Native American Studies category: 1415 books
Rough and Tumble
An Autobiography of a West Texas Judge
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This is the autobiography of West Texas judge William Paul Moss, which was first published in 1954, and predominantly explores his youthful adventures on his ranches in Texas and New Mexico, where he loved to raise cattle and hunt. Judge Moss describes his life as having consisted of three parts:...
by Gertrude E. Finney
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
A young English couple sail to the new land where fortunes like plums are for the taking. But nothing has prepared Hannah Maria, who trusts in the comforts of her brother’s home, for the crude life of a Midwest farm in 1868. Only a deep love and her proud spirit sustain her in early bitterness and...
The Salish People: Volume II
The Squamish and the Lillooet
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Field reports from nineteenth-century ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout are collected in this four-volume series, The Salish People. Volume II deals with the people of the Squamish and the Lillooet. It includes an account of the Origin Myth as told by a 100-year-old blind storyteller whose mother saw Captain Cook sail into Howe Sound in 1792. Hill-Tout’s asides,” too, are uniquely informative.
The Salish People: Volume I
The Thompson and the Okanagan
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
These four volumes, edited by Ralph Maud, are rich in stories and factual details about the old customs of the Pacific Coast and Interior Salish in British Columbia. Each volume covers a specific geographical area. Volume 1 deals with the people of the Thompson and Okanagan. It includes stories told to Charles Hill-Tout by Chief Mischelle of Lytton in 1896.
On the Border with Mackenzie
or, Winning West Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
When it was first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches quickly became known as the most complete account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870s, and remains one of the most exhaustive histories ever written by an actual participant...
Red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge...
Onigamiising
Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering,...
The Indians of Texas
From Prehistoric to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A classic work on the indigenous peoples of Texas.
Victims of Benevolence
The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the...
Where the Pavement Ends
Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Over the past fifteen years, Canada’s Aboriginal healing community has emerged as a vital and visible force. Creative recovery programs have been established across the country, and international initiatives such as the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide” gatherings have originated here. The Canadian...
This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized...
The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn
A Military and Timing Analysis of the Battle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunning victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, it initiated a new and vigorous effort by the U.S. government to rid the west of marauding tribes and to realize...
General George Crook
His Autobiography [Second Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
General George Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the distinction of being the lowest-ranking West Point cadet ever to rise to the rank of major-general.
Crook’s autobiography covers the period...
White Lake
A Historical Tour of the Nation's Safest Beach
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
White Lake: A Historical Tour of the Nation's Safest Beach is a stroll through the history of a small lake community in southeastern North Carolina. Filled with vintage photographs, excerpts from archived articles, and personal recollections from the local residents and visitors who lived the history, the book commemorates the remarkable accomplishments of a small Southern town.