Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by James D. Keyser, Michael A. Klassen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls,...
by Se-ah-dom Edmo, Jessie Young, Alan Parker
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This academic compendium examines the complexities associated with Indian identity in North America, including the various social, political, and legal issues impacting Indian expression in different periods; the European influence on how self-governing tribal communities define the rights of citizenship...
by Max Freedom Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Huna is a funny thing to study. It doesn't act like other Western studies, in that you have a beginning-middle-end. Nor it is Eastern, where guru's abound and are necessary to find your way.
Huna seems to be there at every turn, much as the old Kahuna's would teach their students. “When...
The Sound of Navajo Country
Music, Language, and Diné Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections...
Indians in Eden
Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt. Desert Island
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. This engaging, richly illustrated, and meticulously researched book chronicles the intersecting lives...
Arrow Rock
The Story of a Missouri Village
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Arrow Rock, so named because Native Americans once went there to shape their arrowheads from the flint found along the Missouri River, is a small historic village. Today fewer than one hundred people call Arrow Rock home, but its scenic location and rich history continue to attract thousands of visitors...
Kivalina
A Climate Change Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what’s happening to the people of Kivalina. It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed in some of the biggest and richest companies on earth.”
-Bill McKibben,...
by Warren Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Examines Chief Seatle's life in the context of his time including information on his tribe the Suquamish and his complete speech.
Every Day Is a Good Day
Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
A rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in their lives.
by E. A. Brininstool
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
THE winning of the West was no child’s play! It was war—war of the most brutal and inhuman type on the part of both Indians and whites. The Indian was fighting for his home, his commissary, his lands—lands ceded him through solemn treaty with the United States government—and what man, of any...
Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain...
by Richard Morenus
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The author was a businessman from New York who got tired of the “Big City” life and was unhappy for some time. He decided to move as far away from that environment. Taking only his dog, some gear, and an open heart he travelled to Canada. During this trip, he found an island of epic beauty and...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2005
The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and...
On Six Continents
A Life In Canada's Foreign Service, 1966-2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Muskoka, the University of Western Ontario, Ottawa, New York, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Israel, Belgium, South Africa, Australia –the place-names tell the story of an amazing career. Then there are the people involved –Trudeau, Clark, and Chrétien, Kissinger, Castro, Rabin,...