Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
$29.99 Add to cartJames Merrell’s brilliant book is an account of the “go-betweens,” the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a refl
- Author: Merrell, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319768
- Language: English
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Native American Artifacts of Wisconsin
$45.95 Add to cartNative American Artifacts of Wisconsin is designed to bridge the gap between the professional and amateur archaeologist. In an easy and logical format, it serves as an excellent reference on the prehi
- Author: Schanen, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1932113754
- Language: English
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The Spanish Conquest of the Americas: An Enthralling Overview of the Conquistadors and Their Conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires
$26.99 Add to cartThe Spanish conquest of the Americas is a pivotal part of the history of colonization.
Christopher Columbus’s discovery, albeit accidental, of a new landmass turned the world upside-down. Beginning in
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651927
- Language: English
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
$24.95 Add to cartThe Navajo Nation covers a vast stretch of northeastern Arizona and parts of New Mexico and Utah. The area is also home to more than one thousand abandoned uranium mines and four former uranium mills,
- Author: Doug Brugge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826337791
- Language: English
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the sto… [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Evans, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603592
- Language: English
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Gall: Lakota War Chief
$21.95 Add to cartCalled the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0806140364
- Language: English
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Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View
$21.95 Add to cartThis volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The… [more below]
- Series: Military View
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806126698
- Language: English
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The Five Civilized Tribes: Volume 8
$26.95 Add to cartSide by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830’s was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #8
- Author: Foreman, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0806109238
- Language: English
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Charcoal’s World
$11.95 Add to cartCharcoal’s World was bounded by the mountains, hills, and plains of southwestern Alberta. That was the homeland of his people, the Blood Indians, but Charcoal was not free to enjoy it as his ancestors… [more below]
- Author: Dempsey, Hugh A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: November 01 1979
- ISBN10: 0803265522
- Language: English
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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation, Second Edition
$21.95 Add to cartFrom White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called “Coyote Warriors”–among them a Mandan/Hidatsa named Raymond Cross. Coyote Warrior tells the e… [more below]
- Author: Vandevelder, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803225466
- Language: English
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
$32.50 Add to cartThe recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the
- Author: Freidel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0688112048
- Language: English
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Myths of the Cherokee
$29.95 Read moreNoted anthropologist James Mooney (1861-1921) spent much of his life studying American Indians. In North Carolina, he lived for several years with the Cherokee, studying their language, culture, and m… [more below]
- Series: Native American (Paperback)
- Author: Mooney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0486289079
- Language: English
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The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History
$18.00 Read moreThe author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota
The saga of Custer’s Last Stand, has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key- Author: Marshall, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113690
- Language: English
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Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events
$84.95 Add to cart- 2000 history-making achievements, ground-breaking successes, pioneering accomplishments, and historic firsts
- Thoroughly researched and documented history
- History made accessible with fascinating stories
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Dennis, Yvonne Wakim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1578598079
- Language: English
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Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings
$25.00 Add to cartSerpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Ser
- Author: Murdoch, Bomgiizhik Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1928120350
- Language: English
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I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance
$24.95 Read moreBorn at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #9
- Author: Scottie, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 11 2022
- ISBN10: 088755265X
- Language: English
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Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities
$27.95 Add to cartReturning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as “
- Author: Fiola, Chantal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2021
- ISBN10: 088755962X
- Language: English
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Battle for Sitka,1802 -1804, Alaskan Tlingits, Russians and Native Allies in Russian America
$33.95 Add to cartBattle for Sitka is an English translation of a Russian historian’s and chief curator’s well considered views on the 1802 Russian loss of their fort and allies in the Sitka area to the Tlingit Indians… [more below]
- Author: Zorin, Alexander V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1977223397
- Language: English
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The Most Perfect Justice: Alexander McGillivray and George Washington Strive to Save the Creek Nation
$10.50 Add to cartAlexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation’s first president in 1789.
Both men faced uncerta
- Author: Bouler, Jean Lufkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1733449701
- Language: English
