Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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...

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557999016Author Evan-Moor Educational PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Evan-Moor Educational PublishersPublisher Evan-Moor Educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Albert J. Beveridge Award (AHA).Book InformationISBN 9780143116219Author Karl JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806139661Author Dr Lee IrwinFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 1111g

In its 1908 decision for Winters v. United States, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that the United States and the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indians had reserved rights to water in the Milk River through an 1888 treaty which created the...

Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red River War. The Battle of Sappa Creek, the last encounter...

LIVING IN TWO WORLDS is Charles Eastman's (Ohiyesa) compelling story of embracing a life of traditional cultural ideals of his nomadic ancestors while living in the modern industrialised world. Eastman (1858-1939) was the first and greatest of the Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144009Author Robert W PatchFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 599g

This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose...

Philip J. Deloria's classic exploration of white America's drive to "play Indian," from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age "[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question about America has been settled. Contrary to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806152240Author Julie L ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 621g

On March 30, 1891--less than four months after the military suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota--twenty-three Lakota Sioux imprisoned at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, were released into the custody of William F. Cody...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119203Author Jeffrey OstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 128mm...

Andres Canche became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatan, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community's interests as early national Yucatan...

A true story of greed and murder of Native Americans by their countrymen Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he...

Since it was first published in 1998, The First Nations of British Columbia has been an essential introduction to the province's first peoples. Written within an anthropological framework, it familiarizes readers with the history and cultures of First...

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725263857Author Randy S WoodleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013076Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395573204Author Alvin JosephyFormat PaperbackImprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115298Author Timothy J. ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204g

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by...

Winner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize: A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America"By making what we thought was a small story very large indeed-Ms. Brooks really does give us 'A New History of King...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113676Author Theda PerdueFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm *...

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492195221Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584650591Author Frederick Matthew WisemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or...

The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America...

A fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience.-BooklistJoe Starita tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013621581Author James W 1797-1865 ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)...

This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand...

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars.About the AuthorFrancis Jennings is former director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian.Reviews"A learned and lively new history of the Iroquois to...

Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008195Author Gregory SmithersFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

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

The Compelling, Tragic Story of a Great Cheyenne Chief As white settlers poured into the west during the nineteenth century, many famous Indian chiefs fought to stop them, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. But one great Cheyenne chief,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550028676Author Carl BennFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...