Native American category: 3329 books
by Brian Hosmer, Frederick E. Hoxie, Ken Hechler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Harry S. Truman oversaw the beginning of a dramatic shift in the relationship between the U.S. government and Native Americans. Not generally associated with Native Americans or Native American affairs, Truman’s presidency marked the end of the Indian New Deal begun under the Roosevelt administration...
by Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth,...
Native American Almanac
More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
From ancient rock drawings to today’s urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples traces the rich heritage of indigenous people. It is a fascinating mix of biography, pre-contact and post-contact history, current events, Tribal...
The Sacred Hoop
Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen’s celebrated study of women’s roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women’s studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyond
This...
The State of North Carolina with Native American Ancestry
The Formation of the Eastern and Coastal Counties in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
More than 50,000 Indians lived in the area now known as North Carolina at the time of Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The Formation North Carolina Coastal and Eastern Counties examines the history of this Native American Indian population. It also focuses upon the formation of North...
Teaching Spirits
Understanding Native American Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity,...
Going Native
Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as...
Native Activism in Cold War America
The Struggle for Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Labriola Center Book Award
The heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native Americans had long struggled against federal policies that threatened to undermine tribal sovereignty and self-determination....
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Four is a huge collection of Native American history. Following on the heels of the highly successful first three volumes, this fourth set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready and awaiting the fifth.
Through storytelling,...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Two is a huge collection of Native American history. It features stories, tales, legends, quotes and more. Following on the heels of the highly successful first volume, this second set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Five is a huge collection of Native American history. Following on the heels of the highly successful first four volumes, this fifth set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready and waiting for more.
Through storytelling,...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Walking With Spirits Volume Three is a huge collection of Native American history. It features stories, tales, legends, quotes and more.
Following on the heels of the highly successful first two volumes, this third set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave...
Native American History
A Chronology of a Culture's Vast Achievements and Their Links to World Events
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY:
A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.
Native American History is a breakthrough reference guide, the first book of its kind to recognize and explore the rich, unfolding experiences of the indigenous American peoples as they evolved against...