Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

From their earliest encounters with seaborne strangers from the east in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers across northeastern North America came together to undertake an immense...

Sondra Jones traces the metamorphosis of the Ute people from a society of small, interrelated bands of mobile hunter-gatherers to sovereign, dependent nations-modern tribes who run extensive business enterprises and government services. Weaving together...

Richard Frost examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley, where their arrival was a social and cultural tsunami. It affected community autonomy, privacy, and well-being and destroyed or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426157Author Robert S McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778704607Author Bobbie KalmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425679Author Robert S McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

In January 1863 over two hundred Shoshoni men, women, and children died on the banks of the Bear River at the hands of volunteer soldiers from California. Bear River was one of the largest Indian massacres in the Trans-Mississippi West, yet the massacre...

When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August of 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a...

Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about...

A new edition of the groundbreaking 1959 publication created in collaboration with the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs. This beautiful new edition of the histories and laws of the Gitanyow (literally "people of the small/narrow place," once called the...

Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal...

Now in paperback, Living with Strangers tells the story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century. David G. McCrady's award-winning study crosses national boundaries to examine how Native...

There is still a pervasive notion that Indians did not inhabit the Yellowstone area. Drawing on the results of ongoing archaeological excavations and extensive ethnographic work among descendant native peoples, Mountain Spirit discusses the many groups...

Incorporating recent events in the Native American community as well as additional information gleaned from publications and public resources, this newly redesigned and updated second edition of ""First People"" brings back to the...

This beautifully written book will appeal to historians, anthropologists, Aboriginal studies scholars, and anyone interested in the history of the Wendat people.Book InformationISBN 9780774825566Author Kathryn Magee LabelleFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553561746Author Allan W. EckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)...

Like many Native Americans consigned to reservations, the Shoshones and Bannocks of Idaho and Utah initially resisted the forces of incorporation; unlike many, they rose to the challenges they faced. Shoshone-Bannock cattlemen at Fort Hall, Idaho,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816533534Author Miriam Melton-VillanuevaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816529391Author Daniel HermanFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

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...

Many different Indian tribes have lived in Iowa, each existing as an independent nation with its own history, culture, language, and traditions. Some were residents before recorded time; some lived in Iowa for relatively short periods but played...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540921Author Farina Noelani KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and...

Drawing on four decades of ""New York Times"" editorials, Robert Hays demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread rapidly across the continent in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816519521Author Jennifer McLerranFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806918Author Alvin M. JosephyFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121596Author Brenda J. ChildFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This reconstructs the history of a Native American tribe over eight turbulent decades of domination and dislocation.Book InformationISBN 9781558498907Author Karim M. TiroFormat PaperbackImprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of...

The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River - the waterway we know as the Missouri. This Indian nation called itself the Nyut^achi, which translates to 'People of the River...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816518685Author Margaret C. NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

"On a late summer day, many years ago, a young man set out on a voyage through the mountains. He never reached his destination. When his remains were discovered by three British Columbia hunters, roughly three hundred years after he was caught by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999452127Author Richard W StarbuckFormat HardbackPage Count 534Imprint Cherokee Heritage PressPublisher Cherokee Heritage PressWeight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530854Author C. Timothy MckeownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century. These snippets of history and culture provide insights into...

The Definitive Guide to Ancient and Contemporary Rock Art! Rock Art explores the fascinating history of ancient human-made stone markings that have puzzled historians, archaeologists, and hikers alike for centuries. What is rock art, and who created...

Examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions In recalling political activism in the post-World War II South, rarely does one consider the political activities of American Indians as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611863598Author Karen MarreroFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802040077Author Emerson S CoatsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 86g

Focusing on the prolonged interaction between Native Americans and Europeans in the Western Great Lakes fur trade, Sleeper-Smith (history, Michigan State U.) argues that, contrary to stereotype, Indians have existed as a viable and distinct people from...

Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska-or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated...