Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

- Presents a cogent and accessible overview of a long sweep of American Indigenous history - Streamlined layout makes this detailed and thorough text accessible to undergraduates studying Native history over one or more semesters - Includes a variety of...

The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native America In this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History, Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly updated, incisive narrative history...

Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new edition is informed by best practices to show how oral history can be done in different contexts.The Indigenous Oral History Manual: Canada...

Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history because it relies solely on...

A group of educated Christian Natives from a variety of New England tribes came together in central New York in 1785 to form a community of their own, Brothertown, a proprietary "Body Politick" modeled after a New England town with an elected...

In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through...

In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand...

Prior to the onslaught of the Europeans, the Puget Sound area was one of the most heavily populated regions north of Mexico City. The Native Americans who lived there enjoyed a bounty of seafood, waterfowl, and berries, which they expertly collected and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640088Author Ralph Franklin KeelingFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864039Author Tony HollihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 320g

An essential component of every culture, food offers up much more than mere sustenance. Food is also important in religion, ceremony, celebration, and cultural knowledge and transmission. Colonial governments were well aware of the cultural importance of...

Indian Boyhood (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable reception of the autobiographical Indian Boyhood would lead him to write...

Historians, anthropologists, and those with an interest in the history of sport, Aboriginal studies, and the West will welcome this creative history of rodeo.Book InformationISBN 9780774820301Author Mary-Ellen KelmFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint...

"Misconceptions continue to shape public perceptions of American Indians. Deeply ingrained cultural fictions, what Jentz (history, North Hennepin Community College) refers to as myths, have had a lasting hold on popular understanding of Native Americans...

Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Critics have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890968178Author Paul H. CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University Press

The Hopi Indian's rich culture and exciting religious ceremonies continue to thrive. However, outsiders have limited opportunity to witness the exciting Katsina dances and ceremonies of the Hopi, save through the well-known and much prized kachina dolls...

Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit...

The history of the Siletz is in many ways the history of all Indian tribes in America: a story of heartache, perseverance, survival, and revival. It began in a resource-rich homeland thousands of years ago and today finds a vibrant, modern community with...

Frederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing...

The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating Indian policy. Mark R. Scherer's Imperfect Victories provides a detailed examination of the Omahas' tenacious efforts to...

In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417489Author Bill WaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint ECW PressPublisher ECW Press

A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous peopleAfter One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805086843Author Dee BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 487Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

A story of the Sk_wx_wu´7mesh U´xwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future. One hundred years after Sk_wx_wu´7mesh (Squamish) leadership signed an amalgamation agreement that declared several communities in Squamish territory as one nation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Caroline Bancroft History Prize 2017 and Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2017. Short-listed for Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award 2017.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625342898Author Micah A PawlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346995Author NMAIFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1106g

Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century.By looking at clothing that was bought,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119777625Author W. Dirk RaatFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179866Author Lester PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority  “An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial contribution to our knowledge of women in the so-called ‘forgotten centuries’ of European colonialism in the...

Four hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982690758Author C Daniel CrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 618Imprint Cherokee Heritage PressPublisher Cherokee Heritage Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, one...

Five hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623391Author Dr. Norma DunningFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399503419Author Timothy ShannonFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 382g