Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772664914Author Eugene Y. ArimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346971Author National Museum of the American IndianFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Non-Indians have amassed extensive records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the era between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. But academia has largely ignored the stories of these leaders’ descendants—including accounts from the Shawnees’...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513133720Author George CopwayFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint West Margin PressPublisher West Margin PressWeight(grams) 127g

From Ritual to Refuse explores the faunal exploitation by the Maya elite at the site of Chinikiha, Chiapas, during the end of the Late Classic period (AD 700-850) by applying zooarchaeological and statistical analyses to a faunal assemblage located in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598076Author Yvonne Wakim DennisFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressWeight(grams) 190g

Peter Macnair and Alan Hoover recount the history of Haida argillite carving since it began in the early 1800s, and they describe more than 200 examples from the extensive collection of the Royal BC Museum. Argillite is a dense, black shale mined from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496228215Author Marinella LentisFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163760Author Kevin CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578597123Author Yvonne Wakim DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressWeight(grams) 180g

The long-term significance of the household as a social and economic force-particularly in relation to authority positions or institutions-has remained relatively unexplored in North American archaeology. Households and Hegemony makes a significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888390745Author Kenneth PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served as soldiers, scholars, artists, artisans, and...

In Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands, Stephen T. Staggs analyzes the impact of the Dutch Reformation upon the cross-cultural relations between those living in and around New Netherland. Staggs shows that Native Americans and New...

In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about "real Indians." Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials,...

The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have...

The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men's prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874515947Author Colin G. CallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against Apaches and other native peoples in the late nineteenth century.About the AuthorShelley Bowen HatfieldBook InformationISBN 9780826321466Author Shelley Bowen...

Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and impressive circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region's ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated...

Over the twentieth century, American Indians fought for their right to be both American and Indian. In an illuminating book, Paul C. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in both domestic and international contexts. ...

A Forest of Time, first published in 2002, is the first introduction for undergraduates, graduates and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own histories in their own...

Examines imported diseases and their impact on Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoplesIn the late 1700s when European colonizers arrived on the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures-Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw...

For thousands of years the Washoe people have lived in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the center of their lands sits beautiful Lake Tahoe, a name derived from the Washoe word Da ow a ga.Perhaps because the Washoe population has always...

Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawai'i began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the...

A gripping account of the violence and turmoil that engulfed England's fledgling colonies and the crucial role played by Native Americans in determining the future of North America.In 1675, eastern North America descended into chaos. Virginia exploded...

In this first comprehensive analysis of several recently uncovered sites in the American Bottom region, Mehrer focuses on household archaeology to shed light on the daily lives of the Mississippian people. He examines the objects of daily use-domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512985Author Joseph Kinsey HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 637Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

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...

William L. Ramsey provides a thorough reappraisal of the Yamasee War, an event that stands alongside King Philip's War in New England and Pontiac's Rebellion as one of the three major "Indian wars" of the colonial era. By arguing that the...

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...

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,...