Native American category: 3329 books
by Clarissa W. Confer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the...
by Gavin Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans and Americans, the Menominee stayed firm and held on to their ancestral homeland. Though their territory has been greatly diminished, there is something to...
It May Be Forever
An Irish Rebel on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2005
It May Be Forever is a nineteenth century tale of adventure and tragedy, based upon the real-life story of Michael Quinn. To escape the grinding poverty of Irelands Great Famine, Michael and his family flee to England, where at age eight, Michael becomes a child laborer in a textile mill. As he grows...
The European and the Indian
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1982
Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When...
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.
Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow,...
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle
The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer...
Rekindling the Sacred Fire
Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical...
by Judith K. Witherow
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In Strong Enough to Bend, author Judith K. Witherow compiles a sampling from four decades of her essays and poems that describe the real life experiences of a disabled, mixed blood Native American Indian lesbian raised in Appalachian poverty. Much of the work has been previously published in anthologies,...
Stealing the Gila
The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the mid-nineteenth century middle Gila River valley, producing food and fiber crops for western military...
by John Adair
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Probably no native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book contains the first full and authoritative account of the Indian silver jewelry fashioned in the Southwest by the Navajo and the Zuni, Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. It...
Media and Ethnic Identity
Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture.
The research data...
Navajo and Hopi Art in Arizona
Continuing Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Arizona's Navajo and Hopi cultures span multiple generations, and their descendants continue to honor customs from thousands of years ago. Contemporary artists like Hopi katsina doll carver Manuel Chavarria and Navajo weaver Barbara Teller Ornelas use traditional crafts and techniques to preserve...
The Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention...