Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Tribal Moment in American Politics
The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In the “tribal moment in American politics,” which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.S. legal and political systems. The U.S. government responded characteristically, overall wielding...
Standing Up to Colonial Power
The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty...
Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms
Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised...
Engines of Diplomacy
Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system was designed to strengthen economic ties between...
Where the Lightning Strikes
The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in...
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American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum [2 volumes]
From Counting Coup to Wampum
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native...
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Dictated by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Immediately following the massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890), the well-known anthropologist James Mooney, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian, investigated the incident. His interest was primarily in the Indian background to the uprising. Admitting...
Both Sides of the Bullpen
Navajo Trade and Posts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural...
Learning Native Wisdom
What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Scientific evidence has made it abundantly clear that the world's population can no longer continue its present rate of consuming and despoiling the planet's limited natural resources. Scholars, activists, politicians, and citizens worldwide are promoting the idea of sustainability, or systems and...
Native American Wisdom
A Spiritual Tradition at One with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The most authoritative anthology of Native American Wisdom published in years
Mark My Words
Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.In...
by Bill Adler, Ines Hernandez, Patricia Riley
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.
Spirits of the Earth
A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
"There are ancient secrets and lessons hidden in nature. If you seek for guidance, you will discover truth." —Bobby Lake-Thom
Much of the ancient knowledge that has been passed down from Native American medicine men, or shamans is in danger of being lost. Bobby Lake-Thom, a Native American...