Native American category: 3329 books
The Emergence of the Moundbuilders
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000...
Mohawk Interruptus
Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate...
by Meenal Atul Pandya
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Indians are the most recent immigrants in Massachusetts. Though a tiny minority, their contributions are numerous and far-reaching. Swami Vivekananda arrived in Boston in 1893 and left a lasting legacy of Hindu philosophy. Sushil Tuli opened a unique community bank, Leader Bank, as the first and only...
Mound Sites of the Ancient South
A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From approximately AD 900 to 1600, ancient Mississippian culture dominated today’s southeastern United States. These Native American societies, known more popularly as moundbuilders, had populations that numbered in the thousands, produced vast surpluses of food, engaged in longdistance trading,...
The Mystery of Ghost Dancer Ranch
The Adventures of Punkin and Boo, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The Mystery of Ghost Dancer Ranch is the gripping story of two teenage cousins who are thrown together for the summer at their Grandparents' ranch in California. While exploring the old ranch, the girls stumble on a mystery that involves desperate crooks, the ghost of a long-dead Sioux War Chief,...
The Annals of the Cakchiquels
The Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The Annals of the Cakchiquels
The Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and Introduction
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
PREFACE,
INTRODUCTION,
Ethnologic Position of the Cakchiquels,
Culture of the Cakchiquels,
The...
Colonial Entanglement
Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty....
by John Swanton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Long considered the undisputed authority on the Indians of the southern United States, anthropologist John Swanton published this history as the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) Bulletin 103 in 1931. Swanton's descriptions are drawn from earlier records—including those...
On the Plains with Custer
Tales from Before the West Was Won
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This historical western was written before Custer was known as General, a time when those who knew and marched with Custer were still alive. Edwin L. Sabin tells the story of a man who was “as great in peace as in war” from the perspective of Ned Fletcher, a bugler who served under the general....
Bitter Water
Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Many know that the removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States’ colonial past, but few know that—in an expansive corner of northeastern Arizona—the saga continues. The 1974 Settlement Act officially divided a reservation established almost...
by Scott Rushforth, Steadman Upham
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi...
The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot
A Clan-Based Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories...
by Danl Lane
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Chief Tomekin was a Penobscot moccasin maker and my grandfather.Evenings would pass while stories were handed down of olden days on Indian Island Reservation near OldTown.One that mesmerized me was the life of Johnny Boyle, an Irishman who learned to cook on his wood stove in the deep woods of Maine...
Malaeska
Western Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Malaeska – Story of what happened when a Native Indian woman tried to break conventions and married a white man... Excerpt: "At the time of our story, the beautiful expanse of country which stretches from the foot of the Catskill mountains to the Hudson was one dense wilderness. The noble stream...