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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. 2008Approaching Fire
By Michelle Porter. 2022
In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert…
Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, Approaching Fire fashions a textual documentary of rescue and insight, and a glowing contemplation of the ways in which loss can generate unbridled renewal.Rehearsals for Living
By Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. 2022
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and…
activists.When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. These letters soon grew into a powerful exchange about where we go from here. Rehearsals for Living is a captivating and visionary work—part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment, Maynard and Simpson create something new: an urgent demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up other ways of ordering earthly life.Spíləx̣m: A weaving of recovery, resilience, and resurgence
By Nicola I. Campbell. 2022
If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the…
Nle?kepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m explores resilience, reconnection, and narrative memory through stories. Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman's journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgenceWarrior 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 began