Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for American Indian Youth Literature Award (Young Adult) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781984857941Author Adrienne KeeneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten...

Placing American Indians in the center of the story, Restoring a Presence relates an entirely new history of Yellowstone National Park.Although new laws have been enacted giving American Indians access to resources on public lands, Yellowstone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483975Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Since its original publication in 1966, This Land Was Theirs has continued to offer a different approach to the study of Native Americans living north of Mexico. Designed for undergraduate courses in Native North Americans, the emphasis was, and...

At the center of this stirring saga of the Apache-Anglo frontier is Mangas Colorados, the formidable chief of the "Red Paint People," or Eastern Chiricahua Apaches. Born about 1795 probably in southern New Mexico, the Apache warrior (popularly known as...

Now in paperback, an important account of ten Supreme Court cases that changed the fate of Native Americans, providing the contemporary historical/political context of each case, and explaining how the decisions have adversely affected the cultural...

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a physician writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English and French ancestry. After working as a physician on reservations in South Dakota, he became increasingly active in...

The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and Northern Cheyennes who won that battle but lost the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604861068Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 101g

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples-a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640088Author Ralph Franklin KeelingFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389138Author Scott W. BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The selections-some rendered immediately after the...

"A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures."-Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest...

An incisive history of early American archaeology-from reckless looting to professional science-and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today, told "with passion, indignation, and a dash of suspense" (New York Times). American archaeology was...

Unpublished letters and diaries by eyewitnesses, interviews with decedents, an intimate knowledge of the country enrich this narrative of the heroic Nez Perce Indian War waged in 1877 against relocation.The result is a well documented chronicle offering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113911Author Colin G. CallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 194gDimensions(mm) 190mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449905081Author Paula Gunn AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 129mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806514345Author Fanny KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and...

This original study of Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century is presented through the use of period writings, paintings, and early photography that relate how life was carried out. The author juxtaposes the sources with new research and modern color...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884025023Author David StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

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...

In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781501152542Author Megan Kate NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948218207Author Darren ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint By Common Consent PressPublisher By Common Consent PressWeight(grams)...

"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade,...

This volume, first published in 2004, presents an overview of the history of the Plains Sioux as they became increasingly subject to the power of the United States in the 1800s. Many aspects of this story - the Oregon Trail, military clashes, the deaths...

A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement--with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier! In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard...

As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot's band was headed...

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,...

A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz's life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591431077Author Frank JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780802145697Author Brian HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist-and sometimes clash-in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419480Author Garrick MalleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...