Native American Studies category: 1415 books
by Amadeo M. Rea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Knowledge held about animals by Pima-speaking Native Americans of Arizona and northwest Mexico is intimately entwined with their way of life—a way that is fading from memory as beavers and wolves vanish also from the Southwest. Ethnobiologist Amadeo Rea has conducted extensive fieldwork among the...
Sovereign Acts
Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
While the sovereign nation-state is considered the world’s political norm, millions of colonial subjects, immigrants, refugees, and native peoples appear to be without sovereignty. What claims have they to sovereignty? If they cannot ever constitute themselves into sovereign nation-states, are they...
Adonvdo Yona (Bear Spirit) Mountain
An Ancestral Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Adonvdo Yona (Bear Spirit) Mountain: An Ancestral Awakening is the memoir of a man who received a spiritual promise when he was younger and goes on to discover his American Indian roots as the path to turn this promise into a reality. The author shares the details of his life with his rediscovered...
Memories of an American Life
True Stories from the Early 1900S of a Large Family in a Small Indiana Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
Given that he was to become a student of human nature with an interest in writing, Julian K. Nail could not have grown up in a better place than St. Paul, Indiana. Born in 1923, the youngest of seven children, he was exposed to story lines even before he started working as a young boy in his fathers...
by Ian Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2000
A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar.
In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier...
Dakota Philosopher
Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Charles Eastman (1858–1939) straddled two worlds in his life and writing. The author of Indian Boyhood was raised in the traditional Dakota (Sioux) way after the upheaval of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War. His father later persuaded Ohiyesa to take a white name, study Christianity, and attend medical...
by Glenn Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier—Tecumseh. He emerges here as a vivid, splendid character, a man of unusual talents and noble aims, whereas in much previous history and biography he has been depicted as a baffling, sinister, often bloody...
Choctaw Prophecy
A Legacy for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2003
This intriguing study explores the power and artistry of prophecy among the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, who use predictions about the future to interpret the world around them.
This book challenges the common assumption that American Indian prophecy was an anomaly of the 18th and 19th...
by David Leeming;Jake Page
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants to the tall tales of the Western frontier to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope embracing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Over the generations, Cherokee citizens became a conglomerate people. Early in the nineteenth century, tribal leaders adapted their government to mirror the new American model. While accommodating institutional slavery of black people, they abandoned the Cherokee matrilineal clan structure that once...
by Paul Radin
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The myth of the Trickster—ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman—is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster...
The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn
Custer's Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In June of 1876, the U.S. government’s plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the Battle of Little Bighorn represented a symbolic...
Gifts from the Thunder Beings
Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry...
by Ella Cara Deloria
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Beginning with a general discussion of American Indian origins, language families, and culture areas, Deloria then focuses on her own people, the Dakotas, and the intricate kinship system that governed all aspects of their life. She writes, “Exacting and unrelenting obedience to kinship demands...