Native American category: 3329 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
*Includes over 25 pictures of important people, places, and events, including Macchu Picchu, Inca ruins, Inca clothing, and more. *Describes the everyday life, religion, architecture and cities of the Inca Empire*Includes a Table of ContentsDuring the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim...
by Linda Pendleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
In 1919, George W. Caldwell, M.D., published his collections of Native American legend. It was published as Legends of Southern California and Legends of San Francisco, and the two collections have been combined for this edition, with a new Introduction by Linda Pendleton.Dr. Caldwell had an...
by Billy Mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
In this Native American allegory, a young Lakota boy named David is despondent over the death of his sister and fears that he will never know happiness again. His father gives him a gift, a scroll with seven pictures, which properly understood, hold the keys to self-understanding. In an entertaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Champagne and his distinguished coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. Many countries still face extreme differences among ethnic groups and submerged nations, leading to...
Indigenous Cities
Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism by examining urban narratives—such as those written by Sherman...
Clearing a Path
Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.
by Ilene Shepard Smiddy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This historical novel is based on the life of young Clarinda Allington, taken captive by Indians in 1793. She was kept twelve years in the Cherokee nation by a handsome and powerful war chief named Chulio Shoe Boots, who she thought to be her savior. Her heart’s desire was to someday return back to...
A Century of Dishonor
The Classic Exposé of the Plight of the Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study describes the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution. Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text goes on to document and deplore the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez...
Imagining Sovereignty
Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Sovereignty” is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian writing today—but its meaning and function are anything but universally understood. This is as it should be, David J. Carlson suggests, for a concept frequently at the center of various—and often competing—claims to authority....
by Heyoka Merrifield
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
In this second volume of the White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, Heyoka Merrifield transports us back to ancient Europe as a mythical tribe of hunter-gatherers is forced on an odyssey away from Gaia's land and into the New World. Painted Earth Temple reveals the rites and rituals of a culture of antiquity...
Beyond Settler Time
Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues,...
Tribal GIS
Supporting Native American Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Supporting tribes with an all new chapter on ArcGIS Pro, written by tribal leaders who successfully use GIS.
In Tribal GIS: Supporting Native American Decision-Making, tribal leaders tell their stories about implementing and using geographic information systems (GIS) to address their unique...
by Alice Beck Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
North America Before the European Invasions tells the histories of North American peoples from first migrations in the Late Glacial Age, sixteen thousand years ago or more, to the European invasions following Columbus’s arrival. Contrary to invaders’ propaganda, North America was no wilderness,...
Conquering Sickness
Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout...