Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace
The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines two interconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultaneous...
by James Malone
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
We have followed De Soto into the land of the Chickasaws. He and his followers were the first white men to visit their country and to look into their faces. They were great travelers and ever on the alert, and the news that De Soto had put other Indians into chains and captivity, as well as the news...
by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Crysalis Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises...
Ipperwash
The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane. He died shortly after midnight the next day. George had been participating in a protest over land claims in Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been expropriated from the native Ojibwe after the Second...
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using...
Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples
What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
More than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering...
by Stephen L. Pevar
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government...
Spirit and Reason
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
A collection of Vine Deloria Jr.'s writings from books, essays, and articles, as well as previously unpublished pieces.
We Know Who We Are
Métis Identity in a Montana Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States....
by Arrell M. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle.
Against an ethnohistorical...
by D.N. Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children without any of the safeguards...
by Edwin Tappan Adney, Howard I. Chappelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. They could be used to carry heavy loads in shallow streams but were light enough to be hauled long distances over land. Built with Stone Age...
by Deborah L. Duvall
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
These pages are filled with memories and favorite tales that capture the essence of life in the Cherokee Nation. Ms. Duvall invites the reader to follow the tribe from its pre-historic days in the southeast, to early 20th century life in the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma. Learn about Pretty Woman, who had...
by William A. Haviland
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
In 1604, when Frenchmen landed on Saint Croix Island, they were far from the first people to walk along its shores. For thousands of years, Etchemins�whose descendants were members of the Wabanaki Confederacy�had lived, loved and labored in Down East Maine. Bound together with neighboring people,...