Native American category: 3329 books
To Live upon Hope
Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope, Rachel...
Seeds of Extinction
Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. Sheehan presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation,...
by Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document...
by Barbara Leibhardt Wester
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Wester's environmental history of Yakama and Euro-American cultural interactions during the 19th and early 20th century explores the role of law in both curtailing and promoting rights to subsistence resources within a market economy. Her study, using original source files, case histories, and contemporary...
Natchez Country
Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn...
Zamumo's Gifts
Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy...
Navajo and the Animal People
Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This text examines the traditional Navajo relationship to the natural world. Specifically, how the tribe once related to the Animal People, and particularly a category of animals, which they collectively referred to as the naatl' eetsoh - the "ones who hunt." These animals, like Native Americans, were once viewed as impediments to progress requiring extermination.
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson’s foundational Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun, De Soto’s path had been one of history’s...
The Politics of Memory
Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa—a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historians...
The Prime Minister of Paradise
The True Story of a Lost American History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2022
The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail
In 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany,...
by Edwin H. Davis, Ephraim G. Squier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley remains today not only a key document in the history of American archaeology but also the primary...
by Andrew Blackbird
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
One of the first authoritative accounts of the Ottawa and Chippewa peoples to be published. A fascinating look into the cultures of these native peoples, even including an introduction to Ottawa and Chippewa grammar. Written by Ottawa tribe leader and historian Andrew Blackbird.
by Marsha Weisiger
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Din�) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were killed -- was an ambitious attempt by the federal...
Colonized through Art
American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial...