Native American category: 3329 books
by James Adair
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period.
James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. During that time he covered...
The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero
Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze...
Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
James Mooney (18611921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains, most notably ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bulls death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious...
by Gene Meany Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
This collection of American Indian legends was gathered by Gene Meany Hodge from authentic sources in the 1930s and centers around the sacred supernatural personages of the American Pueblo Indians called Kachinas (pronounced Kah-chee-nahs). Mrs. Hodge wrote: “All in all the Kachinas are lovable...
Metis in Canada
History, Identity, Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutional law, political science, and sociology, who identify the many facets of what it means to be Métis in Canada today. After the Powley decision in 2003,...
by William N. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from...
by Arthur C. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
How did the Indians do things? How did they make their canoes, tipis, traps, bark lodges, and war bonnets? How did they treat women, marry, talk, and dress? How did they hunt, use the peace pipe, perform the sun dance, make magic, gather medicine, and send signals? All these Hows and many more are...
Point of Departure
Returning to Our More Authentic Worldview for Education and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Point of Departure offers a practical metacognitive and transformational learning strategy for human surviving and thriving. Using five foundational and interactive Indigenous worldview beliefs that contrast sharply with our dominant worldview ones, everyone can reclaim the original instructions for...
Unlearning the Language of Conquest
Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Responding to anti-Indianism in America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including:Waziyatawin...
That the Blood Stay Pure
African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia’s racial purity campaign from the perspective of...
by Brian DeLay
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called the barbarians” descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks...
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and...
by Clark Wissler
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This concise volume documents a fascinating and unique art form — Native American beadwork. Including examples of handiwork from Eastern woodlands and Plains Indians, the author offers a clear, illuminating discussion of the origins, execution, and symbolism of Indian beadwork used to ornament belts, garters, pouches, and much more. Over 300 figures.