Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Kathleen Bragdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of scholarship,...
Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with...
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education
Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective,...
by Lieutenant Colonel Lowell Steven Yarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The American Indian policy, formulated at the turn of the 19th century, significantly impacted the national military strategy. President Jefferson’s plan for Indian removal became the cornerstone for federal policy. Congress would bear the responsibility for crafting the nation’s Indian policies,...
American Indian Policy in Crisis
Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In this book a distinguished authority in the field presents an account of United States Indian policy in the years 1865 to 1900, one of the most critical periods in Indian-white relations. Francis Paul Prucha discusses in detail the major developments of those years—Grant's Peace Policy, the reservation...
Kindred by Choice
Germans and American Indians since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for...
Inside the Eagle's Head
An American Indian College
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a selfdescribed National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIPI is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government...
Hopi Runners
Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy...
by Larry D. Keown
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
What is the First Step in Developing a Successful Business Relationship with any American Indian Tribe? Understanding that relationships come first and business comes second! That pearl of wisdom and others is what you will take away from Working in Indian Country. It is the definitive work on how...
Indian-Made
Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
**Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
New Mexico Book Award**
In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural...
Osage and Settler
Reconstructing Shared History through an Oklahoma Family Archive
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma. The history of white settlement and colonization is often discussed in the context of the cultural erasure of,...
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now...
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties
An Indian Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Originally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes. Analyzing the history of Indian treaty relations with...
Indigenous Women, Work, and History
1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their...