Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Keeping the Circle presents an overview of the modern history and identity of the Native peoples in twentieth-century North Carolina, including the Lumbees, the Tuscaroras, the Waccamaw Sioux, the Occaneechis, the Meherrins, the Haliwa-Saponis, and the...

Termination's Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. Following World War II many Native American communities...

As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference...

Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern United States. The Creeks were the largest Indian nation in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679768913Author Lee MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615798271Author Donald N Panther-YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Panther's LodgePublisher Panther's LodgeWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595168767Author Raven WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544709522Author Frances KennedyFormat PaperbackImprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 626g

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555914547Author Bobby BridgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 628g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609490577Author M. Anna FarielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551115436Author Jennifer S. H. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 720g

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England. This monograph is a comprehensive and region-wide synthesis of the history of the indigenous peoples of the northeastern corner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423249412Author Bruce E. Johansen, PhDPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666504Author Oren LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 735g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813948256Author Christen MucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947845404Author David G LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ooligan PressPublisher Ooligan PressWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832151Author James Willard SchultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend PublishingWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926455532Author Myrna KostashFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 558g

Alexander Morris, the main negotiator of many of the numbered treaties on the prairies, has often been portrayed as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage of First Nations chiefs and councillors. Author Robert J. Talbot takes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783087143Author Gideon MailerFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

The headlines have been full of controversy over casinos, racinos, land claims settlements, and sovereign rights for Native Americans in Maine—and it's likely that we'll be talking about these complex issues for some time yet. A capable historian with an...

Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425167Author Robert S McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424924Author Robert S McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

" Seven Myths of Native American History will provide undergraduates and general readers with a very useful introduction to Native America past and present. Jentz identifies the origins and remarkable staying power of these myths at the same time he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606390221Author James Willard SchultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664145Author McKim MalvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

How authors rendered Dakhota philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance stateTranslated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhota intellectuals from the...

How authors rendered Dakhota philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhota intellectuals from the...

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geromino: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in...

Industrial designer Tom Steinbach recreates the remarkable and colourful poetry designs of Mimbres classic culture (ad1000-1150) in seventy-five digitally produced renderings that uniquely depict evidence of Mimbres life, culture and environment. In...

This remarkable collaboration between an anthropologist and a Nunamiut Eskimo tribesman offers a rare, often poignant glimpse into history, legends, lore material culture and daily life of a traditional society that no longer exists. Simon Paneak's...

These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutional law, political science, and sociology, who identify the many facets of what it means to be Metis in...

Many people have a mental picture of the Canadian north that juxtaposes beauty with harshness. For the Van Tat Gwich'in, the northern Yukon is home, with a living history passed on from Elders to youth. This book consists of oral accounts that the Elders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888390677Author Curt MadisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

The massive earthen mounds of ancient Cahokia in southwestern Illinois form the largest and most complex archaeological site in the United States. Here, at the center of a vibrant Native American culture, a settlement of Mississippian Indians grew,...

Throughout the colonial period, Oneida speakers promoted themselves as representatives not only for their own people but for all members of the Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy. With the arrival of Europeans, this self-appointed diplomatic role became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816538744Author Klara KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John Burgoyne's British...