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Diné: 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 humorKilling Custer: the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the fate of the Plains Indians
By James Welch, Paul Jeffrey Stekler. 1994
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn is a frequently portrayed event in American history. Welch covers the period from…
1870 to 1890 to provide background and show the long-term effects. Using new research to reconcile firsthand accounts, he recounts the story of Custer's last stand from the point of view of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. 1994.If you poison us: uranium and Native Americans
By Peter H Eichstaedt, Peter H. Eichstaedt. 1994
How uranium mining began on Indian lands in the American West; how it was conducted; how its deadly legacy still…
lingers in the lives of the men, women, and children whose harmony and homelands have been destroyed; and how the government has responded to the crisis. Included are interviews with affected Native Americans as well as public-health and congressional-hearing reportsBuffalo woman comes singing: the spirit song of a rainbow medicine woman
By Brooke Medicine Eagle. 1991
As a young woman, Medicine Eagle left her teaching job to enter a progressive graduate program that allowed her to…
explore her Native American identity. Her quest for a spiritual leader led her to various teachers including an elderly woman in her stepmother's tribe. Medicine Eagle describes both the inspiration and the frustration she felt during her experience. Spiritual exercises are includedLand of the spotted eagle
By Luther Standing Bear. 1978
Standing Bear outlines the customs and beliefs his tribe adhered to in the late nineteenth century. He praises the Sioux…
or Lakota methods of child-rearing and education as well as their relationship with the earth, other species, and each other. Using his own and others' experiences, Standing Bear illustrates and laments the forced erosion of his native cultureCrimsoned prairie: the Indian wars (A da Capo Paperback Ser.)
By S. L. A Marshall, S. L. Marshall. 1984
A chronicler of military history, who is part Native American, documents the battles between the frontier armies and the Plains…
Indians. He focuses on essential military values and the tactical contrasts between the Native Americans' way of waging war and the U.S. troops, whose supplies were mismanaged and whose training was neglectedKinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother
By Norma Dunning, Dr Norma Dunning. 2022
From 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. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: “What was your disc number?” Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon herself to reach out to Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand, providing vital perspective and nuance to the scant records available on the subject. Written with incisive detail and passion, Dunning provides readers with a comprehensive look into a bureaucracy sustained by the Canadian government for over thirty years, neglected by history books but with lasting echoes revealed in Dunning’s intimate interviews with affected community members. Not one government has taken responsibility or apologized for the E-number system to date — a symbol of the blatant dehumanizing treatment of the smallest Indigenous population in Canada. A necessary and timely offering, Kinauvit? provides a critical record and response to a significant piece of Canadian history, collecting years of research, interviews and personal stories from an important voice in Canadian literature.The Nisqually--my people: the traditional and transitional history of the Nisqually Indian people
By Cecelia Svinth Carpenter. 2002
The Soul of the Indian (Native American)
By Charles A Eastman, Charles Alexander Eastman, Charles Alexander. 2003
In The Soul of the Indian, Eastman brings to life the rich spirituality and morality of the Native Americans as…
they existed before contact with missionaries and other whites. This is a rare firsthand expression of native religion, without the filters imposed by translators or anthropologists. Rather than a scientific treatise, Eastman has written a book, "as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from the human, not the ethnological standpoint." His discussions of the forms of ceremonial and symbolic worship, the unwritten scriptures, and the spirit world emphasize the universal quality and personal appeal of Native American religion. Adult. UnratedMni sota makoce: the land of the Dakota
By Gwen Westerman, Bruce White. 2012
Mni Sota Makoce tells the detailed history of the Dakota people in their traditional homelands for at least hundreds of…
years prior to exile. "Minnesota" is derived from the Dakota phrase Mni Sota Makoce, Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds -- and the people's roots here remain strong. Authors Gwen Westerman and Bruce White examine narratives of the people's origins, their associations with the land, and the seasonal round through key players and place names. They consider Dakota interactions with Europeans and offer an in-depth "reading between the lines" of historical documents -- some of them virtually unknown -- and treaties made with the United States, uncovering misunderstandings and outright deceptions that helped lead to war in 1862. Adult. Unrated"From 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 SystemIn 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: 'What was your disc number?'"Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon herself to reach out to Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand, providing vital perspective and nuance to the scant records available on the subject. Written with incisive detail and passion, Dunning provides readers with a comprehensive look into a bureaucracy sustained by the Canadian government for over thirty years, neglected by history books but with lasting echoes revealed in Dunning’s intimate interviews with affected community members. Not one government has taken responsibility or apologized for the E-number system to date — a symbol of the blatant dehumanizing treatment of the smallest Indigenous population in Canada.A necessary and timely offering, Kinauvit? provides a critical record and response to a significant piece of Canadian history, collecting years of research, interviews and personal stories from an important voice in Canadian literature." - Douglas & McIntyreCheated: The laurier liberals and the theft of first nations reserve land
By Bill Waiser. 2023
You won't find the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves on a map of southeastern Saskatchewan. In 1901, the two…
Nakoda bands reluctantly surrendered the seventy square miles granted to them under treaty. It's just one of more than two dozen surrenders aggressively pursued by the Laurier Liberal government over a fifteen-year period. One in five acres was taken from First Nations. This confiscation was justified on the grounds that prairie bands had too much land and that it would be better used by white settlers. In reality, the surrendered land was largely scooped up by Liberal speculators-including three senior civil servants and a Liberal cabinet minister-and flipped for a tidy profit. None were held to account. Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal speculators, set against a backdrop of politics, power, patronage, and profit. The Laurier government's settlement of western Canada can never be looked at the same way againDammed: The politics of loss and survival in anishinaabe territory
By Brittany Luby. 2023
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods…
area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the health and economy of their communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories. The same hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral history, and environmental observation, Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the twentieth century