Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Cherokee Astrology
Animal Medicine in the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Explains the ancient astrological system sacred to the Cherokee and how to use it in the modern world
• Provides easy-to-use format for determining what signs and numbers rule the day of your birth and what influence they have on your destiny
• Includes a traditional Cherokee ephemeris...
Walk in Balance
The Path to Healthy, Happy, Harmonious Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A personal survival manual for attaining the path of inner and outer harmony.
Chippewa medicine man Sun Bear now offers a personal survival manual for attaining the path of inner and outer harmony. Sage and empowering guidance on creating and maintaining personal health and happiness can create a holistic pathway to personal affirmation, enrichment and health.
Mountain Windsong
A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill")...
What We Learned
Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed...
by William H. Spindler
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
True and authentic stories of Indians and Pioneers, including “Kid” Wade, “Doc” Middleton, Frank Hart, and many others, having their locale in western South Dakota and Nebraska, that picturesque area of “wide open spaces”, pine-clad canyons and hills, and badlands that had such a colorful...
The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage: Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and Arrow
Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and Arrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Lakota tradition, the bow and arrow were more than tools for hunting or battle. The bows resilience and flexibility, the arrows grace and power, the archers focus and patiencein these, we find the essential qualities for living a life of strength, purpose, and simplicity. In ,em>The Lakota Way...
Overland with Kit Carson
A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in ‘48
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who describes their journey over the Old Spanish Trail. It was a torturous route across deserts and mountains...
Caste, Class and Power
Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In Caste, Class and Power, André Béteille recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste—between the Brahmins, the middle-level non-Brahmins and the Adi-Dravidas. Based on extensive field study...
by Agnes Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In Finding My Talk, fourteen aboriginal women who attend residential schools, or were affected by them, reflect on their experiences.
by Jane Barry
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
A major novel of the Indian wars in the far West, told from both points of view—the Apache’s and the white man’s.
Anna Stillman was on her way to Tucson to marry Lieutenant Linus Degnan, the son of the commandant of the U.S. fort there, when she was captured by an Apache raiding party....
Iroquois Supernatural
Talking Animals and Medicine People
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Brings the paranormal beings and places of the Iroquois folklore tradition to life through historic and contemporary accounts of otherworldly encounters
• Recounts stories of shapeshifting witches, giant flying heads, enchanted masks, ethereal lights, talking animals, Little People, spirit-choirs,...
by Basil Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, they had dispersed over large areas of Canada and the United States, becoming...
by Michael D. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for...
Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way
Cooking with Tall Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsistence. The goal of controlling their own food systems, known as food sovereignty, is to reestablish healthy lifeways to combat contemporary diseases such as diabetes and obesity. This is...