Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

The greatest 'unsolved mystery' of the American Southwest relates to the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico) and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a...

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...

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...

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)...

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)...

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684548941Author Carol OrmondFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Git 'er Done BooksPublisher Git 'er Done BooksWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

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...

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870046544Author Craig CreaseFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton PressWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 43mm

As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot's band was headed...

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

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion "An elegant, organized narrative of the United States' dispossession of Native lands east of the Mississippi. . . . A remarkable book...

A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement--with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier! In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard...

Though not as well known as the U.S. military campaigns against the Apache, the ethnic warfare conducted against indigenous people of the Southern Colorado River Basin was equally devastating. In less than twenty-five years after first encountering...

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)...

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...

They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, they had to resist the efforts of unscrupulous government agents to steal their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393760Author Leslie DrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Hancock House PublishersPublisher Hancock House PublishersWeight(grams) 210g

Tell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indian Territory northward to their homelands in the Powder River country. Incorporating the perspectives of...

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...

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)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947459083Author Cesare MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Venerable PressPublisher Venerable PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

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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...

Several centuries ago, thve nations that would become the Haudenosaunee - Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca - were locked in generations-long cycles of bloodshed. When they established Kayanerenko:wa, the Great Law of Peace, they not only...

The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has...

A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in stataic harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize...

This new study revolves around the Tonkawa tribe in the history of the Lone Star State and the greater Southwest. The chronological account allows readers to understand its triumphs and struggles over the course of a century or more, and places the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649681195Author Emmet StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 996Imprint Native Study LLCPublisher Native Study LLCWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565840416Author Lucy R. LippardFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 630g

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...

Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years...

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century. These snippets of history and culture provide insights into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578430614Author Harry SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Worldwide Publishing GroupPublisher Worldwide Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578430614Author Harry SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Worldwide Publishing GroupPublisher Worldwide Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255148Author Lloyd E Divine JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...