Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Woman in the Wilderness is a collection of letters written between 1832 and 1892 to and by an American woman, Harriet Wood Wheeler.Harriet's letters reveal her experiences with actors and institutions that played pivotal roles in the history of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877287995Author Carol MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 471g

Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science-one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous...

With material provided by the Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs' office, court transcripts from Delgam'Uukw v. British Columbia, and her own research, Dawn Mills paints a compelling picture of the Gitxsan and their right to land and self-government. While the...

In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492A sweeping analytical exploration of the encounter between Indigenous peoples and the European empires, national governments,...

"With more than twenty books published about the Navajo people, Robert S. McPherson is one of the most prolific contemporary writers concerning their history and culture. Scouting for the Bluecoats addresses a little-known and, until now, undocumented...

The classic journal and firsthand account of one of the most disastrous military battles of the American frontier.On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks...

When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August of 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976600098Author Carol CorneliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664497Author Jan PettitFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232440Author Amy SteffianFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 292mm *...

Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about...

The author explores how tribal governments have worked through the constraints of their eroded territory and sovereignty to provide effective leadership and governance.Book InformationISBN 9781138993877Author Erin FoubergFormat PaperbackPage Count...

As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530380Author Richard J. ChaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

This book is a history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, who in their own language call themselves Tay Nudzahui, "people of the rain place." These people were among the most populous cultural and language groups of Mesoamerica at the time of the...

Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples,...

Now in paperback, Living with Strangers tells the story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century. David G. McCrady's award-winning study crosses national boundaries to examine how Native...

In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874808674Author Lawrence LoendorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.Publisher University of Utah Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Incorporating recent events in the Native American community as well as additional information gleaned from publications and public resources, this newly redesigned and updated second edition of ""First People"" brings back to the fore this concise and...

"Misconceptions continue to shape public perceptions of American Indians. Deeply ingrained cultural fictions, what Jentz (history, North Hennepin Community College) refers to as myths, have had a lasting hold on popular understanding of Native Americans...

The tradition of horses in Native American culture, depicted through images, essays, and quotes. For many Native Americans, each animal and bird that surrounded them was part of a nation of its own, and none was more vital to both survival and culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417489Author Bill WaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 146mm...

A story of the Sk_wx_wu7mesh Uxwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future. One hundred years after Sk_wx_wu7mesh (Squamish) leadership signed an amalgamation agreement that declared several communities in Squamish territory as one nation,...

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction...

Like many Native Americans consigned to reservations, the Shoshones and Bannocks of Idaho and Utah initially resisted the forces of incorporation; unlike many, they rose to the challenges they faced. Shoshone-Bannock cattlemen at Fort Hall, Idaho,...

In this first book devoted to the genesis, failure, and lasting legacy of Ulysses S. Grant's comprehensive American Indian policy, Mary Stockwell shows Grant as an essential bridge between Andrew Jackson's pushing Indians out of the American experience...

Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial...

Many different Indian tribes have lived in Iowa, each existing as an independent nation with its own history, culture, language, and traditions. Some were residents before recorded time; some lived in Iowa for relatively short periods but played...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773660707Author A J B JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Acorn PressPublisher Acorn PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 201mm * 10mm

Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Dine (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Dine student art and poetry reveal...

First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and...

Drawing on four decades of ""New York Times"" editorials, Robert Hays demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread rapidly across the continent in the post - Civil War...

The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806918Author Alvin M. JosephyFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This reconstructs the history of a Native American tribe over eight turbulent decades of domination and dislocation.Book InformationISBN 9781558498907Author Karim M. TiroFormat PaperbackImprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551529059Author Celia Haig-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870208959Author Cassie BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

During the mid twelfth century, villages that had been occupied by the Mimbres people in what is now southwestern New Mexico were depopulated and new settlements were formed. While most scholars view abandonment in terms of failed settlements, Margaret...