Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this...

How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No...

Understanding and Teaching Native American History is a timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. While the past three decades have seen burgeoning scholarship in Indigenous studies, comparatively little of that has...

Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked...

Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government's requirement that they send their children to school, and by doing so they ended nearly two thousand years of occupation at this strategic whale- and...

The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and,...

Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally...

Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Dine) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were...

In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of...

In late August of 1911, from deep within the shadows of a remote canyon in northern California, an Indian of the Yahi people, long-believed to have disappeared, suddenly showed himself. A fugitive, he had hidden for decades from the lethal gaze of white...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891143960Author J Andrew BlackbirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Thunder Bay Press MichiganPublisher Thunder Bay Press MichiganWeight(grams) 127g

The untold story of Navajo and Hopi resistance and solidarity in the face of forced removal by the US government, as documented by tribal editorial cartoons.For generations, US politicians and energy companies attempted to gain access to the coal and...

In the early 1800s, when once-powerful North American Indian peoples were being driven west across the Mississippi, a Shawnee prophet collapsed into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he told friends and family of his ascension to Indian heaven, where his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890135488Author Bruce BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 628g

The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. What were the causes? The surviving documentation is extraordinarily rich: conquistadors, religious figures,...

Contains the important writings of the author, the first Native American author to live simultaneously in both traditional world of Santee Sioux and modern civilization of white man.AwardsShort-listed for Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Religion) 2007.Book...

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...

Pontiac, Sequoyah, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle. These legendary names are familiar even to the uninitiated in Native American history, yet the life stories of these great spiritual leaders have been largely unknown. In this,...

The Canadian North is witness to some of the most innovative efforts by Aboriginal peoples to reshape their relations with "mainstream" political and economic structures. Northern Quebec and Labrador are particularly dynamic examples of these...

In the last two decades there has been positive change in how the Canadian legal system defines Aboriginal and treaty rights. Yet even after the recognition of those rights in the Constitution Act of 1982, the legacy of British values and institutions as...

This beautifully written book will appeal to historians, anthropologists, Aboriginal studies scholars, and anyone interested in the history of the Wendat people.Book InformationISBN 9780774825559Author Kathryn Magee LabelleFormat HardbackPage Count...

In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities. ...

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 9781897126080Author George BlondinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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)...

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