Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs
$13.95 Add to cartStanding Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government … [more below]
- Author: Tibbles, Thomas Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: September 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0803294263
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- Language: English
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Washakie, Chief of the Shoshones
$19.95 Add to cartWashakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace Ra… [more below]
- Author: Hebard, Grace Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272782
- Language: English
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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
$12.00 Add to cartThe history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which “civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land an
- Author: Hill, Gord
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1604861061
- Language: English
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Traditional Navajo Teachings: Sacred Narratives and Ceremonies
$24.99 Add to cart“The books should be required reading for anyone who comes to teach, practice medicine or work on the Navajo Nation in any capacity- as well as young Navajos who seek a deeper understanding of their c… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1646425162
- Language: English
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Alaska’s Totem Poles
$14.99 Add to cartIn this newly revised edition of ALASKA’S TOTEM POLES, readers learn about the history and use of totems, clan crests, symbolism, and much more. A special section describes where to go to view totems…. [more below]
- Author: Kramer, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0882407317
- Language: English
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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
$20.00 Add to cartEstablished in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children i… [more below]
- Series: North American Indian Prose Award
- Author: Lomawaima, K. Tsianina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279574
- Language: English
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A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
$45.00 Add to cart(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world–ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and force
- Series: Plains Histories
- Author: Killsback, Leo K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1682830357
- Language: English
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Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City
$23.99 Add to cartAbout one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the “American Bottom.” This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America’
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Iseminger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297344
- Language: English
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Mountain Maidu and Pioneers: A History of Indian Valley, Plumas County, California, 1850 – 1920
$16.95 Add to cartBEGINNING WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION of Indian Valley, Pat continues with descriptions of Mountain Maidu life upon the arrival of white men searching for gold in the northeastern Sierra. Initia
- Author: Kurtz, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 24 2010
- ISBN10: 1450261752
- Language: English
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An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
$19.95 Add to cartThe remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence.
Just weeks before police would kill him in
- Author: Correia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599778
- Language: English
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Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land
$22.95 Add to cart“Canadians and politicians have a common responsibility: to learn from the mistakes inherited from a colonialist legacy; and to not repeat the wrongs, corruption, and injustices our people suffered i
- Author: Waiser, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417486
- Language: English
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Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten
$20.00 Add to cartThis riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth… [more below]
- Author: Feldman, George Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0911469338
- Language: English
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Heroes and Heroines: Tlingit-Haida Legend
$12.99 Add to cartOver uncounted generations the Tlingits and Haidas of Southeast Alaska developed a spoken literature as robust and distinctive as their unique graphic art style, and passed it from the old to the youn… [more below]
- Author: Beck, Mary Giraudo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0882403346
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Indian Wars
$30.00 Add to cartAfter years of research, independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known I… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: June 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0878424687
- Language: English
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Dinetah: An Early History of the Navajo People
$19.95 Add to cartHere, in a highly readable style, is a lively chronicle of the Navajo people from prehistory to 1868. It is a sympathetic history of a great people who depended on their tenacity and creative adaptabi
- Series: Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging
- Author: Sundberg, Lawrence D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865342210
- Language: English
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The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning
$27.95 Add to cartDespite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considere
- Author: Britten, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0826345875
- Language: English
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A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
$28.95 Read more“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”–Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)
“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreadi
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #11
- Author: Milloy, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557899
- Language: English
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Native North America
$40.43 Add to cartWith abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the … [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Zimmerman, Larry J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 806132868
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
$26.95 Add to cartThe 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 la- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0300255365
- Language: English
