Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Karen Coody Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The forced relocation of fifteen thousand Cherokee to Oklahoma nearly two centuries ago left them in a foreign landscape. Coping with loss and new economic challenges, the Cherokee united under a new constitution and exploited the Victorian affinity for decorative crafts. Cherokee women had always...
Uvajuq
The Origin of Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
The story of Uvajuq (oo-va-yook) is rooted in a time when people and animals lived in such harmony and unity that they could speak to each other. For Inuit, as for people whose traditions include the story of the Garden of Eden, this idyllic existence came to an abrupt end a long time ago. The story...
Red Alert!
Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
What the world needs today is a good dose of indigenous realism, says Native American scholar Daniel Wildcat in this thoughtful, forward-looking treatise. Red Alert! seeks to debunk the modern myths that humankind is the center of creation.
Massacre at Camp Grant
Forgetting and Remembering Apache History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award
On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona....
Power in the Telling
Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
To Come to a Better Understanding
Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal...
by George Bird Grinnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
"This book deals with the wars of the Cheyennes. A fighting and a fearless people.
When their struggles with the white men began, some of their older and wiser men strove earnestly to preserve peace, but their efforts failed. During these first wars between the whites and the Cheyennes, the...
Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
A Narrative of Indian Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity...
The River Is in Us
Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections between environmental...
The Hopi Survival Kit
The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Now made public for the first time—an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium
For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old...
The Yale Indian
The Education of Henry Roe Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister’s extensive archival research establishes the historical significance of key chapters in the Winnebago’s remarkable life....
Resistance and Renewal
Surviving the Indian Residential School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior. Interviews with thirteen Natives, all former residents...
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes...
The Tanoak Tree
An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon. People’s radically different perceptions of it have ranged from treasured food plant to cash crop to trash tree. Having studied the patterns of tanoak use and abuse for nearly...