Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or...

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise. When a young...

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Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit...

The Battle of the Washita is one of the most tragic - and disturbing - events in American history. On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a peaceful Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879612757Author Cheewa JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Naturegraph & Keven Brown PublicationsPublisher Naturegraph & Keven Brown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115298Author Timothy J. ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483111Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953934222Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878424689Author Gregory F MichnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Mountain PressPublisher Mountain PressWeight(grams) 871gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620400654Author Glenn FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 538g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394727943Author Robert F. BerkhoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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,...

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory...

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When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as "one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had." It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255172Author Visiting Lecturer David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Anthology) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780873514040Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society...

These collected myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest-the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes-were first published in 1910. Here are their stories concerning the creation of the...

When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing...

This is the first in-depth historical study of Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, Thomas W. Kavanagh traces the changes and continuities in Comanche politics from their earliest interactions with Europeans to their...

Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original publication in 1953. Ethnologist emeritus at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924844Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge our outdated visions of Native America. Philip Deloria's revealing accounts of Indians doing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Albert J. Beveridge Award (AHA).Book InformationISBN 9780143116219Author Karl JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and...

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and...

A much-neglected source of first-hand views on the Battle of the Little Bighorn is presented in this third and final volume of Indian testimony collected by award-winning author Richard G. Hardorff.Like its companion volumes, Lakota Recollections and...

This new, expanded edition of The California Indians is a more comprehensive and thus more useful book than its predecessor, which first appeared in 1951 and was reprinted seven times. The editors have combined the selections, eighteen of which are new,...

"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples."-Vancouver SunRarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395573204Author Alvin JosephyFormat PaperbackImprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395573204Author Alvin JosephyFormat PaperbackImprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805086843Author Dee BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 487Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141001586Author Peter N. CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758560Author William M. OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm)...

The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition,...

John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well. A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic poet who made things happen, and Joaquin Murieta, the legendary bandit he would immortalize, John Rollin...

Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains...