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38 nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end
By Scott W. Berg, Scott W Berg. 2012
Chronicles the Dakota War of 1862, which began when Sioux Indians attacked settlers on the Minnesota frontier. Recounts President Lincoln's…
orders to General John Pope to put down the insurrection and the hanging of thirty-eight warriors despite appeals by former hostage Sarah Wakefield and an Episcopal priest. Violence. 2012The bitter waters of Medicine Creek: a tragic clash between white and native America
By Richard Kluger. 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the relationship between indigenous tribes and white settlers in 1850s Washington Territory. Examines the role of…
the first governor, Isaac Stevens, and the treaties, revolts, and massacres that led to the trial and hanging of Nisqually leader Leschi in 1858. Discusses Leschi's 2004 exoneration. 2011Rez life: an Indian's journey through reservation life
By David Treuer. 2012
Ojibwa novelist recounts life on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Interweaves his personal recollections with explanations of the history…
of Indian and U.S. government interactions over 150 years. Discusses sovereignty, housing, education, ecology, and casinos and addresses the issues of alcohol abuse and unemployment. Strong language and some violence. 2012Historical survey of the aboriginal inhabitants of the United States, including Alaskan natives. Discusses common characteristics such as adaptation to…
the physical environment, love of homeland, and eloquence of language. Describes the tribes' interaction with Europeans and eventual removal to reservations. Contains 1983 revisions. 1970Gens du fleuve, gens de l’île: Hochelaga en Laurentie iroquoienne au XVIe siècle
By Roland Viau. 2021
Une réponse à la grande énigme : pourquoi les populations autochtones d’Hochelaga ont-elles disparu entre l’arrivée de Cartier et celle…
de Champlain? Ce livre, qui prend souvent les allures d’une incomparable « enquête policière », constitue la première et remarquable synthèse de l’histoire de Montréal au XVIe siècle, à la fois savante et accessible. Un essai scientifique captivant pour qui s’intéresse aux communautés autochtones.Myth, memory, and massacre: the Pease River capture of Cynthia Ann Parker (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
By Paul H. Carlson, Paul Howard Carlson, Tom Crum. 2012
Investigates the so-called 'Battle of Pease River' and December 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, contending that what became, in…
Texans' collective memory, a battle that broke Comanche military power was actually a massacre, mainly of women. Questions traditional knowledge and historiographic interpretations of the history of TexasBlackfeet tales of Glacier National Park
By James Willard Schultz. 2002
In 1876 native New Yorker Schultz went to Montana for the summer to hunt buffalo. The 17-year old Schultz landed…
a job at the Fort Conrad Trading Post, which did not suit him. Soon, he was living outside the fort's wall with the Blackfeet. Speaking their language and using sign language, he absorbed hundreds of stories about the tribe, its history, and oral traditionBorn in the late 1700s, Chief Seattle was an established leader when settlers arrived at the site of the city…
that bears his name. His working relations with the settlers helped shape the future of the city and his people. Some violenceThe Indian great awakening: religion and the shaping of native cultures in early America
By Linford D. Fisher. 2012
In this book, Lindford Fisher tells of native peoples struggling with colonialism in New England between the 1670's and the…
1820's. This was a time in which the English settlers tried to convert the region's native peoples to Christianity and native individuals discerned the value of colonial structure and power. This enlightening account challenges long-held notions about religion and native Anglo-American interactionCode talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
By Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila. 2012
Memoir of an original Navajo code talker during World War II. The author reminisces about a childhood spent near the…
reservation in New Mexico, the hardships he faced attending various boarding schools, and his pride at being selected as a marine. He soon discovered that his secret mission would put him in the midst of many deadly battles in the Pacific, though the unbreakable code would turn the tide of the war. Some strong languageThe only one living to tell: the autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
By Mike Burns, Gregory McNamee. 2012
The author describes his capture as a child by the US military in 1872 and his subsequent work as an…
Indian scout throughout Arizona and the American West. Contains some violenceShame and endurance: the untold story of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war
By H. Henrietta Stockel. 2004
Stockel examines a little known part of American history, the fate of the Apache Indians who surrendered with Geronimo in…
1886 as Americans pushed into the West. The U.S. government broke many promises as it shifted the prisoners from place to place for many years and even separated families. This is a fascinating story of endurance and survivalStories of Métis Women: Tales My Kookum Told Me (Indigenous Spirit of Nature)
By Bailey Oster. 2021
In this era of reconciliation, Stories of Métis Women explains the Métis Nation from the women’s perspective. Often misunderstood, the…
Métis are an Indigenous People with a unique and proud history and Nation. This book celebrates Nation building, culture, identity, and resilience, but also deals with the dark times of residential schools, discrimination, and racism. The women’s stories are in English and Northern Michif language.Auassat: À la recherche des enfants disparus
By Anne Panasuk. 2021
Auassat – « les enfants », en innu – dévoile un chapitre ignoré de nos relations avec les Premières Nations,…
une histoire terrible qui explique les traumatismes transmis d’une génération à l’autre, jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Au début des années 1970, des enfants autochtones sont disparus après avoir été envoyés à l’hôpital pour y être soignés sans leurs parents. Certains, déclarés morts alors qu’ils ne l’étaient pas, ont été adoptés. Plusieurs ont perdu la vie sans que leurs proches en aient été avertis. Encore aujourd’hui, les familles cherchent ces enfants qui n’ont jamais été oubliés.Warrior nation: a history of the Red Lake Ojibwe
By Anton Treuer. 2015
The 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 reservation land base. Warrior Nation covers four centuries of the Red Lake Nation's forceful and assertive tenure on its land. Ojibwe historian and linguist Anton Treuer conducted oral histories with elders across the Red Lake reservation, learning the stories carried by the people. This fascinating history offers not only a chronicle of the Red Lake Nation but also a compelling perspective on a difficult piece of U.S. historyThe deadliest Indian war in the West: the Snake conflict, 1864-1868
By Gregory Michno. 2007
The Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American…
West during the 19th century. This book gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Northern California in a struggle that over a four-year period claimed more lives than any other Western Indian WarNative universe: voices of Indian America
By Kevin Gover. 2008
Indian scholars, writers, and leaders celebrate their cultural heritage through three main topics: "Our Universes" examines the diversity of beliefs…
and ceremonies, "Our Peoples" probes historical events such as the arrival of Christopher Columbus, and "Our Lives" offers stories and poems on contemporary identity. 2008"I am a man": Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice
By Joe Starita. 2009
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's people, the Ponca, were removed from their ancestral lands in Nebraska's Niobrara River Valley to…
Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). When his only son dies in 1879, Standing Bear undertakes a 600-mile journey back to Nebraska in order to bury him. This action sets the stage for a federal trial to determine whether or not Native Americans were entitled to equal protection under the law, and had they been deprived of their property, homeland, and even their lives without due processKatie Gale: a Coast Salish woman's life on Oyster Bay
By LLyn De Danaan. 2013
A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins…
to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition, so shaken by violent change. Katie Kettle Gale was born into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 1850's, just as settlers were migrating into what would become Washington State. With her people forced out of their accustomed hunting and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her fortune in Oyster Bay. In that early outpost of multiculturalism--where Native Americans and immigrants from the eastern United States, Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, political, and legal power--a woman like Gale could make her way. As Llyn De Danaan mines the historical record, we begin to see Gale, a strong-willed Native woman who co-founded a successful oyster business, then wrested it away from her Euro-American husband, a man with whom she raised children and who ultimately made her life unbearable. Steeped in sadness--with a lost home and a broken marriage, children dying in their teens, and tuberculosis claiming her at forty-three--Katie Gale's story is also one of remarkable pluck, a tale of hard work and ingenuity, gritty initiative and bad luck that is, ultimately, essentially AmericanArizona territory. Describes the April 30, 1871, Camp Grant Massacre, when Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians slaughtered Apaches who…
were under the protection of the U.S. Army. Discusses the social, political, and economic climate from the viewpoints of the four ethnic groups involved. Violence. 2008