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The 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.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. 2008American 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. 2005