Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Great Understander
True Life Story of the Last Wells Fargo Shotgun Express Messengers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This is the true life story of Oliver Roberts de La Fontaine, who was the last of the Wells Fargo Shotgun express messengers. Taken from his notes and journals, the book tells of his days in the early West as a rancher, miner, saloon keeper, gambler, and lawman, including his adventures of coming...
We Are Coming Home
Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to...
One Dead Indian
The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
On September 4, 1995, several Stoney Point Natives entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario, and began a peaceful protest aimed at reclaiming a traditional burial ground. Within seventy-two hours, one of those protestors, Anthony (Dudley) George, was dead, shot by an OPP officer.
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by Maria Yracébûrû, Brooke Medicine Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Teaches the traditional Quero Apache meditative practice of entering the silence--a combination of prayer, meditation, and breathwork--as a path to spiritual healing and enlightenment
• Contains 24 prayer wheels from the Quero Apache tradition
• Offers easy-to-follow instructions...
Devil in Deerskins
My Life with Grey Owl
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of Scottish and Apache descent, but whose true ancestry as a white Englishman only became known after...
by John H. Culp
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This is the follow-up novel to John H. Culp’s highly successful Born of the Sun, containing many of the central characters of the earlier novel—particularly the Kid, and the rough-and-ready crew of the Tail End, Ranch of North-west Texas. Readers will be taken on more wild-and-woolly adventures...
by Dale Van Every
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Dale Van Every’s soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both…
They weathered the brutal winter of ‘79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier;...
Night Flying Woman
An Ojibway Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people's great strength and continuity.
by Lawrence L. Loendorf, Nancy Medaris Stone
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Bighorn sheep graze on the last of the green grass on Gets-Struck-By-Lightning Mountain in the late fall. Two Hawk’s father and older brother, Night Heron, set off through newly fallen snow to hunt with their dogs. Two Hawk is sad to be left behind, but he has heard the bull elk’s mating call...
El maíz nativo en México
Una aproximación crítica desde los estudios rurales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Esta obra surge de la necesidad de contar con evidencias científicas sociales con una mirada crítica de los estudios rurales sobre la importancia que tiene el maíz nativo en México en sus múltiples dimensiones y realidades. En este sentir, la Red sobre Maíz, Alimentación, Tecnología y Cultura...
The Tewa World
Space, Time, Being and Becoming in a Pueblo Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
"This is a book that springs from richness. . . valuable not only for anthropologists and sociologists. . . the interested but unskilled layman will find a treasure trove as well. One thing seems certain. If this book does not become THE authority for the scholar, it will certainly never be ignored....
Northern Trader
The Last Days of the Fur Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. Harold Kemp recounts the routines and rhythms of that long-lost way of life and paints a portrait of the north as a "vast region...
by John D. Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Mamma always had a way of treating everyone as a member of her own family, of giving warmth and comfort and love to people who had known little but loneliness and misfortune. And in the rugged Utah town of Adenville in the early years of this century, there were many who needed her compassion and...
Indigenous Methodologies
Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
What are Indigenous research methodologies, and how do they unfold? Indigenous methodologies flow from tribal knowledge, and while they are allied with several western qualitative approaches, they remain distinct. These are the focal considerations of Margaret Kovach's study,which offers guidance...