Native American category: 3329 books
Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
More than twenty years after its publication in 1991, Leslie Marmon Silko’s monumental novel Almanac of the Dead continues to disconcert, move, provoke, and outrage readers. In a work that is overtly and often uncomfortably political, Silko’s overflowing cast of characters includes representatives...
by Julia Coates
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
This book provides an outstanding resource that introduces readers to Indian removal and resistance, and supports high school curricula as well as the National Standards for U.S. History (Era 4: Expansion and Reform). Focusing specifically on the Trail of Tears and the experiences of the Cherokee...
The Other Movement
Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions. In recalling political activism in the post-World War II South, rarely does one consider the political activities of American...
Spirit Winds of Peace
The Epoch of the Peace Makers
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Let Marcine take you on a journey into the distant past through her paintings. An accomplished artist, she brings to life the ancient tales of the peoples who call themselves the Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse. We know them better as the Iroquois League of Nations.
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Pueblo Sovereignty
Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Over five centuries of foreign rule—by Spain, Mexico, and the United States—Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of...
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is the most renowned colonial uprisings in the history of the American Southwest. Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the...
by John Hubbard
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 Charles D. Poston
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 LeAnne Howe
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
• The historical effacement of Native Americans has seen some remedy in the arts of late, and Savage Conversations brings both those original crimes, and the crime of their erasure from our history, to a much needed reckoning. • Like Layli Long Soldier's Whereas, Savage Conversations deals with...
by Tim Jollymore
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Listener abounds with Native stories, Algonquin legend, Indian characters, and heartrending strife set against the Northern Minnesota snowscape. Native mojo and a windigo vision stir up a storm in this adventure. The struggle between domestic commitment and deceit plays out through Tatty Langille,...
Take Us to Your Chief
And Other Stories: Classic Science-Fiction with a Contemporary First Nations Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing...
by Louise Erdrich
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with...
The Imaginary Indian
The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs...
The Autobiographies & Biographies of the Most Influential Native Americans
Geronimo, Charles Eastman, Black Hawk, King Philip, Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This carefully edited historical collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This collection presents the incredible life stories of the legendary Native Americans such as: Geronimo, Charles Eastman, Black Hawk, King Philip,...