Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

A confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder, George Washington Grayson also served for six decades as a leader of the Creek Nation. His life paralleled the most tumultuous events in Creek Indian and Oklahoma...

From ancient metropolises like Pueblo Bonito and TenochtitlAn to the twenty-first century Oceti Sakowin encampment of NoDAPL water protectors, Native people have built and lived in cities-a fact little noted in either urban or Indigenous histories. By...

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...

How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs...

Back in print. George T. Hunt's classic 1940 study of the Iroquois during the middle and late seventeenth century presents warfare as a result of depletion of natural resources in the Iroquois homeland and tribal efforts to assume the role of middlemen...

Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples. For this reason, they seem unlikely sources for a sense of pan-Indian community in the...

The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1834 represented what many considered the ongoing benevolence of the United States toward Native Americans, establishing a congressionally designated refuge for displaced Indians to protect them from exploitation...

Noted tax economist Frederick C. Stocker has observed that the property tax ""resembles a structure designed by a mad architect, erected on a shaky foundation by an incompetent builder, and made worse by the well-intentioned repair work of...

From 1855 to 1856 in western Oregon, the Native peoples along the Rogue River outmaneuvered and repeatedly drove off white opponents. In The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980, historian E. A. Schwartz explores the tribal groups'...

The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164922Author Thomas a BrittenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Who were the First Americans? Where did they come from? When did they get here? Are they the ancestors of modern Native Americans? These questions might seem straightforward, but scientists in competing fields have failed to convince one another with...

The five largest southeastern Indian groups - the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chicksaws, Creeks and Seminoles - were forced to emigrate west to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s. This book contains the Indians' own stories - taken from WPA...

Volume 2 in the American Indian Law and Policy Series The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws' removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe's subsequent efforts to retain and expand its...

This book provides basic information about American Indians that every tourist and armchair traveler might need or want. Part One is a brief account of the many different tribes in the lower forty-eight states, detailing their cultures and lifeways,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806183619Author Robert J BigartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806168883Author Matthew W DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural and economic...

For generations, the original Snake River-Palouse people lived a free, open life on the Columbia Plateau, moving on horseback from the Snake River to Badger Mountain to Oregon's Blue Mountains. They interacted and intermarried within a vast region, and...

This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546265054Author Dr Diana PrinceFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546265047Author Dr Diana PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 216g

First published in Germany in 1889, E. R. Baierlein's sensitive and respectful portrayal of Native American life is available for the first time in English. In the Wilderness with the Red Indians is a moving historical account of a Lutheran missionary's...

This narrative history of the Caddo Indians creates a vivid picture of daily life in the Caddo Nation. Using archaeological data, oral histories, and descriptions by explorers and settlers, Cecile Carter introduces impressive Caddo leaders past and...

In this book on Indian cattle ranching, Peter Iverson describes a way of life that has been both economically viable and socially and culturally rewarding. Thus an Indian rancher can demonstrate his generosity and his concern for the well-being of others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692982617Author Quentin H YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Mystic Visions PublishingPublisher Mystic Visions PublishingWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140049Author Professor Kathleen J BragdonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma...

For the first time, the traumatic removal of the Oneida Indians from New York to Wisconsin is examined in a groundbreaking collection of essays, The Oneida Indian Journey from New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860. To shed light on this vital period of Oneida...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806148656Author MS Louellyn WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 499g

The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the...

The Rapid City Indian School was one of twenty-eight off-reservation boarding schools built and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to prepare American Indian children for assimilation into white society. From 1898 to 1933 the "School of the...

Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806346953Author Wills De HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144870Author Nicole St-OngeFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870044199Author Roland G. RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press

One of the great tribes of the Southwest Plains, the Kiowas were militantly defiant toward white intruders in their territory and killed more during seventy-five years of raiding than any other tribe. Now settled in southwestern Oklahoma, they are today...

Volume 164 in the The Civilization of the American Indian Series The Treatise of Hernando Ruiz de Alarc n is one of the most important surviving documents of early colonial Mexico. It was written in 1629 as an aid to Roman Catholic churchmen in their...

This study examines the nature of the Indian trade on the Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, and focuses on the reciprocal economic and social relationships which developed between the trading familes and their Seminole clientele.Book...

In Let Me Be Free, David Lavender tells the tragic story of the Nez Perce struggle against annihilation. Encroaching settlers and violent disputes resulted in the Nez Perce War of 1877, a desperate attempt by Chief Joseph and his small band of Nez Perce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064127Author Cyrus Townsend BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...