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The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries by Kevin Terraciano 9780804751049
RRP: £29.99£26.90This book is a history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, who in their own language call themselves Tay Nudzahui, "people of the rain place." These people were among the most populous cultural and language groups of Mesoamerica at the time of the... -
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney 9780803281776
RRP: £31.00£27.82Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced... -
Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays by Christian F. Feest 9780803268975
RRP: £35.00£29.31North American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. The Native populations of North America have served a variety of European cultural and emotional needs, ranging from noble savage role models for Old World... -
The Flight of the Nez Perce by Mark H. Brown 9780803260696
RRP: £27.99£22.30In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly... -
Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands by David G. McCrady 9780803232501
RRP: £35.00£27.16The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the... -
Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier by Andrew K. Frank 9780803220164
RRP: £39.00£29.94Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Called "Indian countrymen"... -
Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer by Joseph C. Winter 9780806191287
RRP: £31.95£31.76Recently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans continue to view tobacco-when used properly-as a life-affirming and sacramental substance that plays a... -
Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting by Mark Z. Christensen 9780806190358
RRP: £46.95£46.36The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity's long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in... -
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873 by Ronald D Parks 9780806148458
£19.12Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years... -
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation by Gary Zellar 9780806138152
£31.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806138152Author Gary ZellarFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 757g -
A Destiny Denied... A Dignity Restored by Harry Smith 9781088295236
RRP: £17.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088295236Author Harry SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 490g -
The Dakota Conflict and Its Leaders, 1862-1865: Little Crow, Henry Sibley and Alfred Sully by Paul Williams 9781476680699
RRP: £28.99£24.05Custer, Sitting Bull and Little Bighorn are familiar names in the history of the American West. Yet the Great Sioux War of 1876 was a less notorious affair than earlier events in Minnesota during 1862, when over a few bloody weeks hundreds of white... -
The American Natives: Still Marching On The Trail Of Tears by Darren Freeman 9780999261989
RRP: £8.98£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261989Author Darren FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Royal Creek Publishing HousePublisher Royal Creek Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 64g -
The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket by Granville Ganter 9780815630968
£38.30In the first collection of a Native American orator's speeches, Granville Ganter presents the complete speeches of Red Jacket or Sagoyewatha (Shay-go-ye-watha), a formidable diplomat and one of the most famous Native American orators of the nineteenth... -
Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain - North Carolina Edition by Randell Jones 9780976914921
RRP: £23.45£20.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976914921Author Randell JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Daniel Boone FootstepsPublisher Daniel Boone FootstepsWeight(grams) 522g -
Breaking the House of Pamunkey: The Final Powhatan War and the Fall of an American and Indian Empire by Helen Rountree 9780939479016
RRP: £25.99£20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939479016Author Helen RountreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Backintyme PublishingPublisher Backintyme PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature by Isabelle St. Amand 9780887558191
RRP: £31.95£19.91In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis-or the Kanehsatake Resistance-exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary... -
Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River by Keith Thor Carlson 9780887558177
RRP: £31.95£19.76Towards a New Ethnohistory engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This New Ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct... -
Black Drink: A Native American Tea by Charles M. Hudson 9780820326962
£22.03Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known as black drink. Brewed from the parched leaves of the yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria), black drink was used... -
Origins of the Iroquois League: Narratives, Symbols, and Archaeology by Anthony Wonderley 9780815636670
£28.41The League of the Iroquois, the most famous native government in North America, dominated intertribal diplomacy in the Northeast and influenced the course of American colonial history for nearly two centuries. The age and early development of the League,... -
The Iroquois Struggle for Survival: World War II to Red Power by Laurence M. Hauptman 9780815623502
£19.71From World War II onward, the Iroquois, one of the largest groups of Native Americans in North America, have confronted a series of crises threatening their continued existence. From the New York-Pennsylvania border, where the Army Corps of Engineers... -
Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier by John C. Jackson 9781552381113
£27.27Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs the life of this... -
Cherokee Power Volume 22: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 by Kristofer Ray 9780806192963
£86.55In 1754 South Carolina governor James Glen observed that the Tennessee River “has its rise in the Cherokee Nation and runs a great way through it.” While noting the “prodigious” extent of the corridor connecting the Tennessee, Ohio, and Wabash River... -
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 Volume 58 by James W. Parins 9780806193151
£24.51Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of "civilizing." Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the... -
Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982 by Kathleen P. Chamberlain 9780826320421
£37.28Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. From that beginning, the responsibilities and functions of tribal government expanded, fostering economic and political changes that brought the Din people into closer... -
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller 9780806193892
£27.80Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and... -
Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America by Matthew W. Dougherty 9780806192277
£19.12The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled "lost tribes of Israel"-Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE-took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century... -
Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas by Malcolm Ebright 9780806185637
RRP: £21.95£21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806185637Author Malcolm EbrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins by Michael Vinson 9780806164953
RRP: £38.95£38.13In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her "catch" was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer's life, which read, as the Austin... -
Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas by Malcolm Ebright 9780806161990
RRP: £38.95£38.13Over five centuries of foreign rule--by Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some... -
American Indian Sovereignty: The Struggle for Religious, Cultural and Tribal Independence by J. Mark Hazlett II 9781476681429
RRP: £31.99£26.43Since the arrival of European settlers, Native American cultural sovereignty has been under attack. Self-determination is a tribal right of Native people, but colonial oppression banned their traditions and religion, purloined and misused sacred sites,... -
Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian by Kenneth S. Stern 9780806134390
£19.12Loud Hawk: The United States versus the American Indian Movement is the story of a criminal case that began with the arrest of six members of the American Indian Movement in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. The case did not end until 1988, after thirteen years... -
American Indians of the Ohio Country in the 18th Century by Paul R. Misencik 9781476679976
RRP: £31.99£26.43In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Beaver Wars, were among the bloodiest in North American history, and the resulting defeat of the Erie... -
The Cherokee Perspective: Written by Eastern Cherokees by Laurence French 9781469638492
RRP: £19.95£18.57In 1973, Cherokee students at the Qualla Boundary started a student organization with the intention of improving the educational prospects among Native Americans attending non-Indian colleges and universities. Under the direction of Laurence French and... -
Archeology of Mississippi by Calvin S. Brown 9781604733877
RRP: £34.95£32.90This reprinting makes available again the only book of its kind to be focused upon the prehistoric Indians of Mississippi. Although written expressly for the layreader, it has continued for more than eighty years to appeal to a wide audience that ranges... -
Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania by Kealani Cook 9781316646991
RRP: £22.99£20.66Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively... -
Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue Creek by Charles Collins 9780806193052
£23.84In An Apache Nightmare, Charles Collins tells the story of the Battle at Cibecue Creek, a pivotal event in the Apache Wars. On August 28, 1881, Col. Eugene Asa Carr left Fort Apache, Arizona Territory, with two cavalry troops and a company of Indian... -
Voices in the Drum: Narratives from the Native American Past by R. David Edmunds 9780806192765
£50.46The history of indigenous peoples in North America is long and complex. Many scholarly accounts now rely on statistical data to reconstruct this past, but amid all the facts and figures, it is easy to lose sight of the human side of the story. How did... -
The Search for the First Americans: Science, Power, Politics by Robert V Davis 9780806192291
£19.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806192291Author Robert V DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Voices in the Drum: Narratives from the Native American Past by R. David Edmunds 9780806192772
RRP: £25.95£21.78The history of indigenous peoples in North America is long and complex. Many scholarly accounts now rely on statistical data to reconstruct this past, but amid all the facts and figures, it is easy to lose sight of the human side of the story. How did...