Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Teresa Pijoan PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Myths tell us much about a people. And all cultures have creation myths. The myths collected by the author in this book tell us about the rich and varied lives and imagination of the first Americans. They vary from simple to complex and all attempt to answer the question of human origin. Native Americans...
The Force of Family
Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University...
by Vincent Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
The life stories of 13 outstanding Native professional athletes will provide unique inspiration to young people. This book highlights the lives and achievements of men and women, from Olympic champions to national and minor league team players, who worked hard and trained extensively in order to follow...
Cry of the Eagle
Encounters with a Cree Healer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with three anthropologists. In this volume they describe how WIllier treats chronic, stress-related condition...
Naamiwan's Drum
The Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinaabe Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Naamiwan’s Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years...
by Vincent Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
From the melodic notes of a classical guitar to the wailing of an electric guitar, from country western to punk rock, these musicians deliver. They offer a wide selection of musical styles as diverse as the music industry itself. Read about the lives of these outstanding performers who represent the...
by C. L. Sonnichsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Frederick Webb Hodge remarked that the Eastern Apache tribe called the Mescaleros were “never regarded as so warlike” as the Apaches of Arizona. But the Mescaleros’ history is one of hardship and oppression alternating with wars of revenge. They were friendly to the Spaniards until victimized,...
We Have a Religion
The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not...
An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830
Three French Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
In 1827 six Osage people—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated...
The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen
Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where—using Western standards—none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers—Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u (1824–ca. 1885) and Joseph...
by Tom McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
According to the Blackfoot creation myth, the spirits first rolled moist earth in their hands and threw the magic symbol to the ground to make men and women. “Next they made earthen images of buffalo, blowing on them to bring them to life.” And it is the profound interrelationship of earth, animal,...
Rivers of Sand
Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory...
Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors...
Firewater and Forked Tongues
A Sioux Chief Interprets American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
As a dedicated Native American advocate since the age of 20, author Major Israel McCreight saw the sad plight of the Indians in the period following the Custer Fight and the Battle of Wounded Kane.
This book, first published in 1947, is the account of the versions of U.S. history according...