Native American category: 3329 books
by Robert W. Patch
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch’s even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancías—the commercial dealings...
Ukkusiksalik
The People's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.
A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal...
by David J. Wishart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
David J. Wishart’s Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history.
From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of...
Cycles of Conquest
The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Examines the effects of European expansion on the language, social structure, economy, religion, and self-image of Navajo, Yaqui, Papago, and other native American communities.
Savage Anxieties
The Invention of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries,...
Strange Visitors
Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Covering topics such as the Indian Act, the High Arctic relocation of 1953, and the conflict at Ipperwash, Keith D. Smith draws on a diverse selection of documents including letters, testimonies, speeches, transcripts, newspaper articles, and government records. In his thoughtful introduction, Smith...
Real Indians
Identity and the Survival of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and...
Elder Brother and the Law of the People
Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the People as described in the traditional stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and teachable essays on key topics, debates, and case studies. Written by leading scholars in the field, including...
by Ruth Laughlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1931, this is the complete history of Santa Fe, New Mexico written by Santa Fe native, Ruth Laughlin. Drawing on her extensive research and thorough personal understanding, the author covers all aspects of Spanish-American traditions, customs, and culture. She captures the elusive...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them...
Unsettling America
The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about...
Spirit Woman
The Teachings of the Shields
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others.
Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit...
The Voice of Rolling Thunder
A Medicine Man’s Wisdom for Walking the Red Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Rolling Thunder’s life and wisdom in his own words and from interviews with those who knew him well
• Contains never-before-released talks by Rolling Thunder preserved by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart as well as accounts of remarkable healings and weather magic from famous personalities...