Native American category: 3329 books

Cover of The Spanish Borderlands
by Herbert E. Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012

Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953) was a distinguished historian who received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. He was a Harrison Fellow while at Pennsylvania. Bolton quickly became an expert on Spanish colonies in the New World. Professor...
Cover of The Mingwe Kyasuta
by Basil Bachelor
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014

For all of his life Kyasuta and his tribe held the strategic portages and trails through the wilderness of the Ohio country. But Kyasuta knew the days had come when he and his people would face a difficult struggle to maintain control over their long-held territories. As the leader of the Seneca Wolf...
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The Conquest of Texas

Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875

by Gary Clayton Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019

This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle...
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Arctic Landscapes and Traditions 3-Book Bundle

Ukkusiksalik / Uvajuq / Thelon

by David F. Pelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

From an explorer of the North's cultural landscape, comes the stories and history of remote corners of our North. David F. Pelly gives a rare in-depth account of Inuit history based on oral testimony and historical records. Includes: Ukkusiksalik: The People's Story Ukkusiksalik, now a national...
Cover of Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries
by Gelya Frank, Carole Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010

Cover of Shinnecock Indian Nation
by Beverly Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015

The Shinnecock have resided along the shores of eastern Long Island for more than 10,000 years. These hunter-gatherers were also skilled whalers who first tackled the Atlantic in their dugout canoes and later became highly regarded crew members on 19th-century whaling ships that sailed the globe. The...
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Welcome to the Oglala Nation

A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and...
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Plunder of the Ancients

A True Story of Betrayal, Redemption, and an Undercover Quest to Recover Sacred Native American Artifacts

by Lucinda Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

Plunder of the Ancients is a rare look inside an undercover investigation in which special agent Lucinda Schroeder reveals the details of her case in which she was assigned to expose Indian Art thieves and dealers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who out of unmitigated greed, were exploiting sacred artifacts...
Cover of Yellow Dirt

Yellow Dirt

An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed

by Judy Pasternak
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010

WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD Atop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s—during the government’s desperate press to build nuclear weapons—the...
Cover of Oklahoma Cherokee Baskets
by Karen Coody Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016

The forced relocation of fifteen thousand Cherokee to Oklahoma nearly two centuries ago left them in a foreign landscape. Coping with loss and new economic challenges, the Cherokee united under a new constitution and exploited the Victorian affinity for decorative crafts. Cherokee women had always...
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Uvajuq

The Origin of Death

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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999

The story of Uvajuq (oo-va-yook) is rooted in a time when people and animals lived in such harmony and unity that they could speak to each other. For Inuit, as for people whose traditions include the story of the Garden of Eden, this idyllic existence came to an abrupt end a long time ago. The story...
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Coming Full Circle

The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848–1934

by Laurence M. Hauptman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019

The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas’ removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca...
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Who Belongs?

Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South

by Mikaëla M. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history, especially in the South. Indians who remained in the South...
Cover of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft
by Daniel Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014

Known to millions of Boy Scouts as "Uncle Dan," Daniel Beard was also a Progressive-era reformer, a naturalist, illustrator, and author. Among his many "how-to" books is this entertaining collection of camp lore and practical notes on woodcrafting. In Camp-Lore and Woodcraft, Beard,...
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