Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Winona LaDuke, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) member of the White Earth Nation, is a strong and clear voice for the return to traditional land-holding...
Fluent Selves
Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading...
by LTC William L. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This thesis investigates the operational and tactical procedures in counterinsurgency warfare developed by General George Crook while commanding U.S. Army forces in southwest and the northern plains. This work includes a brief introduction of General Crook’s career before and during the Civil War....
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
Philosophies of Iethi'nihstenha Ohwentsia'kekha (Land)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations.
Pathways for Remembering...
by Marc Becker, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s...
Where the Rivers Meet
Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in the assessment of project impacts. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes? Or is the very...
by Lee Echols
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1951, this book recounts the nostalgic antics of hell-raising pistol shooters of the 1930’s.
It is complete and unexpurgated and is the hot blasts of mirth from the shaky guns of Lee Echols, who fired for many years before World War II with the U.S. Treasury Department...
The Army’s Sioux Campaign of 1876
Identifying the Horse as the Center of Gravity of the Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
During the first half of 1876 the Army conducted three expeditions against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. The results of these three expeditions were: the first expedition destroying a small village, the second expedition being defeated in a meeting engagement, and the third expedition suffering...
Comanche
The Sole Survivor of All the Forces in Custer’s Last Stand, the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Comanche, first published in 1935 and beautifully illustrated by the book’s author Barron Brown, is an account of the U.S. Army horse “Comanche,” who survived General George Armstrong Custer’s detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
“Comanche”...
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it...
Osage Women and Empire
Gender and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women....
by Grenville Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This is a remarkable series of personal narrations from Western Apaches before and just after the various agencies and sub-agencies were established. It also includes extensive commentary on weapons and traditions, with Apache words and phrases translated and complete annotation.
by Grey Owl
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Originally published in 1936, this classic collection of Canadian yarns harkens to a simpler time, a time when we were closer to the natural world around us. It is a celebration of the pure delight of storytelling, and of the bounty of the land.
Grey Owl was both a hearty outdoorsman and a...
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has dictated and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph’s book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous...