Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Savage and Modern Self
North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate...
by James Adair
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period.
James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. During that time he covered...
Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching...
by Gene Meany Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
This collection of American Indian legends was gathered by Gene Meany Hodge from authentic sources in the 1930s and centers around the sacred supernatural personages of the American Pueblo Indians called Kachinas (pronounced Kah-chee-nahs). Mrs. Hodge wrote: “All in all the Kachinas are lovable...
by William N. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from...
Unlearning the Language of Conquest
Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Responding to anti-Indianism in America, the wide-ranging perspectives culled in Unlearning the Language of Conquest present a provocative account of the contemporary hegemony still at work today, whether conscious or unconscious. Four Arrows has gathered a rich collection of voices and topics, including:Waziyatawin...
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and...
Spirit Clans
Native Wisdom for Personal Power and Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For thousands of years, Native American tradition has taught that we all carry within us an ancient blessing, a spirit clan that connects us to the earth. Our spirit clan may be an animal, or a plant, a stone, or some special object that has taken on spiritual power. Your clan is a reservoir of powerful...
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation
Revitalization and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics...
Betrayals
Fort William Henry and the "Massacre"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1990
On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward...
Firsting and Lasting
Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of...
Weaving Alliances with Other Women
Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874–1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point...
My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth...
The Borderland of Fear
Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the Invasion of the Miami Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities...