Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Transit of Empire
Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves...
Cherokee Thoughts
Honest and Uncensored
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what...
The Blackfeet
Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of...
We Share Our Matters
Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions....
Stories in a New Skin
Approaches to Inuit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text...
The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell
The Power of Women in Native American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Man Who Knew the Medicine
The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The teachings of Bill Eagle Feather, Sun Dance chief and medicine man of the Rosebud Sioux, as told by his apprentice.
• Reveals personal accounts of important Native American rituals such as the yuwipi and the sun dance.
• Includes stories and teachings from the last years of Bill...
Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Treaty Talks in British Columbia traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in the province. Since the second edition of this book was published in 2000, a number of significant developments have occurred: a controversial referendum on treaty mandates was held; the historic Tsawwassen...
by Gladys A. Reichard
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The author spent four summers (1930–33) living and working among the Navajo, during which time she learned the principles of weaving. In this book she takes readers through the same process, introducing the careful details, the personalities she encountered, and the materials and methods of weaving...
Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico
From the Sacred Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche and Anglo intruders create a colorful mosaic of tribal heritage. Percy Bigmouth, a prominent oral historian of the Mescalero and Lipan Apache tribes, realized...
by Greg Olson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Although their ancestors came from the Great Lakes region and they now live in several midwestern states, the Ioway (Baxoje) people claim a rich history in Missouri dating back to the eighteenth century. Living alongside white settlers while retaining their traditional way of life, the tribe eventually...
Connecting to Our Ancestral Past
Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems...
Ukkusiksalik
The People's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.
A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal...
by David J. Wishart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
David J. Wishart’s Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history.
From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of...