Native American category: 3329 books
A Warrior of the People
How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"An important and riveting story of a 19th-century feminist and change agent. Starita successfully balances the many facts with vivid narrative passages that put the reader inside the very thoughts and emotions of La Flesche." —Chicago Tribune
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received...
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask
Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an...
Creatures of Empire
How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played...
Redskins
Insult and Brand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Washington Redskins franchise remains one of the most valuable in professional sports, in part because of its easily recognizable, popular, and profitable brand.
And yet “redskins” is a derogatory name for American Indians.
The number of grassroots campaigns to change the...
Recovering the Sacred
The Power of Naming and Claiming
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Winona LaDuke is a leading Native American historian and scholar.
A seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This classic book has been widely taught in universities. South End let it go out of print, creating pent up demand.
LaDuke ran as Ralph Nader's running mate on the Green...
American Indian Nations
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years. A distinctive contribution to the understanding and interpretation of current Indian affairs, policies, and community development, this dynamic commentary of contemporary issues brings together a Who's...
Rights Remembered
A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her...
A Lenape among the Quakers
The Life of Hannah Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately,...
Honor the Grandmothers
Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery...
The Soul of an Indian
And Other Writings from Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman)
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Ohiyesa, a Dakota Indian also known as Charles Alexander Eastman, is one of America's most fascinating and overlooked individuals. Born in Minnesota in 1858, he obtained postgraduate degrees and advised U.S. presidents before returning to traditional living in native forests. This reissue contains...
by Patsy West
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
The history of the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes dates back to the 1500s, when most of Florida as well as much of the United States was uninhabited. During the early 19th century, the tribes moved into the South Florida interior, living on remote tree islands throughout the Everglades and Big Cypress...
Moonflower, Medicine Woman
A.D. 1490
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Have you ever wondered what the American Continent was like before the Native Americans discovered that Columbus was lost? A time before alcohol, guns and other mechanized New World inventions. The horse came onto the scene with the arrival of the Spanish Explorers in the Sixteenth Century. Before...
by Lloyd Arneach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Tragically, relatively little of this flourishing nation and its rich culture has survived. Its stories, however, live on today. In this priceless and engaging collection, native Cherokee and professional storyteller Lloyd Arneach recounts tales such as how the bear lost his long bushy tail and how the first strawberry came to be.
The Savage and Modern Self
North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate...