Indigenous

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch'inch'imami is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380768080Author Joseph H CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890135549Author Stacia Spragg-BraudeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1290g

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch'inch'imami is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal...

Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped...

In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860053Author Jean BarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 0g

In the face of looming, tumultuous global change, Red Prophet: The Punishing Intellectualism of Vine Deloria Jr. is a guide for those venturing into Vine's work in search of answers and solutions to Indigenous and non-Indigenous politics, ecology, and...

On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed into the distance, shedding a tear. The headline: 'Foster home children beaten - and nobody's helping'. Dorgan, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666603Author Jay C. FikesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 525g

A hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age tale-told from inside the shockwaves set off by the Indian boarding schools, exacerbated by a decade and a half spent inside the Armed Forces-exposing a series of inescapable prisons and invisible scars...

In this poignant display of the resilience of language, culture, and community in the face of the profound changes brought by settlers, Kluane First Nation Elders share stories from their lives, knowledge of their traditional territory (Á sì Keyi, “my...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397416Author Mali BainFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Hancock HousePublisher Hancock HouseWeight(grams) 140g

This book documents the autobiographical stories and poems of Southeastern American Indian women whose hard work and daily fight to keep their communities well and safe is all too often disregarded by mainstream publications and the general public. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341248Author Clyde BellecourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology,...

“We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.” Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world,...

The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation (1911) is a work of nonfiction by Charles Eastman. Recognized for his achievements as a pioneering Native American physician, Eastman was also a prolific writer whose personal stories, powerful meditations, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860800Author Sage BirchwaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 152g

Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. These organised cultural encounters bring together people of different backgrounds in order to promote...

The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh (1847) is a memoir by George Copway. Written while he was living with his wife and daughter in New York City, The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh was an immediate bestseller that helped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760991166Author Louise HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 352g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809669Author Gerry SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Translated from her own words, this story of a Navajo woman who lived for more than 102 years is a vivid account of traditional lifeways in a harsh and challenging environment. Tall Woman was raised in a family of foragers and herders. Forbidden to go to...

What counts as 'indigenous religion' in todays world? Who claims this category? What are the processes through which local entities become recognisable as 'religious' and 'indigenous'? How is all of this connected to struggles for power, rights and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179774Author Gaadgas Nora BellisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 14mm

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2022 - ShortlistedA neurotic party girl's coming-of-age memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die. Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend. She should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513283319Author Charles A. EastmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew.In the Nle kepmxcin language, spilax m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape,...

In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved...

In a series of chronological vignettes, Arthur Bear Chief depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun Residential School and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story at an examination for...

Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some...

For many years, J. Richard Andrews's Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has been the standard reference work for scholars and students of Nahuatl, the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. Andrews's work was the...

A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816525379Author Ernestine HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 285g

Colonialism has failed at the only thing it set out to do, eliminate the Native. The history of colonialism is as much a story of its own failure as it is a story of colonial violence and Native dispossession. Few histories of colonialism, however,...

Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagoryJlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some...

Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes. They are a remarkable group of women - some famous, some obscure. Some were hunters, some were warriors and, in a rare case, one...

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe...

This is the compelling yet disturbing story of Corbett Mack (1892-1974), an opiate addict who was a member of the Nuumuu (Numa), or Northern Paiute. The Northern Paiute are best known as the people who produced Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet whose...