Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Margaret M. Wheat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring...
by Patti Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead, it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others. Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coach—a Cherokee...
by Charles H. L. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Roots of Our Renewal
Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
In Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences...
The Sleeping Giant Awakens
Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian Residential School system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with...
Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice
Begade Shutagot'ine and the Sahtu Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice" chronicles Peter Kulchyski’s experiences with the Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Despite...
Sovereign Entrepreneurs
Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney...
The Emergence of the Moundbuilders
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000...
by Meenal Atul Pandya
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Indians are the most recent immigrants in Massachusetts. Though a tiny minority, their contributions are numerous and far-reaching. Swami Vivekananda arrived in Boston in 1893 and left a lasting legacy of Hindu philosophy. Sushil Tuli opened a unique community bank, Leader Bank, as the first and only...
Mound Sites of the Ancient South
A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From approximately AD 900 to 1600, ancient Mississippian culture dominated today’s southeastern United States. These Native American societies, known more popularly as moundbuilders, had populations that numbered in the thousands, produced vast surpluses of food, engaged in longdistance trading,...
Colonial Entanglement
Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty....
by John Swanton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Long considered the undisputed authority on the Indians of the southern United States, anthropologist John Swanton published this history as the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) Bulletin 103 in 1931. Swanton's descriptions are drawn from earlier records—including those...
Bitter Water
Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Many know that the removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States’ colonial past, but few know that—in an expansive corner of northeastern Arizona—the saga continues. The 1974 Settlement Act officially divided a reservation established almost...
Towards a New Ethnohistory
Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who...