Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by William R. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were profoundly affected. This book thoroughly discusses their history during the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras. Starting with the French and Indian War, the Cherokee were allied with the British, relying on them for goods like poorly...
Signs of Cherokee Culture
Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in...
by Max Freedom Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The word kanuna is an ancient term and is in use today. It is pronounced "kah-hoo-nah" and meant "keeper of the secret." The word for their secret lore was never found. The role of secrecy had been so strong and so well kept that it may never have been given a name... The name...
The Wetiko Legal Principles
Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In Algonquian folklore, the wetiko is a cannibal monster or spirit that possesses a person, rendering them monstrous. In The Wetiko Legal Principles, Hadley Friedland explores how the concept of a wetiko can be used to address the unspeakable happenings that endanger the lives of many Indigenous children.
Friedland...
The Apache Peoples
A History of All Bands and Tribes Through the 1880s
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest. The work covers their social history, verbal traditions and mores. The final section delineates the recorded history starting with the Spanish expedition of 1541 through the Civil War.
by Grenville Goodwin, Ronnie Lupe, Philip J. Greenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
“This volume contains translations of Apache stories that reflect our distinct view of the world and our approach to life. These myths and fables have survived through untold generations because the truth contained in them is eternal and the moral lessons that they teach are still valid. . . . You...
Indigenous Nations and Modern States
The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent...
by Bob Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
A timely sequel to the bestselling 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act—and an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to work more effectively with Indigenous Peoples.We are all treaty people. But what are the everyday impacts of treaties, and how can we effectively work toward reconciliation...
Bad Medicine — Revised & Updated
A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
John Reilly’s first book, Bad Medicine, was an immediate sensation and Canadian bestseller that sparked controversy and elicited praise nationwide for its honest portrayal of First Nations tribal corruption. This revised and updated edition details the latest legal developments surrounding tribal...
Power through Testimony
Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which includes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a forum for survivors, families, and communities to...
Illicit Love
Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth...
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric thought.
In Teaching Each Other, Linda Goulet and Keith Goulet provide an alternative framework...
The Zunis
Self-Portrayals
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions—from...
by Dick Harmon, Melissa A. Connor, Richard A. Fox Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick...