Native American category: 3329 books
by James W. Parins
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization...
Murder in Their Hearts
The Fall Creek Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In March 1824 a group of angry and intoxicated settlers brutally murdered nine Indians camped along a tributary of Fall Creek. The carnage was recounted in lurid detail in the contemporary press, and the events that followed sparked a national sensation. Murder in Their Hearts: The Fall Creek Massacre...
Fire and Desolation
The Revolutionary War's 1778 Campaign as Waged from Quebec and Niagara Against the American Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Following a disastrous campaign in 1777, the alliance between the Six Nations and the British Crown became seriously strained. Relations were made even more difficult by the hands-off stance of Quebec’s governor, General Guy Carleton, which led to the Native leaders developing their own strategies...
Land Too Good for Indians
Northern Indian Removal
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories...
Massacre of the Conestogas
On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities...
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and...
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand
Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire...
Prairie Man
The Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States’ intrusions into...
Indians of the Pacific Northwest
From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today.
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century,...
by Richard F. Fleck
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Targeted reviews in regional, history, nature, and culture publications. Goodreads and Indie Advance Access Giveaways.
by Theda Perdue, Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians...
First Manhattans
A History of the Indians of Greater New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river...
Living in Two Worlds
The American Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This beautifully illustrated book presents a vivid account of the American Indian experience as seen through the eyes of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first and greatest of the Native American authors. The importance of Eastman's life story was reiterated for a new generation when the 2007 HBO film entitled Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee used Eastman, played by Adam Beach, as its leading hero.