Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples....
Good Friday on the Rez
A Pine Ridge Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal memoir...
by American Indian Center of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
Since 1953, the American Indian Center of Chicago has hosted an annual powwow. The powwow is the centerpiece of contemporary Indian culture. It is how Native Americans celebrate traditional values and share their culture with a wider audience. The powwow is a place to make and rekindle friendships. It...
by Theda Perdue, Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex...
Contours of a People
Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth...
The Beginning and End of Rape
Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the...
Wild Men
Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also...
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Their Traditional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure...
Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian...
Florida's Seminole Wars
1817-1858
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Among the most well known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military...
by Vincent Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This inspiring collection of 10 biographies profiles outstanding leaders in the Native community who overcame personal challenges and accomplished extraordinary things. Featured profiles include the Golden Eagles Hotshots - a heroic group of Native American forest fighters; Patrick Brazeau - the National...
Writing Indian Nations
Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state,...
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula
Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are introduces readers to nine tribes: the Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah. Written by members of the Olympic Peninsula Intertribal Cultural Advisory Committee,...