Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126080Author George BlondinFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 298g

Neal McLeod examines the history of the nehiyawak (Cree People) of western Canada from the massive upheavals of the 1870s and the reserve period to the vibrant cultural and political rebirth of contemporary times. Central to the text are the narratives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126462Author Myrna KostashFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 434g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570984525Author William P. BrandonFormat PaperbackPage Count 628Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams) 807g

For decades, the Inuit of northern Quebec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Quebec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace.In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987915174Author Eric JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 484g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877287995Author Carol MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 471g

Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried...

The first two centuries of contact between Native and non-Native groups set into motion new social practices, definitions of personhood, and hierarchies of class, ethnicity, race, and gender. Diana diPaolo Loren focuses on the social and material...

This book is a study of the role of Native Americans in the physical and political development of the United States during the first fewyears of its existence. An evaluation of the function and operation of power both within Native American groups and...

Published for the first time, these early writings of renowned anthropologist Frances Leon Quintana boldly detail the exploitation and the gradual present day recovery of the Southern Utes Indians following the American conquest of their ancestral lands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425662Author Robert S McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424917Author Robert S McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329603Author Caleb GayleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664497Author Jan PettitFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Johnson BooksPublisher Johnson BooksWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575376Author Florence KaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 316g

Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial...

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To...

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise. When a young...

An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded...

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native...

The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902463674Author Richard PlattFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Red Kite BooksPublisher Haldane Mason LtdWeight(grams) 520g

The remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears. During the 1838 forced Cherokee removal by the US government, a number of close-knit Cherokee communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475391Author Chief SeattleFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker's 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex - the most important Lakota ceremony - creates moral community,...

The author explores how tribal governments have worked through the constraints of their eroded territory and sovereignty to provide effective leadership and governance.Book InformationISBN 9781138993877Author Erin FoubergFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666399Author Joe S. SandoFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 720g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666313Author Alexander EwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666115Author M K KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 1010g

More than half of all Native Americans live in cities, yet urban indians have not received the same attention as "traditional" indians who dwell on reservations. This groundbreaking anthropological investigation shatters stereotypes of what it...

Examining the traces left by inhabitants of prehistoric Illinois, archaeologist Thomas Berres finds a society without hierarchy, whose patterns of daily life were shaped by deeply held religious beliefs and traditions. Recognizing that symbols on...

In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts,...

Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530380Author Richard J. ChaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

This is the story of 150 of the most adventurous scouts, gold prospectors, gunslingers, buffalo hunters, and Civil War veterans of both sides-they may have been the deadliest collection of shooters to ever hit the trail. This is the most detailed work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926696133Author Wayne ArthursonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Eschia BooksPublisher Eschia BooksWeight(grams) 266g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926613680Author Hugh A. DempseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864077Author Tony HollihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 388g