Native American category: 3329 books
Memory Lands
King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia...
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea
Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans,...
A Chemehuevi Song
The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and, until now, historical narratives that have all...
Weaving Alliances with Other Women
Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874–1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point...
My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth...
The Borderland of Fear
Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the Invasion of the Miami Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities...
Heart of the Rock
The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In 1969, Ricahrd Oakes and Adam Fortunate Eagle, then known as Adam Nordwall, instigated an invasion of Alcatraz by American Indians. From the mainland, Fortunate Eagle orchestrated the events, but they assumed an uncontrollable life of their own. Fortunate Eagle provides an intimate memoir of the...
From Huronia to Wendakes
Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples—also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte—has been woven into the narratives...
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle
Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle is a historic document, including nearly 200 color photos and maps, in that...
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature....
by Celinda R. Kaelin, Pikes Peak Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Thousands of years before Zebulon Pike�s name became attached to this famous mountain, Pikes Peak was home to indigenous people. These First Nations left no written record of their sojourn here, but what they did leave were stone circles, carefully crafted arrowheads and stone tools, enigmatic petroglyphs,...
The Beauty of the Primitive
Shamanism and Western Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In Indigenous America, human rights and justice take on added significance. The special legal status of Native Americans and the highly complex jurisdictional issues resulting from colonial ideologies have become deeply embedded into federal law and policy. Nevertheless, Indigenous people in the United...
by Major~General O. O. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This is a rare book of keen observation, respect, and in some instances even affection for Native Americans of his time. General Oliver O. Howard commanded Union forces in the American Civil War and lost his right arm at the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1862. After recovery, he continued in important commands,...