Native American category: 3329 books
American Indian History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events
A Reference Guide to Events
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Encompassing more than 500 years, American Indian History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events is a marvelous research tool. Students will learn what occurred on a specific day, read a brief description of events, and find suggested books and websites they can turn to for more information. The...
Red Matters
Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body...
by William C. Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. Under German fire they laid communications lines and began sending messages in a form never before heard in Europe—coded Comanche. For the rest of...
The Gift of the Face
Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document...
by Elaine Keillor, Timothy Archambault, John M. H. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America documents the surprisingly varied musical practices among North America's First Peoples, both historically and in the modern context. It supplies a detailed yet accessible and approachable overview of the substantial contributions and influence...
by Bruce E. Johansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Beginning in the early 1950s, Native peoples were recruited to mine "yellow dust"—uranium—and then, over decades, died in large numbers of torturous cancers. Uranium-induced cancers have become the deadliest plague unleashed upon Native peoples of North America—one with grave consequences...
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization.
This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American...
Inheriting the Past
The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C. Parker, joined the ranks of professional archaeology. Until now, Parker’s life...
Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies
History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Native American Studies collection is formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an interactive table of contents, footnotes and other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable. "Native American Studies"...
The Victory with No Name
The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering...
by Guy Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl which turned days to nights in the far of cities of New York and Washington D.C. for Oklahoma tore families apart sending survivors to all corners of the country. For many people now trying to find their lost relatives and ancestors from Oklahoma the task...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
*Includes pictures of important people and places in Crazy Horse's life.*Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of Crazy Horse's name. *Includes a Table of Contents"Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall...
This Indian Country
American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are...
The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs
Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order to turn them into farmers and sent their children to boarding schools for indoctrination into the English language,...