Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation...
The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862
Revenge, Military Law and the Judgment of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The U.S.–Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the summer of 1862. In the war’s aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with murder and massacre. In 36 days, 303 Dakota men...
Spirit Car
Journey to a Dakota Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
"One day I realize that my entire back seat is filled with relatives who wonder why I'm not paying more attention to their part of the family story. . . . Sooner or later they all come up to the front seat and whisper stories in my ear."
Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis,...
by Russell Means, Marvin J. Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
An autobiography of epic scope--the riveting, controversial story of Russell Means, the most revolutionary Indian leader of the Twentieth Century.Where White Men Fear to Tread (written with Marvin J. Wolf) tells the absorbing story of the accountant-turned-Indian activist who burst onto the...
by Anthony Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800.
What You See in Clear Water
Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The Wind River runs from the alpine lakes of the Continental Divide through the nestled valleys of the northern Rocky Mountains and out onto high, windblown plains. More than a century ago, in what would become Wyoming, the federal government set aside 44 million acres on which to confine the unrelated...
by Marion Sloan Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Few of the great overland highways of America have known such a wealth of color and romance as that which surrounded the Santa Fé Trail. For over four centuries the dust-gray and muddy-red trail felt the moccasined tread of Comanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes. These soft footfalls were replaced...
Seven Cherokee Myths
Creation, Fire, the Primordial Parents, the Nature of Evil, the Family, Universal Suffering, and Communal Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Like ancient peoples the world over, the Cherokees of the southern Appalachian Mountains passed along their traditions and beliefs through stories, songs, dances, and religious and healing rituals. With the creation of Cherokee writing by Sequoyah, some of the traditions were also recorded in books....
From the Glittering World
A Navajo Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The Diné, or Navajo, creation story says there were four worlds before this, the Glittering World. For the present-day Diné this is a world of glittering technology and influences from outside the sacred land entrusted to them by the Holy People. From the Glittering World conveys in vivid language...
Revenge of the Windigo
The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the...
Savage Preservation
The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings—modern media in their technological infancy—could capture lasting...
Black Range Tales
Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
First published in 1936, this book is a collection of sixteen stories recounting James (“Uncle Jimmie”) McKenna’s tales of prospecting, Indian Fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Based in part on Davy Crockett’s own writings, this is the true story about one of America’s most iconic historical figures. From his days as a scout for Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, his time as a Congressman for the state of Tennessee, and his eventual death at the Alamo, Davy Crockett...
by John H. Culp
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Set shortly after the Civil War, this distinguished novel tells the story of a boy starting a new life in the Concho country of Northwest Texas.
“An epic novel of frontier life—‘BORN OF THE SUN’ is…continuously dramatic and entertaining. It belongs on the same shelf with the novels of Alan...