Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Paul Chaat Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.”
Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the...
by Alice Beck Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
North America Before the European Invasions tells the histories of North American peoples from first migrations in the Late Glacial Age, sixteen thousand years ago or more, to the European invasions following Columbus’s arrival. Contrary to invaders’ propaganda, North America was no wilderness,...
Conquering Sickness
Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout...
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal grandmother were shamans, and her childhood was...
by Steve Houser, Linda Pelon, Jimmy W. Arterberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In this unprecedented effort to gather and share knowledge of the Native American practice of creating, designating, and making use of marker trees, an arborist, an anthropologist, and a Comanche tribal officer have merged their wisdom, research, and years of personal experience to create Comanche...
The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder
As Experienced by Alberto Villoldo, John Perry Barlow, Larry Dossey, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Eyewitness accounts of Rolling Thunder’s remarkable healings, legendary control over the weather and animals, and inspiring teachings
• Includes accounts of Rolling Thunder by his grandson Sidian Morning Star Jones, Stanley Krippner, Alberto Villoldo, Larry Dossey, William Lyon, Jean Millay,...
The Aleut Internments of World War II
Islanders Removed from Their Homes by Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to...
by Robin Starr Minthorn, Heather J. Shotton, Charlotte Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous...
Catawba Nation
Treasures in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
The Catawba�one of the few Native American communities who remained in the Carolinas after the notorious Trail of Tears�have a rich and fascinating history that can be dated to 2400 BC. Once the inhabitants of a large swath of land that covered parts of North and South Carolina, most Catawba now...
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
In August 1680 the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico arose in fury to slay their Spanish colonial overlords and drive any survivors from the land. Andrew Knaut explores eight decades of New Mexican history leading up to the revolt, explaining how the newcomers had disrupted Pueblo life in far-reaching...
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Through A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson sought to galvanize the American nation against the United States federal government’s Native American treaty abuses. She combed the archives of the Astor Library in New York and studied the official reports of the War Department and the Department...
by Thomas Blumer
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
The Catawba Indians are aboriginal to South Carolina, and their pottery tradition may be traced to 2,400 B.C. When Hernando de Soto visited the Catawba Nation (then Cofitachique) in 1540, he found a sophisticated Mississippian Culture. After the founding of Charleston in 1670, the Catawba population...
City Indian
Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political,...
by Winona LaDuke, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
In the folklore of the Anishinaabe peoples of North America, the Prophecy of the Seventh Fire predicts that there will come a time when we must...