Indigenous

The Chisholm Trail, traveled by Texas longhorn cattle moving northward across present-day Oklahoma to Kansas, was named for mixed-blood Cherokee Jesse Chisholm (1805-1868). Though Chisholm's prominence in western lore rests largely on this connection, he...

Born in 1922, Kenny Thomas Sr. has been a trapper, firefighter, road builder, river-freight hauler, and soldier. Today he is a respected elder and member of a northern Athabaskan tribal group residing in Tanacross, Alaska. As a song and dance leader for...

A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helpedRobert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063106Author GeronimoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

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In Peyote and the Yankton Sioux, Thomas Constantine Maroukis focuses on Yankton Sioux spiritual leader Sam Necklace, tracing his family's history for seven generations to show how Necklace and his family shaped and were shaped by the Native American...

In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada...

The son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agents and with presidents and other high officials in...

Of the many Native American women who were torn between two cultures on the American frontier, three have captured the popular imagination: Pocahontas, Sacajawea, and Sarah Winnemucca. This is the first full-scale biography of Sarah, the daughter of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759650855Author Florence Westover BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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Ever since she was a small child, Helma Swan, the daughter of a Northwest Coast chief, loved and learned the music of her people. As an adult she began to sing, even though traditionally Makah singers had been men. How did such a situation develop? In...

Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris chronicles the extraordinary life of a twentieth-century American Indian performing artist. Born in 1903 on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, Molly ventured into show business at an early age - performing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609495Author E.G. SchaefferFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 211g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615828008Author Kevin ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dragonfly PressPublisher Dragonfly PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The first biography of Geronimo aimed at the high school and undergraduate student audience, this book provides a balanced account of Geronimo's life in the context of key historical and cultural events of his lifetime. A revered Apache spiritual and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063090Author GeronimoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956373380Author James IversonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wild Wolf PublishingPublisher Wild Wolf PublishingWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645262612Author Meaghan Katrak HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint The Kind PressPublisher The Kind Press

For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in A Navajo Legacy records his full and...

In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615836003Author Kevin ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Dragonfly PressPublisher Dragonfly PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759684997Author Elwyn S. BadgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 336g

In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada...

The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian...

Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious...

Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential - and controversial - American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician...

In They Call Me Agnes, the narrator, Agnes Deernose, provides a warm, personal view of Crow Indian family life and culture. Fred Voget, anthropologist and adopted Crow, sets the stage for Agnes's story, which he compiled from extensive interviews with...

Apache Mothers and Daughters, an illustrated family history of four generations of Chiricahua Apache women from 1848 to the present, is an eloquent testimonial to the strength and the stamina of Apache women. Over the course of thirty-five years,...

Chief Moses (Sulktalthscosum or Half-Sun) was chief of the Columbias, a Salish-speaking people of the mid-Columbia River area in what is now the state of Washington. This award-winning biography by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown situates Moses in the...

Most fans of women's basketball would be startled to learn that girls' teams were making their mark more than a century ago--and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like "lambent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648428442Author Wendy CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Nenge BooksPublisher Nenge BooksWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369361806Author Edward ButtsFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

This biography offers a chronological presentation of the major events in Nez Perce history and in the life of one of their greatest leaders, Joseph. Chief Joseph: A Biography explores the world of the Nez Perce Indians from their entrance into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208497Author William ApesFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208725Author Charles A EastmanFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208879Author Sarah WinnemuccaFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617202094Author James E SeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989680405Author Alisha E NgoziFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Flourish ASEPublisher Flourish ASEWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935807261Author R C NideverFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Stansbury PublishingPublisher Stansbury PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm...