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American Indian places: a historical guidebook
By Frances H. Kennedy. 2008
Historical guide to 366 sites within the United States that are significant to Native Americans and open to the public,…
organized by geographic region. Each location is listed with an essay conveying its importance, history, and archaeological background. Addresses proper visitor protocol. 2008Nez Perce country
By Alvin M. Josephy Jr.. 2007
The founding chair of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian surveys the history of the Nez Perce tribe…
of the Pacific northwest. Discusses the interactions between natives and settlers after the Lewis and Clark expeditions, including massacres, land grabs, and treaty negotiations. Introduction by Jeremy Fivecrows. 2007Do all Indians live in tipis?: questions and answers from the National Museum of the American Indian
By National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of the American Indian Staff. 2007
Reference queries received by the staff of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dozens of questions answered by Native…
Americans cover history, culture, and language. Topics include ceremonies, totem poles, myths, captivity stories, slavery, clothing, tribal enrollment, and government benefits. For senior high and older readers. 2007The Nez Perces in the Indian territory: Nimiipuu survival
By J. Diane Pearson. 2008
American Indian Studies professor traces the history of the Nez Perces and their maltreatment by the U.S. government. Focuses on…
the years after the 1877 undeclared war when the Pacific Northwest Indians were deported to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Describes their legal battles and daily suffering from poverty and disease. 2008American Indians and the law: The Penguin Library of American Indian History (Penguin library of American Indian history)
By Colin G. Calloway, N. Bruce Duthu, Bruce Duthu. 2008
Law professor Duthu, a United Houma Indian Nation tribal member from Louisiana, uses court cases and statutes to demonstrate the…
evolution of Native American rights. Highlights inconsistencies in the interpretation of federal and state law even though native tribes are considered sovereign governments under the U.S. Constitution. 2008Warrior woman: a novel : based on the life of Nonhelema, Shawnee woman chief
By James Alexander Thom, Dark Rain Thom. 2004
Fictionalized account of Shawnee women's peace chief Nonhelema, who attempts to negotiate an armistice with both the Americans and British…
during the Revolutionary War. Nonhelema's loyalties are divided as her white allies betray her and she is alienated from her people. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 2003Coyote warrior: one man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation
By Paul Van Develder, Paul VanDevelder. 2004
Traces the fight by the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes to protect their North Dakota land that was flooded by…
the post-World War II construction of Garrison Dam. Highlights the work of Yale-educated attorney Raymond Cross, a tribal chairman's son, and his case before the U.S. Supreme Court. 2004Saint Patrick's Battalion: A Novel
By James Alexander Thom. 2006
Private John Riley and scores of fellow Catholic immigrants desert the army and defect to the Mexican side during the…
1846 war. Camp boy Padraic Quinn keeps a diary recalling the prejudice and abuse they suffered at the hands of Protestant officers--and the resulting mutiny. Violence and strong language. 2006Black Kettle: the Cheyenne chief who sought peace but found war
By Thom Hatch. 2004
Biography of the nineteenth-century chief who worked to secure survival of the Cheyenne nation. Portrays Black Kettle in the social,…
political, and historical context of America's western expansion. Describes the battles and betrayals leading to his death in 1868 when Lieutenant Colonel Custer attacked Black Kettle's village. Spur Award. 2004The rise and fall of North American Indians: from prehistory through Geronimo
By William Brandon, William P. Brandon. 2003
Author of The Last Americans (DB 15432) uses primary sources to narrate the history of the natives of North America…
from ancient times to European contact and subjugation. Discusses the people of Mesoamerica and South America and tales of Puritans, the Trail of Tears, buffalo soldiers, and massacres. 20031491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
By Charles C. Mann. 2005
Offers conclusions from anthropological and archaeological research about the western hemisphere before European exploration. Examines the evidence of a large…
indigenous population and the ecological impact the people had on the environment through crop modification, landscaping, and farming the rainforest. Discusses the rise and fall of Indian empires. Bestseller. 2005Yellow Wolf, his own story: His Own Story
By Yellow Wolf, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter. 2000
Indian warrior's account of the Nez Perce War (1877) as told to his friend, the author, between 1908 and 1935.…
Describes Yellow Wolf's youth, the battle of Big Hole, the savagery of whites, the surrender at Bear's Paw Battlefield, and his life as a fugitive. 1940Diné: a history of the Navajos
By Peter Iverson, Monty Roessel. 2002
A cultural history of the largest North American Indian nation. Describes their Southwest origins bounded by four sacred mountains and…
their evolving lifestyle through the start of the twenty-first century. Discusses their adaptability as a means of survival, focusing on the final 150 years. Spur Award for nonfiction. 2002One vast winter count: the Native American West before Lewis and Clark (History of the American West)
By Colin G. Calloway, Colin G Calloway. 2003
Traces the history of America's native peoples from the Appalachians to the Pacific until 1800. Describes constant environmental changes with…
development of a corn-growing agriculture, introduction of horses, acquisition of guns, and decimation from disease, among other factors. Also discusses continuing conflicts due to inter-tribal feuding and European penetration. 2003Narrative overview of major events shaping the history of the Indian people in the lower forty-eight states. Discusses the arrival…
of "American Indians" on the North American continent some seventeen thousand years before Columbus landed. Explores their strife with European settlers and subsequent treatment by the United States government through the twentieth century. 2003Examines the collision of Native American and European cultures in northeastern America between 1620 and 1830. Discusses the interactions of…
these groups and the enduring aftereffects on their religions. Portrays outstanding individuals from both sides and assesses their spheres of influence. 2002Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty.…
At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even beganKillers of the flower moon: The osage murders and the birth of the fbi
By David Grann. 2017
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous…
crimes in American history, f rom the author of The Lost City of Z. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann&’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!In a barren land: American Indian dispossession and survival
By Paula Mitchell Marks, Paula M. Marks. 1998
A historian chronicles European settlers' conquest of Native American lands from their initial contacts in 1607 up to the 1990s.…
Describes the indigenous inhabitants' struggle to maintain their traditional cultures despite forced relocations, the elimination of customs, and their own diminishing numbersCuster died for your sins: an Indian manifesto
By Vine Deloria. 1988
The preface to this 1988 edition states, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this…
book that some things contained in it seem new again." Many myths about Native Americans were debunked by the original 1969 work, and other factors have changed. Problems that remain are described in the text that has its own tough humor