Native American category: 3329 books
Original Thinking
A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In Original Thinking, Glenn Aparicio Parry delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview. Inspired by groundbreaking dialogues that the author organized between Native American elders and leading-edge Western...
by Ronald Haycock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national magazines, and to suggest attitudes and...
Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit
The Nunatsiavummiut Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the long-awaited creation of their own regional self-government of Nunatsiavut.This historic agreement...
The Transit of Empire
Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves...
Cherokee Thoughts
Honest and Uncensored
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what...
The Blackfeet
Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of...
We Share Our Matters
Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions....
Stories in a New Skin
Approaches to Inuit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text...
The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell
The Power of Women in Native American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Re-Imagining Nature
Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks...
Star Path
People of Cahokia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
The fourth novel in the Cahokian story cycle, Star Path is an evocative tale about America’s greatest pre-Columbian city by New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
How do you say no to a god?
Cahokia recovers from a year of chaos following a near civil...
The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Volume Three
The Stick Game, Cruzatte and Maria, and Ash Child
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The contemporary western mystery series follows the further adventures of a half Indian cattle inspector and “character of legendary proportions” (Ridley Pearson).
Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell cattle...
by Aileen O’Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In the late 1920s, an elderly Navaho leader, anxious to preserve the myths of his people before they were lost in the tide of modern civilization, asked Aileen O'Bryan to record the tales he told her and to publish them in a book. The storyteller was Sandoval, Hastin Tlo'tsi hee (or Old Man Buffalo...
by David More
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The French and Indian War - Who will occupy the New World?1761: The North American territories have become a tremendous source of wealth for the English, Dutch, and French merchants and nobility, as well as a land of opportunity for humbler men and women. As national rivalries escalate into outright...