Native American category: 3329 books
The Great Vanishing Act
Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government's attempt to define who "Indians" were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that "Indians" were "all other persons of one-half or more Indian blood". Today, many tribes wrestle...
Webs of Kinship
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories Northern Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness, and commitment to land and community. In writing...
by Royal Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
It was nearly the turn of the century. Not only was the century changing but the ways of life were changing. Many new inventions were making life easier. Electricity was becoming more and more available. Travel was becoming more comfortable and convenient. The awareness of the plight of the Native...
by Clarice Stasz
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
These marsh plants can feed and shelter! Contemporary Indians taught the authors about their cultures and how to use plants. The Adventure is the history of California Indians and their wise use of these and other plants. For thousands of years plants provided survival and were used creatively and...
Pre-removal Choctaw History
Exploring New Paths
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going.
Distinguished scholars...
Settle and Conquer
Militarism on the American Frontier, 1607-1890
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of “counterinsurgency.” Paramilitary figures such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett “opened the West” and frontiersmen infiltrated the enemy, learning...
The Quest for Justice
Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors’ earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination. It contains some twenty-three papers from representatives of the aboriginal people’s organizations, of governments, and of a variety of academic...
Rat a Tat Tat
A Horse Warrior’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Life on an Indian reservation is not easy. The average American believes that the enrolled Native Americans are lucky because they get a monthly payment for being enrolled, they are tax exempt, and they can’t get their land foreclosed on. While in many cases this is true to some extent, the reality...
by Clifford E. Trafzer, Joel R. Hyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1999
Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles...
Indian Nations of Wisconsin
Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe,...
by Adele Nozedar
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
A comprehensive guide to the history, culture, and religious beliefs and practices of America’s native people, The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans tells the varied and colourful stories of the tribes, their greatest leaders, wars, pacts, and the long-lasting impact that their profound wisdom...
by That Native Thomas, Steven Paul Judd
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Sparkling with magical realism, this book follows nine seemingly separate stories that dovetail in an unexpected and profound climax. It begins with a mysterious pow-wow to be held inside a colossal tipi, 200-feet tall and 3-miles wide, which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a town that has never...
Defiant Indigeneity
The Politics of Hawaiian Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
*"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K&*257;naka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form...
Seventh Generation Earth Ethics
Native Voices of Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Wisconsin’s rich tradition of sustainability rightfully includes its First Americans, who along with Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Gaylord Nelson shaped its landscape and informed its “earth ethics.” This collection of Native biographies, one from each of the twelve Indian nations of Wisconsin,...