Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

This book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. Using data from the Toquaht Archaeological Project, McMillan challenges current...

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To...

Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial...

On December 29, 1890, the US Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers -- including men, women, and children -- at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee Creek, the work of memory...

Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history,...

New England history often treats Indigenous people as minor or secondary actors within the larger colonial story. Focusing on those Native Americans who were sachems, or leaders, in local tribes when Europeans began arriving, Marie Balsley Taylor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524749262Author Caroline Dodds PennockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 652g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873519243Author Brenda ChildFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of...

Chief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians' presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New York, yet no monument commemorates his deeds as the community's founder. Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester,...

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...

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage readers to develop the skills necessary to converse with primary sources in more refined and...

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

The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is "a nation of laws, not of men." In Perversions of Justice, Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a series...

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

The classic journal and firsthand account of one of the most disastrous military battles of the American frontier.On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976600098Author Carol CorneliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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...

As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region...

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...

Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was under attack. Disease and warfare plagued...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525659457Author Peter CozzensFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 822g

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)...

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...

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...

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) 414gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551529059Author Celia Haig-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Caribou Skin Clothing of the Iglulik Inuit outlines the various steps involved in the creation of traditional Inuit caribou skin clothing, namely the hunt, preparation, and sewing. In addition to diagrams and practical instructions, this book is filled...

"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.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Minnesota Subject) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780873519632Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Minnesota Historical...

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...

A fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game,...

Through first-person accounts, Long Journey Home presents the stories of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Tribe. These oral histories, which span the post-Civil War era to the present, are gathered into four sections and tell of personal and tribal...

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...