Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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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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Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartOn the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of t… [more below]
- Author: Wylie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 080615974X
- Language: English
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In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
$28.99 Read moreIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fic… [more below]
- Author: Puglionesi, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982116757
- Language: English
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Tony Hillerman: A Life
$29.95 Add to cart2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist
The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and u- Author: Morris, James McGrath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0806175982
- 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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Secrets of Native American Herbal Remedies: A Comprehensive Guide to the Native American Tradition of Using Herbs and the Mind/Body/Spirit Connection
$23.00 Add to cartThe modern techniques of holistic and alternative healing and natural remedies have been alive in the “old ways” of Native American medicine for centuries. This comprehensive guide introduces the Nati… [more below]
- Series: Healing Arts
- Author: Cichoke, Anthony J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2001
- ISBN10: 158333100X
- Language: English
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Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
$32.95 Add to cartWhy don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity?
In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red R
- Author: Fiola, Chantal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0887557708
- Language: English
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The Mound Builders
$21.95 Add to cartIn Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the specul
- Author: Silverberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0821408399
- Language: English
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Sacajawea
$21.95 Add to cartIn the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806.
- Author: Howard, Harold P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0806115785
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- Language: English
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Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
$18.00 Add to cartOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282869
- Language: English
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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak
$14.00 Read moreA rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Black Hawk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105396
- Language: English
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The Tlingit Indians: Observations of an Indigenous People of Southeast Alaska 1881-1882
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States from the Bering Sea Coast when they came upon a Native population in southeast Alaska that had formed a society far m… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Aurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 193534725X
- 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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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
$21.95 Read moreThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
Long after the Anishinaabeg first i
- Author: Cochrane, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905931
- 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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Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life Volume 254
$26.95 Add to cartCrazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history.
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #254
- Author: Bray, Kingsley M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139862
- Language: English
