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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture by Chip Colwell
RRP: £19.00£18.50Who 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 Ecological Indian: Myth and History by Shepard Krech 9780393321005
RRP: £13.99£12.19The 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... -
The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey by Joe Starita 9780803292949
RRP: £25.99£22.04A 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... -
The Rachel Plummer Narrative by James W 1797-1865 Parker 9781013621581
RRP: £17.95£15.48Apologies 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)... -
Dine: A History of the Navajos by Peter Iverson 9780826327154
RRP: £25.95£20.06This 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... -
The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning by Thomas A. Britten 9780826345875
RRP: £21.95£17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826345875Author Thomas A. BrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press -
The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies by Francis Jennings 9780393303025
RRP: £24.00£21.35Winner 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... -
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians by David J. Wishart 9780803298620
RRP: £21.99£16.83Until 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... -
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory Smithers
RRP: £21.95£15.65Apologies 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 *... -
The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army by Colin G. Calloway 9780199387991
RRP: £21.99£17.77In 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... -
Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War by Thom Hatch 9780471445920
RRP: £30.99£20.41The 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,... -
Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885 by Carl Benn 9781550028676
£26.58Apologies 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... -
The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars by Doug Hocking
RRP: £18.99£16.58In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise. When a young... -
The Ponca Tribe by James H. Howard 9780803228191
RRP: £16.99£13.50The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never... -
Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889 by Anthony R. McGinnis 9780803234550
RRP: £18.99£16.36Counting Coup and Cutting Horses is the comprehensive history of more than 150 years of intertribal warfare between northern Plains tribes and a study of the complex rivalries that prevailed among the Native societies that migrated into and around the... -
War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army by Mark Van de Logt 9780806141398
RRP: £29.95£24.53Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy... -
The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present by Robert F. Berkhofer
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394727943Author Robert F. BerkhoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Pequot War by Alfred A. Cave
RRP: £22.95£18.72This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter... -
A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance by Rani-Henrik Andersson 9780806160191
RRP: £25.95£21.44The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officials, culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men, women, and children, historical... -
On the Back of a Turtle: A Narrative of the Huron-Wyandot People by Lloyd E Divine Jr
RRP: £26.95£18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255148Author Lloyd E Divine JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Old Souls in a New World: The Secret History of the Cherokee Indians by Donald N Yates 9780615892337
RRP: £7.95£7.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615892337Author Donald N YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Panther's LodgePublisher Panther's LodgeWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
RRP: £20.00£14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award 2020. Short-listed for National Book Award 2019. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2020.Book InformationISBN... -
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir by Charles B. Gatewood 9780803218840
RRP: £16.99£13.15Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It... -
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J. Deloria
RRP: £26.95£21.81What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge our outdated visions of Native America. Philip Deloria's revealing accounts of Indians doing... -
The Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist by Joanne Barker
RRP: £15.99£12.61How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No... -
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler
RRP: £25.00£19.43The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion "An elegant, organized narrative of the United States' dispossession of Native lands east of the Mississippi. . . . A remarkable book... -
Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy by Scott L. Pratt
RRP: £20.99£17.98Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the "American wilderness." A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of... -
Native American Myths: Captivating Myths and Legends of Cherokee Mythology, the Choctaws and Other Indigenous Peoples from North America by Matt Clayton 9781953934222
RRP: £24.99£18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953934222Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Mystic Symbol: Mark of the Michigan Mound Builders by Henriette Mertz 9780970398543
RRP: £21.95£15.20Apologies 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... -
They Say the Wind Is Red: The Alabama Choctaw--Lost in Their Own by Jacqueline Matte 9781588380791
RRP: £18.95£14.59They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, they had to resist the efforts of unscrupulous government agents to steal their... -
The Indian Frontier 1763-1846 by R. Douglas Hurt
RRP: £25.95£21.04This synthesis of Indian-white relations west of the Appalachians from the end of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the Mexican War is not simply a story of whites versus Indians. The author focuses on relations among the British, the... -
The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 by Jace Weaver
RRP: £35.95£27.90From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and... -
A Description of New Netherland by Adriaen van der Donck
RRP: £25.99£22.04This new edition and original translation of a tract by Dutch settler and lawyer van der Donck makes more widely accessible a document crucial for understanding the history of Dutch colonization in North America. . . . This document is an important... -
Lakhota: An Indigenous History by Rani-Henrik Andersson 9780806190754
RRP: £29.95£21.73The Lakh o ta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakh o ta culture and society, from their... -
Lewis and Clark among the Indians by James P. Ronda 9780803289901
RRP: £18.99£15.07"Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the... -
Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women by Carolyn Niethammer
RRP: £20.00£13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684829555Author Carolyn NiethammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education... -
The Truth About Geronimo by Britton Davis 9780803258402
RRP: £18.99£16.36Britton Davis's account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885-86 offers an important firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. Davis knew most of the people involved in the campaign and... -
Basic Call to Consciousness by Akwesasne Notes
RRP: £12.50£8.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570671593Author Akwesasne NotesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Book Publishing Company -
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest by Dr Robert H Ruby 9780806140247
RRP: £22.95£18.43The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has... -
My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293342
RRP: £14.99£13.11Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as...