Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Annie Oakley
Woman at Arms, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Not long ago, Annie Oakley died, and bequeathed to the famous comedian, Fred Stone, her diaries and personal papers. Adding to personal knowledge, Courtney Ryley Cooper, well-known author and friend of Buffalo Bill, has written a splendid biography.
It is a true American epic—the story of...
Pagans in the Promised Land
Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States.
Finding Sand Creek
History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its...
by Robert Silverberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1986
In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the speculation surrounding these monuments and the scientific excavations which uncovered the history and culture...
by Carl W. Breihan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Jesse James is Dead!
On April 3, 1882, a bullet fired by Bob Ford from a Smith & Wesson .44 revolver ended the life of Jesse James, notorious badman. Since then, the James story has grown into a full-blown American legend.
Here is the dramatic, day-by-day account of the gunman’s...
Unsettling the West
Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively...
by Ward Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Kings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins is a 1959 novel about fighting in Cuba. Bernardo Manuel Patrick O'Brien is a former U.S. Marine who winds up fighting for Castro. Though a Marine, he has to deal with the conflict of his heritage, both Cuban and American.
REBELS AND LOVERS
They sat...
by la paperson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary...
by Tom Lea
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto (El Paso) after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro’s business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier—shortly...
by Members of the Potomac Corral of the Westerners
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, ambush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes-Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Modoc, and Apache-fought desperately to turn back the invading white men.
Recreated...
Shadow Nations
Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
American Indian tribes have long been recognized as "domestic, dependent nations" within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories. Yet over the years, Congress and the Supreme Court have steadily eroded these tribal powers. In some respects,...
Warriors Without War
Seminole Leadership in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Warriors Without War takes readers beneath the placid waters of the Seminole’s public image and into the fascinating depths of Seminole society and politics.
For the entire last quarter of the twentieth century, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a federally recognized American Indian Tribe,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Texas frontier during the years following the Civil War was a dangerous place. Comanche constantly harassed and raided white settlements. Despite the efforts of President Ulysses S. Grant's...
Global Indios
The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios—indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire—were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In...