Native American Studies

The Kiowas were once, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Native tribes of the Great Plains. In The Kiowas, Mildred P. Mayhall tells the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to fierce Plains nomads, explains how...

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve...

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...

Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737512219Author Stephanie Big EagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Big Eagle PublishingPublisher Big Eagle PublishingWeight(grams)...

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual...

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...

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity...

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine * Winner of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476743882Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550172454Author Anne CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal,...

"Immensely illuminating and enjoyable account of a road trip along Highway 83 ...Books like [Reynold's] prove that good travel writing remains not only very much alive, but essential."--The Bookseller In Slow Road to Brownsville, David Reynolds embarks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626194861Author Lynda A. SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

A People Magazine "Best New Book of the Month"Finalist for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award"I'm in awe of Chris La Tray's storytelling. Becoming Little Shell creates a multilayered narrative from threads of personal, family, community, tribal, and...

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 9781925884050Author Munya AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Evolve CommunitiesPublisher Evolve CommunitiesWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2011. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781416591054Author S C...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544947108Author Andres ResendezFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 361gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt's popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder...

"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...

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In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout the book on the history of Native...

When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671732462Author Carlos CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272g

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous Mind David Martinez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of...

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...

For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos. The...

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 9780060928827Author Carlos CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995266520Author Bob JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Page Two Books, Inc.Publisher Page Two Books, Inc.Weight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688004712Author Beverly Hungry WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Zitkala-Sa struggled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she attended boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian...

Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345400314Author Brooke Medicine EagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The four life histories collected here-personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with the Mexican Revolutionary army, emigration to Arizona to escape persecution, the rebuilding of the Yaqui...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385239547Author John EhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the...