Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance. It features Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the...

North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape...

Cooper's Landscapes: An Essay on the Picturesque Vision delves into the vivid and enduring landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper's works, exploring how his descriptive artistry shaped the American literary imagination. This essay examines Cooper's unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870713897Author SternFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State University

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006963Author Ernest Burch, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 473Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780961776732Author Moira F. HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Pogo PressPublisher Pogo PressWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 287mm * 217mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932839572Author Kristen J. GremillionFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Society for American ArchaeologyPublisher Society for American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877962370Author Adeline RaboffFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint University of Alaska Fairbanks, Center for Cross-Cultural StudiesPublisher University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870208942Author Cassie BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Between 1893 and 1903, Jesse H. Bratley worked in Indian schools across five reservations in the American West. As a teacher Bratley was charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans through education. Although tasked with eradicating their...

The Etchemins/Amaliseet/Maliseet/Wolastoqiyik were the first-along with the Montagnais/Innu and the Algonquin/Anishinabe-to sign treaties of alliance with the French between 1603 and 1605. These treaties were motivated by the French policy of making and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826223364Author Patricia ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)...

Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language...

This book tells the story of the shared history of the three federally recognized Choctaw tribes from before the first European contact in the 1530s and then provides the history and contemporary status of each of the three tribes separately.Rather than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970398543Author Henriette MertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Hayriver PressPublisher Hayriver PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870046490Author Rick WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 555Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton PressWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 38mm

Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647692100Author P Jane HafenFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.Publisher University of Utah Press,U.S.Dimensions(mm)...

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missionsSites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region's Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still...

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missionsSites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region's Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884025207Author Patricia A. McAnanyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous people and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. "Indians in the Making" offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions,...

This volume describes the ways Native American populations accommodated and resisted the encroachment of European powers in southeastern North America from the arrival of Spaniards in the sixteenth century to the first decades of the American Republic...

This is a reissue of Native American Tribalism with a new Introduction by Peter Iverson. In this book the late D'Arcy McNickle, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, member of the Flathead Tribe of Montana, and founding member of...

This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary...

Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Award of Excellence for a Book.In Thatched Roofs and Open Sides, Carrie Dilley reveals the design, construction, history, and cultural significance of the chickee, the unique Seminole structure...

An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer...

This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Metis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil...

New in Paperback! The relationship between North American Indians and Europeans, friendly at first, took a violent turn with the kidnapping of natives by mariners, and conflict flared as the frontier line moved northward from Mexico and westward from the...

1791 marked one of the worst military defeats the United States Army ever suffered. As Major General Arthur St. Clair led both regular Army and militia levee soldiers to the banks of the Wabash River, Native Americans rose to stop them-and stop the Army...

The Galisteo Basin is an ancient seabed, site of volcanic upheaval. The fertile basin provided temporary hunting and farming grounds for wanderers, and then became the home of Pueblo peoples who survived drought, warfare, disease, and invasion for almost...

Life in an Indigenous town during an understudied era of Haitian historyThis book details the Indigenous Taino occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by...

Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A...

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for...

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings...

The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals. This book examines these developments from...

Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people. Jolivette and his co-authors challenge and contest these images,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027278657Author Enoch Lawrence LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Musaicum BooksPublisher Musaicum BooksWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Curley is a novel based on the life of Russell Norris, a Cherokee Indian from the Qualla Boundary reservation in Western North Carolina. After Russell and his family move from the reservation to Cramerton, North Carolina, a textile mill town, Russell's...

Black Robes Enter Coyote's World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana's Native peoples-a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century...