Native American Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878424310Author Don Miguel RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Publisher Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571311771Author Robin Wall KimmererFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Memoir) 2010. Commended for IndieFab awards (Multicultural Fiction) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781577315780Author Kent NerburnFormat...

'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'Observer, Books of the Year'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it'Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters'A page-turning Appalachian coming-of-age...

Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945483Author Paul LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an...

A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after...

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this...

As the Amazon burns, Fabio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land. In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajos River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For...

"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls."(Manchester Guardian, 1870...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native...

Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * National Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 * An Esquire Best Book of 2023 * An NPR "Book We...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807057834Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687732Author Jeremy NarbyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

"The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose."Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient...

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875420288Author Ted AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 845g

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably...

WINNER OF:Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationCanadian Political Science Association's C.B. MacPherson PrizeStudies in Political Economy Book Prize Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430898Author Charles Alexander EastmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals,...

WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre ResearchReimagining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830813506Author Terry M. WildmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 406gDimensions(mm)...

The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years; yet in that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world's imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to...

"A beautiful catalogue of 80 plants, revered by indigenous people for their nourishing, healing, and symbolic properties." -Gardens Illustrated The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath-known in the Raramuri tribe as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551308821Author Leslie BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Brown Bear PressPublisher Brown Bear Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878424488Author Don Miguel RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Publisher Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577310792Author Kent NerburnFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

With eloquent simplicity, Native American medicine man Bear Heart demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world."As a child I was taught, 'Chebon, the way to attain the beauty in life is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816504015Author James KaywayklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 294g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six...

Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a primeval...

Indigenous Methodologies is a groundbreaking text. Since its original publication in 2009, it has become the most trusted guide used in the study of Indigenous methodologies and has been adopted in university courses around the world. It provides a...

Nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Aztecs, Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtects and Toltecs.Introductory essays provide succinct accounts of Mesoamerican history and religion.This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028360Author Dina Gilio-WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948903Author Glenn Aparicio ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...