Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Sanaaq
An Inuit Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq,...
by Jean Barman
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Jean Barman was the recipient of the 2014 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.
In French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest, Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of French Canadians attracted by the fur...
Creating Colonial Pasts
History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario through the experience of its inhabitants, especially those who took an active role in the preservation and writing of Ontario’s colonial past: the founder of the Niagara Historical Society, Janet Carnochan;...
The Toyah Phase of Central Texas
Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered...
Wisdom Keeper
One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe’s holistic spiritual beliefs....
Metis Pioneers
Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned...
In Search of Moon River
Or My Quick Trip to Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This is the journey of the author from the time she meets her soulmate, Manny Twofeathers, until the time of his passing. Their sixteen years together, the highs and the lows, the adventures and the tragedies. All the while she suffers from bi-polar disorder and it examines how she overcomes episodes,...
Activating the Heart
Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge...
Good as Gold
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
That night, the night I first met Jim, lightning blazed and thunder cracked and rolled overhead … Dad burst in through the front door, a flashlight in one hand, an Aboriginal boy clasped to his hip with the other. ‘This is Jimmy,’ he said. ‘He’s going to be living here with us now.’ I...
Coyote America
A Natural and Supernatural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
"A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall...
The Sioux
Life and Customs of a Warrior Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of the Great Plains, and they were the villains, too.
Royal B. Hassrick here attempts to describe...
The Education of Augie Merasty
A Residential School Memoir - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation. "At 86, Augie Merasty has been a lot of things: Father. Son. Outdoorsman. Homeless. But now he is a first-time author,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This exciting autobiography of Jim Whitewolf, a Kiowa Apache born in the second half of the 19th-century, offers an excellent inside-look at Indian culture. An ethnological classic, it details childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward tribe, much more. Preface. Introduction & Epilogue. Index. 1 map.
Wawahte
Subject: Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Indian Residential School Survivors Society British Columbia, Canada
For all the people who read this book may they be forever enlightened. By shining the light on a dark part of our past we have a chance to create a bright new day for aboriginals and all Canadians. We will all know what happened...