Native American category: 3329 books
Kika Kila
How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
*Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of k&*299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the instrument's definitive history, from its discovery by a young Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to...
The Terrible Indian Wars of the West
A History from the Whitman Massacre to Wounded Knee, 1846-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Expansion! The history of the United States might well be summed up in that single word. The Indian Wars of the American West were a continuation of the struggle that began with the arrival of the first Europeans, and escalated as they advanced across the Appalachians before American independence...
North Country Captives
Selected Narratives of Indian Captivity from Vermont and New Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Revealing firsthand narratives of Indian captivity from eighteenth-century New Hampshire and Vermont. Narratives of Europeans who experienced Indian captivity represent one of the oldest genres of American literature. They are often credited with establishing the stereotype of Indians as cruel and...
Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee
The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In the aftermath of the December 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, U.S. Army troops braced for retaliation from Lakota Sioux Indians, who had just suffered the devastating loss of at least two hundred men, women, and children. Among the soldiers sent to guard the area around Pine Ridge Agency, South...
The Cherokee Physician
Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The extended title of The Cherokee Physicianserves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was probably Scottish and Cherokee. Typical of its...
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Helen Hunt Jackson’s passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes’s helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson’s involvement in Indian reform,...
Through Indian Sign Language
The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a Kiowa...
Crafting 'The Indian'
Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects...
Nation to Nation
Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indians explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold...
Imagining Geronimo
An Apache Icon in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
His face has appeared on T-shirts, postage stamps, jigsaw puzzles, posters, and an Andy Warhol print. A celebrity and a tourist attraction who attended three World’s Fairs and rode in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade, he is a character in such classic westerns as Stagecoach and...
by Francis A. Walker
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...
Swindler Sachem
The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Indians, too, could play the land game for both personal and political benefit
According to his kin, John Wompas was “no sachem,” although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English—even...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels...
by Daniel G. Brinton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1882. According to the Preface: "The belief that the only solid foundation for the accurate study of American ethnology and linguistics must be in the productions of the native mind in their original form has led me to the venturesome undertaking of which this is the first issue....