Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by James F. Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi's American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological...
The World and All the Things upon It
Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award
Winner of NAISA's Best Subsequent Book Award
Winner of the Western History Association's John C. Ewers...
"All the Real Indians Died Off"
And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans
In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing...
by Kelly Fournel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Here are the biographies of ten inspirational native American women, including heroines of the past and those who are making history today, and their contributions to our daily lives and social fabric. This exciting work of nonfiction recounts their extraordinary work in such diverse fields as the...
Lakota Performers in Europe
Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition,...
The Students of Sherman Indian School
Education and Native Identity since 1892
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to "civilize" Indian children, which meant stripping them...
Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with...
by Alfred A. Cave
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Early in his career as an Indian fighter, American Indians gave Andrew Jackson a name—Sharp Knife—that evoked their sense of his ruthlessness and cruelty. Contrary to popular belief—and to many textbook accounts—in 1830, Congress did not authorize the forcible seizure of Indian land and the...
Choosing the Jesus Way
American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the Assemblies of God denomination, the story begins in 1918, when white missionaries fanned out from the South and Midwest to convert Native Americans in the...
American Indian Education, 2nd Edition
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Before Europeans arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples spoke more than three hundred languages and followed almost as many distinct belief systems and lifeways. But in childrearing, the different Indian societies had certain practices in common—including training for survival and teaching...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, religious,...
Sifters
Native American Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau...
Indian Blues
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those...