Native American category: 3329 books
500 Years of Lies
Discover the Extraordinary Number of Native Indian Gifts to the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
How did the history of 1492 become so misinterpreted? What happened to teaching generations, past and present, the truth about the many contributions people of the Western Hemisphere provided to our modern-day civilization? Why has society refused to recognize the extraordinary number of gifts the...
Life Stages and Native Women
Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and...
The Westo Indians
Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A comprehensive study that rescues the Westo from obscurity.
The Westo Indians, who lived in the Savannah River region during the second half of the 17th century, are mentioned in few primary documents and only infrequently in secondary literature. There are no known Westo archaeological sites;...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada’s history. Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...
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Activites Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.
The...
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Activites Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally...
The Ogoki River Guides
Emergent Leadership among the Northern Ojibwa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The Ogoki River Guides describes the prolonged struggle that members of a small native community in northern Ontario have undertaken in their attempt to establish a viable local economy. The leaders of Collins, the community in which the events of the book take place, have made a concerted effort...
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Activites Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
This is the first of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.The...
Native Land
Lost in the Mystery of Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Catherine and Richard Berg live a charmed life...until the day their car crashes in the midst of a tropical Florida forest. Lost and alone, they stumble upon a mysterious family of Native Americans who possess uncanny powers of perception. What happens next changes their lives forever.
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Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line
Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line is both an introduction to the Seattle-based photographer and a tribute to a true visionary. While Curtis’s photographs will long be his legacy, his own story is likewise compelling. Curtis built his first camera at 12 and developed that interest into a large...
A Searing Wind
Book Three of Contact: The Battle for America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Set against the tragic war sparked by Hernando de Soto’s brutal invasion of the American South, A Searing Wind brings to an electrifying climax the intense historical action in the series hailed as “exciting, skillfully crafted, and fast-paced” (Publishers Weekly).
Once exiled by the...
LaRose
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Finalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner Award
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her...
by Amanda Skenandore
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In Amanda Skenandore’s provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging.
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline...
The Ivory Carver Trilogy
Mother Earth Father Sky, My Sister the Moon, and Brother Wind
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Now in one volume, the sweeping Native American trilogy set at the dawn of human civilization in Alaska, from an international-bestselling author.
Following the lives of three incredible Aleut women in prehistoric Alaska, the Ivory Carver Trilogy has been hailed as “more successful than Clan...