Native American category: 3329 books
by Hugh A. Dempsey
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories by historian Hugh A. Dempsey presents tales from the Blackfoot tribe of the plains of northern Montana and southern Alberta. Drawn from Dempsey’s fifty years of interviewing tribal elders and sifting through archives, the stories are about warfare, hunting,...
The First Thanksgiving
A Selection from Mayflower (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The real story of the First Thanksgiving from the New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick
One of America’s most acclaimed historians takes on the nation’s First Thanksgiving, telling us the true story behind the tale we think we know so well. In this selection from the New...
Spirit of the New England Tribes
Indian History and Folklore, 1620–1984
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings,...
Splendid Land, Splendid People
The Chickasaw Indians to Removal
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called "splendid and fertile" by...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.
For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans—Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans—occupied the Four...
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic),...
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The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI: Based on the Book by David Grann
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
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During the 1920s, the world's...
Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace
The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines two interconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultaneous...
by James Malone
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
We have followed De Soto into the land of the Chickasaws. He and his followers were the first white men to visit their country and to look into their faces. They were great travelers and ever on the alert, and the news that De Soto had put other Indians into chains and captivity, as well as the news...
by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Crysalis Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises...
Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples
What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
More than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering...
by Stephen L. Pevar
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government...
Spirit and Reason
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
A collection of Vine Deloria Jr.'s writings from books, essays, and articles, as well as previously unpublished pieces.
We Know Who We Are
Métis Identity in a Montana Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States....