Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Angie Debo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most...
Crazy Horse
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn....
Indians and Emigrants
Encounters on the Overland Trails
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and...
by James E. Seaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family...
The Conflicted Mission
Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
From the mid-1830s to the 1860s, the missionaries sent to Minnesota by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) wrote thousands of letters to their supervisors and supporters claiming success in converting the Dakota people. But author Linda M. Clemmons reveals that the reality...
Red Brethren
The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that...
Trail of Tears
The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.
The Cherokee are a...
by Vic Glover
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
For a realistic look at Indian Country in the 21st century go no further than Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge. In this bold anthology of real-life stories Vic Glover lays bare the challenges history bonds and rich traditions that infuse the stark reality of life on "the rez." The author invites readers to...
The Human Eros
Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Alexander’s primary claim is that human beings have an inherent need to experience meaning and value, a “Human...
by Howard S. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular...
Indigenous Peoples of North America
A Concise Anthropological Overview
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Most books dealing with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of various culture areas which, while valuable, sometimes means that the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic...
by James F. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.
The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders...
Seasons of Change
Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining a period that began with the tribe's removal to reservations and closed with the Indian New Deal, Chantal Norrgard explores the critical link between...
Federal Fathers and Mothers
A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers,...