Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Turtle's Beating Heart
One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low says, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.”
Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry...
Rekindling the Sacred Fire
Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical...
Stealing the Gila
The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the mid-nineteenth century middle Gila River valley, producing food and fiber crops for western military...
by John Adair
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Probably no native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book contains the first full and authoritative account of the Indian silver jewelry fashioned in the Southwest by the Navajo and the Zuni, Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. It...
Media and Ethnic Identity
Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture.
The research data...
At the Crossroads
Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier.
Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence....
by Major Wesley M. Pirkle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This thesis will analyze Major General George Crook’s performance during the Sioux War of 1876-77 and attempt to answer whether or not Crook successfully fought the Native Americans by effectively implementing the concept of counterinsurgency compound warfare. Counterinsurgency Compound Warfare...
The Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention...
The Conquest of Texas
Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing.
The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle...
Arctic Landscapes and Traditions 3-Book Bundle
Ukkusiksalik / Uvajuq / Thelon
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
From an explorer of the North's cultural landscape, comes the stories and history of remote corners of our North. David F. Pelly gives a rare in-depth account of Inuit history based on oral testimony and historical records.
Includes:
Ukkusiksalik: The People's Story
Ukkusiksalik, now a national...
by Gelya Frank, Carole Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
by Beverly Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The Shinnecock have resided along the shores of eastern Long Island for more than 10,000 years. These hunter-gatherers were also skilled whalers who first tackled the Atlantic in their dugout canoes and later became highly regarded crew members on 19th-century whaling ships that sailed the globe. The...
Welcome to the Oglala Nation
A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and...
Plunder of the Ancients
A True Story of Betrayal, Redemption, and an Undercover Quest to Recover Sacred Native American Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Plunder of the Ancients is a rare look inside an undercover investigation in which special agent Lucinda Schroeder reveals the details of her case in which she was assigned to expose Indian Art thieves and dealers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who out of unmitigated greed, were exploiting sacred artifacts...