Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award 2020. Short-listed for National Book Award 2019. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2020.Book InformationISBN...

Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671759001Author Sun BearFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

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

In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046173Author Paula Gunn AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 451gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684829555Author Carolyn NiethammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education...

Britton Davis's account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885-86 offers an important firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. Davis knew most of the people involved in the campaign and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014! 2014 (Canada) and George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (2014), Winner 2014 (Canada)...

An in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Ancient Maya scribes recorded prophecies and astronomical observations on the pages of painted books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483975Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684839974Author Lewis Mehl-MadronaFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education...

At the center of this stirring saga of the Apache-Anglo frontier is Mangas Colorados, the formidable chief of the "Red Paint People," or Eastern Chiricahua Apaches. Born about 1795 probably in southern New Mexico, the Apache warrior (popularly known as...

The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others...

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...

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a physician writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English and French ancestry. After working as a physician on reservations in South Dakota, he became increasingly active in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Carnegie Medal 2017 and National Book Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780385534246Author David GrannFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640088Author Ralph Franklin KeelingFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389138Author Scott W. BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The selections-some rendered immediately after the...

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by...

In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the earth and of mankind. Raymond J...

"A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures."-Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest...

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...

The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and Northern Cheyennes who won that battle but lost the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312317898Author Scott ZeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Only six Cheyenne Indians (but thirty-two Sioux) died in the fighting at the Little Bighorn River that wiped out the command of General George Custer. Brave Wolf, the son of the prophet Old Brave Wolf, later recalled the courage of the doomed men in the...

The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America...

"A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come." - Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113911Author Colin G. CallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 194gDimensions(mm) 190mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449905081Author Paula Gunn AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 129mm...

Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806514345Author Fanny KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and...

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples-a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826345875Author Thomas A. BrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

Bartolomé de Las Casas championed the rights of the Indians of Mexico and Central America, disputing a widely held belief that they were "beasts" to be enslaved. In a dramatic debate in 1550 with Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Las Casas argued vehemently...

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