Native American category: 3329 books
The Hopi Survival Kit
The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Now made public for the first time—an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium
For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old...
The Yale Indian
The Education of Henry Roe Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister’s extensive archival research establishes the historical significance of key chapters in the Winnebago’s remarkable life....
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes...
by Charles A. Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Originally published in 1907, Old Indian Days contains Eastman's recollections of life among the Sioux. Studies of daily life, struggle, war, and peace, including the 1862 Sioux Uprising, make up the majority of this collection, as well as retellings of such classic Native American myths and legends as "The Singing Spirit" and "The Love of Antelope."
Patroons and Periaguas
Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled along the rivers and coastline near the bourgeoning colonial port city of Charleston, South Carolina. Colonial...
by Patti Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead, it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others. Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coach—a Cherokee...
by Quik eBooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Legend has it that there were no photographs taken of the great Native American warrior Crazy Horse. It would be contrary to the spirit and culture of his people, the Lakota. Indeed, he fought ferociously, against the white man for most of his life, struggling to protect and preserve the Lakota way...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics,...
by Charles H. L. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Roots of Our Renewal
Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
In Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences...
The Sleeping Giant Awakens
Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian Residential School system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with...
Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice
Begade Shutagot'ine and the Sahtu Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice" chronicles Peter Kulchyski’s experiences with the Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Despite...
Chicago’S Authentic Founder
Jean Baptiste Point Dusable or Haitian Secret Agent in the Old Northwest Outpost 1745-1818
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Chicagos Authentic Founder traces the life and time of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable from Haiti through Louisiana, Peoria, Chicago, and Saint-Charles, Missouri, where he died in 1818. It examines important historical events such as the foundation of Chicago, George Rogers Clarks conquest of the French...
Sovereign Entrepreneurs
Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney...