Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
$14.95 Add to cartSix Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield’s survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more t… [more below]
- Author: Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023160
- Language: English
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Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
$19.99 Read moreAstounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escape… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Drimmer, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486249018
- Language: English
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Capturing Education: Envisioning and Building the First Tribal Colleges
$12.95 Add to cartCapturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows their subsequent growth and development, especially in… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 193459413X
- Language: English
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Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat
$18.00 Read more“With careful attention to his book’s subtitle, Michno presents the most important surviving testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux participants in the 1876 Little Bighorn battle. He follows the virtu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423494
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino
$18.00 Add to cartThe Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970… [more below]
- Author: Eisler, Kim Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803267452
- Language: English
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Revised Edition
$34.95 Add to cartOn September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harves… [more below]
- Author: Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0803243111
- Language: English
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
$24.00 Add to cartThis “flowing, lucid, and satisfying…story of Indian nations” (The Washington Post) traces the history of North American Indigenous peoples from the Pleistocene era to the present–a must-read for a
- Author: Page, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 03, 2004
- ISBN10: 0684855771
- Language: English
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Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? the Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr
- Author: Dunning, Norma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 177162339X
- Language: English
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Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niim?puu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1847 two barrels of “Indian curiosities” shipped by missionary Henry Spalding to Dr. Dudley Allen arrived in Kinsman, Ohio. The items inside included exquisite Nez Perce shirts, dresses, baskets, a
- Author: Bond, Trevor James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224055
- Language: English
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The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property
$19.95 Add to cartHow making treaties for land cessions with Native American nations transformed human relationships to the land and became a profitable family business.
- Author: Case, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681340909
- Language: English
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Apache Voices Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball
$24.95 Add to cartIn the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army’s campai
- Author: Robinson, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826321631
- Language: English
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
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 cent- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535116
- Language: English
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Voices of Cherokee Women
$19.95 Add to cartVoices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travele
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Johnston, Carolyn Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0895875993
- Language: English
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Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
$24.95 Add to cartThe Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common–and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservati… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519639
- Language: English
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A History of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island: Keepers of the Bay
$21.99 Add to cartA history of the Narragansett Tribe of RI from early European encounters to the tribe’s return to sovereignty in the 20th Century.
Before Roger Williams set foot in the New World, the Narragansett farm
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Geake, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1609492587
- Language: English
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Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cart“Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview,” Enrique Salm? writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the
- Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
- Author: Salm?n, Enrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0816530114
- Language: English
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The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History
$19.95 Add to cartIn the late nineteenth century the U.S. government attempted to reshape Lakota (Sioux) society to accord with American ideals. Catherine Price charts the political strategies employed by Oglala counci… [more below]
- Author: Price, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287585
- Language: English
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Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die
$29.95 Add to cartIn Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die, Cheewa James, a direct descendent Modoc War hero Shkeitko, aka “Shacknasty Jim”, recounts the explosive and personal story of her ancestors in a richly documente
- Author: James, Cheewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0879612754
- Language: English
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Masters of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartA radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the vital role played by the native peoples of the Gre- Author: McDonnell, Michael a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0809068001
- Language: English
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The Cherokee Nation: A History
$24.95 Read moreThe Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed
- Author: Conley, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0826332358
- Language: English
