Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993674068Author France RivetFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Polar HorizonsPublisher Polar HorizonsWeight(grams) 465g

When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William B. Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898754223Author John C EwersFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982046753Author Garold D BarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Bauu InstitutePublisher Bauu InstituteWeight(grams) 294g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140674Author Gary Clayton AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984225613Author Kevin W. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint American History PressPublisher American History PressWeight(grams) 384g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806183909Author Thomas a BrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint 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 9780996240079Author Tyler R TichelaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Tyler R. TichelaarPublisher Tyler R. TichelaarWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979786129Author Thomas L WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Monarch Publishing HousePublisher Monarch Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 422g

The impact of World War II on Indian affairs was more profound and lasting than that of any other event or policy--including Roosevelt's Indian New Deal and efforts to terminate federal responsibility for tribes under Eisenhower. Focusing on the period...

In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of...

In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the Mixtecs, today one of the largest Native American groups in Mexico. Focusing on the community of Santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous Mixteca Alta region, he describes Nuyooteco marriage...

examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern Plains Indians who claimed this area as their own. These two Indian groups viewed the world in different ways. The...

In this first comprehensive study of American Indians of southern New England from 1500 to 1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon discusses common features and significant differences among the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, Narragansett, Pokanoket,...

Robert Williams attempts to write Indians back into Indian law by developing a greater appreciation for the contributions of American Indian legal visions and demonstrating how ancient treaty visions can speak to the modern, multicultural age. Williams...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788427978Author Alvin G WeeksFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064110Author Cyrus Townsend BradyFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 576g

One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American...

One of the best tribal histories . . . the product of decades of study by a layman archeologist-historian. With a rich blend of archeology, anthropology, Indian oral traditions (he gives us one of the best accounts of the Walum Olum, the fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788435966Author Mary Druke BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 531g

For travelers passing through northern Navajo country, the desert landscape appears desolate. The few remaining Navajo trading posts, once famous for their bustling commerce, seem unimpressive. Yet a closer look at the economic and creative activity in...

This volume comprises a new collection of essays-four previously unpublished-by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary...

For American Indians, the right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to the exercise of tribal sovereignty. The process of deciding who belongs to a given tribe has a complicated history, however, especially in the American South, where Indians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788407512Author Laurie Beth RomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 200g

Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788423604Author Karen L T AckermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 299g

Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066725Author Cyrus Townsend BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806159652Author John P BowesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806147987Author Ralph Henry GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806110431Author MR Robert P EmmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

This significant contribution to Cherokee studies examines the tribe's life during the eighteenth century, up to the Removal. By revealing town loyalties and regional alliances, Tyler Boulware uncovers a persistent identification hierarchy among the...

Reservation boarding schools represented an important component in the U.S. government's campaign in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to "civilize" American Indians according to Anglo-American standards. The history of the Rainy...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064059Author Royal B StrattonFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759695238Author William MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 193g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837195353Author James LevernierFormat HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago's gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches...

At the 1795 treaty council that sealed Anthony Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers in northwest Ohio, the Wyandot leader Tarhe spoke for the assembled Native leaders when he admonished the American emissaries: "Take care of your little ones; an...

"An extraordinary scholarly work . . . [that] will immediately make everything else written about the Timucua and the Spanish mission system in La Florida out-of-date. This will be the basic scholarly reference for students of Florida history and...