Native American category: 3329 books
Towards a New Ethnohistory
Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who...
by Laura Tobias
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Centuries ago, the passion they shared as Native American lovers ended in tragedy. Together again and unaware of their past, can they claim the love that's rightfully theirs?Seattle newspaper reporter Lainey Hughes is desperate to find her mother who has disappeared into a doomsday cult somewhere...
by J. W. Powel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This edition features
• map
• a linked Table of Contents and Index
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Born into slavery in 1798, James P. Beckwourth would go on to become one of the most remarkable mountain men to have ever lived.
In 1824 Beckwourth left Missouri to head to the Rocky Mountains to work for William Ashley’s Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
He would never turn back.
In...
A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential...
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Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
It has been well known since Marius Barbeau’s review of the first edition of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian Mythology in 1917 that something was seriously amiss with Boas’s alleged translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that...
Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai,...
by Bobby Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The "Last Puerto Rican Indian" by Bobby Gonzalez, was published in 2006 and is a collection of poems and short stories about the native Taíno people of the Caribbean, it is an indispensable addition to the literature of the indigenous people of the Caribbean.
Comments about the book:
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by Cyrus Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Tableau des Bacab
Plate 43 of the Borgian Codex
Plate 44 of the Fejervary Codex
Symbols of the cardinal points
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Plate I. — Fac-simile of the Tableau des Bacab
II. — The Tableau...
The Trail
Tragedy and Love During the Cherokee Relocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
The Trail follows the forced removal of the Cherokee from their Tennessee village to the Oklahoma reservation. The struggles of the adventure increase the tension that exists among the Native American captives and their guards, members of the US Army. In the midst of the tragedy, White Crow, a Cherokee...
Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia
Cherokee Elements in Four Selected Novels by Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Alfred M. Tozzer, Glover M. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• linked contents lists
CONTENTS
Mollusca: Fasciolaria gigantea, Oliva.
Insecta: Honey bee (Melipona).
Insecta and Myriapoda.
Arachnoidea, Arachnida, Crustacea.
Myriapoda, Pisces.
Pisces.
Amphibia.
Amphibia, Reptilia.
Reptilia: Rattlesnake (Crotalus).
Reptilia:...
Gihli, The Chief Named Dog
Book 3 of the Cherokee Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Will Chief Dog defend or defeat the village?
Will Ali survive the abduction?
Will Atselvdi be seduced by the Dark Way?
Renegade Tagwa Warriors out for a thrill A Killer witch in search of a victim’s souls to extend his life. A happy young girl whose world is turned upside...
Comanche Vocabulary
Trilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861-1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867. It preserves words and concepts that have since changed or even disappeared...