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Rosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn by Paul L Hedren 9780806162324
Booksplease Price: £30.72The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and... -
Wizard Of Upper Amazon by Bruce Lamb
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780938190806Author F. Bruce LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John by Bridget Moran 9781551520476
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520476Author Bridget MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society Andrew Apter 9780226023434
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.25How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in Yoruba... -
Iroquois: People of the Longhouse by Michael G. Johnson 9781770852181
Booksplease Price: £30.17In this handsome book, Michael G. Johnson, the author of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes and its companion, Arts and Crafts of the North American Tribes, looks at the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tribes were the... -
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard
Booksplease Price: £28.07WINNER 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... -
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.51Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawai'i-all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as "essential" for white occupants of the... -
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema by Brad Evans
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £53.05Photographer Edward Curtis's 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtis's collaboration with... -
Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power by Thomas Mails 9780982327418
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982327418Author Thomas MailsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Millichap BooksPublisher Millichap BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm... -
Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 by Kathryn Joy McKnight 9780872209930
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.88A landmark scholarly achievement . . . With judicious commentary by several of the leading experts in the field, this book dramatically expands the canon of texts used to study the black Atlantic and the African diaspora, and captures the tenor of the... -
Going Native by Tom Harmer 9780826323187
Booksplease Price: £30.91In a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits that govern it. Leaving behind college, military service, and... -
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke 9781608466290
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of... -
Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda
Booksplease Price: £12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671732523Author Carlos CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y... -
A Kingdom of Water: Adaptation and Survival in the Houma Nation by J. Daniel d'Oney
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.41A Kingdom of Water is a study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes under French, Spanish, British, and American imperial control between 1699 and 2005. After 1699 the... -
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.61About the AuthorDahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq as well as The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption and (with Stan Rushworth) We... -
Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People by Gerald Robert Vizenor 9780873514002
Booksplease Price: £12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873514002Author Gerald Robert VizenorFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf 9780688004712
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.38Apologies 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 -
Soul Would Have No Rainbow If the Eyes Had No Tears and Other Native Am by Guy Zona
Booksplease Price: £10.23A collection of short and inspirational Native American proverbs.Sayings of time-honored truth and contemporary wisdom from the Native American tribes: Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? We will be known forever by the tracks we... -
Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory by Robert Nichols
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.51Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of... -
The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains by Ernest Wallace 9780806120409
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £14.61The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the... -
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa 9780142437094
Booksplease Price: £11.24Zitkala-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... -
The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being and Becoming in a Pueblo Society Alfonso Ortiz 9780226633077
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226633077Author Alfonso OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal 9780806122199
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.42"If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the... -
Sitting Bull: The Life and Times of an American Patriot by Robert M Utley 9780805088304
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088304Author Robert M UtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa by Mary F. Smith 9780300027419
Booksplease Price: £23.64Daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher, Baba became Mary Smith's friend in 1949, when M. G. and Mary Smith were engaged in fieldwork in Nigeria. In daily sessions for several weeks Baba dictated her life story, which Mrs. Smith has translated... -
Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond: Volume 96 by Nancy J. Turner
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.58For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and... -
The Way of the Masks by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780295966366
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Claude Levi-Strauss's fascination with Northwest Coast Indian art dates back to the late 1930s. "Sometime before the outbreak of the Second World War," he writes, "I had already bought in Paris a Haida slate panel pipe." In New York in the early forties,... -
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £21.10American 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... -
The Price of a Gift: A Lakota Healer's Story by Joseph Eagle Elk 9780803282827
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.70Joseph Eagle Elk (1931-91) was an effective and highly respected traditional Lakota healer. He practiced for nearly thirty years, treating serious physical and mental illnesses among the people of the Rosebud Reservation and elsewhere. In 1990 he began... -
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.19In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business." Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into... -
On the Rez by Ian Frazier 9780312278595
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312278595Author Ian FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains by E. Adamson Hoebel 9780030226861 [USED COPY]
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £2.54This case study traces the Cheyenne Indians from their first contact with the French explorer LaSalle in 1680. The book then follows their exodus from Minnesota under pressure from the Sioux, Cel, and Ojibwa; their attempt to gain a foothold in eastern... -
Daily Life of the Inuit by Pamela R. Stern 9780313363115
Booksplease Price: £59.87This wide-ranging treatment of daily life in the contemporary Inuit communities of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland reveals the very modern ways of being Inuit. Daily Life of the Inuit is the first serious study of contemporary Inuit culture and... -
Loon: Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community by Henry S. Sharp 9780803242920 [USED COPY]
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £1.25In August 1975, at Foxholm Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada - home of the Native Dene or Chipewyan people - anthropologist Henry S. Sharp went fishing with two members of the Mission Band of Chipewyans. On the lake, they encountered what at... -
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II Holly Miowak Guise 9780295752525
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.00Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamationThe US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial... -
The Seven Commandments of the-Sacred Buffalo Calf Woman: Martin High Bear (1919-1995) Rose High Bear 9781634244602
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.24These teachings were given to Martin through the ancient White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe as he stepped into his patrilineal and matrilineal heritage as a spiritual leader and holy man in the 1970's. For 25 years, he traveled sharing them with his own... -
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II by Holly Miowak Guise 9780295752518
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £78.92Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamationThe US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial... -
Black-Native Autobiographical Acts: Navigating the Minefields of Authenticity by Sarita Cannon 9781793630575
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £70.50In 2012, an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian entitled "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas" illuminated the experiences and history of a frequently overlooked multiracial group. This book redresses that... -
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings 9780759100688
RRP: £106.00Booksplease Price: £91.85Through an in-depth study of Alaska and comparative material from other indigenous communities around the world, this book explores the relationship between land and education. While the colonial function of education is just beginning to be... -
Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red by Ethan Nebelkopf 9780759106062
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £90.99Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to...