Native American category: 3329 books
by Gerald Hausman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Hand Trembler is about one man’s emergence through Native rituals as he travels through the mythical underworlds of the Navajo. Actual Hand Tremblers, though few exist today, do live on the Navajo reservation and they still perform their ancient art of divination: finding the cause of illness, lost...
THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS (Illustrated)
Western Classic - A Tragic Love Story Set in the Beautiful Indian Oregon in the midst of the Native American Fight for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
"One Sabbath morning more than two hundred years ago, the dawn broke clear and beautiful over New England. It was one of those lovely mornings that seem like a benediction, a smile of God upon the earth, so calm are they, so full of unutterable rest and quiet. Over the sea, with its endless line...
by Daniel J. Sharfstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877
After the Civil...
Invisible North
The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.
Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction — Shortlisted...
Last Stand
George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF THE AMERICAN BUFFALO—BY MICHAEL PUNKE, THE AUTHOR OF THE REVENANT, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the...
Rising Up from Indian Country
The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half,...
by Joseph T. Wilson, Annie Heloise Abel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This volume contains the complete text of two books about the important contributions of two ethnic groups whose exemplary military service during the United States Civil War are not as well known as they should be: African-Americans and Native Americans.
The two complete works included...
Through Dakota Eyes
Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
"This volume brings together an invaluable collection of vivid eyewitness accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and its aftermath. Of greatest interest is the fact that all the narratives assembled here come from Dakota mixed-bloods and full-bloods. Speaking from a variety of viewpoints...
Clearing the Plains
Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National...
End-of-Earth People
The Arctic Sahtu Dene
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.
Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene,...
Dispossessing the Wilderness
Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these...
Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In...
The Earth Is Weeping
The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
"Sets a new standard for Western Indian Wars history." —Stuart Rosebrook, True West Magazine
***Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History and the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History Prize
*Finalist for the Western Writers of America’s 2017 Spur Award in Best Western...
Living with Animals
Ojibwe Spirit Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls,...