Native American category: 3329 books
The Rumble of a Distant Drum
The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673–1804
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Winner of the 2001 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Winner of the 2002 S. G. Ragsdale Award for Arkansas History
The Rumble of a Distant Drum opens in 1673 when Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River and found the Quapaw living in the area where the Arkansas River flowed into...
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa
Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with...
Stories of Oka
Land, Film, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society...
Wastelanding
Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S....
Re-Collecting Black Hawk
Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to “Black Hawk,” surrendered in 1832 after...
by Karin Michelson, Norma Kennedy, Mercy A. Doxtator
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted...
The Story of Act 31
How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From forward-thinking resolution to violent controversy and beyond.
Since its passage in 1989, a state law known as Act 31 requires that all students in Wisconsin learn about the history, culture, and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes.
The Story of...
En el país de nomeacuerdo
Archivos y memorias del genocidio del Estado argentino sobre los pueblos originarios, 1870-1950
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Esta publicación presenta siete investigaciones sobre los procesos de sometimiento e incorporación de los pueblos originarios de las regiones patagónica, pampeana y chaqueña por parte del Estado argentino. Los autores discuten sobre conceptos centrales como los de genocidio, terrorismo y violencia...
Copper Mines, Company Towns
Indians, Mexicans, Mormons, Masons, Jews, Muslims, Gays, Wombs, Mcdonalds, and the March of Dimes: “Survival of the Fittest” in and Far Beyond the Deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Just as few natural species have withstood the test of ever-changing earth environments through time, relatively few human-created systems (e.g., companies, governments, religions, etc.) long survive their creation. What then is the secret of those that continue to defy these odds and what factors...
Eagle Valley
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Eagle Valley shows that the Native American and the White man could live together in peace-even to the point of helping each other to survive.
by Freya Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Chief Mikinak Pikawakanagan, the leader of a prestigious Native American rights organization, believes that the key to decolonization and liberation lies in learning from what indigenous societies were like before the arrival of Europeans. After gathering the research of scientists from all over the...
by John Wesley Powell
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes, travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in advance of civilization, and civilization itself has marched across the continent at a rapid rate. Under these...
The History of the Black Hawk War & Autobiography of the Sauk Leader, the Great Black Hawk
Including the Autobiography of the Sauk Leader Black Hawk
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and...
by John Wesley Powell
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse. Into the regions occupied by these tribes, travelers, traders, and missionaries have penetrated in...