Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Despite popular belief, Native peoples did not simply disappear from colonial New England as the English extended their domination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rather, the Native peoples in such places as Natick, Massachusetts, creatively...

The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria and procedures, the FAP is utilized by federal officials to determine whether a Native community...

Today the Choctaws are remembered as one of the Five Civilized Tribes, removed to Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century; a large band remains in Mississippi, quietly and effectively refusing to be assimilated. The Choctaws are a Muskogean people, in...

As a clerk at Forts Berthold and the Union, Kurz, a noted Swiss artist, came to know well Indians, fur traders, and officers, and to understand the conditions of life in the region. He aimed "to give from my own observation a sincere portrayal of...

A Civil Action meets Indian country, as one man takes on the federal government and the largest boondoggle in U.S. history -- and wins.Book InformationISBN 9780316896894Author P. VandevelderFormat HardbackImprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985183349Author Robert "red Hawk" RuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Scribes Valley Publishing CompanyPublisher Scribes Valley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873519212Author Linda M ClemmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873514552Author Samuel W. PondFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873864541Author Rebecca StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint January Productions, IncorporatedPublisher January Productions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513524Author M.Inez HilgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

This is the story of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca. 1750-1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned him the enmity of Chiefs Joseph Brant...

"On the Cattaraugus reservation, it was part of a child's initial training to learn why the bear lost its tail, why the chipmunk has a striped back, and why meteors flash in the sky," writes Arthur C. Parker at the beginning of Seneca Myths and...

Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government to move to Indian Territory. During the year they were...

Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the struggle of France and England for domination in America. The Conspiracy of Pontiac is an account of the Indian...

Beginning in 1701, the Iroquois, at their nadir after twenty years of warring, sought to rebuild the Confederacy. By design or circumstance, they carried out sophisticated diplomatic relations with their Indian and white neighbors, gradually recouping...

Annie Heloise Abel describes the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, a bloody disaster for the Confederates but a glorious moment for Colonel Stand Watie and his Cherokee Mounted Rifles. The Indians were soon enough swept by the war into a vortex of confusion and...

On October 20, 2001, a crowd gathered just east of Salmon, Idaho, to dedicate the site of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. In a bitter instance of irony, the American Indian...

Today Kahnawa:ke ("at the rapids") is a community of approximately seventy-two hundred Mohawks, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. One of the largest Mohawk communities, it is known in the modern era for its...

Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. For the Native peoples of the Columbian...

Surviving Conquest is a history of the Yavapai Indians, who have lived for centuries in central Arizona. Although primarily concerned with survival in a desert environment, early Yavapais were also involved in a complex network of alliances, rivalries,...

Drawing on meticulous archival research and a close working relationship with the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, David R. M. Beck picks up where his earlier work, Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, ended. The...

In 1959 a group of Miccosukee Indians, frustrated in their attempts to gain official recognition by the United States, met with Fidel Castro and were recognized by the Cuban government. The man behind this unprecedented move to provoke the United States...

The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they have been largely neglected by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692313701Author Teresa a YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Panther's LodgePublisher Panther's LodgeWeight(grams) 349g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692680681Author Win BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Wordworx PublishingPublisher Wordworx PublishingWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780873517683Author Anton TreueFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Minnesota...

The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book,...

In Voices of Wounded Knee, William S. E. Coleman brings together for the first time all the available sources-Lakota, military, and civilian-on the massacre of 29 December 1890. He recreates the Ghost Dance in detail and shows how it related to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692162583Author Dessa DrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Tribal Eye ProductionsPublisher Tribal Eye ProductionsWeight(grams) 163g

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615231464Author Robert David BolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Fort Boise PublishingPublisher Fort Boise PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038818Author Peter NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988657885Author Cynthia JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Emerald Eagle ProductionsPublisher Emerald Eagle ProductionsWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873516297Author David MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

Big Medicine from Six Nations is a series of reminiscences and essays by the late Ted Williams on the themes of ""medicine"" (physical/spiritual/psychic healing). Williams intertwines the lore and lifeways of his Tuscarora upbringing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016396Author Alan TrachtenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803294462Author Graham D. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 454g