Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Land Has Memory
Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment...
Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the first time and also traces...
by Roger L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This one-volume narrative history of American Indians in the United States traces the experiences of indigenous peoples from early colonial times to the present day, demonstrating how Indian existence has varied and changed throughout our nation’s history. Although popular opinion and standard histories...
The Red Atlantic
American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature,...
The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history...
The Cherokee Herbal
Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
A practical guide to the medicinal uses of over 450 plants and herbs as applied in the traditional practices of the Cherokee.
• Details the uses of over 450 plants for the treatment of over 120 ailments.
• Written by the coauthor of Medicine of the Cherokee (40,000 copies sold).
•...
Chiefs and Challengers
Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with non-Indians...
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys
A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
by Ernest Thompson Seton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Naturalist and artist Ernest Thompson Seton was a founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America who introduced many elements of Native American lore to scouting rituals. In this comprehensive collection of his most interesting stories, crafts, games, and other activities related to outdoor life, Seton...
All Our Relations
Native Struggles for Land and Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Winona LaDuke is a leading Native American historian and scholar.
All Our Relations is a seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This classic book has been widely taught in universities. South End let it go out of print, creating pent up demand.
LaDuke ran as Ralph Nader's running...
by Edward Proctor Hunt, Peter Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A masterpiece of Pueblo Indian mythology, now in a restored edition
Edward Proctor Hunt, a Pueblo Indian man, was born in 1861 in the mesa-top village of Acoma, New Mexico, and initiated into several secret societies, only to later break with his people’s social and religious codes. In 1928,...
by Billy Mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
In this Native American allegory, a young Lakota boy named David is despondent over the death of his sister and fears that he will never know happiness again. His father gives him a gift, a scroll with seven pictures, which properly understood, hold the keys to self-understanding. In an entertaining...
by Heyoka Merrifield
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
In this second volume of the White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, Heyoka Merrifield transports us back to ancient Europe as a mythical tribe of hunter-gatherers is forced on an odyssey away from Gaia's land and into the New World. Painted Earth Temple reveals the rites and rituals of a culture of antiquity...
Tribal GIS
Supporting Native American Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Supporting tribes with an all new chapter on ArcGIS Pro, written by tribal leaders who successfully use GIS.
In Tribal GIS: Supporting Native American Decision-Making, tribal leaders tell their stories about implementing and using geographic information systems (GIS) to address their unique...