Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

This is the first in-depth historical study of Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, Thomas W. Kavanagh traces the changes and continuities in Comanche politics from their earliest interactions with Europeans to their...

Indian Boyhood," presents the incredible adventurous childhood and youth which were a part of the free wilderness life of the first American - a life that is gone forever. By dint of much persuasion, the story has now been carried on from the point of...

Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark...

These collected myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest-the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes-were first published in 1910. Here are their stories concerning the creation of the...

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and...

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and...

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...

A much-neglected source of first-hand views on the Battle of the Little Bighorn is presented in this third and final volume of Indian testimony collected by award-winning author Richard G. Hardorff. Like its companion volumes, Lakota Recollections and...

Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait, James L. Haley's dramatic saga of the Apaches' doomed guerrilla war against the whites, was a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-native conflict. Arguing that "you...

Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux, when buffalo were plentiful and...

This new, expanded edition of The California Indians is a more comprehensive and thus more useful book than its predecessor, which first appeared in 1951 and was reprinted seven times. The editors have combined the selections, eighteen of which are new,...

A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the...

In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758560Author William M OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 569g

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 9780814255148Author Lloyd E Divine JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

From 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Anthology) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780873514040Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480813Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692680681Author Win BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Wordworx PublishingPublisher Wordworx PublishingWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer's Last Stand. Their testimony sheds light on what happened at the Little Bighorn on the bloodiest of Sundays, June 25, 1876. Flying Hawk, Standing...

Lt. 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...

Apologies 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

The westward drive of the warlike Sioux Indians along a thousand miles of prairie and woodland, from the upper reaches of the Mississippi to the lower Powder River in Montana, is one of the epic migrations of history. From about 1660 to the first quarter...

An indispensable introduction to the rich variety of Native leadership in the modern era, The New Warriors profiles Native men and women who have played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the...

How 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...

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 9780593329580Author Caleb GayleFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

After prolonged resistance against tremendous odds, Geronimo, the Apache shaman and war leader, and Naiche, the hereditary Chiricahua chief, surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles near the Mexican border on September 4, 1886. It was the beginning of a...

Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806186368Author Justin GageFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 152g

Pragmatism 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...

This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek. A...

Before an indigenous people can decolonize, Leo Killsback explains, they must first understand what the world was like before colonization. Such understanding allows indigenous people to generate realistic goals and achieve positive change, reinventing...

From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America-from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935786092Author Stanley J St ClairFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Saint Clair PublicationsPublisher Saint Clair PublicationsWeight(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,...