Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by James N. Leiker, Ramon Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers....
Winning the West with Words
Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century...
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
**2015 Recipient of the American Book Award
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples**
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of...
by Robert J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Native American peoples suffer from health, educational, infrastructure, and social deficiencies that most Americans who live outside of tribal lands are wholly unaware of and would not tolerate. By creating sustainable economic development on reservations, however, gradual, long-term change can be...
An American Betrayal
Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite...
Savages and Civilization
Who Will Survive?
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In Indian Givers and Native Roots, renowned anthropologist Jack Weatherford opened the eyes of tens of thousands of readers to the clash between Native American and European cultures. Now, in his brilliant new book, Weatherford broadens his focus to examine how civilization threatens to obliterate...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Cherokee people like all other Native American Indian tribes possess a huge oral history. Before the time of written words, the history, customs and skills of a tribe were passed down through word-of-mouth and storytelling. Today, it is still an important part of Cherokee life. Elder tribe members...
The Orders of the Dreamed
George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described...
The Third Space of Sovereignty
The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
The imposition of modern American colonial rule has defined U.S.–indigenous relations since the time of the American Civil War. In resistance, Kevin Bruyneel asserts, indigenous political actors work across American spatial and temporal boundaries, demanding rights and resources from the government...
Warrior Nations
The United States and Indian Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining...
Native Cultures in Alaska
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.
Survival Schools
The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, “We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up.” In 1972,...
Troubling Tricksters
Revisioning Critical Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing...
Hawaiian Blood
Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system...