Native American category: 3329 books
by Vic Glover
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
For a realistic look at Indian Country in the 21st century go no further than Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge. In this bold anthology of real-life stories Vic Glover lays bare the challenges history bonds and rich traditions that infuse the stark reality of life on "the rez." The author invites readers to...
by Jason Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions...
by Howard S. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular...
by Vincent Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
The life stories of 13 outstanding Native professional athletes will provide unique inspiration to young people. This book highlights the lives and achievements of men and women, from Olympic champions to national and minor league team players, who worked hard and trained extensively in order to follow...
Cry of the Eagle
Encounters with a Cree Healer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with three anthropologists. In this volume they describe how WIllier treats chronic, stress-related condition...
Shingwauk's Vision
A History of Native Residential Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1996
With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological...
James Bartleman's Seasons of Hope 3-Book Bundle
Seasons of Hope / Exceptional Circumstances / The Redemption of Oscar Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Novelist, diplomat, statesman, representative of both the First Nations and the Crown in Canada, James Bartleman always writes from his incredible personal experience. Presented here are three extraordinary books, each touching on a different aspect of his life, whether a candid tell-all about the...
Smoke Signals
The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded...
by Vincent Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
From the melodic notes of a classical guitar to the wailing of an electric guitar, from country western to punk rock, these musicians deliver. They offer a wide selection of musical styles as diverse as the music industry itself. Read about the lives of these outstanding performers who represent the...
The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen
Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where—using Western standards—none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers—Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u (1824–ca. 1885) and Joseph...
The Catholic Calumet
Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism....
by Gord Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
An alternative and unorthodox view of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is offered in this concise history. Eurocentric studies of the conquest of the Americas present colonization as a civilizing force for good, and the native populations as primitive or worse. Colonization is seen...
The Shame and the Sorrow
Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan...
Annals of Native America
How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the...