Native American Studies category: 1415 books
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and...
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand
Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire...
Indians of the Pacific Northwest
From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today.
by Theda Perdue, Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians...
First Manhattans
A History of the Indians of Greater New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river...
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask
Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an...
Redskins
Insult and Brand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Washington Redskins franchise remains one of the most valuable in professional sports, in part because of its easily recognizable, popular, and profitable brand.
And yet “redskins” is a derogatory name for American Indians.
The number of grassroots campaigns to change the...
Recovering the Sacred
The Power of Naming and Claiming
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Winona LaDuke is a leading Native American historian and scholar.
A seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This classic book has been widely taught in universities. South End let it go out of print, creating pent up demand.
LaDuke ran as Ralph Nader's running mate on the Green...
American Indian Nations
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years. A distinctive contribution to the understanding and interpretation of current Indian affairs, policies, and community development, this dynamic commentary of contemporary issues brings together a Who's...
Rights Remembered
A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her...
A Lenape among the Quakers
The Life of Hannah Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately,...
Honor the Grandmothers
Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery...
by Patsy West
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
The history of the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes dates back to the 1500s, when most of Florida as well as much of the United States was uninhabited. During the early 19th century, the tribes moved into the South Florida interior, living on remote tree islands throughout the Everglades and Big Cypress...
by Lloyd Arneach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Tragically, relatively little of this flourishing nation and its rich culture has survived. Its stories, however, live on today. In this priceless and engaging collection, native Cherokee and professional storyteller Lloyd Arneach recounts tales such as how the bear lost his long bushy tail and how the first strawberry came to be.