Native American Studies category: 1415 books

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6,000 Miles of Fence

Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas

by Cordia Sloan Duke
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. During her years as a ranch wife, Cordia Sloan Duke wrote a diary; excerpts from her written...
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by Lt.-Col. W. A. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

First published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big Horn asks questions that are still being debated. What were the causes of the debacle that wiped out Custer’s command? Was it due to lack of a definite...
Cover of Mixed Blessing: The Role Of The Texas Rangers In The Mexican War, 1846-1848
by Major Ian B. Lyles
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

The Texas Rangers assumed many roles during the Mexican War (1846-1848), fighting in both the northern and central theaters. Along with frontier knowledge and combat experience, they also brought prejudices and they earned a reputation for ill-discipline. Thus, the central research question is whether...
Cover of Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism
by John Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice. Problems arise when they are treated as timeless models of unchanging truth that require unwavering deference and unquestioning obedience. Freedom and Indigenous...
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Inheriting a Canoe Paddle

The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism

by Misao Dean
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013

If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with...
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To Die in this Way

Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

by Jeffrey L. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998

Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
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Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media

by Carmen L. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

"Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau" examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness? Was Morrisseau a shaman artist who tapped a deep spiritual force? Or was he simply one of Canada’s most...
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Recognition Odysseys

Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities

by Brian Klopotek, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Florencia E. Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011

In Recognition Odysseys, Brian Klopotek explores the complicated relationship between federal tribal recognition policy and American Indian racial and tribal identities. He does so by comparing the experiences of three central Louisiana tribes that have petitioned for federal acknowledgment: the Tunica-Biloxi...
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Anasazi America

Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition

by David E. Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for over two hundred years, the Chacoans’ society collapsed dramatically...
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by Charles Edward Chapel
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016

An Essential Compendium for Any Firearms or Old West Aficionado, richly and comprehensively illustrated. Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapel’s Guns of the Old West is an exhaustively researched document that not only boasts a significant...
Cover of “Yellowstone Kelly” - The Memoirs Of Luther S. Kelly
by Luther S. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

‘In the narrative of “Yellowstone Kelly” we have a rare story of adventure and service. General Miles, who knew him long and intimately, fitly compares him with such heroes of the American wilderness as Daniel Boone and David Crocket...His story is at once an important contribution to the history...
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by Major James W. Shufelt Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

This monograph discusses the role of operational art in the Sioux War of 1876, the U.S. Army’s largest campaign between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. This campaign, often overlooked in the historical study of operational art, demonstrates the successful application of operational art...
Cover of Kick The Dead Lion: A Case Book Of The Custer Battle
by Charles G. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Vol. One in ECHOES OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN SERIES, KICK THE DEAD LION by Charles G. du Bois, is a Custer classic, it focuses on the performance of Custer, Benteen and Reno; Enlisted Men’s Petition analysed. “On June 25, 1876, the greatest Indian battle in the history of the American West...
Cover of There Shall We Be Also: Tribal Fractures And Auxiliaries In The Indian Wars Of The Northern Great Plains
by Major Jason E. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

From its beginning in the American Revolution to its current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States (U.S.) Army has had to deal with tribal societies. In order to succeed in tribal societies it is essential that the U.S. Army understand tribal structures and the fractures in tribal societies...
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