Native American category: 3329 books
Red Alert!
Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
What the world needs today is a good dose of indigenous realism, says Native American scholar Daniel Wildcat in this thoughtful, forward-looking treatise. Red Alert! seeks to debunk the modern myths that humankind is the center of creation.
Massacre at Camp Grant
Forgetting and Remembering Apache History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award
On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona....
by Angelus Silesius
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer
by Angelus Silesius
"It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life." John B. Breslin, Theology Today
In one series, the original writings of the universally...
Power in the Telling
Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
by Royal B. Stratton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Horrifying true account of young women who were captured and killed by native American Indians.
by Alan B. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
When the worthless treaties were signed and it was time to move the Ho-Chunk/Winnebago nation, the people took only what they could carry on their backs. There isnt a person alive today who can describe the atrocities, hardships, and deprivation their ancestors faced while being moved from their land...
Essential Song
Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Audio Files located on Soundcloud
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree,...
To Come to a Better Understanding
Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal...
by George Bird Grinnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
"This book deals with the wars of the Cheyennes. A fighting and a fearless people.
When their struggles with the white men began, some of their older and wiser men strove earnestly to preserve peace, but their efforts failed. During these first wars between the whites and the Cheyennes, the...
Living Our Language
Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.>
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by Donald G. Frantz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language. But the numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in some danger. To help preserve the language while it is still in daily use, Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell collaborated on the Blackfoot Dictionary,...
by Cyrus Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. The numerals in the Dresden Codex
II. Conclusions
III. The writing
Signification of the characters
Symbols of animals &c.
Symbols of deities
Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
A Narrative of Indian Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity...
George Sword's Warrior Narratives
Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics...