Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Modoc War
A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s...
Working the Navajo Way
Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award
The Diné have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the...
Speculators in Empire
Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois,...
Great Basin Rock Art
Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of...
White Grizzly Bear's Legacy
Learning to Be Indian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened I imagined that it talked to me. It seemed that it was telling me of how things once were. I began...
Recording Culture
Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers yet, until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ignored in the study of Native American expressive cultures. Recording Culture is an exploration of the Aboriginal music industry and the powwow social...
Land of the Tejas
Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texas during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Through this revolutionary approach, John Wesley Arnn reconstructs Native identity and social...
The Old American
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity. Set in New England and Canada...
Imagic Moments
Indigenous North American Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns,...
Living Like Indians
1,001 Projects, Games, Activities, and Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
For children and adults alike, Living Like Indians is the essential guide to Native American recreation and activities. Written with recreation directors in mind, this wonderful field companion provides thoughtful learning activities along with a history of the Native Americans. Tracking, camping,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Afterlives of Indigenous Archives offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of “digital humanities.” The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous scholars; researchers in the field of indigenous...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow,...
by Cheryl L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This is the sweeping history of the Great Lakes Indigenous Anishinabe - First People; the Ojibwe-Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomi, Huron, Wyandotte, Iroquois and many other tribes connected to the Ottissippi - St. Clair River, Detroit River Strait, the great trade route to the center of the continent....
by William E. Unrau
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Santa Fe Trail Association Award of Merit
In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern...