Native American category: 3329 books
by Ron Querry
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
"The Death of Bernadette Lefthand should rank among the classics of American fiction." —Tony Hillerman
"In 100 years, someone will open The Death of Bernadette Lefthand and still be consumed by the wisdom, the different cultural beliefs between tribes, and struck that love...
Native Men Remade
Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s...
Encounters at the Heart of the World
A History of the Mandan People
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and...
by Larry Cebula
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850.
For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites...
38 Nooses
Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution,...
From Cochise to Geronimo
The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise...
Legends of the Chiefs
The True Legends Passed Down by Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Beth Shumway Moore and Blackhawk Walters with a combined talent of one hundred and fifty years; tell stories from a view point that will soon be lost forever. Blackhawk as a young boy kneeling at Geronimo’s grave making a vow that he would be a great warrior and keep American Indian History alive....
The Art of Richard Mayhew
A Critical Analysis with Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden’s group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated...
Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as...
Red Bird, Red Power
The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential—and controversial—American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice...
by Frances Densmore
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
"Learn the natural ways of the Chippewa Indians with this great book from Dover." — Texas Kitchen and Garden and More
The uses of plants — for food, for medicine, for arts, crafts, and dyeing — among the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota and Wisconsin show the great extent to which they...
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia
A History, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and—as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color—their work was important in challenging health care inequities...
by Jason Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In 1550-51, Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, in the Valladolid Debate, attempted to settle the issue of whether or not Native Americans should have been enslaved, given sanction by the Pope. Both carefully argued their side, las Casas stating emphatically, through his "Apología,"...
Revisiting Anne Marie
How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine American Heritage.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Spanning two centuries, from the early 1600s to the mid-1700s, Revisiting Anne Marie engages the reader in the history of a Family cut from European and Amerindian (Mi'kmaq) cloth, from the family's brave beginnings in Nova Scotia to its exile in Snow Hill, Maryland, following the Grand Deportation...