Native American category: 3329 books
Teaching Indigenous Students
Honoring Place, Community, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students’ community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language...
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana
From 1542 to the Present Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1987
Although many specialized studies have been written about Louisiana's Indian tribes, no complete account has appeared regarding their long, varied history. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present is a highly informative study that reconstructs the history and cultural evolution...
by Sohrab ChamanAra
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
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Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.
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Spirit Clans
Native Wisdom for Personal Power and Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For thousands of years, Native American tradition has taught that we all carry within us an ancient blessing, a spirit clan that connects us to the earth. Our spirit clan may be an animal, or a plant, a stone, or some special object that has taken on spiritual power. Your clan is a reservoir of powerful...
The Nature of Borders
Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea--which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia...
The Boundaries Between Us
Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest
Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by examining lesser known forms of interaction between Euro-Americans and native peoples and their struggles...
The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795
Warriors and Diplomats
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River...
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South
Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era...
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation
Revitalization and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics...
Betrayals
Fort William Henry and the "Massacre"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1990
On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward...
Indians of North Carolina
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "Cherokees," a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and assistance in 1915, the Senate tasked the Office of Indian Affairs...
Firsting and Lasting
Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of...
Warrior Woman
The Story of Lozen, Apache Warrior and Shaman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Warrior Woman is the story of Lozen, sister of the famous Apache warrior Victorio, and warrior in her own right. Hers is a story little discussed in Native American history books. Instead, much of what is known of her has been passed down through generations via stories and legends.
For example,...