Native American Studies category: 1415 books
George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison
An Alliance That Began the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief...
Murdering Indians
A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
In February of 1897 a family of six—four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother—was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, an axe, a pitchfork, a spade, and a club. Several Dakota Indians from the nearby Standing Rock reservation...
by Renée Dupuis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Canada's political leaders tirelessly proclaim it the best country on earth in which to live, a land of plenty and of boundless opportunity for all. Canada's Aboriginal peoples view things differently: after decades of living in legislatively determined Third World conditions, many are demanding the...
Education beyond the Mesas
Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona “turned the power” by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest...
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
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The Salish People: Volume IV
The Sechelt and South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Volume IV of The Salish People deals with the Sechelt and the South-Eastern tribes of Vancouver Island. This four-volume series collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout, who studied the anthropology of British Columbia, in the Pacific Northwest.
by James H. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984,...
Beloved Child
A Dakota Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
"Far greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling...
by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging...
Indigenous Storywork
Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories...
Shanghai Pierce
A Fair Likeness
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
“I am Shanghai Pierce, Webster in Cattle, by God, Sir.” And, in truth, he was. Part rascal, part gentleman, part poseur, part just himself—of all the colorful Texas figures following the Civil War none was as loud, garish, and funny as Shanghai Pierce, who left Rhode Island penniless and became...
by Dr. Paul Radin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Sam Blowsnake (S.B.) was a member of the Winnebago tribe. In this autobiography, translated into English by Dr. Paul Radin, Crashing Thunder describes the life, ways, acculturation, and the peyote cult of his people. He tells about his brother-in-law the shaman, adolescence, initiation into the Medicine...
by Major Richard I. Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This study of the “Battle of the Rosebud” shows parallels between the army of 1876 and our army today. It briefly investigates the linkage of National Policy, political objectives, National Military Strategy, and the operational level of war. The army of 1876, like the army of today, experienced...
by Harold O. Weight
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
“The saga of the great mule teams and giant wagons that are today’s romantic symbol of Death Valley began long before the first muleskinner piloted his lumbering borax freighters out of the Big Sink. Its roots were in that night when Aaron and Rosie Winters crouched in their darkened camp at Furnace...