Native American Studies category: 1415 books
American Indian Healing Arts
Herbs, Rituals, and Remedies for Every Season of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
American Indian Healing Arts is a magical blend of plant lore, history, and living tradition that draws on a lifetime of study with native healers by herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch.
Here are the time-honored tribal rituals performed to promote good health, heal illness, and bring...
The Great Vanishing Act
Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government's attempt to define who "Indians" were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that "Indians" were "all other persons of one-half or more Indian blood". Today, many tribes wrestle...
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
�I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.� So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy�s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women�s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe�s Flower Dance had not been fully...
Geronimo
His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
“I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.”—Geronimo
This book contains one of the most extraordinary and invaluable...
by John Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
The Wolf at Twilight
An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
A note is left on a car windshield an old dog dies and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching funny and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries the dark...
Invisible North
The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.
Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction — Shortlisted...
Clearing the Plains
Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National...
End-of-Earth People
The Arctic Sahtu Dene
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.
Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene,...
Dispossessing the Wilderness
Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these...
Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In...
Living with Animals
Ojibwe Spirit Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls,...
by James W. Parins
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization...
Massacre of the Conestogas
On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities...