Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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...

The Ojibwe of Anishinaabe are a native American people who were taught by 19th-century missionaries to sing evangelical hymns translated into the native language both as a means of worship and as a tool for eradicating the "indianness" of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788454509Author Marjorie J LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788452857Author James P LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 299g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788411113Author Laurie Beth RomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 263g

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) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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) 294gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830 demonstrates that, in the face of European conquest, severe drought, and disease, Indians in the Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic, remaining independent actors and even prospering. Some tribes temporarily...

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)...

The 1960s and 1970s were a time of radical change in U.S. history. During these turbulent decades, Native Americans played a prominent role in the civil rights movement, fighting to achieve self-determination and tribal sovereignty. Yet they did not...

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 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

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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) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832...

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)...

The stage was set for trouble in spring 1878 when new agent Nathan C. Meeker arrived at the White River Indian Agency on the Ute Reservation. The Utes had seen agents come and go without bringing any great change, but Meeker intended to convert them to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813035802Author Tyler BoulwareFormat HardbackImprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 471g

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) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm