Native American category: 3329 books
Native Peoples and Water Rights
Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Through a combination of field work and archival research, Kenichi Matsui offers an original and pioneering overview of the evolution of water law and agricultural policies in the Canadian west. By incorporating the history of water law philosophies, water development technologies, agricultural policies,...
by Edward E. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic, most evangelists were not Anglo-Americans but were members of the groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles reveals the way Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves redefined Christianity and addressed the challenges of slavery, dispossession, and European settlement.
Perishing Heathens
Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Perishing Heathens Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory....
Spaces between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent...
Lethal Legacy
Current Native Controversies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Canadians greeted the disruptions in Native-newcomer relations that occasionally erupted during the 1990s with incomprehension. Politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens understood neither how nor why the crisis of the moment had arisen, much less how its deep historical roots made it resistant...
Skunk Hill
A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Rising above the countryside of Wood County, Wisconsin, Powers Bluff is a large outcrop of quartzite rock that resisted the glaciers that flattened the surrounding countryside. It is an appropriate symbol for the Native people who once lived on its slopes, quietly resisting social forces that would...
Network Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native...
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their...
by Sean P. Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites’ theories of an “Indian mind” inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as “trouble causers,” arrived...
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
�I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.� So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy�s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women�s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe�s Flower Dance had not been fully...
Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the...
by Linda Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1997
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, “luminous” (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family.
At seventeen, Angela returns to the place...
by Sherman Alexie
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around...