Native American Studies

The oral tradition of the Winnebago, or Ho-Chunk, people ranges from creation myths to Trickster stories and histories of the tribe. It is particularly strong in animal tales, as storyteller and tribal historian David Lee Smith vividly demonstrates in...

This book traces the demographic growth in the American Indian population during the past forty years, as well as the rise in native American activities during this century. It focuses special attention on the Red Power movement, which reached its climax...

The earliest Native American writers wrote tribal histories or autobiographical accounts. Today, Native American writing is steeped in the oral traditions of many peoples and reflects a facility with language that is equally at home in prose or poetry...

The Chickasaws are one of the Five Tribes removed by the U.S. government to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) more than 150 years ago from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Most speakers of the Chickasaw language now live in the Chickasaw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674283640Author Benjamin N ColbyFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 667g

Although several useful sources provide descriptive material on certain kinds of American Indian associations, until now none has offered a comprehensive survey of both extinct and current groups. This latest addition to Greenwood Press' Ethnic American...

The Blackfeet were once a vigorous nomadic people following the buffalo herds and living a life organized around strong family, religious, and social institutions. However, the Blackfoot world began to crumble during the second half of the nineteenth...

First published in 1942, John R. Swanton's Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians is a classic reference on the Caddos. Long regarded as the dean of southeastern Native American studies, Swanton worked for decades as an...

A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Perces were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much...

The Ghost Dance Movements of 1868-72 and 1888-91 have fascinated historians, sociologists, and anthropologists since the time they first occurred. Embraced by American Indians of the Plains, Great Basin, and the Northwest Plateau, the religion of the...

Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983231103Author John Alan RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 892Imprint Michael J. RossPublisher Michael J. RossWeight(grams) 1733g

Winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, Center for Great Plains Studies A Kansas Notable Book The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an iconic event in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806139807Author Jack M SchultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806143972Author Jason Baird JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

This collection of essays examines, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted in their entirety. Anthologies of Native American orators typically focus on the rhetoric of western speakers but overlook the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313229305Author Dianne R. KelsoFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

In their homelands in what is now New York state, Iroquois and their issues have come to dominate public debate as the residents of the region seek ways to resolve the multibillion dollar land claims against the state. This initial dispute over...

The intention of this book is to acquaint readers with the first rate translations of North American Indian poems produced during the past hundred years. These compositions are not only valuable as poetry, but also serve to reveal the mental and...

Among a growing number of ethnographies of Eastern Indonesia that deal with cosmology, exchange and kinship, this book confronts issues originally broached by Edmund Leach and Claude Levi-Strauss, concerning the relation between hierarchy and equality in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735823Author Geoffrey O'GaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255g

This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. These Native Americans were among the most familiar to...

Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communities continued to thrive alongside English colonists. In this sequel to her Native People of Southern New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978130930Author Elmer, GhostkeeperFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Writing on Stone Press IncPublisher Writing on Stone Press IncWeight(grams) 167g

Individuals of all persuasions have become deeply interested in contemporary Sioux religious practices. These essays by tribal religious leaders, scholars, and other members of the Sioux communities in North and South Dakota deal with the more important...

"Oh God, here comes Esther Ross." Such was the greeting she received from members of the U.S. Congress during her repeated trips to the Capitol on behalf of Stillaguamish Indians. Tenacious and passionate, Esther Ross's refusal to abandon her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759664432Author Gordon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 375g

This book covers a critical event in U.S. history: the period of Indian removal and resistance from 1817 to 1839, documenting the Cherokee experience as well as Jacksonian policy and Native-U.S. relations. This book provides an outstanding resource that...

This compelling volume explores the various aspects of Native American healing found cross-culturally in North America, including Canadian and Inuit cultures. In Encyclopedia of Native American Healing, the extensive entries span topics such as renowned...

In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates...

During the colonial period, thousands of North American Native peoples travelled to Cuba independently as traders, diplomats, missionary candidates, immigrants, or refugees; others were forcibly transported as captives, slaves, indentured labourers, or...

A picture of a modern American Indian group faced with the problem of understanding its position within American society.Book InformationISBN 9780837171531Author Elizabeth ColsonFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882409092Author Roy CorralFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing CoWeight(grams) 138g

The author's discussion of Crow tribal history and his vivid descriptions of current reservation life show how the Apsaalooke are adapting to a changing world. By examining pivotal social and religious institutions, including the clan-uncle and clan-aunt...

The most comprehensive authority on placenames of American Indian origin American Indian words define the North American landscape. This volume combines historical research and linguistic fieldwork with Native speakers from across the United States to...

Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870046056Author Celinda Reynolds KaelinFormat PaperbackImprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882407562Author Alaska Geographic AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Alaska Northwest BooksWeight(grams)...

The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevent to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel...