Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Terrible Indian Wars of the West
A History from the Whitman Massacre to Wounded Knee, 1846-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Expansion! The history of the United States might well be summed up in that single word. The Indian Wars of the American West were a continuation of the struggle that began with the arrival of the first Europeans, and escalated as they advanced across the Appalachians before American independence...
North Country Captives
Selected Narratives of Indian Captivity from Vermont and New Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Revealing firsthand narratives of Indian captivity from eighteenth-century New Hampshire and Vermont. Narratives of Europeans who experienced Indian captivity represent one of the oldest genres of American literature. They are often credited with establishing the stereotype of Indians as cruel and...
Through Indian Sign Language
The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a Kiowa...
Crafting 'The Indian'
Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects...
Nation to Nation
Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indians explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold...
Imagining Geronimo
An Apache Icon in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
His face has appeared on T-shirts, postage stamps, jigsaw puzzles, posters, and an Andy Warhol print. A celebrity and a tourist attraction who attended three World’s Fairs and rode in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade, he is a character in such classic westerns as Stagecoach and...
NESA
Activites Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.
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Activites Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics,...
Claiming Tribal Identity
The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this revealing study, historian Mark...
The Karankawa Indians of Texas
An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Popular lore has long depicted the Karankawa Indians as primitive scavengers (perhaps even cannibals) who eked out a meager subsistence from fishing, hunting and gathering on the Texas coastal plains. That caricature, according to Robert Ricklis, hides the reality of a people who were well-adapted to...
NESA
Activites Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
This is the first of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.The...
by Scott Rushforth, Steadman Upham
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi...
Monumental Mobility
The Memory Work of Massasoit
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's...