Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Heart of the Rock
The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In 1969, Ricahrd Oakes and Adam Fortunate Eagle, then known as Adam Nordwall, instigated an invasion of Alcatraz by American Indians. From the mainland, Fortunate Eagle orchestrated the events, but they assumed an uncontrollable life of their own. Fortunate Eagle provides an intimate memoir of the...
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle
Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle is a historic document, including nearly 200 color photos and maps, in that...
by Celinda R. Kaelin, Pikes Peak Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Thousands of years before Zebulon Pike�s name became attached to this famous mountain, Pikes Peak was home to indigenous people. These First Nations left no written record of their sojourn here, but what they did leave were stone circles, carefully crafted arrowheads and stone tools, enigmatic petroglyphs,...
The Beauty of the Primitive
Shamanism and Western Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In Indigenous America, human rights and justice take on added significance. The special legal status of Native Americans and the highly complex jurisdictional issues resulting from colonial ideologies have become deeply embedded into federal law and policy. Nevertheless, Indigenous people in the United...
by Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document...
Perishing Heathens
Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Perishing Heathens Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory....
Lethal Legacy
Current Native Controversies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Canadians greeted the disruptions in Native-newcomer relations that occasionally erupted during the 1990s with incomprehension. Politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens understood neither how nor why the crisis of the moment had arisen, much less how its deep historical roots made it resistant...
Network Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native...
by Edwin H. Davis, Ephraim G. Squier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley remains today not only a key document in the history of American archaeology but also the primary...
by Andrew Blackbird
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
One of the first authoritative accounts of the Ottawa and Chippewa peoples to be published. A fascinating look into the cultures of these native peoples, even including an introduction to Ottawa and Chippewa grammar. Written by Ottawa tribe leader and historian Andrew Blackbird.
Colonized through Art
American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial...
Webs of Kinship
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories Northern Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness, and commitment to land and community. In writing...
Pre-removal Choctaw History
Exploring New Paths
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going.
Distinguished scholars...