Native American category: 3329 books
Naamiwan's Drum
The Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinaabe Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Naamiwan’s Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years...
by Benjamin Drake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
by Cosmos Mindeleff
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
How a Mountain Was Made
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In the tradition of Calvino's Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In sixteen interconnected original stories, the twin crows Question Woman and Answer Woman take us...
by Washington Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
by C. L. Sonnichsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Frederick Webb Hodge remarked that the Eastern Apache tribe called the Mescaleros were “never regarded as so warlike” as the Apaches of Arizona. But the Mescaleros’ history is one of hardship and oppression alternating with wars of revenge. They were friendly to the Spaniards until victimized,...
We Have a Religion
The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not...
An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830
Three French Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
In 1827 six Osage people—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated...
by Tom McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
According to the Blackfoot creation myth, the spirits first rolled moist earth in their hands and threw the magic symbol to the ground to make men and women. “Next they made earthen images of buffalo, blowing on them to bring them to life.” And it is the profound interrelationship of earth, animal,...
Rivers of Sand
Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory...
Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors...
Matrons and Maids
Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. Matrons and Maids tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two decades, “outing matrons” oversaw and managed...
Firewater and Forked Tongues
A Sioux Chief Interprets American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
As a dedicated Native American advocate since the age of 20, author Major Israel McCreight saw the sad plight of the Indians in the period following the Custer Fight and the Battle of Wounded Kane.
This book, first published in 1947, is the account of the versions of U.S. history according...
by J. W. Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In this fascinating memoir, first published as a book in 1907, the author recalls the remarkable story of his journey westward as a young man to the Montana Territory. Traveling in the days before railroads crossed the continent, he sought wild life and adventure and found both among the Piegan Blackfeet.
As...