Native American category: 3329 books
The Morning River
A Novel of the Great Missouri Wilderness in 1825
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton—a timid Harvard philosophy student—arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Bound for the beautiful, wild, and dangerous Indian...
by Robert C. Mowry
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A Native American FBI agent must navigate the wilds of New Mexico—and deadly legends of the past—to catch a killer in this chilling crime novel.
Rookie FBI agent Rusty Redtail is a man of two worlds—the federal government’s world of law and order, and the Muscalero Apache’s world...
Quiet Until the Thaw
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
**The debut novel from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come. **
“Awe inspiring . . . An ardent, original, and beautifully wrought book.” —The New York Times Book Review
Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota.
Two...
Wheezer and the Giveaway Child
Book Four
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
It is 1845 in Indian Territory (modern day Oklahoma) and the tribes have settled down in their new land, but all is not well. Children are disappearing. A widowed mother dies and her child has disappeared. Sasa, a young Cherokee woman, is determined to find out what is happening to the children, but...
by Stacey Darlington
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
A young socialite finds herself hurled from her comfort zone of luxury and self-denial into the esoteric world of animal magic. When her pet wolf/husky hybrid, Long Snows Moon, plummets from her car window to the forest below, Devon Danforth must explore the haunted woods to find her. During her drunken...
No Bone Unturned
Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has...
Memories of Conquest
Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala--the first study to focus on a single...
Indian Givers
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate." --Washington Post
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its...
by John L. Kessell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.
John L. Kessell has written the first narrative...
The Book of Bones- A Bones Bonebrake Adventure
Bones Bonebrake Adventures, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Are there aliens among us?
Legends tell of battles with strange beings living under the earth, beings whose origins lie beyond the stars.
When Bones Bonebrake finds himself stranded in a small New Mexico town, he comes face-to-face with a local legend and dangerous enemies.
Joined...
Dreamways of the Iroquois
Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Explores the ancient Iroquois tradition of dreams, healing, and the recovery of the soul
• Explains Native American shamanic dream practices and their applications and purpose in modern life
• Shows how dreams call us to remember and honor our soul’s true purpose
• Offers...
by Grant Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were...
by Colin Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees?...
In the Shadow of Kinzua
The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
2014 Award of Merit winner from the American Association for State and Local History
The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New...