Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Clay We Are Made Of
Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity. In The...
by Anton Treuer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
With insight and candor, noted Ojibwe scholar Anton Treuer traces thousands of years of the complicated history of the Ojibwe people—their economy, culture, and clan system and how these have changed throughout time, perhaps most dramatically with the arrival of Europeans into Minnesota territory.
Ojibwe...
by Patricia Riles Wickman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
A bestselling, up-to-date evaluation of a legendary Indian leader. Named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. "Osceola's Legacy is significant for its geneology and archaeological study of this Native American and his interaction with the federal government...
The Ojibwa Dance Drum
Its History and Contruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Hiding in a lake under lily pads after fleeing U.S. soldiers, a Dakota woman was given a vision over the course of four days instructing her to build a large drum and teaching her the songs that would bring peace and end the killing of her people. From the Dakota, the "big drum" spread throughout...
A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.”...
by Harry Paige, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The beautiful and mysterious song of the Sioux is a carefully crafted and highly individualized ritual performed to invoke the strength of the spirits in order to harness the power of nature. In this, the first literary study of a fascinating tradition, Dr. Harry W. Paige immerses himself in the Sioux...
by Frances Densmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.
Praise for Chippewa Customs
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We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing...
A Knock on the Door
The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared...
by Anton Treuer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I...
by Hugh A. Dempsey
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories by historian Hugh A. Dempsey presents tales from the Blackfoot tribe of the plains of northern Montana and southern Alberta. Drawn from Dempsey’s fifty years of interviewing tribal elders and sifting through archives, the stories are about warfare, hunting,...
Spirit of the New England Tribes
Indian History and Folklore, 1620–1984
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings,...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.
For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans—Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans—occupied the Four...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Is Cree really the sexiest of all languages? Do Native people have less or more public hair? Does Inuit sex have a dark side? These are some of the questions answered in this witty, thoughtful collection. Twelve important voices in the Native culture - including Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day...