Native American category: 3329 books
Indians and Emigrants
Encounters on the Overland Trails
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and...
by James E. Seaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family...
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...
The Conflicted Mission
Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
From the mid-1830s to the 1860s, the missionaries sent to Minnesota by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) wrote thousands of letters to their supervisors and supporters claiming success in converting the Dakota people. But author Linda M. Clemmons reveals that the reality...
by John G. Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The author, John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896), was a Captain in the Cavalry of the United States Army and a prolific diarist and post Civil War author.
He served as an aide to General George Crook in the Apache Wars from 1870 to 1886. As Crook's aide, Bourke had the opportunity to witness every...
by John G. Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The author, John Gregory Bourke 1843-1896, was a Captain in the Cavalry of the United States Army and a prolific diarist and post Civil War author.
He served as an aide to General George Crook in the Apache Wars from 1870 to 1886. As Crook's aide, Bourke had the opportunity to witness every...
Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.
They bowed their heads to give thanks.
The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion,...
Hubbell Trading Post
Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors...
Red Brethren
The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that...
The Color of Christ
The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to...
Warrior Woman
The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing...
Trail of Tears
The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.
The Cherokee are a...
White Savage
William Johnson and the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
A provocative new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the Iroquois
William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved...
The Human Eros
Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Alexander’s primary claim is that human beings have an inherent need to experience meaning and value, a “Human...