women.
Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, made them almost four decades after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862. This and other ornately decorated...
by N. Bruce Duthu
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
A perfect introduction to a vital subject very few Americans understand-the constitutional status of American Indians
Few American s know that Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's distinct racial and ethnic groups: they are sovereign governments who engage in relations with...
by Diego de Landa
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took...
White Captives
Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. She compares the experiences and representations...
by Myles Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From the Emerald Isle to the Wild West—true tales of the Irish who forged the American frontier in “a very enjoyable romp through the tumbleweed” (The Irish Story).
Everyone knows how the Irish came to America in the 1800s seeking a new life. But less known are the stories of the Irish immigrants...
by George Catlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Volume 1 of the classic account of life among Plains Indians includes fascinating information on ceremonies, rituals, the hunt, warfare, and much more. Total in set: 312 plates.
Encounter on the Great Plains
Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian...
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017
Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe,...
by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's 1918 historical treatise, “American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime”. Although Phillips displays what we would now consider to be unrepentant racism in this...
Blessings in the Storm
Samuel Wesley Gathing: a Closer Look
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Samuel Wesley Gathing: A Closer Look is the moving true story of Sam and Beatrice Gathing and the struggles they faced rearing their fourteen children during the era of the Jim Crow laws. These laws meant that both society and the system enforced the damaging view that their children were just stupid...