Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by William Philo Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
William Phil Clark's classic work on Native American signs and culture is still considered a monumental achievement. Published posthumously after the young Clark died in 1884, it covers the words and phrases of many tribes. Clark was with General George Crook in late summer of 1876 during the Sioux...
Vanished in Hiawatha
The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often...
The White Man's Indian
Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in...
by Kenneth Shields Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
In June of 1876, members of various northern Plains tribes gathered at the Little Bighorn River to form the largest Indian encampment in recorded American history. The huge gathering, called Tiospaye, encompassed over 1,000 lodges housing approximately 7,000 men, women, and children. The over 200 vintage...
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century
American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated through the first decade of the twenty-first century and contains a new chapter challenging Americans--Indian and non-Indian--to begin healing the earth. This analysis of the struggle to protect not only natural resources...
Poison Arrows
North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arrows"...
Indian Spectacle
College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels....
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Noted anthropologist James Mooney (1861–1921) spent much of his life studying American Indians. In North Carolina, he lived for several years with the Cherokee, studying their language, culture, and mythology. His research resulted in this comprehensive volume, comprising 126 Cherokee myths, including...
Professional Indian
The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son...
Unlikely Alliances
Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources. Yet, when both groups are faced with an outside threat to their common environment�such as mines, dams, or an...
Early Native Americans in West Virginia
The Fort Ancient Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of...
What the Elders Have Taught Us
Alaska Native Ways
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
As Alaska’s Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words, What the Elders Have Taught Us pays tribute to the first Alaskans and the ancient values they...
Buried in Shades of Night
Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, published in 1682, is often considered the first “best seller” to be published in North America. Since then, it has long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian captivity. After an attack on the...
The Languages of Native America
Historical and Comparative Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective"...