Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including...
Strange Visitors
Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Covering topics such as the Indian Act, the High Arctic relocation of 1953, and the conflict at Ipperwash, Keith D. Smith draws on a diverse selection of documents including letters, testimonies, speeches, transcripts, newspaper articles, and government records. In his thoughtful introduction, Smith...
The Power of Place, the Problem of Time
Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly....
Telling it to the Judge
Taking Native History to Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s. For over twenty-five years he has been a part of landmark litigation concerning treaty rights, Aboriginal title, and Métis rights. In Telling...
Elder Brother and the Law of the People
Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the People as described in the traditional stories...
by Ruth Laughlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1931, this is the complete history of Santa Fe, New Mexico written by Santa Fe native, Ruth Laughlin. Drawing on her extensive research and thorough personal understanding, the author covers all aspects of Spanish-American traditions, customs, and culture. She captures the elusive...
Being Together in Place
Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites—the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory in British Columbia; the Wakarusa Wetlands...
Spirit Woman
The Teachings of the Shields
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others.
Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit...
The Voice of Rolling Thunder
A Medicine Man’s Wisdom for Walking the Red Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Rolling Thunder’s life and wisdom in his own words and from interviews with those who knew him well
• Contains never-before-released talks by Rolling Thunder preserved by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart as well as accounts of remarkable healings and weather magic from famous personalities...
by Clarissa W. Confer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the...
by Gavin Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans and Americans, the Menominee stayed firm and held on to their ancestral homeland. Though their territory has been greatly diminished, there is something to...
The European and the Indian
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1982
Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When...
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle
The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer...