Native American category: 3329 books
American Indians
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the...
In This Remote Country
French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities....
The Nations Within
The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today.
“Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing...
Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities
Transformations and Continuities
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
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The Friendship Centre: Native People and the Organization of Community in Cities
Heather A. Howard
This chapter examines the socio-political history and culture of the Native Friendship centre, the organization which most often serves as the focal point of urban Native communities...
American Indian Literature and the Southwest
Contexts and Dispositions
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Culture-to-culture encounters between "natives" and "aliens" have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest—among American Indian tribes, between American Indians and Euro-Americans, and even, according to some, between humans and extraterrestrials at Roswell, New Mexico. Drawing on a wide range...
by Colin Mustful
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Just six months prior to the onset of the American Revolution a major battle raged between colonial Virginians and the native Indians of western Virginia. This was the Battle of Point Pleasant fought on October 10, 1774. For various reasons, this battle has been recognized by some as the first battle...
American Indian Sovereignty and Law
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography covers a wide variety of topics and includes sources dealing with federal Indian policy, federal and tribal courts, criminal justice, tribal governance, religious freedoms, economic development, and numerous sub-topics related to tribal...
Separate Peoples, One Land
The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee...
Decolonizing Native Histories
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community...
Native Americans on Film
Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years,...
THE WAY OF AN INDIAN
Western Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
“The Way of an Indian” is one of the few books that look at the colonial expansion of American wild west through the eyes of a Native Indian. The book faithfully captures their spiritual beliefs, agency and speech to show what it was like to be the original inhabitants of a land that was taken...
Return to Kahiki
Native Hawaiians in Oceania
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively little known experiences of Native Hawaiian missionaries,...
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than...
by Nathan E. Bender
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized...