Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade,...

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, converting Native Americans in one stroke into mere tenants. In 1991, while investigating the...

Imagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the sunrises between successive lumar phases. Then imagine them establishing observational sites and codified systems to...

Now available in paperback, "The Earth Shall Weep" is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples which combines traditional historical sources with new research.Book InformationISBN 9780802136800Author James...

Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada's past and present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443450133Author Jean TeilletFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams)...

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel...

This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocation and conquest that was visited upon them after 1805, but acted in the midst of these events to construct...

A true story of greed and murder of Native Americans by their countrymen Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he...

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the...

A fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience.-BooklistJoe Starita tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne...

VanDevelder demolishes long-held myths about America's westward expansion and uncovers the unacknowledged federal Indian policy that shaped the republic What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march...

Mention "ethnic cleansing" and most Americans are likely to think of "sectarian" or "tribal" conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however,...

The appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artifacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s and...

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 9780806138855Author Jerome a GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553561746Author Allan W. EckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832359Author James LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competing...

This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way...

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade...

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these 'rich and strange lands,' as Hernan Cortes called them, and their 'many different peoples' was brutal and prolonged. 'Strange...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738533575Author Donovin Arleigh SpragueFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method...

The Tlingits, the largest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in Alaska's coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met non-Natives in 1741 during an encounter with the crew of the Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. The volatile and complex...

Traditionally historians of the Little Big Horn fight have focused on Custer and his troops-on what they were doing and where they died. But as one Miniconjou warrior told a gathering at a 1926 commemoration of the battle, the Lakotas and Cheyennes also...

Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramon Pane. The friar's assignment was to live among the "Indians" whom Columbus had "discovered" on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806186368Author Justin GageFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 152g

In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white...

An in-depth survey of Iroquois culture and history This masterful summary represents a major synthesis of the history and culture of the Six Nations from the mid-sixteenth century to the Canandaigua treaty of 1794. William N. Fenton, renowned as the dean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615892337Author Donald N YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Panther's LodgePublisher Panther's LodgeWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide and displacement of Native Americans and the passage...

In this account of the history between Indigenous Peoples and the United States government, readers will learn the role of the bible played in the perpetration of genocide, massive land theft, and the religious suppression and criminalization of Native...

War Dance at Fort Marion tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army. Held from 1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they participated in an...

Scattered throughout the woodlands and fields of the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada are tens of thousands of stone monuments. These stone constructions have been the subject of debate among archaeologists and antiquarians for the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463569488Author Logan HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

On March 13, 1697, Spanish troops from Yucatan attacked and occupied Nojpeten, the capital of the Maya people known as Itzas, the inhabitants of the last unconquered native New World kingdom. This political and ritual center-located on a small island in...

In Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present, historian Greg Olson argues that the history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white...

One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604861068Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 101g