Ethnic Studies
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Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History
$22.95 Add to cartThe impact of Indian boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks continue to affect their descendants today. Michigan was home to three: in Baraga, H
- Author: Brunner, Sharon Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: April 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998020
- Language: English
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
$62.95 Add to cartA celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride
The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of th
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578596882
- Language: English
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartFor many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow seg
- Author: Pilgrim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1629631140
- Language: English
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Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
$21.95 Add to cartWhen the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886355
- Language: English
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Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
$22.95 Read moreThis is a vivid graphic history of the Chinese experience in North America over the last 150 years, beginning with the immigration of Chinese to “Gold Mountain” (the Chinese colloquialism for North Am… [more below]
- Author: Wong, David H. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1551524767
- Language: English
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The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos
$24.95 Add to cartThe interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the Sun, the Moon, and the stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand their world. The Spirit and the Sky presents a survey of … [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
- Author: Hollabaugh, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496208234
- Language: English
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Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navajo Autobiography
$26.95 Add to cartWith a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 “when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] thumbnail,” of family chores such as guardi… [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Left Handed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496205154
- Language: English
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Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2009, Raquel Cepeda embarked on an exploration of her genealogy using ancestral DNA testing to uncover the truth about her family and the tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an … [more below]
- Author: Cepeda, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1451635877
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$15.00 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
$32.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major
- Author: Kashatus, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0268200394
- Language: English
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African History: Explore The Amazing Timeline of The World’s Richest Continent – The History, Culture, Folklore, Mythology & More of Af
$19.99 Add to cartJourney into The Heart of Africa & Explore Over 2000 Years of History, People, Countries, Myths, Facts & More
From the birthplace of civilisation to modern times, African History tells the most exquisi
- Author: Brought Alive, History
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312392
- Language: English
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English as a Global Language
$19.99 Add to cartDavid Crystal’s classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has b… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107611806
- Language: English
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The Clay We Are Made of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
$31.95 Read moreIf one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Ha
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #20
- Author: Hill, Susan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557171
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
$22.95 Add to cartExplores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders-and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe.
Author… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518438
- Language: English
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Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton
$19.95 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota, while living in the white world, quietly worked to preserve the customs… [more below]
- Author: Oneroad, Amos E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0873515307
- Language: English
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Another Country
$28.95 Add to cartThe southern Appalachians encompass one of the most beautiful, biologically diverse, and historically important regions of North America. In the widely acclaimed Another Country: Journeying toward the
- Author: Camuto, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0820322377
- Language: English
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95 Add to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
$21.95 Add to cartLike the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own
- Series: Indigenous Education
- Author: Trafzer, Clifford E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803294638
- 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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The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
$29.95 Add to cartThe Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig
- Author: Sittig, Ann L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803284616
- Language: English
