Syracuse University Press, 2007. — 256 p. The era following the American War of Independence was one of enormous conflict for the Allegany Senecas. There was then no Seneca leader more influential than Chief Warrior Cornplanter. Yet there has been no definitive treatment of his life–until now. Complex and passionate, yet wise, Cornplanter led his people in war and along an...
University of Alabama Press, 2015. — 240 p. The Creek War of 1813–1814 is studied primarily as an event that impacted its two main antagonists, the defending Creeks in what is now the State of Alabama and the expanding young American republic. Scant attention has been paid to how the United States’ Cherokee allies contributed to the war and how the war transformed their...
Westholme Publishing, 2012. — 448 p. Sioux War Dispatches: Reports from the Field, 1876-1877 , tells the story of the Great Sioux War, including the battle of the Little Big Horn, primarily through the eyes of contemporary newspaper correspondents, both civilian and military. The volume begins with the Black Hills dilemma and the issue of the unceded territory (the disputed lands...
Westholme Publishing, 2012. — 448 p. Sioux War Dispatches: Reports from the Field, 1876-1877 , tells the story of the Great Sioux War, including the battle of the Little Big Horn, primarily through the eyes of contemporary newspaper correspondents, both civilian and military. The volume begins with the Black Hills dilemma and the issue of the unceded territory (the disputed lands...
The University of Alabama Press, 2005. — 604 p. In the spring of 1775, James Adair’s History of the American Indians was released by publishers Edward and Charles Dilly of London. The book was actually a study of the major tribes residing adjacent to Britain’s southern colonies, particularly the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Choctaw Indians. In addition to providing a survey of...
University of Manitoba Press, 2021. — 272 p. Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg to the care, use, and occupation of their Trout Lake...
University of California Press, 2021. — 384 p. Before there was such a thing as "California", there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 232 p. This book is the first comprehensive study of the driving force behind Native political activism, and the only scholarly treatment of North American Indian politics which integrates an explicitly Native perspective. With a broad historical scope rich in detail, and drawing on the particular experience of the Mohawks of Kahnawake, it offers...
University of Toronto Press, 2005. — 320 p. The word Wasáse is the Kanienkeha (Mohawk) word for the ancient war dance ceremony of unity, strength, and commitment to action. The author notes, "This book traces the journey of those Indigenous people who have found a way to transcend the colonial identities which are the legacy of our history and live as Onkwehonwe, original...
Toronto & Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1992. — 296 p. His Majesty's Indian Allies is a study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, with particular focus on Canada.
Dundurn Press, 1996. — 296 p. His Majesty’s Indian Allies is a study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, with particular focus on Canada. Robert S. Allen earned his doctorate in history at the University of Wales. His publications include The British Indian Department and the Frontier in North America...
Dundurn Press, 1996. — 296 p. His Majesty’s Indian Allies is a study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, with particular focus on Canada. Robert S. Allen earned his doctorate in history at the University of Wales. His publications include The British Indian Department and the Frontier in North America...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 256 p. In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy...
Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. — 551 p. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General...
Larousse, 2010. — 186 p. Le 25 juin 1876, sur les rives de la Little Big Horn, le 7e de cavalerie, commandé par le général Custer, est massacré par une coalition de Cheyennes et de Sioux. Cette victoire, la plus importante jamais remportée par les Indiens, est l’œuvre de Sitting Bull, un chef sioux. Guerrier, homme-médecine et guide spirituel, il a vécu l’avancée des pionniers...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 282 p. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America’s most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations). Throughout the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries of European colonization the...
New York: Penguin, 2006. — 336 p. The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War -the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War-remains one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, episodes in American history. Fred Anderson takes readers on a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 384 p. In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the...
Preface by Mark C. Carnes. — University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 228 p. In this newly revised biography, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood , Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Horn and its aftermath, and details the events and life experiences that ultimately led Sitting Bull into...
Preface by Mark C. Carnes. — University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 228 p. In this newly revised biography, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood , Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Horn and its aftermath, and details the events and life experiences that ultimately led Sitting Bull into...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 494 p. This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. — 384 p. The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830 demonstrates that, in the face of European conquest, severe drought, and disease, Indians in the Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic, remaining independent actors and even prospering. Some tribes temporarily joined Spanish missions or assimilated into other tribes. Others survived by...
2006. — 124 p. The Coast Tsimshian tribes ancestral to the contemporary Allied Tsimshian Tribes have a highly distinctive social organization and culture emphasizing ownership of land and resources, trade within and among communities, the accumulation of wealth, and the deployment of that wealth to advance social and political objectives. Prolific salmon runs were the economic...
Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2013. — 114 p. The Staff Ride Handbook for Dade's Battle, Florida, 28 December 1835 is the eleventh volume in the Combat Studies Institute's Staff Ride Handbook series. Michael G. Anderson's well-researched handbook uses the opening conflict of the Second Seminole War as a vehicle to allow...
Foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie — University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 432 p. The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officials, culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men, women, and children, historical accounts have most often described the Ghost...
University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 464 p. A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 352 p. One of the small group of tribes comprising the Illinois division of the Algonquian linguistic family, the Miamis emerged as a pivotal tribe only during the French and British imperial wars, the Miami Confederacy wars of the eighteenth century, and the treaty-making period of the nineteenth century. The Miamis reached their peak of...
Carleton University Press, 1997. — 450 p. This formative history takes a new look at a dramatic conflict-the war on the Detroit frontier in 1812-13. Powerful key players (Procter, Tecumseh and Brock), their disparate war aims, and the "all or nothing" character of the campaigns they waged still seem larger than life. Yet Sandy Antal's careful reconstruction of Native and national...
Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1995. — 238 p. This volume is the result of the author's research into the history of the Western fur trade and its impact on the Plains Indians. It is also a study of the commercial elements underpinning the fur trade and the effect of the White Man's penetration of the territory of Saskatchewan and Missouri rivers. As such, it seeks to bring a...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. — 378 p. The men of the Second Cavalry went to Texas to fight Indians. Then they returned east to fight each other. The creation of the Second Cavalry in 1855 was a watershed event in the history of the United States Army. Ordered to engage the Native American tribes whose persistent raids were slowing the settlement of the West, the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 312 p. "Times are Altered With Us": American Indians from Contact to the New Republic presents a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-period of history of Native American-European engagement from 1492 until 1800. Historian and Native American expert Roger Carpenter takes the reader on a sweeping narrative journey of the early...
Cobblehill Books/Dutton, 1996. — 54 p. From 1875 to 1878, the Castillo de San Marcos, renamed Fort Marion, located in Florida, was used as a prison for 72 Plains Indians who had been taken prisoner during the Indian wars. They were eventually allowed to visit the nearby town of Saint Augustine. Some gained famed as the "Fort Marion artists" as they recreated in art scenes from...
University of Alabama Press, 2003. — 380 p.
A comprehensive history of the Chickasaw tribe, whose territory, before they were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, was located east of the Mississippi river. The author traces their history as far back as documentation and archaeology allow and historicizes from a native viewpoint.
University of New Mexico Press, 2006. — 212 p. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the pueblos of the Southwest frequently inspired Anglo-American visitors to express their sense of wonder and enchantment in biblical references. Frank Hamilton Cushing's first account of Zuni pueblo described a setting that looked like "The Pools of Palestine". Drawn to the Southwest, Mabel...
Oxford University Press, 1990. — 320 p. This volume comprises a new collection of essays - four previously unpublished - by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America , and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in Colonial North America. Arguing that moral...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 400 p. In this provocative and timely collection of essays - five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America,...
Louisiana State University Press, 1997. — 120 p. In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while...
Oxford University Press, 1986. — 402 p. Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but also for allegiances and even souls. In the three-sided struggle for empire, the English and French colonists were locked in heated competition for native allies and religious converts. Axtell sharply contrasts the English efforts to "civilize" the Indians with the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 333 p. — (Studies in North American Indian History). As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region. In response to drought and military...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 372 p. The Royal Society of Canada’s mandate is to elect to its membership leading scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, lending its seal of excellence to those who advance artistic and intellectual knowledge in Canada. Duncan Campbell Scott, one of the architects of the Indian residential school system in...
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2019. — 560 p. American Indians have been at the center of Mormon doctrine from its very beginnings, recast as among the Children of Israel and thereby destined to play a central role in the earthly triumph of the new faith. The settling of the Mormons among the Indians of what became Utah Territory presented a different story - a story that, as told...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Narratives of cultural encounter in colonial North America often contrast traditional Indian coastal-dwellers and intrepid European seafarers. In Storm of the Sea, Matthew R. Bahar instead tells the forgotten history of Indian pirates hijacking European sailing ships on the rough waters of the north Atlantic and of an Indian navy pressing...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. — 320 p. — (The Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 152). Traces the history of this Arkansas River valley tribe, describes their culture, and shows how they were affected by westward expansion. W. David Baird , Dean Emeritus of Seaver College, Howard A. White Professor Emeritus of History, Humanities/Teacher Education Division,...
Foreword by Dan L. Thrapp — University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 360 p. "A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting reading... This is a major contribution to both Apache history and to the history of the Southwest... The book...
University of Arizona Press, 1972. — 222 p. — (Narrated by James Kaywaykla). A history of the events of the 1870's and 1880's as related by the last remaining Apache survivor of Tres Castillus. This volume contains a great deal of interesting information. The Apache point of view is presented with great clarity. A genuine contribution to the story of the Apache wars, and a very...
University of Arizona Press, 1972. — 222 p. — (Narrated by James Kaywaykla). A history of the events of the 1870's and 1880's as related by the last remaining Apache survivor of Tres Castillus. This volume contains a great deal of interesting information. The Apache point of view is presented with great clarity. A genuine contribution to the story of the Apache wars, and a very...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 352 p. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior , written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the first time and also traces the rise of the American Indian...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 352 p.
Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In "Ojibwa Warrior", written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the first time and also traces the rise of the American Indian...
Belknap Press, 2007. — 352 p. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways - as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How...
Michigan State University Press, 2004. — 228 p.
Originally published in 1837 in Europe in German, French, and Slovenian editions, Baraga’s "Short History of the North American Indians" is the personal, first-hand account of a Catholic missionary in the Great Lakes area of North America. Baraga served as a missionary and as bishop of Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette, from 1830...
University of Washington Press, 2018. — 248 p. When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project, with local Native communities...
University of Washington Press, 2018. — 248 p. When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project, with local Native communities...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. — 336 p. Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois - principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke - left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed ever further west by the rapidly...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. — 336 p. Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois - principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke - left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed ever further west by the rapidly...
University Press of Mississippi, 2012. — 327 p. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi's American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical forces and processes that...
University Press of Mississippi, 2016. — 224 p. "The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735" is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the...
Praeger, 2006. — 216 p. "Unconquered" explores the complex world of Iroquois warfare, providing a narrative overview of nearly two hundred years of Iroquois conflict during the colonial era of North America. Detailing Iroquois wars against the French, English, Americans, and a host of Indian enemies, Unconquered builds upon decades of modern scholarship to reveal the vital...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. — 416 p. Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas,...
Salem Press, 2002. — 854 p. — (Two Volume Set)
This collection surveys Native American history from ancient times to the twentieth century. Entries cover specific topics and incidents from a Native American perspective, in categories of Pre-Columbian history, Colonial history, Eighteenth century history, Nineteenth century history, Twentieth century history, Court cases and...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 123 p. — ISBN: 1456598279. First published in 1906, Geronimo is the collaborative work between Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apache, and author S. M. Barrett. The latter was given special permission from President Theodore Roosevelt to interview Geronimo while he was a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. What Barrett recorded is a blunt,...
University of Manitoba Press, 2023. — 240 p. In Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law Leo Baskatawang traces the history of the neglected treaty relationship between the Crown and the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, and the Canadian government’s egregious failings to administer effective education policy for Indigenous youth - failures epitomized by, but not limited to, the horrors of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 354 p. Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state’s top private employers - with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises - they lived well below the poverty line and lacked any clear legal status. After settling in the Bayou Blue in 1884, they forged friendships with their neighbors, sparked local tourism, and...
University of Florida Press, 2016. — 248 p. The history of Native Americans in the U.S. South is a turbulent one, rife with conflict and inequality. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the fifteenth century, Native peoples have struggled to maintain their land, cultures, and ways of life. In We Will Always Be Here, contemporary tribal leaders, educators, and activists...
Nimbus Publishing, 2016. — 324 p. Living Treaties shares the stories of people and communities who have lived under Treaties, which are often considered in the historical sense, and delves into their nuanced experiences living under a modern colonial regime. The book aims to reveal another side of the treaties and their histories, focusing on stories from contemporary...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 184 p. Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 184 p. Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer...
University of California Publications, 1958. — 138 p. In March, 1950, the University of California assumed custodianship of an extensive collection of original and secondary data referring to California Indian ethnology, made by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and originally deposited with the Smithsonian Institution. Since that time the Merriam collection has been consulted by qualified...
Routledge, 2018. — 296 p. In response to the influx of white settlement after the Civil War, the Cherokee nation devised a regional development plan which allowed whites to establish farms and build towns while reinforcing Cherokee tribal sovereignty over the territory. The presence of sizeable towns and numerous villages presented a legal conundrum for Congress when it...
Boston: Little, Brown. 1972. — 89 p. The Appalachian mountain region in Georgia is one of the most beautiful places in America and until one hundred years ago it was the home of a remarkable Indian nation, the Cherokees. The Cherokees had developed a great civilization and had adapted it to the ways of the white man. But the white man broke faith with the Cherokees and drove them...
Michigan State University Press, 2012. — 256 p. A remarkable multifaceted history, Contested Territories examines a region that played an essential role in America's post-revolutionary expansion—the Lower Great Lakes region, once known as the Northwest Territory. As French, English, and finally American settlers moved westward and intersected with Native American communities, the...
Caxton Press, 1999. — 475 p. In August 1864, Cheyenne and Sioux warriors launched a serires of raids on the "road ranches" along the California-Oregon Train in Nebraska Territory, killing, wounding or capturing dozens of white settlers. Massacre Along the Medicine Road details that violent summer, as seen through the eyes of the people who were the targets of the attacks.
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 330 p. Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal members were desperate to find ways to support their families and control...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 330 p. Unfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. By the late nineteenth century, tribal economic systems across the Americas were decimated, and tribal members were desperate to find ways to support their families and control...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 328 p. In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of Minnesota—both whites...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. - 212 p. Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta (1815–79) participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta the reputation of being the most brutal of all the Sioux...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 322 p. This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their...
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 237 p. : 22 illus. In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers from the Makah Indian Tribe and antiwhaling activists have...
Wesleyan University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Henry 'Opukaha'ia (ca. 1792–1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have striking similarities. p kaha ia was orphaned during the turmoil caused in part by Kamehameha’s...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016. — 320 p. The American Indian Movement burst onto the scene in the late 1960s as indigenous people across the country began to demand what is rightfully theirs. Clyde Bellecourt, whose Ojibwe name translates as “The Thunder Before the Storm,” is one of its cofounders and iconic leaders. This powerful autobiography provides an intimate...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — 248 p. The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with - and struggled against - changing and shifting European empires and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — 248 p. The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with - and struggled against - changing and shifting European empires and...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 392 p. A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict than almost anyone else, being present at the fall of Detroit; the capture of Fort Niagara;...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 184 p. Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American soldier William Apess, a...
University of Toronto Press, 1998. — 307 p. The story of Iroquois participation in the War of 1812 has not received detailed examination, and there have consequently been major gaps in our understanding of the Iroquois, their relations with Euroamerican society, and the course of the war itself. Author explores this involvement by focusing on Iroquois diplomatic, military, and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. — 520 p. Uqalurait, pointed snowdrifts formed by Arctic blizzards, "would tell us which direction to go in", says elder Mariano Aupilarjuk. This oral history, guided by the traditional knowledge of Inuit elders from across Nunavut, also follows the uqalurait, with thousands of quotes from elders on a wide range of subjects.
Normanby Press, 2015. — 38 p. Fot the first time since he testified before the Reno Court of Inquiry, at Chicago, in 1879, Capt. F. W. Benteen, senior captain of Custer’s regiment, the famous 7th Cavalry, here relates the part he played in that most disastrous of Indian fights on American soil, over which more controversy has raged than over any other battle fought against the...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. — 384 p. In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 324 p. How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 324 p. How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 376 p. The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not...
Lynchburg, Virginia: Liberty University, 2022. — 95 p. This thesis looks at Lord Dunmore’s War, the last Indian War of the colonial period, from a social history perspective. Essentially a land dispute, it was heightened by the political pressures of 1774 and ongoing conflicts between white colonists and the Shawnee, Lenape, and Haudenosaunee of the Ohio River Valley. These...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. — 304 p. The first comprehensive history of Native American tribes in Wisconsin, this thorough and thoroughly readable account follows Wisconsin’s Indian communities - Ojibwa, Potawatomie, Menominee, Winnebago, Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Ottawa - from the 1600s through 1960. Written for students and general readers, it covers in detail the...
Edited by Noël Bennett. — University of Arizona Press, 1994. — 152 p. When the Navajos were taken from their land by the federal government in the 1860s, thousands lost their lives on the infamous Long Walk, while those who eluded capture lived in constant fear. These men and women are now dead, but their story lives on in the collective memory of their tribe. Gus Bighorse...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. — 263 p. In "Common and Contested Ground", Theodore Binnema provides a sweeping and innovative interpretation of the history of the northwestern plains and its peoples from prehistoric times to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The real history of the northwestern plains between a.d. 200 and 1806 was far more complex, nuanced, and paradoxical than...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. — 264 p. More mounds were built by ancient Native American societies in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America - between 15,000 and 20,000 mounds, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted into the shapes of birds, animals, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the...
2nd Edition — University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. — 304 p. More mounds were built by ancient Native Americans in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America - between 15,000 and 20,000, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted in the shapes of thunderbirds, water panthers, and other forms, not found anywhere...
Loyola University Chicago, 1950. — 371 p. This conflict is also referred to as the Yakima Native American War of 1855 and is often seen as a continuation of the Cayuse War, which began in 1848. Its last phase is also known as the Coeur d'Alene War or Palouse War, as it involved other tribes of the Northwest Plateau. Together the Cayuse and Yakima wars overall were the largest...
University Press of Mississippi, 2016. — 224 p. Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government and of American Indian...
Luton : Andrews UK Limited, 2012. — 135 p. One of the first authoritative accounts of the Ottawa and Chippewa peoples to be published. A fascinating look into the cultures of these native peoples, even including an introduction to Ottawa and Chippewa grammar. Written by Ottawa tribe leader and historian Andrew Blackbird in 1887. From Preface: "I deem it not improper to present the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 184 p. In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn uses the Jesuit Relations to shed light on the dialogue between Jesuit missionaries and the Native peoples of northeastern North America, providing a historical anthropology of two cultures attempting to understand, contend with, and accommodate each other in the new world.
Yale University Press, 2023. — 616 p. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 616 p. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 372 p. American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 372 p. American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two...
Westholme Publishing, 2012. — 335 p. In "Dark and Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier", Richard Blackmon uses a wealth of primary source material to recount the confl ict between American Indians and Anglo-Americans in the colonial South during one of the most turbulent periods of North American history. He explains the complex points of contact in...
Center of Military History, US Army, 2014. — 50 p. In many respects, the Creek War of 1813–1814 is considered part of the Southern Theater of the War of 1812. The Creek War grew out of a civil war that pitted Creek Indians striving to maintain their traditional culture, called Red Sticks, against those Creeks who sought to assimilate with United States society. Spurred by...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 408 p. The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Indigenous rights movement. A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose...
Edited by A.R. Pruit, with Foreword by Jerry D. Thompson — Dog Soldier Press, 1999. — 316 p. Until now, Santana - among the most brilliant chiefs of the Mescalero Apache - has been virtually unmentioned in historical accounts of the Mescalero. Santana was a remarkable man for any age or time. He recognized his limitations in dealing with Anglo invaders bent on overwhelming and...
Edited by A.R. Pruit, with Foreword by Jerry D. Thompson — Dog Soldier Press, 1999. — 316 p. Until now, Santana - among the most brilliant chiefs of the Mescalero Apache - has been virtually unmentioned in historical accounts of the Mescalero. Santana was a remarkable man for any age or time. He recognized his limitations in dealing with Anglo invaders bent on overwhelming and...
University of Nebraska Press, 1967. — 592 p. This remarkable pictographic history consists of more than four hundred drawings and script notations by Amos Bad Heart Bull, an Oglala Lakota man from the Pine Ridge Reservation, made between 1890 and the time of his death in 1913. The text, resulting from nearly a decade of research by Helen H. Blish and originally presented as a...
The History Press, 2007. — 128 p. The Catawba - one of the few original Native American communities of the Carolinas--have a rich and fascinating history that can be dated to 2400 BC. While the Catawba once were the inhabitants of a large swath of land that covered parts of North and South Carolina, after managing to remain in the Carolinas during the notorious Trail of Tears,...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 244 p. Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America. Antonio T. Bly is Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 245 p. Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — xiv, 277 p.; 17 maps, 1 glossary, index. — (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies). Borderlands violence, so explosive in our own time, has deep roots in history. Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion, and...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 304 p. Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These doodems reflected fundamental principles behind Anishinaabe governance that were often...
University of British Columbia Press, 1992. — 170 p. When the Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby arrived in Port Simpson in northwestern British Columbia in 1874, he did so at the invitation of the Tsimshian people. Earlier contact with the Anglican missionary William Duncan had convinced them that, although many aspects of his mission program were appealing, his brand of religion...
Wakefield, Mass.: Pride Publications, 1971. — 64 p. Other than by referring to it briefly as an Indian uprising that was quickly suppressed by the Colonists, most historians tend to ignore the Pequot-Mohican War of 1637. This short-lived conflict is one of the most important chapters in the early history of New England, and to pass it off in this fashion does a disservice both...
University of Alaska Press, 2019. — 80 p. "No Natives or Dogs Allowed", blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would deliver her own powerful message: one that helped change Alaska and the nation forever....
Foreword by Alan Gallay. — University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 372 p. The Yamasee Indians are best known for their involvement in the Indian slave trade and the eighteenth-century war (1715–54) that took their name. Yet, their significance in colonial history is far larger than that. Denise I. Bossy brings together archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida with historians of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 270 p. The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities to the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812. To describe these events as simply the result of American expansion versus Indigenous nativism...
With contributions by Steven L. Cox and Ruth H. Whitehead — University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 388 p. Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 130 p. The removal of Black Hawk and his band of Sauk and Fox indians essentially opened much of what was then the Northwest Territory of the United States to white settlement. This work reveals how the Black Hawk war culminated in a final battle at Bad Axe River in Wisconsin that was so brutal that many local tribes fled to the West. John P....
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 324 p. The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories north of the Ohio River. But...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 128 p. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. Often solely associated with the Cherokee, the Trail of Tears more accurately describes the forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes, which in addition to the...
University of Alabama Press, 2005. — 160 p. The Westo Indians, who lived in the Savannah River region during the second half of the 17th century, are mentioned in few primary documents and only infrequently in secondary literature. There are no known Westo archaeological sites; no artifacts can be linked to the group; and no more than a single word of their language is known to us...
Routledge, 2019. — 242 p. American Indian nations are sovereign political entities within the United States. They have complex relationships with the federal government and increasingly with state governments. Regulatory conflict between Native nations and states has increased as Native nations have developed their own independent economies and some states have sought to assert...
New York State Museum, 2020. — 896 p. — (New York State Museum Bulletin No 514). It is probably unwise to start with a confession, but I think it is best to get this out of the way. I am a scholarly mongrel, a mutt. I trained as a historian, became enamored with cultural anthropology, learned rigor from cross-cultural psychologists, and have spent most of my professional life...
McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. — 363 p. Originally published in 1904, Indian Fights and Fighters regularly appears in bibliographies of significant works on the history of the American West. Embracing almost three decades of Plains history, it contains not only Brady's clear, fast-paced accounts of the Plains wars, but also a number of eyewitness accounts, most of which were...
University of British Columbia Press, 2017. — 220 p. We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics or interventions in art, film, television, and journalism to disrupt Canada's national narratives and rewrite them from Indigenous perspectives. Accounts of strategically chosen moments such as survivor testimonies at the Truth and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 328 p. In this first comprehensive study of American Indians of southern New England from 1500 to 1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon discusses common features and significant differences among the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, Narragansett, Pokanoket, Niantic, Mohegan, and Pequot Indians. Her complex portrait, which employs both the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. — 312 p. Despite the popular assumption that Native American cultures in New England declined after Europeans arrived, evidence suggests that Indian communities continued to thrive alongside English colonists. In this sequel to her Native People of Southern New England, 1500–1650 , Kathleen J. Bragdon continues the Indian story through the end...
Michigan State University Press, 2019. — 482 p. Mémoires of Michilimackinac offers corrected, unabridged, and properly annotated and edited transcriptions and translations of three important documents related to the French presence and French–Native American relations in the Great Lakes region before 1715. The Relation du sieur De lamotte Cadillac ; d’Aigremont’s Mémoire of...
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2013. — 628 p. Who were the first settlers in North America? Where did they come from? How did they survive? In this expansive one-volume account of the native peoples of North America, eminent historian William Brandon who devoted much of his life to examining this subject presents this revelatory history of the development and culture of the native...
Doubleday, 2022. — 416 p. Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies....
Doubleday, 2022. — 416 p. Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies....
Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 2012. — A Pebble Hill Book. — xviii, 312 p. : ill., maps. Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period. Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. — 510 p. Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts - and draws on a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. — 510 p. Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts - and draws on a...
Routledge, 2019. — 200 p. This volume presents a valuable collection of annotated primary documents published during King Philip’s War (1675–76), a conflict that pitted English colonists against many native peoples of southern New England, to reveal the real-life experiences of early Americans. Louise Breen’s detailed introduction to Daniel Gookin and the War, combined with...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 336 p.
Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles J. Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer’s winter campaign on the southern plains in 1868-69, including his attack in Black Kettle’s village on the snowy backs of the Washita River. Brill’s searing account details the ruthlessness of the U.S. Army’s efforts to punish...
Stackpole Books, 2017. — 265 p. No one survived in Custer’s immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in Troopers with Custer. Some of the veterans who corresponded with E. A. Brininstool were still alive...
Borodino Books, 2017. — 87 p. Originally published in 1949, this book is a gripping collection of reminiscences on the death of the great Indian chief, Crazy Horse, by the military men who were present on that fateful day on September 5, 1877 at old Fort Robinson, Nebraska: Jesse M. Lee , V. T. McGillycuddy, H. R. Lemly, and George McAnulty. Crazy Horse was one of the...
University of British Columbia Press, 2011. — 324 p. First-hand accounts of indigenous people’s encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily diary that extends over fifty years and two thousand pages is unparalleled. Drawing on a painstaking transcription of Arthur Wellington Clah’s diaries, Peggy Brock pieces together the many voyages -- physical, cultural, intellectual, and...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 430 p. This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 224 p. A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history. The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700 - raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi,...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 448 p. A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the “First Indian War” (later named King Philip’s War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 448 p. A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the “First Indian War” (later named King Philip’s War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a...
University of Minnesota Press, 2008. — 352 p. Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking Counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders - including Samson Occom,...
Mouton Publishers, 1980. — 496 р. The concept of this volume was to transcend traditionally preconceived boundaries thought appropriate for investigation, and to attempt to breed hybrid vigor by mixing a variety of approaches and directions of research together, drawing from regional areas circumscribing the Pacific. The last decade has seen a three- or four-fold increase in...
Open Road Media, 2012. - 482 p.
First published in 1970, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He...
Berkley Medallion Edition, 1971. — 196 p. From contemporary reports, diaries, letters, and testimonies of those involved, famed Indian historian Dee Brown has brought to vivid life the days starting with May 17, 1876—when the U.S. 7th Cavalry rode out of Fort Lincoln in the Dakota Territory—through June 25, when General Custer's command rendezvoused with history at the Little...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 244 p. Dee Brown's authoritative history of Fort Phil Kearney and the notorious Fetterman Massacre This dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is Dee Brown's riveting account of events leading up to the Battle of the Hundred Slain - the devastating 1866 conflict that pitted Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne warriors, including Oglala chief Red Cloud,...
Athabasca University Press, 2017. — 360 p. n 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson’s Bay Company as Rupert’s Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers and the...
Southern Publishers, 1938. — 570 p. The book's subtitle reveals the scope of Brown's interest, and from the opening Preface of Old Frontiers, Brown reveals his desire to correct the narrative of Cherokee history -- a history that for a century "used the language of the United States Government" to chronicle the plight of the Cherokees. Brown blamed white settlers and their desire...
University of Arizona Press, 2013. — 248 p. Pueblo people reacted to Spanish colonialism in many different ways. While some resisted change and struggled to keep to their long-standing traditions, others reworked old practices or even adopted Spanish ones. Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico examines the multiple approaches Pueblo...
The History Press, 2010. — 192 p. On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities between European settlers and native...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 432 p. Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 432 p. Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years...
3rd Edition — University of Minnesota Press, 2008. — 344 p. The imposition of modern American colonial rule has defined U.S.–indigenous relations since the time of the American Civil War. In resistance, Kevin Bruyneel asserts, indigenous political actors work across American spatial and temporal boundaries, demanding rights and resources from the government while also...
Open Book Publishers, 2013. — 220 p. The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance of their oldest traditions. The Creation...
University of Utah Press, 2018. — 288 p. In this autobiography, Viola Burnette braids the history of the Lakota people with the story of her own life as an Iyeska, or mixed-race Indian. Bringing together her years growing up on a reservation, her work as a lawyer and legal advocate for Native peoples, and her woman’s perspective, she draws the reader into an intelligent and...
University of Utah Press, 2018. — 288 p. In this autobiography, Viola Burnette braids the history of the Lakota people with the story of her own life as an Iyeska, or mixed-race Indian. Bringing together her years growing up on a reservation, her work as a lawyer and legal advocate for Native peoples, and her woman’s perspective, she draws the reader into an intelligent and...
University Alabama Press, 2004. — 592 p. (2nd revised edition)
Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through these lands and the defensible terrain of the Ozark range provided the tribe a distinct advantage in prehistoric and early historic times. A...
University of Minnesota Press, 2011. — 320 p. In 1761 and again in 1769, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S....
UBC Press, 2000. — 288 p. We are in the midst of a fundamental re-evaluation of the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other, and of how the former are to be institutionally and constitutionally accommodated within Canada. Words matter. How we think about where we are and about the future goal of our relationship can confine us in an intellectual...
University Press of New England, 1991. — 312 p. Colin G. Calloway collects, for the first time, documents describing the full range of encounters of Indians and Europeans in northern New England during the Colonial era. His comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the subject of Indian and European interaction in northern New England covers early encounters, missionary...
Bedford / St. Martin's Press, 1996. — 226 p. This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the...
University Press of New England, 1997. — 278 p. The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed "King Philip" by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a bloody war, dissolution of Indian society in New England, and even the disappearance of Native peoples from the region. This collection challenges that assumption, showing that Indians...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. — 360 p. Thus did a white captive of the Indians summarize Indian-white relations on the North American frontier early in the nineteenth century. Colin G. Calloway maintains, however, that the British, far from scorning and neglecting Indians, cultivated and observed them closely in the period 1783 to 1815. He shows that the stereotype of the...
5th Edition. — Bedford / St. Martin's, 2016. — 692 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4576-9624-4. First Peoples ’ distinctive approach continues to make it the bestselling and most highly acclaimed text for the American Indian history survey. Respected scholar Colin G. Calloway provides a solid foundation grounded in timely scholarship and a narrative that brings a largely untold history to...
6th Edition — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018. — 704 p. Expertly authored by Colin G. Calloway, First Peoples has been praised for its inclusion of Native American sources and Calloway's concerted effort to weave Native perspectives throughout the narrative. Emphasizing the importance of primary sources, each chapter includes a document project and picture essay organized around...
6th Edition — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018. — 704 p. Expertly authored by Colin G. Calloway, First Peoples has been praised for its inclusion of Native American sources and Calloway's concerted effort to weave Native perspectives throughout the narrative. Emphasizing the importance of primary sources, each chapter includes a document project and picture essay organized around...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. — 256 p. Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact Early America already existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the existing land and culture. In New...
University Press of New England, 1992. — 176 p. Revealing firsthand narratives of Indian captivity from eighteenth-century New Hampshire and Vermont. Narratives of Europeans who experienced Indian captivity represent one of the oldest genres of American literature. They are often credited with establishing the stereotype of Indians as cruel and bloodthirsty. While early southern...
University of Nebraska Press, 2003. — 631 p. This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history,...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p. Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p.
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 354 p. This study presents the first broad coverage of Indian experiences in the American Revolution rather than Indian participation as allies or enemies of contending parties. Colin Calloway focuses on eight Indian communities as he explores how the Revolution often translated into war among Indians and their own struggles for independence....
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. They were frequently referred to as "the Chiefs now in this...
Dartmouth College Press, 2010. — 280 p. Dartmouth College began life as an Indian school, a pretense that has since been abandoned. Still, the institution has a unique, if complicated, relationship with Native Americans and their history. Beginning with Samson Occom's role as the first "development officer" of the college, Colin G. Calloway tells the entire, complex story of...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 640 p. In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time - Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle - and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 640 p. In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time - Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle - and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 216 p. Long before the American Revolution, the Shawnees lived in Ohio, hunted in Kentucky, and traveled as far afield as Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Missouri. White settlers, however, sharply curtailed their freedom. With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnee tribe waged a war of territorial and cultural...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 216 p. Long before the American Revolution, the Shawnees lived in Ohio, hunted in Kentucky, and traveled as far afield as Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Missouri. White settlers, however, sharply curtailed their freedom. With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnee tribe waged a war of territorial and cultural...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 224 p. In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering nearly one thousand casualties in...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 224 p. In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering nearly one thousand casualties in...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. — 372 p. Before European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys. This history of their coexistence and conflicts with whites on the northern New England frontier documents their survival as a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1994. — 208 p. This unique collection presents Native American perspectives on the events of the colonial era, from the first encounters between Indians and Europeans in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century. The documents collected here are drawn from letters, speeches, and records of treaty negotiations...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 392 p. In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways - colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between...
University of British Columbia Press, 2018. — 224 p. As the nineteenth century ended, Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Tourists and sport hunters spent growing amounts of money in search of game, and the government began to extend and exert its regulatory powers in this arena. Restrictions were also imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring Anishinaabeg...
University of Arizona Press, 2015. — 274 p. There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death to indigenous peoples. But though these diseases were devastating, their impact has been widely exaggerated. Warfare, enslavement, land expropriation, removals, erasure of...
Borodino Books, 2017. — 247 p. First published in 1926, this book by William Bleasdell Cameron is the gripping account of his experiences of captivity following the Frog Lake Massacre of the North-West Rebellion of April 2, 1885, of which he was the only male survivor. “On that dread day in April, 1885, when savagery was blood-mad, his constant and understanding kindness to the...
McClelland & Stewart, 2019. — 224 p. An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman - a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and...
Captivating History Press, 2019. — 195 p. Today, the United States of America is one of the largest countries in the world. Comprised of fifty states, this huge nation is filled with diverse topography, as well as a variety of flora and fauna. Not only that, but the USA is also home to a huge population with diverse ethnic backgrounds, including Hispanic, African American,...
Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — xiv, 456 p. : 22 illus., 2 maps. Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their...
Fernwood Publishing, 2018. — 200 p. During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households. Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the personal and provocative narrative of Colleen Cardinals journey growing up in a...
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1992. — xvii, 396 p. In this startlingly intimate book of reportage, Richard Adams Carey takes us to the furthest frontier of American society.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 312 p. American Indians from Contact to the New Republic: “Times are Altered With Us” presents a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-period of history of Native American-European engagement from 1492 until 1800. Historian and Native American expert Roger Carpenter takes the reader on a sweeping narrative journey of the early...
2nd Edition. — McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. — 348 p. — (With a new introduction by the author). Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Indigenous people lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. — 352 p. Despite repeated requests for assistance from Plains Indians, the Canadian government provided very little help between 1874 and 1885, and what little they did give proved useless. Although drought, frost, and other natural phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers were determined to create an economy...
Athabasca University Press, 2010. — 260 p. — ISBN10 1897425821 ISBN13 9781897425824. "Recollecting" is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a...
University of South Carolina Press, 2009. — 216 p. The first comprehensive history of the Lower Chickasaws in the Savannah River Valley. Edward J. Cashin, the preeminent historian of colonial Georgia history, offers an account of the Lower Chickasaws, who settled on the Savannah River near Augusta in the early eighteenth century and remained an integral part of the region until...
Craven Street Books, 2015. — 240 p. The Spanish missions of California have long been misrepresented as places of benign and peaceful coexistence between Franciscan friars and California Indians. In fact, the mission friars enslaved the California Indians and treated them with deliberate cruelty. A Cross of Thorns describes the dark and violent reality of Mission life....
University of Arizona Press, 2016. — 384 p. American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed...
University of New Mexico Press, 1997. — 308 p. This volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national-park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska's traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished in the forests. Their presence challenged...
Praeger, 2011. — 216 p. This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony’s first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible. While the romanticized story of the Jamestown colony has been retold many times, the events following the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are less well...
Praeger, 2017. — 241 p. — (Native America: Yesterday and Today). Early in his career as an Indian fighter, American Indians gave Andrew Jackson a name - Sharp Knife - that evoked their sense of his ruthlessness and cruelty. Contrary to popular belief - and to many textbook accounts - in 1830, Congress did not authorize the forcible seizure of Indian land and the deportation of the...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. — 232 p. This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological,...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. — 232 p.
This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 328 p. "Prophets of the Great Spirit" offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional beliefs, they transformed...
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2012. — 408 p. They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors and the American military in the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 440 p. The first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day northwest Kansas. In this stirring account, William Y. Chalfant recreates the human dimensions of what was probably the only large-unit sabre charge against the Plains tribes, in a battle that was as...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 231 p. Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red River War. The Battle of Sappa Creek, the last encounter of that conflict, was a fight between a band of Cheyennes and a company of the...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 231 p. Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red River War. The Battle of Sappa Creek, the last encounter of that conflict, was a fight between a band of Cheyennes and a company of the...
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2010. — 548 p. When General Winfield Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of force that would curtail Indian raiding sparked by the Sand Creek massacre of 1864. But the havoc he and his troops wrought on the plains served only to further incite the tribes and inflame passions...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 184 p.
"Without Quarter" is the story of the first major U.S. army expedition against the Comanches between the Mexican and Civil wars. Late in 1858, under the leadership of Captain (Brevet Major) Earl Van Dorn, units of the Second Cavalry marched north form Fort Belknap, Texas, and established a temporary post, Camp Radziminski, at...
University of Arizona Press, 2021. — 408 p. The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of California Mission Indians have lived in Southern California in the area now known as Los Angeles and Ventura Counties from time immemorial. Throughout history, these Indigenous Californians faced major challenges as colonizers moved in to harvest the resources of the California lands. Through...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. — 308 p. — ISBN10: 0807871060; ISBN13: 978-0807871065. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 114 p. The new United States was faced with a fundamental problem: to expand, it had to settle lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains, ceded to it by the British. However, the mountains were occupied by Native American groups who had no desire to make way for white settlers. The treaty had created a vast frontier for the fledgling...
Charles River Editors, 2021. — 79 p. Most Americans have heard of the Little Bighorn, the 1876 battle in which a band of Lakota Sioux and their allies wiped out most of the 7th U.S. Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer. The movie images are of fierce warriors in long eagle feather headdresses flowing behind them as they gallop across the plains on nimble Indian...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 74 p. The Red River War of 1874-1875: The History of the Last American Campaign to Remove Native Americans from the Southwest comprehensively covers the climactic clashes between the two sides. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Red River War like never before.
Utah State University Press, 1999. — 272 p. The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake, Bear River, Cache, and Bear Lake valleys-northern Utah. Sagwitch was born at a time when his people traded with the mountain men. In the late 1850s, wagons brought Mormon farmers to settle in Cache Valley, the Northwestern Shoshone heartland. Emigrants and settlers...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 152 p. In the days following the Battle of Birch Coulie, the decisive battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862, one of President Lincoln’s private secretaries wrote: “There has hardly been an outbreak so treacherous, so sudden, so bitter, and so bloody, as that which filled the State of Minnesota with sorrow and lamentation.”...
New York: Routledge, 2003. — 506 p. A book about the condition of Native North America. From page xvi: «Plainly, there are choices to be made. Arriving at the right choices, however, depends to a considerable extent upon being able to see things clearly. Acts of Rebellion , then, although it is a reader, and therefore by both intent and design far from comprehensive, is meant...
2nd edition — City Lights Publishers, 2002. — 460 p. This seminal book established Churchill as an intellectual force to be reckoned with in indigenous land rights debates. Required reading for anyone interested in Native North America and ecological justice. Revised and expanded edition. Ward Churchill (Keetowah Cherokee) has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a...
Foreword by Donald M. Julien. — University of Toronto Press, 2023. — 1004 p. Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi’kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history. The book highlights Mi’kmaw leaders who...
University of Arizona Press, 2013. — 216 p. Histories of New England typically frame the region’s Indigenous populations in terms of effects felt from European colonialism: the ravages of epidemics and warfare, the restrictions of reservation life, and the influences of European-introduced ideas, customs, and materials. Much less attention is given to how Algonquian peoples...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 440 p. The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement. However, social violence has deep roots on the Plains beyond this post-Contact perception, and these roots have not been...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 440 p. The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement. However, social violence has deep roots on the Plains beyond this post-Contact perception, and these roots have not been...
Commentary by Carroll Friswold — University of Nebraska Press, 1988. — 152 p. The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. The reverberations of that event led to the death of the great...
Commentary by Carroll Friswold — University of Nebraska Press, 1988. — 152 p. The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. The reverberations of that event led to the death of the great...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 166 p. Here is the gripping story of the last stand of Chief Philip Bowles of the Chickamauga Cherokee Indians of Texas. Mary Whatley Clarke sets this tale against the stormy background of Anglo-Cherokee-Mexican relations in early nineteenth-century Texas. The Chickamauga Cherokees from Running Water on the Tennessee River were continually...
University of Missouri, 2024. — 462 p. Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage...
Routledge, 1995. — 402 p. Despite 100 years with the dominant American culture, Hopi culture today maintains continuity with its aboriginal roots while reflecting the impact of the 20th century.A compelling study of ?fourth worlders? coping with a powerful nation-state, this book depicts Hopi social organization, economy, religion, and politics as well as key events in the...
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2019. — 272 p. , figs. , photos. — (Iowa and the Midwest Experience Series). Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher,...
University of Iowa Press, 2019. — 272 p. Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher, Hopkins’s allegiance was often questioned by many of his fellow Dakota as well....
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2005. — xii, 267 p. : ill., maps Detailed and well-documented...an important contribution --The Journal of American History Contains a detailed analysis of the politics, strategy, and tactics of the campaign --C&RL News As the United States fought the Civil War in the early 1860s, the country's western frontier was...
University Alabama Press, 2003. — 272 p. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the partial replacement of flaked stone and ground stone traditions by metal tools in the Americas during the Contact Era. It examines the functional, symbolic, and economic consequences of that replacement on the lifeways of native populations, even as lithic technologies persisted well after the...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 316 p. In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 316 p. In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how...
London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1928. — 358 p. 1928. The Indians of whose experience I have written in this book were the last tribes to encounter the white man. The region is the Far Northwest: northern Montana, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. The ruling tribe of this wild domain was that of the Blackfeet, known as the Tigers of the Plains. Contents: First...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2018. — 280 p. Through the words of long-ago witnesses, Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais recovers the overlooked Anishinaabeg roots and corporate origins of Grand Marais, a history more complex than is often told. It recalls a time in northern Minnesota when men of the American Fur Company and the Anishinaabeg navigated the shifting course of progress,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 352 p. This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons - both white and Indian - who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 352 p. This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons - both white and Indian - who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his...
Harvard University Press, 1999. — 352 p. No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely...
Combat Studies Institute Press, 2019. — 144 p. A staff ride to a battlefield is an excellent tool for the historical education of members of the Armed Forces. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has been conducting staff rides since the 1900s. Captain Arthur L. Wagner was an instructor at Fort Leavenworth in the 1890s, and he believed an officer’s education had become too far removed...
Military Studies Press, 2012. — 144 p. The genesis for the publication of The Cheyenne Wars Atlas goes back to June 1992. It was then that the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) conducted the first Sioux Wars Staff Ride for Brigadier General William M. Steele, Deputy Commandant of the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). The next year, CSI expanded the staff ride into a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 304 p. In "An Apache Nightmare", Charles Collins tells the story of the Battle at Cibecue Creek, a pivotal event in the Apache Wars. On August 28, 1881, Col. Eugene Asa Carr left Fort Apache, Arizona Territory, with two cavalry troops and a company of Indian scouts. Their aim was to arrest a Cibecue Apache medicine man, Nock-ay-det-klinne,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 304 p.
In "An Apache Nightmare", Charles Collins tells the story of the Battle at Cibecue Creek, a pivotal event in the Apache Wars.
On August 28, 1881, Col. Eugene Asa Carr left Fort Apache, Arizona Territory, with two cavalry troops and a company of Indian scouts. Their aim was to arrest a Cibecue Apache medicine man,...
Brill, 2013. — 302 p. — (Early American History Series 2). In North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination , Colpitts offers new perspectives on Europe's contact with America by examining the ideas, debates and questions arising in the trading that linked newcomers with Native people. European capitalization of the Indian Trade, beginning in the 16th...
University of California Press, 1996. — 328 p. From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual,...
AU Press, Athabasca University, 2015. — 280 p. In 1990, the Glenbow Museum took its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations' peoples. These efforts drew harsh criticism from members of the provincial government. Was it not the museum's primary legal, ethical, and fiduciary responsibility to ensure the physical preservation of its...
College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, 2015. — xiv, 295 pp., 12 b&w figures, 7 maps, 4 tables. — (Connecting the Greater West Series). This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant...
University of New Mexico Press, 2007. — 296 p. A Cherokee Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokees. Robert J. Conley is the author of over seventy books. He has been...
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. — 279 p. The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He...
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. — 279 p. The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He...
UNM Press, 2007. — 290 p. A Cherokee Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee indian groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokees.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 366 p. Across four centuries, Apache (Ndé) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected owing to their mobility, resistance, and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 366 p. Across four centuries, Apache (Ndé) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected owing to their mobility, resistance, and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. — 368 p. The Creek Frontier, 1540–1783 is the first complete history of an American Indian tribe in the colonial period. Although much has been written of the Spanish, French, and British explorations in North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, little has been known of the Indian tribes that explorers such as De Soto and De Luna...
University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 260 p. On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872–73. But as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 260 p. On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872–73. But as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. — 318 p. Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples. This is followed by a focus on the key Supreme Court decisions that have dramatically enhanced Indigenous peoples'...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 272 p. An examination of historical performances in an iconic Vancouver park demonstrating how it remains an Indigenous place despite colonial efforts. Performance embodies knowledge transfer, cultural expression, and intercultural influence. It is a method through which Indigenous people express their relations to land and continuously...
University Press of Florida, 1993. — 379 p. The history of the Seminole Indians in Florida embodies a vital part of the tragic history of native and white American conflict throughout the entire United States. Drawing on widely scattered scholarship, including the oldest documents and recently discovered material, Covington gives us a complete account of the Florida Seminoles from...
University Press of Florida, 1993. — 379 p. The history of the Seminole Indians in Florida embodies a vital part of the tragic history of native and white American conflict throughout the entire United States. Drawing on widely scattered scholarship, including the oldest documents and recently discovered material, Covington gives us a complete account of the Florida Seminoles from...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 240 p. After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly. In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 240 p. After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly. In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward...
New York: Knopf, 2016. — 544 p. — ISBN10: 0307958043; ISBN13: 9780307958044. A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West. Also by Peter Cozzens. Title page. Dedication. Epigraph. List of maps. Chronology. Prologue. Part one. Part two. Part three. Part four. Notes. Illustration Credits. A note about the author....
Stackpole Books, 2003. — 848 p. "Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plain"s is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. "Volume 3: Conquering the Southern Plains" offers as complete a selection of...
Stackpole Books, 2004. — 554 p. This is the final installment of a series that seeks to tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West, using the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Topics include army life on the frontier, Indian scouts, women's experiences, and commanders and their campaigns. To paint as broad and colorful a...
Stackpole Books, 2004. — 686 p. This is the fourth in a planned five-volume series that seeks to tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West, using the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. To paint as broad and colorful a picture as possible, riveting firsthand materials have been carefully selected from contemporaneous...
1st. ed. — Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. — 736 p.; ill., maps. Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890: The Struggle for Apacheria is the first in a five-volume series telling the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. This first volume presents a selection of...
Stackpole Books, 2002. — 736 p. "Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest" is the second in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, the...
Knopf, 2023. — 464 p. The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep South and led to the infamous...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — 560 p. The first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than twenty years, and the first to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — 560 p. The first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than twenty years, and the first to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the...
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016. — 562 p. With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of...
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 702 p. Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Biography. Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky shooting star. Charismatic, intelligent, handsome, he was both a fierce warrior and a savvy politician. In the first biography of Tecumseh in more...
University of Manitoba Press, 2020. — 344 p. Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: “How can I/we participate in reconciliation?” Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an...
University of Manitoba Press, 2020. — 344 p. Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: "How can I/we participate in reconciliation?" Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 384 p. Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall’s sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of...
Random House, 2020. — 384 p. The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism. When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. — 224 p. In May 1725, during a three-year conflict between English colonists and the Eastern Abenaki Nation, a thirty-four-man expedition led by Captain John Lovewell set out to ambush their adversaries, acquire some scalp bounties, and hasten the end of the war. Instead, the Abenakis staged a surprise attack of their own at Pigwacket,...
Fernwood Books, 2018. — 192 p. In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and successfully slowed the rate of...
Savas Beatie, 2019. — 261 p. The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole—during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe's magisterial Caught in...
University of Utah Press, 1994. — 252 p. A hundred forty years ago, the Western Shoshone occupied a vast area of present-day Nevada—from Idaho in the north to Death Valley in the south. Today, the Newe hold a fraction of their former territory, still practicing native lifeways while accepting many aspect of American culture. Their story deserves telling. The Road on Which We Came...
University of Utah Press, 1994. — 252 p. A hundred forty years ago, the Western Shoshone occupied a vast area of present-day Nevada—from Idaho in the north to Death Valley in the south. Today, the Newe hold a fraction of their former territory, still practicing native lifeways while accepting many aspect of American culture. Their story deserves telling. The Road on Which We Came...
Westholme Publishing, 2016. — 304 p. A History of the Influential Seneca Leader Who Fought to Maintain Indian Sovereignty During the Bitter Wars for North America. Nearly a century before the United States declared the end of the Indian Wars, the fate of Native Americans was revealed in the battle of Fallen Timbers. In 1794, General Anthony Wayne led the first American army -...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 239 p. This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized the First Cherokee...
Ten Speed Press, 1983. — 221 p.
Text, drawings, and photographs describe the life of the Salish Indians and other North American tribes before the arrival of white settlers.
Nimbus Publishing, 2016. — 248 p. When New Brunswick became its own colony in 1784, the government concluded several peace treaties with the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet in the territory that protected First Nations lands. But as settlers, loyalists, and disbanded soldiers moved into New Brunswick, they moved onto the reserves, often without official sanction. This squatter problem led...
Nimbus Publishing, 2016. — 248 p. When New Brunswick became its own colony in 1784, the government concluded several peace treaties with the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet in the territory that protected First Nations lands. But as settlers, loyalists, and disbanded soldiers moved into New Brunswick, they moved onto the reserves, often without official sanction. This squatter problem led...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 264 p. In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyenne Indians by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory and murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events surrounding this atrocity. We hear...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 264 p.
In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyenne Indians by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory and murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events surrounding this atrocity. We...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 264 p.
In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyenne Indians by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory and murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events surrounding this atrocity. We...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 394 p. — (Foreword by Laurie Arnold). Col. George Wright’s campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was intended to punish them for a recent attack on another U.S. Army force. Wright had once appeared to respect the Indians of the Upper Columbia Plateau, but in...
Da Capo Press, 2005. — 288 p. In 1877, Standing Bear and his Indian people, the Ponca, were forcibly removed from their land in northern Nebraska. In defiance, Standing Bear sued in U.S. District Court for the right to return home. In a landmark case, the judge, for the first time in U.S. history, recognized Native American rights-acknowledging that "Standing Bear is a...
Wayne State University Press, 2017. — 260 p. Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many Native Americans. During a ten-year period, Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. interviewed hundreds of Indians about their past and their needs and aspirations for the future. This history...
University of Regina Press, 2013. — 334 p. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics — the politics of ethnocide — played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s “National Dream.” It was a dream that came at...
University of Regina Press, 2013. — 334 p. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics — the politics of ethnocide — played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s “National Dream.” It was a dream that came at...
University of Nebraska Press, 2001. — 346 p. An indispensable introduction to the rich variety of Native leadership in the modern era, "The New Warriors" profiles Native men and women who have played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the twentieth century. The leaders showcased include the early-twentieth-century writer and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 304 p. This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 304 p. This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. — 384 p. The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Active participants in the fur trade, and close friends with many French fur traders and government leaders, the Potawatomis remained loyal to New France throughout...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. — 384 p. The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Active participants in the fur trade, and close friends with many French fur traders and government leaders, the Potawatomis remained loyal to New France throughout...
University of Utah Press, 2016. — 288 p. Translating professional archaeological research into meaningful and thoughtful educational experiences for the public has taken on increased urgency in recent years. This book presents eight case studies by professional archaeologists who discuss innovative approaches and advances in research methodology while examining the myriad...
Septentrion, 2005. — 274 p. L''étude des témoignages des premiers explorateurs européens du Canada conduit à un constat troublant : pendant qu''elle se peuplait lentement de Français, la vallée du Saint-Laurent se vidait rapidement de ses éléments autochtones. Mais alors, d''où venaient donc ces Indiens que les Blancs continuaient à croiser et à fréquenter dans leur commerce et...
Septentrion, 2011. — 322 p. Vers 1730, le père Laure observait que les Montagnais calquaient dans leur ménage les manières françaises et il ajoutait que les Montagnaises pouvaient êtres regardées comme des reines comparativement aux «Sauvagesses étrangères». Un siècle plus tôt, en 1626, son confrère, le père Lalemant, portait un regard beaucoup moins complaisant lorsqu'il...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. — 374 p. Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America explores the ways in which the church negotiated the founding of a Catholic...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. — 270 p. Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened indigenous people’s existence. The conventional genres they sometimes adopted - the sensationalistic captivity narrative, sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assimilation fiction, and the mass-circulated...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. — 464 p. In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little...
Revised edition. — Princeton University Press, 1973. — 472 p. Debo’s classic work tells the tragic story of the spoliation of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations at the turn of the last century in what is now the state of Oklahoma. After their earlier forced removal from traditional lands in the southeastern states - culminating in the devastating...
Revised edition. — Princeton University Press, 1973. — 472 p. Debo’s classic work tells the tragic story of the spoliation of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations at the turn of the last century in what is now the state of Oklahoma. After their earlier forced removal from traditional lands in the southeastern states - culminating in the devastating...
University of British Columbia Press, 1995. — 414 p. ‘A strange and gripping tragedy’ is how Brian Moore has described the seventeenth-century confrontation of Europeans and Amerindians in his compelling novel, Black Robe. In Bitter Feast , sociologist an dhistorian Denys Delage takes a fresh look at the struggle underlying the meeting of two civilizations on the North American...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 496 p. How Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico. In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes...
With pictorial research by Miriam A. Perrett. — University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 456 p. From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2012. — 176 p. The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 296 p. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (first published in 1969), is non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria, Jr. In his new preface to this new edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 296 p. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (first published in 1969), is non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria, Jr. In his new preface to this new edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem...
Fulcrum Publishing, 1997. — 288 p. Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red , addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers...
University Press of Kansas, 2004. — 300 p. Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That’s why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 515 p. A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history. Twenty-five original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans. The essays cover a wide range of...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2001. — 176 p. Power and Place examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of sixteen essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary. It is an effort to open discussion about the unique experience of Native Americans and offers a concise reference for...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 496 p. Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 496 p. Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 728 p. "A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri" offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 226 p. Crowfoot, a Blood Indian who became chief of the Blackfoot Nation, was a great warrior and peacemaker during the time of settlement of the Canadian West. In one shattering decade, from 1875 to 1885, the great buffalo herds disappeared from Western Canada, forcing the Plains Indians who had depended on them for food, shelter, and...
Heritage House Publishing, 2010. — 240 p. As a leader, Maskepetoon was respected for his skill as a hunter, his generosity and his wisdom. He was considered a “lucky” chief, a man who found buffalo on the edge of the plains, who avoided unnecessary conflicts with enemies but protected his camp like a mother grizzly her cubs. And in the turbulent mid-1800s, that’s exactly the kind...
Fifth House, 1994. — 250 р. The result of more than 40 years of research, The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories is a unique oral history spanning three hundred years of the Blackfoot people. Dating back as far as 1690, the stories collected here by Hugh Dempsey tell of renowned Blackfoot warriors such as Calf Shirt and Low Horn, of those who tried to adapt...
Heritage House, 2015. — 272 p. The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders, unscrupulous wolfers, smallpox epidemics, and the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 304 p. By focusing on the complex cultural and political facets of Native resistance to encroachment on reservation lands during the eighteenth century in southern New England, Beyond Conquest reconceptualizes indigenous histories and debates over Native land rights. As Amy E. Den Ouden demonstrates, Mohegans, Pequots, and Niantics living...
University of North Carolina Press, 2013. — 376 p. This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and teachable essays on key topics, debates, and case studies. Written by leading scholars in the field, including historians,...
3rd Edition. — University of Arizona Press, 2007. — 256 p. In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816–1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 142 p. In 1863, the Dine (Navajo) faced transformations to their way of life with the Americans' determination to first subjugate and then remove them to a reservation in order to begin their assimilation to American culture. This book exposes the series of events that facilitated the Navajo's removal from their homeland. Jennifer Nez...
University of South Carolina Press, 2017. — 256 p. "Patriots and Indians" examines relationships between elite South Carolinians and Native Americans through the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Eighteenth-century South Carolinians interacted with Indians in business and diplomatic affairs, as enemies and allies during times of war and less frequently in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 328 p. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object of missionaries' conversion...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 284 p. What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and the challenges faced by Indigenous nations in building political institutions that...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 320 p. In 2016, Canada’s newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift in the Canadian state’s approach to longstanding injustices facing Indigenous peoples reflect a "transformation with teeth", or is it merely a...
The University of Alberta Press, 1997. — 372 p. In The Myth of the Savage , Olive P. Dickason explores Europe's response to the richly varied spectrum of Amerindian societies during the late fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Renaissance Europeans assessed New World information in the light of Christian orthodoxy and practical political ideology, using the concept...
University of Missouri Press, 2011. — 176 p. The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River—the waterway we know as the Missouri. This Indian nation called itself the Nyut^achi, which translates to “People of the River Mouth,” and had been a dominant force in the Louisiana Territory of the pre-colonial era....
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. — (Missouri Heritage Reader Series). — 176 p. The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River—the waterway we know as the Missouri. This Indian nation called itself the Nyut^achi, which translates to “People of the River Mouth,” and had been a dominant force...
A SilverStowe Book, 2012. — 380 p. Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams. Everyone pointed to the Modocs as "model Indians." Living on the Oregon-California border, they had assimilated the American...
Purich Books, 2022. — 288 p. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning , Lenape-Potowatomi scholar and educator Susan Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Métis...
University Press of Florida, 2011. — 140 p. Dress has always been a social medium. Color, fabric, and fit of clothing, along with adornments, posture, and manners, convey information on personal status, occupation, religious beliefs, and even sexual preferences. Clothing and adornment are therefore important not only for their utility but also in their expressive properties and...
University Press of Kansas, 1991. — 438 p. Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway. That belief not only persisted, writes historian Brian Dippie,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 352 p. Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again , the first complete account of Pontiac’s Uprising to appear in...
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. — 222 p. A century ago, a Philadelphia philanthropist sponsored a series of journeys to the American West to document Native American cultures and traditions. The Wanamaker Expeditions, conducted between 1908 and 1913, visited Crow Agency, Montana, near the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn. In words and images, the expeditions recorded aspects of...
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. — 222 p. A century ago, a Philadelphia philanthropist sponsored a series of journeys to the American West to document Native American cultures and traditions. The Wanamaker Expeditions, conducted between 1908 and 1913, visited Crow Agency, Montana, near the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn. In words and images, the expeditions recorded aspects of...
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. — 222 p. A century ago, a Philadelphia philanthropist sponsored a series of journeys to the American West to document Native American cultures and traditions. The Wanamaker Expeditions, conducted between 1908 and 1913, visited Crow Agency, Montana, near the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn. In words and images, the expeditions recorded aspects of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. — 382 p. The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers. As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and, through their labors, combats, and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 224 p. A Kingdom of Water is a study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes under French, Spanish, British, and American imperial control between 1699 and 2005. After 1699 the Houma assimilated the French into their preexisting social and economic networks and...
Little, Brown and Company, 2008. — 528 p. In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn", George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly began to point fingers in order to...
New York, NY : Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. — 208 p. Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations—and offers hope for the future. On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small Native...
University of Regina Press, 2002. — 262 p. When the Dakota came to the Red River area in 1862, they brought with them their skills in hunting and gathering, fishing and farming. These bands faced common barriers, but responded to them differently. Some bands established themselves as commercial farmers, one band based its economy on the traditional pursuits of hunting, fishing...
Milwaukee Public Museum, 1954. — 58 p. This book depicts the life of the Native Americans who reside in the state of Wisconsin from before to after the arrival of the Europeans. The way of life of numerous tribes was related by the author, such as Menomini, Potawatomi, Chippewa, Mascouten, Sauk, Fox, Ottawa, and Kickapoo tribes. Paintings and photographs featured on nearly...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2019. — 352 p. El libro de Gregorio Doval nos narra, de un modo preciso y no exento de detalles, la historia del exterminio de los indios norteamericanos desde que Vázquez de Coronado se enfrentara con los zuñi en 1540 hasta que en 1880 la caballería estadounidense acabara con los sioux en Wounded Knee. En un primer capítulo introductorio, el autor, nos...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. — 287 p. In the early 1800s, when once-powerful North American Indian peoples were being driven west across the Mississippi, a Shawnee prophet collapsed into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he told friends and family of his ascension to Indian heaven, where his grandfather had given him a warning: "Beware of the religion of the white man:...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. — 272 p. Sometimes described as "America's deadliest war," King Philip's War proved a critical turning point in the history of New England, leaving English colonists decisively in command of the region at the expense of native peoples. Although traditionally understood as an inevitable clash of cultures or as a classic example of conflict...
University of Minnesota Press, 2019. — 272 p. At the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61, private lakeshore property, and the one remaining village building: St. Francis Xavier Church. In Walking the Old...
University of California Press. — Berkeley, California, 1937. — 85 p. The material given in this paper represents the results of a summer's field work at Smith river, California, in 1933, and of a summer spent with the survivors of Nadene-speaking groups at Siletz reservation in Oregon in 1934. The work was financed by the University of California. The culture of these people...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 432 p.
Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud’s powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud...
Introduction by Thomas Buckley. — University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 368 p. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this "great wave", as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 280 p. Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women - Timucua,...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 280 p. Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women - Timucua,...
Beacon Press, 2015. — 312 p. The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the...
Photography by George Janecek. — University of Utah Press, 2020. — 288 p. One Voice Rising is a memoir by Ute healer, elder, and historian Clifford Duncan, as told to Anglo writer, Linda Sillitoe. Duncan was an inspiring leader and a powerful medicine man, and he was, as Sillitoe wrote, "simultaneously one of the most bicultural and traditional American Indians in the West"....
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. — 316 p. In the decades following the Civil War, the principal task facing the United States Army was that of subduing the hostile western Indians and removing them from the path of white settlement. Indian scouts and auxiliaries played a central role in the effort, participating in virtually every campaign. In this comprehensive...
Prentice-Hall, 1976. — 120 p. From their emergence in the New World centuries ago, through their evolution into contemporary Native Americans, the Apache and Navajo peoples of the American southwest have endured the hardships of a desert land and hostilities with those who would usurp it and annihilate their culture. They now face the challenge of maintaining an ancient system...
Random House, 2024. — 752 p. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 336 p. In The Native Ground , Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 336 p. In The Native Ground , Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither...
Second Edition. — Bison Books, 2022. — 2234 p. — (Foreword to the Bison Books edition by Judi M. gaiashkibos). Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing Bear fought for his freedom not through armed resistance but with bold action, strong testimony,...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. — 368 p. Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian Natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on Native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they have generated. Dealing with these...
Pegasus Books, 2024. — 316 p. A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it changed the fate of the North America. "If the long-term plans of Peter the Great had been realized, then California never would have become a Spanish colony," asserted the head of the Russian-American...
Pegasus Books, 2024. — 316 p. A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it changed the fate of the North America. "If the long-term plans of Peter the Great had been realized, then California never would have become a Spanish colony," asserted the head of the Russian-American...
McFarland, 2014. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0786476389; ISBN13: 978-0786476381. This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 260 p. Over five centuries of foreign rule - by Spain, Mexico, and the United States - Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of cultural resilience and tenacity...
Speaker's Corner, 2010. — 576 p. The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural rights as indigenous peoples by American courts. Most people think that the goal of the judiciary, and especially the US Supreme Court, is to achieve universal notions of truth and justice. In this...
Praeger, 1997. — 160 p. After almost two centuries of on-and-off resistance to white encroachment on Indian lands, a band of Ohio Indians attacked and almost destroyed the army of the infant U.S.A. The battle for the Indian village of Kekionga, unmentioned in any history textbook, stunned President Washington and Congress and provoked both a change in military policy and the...
Praeger, 2016. — 160 p. This academic compendium examines the complexities associated with Indian identity in North America, including the various social, political, and legal issues impacting Indian expression in different periods; the European influence on how self-governing tribal communities define the rights of citizenship within their own communities; and the effect of...
Praeger, 2016. — 160 p. This academic compendium examines the complexities associated with Indian identity in North America, including the various social, political, and legal issues impacting Indian expression in different periods; the European influence on how self-governing tribal communities define the rights of citizenship within their own communities; and the effect of...
2nd Edition. — Pearson, 2006. — 240 p. In this biography, David Edmunds examines the life of legendary Shawnee leader Tecumesh and his pivotal role in defending the Native American way of life. Since his death as an avowed warrior at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, the details of Tecumseh’s life have passed into the realm of legend, myth and drama. In this new edition, David...
University of Nebraska Press, 1983. — 272 p. In the early 1800s, when control of the Old Northwest had not yet been assured to the United States, the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, led an intertribal movement culminating at the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Battle of the Thames. Historians have portrayed Tecumseh, the war leader, as the...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. — 328 p. Enormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology. This same period also witnessed an...
University Press of Kansas, 2018. — 232 p. The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire , Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women. Only by studying the gender roles of...
University of Nevada Press, 1985. — 327 p. “In this excellently researched and beautifully written book, Ferol Egan has been able to successfully do a very difficult thing—combine reliable historical fact with his own philosophy and sympathy for the Indians... This is a fine example of a brilliant writer taking a historical event and, by vivid description of the climate and...
Anchor Books Doubleday, 1988. — 424 p. A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years...
Anchor Books Doubleday, 1988. — 424 p. A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years...
University of Nevada Press, 2020. — 320 p. When Charles Ohiyesa Eastman, a degreed Dakota physician with an East coast university education, met Elaine Goodale, a teacher and supervisor of education among the Sioux, they were about to witness one of the worst massacres in U.S. history: The Wounded Knee Massacre of unarmed Indians participating in a religious ritual. Their bond...
University of Utah Press, 2012. — 320 p.
The story of one of the longest-lived and most successful nomadic enclaves in North America provides a rare glimpse into the material expressions of Apache self-determination and survival. For nearly 200 years the Jicarilla Apache of New Mexico thrived in the interstices of Pueblo and Spanish settlements following their expulsion from...
Zed Books Ltd., 2018. — 296 p. In 2016, the Lakota Sioux and their supporters came together at Standing Rock in defiance of attempts to build a major oil pipeline near their lands. What began as small-scale protest soon made headlines worldwide, with thousands - US army veterans among them - flocking to offer solidarity to their efforts. In an America mired by division and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 272 p. In previous accounts, the U.S. Army’s first clashes with the powerful Sioux tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable characters - a Mormon cow, a brash lieutenant, a drunken interpreter, an unfortunate Brulé chief, and an incorrigible army commander. R. Eli Paul shows instead that the events that precipitated...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 234 p. Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of "blood" that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 234 p. Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of "blood" that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934...
University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 512 p. Historians have traditionally viewed the “Creek War of 1836” as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that, in fact, the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after...
University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 512 p. Historians have traditionally viewed the “Creek War of 1836” as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that, in fact, the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after...
Michigan State University Press, 2013. — 256 p. In the past thirty years, the study of French-Indian relations in the center of North America has emerged as an important field for examining the complex relationships that defined a vast geographical area, including the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, the Missouri River Valley, and Upper and Lower Louisiana. For years,...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 704 p. "From New Peoples to New Nations" is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and...
Guilford: TwoDot, 2015. — xv, 162 pages : illustrations. Historian Enss and Kanzanjian succeed in personalizing one of America’s most troubling memories, the brutal and unprovoked massacre of a sleeping village of Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples at Sand Creek (present-day Colorado) by troops of the Colorado Volunteers in November 1864. This still controversial military engagement...
Random House, 1972. — 218 p. Pictures and descriptions of ceremonies and customs support an examination of the Plains Indians' struggle to preserve their identity, way of life, and environment.
University of Arizona Press, 2003. — 182 p. This book marks the culmination of fifteen years of collaboration between the University of Utah's American West Center and the Tohono O'oodham Nation's Education Department to collect documents and create curricular materials for use in their tribal school system... Erickson has done an admirable job compiling this narrative. Winston...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 312 p. The Franciscan letters and related documents, translated into English and published here for the first time, describe in detail the Pueblo Indian revolt of 1696 in New Mexico and the destruction of the Franciscan missions. The events are related by the missionaries themselves as they lived side by side with their Indian charges. The...
University of Minnesota Press, 2019. — 448 p. It is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the Black Snake, crossing the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The oil pipeline united communities along its path - from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa,...
PM Press, 2021. — 176 p. Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of...
Verso Books, 2019. — 320 p. In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 536 p. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and...
University of Mississippi Press. 2008. — 408 p. The first two-hundred years of Western civilization in the Americas was a time when fundamental and sometimes catastrophic changes occurred in Native American communities in the South. In "The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians", historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists provide perspectives on how this era shaped...
University of North Carolina Press, 2003. — 384 p. Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. "Creek Country" presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound change, and of the forces that...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. — 360 p. In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using a framework that Ethridge...
Syracuse University Press, 1996. — 304 p. During the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the story of Henry Berry Lowry, a Lumbee who was arrested for killing a Confederate official. While awaiting trial, he escaped and took to the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. — 192 p. In 1819 to 1820 several hundred Cherokees - led by Duwali, a chief from Tennessee - settled along the Sabine, Neches, and Angelina rivers in east Texas. Welcomed by Mexico as a buffer to U.S. settlement, Duwali’s people had separated from other Western Cherokees in an effort to retain the tribe’s traditional lifeways. As Dianne Everett...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. — 240 p.
The Plains Indian of the Upper Missouri in the nineteenth-century buffalo days remains the widely recognized symbol of primitive man par excellence - and the persistent image of the North American Indian at his most romantic. Fifteen cultural highlights, each a chapter made from research for a particular subject and enriched by...
TwoDot, 2019. — 232 p. When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geromino: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen through the...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 256 p. On August 25 1886, the Apache chief, Geronimo, surrendered to the US army, ending a long and bloody struggle. This book draws on fresh evidence to examine the ironies, dangers, and vicissitudes of that campaign. Based on the papers collected by Lt. Charles B. Gatewood — the one white man Geronimo trusted — including depositions from old...
Penn State University Press, 2024. — 260 p. Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region that became Pennsylvania. By the time the Moravians arrived to set up a mission in the 1740s, Shamokin had been a site of intertribal commerce and refuge for the Native peoples of...
Penn State University Press, 2024. — 260 p. Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region that became Pennsylvania. By the time the Moravians arrived to set up a mission in the 1740s, Shamokin had been a site of intertribal commerce and refuge for the Native peoples of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 414 p. The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 643 p. North American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. The Native populations of North America have served a variety of European cultural and emotional needs, ranging from noble savage role models for Old World civilization to a more sympathetic portrayal as subjugated victims of American...
London: Vintage Books, 2011. — 592 p. Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion. Master horseback riders who...
London: Vintage Books, 2011. — 592 p.
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback riders...
Routledge, 2019. — 200 p. First published 1999. Be a more effective human service provider when working with native peoples! Voices of First Nations People contains extensive information on how issues such as gambling, drinking, homelessness, health, and parenting affect Native Americans. This text will help you more effectively provide and direct services, administer programs,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. — 286 p. Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure...
Hill and Wang Publ., 2015. — 480 p. Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really?...
Hill and Wang Publ., 2015. — 480 p. Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really?...
New York University Press, 2020. — 272 p. From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the most compelling explanation was the Hebraic Indian theory, which proposed that indigenous Americans were the descendants of the ten lost tribes...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 786 p. This masterful summary represents a major synthesis of the history and culture of the Six Nations from the mid-sixteenth century to the Canandaigua treaty of 1794. William N. Fenton, the dean of Iroquoian studies, has used primary sources extensively, in both French and English, to create a very readable narrative and an invaluable...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 224 p. Ninigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In the first biography of Ninigret, Julie A....
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 312 p. The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism...
2nd edition — University of British Columbia Press, 1992. — 282 p. Originally published in 1977, "Contact and Conflict" has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans -- fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin Fisher has written a new introduction in which he surveys...
University of Florida Press, 2017. — 384 p. The Catawba Nation played an important role in the early colonial Southeast, serving as a military ally of the British and a haven for refugees from other native groups, yet it has largely been overlooked by scholars and the public. Fit for War explains how the Nation maintained its sovereignty while continuing to reside in its...
Routledge, 2024. — 264 p. This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people. Non-Native writers, boarding school teachers, movie directors, bureaucrats, churches, and television have all heavily impacted...
Routledge, 2024. — 264 p. This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people. Non-Native writers, boarding school teachers, movie directors, bureaucrats, churches, and television have all heavily impacted...
Routledge, 2003. — 232 p. Currently, there are three approaches to studying American Indians: from how white Americans approach Indian studies, from the dynamics or exchange of Indian-white relations and from the Indian point of view. Donald Fixico, an American Indian, has been teaching and writing history for a quarter of a century. This book is the direct result of his...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 287 p. Chronology Family, Women’s Roles, and Sexuality Economics, Rural, Urban, Taxation, Trade,and Transportation Language, Intellectual Life, Oral Tradition, and Education Material Life: Clothing, Food, Automobiles, and Housing Political Life, Professional Organization, Citizenship, Military Service, and Tribal Government Recreational Life, Outdoors,...
2nd edition — University of Toronto Press, 2000. — 256 p. When, in 1983, the first edition of "Riel and the Rebellion" was published, the scholarly controversy concerning Thomas Flanagan's interpretation of the Rebellion of 1885 escalated to one of national significance. One of the few books that presents a countervailing view to the traditional interpretation of the events of...
State University of New York Press, 2004. — 366 p. At dawn on January 29, 1863, Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks of the Bear River, where, with the tacit approval of Abraham Lincoln, they attacked and slaughtered nearly three hundred Northwestern Shoshoni men, women, and children. Evidence suggests that, in...
University of New Mexico Press, 2012. — 672 p. (Bilingual edition)
Only two years after Coronado's expedition to what is now New Mexico, Spanish officials conducted an inquiry into the effects of the expedition on the native people Coronado encountered. The documents that record that investigation are at the heart of this book. These depositions are as fresh as today's news....
Работа американского этнографа Тимоти Флинта посвящена военным столкновениям европейцев с индейцами Северной Америки, содержит в себе большое количество описаний и исторических фактов. Издана на английском языке в 1833 году в США.
Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2016. — 176 p. Native Americans lived, hunted and farmed in east-central Indiana for two thousand years before the area became a part of the Hoosier State. Mounds and enclosures built by Adena and Hopewell peoples still stand near the White River and reflect their vibrant and mysterious cultures. The Lenape tribes moved to east-central Indiana many years...
University of Manitoba Press, 2015. — 296 p. "It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer… The officials have arrived and the children must go". So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of...
Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2017. — 240 p., ills. Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries’ changing interests and agendas. Defining...
University of Manitoba Press, 2017. — 240 p. Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries’changing interests and agendas. Defining Métis sheds light on the...
University of Illinois Press, 1993. — 352 p. The groundbreaking work on Native American-African contact and ideas of race in early modern times. This volume revises the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native American and African American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 272 p. The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the New World. The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book presents a vast number of primary and secondary sources to...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 272 p. The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the New World. The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book presents a vast number of primary and secondary sources to...
Few groups of people of comparable numbers have influenced the course of southwestern history as much as the native Amercans belonging to the Quechan (Yuma) Nation, For this reason alone the story of the Quechans and their neighbors of the Yuman family deserves telling.
With Contributions by Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund and Lisa D. O'Steen — University Alabama Press, 2007. — 318 p. The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540–1836). Our knowledge of...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 366 p. Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information...
University of Nebraska Press, 1982. — 375 p. The Northern Arapahoes of the Wind River Reservation contradict many of the generalizations made about political change among native plains people. Loretta Fowler explores how, in response to the realities of domination by Americans, the Arapahoes have avoided serious factional divisions and have succeeded in legitimizing new authority...
University of Nebraska Press, 2002. — 368 p. Loretta Fowler offers a new perspective on Native American politics by examining how power on multiple levels infuses the everyday lives and consciousness of the Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples of Oklahoma. Cheyennes and Arapahos today energetically pursue a variety of commercial enterprises, including gaming and developing retail...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 416 p.
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer and his men bravely erected their...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 416 p. On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer and his men bravely erected their heroic...
University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 216 p. Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Called "Indian countrymen" at the time, these intermarried white men moved into their wives’ villages in...
Random House, 2023. — 336 p. In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada - including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general. In True North...
University of Regina Press, 2019. — 320 p. In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people. Illustrating the various "arrows in a quiver" that Indigenous people use...
University of Regina Press, 2019. — 320 p. In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people. Illustrating the various "arrows in a quiver" that Indigenous people use...
McFarland, 2019. — 228 p. When the English first arrived at the Outer Banks in the summer of 1584, they were greeted by native Algonquian-speaking people who had long occupied present-day North Carolina. That historic contact initiated the often-turbulent period of early American history commonly known as the Roanoke Voyages. Unfortunately, contemporary accounts regularly...
University Alabama Press, 2000. — 136 p. A collection of over 350 photographs, paintings, drawings,and woodcuts, Life Portraits offers us an important visual representation of southeastern Indians - at work, at play, in rituals, and in death - when they first encountered Europeans. Studied by historians and archaeologists, as well as museum exhibit designers and costumers, these...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 264 p. "A Nation of Women" chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America. In Delaware society at the beginning of this period, to be a...
Edited by Timothy B. Leduc. — McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 336 p. In the words of Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako (Norma Jacobs): “We have forgotten about that sacred meeting space between the Settler ship and the Indigenous canoe, odagahodhes, where we originally agreed on the Two Row, and where today we need to return to talk about the impacts of its violation.”...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 376 p. In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. We Do Not Want the...
Greenwood, 2018. — 220 p. Unlike previous works that focus on the relationships of the Chippewa with the colonial governments of France, Great Britain, and the United States, this volume offers a historical account of the Chippewa with the tribe at its center. The volume covers Chippewa history chronologically from about 10,000 BC to the present and is geographically...
University of New Mexico Press, 2005. — 224 p. Feast of Souls explores native peoples' responses to Spanish attempts to challenge and replace traditional spiritual practices in Florida and New Mexico. In these two regions, Franciscan missions were the primary mechanism for both spiritual and secular colonization in the seventeenth century. By 1700, there were only about 1,000...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 464 p. This absorbing book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American South. The Indian slave trade was of central importance from the Carolina coast to the Mississippi Valley for nearly fifty years, linking southern lives and creating a whirlwind of violence and profit-making, argues Alan...
Niversity of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 432 p. Today the Choctaws are remembered as one of the Five Civilized Tribes, removed to Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century; a large band remains in Mississippi, quietly and effectively refusing to be assimilated. The Choctaws are a Muskogean people, in historical times residing in southern Mississippi and Alabama; they were...
Niversity of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 432 p. Today the Choctaws are remembered as one of the Five Civilized Tribes, removed to Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century; a large band remains in Mississippi, quietly and effectively refusing to be assimilated. The Choctaws are a Muskogean people, in historical times residing in southern Mississippi and Alabama; they were...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2018. — 334 p. — (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 30). Quakers and Native Americans is a collection of essays examining the history of interactions between Quakers and American Indians from the 1650s, emphasising American Indian influence on Quaker history as well as Quaker influence on U.S. policy toward American Indians. Ignacio...
Mariner Books, 2022. — 560 p. A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history...
Mariner Books, 2022. — 560 p. A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history...
Canadian Museum of History / University of Ottawa Press, 2014. — 656 p. In Petun to Wyandot , Charles Garrad draws upon five decades of research to tell the turbulent history of the Wyandot tribe, the First Nation once known as the Petun. Combining and reconciling primary historical sources, archaeological data and anthropological evidence, Garrad has produced the most...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 306 p. In "The Native South", Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt...
University of British Columbia Press, 2013. — 304 p. Scholars often accept without question that Canada’s Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. In this illuminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. Gavigan...
Riverhead Books, 2022. — 272 p. In We Refuse to Forget , award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the U.S. government recognized...
Arcadia Publishing, 2020. — 146 p. Before Roger Williams set foot in the New World, the Narragansett farmed corn and squash, hunted beaver and deer, and harvested clams and oysters throughout what would become Rhode Island. They also obtained wealth in the form of wampum, a carved shell that was used as currency along the eastern coast. As tensions with the English rose, the...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 446 p. This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and balanced treatment of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Daniel J. Gelo draws on years of ethnographic research and emphasizes that Plains societies...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 446 p. This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and balanced treatment of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Daniel J. Gelo draws on years of ethnographic research and emphasizes that Plains societies...
Routledge, 2012. — 400 p. Indians of the Great Plains, written by Daniel J. Gelo of The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a text that emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. Through a topical exploration, it provides a contemporary view of recent scholarship on the classic Horse Culture Period while also bringing readers up-to-date...
Routledge, 2012. — 400 p. Indians of the Great Plains, written by Daniel J. Gelo of The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a text that emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. Through a topical exploration, it provides a contemporary view of recent scholarship on the classic Horse Culture Period while also bringing readers up-to-date...
Texas A&M University Press, 2018. — 272 p. In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook) , that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, Emil Kriewitz, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 280 p. Relevant for courses in Native American studies, Indigenous populations, the presidency, history, and political science Represents the first academic work to cover the history of relations between Native Americans and each US president Offers a unique collaboration between two authors with expertise in presidency studies and Native American...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 280 p. - Relevant for courses in Native American studies, Indigenous populations, the presidency, history, and political science - Represents the first academic work to cover the history of relations between Native Americans and each US president - Offers a unique collaboration between two authors with expertise in presidency studies and Native...
Revised, Subsequent edition. With an introduction and edition by Frederick W. Turner. — Plume, 1996. — 208 p. This book contains one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native American history - the authentic testament of a remarkable “war shaman” who for several years held off both Mexico and the United States in fierce defense of Apache lands....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. — 387 p. The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders’ every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they were forced to remove west of the Mississippi River to the plains of the Southwest. There they continued to wage war and acted as traders for border captives and goods. In 1873 they reluctantly settled on a reservation in Indian Territory....
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 184 p. The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post (1907–79), who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans. Although Post has been largely forgotten and even in her heyday never achieved the fame of her sister, Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott, Helen Post was a...
Beacon Press, 2019. — 224 p. Through the unique lens of "Indigenized environmental justice", Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As...
State University of New York Press, 2014. — 156 p. Tells the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the buildup to removal. A Longhouse Fragmented is a historic ethnography of the Ohio Iroquois and, in particular, of the people known as the Seneca of Sandusky during the early nineteenth century. Using contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary methodologies,...
Carleton University Press, 1994. — 160 p. The author challenges the myth of trade dependence which has pervaded histories of this period, by proving the superiority of native weapons over matchlock muskets. A fascinating argument on a contentious ethno-historical issue. Contemporary Ethno-history. The Gun in Europe - Evolution and Deployment. Colonial Arms. The Native/ European...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 136 p. At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as “trouble causers,” arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 136 p. At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as “trouble causers,” arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to see...
Hill and Wang, 2007. — 448 p. Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own. Revealing for the first time the full sacrifice...
Routledge, 2020. — 165 p. Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770–1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States. With an aggressively expanding United States that sought to displace Native peoples, the very foundations of Indigeneity were endangered by the...
University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 390 p. Nación Genízara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. The contributors to this volume cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics. Fray Angélico Chávez defined Genízaro as the ethnic term given to indigenous...
Stackpole Books, 1997. — 352 p. Some of the most savage war in world history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879. As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful Indian tribes barring the way. When the U.S. Army intervened, a bloody and prolonged conflict ensued. Drawing heavily from diaries, letters, and memoirs from American Plains settlers,...
Stackpole Books, 1997. — 352 p.
Some of the most savage war in world history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879. As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful Indian tribes barring the way. When the U.S. Army intervened, a bloody and prolonged conflict ensued.
Drawing heavily from diaries, letters, and memoirs from American Plains...
Stackpole Books, 1997. — 352 p. Some of the most savage war in world history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879. As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful Indian tribes barring the way. When the U.S. Army intervened, a bloody and prolonged conflict ensued. Drawing heavily from diaries, letters, and memoirs from American Plains settlers,...
University of Arizona Press, 1971. — 330 p.
This is a remarkable series of personal narrations from Western Apaches before and just after the various agencies and sub-agencies were established. It also includes extensive commentary on weapons and traditions, with Apache words and phrases translated and complete annotation.
University of Arizona Press, 1969. — 740 p. Apache culture based on firsthand observations made over a span of nearly ten years in the field. The Social Organization of the Western Apache is still one of the most comprehensive descriptions of the social life of an American Indian tribe. Grenville Goodwin knew the Western Apache better than any other ethnographer who ever lived....
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 266 p. Without Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Cloud’s (Ho-Chunk) vision for Native intellectual leadership and empowerment in the early 1900s to the later missions of tribal...
Harper, 2008. — 414 p. Nearly three centuries before Lewis and Clark's epic trek to the Pacific coast, an African slave named Esteban Dorantes became America's first great explorer and adventurer; the first pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the American South. Shipwrecked off the Florida coast, Esteban guided a small band of survivors on an incredible,...
Harper, 2008. — 414 p. Nearly three centuries before Lewis and Clark's epic trek to the Pacific coast, an African slave named Esteban Dorantes became America's first great explorer and adventurer; the first pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the American South. Shipwrecked off the Florida coast, Esteban guided a small band of survivors on an incredible,...
Indian Affairs Bureau, 2001. — 418 p. A histoncal tribe of Chinook Indians existed along the northern shore of the Columbia River whl:re it meets the Pacific Ocean. The existence of a Chinook tribe was noted between 1792 and 185 I by the explorers of the Columbia River, fur traders who operated from a post on the river. cartographers for the navies of the United States and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 312 p. During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight over Indian Country sparked religious crises among both Natives and...
Stackpole Books, 1994. — 352 p. First published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big Horn asks questions that are still being debated. What were the causes of the debacle that wiped out Custerâ€s command? Was it due to lack of a definite battle plan? To lack of correct information...
Doubleday, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN: 9780385534253. New York Times Bestseller - National Book Award Finalist - Amazon Editor's Pick for the Best Book of 2017. Shelf Awareness’s Best Book of 2017. Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, NPR's Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "On Point", Vogue.com, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. — 368 p. Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic in 1920 when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Jane's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according...
Liveright, 2014. — 368 p. National Book Award-winning histories such as "The Hemingses of Monticello" and "Slaves in the Family" have raised our awareness about America's intimately mixed black and white past. Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill now sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the...
Michigan State University Press, 1996. — 250 p. The Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890, known to U.S. military historians as the last battle in "the Indian Wars," was in reality another tragic event in a larger pattern of conquest, destruction, killing, and broken promises that continue to this day. On a cold winter's morning more than a century ago, the U.S. Seventh...
Michigan State University Press, 1996. — 250 p. The Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890, known to U.S. military historians as the last battle in "the Indian Wars," was in reality another tragic event in a larger pattern of conquest, destruction, killing, and broken promises that continue to this day. On a cold winter's morning more than a century ago, the U.S. Seventh...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 286 p. Prior to widespread literacy, the Kiowa people recorded their history in pictorial calendars, marking an entry for each summer and each winter. "One Hundred Summers" presents a recently discovered calendar, created by the Kiowa master artist Silver Horn. Covering the period from 1828 to 1928, the pictures trace Kiowa experiences from...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 286 p.
Prior to widespread literacy, the Kiowa people recorded their history in pictorial calendars, marking an entry for each summer and each winter. "One Hundred Summers" presents a recently discovered calendar, created by the Kiowa master artist Silver Horn. Covering the period from 1828 to 1928, the pictures trace Kiowa experiences from...
Foreword by Thomas Powers. — Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 620 p. ; 48 b&w illus., 6 maps. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join...
Foreword by Thomas Powers — University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 620 p. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join "hostile" Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the...
Foreword by Thomas Powers — University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 620 p. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join "hostile" Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the...
Foreword by Thomas Powers — University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 620 p. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join "hostile" Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 265 р. In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 352 p. Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Now, in January Moon , Greene draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore a signal - and appallingly brutal - event in American history:...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 192 p. The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and Northern Cheyennes who won that battle but lost the war, the experience of those fifteen months was truly a "last stand" - a cultural...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 304 p. From a recognized authority on the High Plains Indians wars comes this narrative history blending both American Indian and U.S. Army perspectives on the attack that destroyed the village of Northern Cheyenne chief Morning Star. Of momentous significance for the Cheyennes as well as the army, this November 1876 encounter, coming exactly...
Foreword by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. — Bison Books , 2022. — 564 p. Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history, Jerome A. Greene, and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive...
Montana Historical Society Press, 2001. — 366 p. "Nez Perce Summer", 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by a noted frontier military historian and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this is the most definitive treatment of the Nez Perce War to date.
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. — 212 p. General George Crook’s controversial "Horsemeat March" culminating in the battle at Slim Buttes is considered the turning point of the Sioux Wars. After Lieutenant General George A. Custer’s shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn River, Montana Territory, in 1876, General Crook and the men of this Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. — 212 p. General George Crook’s controversial “Horsemeat March” culminating in the battle at Slim Buttes is considered the turning point of the Sioux Wars. After Lieutenant General George A. Custer’s shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn River, Montana Territory, in 1876, General Crook and the men of this Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition...
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 304 pages, 23 b&w illus., 3 maps. — (Campaigns and Commanders Series, volume 3). Oklahoma Book Award, Nonfiction, (Finalist), Oklahoma Center for the Book. Spur Award, Best Western Nonfiction, (Finalist), Western Writers of America. An evenhanded account of a tragic clash of cultures. On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry...
Foreword by Christine Whitacre. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. — 242 p. The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its...
University Alabama Press, 2022. — 200 p. During the 1838 forced Cherokee removal by the US government, a number of close-knit Cherokee communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains refused to relinquish their homelands, towns, and way of life. Using a variety of tactics, hundreds of Cherokees avoided the encroaching US Army and remained in the region. In his book Their...
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. — 240 p. As a 73-volume library, the original The Jesuit Relations has long been inaccessible to undergraduate students. Vitally important, the writings of seventeenth-century French Jesuits in Native North America tell the story of early American encounters. This new edition deftly binds them into a thematically arranged, 35-document sampler with a...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 464 p. — (Studies in North American Indian History). Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 320 p.
Apaches at War and Peace is the story of the Chiricahua Apaches on the northern frontier of New Spain from 1750 to 1858, especially those within the region of the Janos presidio in northwestern Chihuahua. Using previously untapped archives in Spain, Mexico, and the United States, William Griffen relates how Apache raids and other...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 312 p. A forgotten history that explores how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity. Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I....
Lehigh University Press, 2017. — 354 p. During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley. As newcomers to the colonial...
Lehigh University Press, 2017. — 354 p. During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley. As newcomers to the colonial...
University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 388 p.
The Tlingits, the largest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in Alaska's coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met non-Natives in 1741 during an encounter with the crew of the Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. The volatile and complex connections between the Tlingits and their Russian neighbors, as well as British and...
Arcadia Press, 2019. — 480 p. Without critical comment or biased judgement, George Bird Grinnell - one of the truly great historians of the American Indian - has recorded the major battles that the Cheyennes fought. In this account the entire gallery of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors - Roman Nose and Black Kettle and Dull Knife and many others - emerge in full color as...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. — 480 p. Without critical comment or biased judgement, George Bird Grinnell - one of the truly great historians of the American Indian - has recorded the major battles that the Cheyennes fought. In this account the entire gallery of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors - Roman Nose and Black Kettle and Dull Knife and many others -...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. — 480 p. Without critical comment or biased judgement, George Bird Grinnell - one of the truly great historians of the American Indian - has recorded the major battles that the Cheyennes fought. In this account the entire gallery of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors-Roman Nose and Black Kettle and Dull Knife and many...
Foreword by Winona LaDuke. — University of Washington Press, 2017. — 392 p. Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources. Yet, when both groups are faced with an outside threat to their common environment such as mines, dams, or an oil...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 288 p. On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers- including men, women, and children-at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army and some whites, Wounded Knee was the site where a heroic victory was achieved...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — 256 p.
A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24.
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people...
2nd Edition. — University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 258 p. n 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined barbarian...
Northern Illinois University Press, 1974. — 326 p. Focusing on the ultimate fate of the Cuartelejo and/or Paloma Apaches known in archaeological terms as the Dismal River people of the Central Plains, this book is divided into 2 parts. The early Apache (1525-1700) and the Jicarilla Apache (1700-1800) tribes are studied in terms of their persistent cultural survival,...
Colorado Bureau of Land Management, 1989. — 80 p. — (Cultural Resource Series 26). In broad outline, native occupation of the Central High Plains can be summarized as follows. The area west of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in south-cental Colorado, was dominated throughout the historic period by Utes who joined the Comanche bands after 1706 to make forays onto the...
Greenwood, 2010. — 178 p. "Chief Joseph: A Biography" explores the world of the Nez Perce Indians from their entrance into the Columbia Plateau through their relations with the expanding United States. It recounts their attempt to accommodate the rapidly changing world around them, and it follows the life of Chief Joseph, one of their greatest peace leaders. Readers will learn...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 216 p. The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by abuse, Apess soldiered with...
Stanford University Press, 1991. — 456 p. This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view. Ramón Arturo Gutiérrez is an American historian....
New York: Scribner, 2010. — 384 p.
In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
S. C. Gwynne’s "Empire of the Summer Moon" spans two astonishing stories. The first...
New York: Scribner, 2010. — 384 p. In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. S. C. Gwynne’s "Empire of the Summer Moon" spans two astonishing stories. The first traces...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 282 p. In Modernity through Letter Writing Claudia B. Haake shows how the Cherokees and Senecas envisioned their political modernity in missives they sent to members of the federal government to negotiate their status. They not only used their letters, petitions, and memoranda to reject incorporation into the United States and to express...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2005. — 496 p. Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates...
University of Utah Press, 2019. — 440 p. American Indians have long played a central role in Mormon history and its narratives. Their roles, however, have often been cast in support of traditional Mormon beliefs and as a reaffirmation of colonial discourses. This collection of essays, many the result of a seminar hosted by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 288 p. In Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian , William T. Hagan describes the efforts by six prominent individuals and two institutions to influence the conduct of Indian affairs during the administrations of President Theodore Roosevelt. The institutions are the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions and the Indian Rights...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 288 p. In Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian , William T. Hagan describes the efforts by six prominent individuals and two institutions to influence the conduct of Indian affairs during the administrations of President Theodore Roosevelt. The institutions are the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions and the Indian Rights...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 356 p. Drawing on archaeological evidence and utilizing often neglected Spanish source material, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763 , explores the political history of the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama and the emergence of the Creek Nation during the colonial era in the American Southeast. In part a study of Creek foreign...
University of British Columbia Press, 2006. — 368 p. With Good Intentions examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These people recognized colonial wrongs and worked together in a variety of ways to right them,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. — 365 p. A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Percés were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture. In the mountains their traditional enemies were the...
University of Alabama Press, 1995. — 332 p. The first edition of Halbert and Ball's Creek War was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes, a bibliography, and an index by Frank L. Owsley Jr., was published in 1969. This standard account of one of the most controversial wars in which Americans have fought is again available, with...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 544 p. "Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait", James L. Haley’s dramatic saga of the Apaches’ doomed guerrilla war against the whites, marks a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-Native conflict. Arguing that "you cannot understand the history unless you understand the culture," Haley first discusses...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 544 p.
"Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait", James L. Haley’s dramatic saga of the Apaches’ doomed guerrilla war against the whites, marks a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-Native conflict. Arguing that "you cannot understand the history unless you understand the culture," Haley first discusses...
Doubleday, 1976. — 290 p. Gen. Phil Sheridan called the Red River War of 1874 the most successful Indian campaign ever waged. Many of its incidents have become frontier legends, but only here is the extraordinary episode chronicled in full in all of its intricate ad amazing detail. Author/historian James L. Haley has carefully analyzed the causes of the Indian unrest, centering...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. — 604 p. Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.J. Hall asserts that - as a result of profound cultural differences - each side interpreted the negotiations differently, leading to conflict and an acute sense of...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 384 p. In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands earlier ceded to American settlers, the U.S. Army turned to rival tribes for military support. Elements of the Menominee, Dakota, Potawatomi, and Ho Chunk tribes willingly allied themselves with the United States...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 248 p. In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy or traded commodities...
Edited by Kahentinetha Rotiskarewake, Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny. — PM Press, 2023. — 368 p. The first collection of its kind, this anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold portrait of the spectacular experience of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. Providing extensive documentation, context, and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 292 p. On December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. The headline in the Black Hills Daily Times the next day read "A Good Indian" - a spiteful turn on the infamous saying "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". On the gallows, Two...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 272 p. For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of North America. The Blackfoot...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 272 p. For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of North America. The Blackfoot...
University of British Columbia Press, 2011. — 64 p. The massive wood carvings unique to the Indian peoples of the Northwest Coast arouse a sense of wonder in all who see them. This guide helps the reader to understand and enjoy the form and meaning of totem poles and other sculptures. The author describes the origin and place of totem poles in Indian culture -- as ancestral...
Liveright, 2022. — 592 p. A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history from Indigenous perspectives, overturning the dominant origin story of the United States. There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake...
Liveright, 2022. — 592 p. A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history from Indigenous perspectives, overturning the dominant origin story of the United States. There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 544 p. — (The Lamar Series in Western History). This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty‑first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter‑gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 544 p. — (The Lamar Series in Western History). This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty‑first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter‑gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 512 p. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power,...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 512 p. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power,...
University Press of Florida, 1996. — 399 p. When Spanish and French explorers first landed in Florida early in the 16th century, Timucua speakers occupied more land area and were more numerous than any other aboriginal group. This is their first detailed history, a major study that places its author in the forefront of Spanish colonial historians working in the United States....
Library Press at UF, 2017. — 468 p. John Hann focuses in this study on the Apalachee Indians and their interactions with the Spanish during the historic period. Following a description of the prehistoric Apalachee, Hann delves into the encounters between the Apalachee and the first European intruders. He synthesizes historical and archaeological information on the establishment...
University Press of Florida, 2006. — 240 p. This is the first book-length study to use Spanish language sources in documenting the original Indian inhabitants of West Florida who, from the late 16th century to the 1740s, lived to the west and the north of the Apalachee. Previous authors who studied the forebears of Creeks and Seminoles from the Chattahoochee Valley have relied...
University of Virginia Press, 2018. — 232 p. While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 C.E. through the moment of colonial contact in 1607 and into the present. Written from an...
University of Virginia Press, 2018. — 232 p. While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 A.D. through the moment of colonial contact in 1607 and into the present. Written from an...
University of Nebraska Press, 1995. — 189 p. Only six Cheyenne Indians (but thirty-two Sioux) died in the fighting at the Little Bighorn River that wiped out the command of General George Custer. Brave Wolf, the son of the prophet Old Brave Wolf, later recalled the courage of the doomed men in the Seventh Cavalry. He was at the scene on that bloodiest of Sundays in the summer...
University of Nebraska Press, 1997. — 214 p. The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer’s Last Stand. Their testimony sheds light on what happened at the Little Bighorn on the bloodiest of Sundays, June 25, 1876. Flying Hawk, Standing Bear, He Dog, Red Feather, Moving Robe Woman, Eagle Elk, White Bull, Hollow Horn...
Smithsonian Books, 2014. — 272 p. Nation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings,...
University of Washington Press, 2009. — 384 p. Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In The Power of Promises , a distinguished group of scholars, representing many disciplines, discuss the treaties' legacies. In...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 424 p. In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of those arrests triggered federal litigation that had big implications for Indian...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 272 p. The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West , Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively and persistently sought to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 272 p. The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West , Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively and persistently sought to...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 320 p. — (Studies in North American Indian History). Crow Dog's Case is the first social history of American Indians' role in the making of American law. The book sheds new light on Native American struggles for sovereignty and justice in nineteenth century America. This "century of dishonor," a time when American Indians' lands were lost and...
University of British Columbia Press, 1997. — 336 p. In this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after the arrival of European settlers. The pervasive displacement of indigenous people by the newcomers, the mechanisms by which it was accomplished, and the resulting effects...
University of Toronto Press, 2001. — 272 p. An engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law. Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries...
University of Utah Press, 2018. — 352 p. Drawing from forty-five years of experience, E. Richard Hart elucidates the use of history as expert testimony in American Indian tribal litigation. Such lawsuits deal with aboriginal territory; hunting, fishing, and plant gathering rights; reservation boundaries; water rights; federal recognition; and other questions that have a...
Utah State University Press, 2003. — 200 p. Pedro Pino, or Lai-iu-ah-tsai-lu (his Zuni name) was for many years the most important Zuni political leader. He served during a period of tremendous change and challenges for his people. Born in 1788, captured by Navajos in his teens, he was sold into a New Mexican household, where he obtained his Spanish name. When he returned to Zuni,...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. — 288 p. In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened its mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-fifth of the Mohawks in the area...
St. Martin's Press, 2012. — 336 p. At the time of his death in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous and respected Native American in the world. Born a Creek, young Osceola was driven from his home by General Andrew Jackson to Spanish Florida, where he joined the Seminole tribe. Years later, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which was not only intended...
St. Martin's Press, 2012. — 336 p. At the time of his death in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous and respected Native American in the world. Born a Creek, young Osceola was driven from his home by General Andrew Jackson to Spanish Florida, where he joined the Seminole tribe. Years later, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which was not only intended...
University of New Mexico Press, 1998. — 428 p. This book examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against Apaches and other native peoples in the late nineteenth century. Mexico and the United States pursued similar objectives in their Indian policies. Railroad, mining, and agricultural interests grew at the expense of native peoples. Indian...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 352 p. Focusing on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers, this book traces the two cultures and their interactions from 1680, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when the Cherokees first signed a treaty with the United States. Hatley retrieves the unfamiliar dimensions of a world in...
Syracuse University Press, 2016. — 240 p. Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870–1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prize-winning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at the New York State Fair. He was also a historian, linguist, philosopher, and early leader of the Oneida land claims movement. However, his...
Free Press, 1995. — 304 p. Very little of the information in this history of Native American participation in the Civil War is wholly news, and some--such as that Grant's aide, Eli Parker, was an Iroquois chief and that Cherokees under Stand Watie fought for the Confederacy--is known to most well-read Civil War enthusiasts. But no other recent author has pulled together into one...
State University of New York Press, 2011. — 236 p. The remarkable story of the Tonawanda Senecas in the face of overwhelming odds is the centerpiece of this landmark community study. In the six decades prior to the Civil War, they wrestled with pressures from land companies; the local, state, and federal officials’ policies to acquire tribal lands and remove the Indians; misguided...
University of New Mexico Press, 1995. — 180 p. Most Americans are misinformed about Native Americans and their history. In the nine essays in this volume, Laurence M. Hauptman, drawing on twenty-five years of teaching American Indian history, selects topics from the seventeenth century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 236 p. Chief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians’ presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New York, yet no monument commemorates his deeds as the community’s founder. Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III, redress that historical oversight, connecting Bread’s life story with the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 288 p. Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New England. Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois. They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land-hungry English. For those...
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 326 p. — (New directions in Native American studies series ; volume 17). The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas’ removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. — 320 p. The story of one of the most significant European-Native diplomatic negotiations of the colonial period and the resulting treaty. The last decades of the seventeenth century were marked by persistent, bloody conflicts between the French and their Native allies on the one side and the Iroquois confederacy on the other. In the summer...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 864 p. Between 1827 and 1837 approximately twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were transported across the Mississippi River, exiting their homeland under extreme duress and complex pressures. During the physically and emotionally exhausting journey, hundreds of Creeks died, dozens were born, and almost no one escaped without emotional scars...
University Press of New England, 1994. — 338 p. In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.
Blue Butterfly, 2009. — 165 p. Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peace. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had no option. His life reveals how uncaring Canada was about those to whom this land had always been home. A member of the Parry Island band (now Wasauksing First...
McFarland & Company Publishers, 2018. — 263 p. — ISBN: 978-1-476665-10-8. The U.S.–Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the summer of 1862. In the war’s aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with murder and massacre. In 36 days, 303 Dakota men were...
University of Georgia Press, 2018. — 310 p. Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the...
Foreword by Sean O'Neill — University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 570 p. Walks on the Ground is a record of Louis V. Headman’s personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades beginning with the historic notation of the Ponca people’s origins in the East. The last of the true Ponca speakers and storytellers entered Indian Territory in 1877 and most lived into the...
Scarecrow Press, 1987. — 421 p. A need exists for works of first reference that provide insights into both sides of Indian-white relations. This handbook is intended to help fill the need. The work will be divided regionally, with Vol. I relating events in the Southeastern Woodlands. This handbook pulls together hard-to-locate information on the events and participants, white and...
Scarecrow Press, 1987. — 417 p. The relationship between North American Indians and Europeans, friendly at first, took a violent turn with the kidnapping of natives by mariners, and conflict flared as the frontier line moved northward from Mexico and westward from the Atlantic coast settlements. This handbook is intended to help fill the need for works of first reference that...
Scarecrow Press, 1987. — 288 p. A need exists for works of first reference that provide insights into both sides of Indian-white relations. This handbook is intended to help fill the need. The work will be divided regionally, with Vol. III relating events in the Great Plains. This handbook pulls together hard-to-locate information on the events and participants, white and Indian,...
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — xviii, 254 p. : 2 maps. Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 472 p. The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of Northern Cheyennes - Sioux allies - thereby propelling the Northern Plains tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the Sioux against Anglo-American settlement of their homeland spanned some...
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 496 p., 63 b&w illustrations, 6 maps. The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and...
University of Washington Press, 2012. — 332 p. Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped bring about the 1974 ruling by Federal Judge George H. Boldt affirming Northwest...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. — 372 p. Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. — 372 p. Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities...
University of New Mexico Press, 1996. — 175 p. This long-lost journal, now available in paperback, gives a unique look into the old Navajo country. Recently rediscovered, it is both the earliest and only extensive eyewitness account of the traditional Navajo homeland in the eighteenth century. It reveals new information on Hispanic New Mexico and relations with the Indians. For...
University of Alaska Press, 2017. — 305 p. Across the Shaman’s River is the story of one of Alaska’s last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and John Muir. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 304 p. When Pueblo Indians say, "The first white man our people saw was a black man", they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early history. Books about the history of the American West have ignored Esteban or belittled his...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 304 p. When Pueblo Indians say, "The first white man our people saw was a black man", they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early history. Books about the history of the American West have ignored Esteban or belittled...
McFarland, 2015. — 232 p. Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma. The history of white settlement and colonization is often discussed in the context of the cultural erasure of, and violence perpetuated against, American Indians and...
University of Texas Press, 1998. — 298 p. In the late sixteenth century, Spanish explorers described encounters with North American people they called "Jumanos." Although widespread contact with Jumanos is evident in accounts of exploration and colonization in New Mexico, Texas, and adjacent regions, their scattered distribution and scant documentation have led to long-standing...
Grove Press, 2011. — 448 p. Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history - the nineteenth century forced removal of Native Americans from their lands - through the story of Chief John Ross, who came to be known as the Cherokee Moses. Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, Ross was educated in white...
Nebraska University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818 examines how Creek communities and their leaders remained viable geopolitical actors in the trans-Appalachian West well after the American Revolution. The Creeks pursued aggressive and far-reaching diplomacy between 1763 and 1818 to assert their territorial and political...
Nebraska University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818 examines how Creek communities and their leaders remained viable geopolitical actors in the trans-Appalachian West well after the American Revolution. The Creeks pursued aggressive and far-reaching diplomacy between 1763 and 1818 to assert their territorial and political...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2017. — 350 p. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government’s attempt to define who "Indians" were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that "Indians" were "all other persons of one-half or more Indian blood". Today, many tribes wrestle with the legacy of blood quantum and "Indian" identity, as they work to...
University of Manitoba Press, 2017. — 344 p. If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity. In "The Clay We Are Made Of", Susan M....
Edited by Gregory P. Fields — University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 486 p. Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla-Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her narrative...
Omnigraphics Inc., 2010. — 250 p. — (Defining Moments Series). Providing a detailed overview of the 1890 massacre of more than 250 Native American men, women, and children by the United States Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, this account analyzes the conditions that led to this horrific event and its effect on the country s political, cultural, and social...
Foreword by Theodore Fontaine. — Duke University Press, 2014. — 360 p. This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 288 p. Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools,...
University of Nevada Press, 2013. — 512 p. The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. "Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History" covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including geography, religion, significant...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 354 p. — (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). In Ecology and Ethnogenesis Adam R. Hodge argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 354 p. — (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). In Ecology and Ethnogenesis Adam R. Hodge argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and...
Dundum, 1995. — 184 p. It is from the land that the Native peoples of Canada draw their strength. If the people of Quebec claim a right to sovereignty, Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own. The James Bay Cree consider Hydro Quebec’s "mad plans to engineer and dam the...
Dundum, 1995. — 184 p. It is from the land that the Native peoples of Canada draw their strength. If the people of Quebec claim a right to sovereignty, Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own. The James Bay Cree consider Hydro Quebec’s "mad plans to engineer and dam the...
University Press of Colorado, 2002. — 280 p.
Popularized by Mari Sandoz's "Cheyenne Autumn," the Northern Cheyennes' 1878 escape from their Indian Territory Reservation to their native homeland beyond the Platte River has recently been the subject of renewed academic interest. But unlike other books written about the exodus of the Northern Cheyennes, Stan Hoig's "Perilous...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 352 p.
In "Beyond the Frontie"r, Stan Hoig chronicles early explorations of Oklahoma. Focusing on expeditions during the first part of the nineteenth century, Hoig provides a useful history of the region during the period of its first discovery by the outside world.
After describing what we know of Native life before the arrival of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. — 220 p. A Plains tribe that subsisted on the buffalo, the Cheyennes depended for survival on the valor and skill of their braves in the hunt and in battle. The fiery spirit of the young warriors was balanced by the calm wisdom of the tribal headmen, the peace chiefs, who met yearly as the Council of the Forty-four. "A Cheyenne chief was...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 356 p. Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains is a comprehensive account of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century through the United States-Cheyenne Battle of the Sand Hills in 1875. The reader follows the exploits and defeats of such...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 356 p.
"Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains" is a comprehensive account of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century through the United States-Cheyenne Battle of the Sand Hills in 1875. The reader follows the exploits and defeats of such...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 278 p. Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral...
The History Press, 2012. — 128 p. Two centuries ago, the fierce winds of change were sweeping through the Middle Missouri Valley. French, Spanish and then American traders and settlers had begun pouring in. In the midst of this time of tumult and transition, five chiefs rose up to lead their peoples: Omaha Chief Big Elk, the Pottawatamie/Ottawa/Chippewa Tribe's Captain Billy...
Routledge, 2001. — 159 p. The apocalyptic clashes of culture between the land-hungry Whites and the American Indians, which reached their climax in the latter half of the 19th century, were among the most tragic of all wars ever fought. These conflicts pitted one civilisation against another, neither able to comprehend or accommodate the other. To the victor went domination of...
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 1997. — 208 p. What does it mean to be Indian today? Specifically, what does it mean to be an Alabama-Coushatta Indian living on a reservation in East Texas, geographically far from ancestral territory and removed in time and by the intervention of white missionaries and government agents from the traditions and lifestyles of...
Basic Books, 2021. — 320 p. The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland. In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico. The boy converted to Catholicism and after nearly a decade was able to return...
Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2010. — (The Truman Legacy Series; v. 4). — 254 p. Harry S. Truman’s presidency coincided with the beginning of a dramatic shift in the relationship between the U.S. government and Native Americans. Under Truman, the federal government turned away from Roosevelt’s Indian New Deal, and toward a series of policies known as...
Hourly History Press, 2021. — 38 p. Pontiac’s War erupted in the Great Lakes region of North America just as the French and Indian War came to a close in 1763. The French, who had initially established a European presence there, were usurped by the British, whose relations with indigenous peoples were notoriously less diplomatic and more destructive. As a result, a Native...
New edition — University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, 2017. — 408 p. — (Introduction by Nicole Tonkovich). In Saga of Chief Joseph , Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his...
New edition — University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, 2017. — 408 p. — (Introduction by Nicole Tonkovich). In Saga of Chief Joseph , Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his...
Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office 1965. — 240 p. The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated gardens, and hunted...
Fernwood Books Ltd., 2015. — 206 p. In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government leased over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions, wrote letters, demonstrated and sought legal recourse against the deal and the threat of hydraulic fracturing it...
University of Nebraska Press, 2001. — 350 pp. — ISBN: 0-8032-7327-4. In a field as well worked as nineteenth century American Indian policy, one expects little new to arise. But Frederick E. Hoxie approaches this topic from a larger cultural and political perspective and provides intriguing insights into the assimilation campaign as a reflection of changes in white society and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 660 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–985889–7. The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History explores major topics and themes in the Native American past and helps readers to identify major resources for further study and research. The book presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived—and live—in the territory that became the United States. It...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 1997. — 320 p. Like its highly popular and distinctive predecessor, this new edition of Indians in American History strives to fully integrate Indians into the conventional U.S. history narrative. Meticulously reedited throughout, this beautifully illustrated book features fourteen essays by fifteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 190 p. An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples. The American Indian—origin, culture, and language—engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creation? Were they descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? Could they have emigrated from Carthage,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2003. — 288 p. "This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends", writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee,...
University of Georgia Press, 2018. — 600 p. The twentieth-anniversary edition of a classic look at De Soto's epic journey. Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson's foundational Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun , De...
University of Georgia Press, 1998. — 592 p. Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the Southeast. Until now, his path has been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun , anthropologist Charles Hudson offers a solution to the question, "Where...
The Good Medicine Cultural Foundation, 2006. — 225 p. A series of illustrated books to help preserve the culture and heritage of the four divisions that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy in the United States and Canada.
Good Medicine Books, 1991. — 134 p. A handbook illustrated with maps, charts, and historical data of the Indian tribes of the Northern Rockies. Includes bibliographical references.
University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. — 218 p.
George T. Hunt’s classic 1940 study of the Iroquois during the middle and late seventeenth century presents warfare as a result of depletion of natural resources in the Iroquois homeland and tribal efforts to assume the role of middlemen in the fur trade between the Indians to the west and the Europeans.
New edition — Yale University Press, 1990. — 332 p. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when vast numbers of whites poured into California, the native Indian population was decimated through disease, starvation, homicide, and a declining birth rate. In this prize-winning book, Albert L. Hurtado focuses on the Indians who survived this harrowing time. Hurtado...
Crown, 2016. — 544 p. In the tradition of "Empire of the Summer Moon", a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the white invaders - blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. — 231 p. From the prehistoric period to the coming of Europeans, this is a fascinating and well-written account of Indian life from the period of 1300 to 1800, dealing with many tribes in a lively and intelligent narrative.
University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. — 184 p. Spotted Tail, the great head chief of the Brule Sioux, was an intelligent and farseeing man who realized alone of all the Sioux that the old way of life was doomed and that to war with the white soldiers was certain suicide. Although he was branded a traitor by many members of his tribe, the canny Brule, with all the skill of an...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. — 372 p. — (The Civilization of the American Indian Series 128). No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting among themselves, fought with almost every other Plains tribe at one time or another. Regarded as "aliens" by many other tribes, the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 624 p. Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume detail how a homeland has shaped Secwépemc existence while the Secwépemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne...
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 272 p. This fascinating look at the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good relations with the local Native Americans, who incorporated the forts into their...
Preface by Benedicte Ingstad, Introduction by Thomas J. Nevins — University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 188 p. Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad’s sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the “lost” group of their brethren in the Sierra...
University of Georgia Press, 2017. — 184 p. By following key families in Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Anglo-American societies from the Seven Years’ War through 1845, this study illustrates how kinship networks - forged out of natal, marital, or fictive kinship relationships - enabled and directed the actions of their members as they decided the futures of their nations. Natalie R....
University of Manitoba Press, 2013. — 216 p. In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices governed by the Law of the People as described in traditional Elder Brother stories. Elder Brother stories outlined social interaction, marriage, adoption, and kinship roles and...
University of Manitoba Press, 2013. — 216 p. In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices governed by the Law of the People as described in traditional Elder Brother stories. Elder Brother stories outlined social interaction, marriage, adoption, and kinship roles and...
New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, 2015. — 480 p. Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked...
University of South Carolina Press, 2016. — 304 p. The southern frontier could be a cruel and unforgiving place during the early eighteenth century. The British colony of South Carolina was in proximity and traded with several Native American groups. The economic and military relationships between the colonialists and natives were always filled with tension but the Good Friday...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. — 288 p. The massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in the December snows of 1890 was the last formal military encounter between the United States and Indian tribes. It is also the event with which most studies of Indian history conclude. Histories of Indian life since then are, as Vine Deloria, Jr., has stressed, sorely needed. With this...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 360 p.
In addition to revisions and updates, the second edition of "We Are Still Here" features new material, seeing this well-loved American History Series volume maintain its treatment of American Indians in the 20th century while extending its coverage into the opening decades of the 21st century.
Provides student and general readers concise and...
University of New Mexico Press, 2002. — 432 p. This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand observation, it provides a detailed, up-to-date portrait of the Diné past and...
University of New Mexico Press, 2002. — 432 p. This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand observation, it provides a detailed, up-to-date portrait of the Diné past and...
Introduction by Morris W. Foster. — University of Nebraska Press, 1994. — 100 p. In this illuminating book, the Plains Indians come to life as shrewd traders. The Cheyennes played a vital role in an intricate and expanding barter system that connected tribes with each other and with whites. Joseph Jablow follows the Cheyennes, who by the beginning of the nineteenth century had...
Bison Books, 1994. — 100 p. In this illuminating book, the Plains Indians come to life as shrewd traders. The Cheyennes played a vital role in an intricate and expanding barter system that connected tribes with each other and with whites. Joseph Jablow follows the Cheyennes, who by the beginning of the nineteenth century had migrated westward from their villages in present-day...
Dover Publications, 2003. — 352 p. Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study describes the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution. Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text goes on to document and deplore the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez Percé, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee - in the...
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. — 540 p. Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study describes the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution. Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text goes on to document and deplore the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez Percé, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee -...
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. — 540 p. Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study describes the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution. Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text goes on to document and deplore the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez Percé, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee -...
University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 280 p. In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era , folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi people corrects the historical record, which often...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 354 p. After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals and communities who are...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — 592 p. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized...
Penguin Books, 2009. — 384 p. In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham (Papago) Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper...
Springer; 1992. — 333 p.
In this wide-ranging work, Jaffe traces the evolution of the Amerindians from their migration from Asia 10 to 15 thousand years ago or more to the present day and discusses anthropological, demographic, and sociological changes in Amerindians throughout the course of time.
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 368 p. The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of...
Dundurn, 2016. — 208 p. A man of two cultures in an era where his only choices were to be a trailblazer or get left by the wayside. Dr. Peter Martin (Oronhyatekha, "Burning Sky"), born in the Mohawk nation on the Six Nations of the Grand River territory in 1841, led an extraordinary life, rising to prominence in medicine, sports, politics, fraternalism, and business. He was one...
Chelsea House, 2011. — 129 p. First entering the present-day American Southwest around 1500, the Apaches established themselves in the face of competition from the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. After decades of fierce resistance, the Apache tribes eventually found themselves facing an assault on their culture as they were confined to reservations and their children sent to...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 133 p.
For a quarter century - 1861 to 1886 - the U.S. military attempted to subjugate one of the largest Indian tribes of what is today the American Southwest. The Apache Wars is the gripping tale of how thanks to leaders such as Victorio and Geronimo, the Apache Indians held out longer than any other major U.S. tribe. This book also tells...
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2011. — 134 p. Indianer: Das klingt nach Freiheit, Prärie, Büffeljagd und Lagerfeuer - bis der weß?e Mann kam und alles kaputt machte. Nach wie vor prägen solche Bilder die geläufigen Vorstellungen über die ersten Bewohner Nordamerikas. Doch wie lebten die Indianer wirklich, wie begegneten sich die Stämme untereinander und was sind die Probleme eines...
W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. — 464 p. This book, like its predecessor "The Invasion of America", is part of a history of how Euramericans and Amerindians shared in the creation of the society that became the United States of America. In that long process, different strategies were adopted by varied Indian tribes and European colonies in order to cope with the presence of all...
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009. — 273 p.
The Stone Age occupations of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt) are among the most thoroughly surveyed and best known in Greenland. This volume presents the results of the author's research on a regional scale as well as on the scale of a single camp site. It focuses on the horizontal dimensions rather than stratigraphies. The principal...
Edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen. — Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — xxxii, 676 p. : ill., maps. Rev. John Dunbar and Samuel Allis set out in 1834 to establish a mission to Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains. Unable to obtain a guide and with only a vague knowledge of the West, they instead encountered the Pawnee Indians in Nebraska. It was...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. — 236 p. — (Myths of History: A Hackett Series). Misconceptions continue to shape public perceptions of American Indians. Deeply ingrained cultural fictions, what Jentz refers to as myths, have had a lasting hold on popular understanding of Native Americans. In this readable and engaging overview, Jentz provides an important corrective, one...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. — 236 p. — (Myths of History: A Hackett Series). Misconceptions continue to shape public perceptions of American Indians. Deeply ingrained cultural fictions, what Jentz refers to as myths, have had a lasting hold on popular understanding of Native Americans. In this readable and engaging overview, Jentz provides an important corrective, one that...
Greenwood, 1996. — 184 p. For more than a decade scholars have debated the question of whether American Indian confederacies, primarily the Iroquois, helped influence the formation of U.S. basic law. The idea has sparked lively debate in the public arena as well, with Canadian diplomat Durling Voyce-Jones contending it shows a paradigm shift in our thinking, Patrick Buchanan...
Greenwood, 2010. — 315 p. Clyde Warrior was a Ponca who helped propel the American Indian rights movement in the 1960s. Richard (Skip) Hayward was the Pequot most responsible for starting Foxwoods, the world's largest casino. Chickasaw John Herrington was the first Native American astronaut. Now there's a place to meet them all - and many other noteworthy Native Americans,...
Monthly Review Press, 1979. — 268 p. The first people who lived on the northern plains of what today is the U.S. called themselves 'Lakota', meaning 'the people,' a word which provides the semantic basis for Dakota. The first European people to meet the Lakota called them 'Sioux,' a contraction of 'Nadowessioux,' a now-archaic French-Canadian word meaning 'snake,' or enemy. The...
Praeger, 2005. — 507 p. Covers the history of the North American Indians from their arrival on this continent to the present. Early Indigenous North America: An Overview. Mexico and Mesoamerica: Beginnings to European Contact. Native America Meets Europe: The Colonial Era. The Transfer of Ideas: Native Confederacies and the Evolution of Democracy. The Explosion Westward: The...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. — 836 p. Spanning two and a half centuries, from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 1790s, "Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds" is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos in...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. — 836 p.
Spanning two and a half centuries, from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 1790s, "Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds" is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos...
OK Publishing 2018. — 156 p. Metacomet (1638–1676), also known by his adopted English name King Philip, was chief to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta (or King Alexander) died shortly after their father Massasoit. Wamsutta's widow Weetamoo (d. 1676), sunksqua of the Pocasset, was Metacomet's ally...
Plains Chronicles Press, 2008. — 214 p. Wind Through the Buffalo Grass: A Lakota Story Cycle is a narrative history of the Pine Ridge Lakota tribe of South Dakota, following its history from 1850 to the present day through actual historical events and through the stories of four fictional Lakota children, each related by descent and separated from one another by two...
McGraw-Hill, 1971. — 366 p. This book is an interesting history of the Bozeman Trail from 1862 through 1868 and beyond as told through a number of anecdotes describing the trials and tribulations of a number of individuals who traveled on or were influenced by the trail. The Bozeman Trail extended from Fort Laramie in a northwesterly direction through present day Wyoming and...
Wild Horse Media Group, 2013. — 410 p. Ties binding persons of African descent and Native Americans trace back centuries. In Oklahoma, both free and enslaved Africans lived among the Five Civilized Tribes the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Nations. These tribes officially sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War. After that internecine...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 112 p. The 71-day occupation of the village at Wounded Knee - February 27 to May 8, 1973 - is a watershed event in the chronology of American Indian activism because it reflects both the height of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the beginning of the end of the power of that organization. It was at Wounded Knee Village where government...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 256 p. This book is the humorous, bitter-sweet autobiography of a Canadian Ojibwa who was taken from his family at age ten and placed in Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario. It was 1939 when the feared Indian agent visited Basil Johnston’s family and removed him and his four-year-old sister to St. Peter Claver’s school, run by the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. — 225 p. Pueblo Assistance in the Reconquest of New Mexico, 1692-1704 Organization and Unification, 1704-1729 Pacification and Integration, 1729-1754 Defensive Crisis, 1754-1776 The Crisis Resolved, 1776-1794 Spanish Employment of Pueblo Auxiliaries.
University of Utah Press, 2019. —- 624 p. Sondra Jones traces the metamorphosis of the Ute people from a society of small, interrelated bands of mobile hunter-gatherers to sovereign, dependent nations - modern tribes who run extensive business enterprises and government services. Weaving together the history of all Ute groups - in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico--the narrative...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 320 p.
It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door") declared himself to be in direct contact with the Master of Life, and therefore, the supreme religious authority for all Native Americans. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, "would see darkness come over the sun." William Henry Harrison, governor of the...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006. — 224 p. At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006. — 224 p. At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. — 288 p. In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Here, Patrick J. Jung re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States, a conflict that...
University Press of Florida, 2015. — 338 p. The process of European colonization was not simply a matter of armed invaders elbowing themselves into position to take charge. Like the other imperial powers, the British found that maintaining their American empire required complicated negotiations with Indians. On the other hand, the British developed a unique approach to the...
Johnson Books, 1981. — 174 p.
Based on interviews with over thirty elderly Sioux. All of the informants either knew Crazy Horse themselves or had been told about him by older relatives.
Springer, 2019. — 148 p. This book argues that early American history is best understood as the story of a settler-colonial supplanting society - a society intent on a vast land grab of American Indian space and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new white settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. Challenging the still...
Springer, 2019. — 148 p. This book argues that early American history is best understood as the story of a settler-colonial supplanting society - a society intent on a vast land grab of American Indian space and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new white settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. Challenging the still...
Routledge, 2004. — 320 p. Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, literary criticism, anthropology, studies in nationalism...
University of North Carolina Press, 2023. — 238 p. This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense duress and signed a treaty that ceded their remaining ancestral lands...
University of North Carolina Press, 2023. — 238 p. This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense duress and signed a treaty that ceded their remaining ancestral lands...
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2012. — xix, 293 p. : ill. This is so much more than a singular biography. In Blackbird’s Song , Karamanski has crafted a detailed and readable narrative of person, time, and place. This is how history should be written—with color, passion, and personality. —Anthony G. Gulig, Chair, Department of History, University of...
University of California Press, 2019. — 318 p. — (American Crossroads 52). Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global...
University of Nebraska Press, 1995. — 588 p. The Comanche Indians are one of the most widely known yet least understood groups on the Plains. Although much has been published on Comanche history and culture, this is the first in-depth historical study of Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, Thomas W. Kavanagh traces the changes and continuities...
Branden Publishing Company, 1998. — 261 p. Born to a Stone Age culture, Escumbuit seems destined to vault to fame in a struggle that has locked Aboriginal Indians and English settlers in mortal combat over control of their ancestral lands. From his youthful vision quest in search of his Manatou, to the taking of his first scalps, his legend as a ruthless warrior captures the...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 320 p. In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 320 p. In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred...
Savas Publishing Company, 2000. — 169 p. — With a Summaly of Historical Archaeology at the Wagon Box Site. One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2017. — 270 p. North America Before the European Invasions tells the histories of North American peoples from first migrations in the Late Glacial Age, sixteen thousand years ago or more, to the European invasions following Columbus’s arrival. Contrary to invaders’ propaganda, North America was no wilderness, and its peoples had developed a variety of...
State University of New York Press, 2020. — 287 p. In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. As the crisis of forced removal profoundly reshaped Indian country between 1820 and 1860, tribal leaders and intellectuals worked with coauthors, interpreters, and amanuenses to...
State University of New York Press, 2020. — 287 p. In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. As the crisis of forced removal profoundly reshaped Indian country between 1820 and 1860, tribal leaders and intellectuals worked with coauthors, interpreters, and amanuenses to...
Foreword by John D. Speth — University of Michigan Press, 1986. — 200 p. — (Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 77). In this volume, author J. Charles Kelley uses historical, linguistic, and archaeological data to compare two indigenous North American cultures: the Patarabueyes and the Jumanos. Originally presented as the author's thesis...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 288 p. Fanny Kelly’s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction points out examples of expressed favor toward the...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 384 p. In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 384 p. In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. — 258 p. From 1598, when the province of New Mexico was formed by Juan de Onate, until the Red River War of 1874, the inhabitants of the Rio Grande valley and the Indians of the plains were in frequent contact. Because the economies of the two areas were complementary, relations usually took the form of trade, not war. This peaceful relationship...
Utah State University Press, 1995 - 344 p.
Now back in print, this important collection of first-hand accounts from individuals who had leading roles in Indian-white relations is a necessary reference for anyone interested in the modern Indian experience.
Reviewing fifty years of Indian history since the Indian Reorganization Act was passed during FDR's New Deal...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 304 p. William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom - benevolent, Quaker, pacifist - gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans....
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 304 p. William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom - benevolent, Quaker, pacifist - gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans....
Facts on File, 2005. — 398 p.
This A-Z work focuses on the conflicts that arose after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World in 1492. From then until the late 1800s, the number of armed conflicts among Native American groups and between Indians and their non-Indian opponents reached significant proportions.
Cambridge, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — xvi; 135 p. With tribes and individual Indians increasingly participating in American electoral politics, this study examines the ways in which tribes work together with state and local governments to overcome significant governance challenges. Much scholarship on tribal governance continues to rely on a concept of tribal...
University Alabama Press, 2010. — 256 p. The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a selfdescribed National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIPI is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government and American Indian tribes for almost two...
Penguin Books, 2016. — 672 p. Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples. This highly personal...
Penguin Books, 2016. — 672 p. Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples. This highly personal...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2013. — 272 p. In The Inconvenient Indian , Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White...
University of Michigan Press, 1940. — 448 p. — (Occasional Contributions from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan, v. 10). Here is the colorful story of the Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa tribes in the years before contact with the white man changed their centuries-old way of life. The book is based on the letters and journals of European...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 176 p. It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended at the risk of his life. With candor, bitter humor, and biting...
University of Manitoba Press, 2013. — 208 p. Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in education as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and professor. As the first cross-cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the...
University of Manitoba Press, 2013. — 208 p. Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in education as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and professor. As the œfirst cross-cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 368 p. In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region—newly acquired in the Mexican-American...
Casemate, 2017. — 288 p. Spanning a period of over forty years (1817-1858), the three Seminole Wars were America’s longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an uneasy peace following the conclusion of the second Seminole War in 1842, a series of hostile events followed by a string of murders in 1849 and 1850 made...
Arcadia Publishing, 2003. — 160 p., illus. — (The Making of America series). Among the most well known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military and...
LSU Press, 1994. — 344 p. Although many specialized studies have been written about Louisiana's Indian tribes, no complete account has appeared regarding their long, varied history. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present is a highly informative study that reconstructs the history and cultural evolution of these people. This study identifies tribal...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 412 p. Historians and military men have had their say about the Indian wars, which lasted from 1866 to 1891. But the newspaper correspondents who took to the field with troops now get their innings - if not the last word. And what they have to say, as revealed by Oliver Knight, himself a former newspaperman, sheds new and important light on...
University of Regina Press, 2019. — 336 p. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family,...
Rutgers University Press, 2019. — 286 p. The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. These two groups’ exchanges were numerous and diverse, proving at times harmonious when Jews’ and Natives people’s economic and social interests aligned, but...
University of Nebraska Press and American Philosophical Society, 2019. — 618 p. In Of One Mind and Of One Government Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of...
University of Nebraska Press and American Philosophical Society, 2019. — 618 p. In Of One Mind and Of One Government Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of Georgia...
University of New Mexico Press, 2000. — 304 p. The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood became the armys premier "Apache man" as...
University of New Mexico Press, 2000. — 304 p. The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood became the armys premier "Apache man" as...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 448 p. Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have never been fully recounted until now. In Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway , Louis Kraft tells this story, drawing on the words and actions of those who participated in the events...
Foreword by Winona Wheeler — University of Regina Press, 2019. — 368 p. Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness...
Translated by Corinna Dally-Starna, with an introduction by Raymond A. Bucko — University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 340 p. Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women makes available in English a rare collection of eyewitness accounts by German Catholic missionaries among the Lakotas in the late nineteenth century. German missionaries played an important role in the early years of...
Utah State University Press, 2000. — 332 p. Writings by American Indians from the early twentieth century or earlier are rare. Willie Ottogary's letters have the distinction of being firsthand reports of an Indian community's ongoing social life by a community member and leader. The Northwestern Shoshone residing at the Washakie colony in northern Utah descended from survivors of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 232 p. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going , highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 352 p. A gripping account of the violence and turmoil that engulfed England’s fledgling colonies and the crucial role played by Native Americans in determining the future of North America. In 1675, eastern North America descended into chaos. Virginia exploded into civil war, as rebel colonists decried the corruption of planter oligarchs and...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 352 p. A gripping account of the violence and turmoil that engulfed England’s fledgling colonies and the crucial role played by Native Americans in determining the future of North America. In 1675, eastern North America descended into chaos. Virginia exploded into civil war, as rebel colonists decried the corruption of planter oligarchs and...
Michigan State University Press, 1998. — 228 p. In the spring of 1868, people from several Ojibwe villages located along the upper Mississippi River were relocated to a new reservation at White Earth, more than 100 miles to the west. In many public declarations that accompanied their forced migration, these people appeared to embrace the move, as well as their conversion to...
The Arizona Historical Society, 2014. — 436 p. Based on three decades of extensive field work and exhaustive research in manuscript and published sources, Berndt Kuhn chronicles more than a century of conflict between Native Americans, Anglos, and Mexicans in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The nearly 4,000 entries in this meticulous compendium provide...
Cornell University Press, 2000. — 320 p. In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain - hopeful and fearful - about the opportunity and...
New York University Press, 2019. — 240 p. In Pocahontas and the English Boys , the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships - and became essential for the colony’s...
New York University Press, 2019. — 240 p. In Pocahontas and the English Boys , the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships - and became essential for the colony’s...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 288 p. Kukveni - footprints - are a powerful historical metaphor that the Hopi people use to comprehend their tangible heritage. Hopis say that the deity Máasaw instructed their ancestors to leave footprints during their migrations from their origin place to their home today as evidence that they had fulfilled a spiritual pact to serve as...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 288 p. Kukveni - footprints - are a powerful historical metaphor that the Hopi people use to comprehend their tangible heritage. Hopis say that the deity Máasaw instructed their ancestors to leave footprints during their migrations from their origin place to their home today as evidence that they had fulfilled a spiritual pact to serve as...
University of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 200 p. For centuries, the Caddos occupied the southern prairies and woodlands across portions of Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Organized into powerful chiefdoms during the Mississippian period, Caddo society was highly ceremonial, revolving around priest-chiefs, trade in exotic items, and the periodic construction of mounds. Their...
Texas A&M University Press, 2004. — 328 p. During an excavation in the 1950s, the bones of a prehistoric woman were discovered in Midland County, Texas. Archaeologists dubbed the woman “Midland Minnie.” Some believed her age to be between 20,000 and 37,000 years, making her remains the oldest ever found in the Western Hemisphere. While the accuracy of this date remains disputed,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2013. — 262 p. At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2013. — 262 p.
At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men,...
South End Press, 1999. — 243 p. This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by...
South End Press, 1999. — 243 p. This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by...
Reprint edition — Haymarket Books, 2015. — 294 p. When she invites us to “recover the sacred,” well-known Native American organizer Winona LaDuke is requesting far more than the rescue of ancient bones and beaded headbands from museums. For LaDuke, only the power to define what is sacred - and access it - will enable Native American communities to remember who they are and fashion...
Reprint edition — Haymarket Books, 2015. — 294 p. When she invites us to “recover the sacred,” well-known Native American organizer Winona LaDuke is requesting far more than the rescue of ancient bones and beaded headbands from museums. For LaDuke, only the power to define what is sacred - and access it - will enable Native American communities to remember who they are and fashion...
Fernwood Publishing, 2020. — 320 p. Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers , is an expansive, provocative engagement with issues that have been central to her many years of activism. LaDuke honours Mother...
UBC Press, 1999. — 296 p. Living along the banks of the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have ahd a long history of contact with non-Aboriginal peoples. In 1808 they hosted Simon Fraser as an overnight guest. Later they watched as fur traders searched for transport routes through the mountains of the Fraser Canyon, and saw miners,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 328 p. After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples - in essence conducting an extended military campaign that culminated...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 344 p. Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The book covers nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees’ first European contacts to the post–Civil War era, and...
From the edition: The illustrated history of American soldier, his uniform and his equipment American Indians in the U.S. Armed Forces, 1866-1945 - pp. 5-8 Illustrations - pp. 9-72
University of Alabama Press, 2006. — 198 p. This volume investigates the use of deer, deerskins, and nonlocal goods in the period from A.D. 1400 to 1700 to gain a comprehensive understanding of historic-era cultural changes taking place within Native American communities in the southern Appalachian Highlands. In the 1600s, hunting deer to obtain hides for commercial trade...
University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 296 p. In "City Indian", Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political, social, educational, and...
Gibbs Smith, 2009. — 160 p. The only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal descendant. Ernie LaPointe is the great -grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, and he presents the family tales and memories told to him about his great-grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Sitting Bull. LaPointe...
Préface de Claire Barré — Flammarion, 2019. — 188 p. Arrière-petit-fils de Sitting Bull, Ernie LaPointe nous transmet le récit familial de la vie et la mort du célèbre chef indien. Issues de la tradition orale, ces émouvantes paroles bouleversent tout ce que nous pensions savoir de ce personnage mythique. L'auteur offre le récit limpide et simple d'une vie hors du commun :...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 356 p. Perhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crushed Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn-Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse-Red Cloud's active leadership of his people,...
University of Alabama Press, 2001. — 264 p. This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America. Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable because he played a...
State University of New York Press, 2021. — 352 p. This volume of essays by historians and archaeologists offers an introduction to the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, as well as their extensive and intensive relationships with its Indigenous peoples. Often associated with the Hudson River Valley, New...
State University of New York Press, 2021. — 352 p. This volume of essays by historians and archaeologists offers an introduction to the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, as well as their extensive and intensive relationships with its Indigenous peoples. Often associated with the Hudson River Valley, New...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 528 p. More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering book is the first to provide a full...
House of Anansi Press, 2012. — 360 p. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and scholar...
Gallery Books, 2015. — 224 p. Playing cowboys and Indians as a boy, legendary college football coach Mike Leach always chose to be the Indian—the underdog whose success turned on being a tough, resourceful, ingenious fighter. And the greatest Indian military leader of all was Geronimo, the Apache warrior whose name is so symbolic of courage that World War II paratroopers...
2nd Edition. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 336 p. Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of non-Indian land claims, the appropriation of their homelands, and...
2nd Edition. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 336 p. Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of non-Indian land claims, the appropriation of their homelands, and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 264 p. In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who...
Dundurn, 2015. — 225 p. Molly Brant, head of the Mohawk Matrons and chatelaine of a manor house in New York State, was at home in both Six Nations and white society. Because of her ability to influence native politics during the American Revolution, she won the respect of the Canadian Indian Department, becoming a vital link between her people and the British authorities. Peggy...
Madison & Adams Press, 2018. — 929 p. — ISBN 978-80-268-8893-2. Indian Wars is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against the indigenous peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th...
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. — 360 p. A riveting account of the conquest of the vast American heartland that offers a vital reconsideration of the relationship between Native Americans and European colonists, and the pivotal role of the mighty Mississippi. America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Cutting a...
The Journal of Military History — July 2004. — vol. 68. — p. 713–70. This article explores and compares how two southeastern Native American societies responded to the challenge of defending their home territories against European incursions in the eighteenth century. As the Tuscaroras and the Cherokees learned more about their European opponents, they progressively adapted...
Routledge, 2005. — 450 p. Among America's most complex planning environments, Indian country continues to face innumerable challenges to its community development. These factors are historic in nature, creating an assemblage of complex problems in reservation land management, policy implementation, and the ability of tribes to access capital for community investment.This study...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 274 p. The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn, suffered...
Reference Publications, 1979. — 645 p. Encyclopedic A-Z historical and ethnographic dictionary giving concise data about native indian tribe's peoples living in North America, north of Mexico.
University of Arizona Press, 2017. — 280 p. Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as "Other" than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility , Michelle A. Lelièvre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and - at times - served this contradiction at...
University of Alabama Press, 2016. — 208 p.
Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in "Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast" include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or symbols. These are rendered on...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 352 p. The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force. British Nova Scotia and French Acadia were imaginary places that administrators hoped to graft over the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki peoples. Homelands and...
University Press of Florida, 2007. — 216 p. When Europeans first arrived on North American shores, they came to a continent crisscrossed by a well-trodden network of native trails. The traders, missionaries, diplomatists, and naturalists who traveled these trails depended in no small measure on the skills, knowledge, and goodwill of the native people who were squarely in...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. — 208 p. Born in Wisconsin, Philip Bergin Gordon - whose Ojibwe name, Tibishkogijik, is said to mean Looking into the Sky - became one of the first Native Americans to be ordained as a Catholic priest in the United States. Gordon's devotion to Catholicism was matched only by his dedication to the protection of his people. A notable Native...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 288 p. "Red Bird, Red Power" tells the story of one of the most influential - and controversial - American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz...
Revised edition — Oxford University Press, 1997. — 256 p. During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. "Neither Wolf Nor Dog" explores the experiences of three groups - Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams (Papago) - with settled...
Bismarck, North Dakota: 1920. — 328 p. The purpose in publishing this material on the Indian campaign of 1876 is twofold. Merely as a matter of justice to the Arikara Indian scouts their version of the campaign in which they played an important part Should have long ago been given to the public. Nearly every other conceivable angle of this memorable campaign has received...
Plains Anthropologist. — 2011. — Vol. 56. — No. 218. — pp. 155-174. The attribution of Sioux primacy in the Plains Indian wars of the nineteenth century rests upon numerical superiority rather than actual battles fought and casualties taken. Through ethnogenesis, the formation of a new political entity, the Cheyenn"es attained the only Htribal" status in the Great Plains,...
2nd Edition. — University of Oklahoma Press / Red River books, 2002. — 288 p. This collection of biographies of American Indian intellectuals first appeared in 1978. Based on papers delivered at the 1976 meeting of the American Ethnological Society, the essays here mainly focus on intellectuals who contributed to the fields of anthropology and history. Although these Indian...
University of California Press, 2006. — 354 p. California’s earliest European colonists - Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries - depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past - including little-known oral histories, native...
With Introduction by John P. Bowes. — Fire Ant Books, 2004. — 124 p. Valuable, original, and difficult-to-find resources on Choctaw history and culture. This important book comprises two articles that appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society". In "Life of Apushimataha", Gideon Lincecum tells the story of Choctaw chief Pushmataha,...
New York: John Day, 1957. — 312 p. In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848–1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the well-known western writer who had befriended him. Plenty-coups is a classic account of the nomadic, spiritual, and warring life of Plains Indians before they were forced onto reservations....
University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 456 p.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 360 p. — (New Directions in Narrative History).
Andrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 264 p. American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiving possible, but his story goes deeper than the holiday legend. Born in the Wampanoag-speaking town of Patuxet in the late 1500s, Squanto was kidnapped in 1614 by an English captain, who took him to Spain. From there, Englishmen...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 264 p. American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiving possible, but his story goes deeper than the holiday legend. Born in the Wampanoag-speaking town of Patuxet in the late 1500s, Squanto was kidnapped in 1614 by an English captain, who took him to Spain. From there, Englishmen...
Wiley, 2007. — 388 p. — (For Dummies). Converted from MOBI to PDF. Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations - a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History For Dummies reveals what is known about their pre-Columbian history and...
University of Minnesota, 1917. — 161 p. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature...
Mankind Publishing Company, 2002. — 496 p. Raymond Friday Locke brings Navajo history and legends to life in a book that is fascinating, informative and vital to our understanding. It is the Navajo's own history taken from the authentic Navajo "Singer" tales. It is tribal history extended through two hundred years of bitter conflict with Spain, the Civil War internment by the USA...
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001. — 160 p. From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal explores Wisconsin’s rich Native tradition. Each chapter is a compact tribal history of one of the state’s Indian nations - Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican and...
Éditions du Septentrion, 2021. — 296 p. Avec la Grande Paix de Montréal signée en 1701, la France cherche à stabiliser sa présence en Amérique du Nord et à consolider son vaste mais fragile empire colonial. Plusieurs nations autochtones refusent toutefois de se plier aux exigences de la Pax Gallica, parmi lesquelles les Mesquakies, que les Français appellent "les Renards". Les...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. — 304 p.
"War Dance at Fort Marion" tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army. Held from 1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they participated in an educational experiment, initiated by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, as an...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. — 320 p. The life of William Apess (1798–1839), a Pequot Indian, Methodist preacher, and widely celebrated writer, provides a lens through which to comprehend the complex dynamics of indigenous survival and resistance in the era of America's early nationhood. Apess's life intersects with multiple aspects of indigenous identity and existence...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 256 p. Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the images of Native warriors - Wild Hog, Porcupine, and Left Hand, as well as possibly Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, Blacksmith, and Tangled Hair - as they awaited probable execution in the Dodge City jail in 1879. When Sheriff Bat Masterson provided...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 200 p., illus. — (American Indian Lives series). “Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low says, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths...The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.” Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 328 p. Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters - the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers - disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different story. As the largest tribe...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. — 448 p. The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of how this region emerged as the heartland of French colonial society have been thoroughly outlined by historians, much remains unknown or misunderstood about how it also witnessed the...
University of Manitoba Press, 2020. — 256 p. — (Critical Studies in Native History). 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....
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 264 p. The Mohawks were the largest group in the Iroquois confederacy of Native American tribes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Living in what is now upstate New York and along the Canadian border, they held political control over north-eastern America before the colonial period, and were one of the first native American groups to...
Texas Tech University Press, 2014. — 352 p. On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his US troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, attacked Kiowa Chief Dohasan’s winter village in the Texas Panhandle. Warriors retaliated with stiff resistance as their women and children escaped. Fighting proceeded down the Canadian River to...
University of Manitoba Press, 2002. — 304 p.
The original people of the Hudson Bay lowlands, often known as the Lowland Cree and known to themselves as Muskekowuck Athinuwick, were among the first Aboriginal peoples in northwestern North America to come into contact with Europeans. This book challenges long-held misconceptions about the Lowland Cree, and illustrates how...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 224 p. Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian Residential School system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is defined...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 224 p. Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian Residential School system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 344 p. Imperial Entanglements chronicles the history of the Haudenosaunee Iroquois in the eighteenth century, a dramatic period during which they became further entangled in a burgeoning market economy, participated in imperial warfare, and encountered a waxing British Empire. Rescuing the Seven Years' War era from the shadows of the...
Dundurn, 2012. — 248 p. The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years’ War is a long neglected topic. The consequences of this struggle still shape Canadian history. The book looks at the social and economic impact of the war on both men and women in Canadian Iroquois communities. The Canadian Iroquois provides an...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. — 288 p. On March 30, 1891 - less than four months after the military suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota - twenty-three Lakota Sioux imprisoned at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, were released into the custody of William F. Cody. "Buffalo Bill", as Cody was known, then hired the prisoners as performers. Labeled...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 709 p. — (The Lamar Series in Western History). The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement...
University of Utah Press, 1985. — 312 p. In January 1863 over two hundred Shoshoni men, women, and children died on the banks of the Bear River at the hands of volunteer soldiers from California. Bear River was one of the largest Indian massacres in the Trans-Mississippi West, yet the massacre has gone almost unnoticed as it occurred during a time when national attention was...
Texas Tech University Press, 2008. — 378 p. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histories in sensational incidents and quiet human connections, many recorded in detail here for the first time. After covering racial unrest in the remote northwest corner of his home state of...
University of Florida Press, 2010. — 391 p. By the third decade of the 19th century the growing American nation had expanded so far into the Florida peninsula that in 1832 a group of Seminole tribal chiefs accepted the terms of a treaty which provided for the removal of their tribes to the West. Wiley Thompson was appointed to supervise the migration.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. — 248 p. For thousands of years the Washoe people have lived in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the center of their lands sits beautiful Lake Tahoe, a name derived from the Washoe word Da ow a ga . Perhaps because the Washoe population has always been small or because it has been more peaceful than other tribal communities,...
J.P. Morton & Co., 1922. — 596 p. A description of the history of Chickasaw until the middle of the 19th century and the treaties with the United States in the first half of the 19th century. First Published in 1922.
Chelsea House Pub., 2007. — 144 p. Between 1675 and 1676, King Philip's War shattered native tribes and devastated the new English colonies in one of the most significant American wars of the 17th century. The conflict that triggered this terrible war developed more than 50 years, as Indians found their lands shrinking and their resources threatened by the colonists. The powerful...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. — 344 p. Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semi-autonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary...
Praeger, 2005. — 316 p. The Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This important work recounts the tragic events on the forgotten Western front of the American Revolution—a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 258 p.
On October 20, 2001, a crowd gathered just east of Salmon, Idaho, to dedicate the site of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. In a bitter instance of irony, the American Indian peoples conducting the ceremony dedicating the land to the tribe, the city of...
Washington: Inland Printing Company Spokane, 1912. — 304 p. Scarce work on the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and the Oregon Indian wars of the later 1850s, being the first detailed account of the 1858 expeditions in western Washington State to 'pacify' the native Indians; most of the plates are portraits of Indian chiefs or U.S. military leaders.
University of Minnesota Press, 2019. — 320 p. Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism that has long been out of print. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement at that time, with coauthor journalist Michael Posluns, presents a rich historical document that traces the struggle for Indigenous survival...
University of Minnesota Press, 2019. — 320 p. Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism that has long been out of print. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement at that time, with coauthor journalist Michael Posluns, presents a rich historical document that traces the struggle for Indigenous survival...
University of Utah Press, 1994. — 184 p. What happened to the Sioux after Little Bighorn? In the winter of 1877, many escaped with Sitting Bull to Canada, precipitating an international incident and setting three governments at each other for five years. Resolution came only in 1881 with the demise of the buffalo herds in the Northwest Territories. Faced with starvation, the Sioux...
University of Arizona Press, 2013. — 232 p. The story of the Tohono O’odham peoples offers an important account of assimilation. Bifurcated by a border demarcating Mexico and the United States that was imposed on them after the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the Tohono O’odham lived at the edge of two empires. Although they were often invisible to the majority cultures of the...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 2012. — 296 p. This volume explores culture change and persistence within a late seventeenth-century Cherokee community in eastern Tennessee.
TwoDot, 2021. — 480 p. Most Americans and many people worldwide have heard these two famous names. Today, however, the general public knows little about the lives of these great leaders. During the second half of the nineteenth century when they opposed white intrusion and expansion into their territories, just the mention of their names could spark fear or anger. After they...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 320 p. When Andrew Jackson’s removal policy failed to solve the "Indian problem", the federal government turned to religion for assistance. Nineteenth-century Catholic and Protestant reformers eagerly founded reservation missions and boarding schools, hoping to "civilize and Christianize" their supposedly savage charges. In telling the story...
University of Arizona Press, 2021. — 296 p. In 1911, a group of Native American intellectuals and activists joined together to establish the Society of American Indians (SAI), an organization by Indians for Indians. It was the first such nationwide organization dedicated to reform. They used a strategy of protest and activism that carried into the rest of the twentieth century....
University of the Pacific, 1973. — 79 p. These five narratives were originally collected by Dr. Thomas B. Marquis. His interests led him to retire from goverment work with the Indians and learn more about the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Crow. The selections in the book were originally transcribed between 1926 and 1929 and tell about what life was like for the Indians during the last...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. — 286 p. A collection of photographs documenting the lives of the Northern Cheyenne people on the reservation during the early twentieth century.
Minneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931. — 428 p.
Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858–1940), one of the Northern Cheyenne warriors who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations. He tells of growing up on the Great...
Minneapolis: The Midwest Company, 1931. — 428 p. Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858–1940), one of the Northern Cheyenne warriors who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations. He tells of growing up on the Great...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2016. — 428 p. Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858–1940), one of the Northern Cheyenne warriors who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations. He tells of growing up on the Great...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. — 320 p. The title is a translation of the Kiowa concept for a series of “bundles” wlth rituals which give the sanctions and embody all the spiritual forces which the Kiowa consider essential to their existence. The method of the book is to present autobiographical narratives with a minimum of integrated culture data. The thirty-three...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. — 320 p. The title is a translation of the Kiowa concept for a series of "bundles" wlth rituals which give the sanctions and embody all the spiritual forces which the Kiowa consider essential to their existence. The method of the book is to present autobiographical narratives with a minimum of integrated culture data. The thirty-three...
Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1998. — 332 p. Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed was written as part of the negotiations between the Gitksan and the Nisga'a who have competing territorial claims of ownership and jurisdiction in the upper Nass River watershed. What is assembled here is probably the most significant body of evidence ever compiled to show the existence of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 230 p. On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant final removal from...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 230 p. On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency - a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant final removal from...
Penguin Books, 2008. — 262 p. A gripping account of the legendary battle, told from the Lakota perspective. The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota and white settlers. The men who led the battle - Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer - have become legends. Here award-winning Lakota...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. — 664 p. In Part I, Ingeborg Marshall documents the history of the Beothuk from the first European encounter in the 1500s to their demise, focusing on relations between Beothuk and English through the centuries and the reasons for change in Beothuk distribution and population size. She provides a highly readable and lucid account of the...
Viking, 2004. — 310 p. Drawing on vivid oral histories, Joseph M. Marshall’s intimate biography introduces a never-before-seen portrait of Crazy Horse and his Lakota community. Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2019. — 120 p. For Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people, historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government have resulted in gaping health, educational, and economic disparities compared to the general population. Crazy Horse Weeps , offers a thorough historical overview of how South Dakota...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 232 p. The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the...
Routledge, 2022. — 172 p. This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa 1100–1300). The experiences of women as a result of their gender, age, and status over the life course are reconstructed, with...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. — 224 p.
Charles Eastman (1858–1939) straddled two worlds in his life and writing. The author of Indian Boyhood was raised in the traditional Dakota (Sioux) way after the upheaval of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War. His father later persuaded Ohiyesa to take a white name, study Christianity, and attend medical school. But when Eastman served...
Greenwood, 2016. — 852 p. This powerful two-volume set provides an insider's perspective on American Indian experiences through engaging narrative entries about key historical events written by leading scholars in American Indian history as well as inspiring first-person accounts from American Indian peoples. This comprehensive, two-volume resource on American Indian history...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 266 p. The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in its coverage of history, it includes deeply personal...
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — 208 p. Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government. In a country such as Canada, some see the plight of the Lubicon people as an enduring reminder that certain democratic principles and basic freedoms are still kept from...
5th Print edition. — Sheffield Pub Co., 1988. — 326 p. Introduction to Wisconsin Indians is intended for use as a college-level textbook. It combines history, archaeology and anthropology in a discussion that traces the movements and culture of Native Americans through the area now known as Wisconsin. In recent years, Native American pressure for old treaty rights and modern...
University of Alabama Press, 2008. — 310 p. One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research. Ronald J. Mason explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. That exploration is necessarily interdisciplinary and set in a global context....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. — 848 p. (Reprint edition, The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
John Joseph Mathews (c. 1894 - 1979) became one of the Osage Nation's most important spokespeople and writers, and served on the Osage Tribal Council during the 1930s. He studied at the University of Oklahoma, Oxford University and the University of Geneva after...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 392 p. One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States’ intrusions into Lakota prairie land for years,...
Viking, 1983. — 640 p. On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal...
Klett-Cotta Verlag, 2017. — 464 s. Aram Mattioli erzählt die Geschichte Nordamerikas zwischen 1700 und 1900 aus der Sicht der "First Peoples". Eingehend ergründet er die politischen Motive aller Seiten im erbarmungslosen Kampf um den Kontinent, der zur Vernichtung der Lebensformen und der Kultur der Indianer führte. Umfassend erzählt und deutet Aram Mattioli die Geschichte der...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 300 p. In Messianic Fulfillments Hayes Peter Mauro examines the role of Christian evangelical movements in shaping American identity in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Christianity’s fervent pursuit of Native American salvation, Mauro discusses Anglo American artists influenced by Christian millenarianism,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 300 p. In Messianic Fulfillments Hayes Peter Mauro examines the role of Christian evangelical movements in shaping American identity in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Christianity’s fervent pursuit of Native American salvation, Mauro discusses Anglo American artists influenced by Christian millenarianism,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. — 364 p. The Kiowa Indians were, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Plains Indian tribes. Here is the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to Plains nomads and finally, after the Indian wars of the 1870s. The Kiowas is a topical study that systematically sets forth the cultural history of the tribe....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. — 364 p. The Kiowa Indians were, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Plains Indian tribes. Here is the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to Plains nomads and finally, after the Indian wars of the 1870s. The Kiowas is a topical study that systematically sets forth the cultural history of the tribe....
Council Oak Books, 2020. — 352 p. Dennis McAuliffe Jr., a journalist, grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. But sixty-six years later, he learns by chance that the cause was a gunshot wound. Investigating the circumstances, he soon finds himself peeling away the layers of a suppressed nightmare...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 414 p. Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up the heart of the book. This biography chronicles the extraordinary life of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 414 p. Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up the heart of the book. The narrative begins with Molly Mathilde (1665-1717), a...
Michigan State University Press, 2000. — 572 p. On 13 August 1990 members of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the State of Minnesota for interfering with the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights that had been guaranteed to them in an 1837 treaty with the United States. In order to interpret the treaty the courts had to consider historical circumstances, the...
Routledge, 2004. — 152 p. An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1821), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction. Challenging historical views that structure a dichotomy of the...
Routledge, 2020. — 442 p. First published in 1970, this volume from Mrs Harriet E. Bishop McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, was part of the first wave of contemporaneous accounts from Americans in 1863 documenting their perspective of the Sioux Uprising between the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862. At least 450 settlers and soldiers were...
Greenwood, 2017. — 286 p. The history of American Indians is an integral part of American history overall — a part that is often overlooked. History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots provides a broad chronological overview of Native American history that challenges readers to grapple with the elemental themes of adaptation, continuity, and persistence. The book enables...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 176 p. The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the famous personages involved, paying scant attention to how Native peoples on both sides...
University of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 241 p. From 1860 to 1890 the United States military engaged in war after war with the indigenous peoples of the West. Although numerous treaties recognized the rights of individual tribes, the U.S. government often did nothing to stop settlers from expanding into Indian territory. Some Indians fled, and others attempted to coexist with the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 240 p. On August 19, 1854, U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant's cow. The terrible series of events that followed, which became known as the Grattan Massacre,...
Stackpole Books, 2003. — 287 p. The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyenne and...
Hill and Wang, 2015. — 416 p. In "Masters of Empire", the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg, who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron, were equally influential. "Masters of Empire" charts the story of one...
Hill and Wang, 2015. — 416 p.
In "Masters of Empire", the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg, who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron, were equally influential. "Masters of Empire" charts the story of one...
University of New Mexico Press, 2020. — 352 p. A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served as soldiers, scholars, artists, artisans, and missionaries within early transatlantic empires and later nation-states. These Indian...
University Press of Florida, 2000. — 352 p. This volume brings together a stellar group of scholars to summarize what we know of the development of native American cultures in the southeastern United States after 1500. The authors integrate archaeological, documentary, and ethnohistorical evidence in the most comprehensive examination of diverse southeastern Indian cultures...
University Press of Florida, 2001. — 352 p.
"Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory" brings together a group of scholars to summarize what was known about the development of Native American cultures in the southeastern United States after 1500. The authors integrate archaeological, documentary, and ethnohistorical evidence in the most...
Revised Edition — Between the Lines, 2020. — 402 p. Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography From Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel (1920-1989) was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel...
Carleton University Press, 1974. — 212 p. These selections date from early contact of the native peoples of Atlantic Canada with, among others, Norse sailors, and a French priest in 1612. Some excerpts look at the now-extinct Beothuk people of Newfoundland, but most pertain to the Micmac peoples.
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 288 p. The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy. Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a...
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2005. — xii, 223 p. : ill., maps. Though trials in open court suggest impartiality, White Justice in Arizona reveals how, time and again, the judicial system of nineteenth-century Arizona denied Apaches justice. The Captain Jack, Gonshayee, Apache Kid, “Carlisle Kid,” and Batdish murder cases offer a sad, compelling commentary on injustice...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 238 p. This unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Protestant mission and house of worship in the upper Midwest took root in the Oneida community. Personal bonds that developed between the Episcopal clergy and the Wisconsin Oneidas proved more important than...
Reprint Edition. — Princeton University Press, 2018. — 472 p. The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and "civilize" all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens. From the standpoint of the Cherokees, rather than from that of the...
Penguin Group US, 1999. — 160 p.
Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 432 p. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 432 p. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally...
Institute of Race Relations, 1993. — 208 p. — (With a New Introduction by Peter Iverson). Contrary to the white man's early expectations, the Indian tribes of North America neither vanished nor assimilated. Despite almost four hundred years of contact with the dominant - and often domineering - Western civilization, Native Americans have maintained their cultural identity, the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 396 p. In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navaho country in present-day New Mexico. Accompanying Simpson was a military force commanded by Colonel John M. Washington, sent to negotiate peace with the Navaho Indians. A keen observer, Simpson kept a journal...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 260 p. The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert...
Utah State University Press, 2001. — 144 p. McPherson argues that, instead of being a downtrodden group of prisoners, defeated militarily in the 1860s and dependent on the U.S. government for protection and guidance in the 1870s and 80s, the Navajo nation was vigorously involved in defending and expanding the borders of their homelands. This was accomplished not through war nor as...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 378 p. Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Between 1611 and 1764, 320 Jesuits were sent from France to North America to serve as...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 378 p. Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Between 1611 and 1764, 320 Jesuits were sent from France to North America to serve as...
University of Texas Press, 2003. — 320 p. Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. Under German fire they laid communications lines and began sending messages in a form never before heard in Europe - coded Comanche. For the rest of World War II, the Comanche Code Talkers...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 520 p. Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a Kiowa soldier named Iseeo, Scott collected...
St. Martin's Griffin, 1996. — 624 p. Russell Means (1939-2012) is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, in which he has done everything possible to dramatize and justify the Native American aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock,...
2nd Edition. — University of Texas Press, 2019. — 417 p. — ISBN: 1477319654. In Border Citizens, historian Eric V. Meeks explores how the racial classification and identities of the diverse indigenous, mestizo, and Euro-American residents of Arizona's borderlands evolved as the region was politically and economically incorporated into the United States. First published in 2007,...
Syracuse University Press, 2018. — 400 p. The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet, by the late nineteenth century, historians had scarcely any record of their...
Chelsea House Publications, 2006. — 112 p.
Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Apache Indians. Includes a picture essay on their crafts.
Teacher Ideas Press, 1998. — 131 p. Presenting a distinct historical perspective, these intriguing stories chronicle the history and culture of a people we call the Cheyenne (the Tse Tse Stus)-from creation accounts and the introduction of horses to the present. The stories are told as seen through the eyes of Old Nam Shim (which means grandfather) and a little girl named...
The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. — 400 p. This book is an eloquent account of the native peoples of the Carolina piedmont who became known as the Catawba Nation. James Merrell brings the Catawbas more fully into American history by tracing how they underwent that most fundamental of American experiences: adapting to a new world. Arguing that European colonists and...
Revised Edition — University of Nebraska Press, 1993. — 471 p. Since its original publication by the University of Nebraska Press in 1967, "History of the Santee Sioux" has become known as the definitive work on its subject. Now, in a revised edition, Roy W. Meyer brings the story of the Santees up to date.
Cognella Academic Publishing, 2020. — 306 p. Turtle Island: An Introduction to Indigenous Studies provides students with unique snapshots into the lives and resiliency of Indigenous peoples of the North American continent, commonly referred to as Turtle Island by Native Americans and First Nations peoples. The carefully selected articles provide readers a glimpse into key...
Cognella Academic Publishing, 2019. — 306 p. Turtle Island: An Introduction to Indigenous Studies provides students with unique snapshots into the lives and resiliency of Indigenous peoples of the North American continent, commonly referred to as Turtle Island by Native Americans and First Nations peoples. The carefully selected articles provide readers a glimpse into key...
Savas Beatie LLC, 2011. — 492 p. In August of 1862, hundreds of Dakota warriors opened without warning a murderous rampage against settlers and soldiers in southern Minnesota. The vortex of the Dakota Uprising along the Minnesota River encompassed thousands of people in what was perhaps the greatest massacre of whites by Indians in American history. To read about the fast paced...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 336 p. The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 336 p. The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this...
Savas Beatie LLC, 2017. — 212 p. The Sand Creek Battle, or Massacre, occurred on November 29-30, 1864, a confrontation between Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians and Colorado volunteer soldiers. The affair was a tragic event in American history, and what occurred there continues to be hotly contested. Indeed, labeling it a "battle" or a "massacre" will likely start an argument before...
Caxton Press, 2010. — 527 p. Gregory and Susan Michno spent years collecting, sorting and checking facts from scores of military and newspaper reports, family histories and interviews with people captured by Indians. This book, the result of that research, is the most extensive collection ever assembled of what it was like to be an Indian captive in the West. Covering captivities...
Caxton Press, 2010. — 380 p. 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. People have long relished tales of the underdog and celebrated lost causes. We appreciate and praise those who have fought the good fight. The classic imagery of the Indian wars focuses on the war-bonneted horsemen of...
Caxton Press, 2011. — 480 p. During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas's hills and prairies...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 256 p. From Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara lands in South Dakota; to Cherokee lands in Tennessee; to Sin-Aikst, Lakes, and Colville lands in Washington; to Chemehuevi lands in Arizona; to Maidu, Pit River, and Wintu lands in northern California, Native lands and communities have been treated as sacrifice zones for national priorities of...
Routledge, 2012. — 288 p. Pontiac’s War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequence, 1763-1765 is a compelling retelling of one of the most pivotal points in American colonial history, in which the Native peoples staged one of the most successful campaigns in three centuries of European contact. With his balanced analysis of the organization and execution of this important conflict,...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 336 p. In "The Memory of All Ancient Customs", Tom Arne Midtrød examines the complex patterns of diplomatic, political, and social communication among the American Indian peoples of the Hudson Valley - including the Mahicans, Wappingers, and Esopus Indians - from the early seventeenth century through the American Revolutionary era. By focusing on...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 272 p. Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of “Ned” Christie’s life. Now,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2000. — 335 p. In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the...
Glenbow Alberta Institute, Blood Tribal Council, 1979. — ISBN: 0-919224-03-2. My People the Bloods was written by Mike Mountain Horse (1888-1964) about the history and culture of his Nation who are part of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He describes the traditional lifestyle, culture, war, and stories of this Plains First Nation. My People The Bloods is a reprint of Mike Mountain...
University of Florida Press, 2018. — 316 p. An authoritative overview of the development of Florida's aboriginal peoples...blended with accounts of the European invasions and the dire consequences for the natives of their contacts with the newcomers...Particularly valuable for its use of archaeological and historical data."--John H. Hann, San Luis Archaeological and Historic...
University Press of Florida, 1998. — 224 p. Florida's Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creek Indians. When the first Indians arrived in what is now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land far different from the...
University Press of Florida, 1998. — 224 p. Florida's Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creeks. When the first Indians arrived in what is now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land far different from the modern...
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011. — 223 p.
Between the settlement of the Pilgrims in New England in 1620 and the 1850s, native Indians were forced to move west of the Mississippi River. In the process they surrendered, mainly reluctantly, their claims to 412,000 square miles of land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River and the Mason-Dixon Line. Relying on...
ECW Press, 1996. — 130 p. A biography of the Plains Cree chief who challenged Canadian authorities and became a warrior of legend. When Big Bear was young, in the first half of the nineteenth century, he overcame smallpox and other hardships - and eventually followed in the footsteps of his father, Black Powder, engaging in warfare against the Blackfoot. The time would come for...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 368 p. Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and...
3rd Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2000. — 600 p. Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in...
University Press of Colorado, 1997. — 224 p. National attention was riveted to isolated northwestern Colorado in the fall: of 1879, when U.S. troops of the White River Expedition fought a pitched battle with Ute Indians. The troops had marched over 150 miles in nine days before meeting armed resistance just inside the northern border of the reservation, and a quiet mountain valley...
Oakland, California, 2009. — 124 p. This report documents the locations of Spanish-contact period Coast Miwok regional and local communities in lands of present Marin and Sonoma counties, California. Furthermore, it documents previously unavailable information about those Coast Miwok communities as they struggled to survive and reform themselves within the context of the...
University of Manitoba Press, 1999. — 424 p. For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the “circle of civilization,” the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior...
University of Manitoba Press, 1990. — 178 p. — (Manitoba Studies in Native History 4). The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between 1790 and 1870. Milloy describes three distinct eras, each...
University of Georgia Press, 2015. — 312 p. At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn for the worse. The trickle of wayfarers...
Routledge, 2003. — 316 p. This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.
McFarland, 2014. — 212 p. George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped,...
McFarland, 2014. — 212 p. George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped,...
McFarland & Co., 2020. — 292 p. In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Beaver Wars, were among the bloodiest in North American history, and the resulting defeat of the Erie nation led to present-day Ohio's becoming devoid of significant, permanent Indian inhabitants. Only...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. — 488 p. When we published our initial work on the Seminole Wars in 2004, we lamented the fact that such an important series of events was widely unknown to the American public in general and to the majority of Floridians. Not that we should have been surprised: The war was fought in one small corner of the nation and therefore of little concern to...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. — 558 p. Mitchell demonstrates the transformation of relationships -- both between the Inuit and Europeans and among the Inuit themselves -- that has occurred since contact with the West, focusing on the intersection of class and nation. This intersection provides a unifying framework to order the history of Inuit-European contact. At the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. — 304 p. The Second Seminole War (1835–1842) was the last major conflict fought on American soil before the Civil War. The early battlefield success of the Seminoles unnerved US generals, who worried it would spark a rebellion among Indians newly displaced by President Andrew Jackson's removal policies. The presence of black warriors among...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 248 p. The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866 - during Red Cloud’s War (1866–1868) - a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventy-nine infantry and cavalry...
University Press of Colorado, 1999. — 128 p.
On the morning of April 23, 1875, H Company, 6th U.S. Cavalry attacked and destroyed a Cheyenne camp located on the middle fork of Sappa Creek, a tributary of the Republican River in what is today Rawlins County, Kansas. The ensuing engagement was the last important military action of the Red River War and the last fought on the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. — 288 p.
"Tell Them We Are Going Home" details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indian Territory northward to their homelands in the Powder River country. Incorporating the perspectives of the Cheyennes, the U.S. military, the Indian Bureau, and the Kansas settlers who...
University Press of Colorado, 1994. — 236 p.
During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, Araphaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth. For two days the scouts held off repeated charges before the Indian...
University Press of Colorado, 1994. — 236 p. During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, Araphaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth. For two days the scouts held off repeated charges before the Indian...
University of Manitoba Press, 2014. — 264 p. The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions. Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters...
From the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. — Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. Pages 129-445, plates and figures. This work of over 300 pages is an original contribution of the highest value to ethnography. Its title affords but an imperfect idea of its scope; for, in addition to an elaborate description of the Kiowa calendars, the author...
Routledge, 2005. — 288 p. When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between 1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian tribe in the United States. His dispassionate account of their history from the time of their first contact with whites until the end of the nineteenth century is more than a sequence of battles won and lost, treaties signed and...
Introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie. — University of Nebraska Press, 1991. — 482 p. Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress of the Ghost Dance from place...
Dover Publications, 2011. — 576 p. Immediately following the massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890), the well-known anthropologist James Mooney, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian, investigated the incident. His interest was primarily in the Indian background to the uprising. Admitting that the Indians had been generally overpowered by...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 368 p. This innovative collection of articles approaches American Indian history and culture from a Marxist perspective. The contributors, from the United States and Canada, have jumped the boundaries among the social sciences to consider issues of macroeconomics and intercultural conflict. The result is a stimulating and substantial...
Haas University of New Mexico Press. — Albuquerque, 1994. — 755 p. In Navajo history the decades immediately following the release from the Bosque Redondo in 1868 are years of privation. Reunion with their homeland soothed some of the sorrow of their Long Walk, but daily life for the Navajo remained nearly as harsh as at Fort Sumner. In the fourteen years following their...
Topeka KS: State Printing Office, 1908. — 88 p. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 342 p. In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree - travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Travellers...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 342 p. In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree - travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Travellers...
Utah State University Press, 2007. — 432 p.
This compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails.
Three connected works by Morgan are included: First is his classic article on the history of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs. This is followed by a...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. — 304 p. Drawing on research from a variety of academic fields, such as archaeology, history, botany, ecology, and physical science, M. J. Morgan explores the intersection of people and the environment in early eighteenth-century Illinois Country—a stretch of fecund, alluvial river plain along the Mississippi river. Arguing against the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 272 p. The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each with its own distinct culture, religion, language, and history. Yet these Indians, and federal Indian law, rarely factor into the decisions of the country’s governing class - as recent...
Baraka Books, 2023. — 300 p. The Legacy of Louis Riel provides an overview of the ideas that guided the leader of the Metis people. Louis Riel was a prolific writer. Based on a comprehensive review of Riel's writing, the author examines his views on a variety of vital subjects, including the definition of the term Metis; matters of Metis identity; the condition,...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 304 p. In September 1868, the undermanned United States Army was struggling to address attacks by Cheyenne and Sioux warriors against the Kansas settlements, the stagecoach routes, and the transcontinental railroad. General Sheridan hired fifty frontiersmen and scouts to supplement his limited forces. He placed them under the command of Major George...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 304 p. In September 1868, the undermanned United States Army was struggling to address attacks by Cheyenne and Sioux warriors against the Kansas settlements, the stagecoach routes, and the transcontinental railroad. General Sheridan hired fifty frontiersmen and scouts to supplement his limited forces. He placed them under the command of Major George...
Pegasus Books, 2013. — 368 p. In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of an Arizona rancher was kidnapped by Apaches; a band of Chiricahua Apaches led by the infamous warrior Cochise was blamed for the attack. Lt. George Bascom organized a patrol and met with the Apache leader, who, not suspecting anything was amiss, had brought along his wife, his brother, and two sons....
Prometheus Books, 2015. — 336 p. In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the...
TouchWood Editions, 2019. — 272 p. In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school - and his path to healing. In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away...
University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 208 p. Most books dealing with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of various culture areas which, while valuable, sometimes means that the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic overview of the key issues facing...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 350 p. This work provides an overview of the Indian Wars from the arrival of Europeans until 1890. The work focuses primarily on Native American tribes and warriors and their role in battles and campaigns against other Native Americans and Europeans/Americans, while also including key European and American leaders and soldiers as well as treaties between...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2017. — 200 p. "This is conquered land". The Dakota woman's words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another,...
Revised Edition. — Penguin Books, 2000. — 528 p. Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of the millennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers...
National Park Service, Yellowstone Center for Resources, 2002. — 368 p. The first comprehensive account of Indians in and around Yellowstone. Drawing from archaeological records, Indian testimony, tribal archives, and collections of early artifacts from the Park, the authors trace the interactions of nearly a dozen Indian groups with each of Yellowstone’s four geographic...
Crest Publishers, 1997. — 336 p. Fort Laramie actively existed from 1834 to 1889, first as a post in the fur trade for dealing with Indians, later as a cavalry post for resisting the Indians. Abandoned, it fell into private hands, but now is under the National Park Service. Nadeau's history is somewhat more lively than the instalments in the The Forts of America Series, but it is...
University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books, 2011. — 272 p. " Eagle Voice Remembers is John Neihardt’s mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. He served as a translator of the Sioux past, whose audience has proved not to be limited by space or time. Through his writings, Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and other old men who were of that last generation of Sioux to...
TwoDot, 2023. — 306 p. John William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia. After the Civil War, when he fought as a Confederate soldier with Mosby's Rangers, he went West. For fifteen years, until his premature death, Dear lived a tumultuous life in the West as one of the last fur traders on the Upper Missouri and as the longest serving,...
San Francisco: HarperOne, 2006. — 448 p.
Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 392 p. When Indian University - now Bacone College - opened its doors in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1880, it was a small Baptist institution designed to train young Native Americans to be teachers and Christian missionaries among their own people and to act as agents of cultural assimilation. From 1927 to 1957, however, Bacone College...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 392 p. When Indian University - now Bacone College - opened its doors in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1880, it was a small Baptist institution designed to train young Native Americans to be teachers and Christian missionaries among their own people and to act as agents of cultural assimilation. From 1927 to 1957, however, Bacone College...
University of Texas Press, 1961. — 404 p. A classic work on the indigenous peoples of Texas. Indians long vanished from the texas scene arise fro the pages of this lively book to roam again the land where once they lived. In this, the most comprhensive and authoritative book ever written about the indians of texas, W. W. Newcomb Jr. has pieced together scattered data to present a...
13th Edition — University of Texas Press, 2010. — 440 p. A classic work on the indigenous peoples of Texas. Indians long vanished from the texas scene arise fro the pages of this lively book to roam again the land where once they lived. In this, the most comprhensive and authoritative book ever written about the indians of texas, W. W. Newcomb Jr. has pieced together scattered...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 1956. — 140 p. In 1951 and 1952, William W. Newcomb, Jr. visited the Delaware people of Oklahoma in order to write an ethnographic study of the tribe. He discusses the origins and linguistic affiliations of the Delaware, their social systems, economic and material culture, and religion and folklore, as well as the...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 328 p. In Brethren by Nature , Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists’ desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, including the Pequot War...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 328 p. In Brethren by Nature , Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists’ desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, including the Pequot War...
Texas A&M University Press, 2009. — 160 p. Authors Vynola B. Newkumet and Howard L. Meredith culled traditional lore and scholarly research to survey the major landmarks of the Hasinai experience—the Caddo Indians of the American Southwest.
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 236 p. Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 236 p. Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans,...
Time-Life Books, 1994. — 184 p. — (American Indians Series). This volume is one of a series by Time-Life Books that chronicles the history and culture of the Native Americans. The four main chapters - Guardians of the People's Trust - Defenders of the Homelands - Champions of the Apache Cause - Patriots in the Western Wars - and the several interspersed brief essays, are all...
United States National Museum, 1888. — 386 p. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these...
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. — 232 p. “Lincoln and the Indians has stood the test of time and offers this generation of readers a valuable interpretation of the U.S. government’s Indian policies—and sometimes the lack thereof—during the Civil War era. Providing a critical perspective on Lincoln’s role, Nichols sets forth an especially incisive...
Ohio University Press, 2018. — 286 p. Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region - the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others - shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European diseases, technologies, beliefs, and...
Ohio University Press, 2018. — 286 p. Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region - the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others - shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European diseases, technologies, beliefs, and...
University of Virginia Press, 2008. — 292 p. Red Gentlemen and White Savages argues that after the devastation of the American Revolutionary War, the main concern of Federalist and Indian leaders was not the transfer of land, but the restoration of social order on the frontier. Nichols focuses on the "middle ground" of Indian treaty conferences, where, in a series of encounters...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 265 p. This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their origins to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in the decade since its first publication. Now the second edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, and cultural issues in the...
2nd Rev. Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 200 p. The years between 1760 and 1840 witnessed the young United States' indefatigable expansion, even at the expense of the people already occupying the land. Roger Nichols's account of the life and times of Black Hawk, the great Sauk leader, provides an engaging way to study this tumultuous period in American history. From his...
Second Edition — University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 534 p. Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European settlers and...
HarperCollins, 2014. — 224 p. In the tradition of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals comes Gustav Niebuhr's compelling history of Abraham Lincoln's decision in 1862 to spare the lives of 265 condemned Sioux men, and the Episcopal bishop who was his moral compass, helping guide the president's conscience. More than a century ago, during the formative years of the American...
University of Arizona Press, 2022. — 224 p. Quakers were one of the early settler colonist groups to invade northeastern North America. William Penn set out to develop a “Holy Experiment,” or utopian colony, in what is now Pennsylvania. Here, he thought, his settler colonists would live in harmony with the Indigenous Lenape and other settler colonists. Centering on the...
New York, N.Y: Ballantine Books, 1996. — 420 p. A new perspective on native american history: A chronological account of its place on the world stage. Native American History is a breakthrough reference guide, the first book of its kind to recognize and explore the rich, unfolding experiences of the indigenous American peoples as they evolved against a global backdrop. This...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2008. — 144 p. The campaign of the Cree people to protect their forest culture from the impact of hydro-electric development in northern Quebec has been widely-documented. Few have heard in any detail about this campaign's outcome and impact upon indigenous societies' futures. This text gives equal attention to the Cree leadership's successful strategies...
University of California Press, 2000. — 274 p. Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 216 p. Intense interest in past injustice lies at the center of contemporary world politics. This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. Nobles argues that apologies can...
University Alabama Press, 2023. — 284 p. A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee when he...
University Alabama Press, 2023. — 284 p. A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee when he...
Rutgers University Press, 2019. — 312 p. Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of intense political struggle. Not...
Great Plains Publications, 2022. — 232 p. In September 2015, Sheila North was declared the Grand Chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), the first woman elected to the position. Known as a "bridge builder", North is a member of Bunibonibee Cree Nation. North's work in advocacy journalism, communications, and economic development harnessed her passion for drawing focus...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 464 p. Fort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal point of one of the most interesting, dramatic, and sustained series of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. — 450 p. From primary sources collected over some thirty years, both textual and photographic, Wilbur S. Nye tells the story of the military subjugation of the Plains Indians and their removal to reservations in Indian Territory. Complementing the text, which covers a segment of American history that has heretofore been told chiefly in...
Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — 304 p. The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s...
Cornell University Press, 2003. — 256 p. Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 376 p. "Native America: A History", Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 216 p. Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 offers a glimpse into how native peoples participated in the intercultural diplomacy of the New Nation and how they worked to protect their communities against enormous odds. The book introduces students, in detail, to the Treaty of Canandaigua, which is...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 224 p. Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 224 p. Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 376 p. "Native America: A History", Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 376 p. Native America: A History , Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 376 p. "Native America: A History", Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native...
Cornell University Press, 2003. — 280 p. Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. — 352 p. A history of the Mohican people from the War of 1812 to the Nixon administration Contrary to the impression left by James Fenimore Cooper’s famous novel "Last of the Mohicans", the Mohican people, also known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Indians, did not disappear from history. Rather, despite obstacles, they have retained their tribal...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 319 p. The Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma is an American Indian tribe currently incorporated as part of the larger Cherokee Nation. Originally from the Hudson and Delaware River valleys, the Delawares are neither socially nor historically related to the Cherokees and were incorporated with them simply because they were forced to move to the...
University of Minnesota Press, 2010. — 320 p. — (Indigenous Americas, vol. 10). Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of...
University of Alabama Press, 2002. — 464 p. In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Bénard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville. La Harpe's charge was to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 176 p. Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 176 p. Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of...
Ohio University Press, 2004. — 216 p. Ohio’s First Peoples depicts the Native Americans of the Buckeye State from the time of the well-known Hopewell peoples to the forced removal of the Wyandots in the 1840s.This book presents the stories of the early Ohioans based on the archaeological record. In an accessible narrative style, it provides a detailed overview of the movements of...
University of Tennessee Press, 1973. — 172 p. Reviews British and American policies toward the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek tribes and analyzes the Indians' impact on the conduct of the War of Independence. James H. O'Donnell has a primary interest in Native American studies. His works include Southeastern Frontiers: Europeans, Africans, and American Indians, 1513-1840...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 269 p. While the Seven Years War pushed London towards a protective Native American policy, outcomes were determined by men on the spot. The savage Anglo-Cherokee war was resolved by Cherokee headmen willing to accept a dignified peace; and by the sympathy of the very man sent to crush them. Colonel James Grant forced his treaty upon South Carolina,...
Flammarion, 2021. — 520 p. Ce qui est arrivé à Wounded Knee, le 29 décembre 1890, dans le Dakota du Sud aux États-Unis, est l’une des pages les plus sombres de l’histoire américaine : l’apogée d’une escalade mortelle qui a commencé quelques jours plus tôt et voit la mort des derniers grands chefs indiens Sitting Bull et Big Foot, avec leurs tribus, au total 300 personnes dont...
University of Missouri, 2023. — 448 p. The history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white settlers and forced Indian removal would lead us to believe. In this path-breaking narrative, Greg Olson presents the Show Me State’s Indigenous past as one spanning twelve millennia...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 184 p. In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri River. Forcibly removed to the newly created Great Nemaha Agency, the...
University of Missouri, 2008. — 160 p. Although their ancestors came from the Great Lakes region and they now live in several midwestern states, the Ioway (Baxoje) people claim a rich history in Missouri dating back to the eighteenth century. Living alongside white settlers while retaining their traditional way of life, the tribe eventually had to make difficult choices in order...
Foreword by Philip J. Deloria. — University of Nebraska press, 2013. — 232 p. The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America is the story of the Sioux Nation’s fight to regain its land and sovereignty, highlighting the events of 1973–74, including the protest at Wounded Knee. It features pieces by some of the most prominent scholars and Indian activists of the twentieth...
Random House, 2001. — 384 p. The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world....
Diane Pub Co, 2000. — 363 p. The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world. In...
Chronology Books, 2017. — 308 p. The fighting and battle techniques of the American Plains Indians are examined by focusing on reports of the times in which incidents occurred. Key players: trappers, mountain men and missionaries who participated in the early development of the West are also examined.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1992. — 374 p. For seventy years, from about 1775 until 1845, Big Village was the principal settlement of the Omaha Indians. Situated on the Missouri River seventyfive miles above the present city of Omaha, it commanded a strategic location astride this major trade route to the northern plains. A host of traders and travelers,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 318 p. Unconquerable is John Milton Oskison’s biography of John Ross, written in the 1930s but unpublished until now. John Ross was principal chief of the Cherokees from 1828 to his death in 1866. Through the story of John Ross, Oskison also tells the story of the Cherokee Nation through some of its most dramatic events in the nineteenth...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 319 p. Unconquerable is John Milton Oskison’s biography of John Ross, written in the 1930s but unpublished until now. John Ross was principal chief of the Cherokees from 1828 to his death in 1866. Through the story of John Ross, Oskison also tells the story of the Cherokee Nation through some of its most dramatic events in the nineteenth...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 544 p. The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion. In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in...
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. — 544 p., 49 b/w illus. The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion. In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 256 p. The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, drawing on the hills' endless bounty for physical and spiritual sustenance. Yet the arrival of white settlers brought the Lakotas into inexorable conflict with the changing world, at a time when their tribe would produce some of the most famous...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 256 p. The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, drawing on the hills' endless bounty for physical and spiritual sustenance. Yet the arrival of white settlers brought the Lakotas into inexorable conflict with the changing world, at a time when their tribe would produce some of the most famous...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 406 p. Through the interpretive lens of colonial theory, Jeffrey Ostler presents an original analysis of the tumultuous relationship between the Plains Sioux and the United States in the 1800s. He provides novel insights on well-known aspects of the Sioux story, such as the Oregon Trail, the deaths of "Crazy Horse" and "Sitting Bull", and the...
Routledge, 2020. — 194 p. 'Indian Wars' and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842 examines the contest between Native Americans and Anglo-Americans for control of the lands east of the Mississippi River, through the lens of native attempts to form pan-Indian unions, and Anglo-Americans’ attempts to thwart them. The story begins in the wake of the Seven Years’ War...
Routledge, 2020. — 194 p. 'Indian Wars' and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842 examines the contest between Native Americans and Anglo-Americans for control of the lands east of the Mississippi River, through the lens of native attempts to form pan-Indian unions, and Anglo-Americans’ attempts to thwart them. The story begins in the wake of the Seven Years’ War...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 318 p. From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear - even paranoia - drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares , Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era - invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs - as the inextricably related struggles they were. As...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 320 p. From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related struggles they were. As this book...
Library Press at UF, 2017. — 272 p. This examination of the Creek War integrates the struggle with the larger conflict that broke out in 1812 between Britain and the USA. The author argues that the victories in the Gulf region were sufficient to claim the War of 1812 was not a draw, but a decisive American victory.
Pelican, 2017. — 136 p. In World War II, code making and code breaking reached a feverish peak. The fabled Enigma cipher had been broken, and all sides were looking for a secure, reliable means of communication. Many have heard of the role of the Navajo Code Talkers, but less well-known are the Sioux Code Talkers, who used the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota dialects. Told by the...
Simon and Schuster, 2004. — 480 p. Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective - from the point of view of the Europeans who “discovered” the New World. Yet the true story of the American Indians begins some seventeen thousand years ago -...
Fernwood Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates social media, the renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media misinformation and government propaganda and get to the...
University of Arizona Press, 2014. — 256 p. Spanish missions in North America were once viewed as confining and stagnant communities, with native peoples on the margins of the colonial enterprise. Recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research challenges that notion. Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions considers how native peoples actively incorporated the mission...
Panther's Lodge, 2013. — 208 р. The seven Cherokee clans are found in no other American Indian tribe. They are Wolf (Ani-Wahiya), Bird (Ani-Tsiskwa), Deer (Ani-Kawi), Twister (Ani-Gilohi), Wild Potato (Ani-Gotegewi), Panther (Ani-Sahoni) and Paint (Ani-Wodi). If you are of Cherokee descent you belong to a clan whether you know which one it is or not. Find out about an ancient...
Routledge, 2016. — 242 p. The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These cases, Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia...
University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 262 p. Elias Cornelius Boudinot provides the first full account of a man who was intimately and prominently involved in the life of the Cherokee Nation in the second half of the nineteenth century and was highly influential in the opening of the former Indian Territory to white settlement and the eventual formation of the state of Oklahoma....
Michigan State University Press, 2010. — 524 p. Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois...
Free Press, 2011. — 336 p. Atop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s - during the government’s desperate press to build nuclear weapons - the mesa’s tremendous lode would forever change the lives of the hundreds of Native Americans who labored there and of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 256 p. From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples - also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte - has been woven into the narratives of European-Native encounters,...
Harper, 2021. — 288 p. In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club , explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1994. — 288 p. — (Manitoba Studies in Native History, No 8). Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the parkland and...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 222 p. As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire. In this richly theorized work, Juliana Hu Pegues evaluates four key historical periods in U.S.-Alaskan history: the...
North Abington, Mass.: Zerviah Gould Mitchell 1878. — 308 p. It is not with a view to add to the number of factff ah'eady known concerning the aborigines of that portion of New England first settled by Europeans, that we present this account of the great and good old Massasoit and his lineal descendants for a period of about two hundred and fifty-seven years. It is not that we...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. — 336 p. Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn’s legendary treaty with the Lenape at Shackamaxon in 1682, enshrined in Edward Hicks’s allegories of the “Peaceable Kingdom.” To the other is the Paxton Boys’...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians...
3rd Edition — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016. — 224 p. The Cherokee Removal of 1838–1839 unfolded against a complex backdrop of competing ideologies, self-interest, party politics, altruism, and ambition. Using documents that convey Cherokee voices, government policy, and white citizens’ views, Theda Perdue continues to present a multifaceted account of this complicated moment in...
University of Georgia Press, 2005. — 160 p. On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men ― including traders, soldiers, and government agents―sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as "half-breeds." The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no corresponding concepts of race or...
Penguin Publishing, 2007. — 224 p. Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 264 p. In this major, highly illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between c. 850 - 1850 AD. There were continual changes in the character and extent of ancestral landscapes, through times of plenty, risk, and hardship, as well as in relationships between...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 264 p. In this major, highly illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between c. 850 - 1850 AD. There were continual changes in the character and extent of ancestral landscapes, through times of plenty, risk, and hardship, as well as in relationships between...
Sussex Academic Press, 2016. — 198 p. "The Military Conquest of the Prairie" is a study on the final wars on the prairie from the Native American perspective. When the reservation system took hold about one-third of tribes stayed permanently there, one-third during the harsh winter months, and the last third remained on what the government termed unceded territory, which Native...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 432 p. During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by an “unusual sympathy,” Jackson sent the child to be adopted into his Tennessee plantation household. Through the stories of nearly a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and...
University of Utah Press, 1998. — 448 p. "On Sunday 9 April 1865, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s brick home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to negotiate the conclusion of the Civil War. That same day, far to the west, a handful of Mormons and northern Utes met in the central Utah town of Manti in an attempt to achieve a peace of...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. — 420 p. Part historical narrative, part textual analysis, this book traces the development of American Indian literature from the seventeenth century to the eve of the Civil War. Bernd C. Peyer focuses on the lives and writings of four prominent Indian missionaries - Samson Occom of the Mohegans, William Apess of the Pequots, Elias...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. — 420 p. Part historical narrative, part textual analysis, this book traces the development of American Indian literature from the seventeenth century to the eve of the Civil War. Bernd C. Peyer focuses on the lives and writings of four prominent Indian missionaries - Samson Occom of the Mohegans, William Apess of the Pequots, Elias...
University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 264 p. This scholarly collection explores the method and theory of the archaeological study of indigenous persistence and long-term colonial entanglement. Each contributor offers an examination of the complex ways that indigenous communities in the Americas have navigated the circumstances of colonial and postcolonial life, which in turn...
Viking Press, 2010. — 496 p. Philbrick here takes on an oft-told tale, replete with its dashing, flawed main character, its historically doomed, noble Native chief, and a battlefield strewn with American corpses. While off his usual stride with a surfeit of unnecessary detail, bestselling author and National Book Award–winner Philbrick ( In the Heart of the Sea ; The Mayflower...
Viking Press, 2010. — 496 p. Philbrick here takes on an oft-told tale, replete with its dashing, flawed main character, its historically doomed, noble Native chief, and a battlefield strewn with American corpses. While off his usual stride with a surfeit of unnecessary detail, bestselling author and National Book Award–winner Philbrick ( In the Heart of the Sea ; The Mayflower...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 223 p. With the beginning of Spanish colonization in 1769, the lives of the Indians of California changed drastically. The Spanish mission system, established along the Pacific Coast, required that local Indians abandon their traditional homes, live near the missions, follow Christian religious customs, and work in the fields to raise European...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 272 p. As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to...
University of Regina Press, 2017. — 252 p. Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irvin Mudeater was a celebrated buffalo hunter - killing 126 in just one day - who ran wagon trains to Santa Fe, was caught up in the Civil War, and lived as a plainsman on the lawless frontier. To escape punishment for an unspecified crime, Mudeater moved to Canada in 1882, adopted...
University of Regina Press, 2017. — 252 p. Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irvin Mudeater was a celebrated buffalo hunter - killing 126 in just one day - who ran wagon trains to Santa Fe, was caught up in the Civil War, and lived as a plainsman on the lawless frontier. To escape punishment for an unspecified crime, Mudeater moved to Canada in 1882, adopted the...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 284 p. A work of original scholarship and compelling sweep, Okfuskee is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee, an eighteenth-century Creek town, to reframe standard narratives of both Native and American experiences. This unique, detailed perspective on local life in...
Cornell University Press, 2002. — 272 p. In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely promised that if her life were spared, she would return to her husband and "continue...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 424 p. Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century, as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat. Papunhank’s life was dominated by a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country amid...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 424 p. Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century, as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat. Papunhank’s life was dominated by a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country amid...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 400 p. The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 400 p. The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and...
Dundurn Press, 2009. — 192 p. Shawnee war chief Tecumseh dedicated his life to stopping American expansion and preserving the lands and cultures of North American Aboriginal peoples. He travelled relentlessly trying to build a confederation of tribes that would stop the territorial ambitions of the newly created United States of America. Tecumseh tried both diplomacy and battle...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 424 p. Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. Frank Pommersheim, one of America's leading scholars in Indian tribal law, offers a novel and deeply researched synthesis...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986. — 192 p. Authoritative discussion of Dakota Indian material culture and the social, political, religious, and economic institutions by a missionary who spent nearly twenty years learning the language and living among Indians in Minnesota.
University of New Mexico Press, 2017. — 216 p. In Sovereign Stories , Annette Angela Portillo examines Native American women's autobiographical discourses and multiple-voiced life stories that resist generic conventional notions of first-person narrative. She argues that these "sovereign stories" and "blood memories" not only reveal the multilayered histories and identities shared...
Providence: Marshall, Brown and Company, 1835. — 316 p. The early history of the Narragansett Country. State of the country at the time of the arrival of the English. William Coddington's deposition. First historical notice of the Indians. Charters &c. of New-England. Settlement of Roger Williams — trade, &c. Pequot war. Warwick purchase. King Philips war. Religious affair....
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 280 p. Who were the first Americans? What is their relationship to living native peoples in the Americas? What do their remains tell us of the current concepts of racial variation, and short-term evolutionary change and adaptation. The recent discoveries in the Americas of the 9000-12000 year old skeletons such as 'Kennewick Man' in Washington...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 684 p. — Volume 1. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 684 p. — Volume 1. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 757 p. — Volume 2. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 757 p. — Volume 2. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 757 p. — Volume 2. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 757 p. — Volume 2. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
Harper & Row, 1981. — 757 p. — Volume 2. A powerful collection of accounts pertaining to the "The People" (Cheyennes) and their encounters with enemy tribes, White settlers, the U.S. government and then later big mining companies. A history of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879. With an Epilogue 1969-1974. This two-volume edition (total 1441 p.) is a...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. — 621 p. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many...
Edited by Lesley Forrester. — Syracuse University Press, 2016. — 216 p. In the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indigenous North Americans will respect each other’s differences even when their cultures and behaviors differ...
University of Georgia Press, 2020. — 240 p. Cherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country. Nowhere did those passions have more violent expressions than in Georgia, where white intruders sought to acquire Native land through intimidation and state policies that supported their disorderly conduct. Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears, although the...
University of Georgia Press, 2020. — 240 p. Cherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country. Nowhere did those passions have more violent expressions than in Georgia, where white intruders sought to acquire Native land through intimidation and state policies that supported their disorderly conduct. Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears, although the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 228 p. Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be "Indian." Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840 , Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided...
University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 464 p. The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. David L. Preston details the ways in which European and Iroquois settlers on the frontiers creatively adapted to each other’s presence, weaving webs of mutually beneficial social,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 160 p. Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as "Indian Territory" was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were colorful, dramatic, and often tragic. Beyond its borders, most Americans visualized the area through the pictures produced by non-Native...
University of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 242 p. In The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History , Catherine Price brings light to the political strategies of the Oglala leaders during their struggle to retain their political customs and autonomy in the face of the U.S. government's acculturation efforts. In examining Lakota concepts of decision-making authority, she...
Charles River Editors, 2015. — 118 p. The Battle of Tippecanoe, fought on November 7, 1811 near present-day Lafayette, Indiana, involved forces of fewer than 2,000 Native American warriors and white soldiers, and only about 300 men were killed or wounded on both sides. Given those numbers, it’s apparent that the battle was far from being a Saratoga or a Gettysburg in terms of...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2023. — 216 p. Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2023. — 216 p. Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. — 289 p. In this wise, witty and highly original book, Mr. and Mrs. Priestley record their impressions and opinions after a recent visit to the American Southwest. In the course of their separate excursions, Jacquetta Hawkes took the high road to Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico to explore the ancient culture of the Pueblo, Navaho and Zuni...
Council Oak Books, 2009. — 336 p. In 2009, New York observed the 400-year anniversary of Henry Hudson's September 1609 discovery of Manhattan Island. This book chronicles the event from the perspective of the people who met Hudson’s boat - which they at first thought was surely a great waterfowl - floating. Using all available sources, including oral history passed down to today's...
Council Oak Books, 2009. — 336 p. In 2009, New York observed the 400-year anniversary of Henry Hudson's September 1609 discovery of Manhattan Island. This book chronicles the event from the perspective of the people who met Hudson’s boat - which they at first thought was surely a great waterfowl - floating. Using all available sources, including oral history passed down to...
Council Oak Books, 2007. — 456 p. To be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they preserved the world they inhabited. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, interviews with living Algonquin elders, and first-hand explorations of the ancient trails, burial grounds, and sacred...
Memorial University Press, 2020. — 528 p. Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought them into the circle of residential school survivors across Canada, and acknowledged their experiences...
University of California Press, 1997. — 562 p. American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today―hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government, until...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 376 p. Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King , a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century New England. Rather, the story is much more complicated - and much more interesting. It is a...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 320 p. According to his kin, John Wompas was "no sachem", although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English - even visiting and securing the support of King Charles II - to legitimize the land sales that funded his extravagant spending. But he...
Heritage House Publishing, 2009. — 136 p. These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible odds to preserve the culture and rights of their people. The visionary Cree leader Big Bear sought peace and a better life, only to be hunted mercilessly and imprisoned unjustly. Jerry Potts, the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 304 p. — (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 304 p. — (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to...
University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 324 p.
William L. Ramsey provides a thorough reappraisal of the Yamasee War, an event that stands alongside King Philip’s War in New England and Pontiac’s Rebellion as one of the three major “Indian wars” of the colonial era. By arguing that the Yamasee War may be the definitive watershed in the formation of the Old South, Ramsey challenges...
University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 198 p. Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government’s efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by other Native groups at the time - a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. — 293 p. When the first Anglo-Americans visited California early in the nineteenth century, the future state was still a remote province of the Spanish empire. Early visitors, filled with a sense of American’s Manifest Destiny, described the missionary priests and their Indian converts in terms of the Black Legend of Spanish abuse of native...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 360 p. Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals that have been established through the second half of the twentieth century to address aboriginal land claims have consequently created a particular way of presenting aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that emerges from these land-claims processes...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 360 p. Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals that have been established through the second half of the twentieth century to address aboriginal land claims have consequently created a particular way of presenting aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that emerges from these land-claims processes is...
4th Edition — McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 464 p. Canada’s Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. — 312 p. Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements. The authors explain the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and show how the Saskatchewan...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. — 272 p. Understanding and Teaching Native American History is a timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. While the past three decades have seen burgeoning scholarship in Indigenous studies, comparatively little of that has trickled into classrooms. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 328 p. No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that there are no villains here, only...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. — 402 p. Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society. Big Sycamore Stands Alone: The Western Apaches,...
Glacier National Park, 2001. — 297 p. The Glacier National Park region of the northern Rocky Mountains remains an area of profound importance to Native Americans, particularly the K'tunaxa and Piikáni, whose traditional associations with these lands extend back well over a thousand years (Table 1 and Figures 1-4 in Chapter 1; also see endnote 1). The K'tunaxa live west of the...
University Press of Mississippi, 1985. — 260 p. This book of eight essays focuses upon Choctaw history prior to 1830, when the tribe forfeited territorial claims and was removed from native lands in Mississippi. The editors have included essays emphasizing Choctaw anthropology, Choctaw beliefs, and the Choctaw experience with the U.S. government prior to the tribe's removal to...
Palgrave Pivot, 2020. — 158 p. This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency. From the time Trump announced his intention to run for president, racism directed towards Native Americans has become an increasingly visible part of cultural and political life in the United States. From the completion of the...
Palgrave Pivot, 2020. — 158 p. This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency. From the time Trump announced his intention to run for president, racism directed towards Native Americans has become an increasingly visible part of cultural and political life in the United States. From the completion of the...
University of Ottawa Press, 1995. — 134 p. From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. This historical analysis of colonial Acadia from the perspective of symbolic and mythic existence...
ABC-CLIO, 2010. — 188 p. The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars takes readers back to the late 19th century to show how newspaper reporting impacted attitudes toward the conflict between the United States and Native Americans. Emphasizing primary sources and eyewitness accounts, the book focuses on eight watershed events between 1862 and 1891--the...
2nd Revised & Updated Edition — Rocky Mountain Books, 2019. — 312 p. This revised and updated edition looks at the future of the Canadian legal and political systems as they relate to this country’s indigenous communities. During John Reilly’s more than 30-year career with the Provincial Court of Alberta he became interested in how the Canadian judicial system dealt with...
Rocky Mountain Books, 2019. — 280 p. "Probably my greatest claim to fame is that I changed my mind", writes John Reilly in this broadly cogent interrogation of the Canadian justice system. Building on his previous two books, Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather...
Rocky Mountain Books, 2019. — 280 p. "Probably my greatest claim to fame is that I changed my mind", writes John Reilly in this broadly cogent interrogation of the Canadian justice system. Building on his previous two books, Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather...
2nd Revised & Updated Edition — Rocky Mountain Books, 2019. — 313 p. John Reilly’s first book, Bad Medicine , was an immediate sensation and Canadian bestseller that sparked controversy and elicited praise nationwide for its honest portrayal of First Nations tribal corruption. This revised and updated edition details the latest legal developments surrounding tribal leadership and...
Texas A&M University Press, 2018. — 304 p. In Native but Foreign , historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 402 p. : illustrations, maps. The book’s co-editors, Carrie Rieber Zeman and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola , have returned to print an account of the war that disappeared shortly after its initial appearance. Written by Mary Butler Renville (1830–1895), an Anglo missionary woman, with the assistance of her Dakota husband,...
Basic Books, 2007. — 330 p. In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who...
Basic Books, 2007. — 330 p. In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who...
Basic Books, 2007. — 330 p. In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. — 448 p. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery , it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the...
McFarland & Company, 2015. — 436 p. With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were one of the many Indian nations profoundly affected. This book thoroughly discusses the history of the Cherokee during the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras. Starting with the French and Indian War, the Cherokee were allied with the British government, overly relying on them...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 360 p. James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man’s land influenced nearby Native American...
Basic Books, 2011. — 392 p. On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the soldiers and put up no resistance. But in a chaotic scene, the Americans opened fire with howitzers, killing nearly three hundred...
Harvard University Press, 2001. — 336 p. In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly...
Harvard University Press, 2001. — 336 p. In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 1992. — 454 p. Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras - to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 328 p. In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close...
Syracuse University Press, 1987. — 210 p. For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier - "the Romans of this Western World", as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois. First published in...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. - 500 p.
The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle, the Grattan incident, and other events and personages of the Old West are finally made widely available in this long-awaited volume. In the first decade of the twentieth...
University of Texas Press, 1996. — 236 p.
Popular lore has long depicted the Karankawa Indians as primitive scavengers (perhaps even cannibals) who eked out a meager subsistence from fishing, hunting and gathering on the Texas coastal plains. That caricature, according to Robert Ricklis, hides the reality of a people who were well-adapted to their environment, skillful in using...
Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: Greenwood, 2011. - 341 p. From the Indian Removal Act to the Battle of Little Bighorn to Geronimo's surrender in 1886, the story of how Europeans settled upon and eventually took over lands traditionally inhabited by American Indian peoples is long and troubling. This book discusses American Indian leaders over the course of four centuries,...
Duke University Press, 2017. — 296 p. What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non-native ideologies...
University of Utah Press, 2007. — 360 p.
"Rio del Norte" chronicles the upper Rio Grande region and its divers peoples across twelve thousand years of continuous history. Based on the most up-to-date historical and archaeological research, "Rio del Norte" is a tour de force, highlighting the unbroken history of the upper Rio Grande.
Beginning with the mammoth hunters of eleven...
University of New Mexico Press, 2004. — 336 p. In 1984, when Glenda Riley’s "Women and Indians on the Frontier" was published, it was hailed for being the first study to take into account the roles that gender, race, and class played in Indian/white relations during the westward migration. In the twenty years since, the study of those aspects of western history has exploded....
University of South Carolina Press, 2021. — 210 p. In Brothers of Coweta Bryan C. Rindfleisch explores how family and clan served as the structural foundation of the Muscogee (Creek) Indian world through the lens of two brothers, who emerged from the historical shadows to shape the forces of empire, colonialism, and revolution that transformed the American South during the...
University of South Carolina Press, 2021. — 210 p. In Brothers of Coweta Bryan C. Rindfleisch explores how family and clan served as the structural foundation of the Muscogee (Creek) Indian world through the lens of two brothers, who emerged from the historical shadows to shape the forces of empire, colonialism, and revolution that transformed the American South during the...
University of Alabama Press, 2019. — 274 p. — (Indians and Southern History). A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South. A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina in 1737 and quickly emerged as one of the most proficient deerskin traders in the South. This was due in...
University of Alabama Press, 2019. — 274 p. — (Indians and Southern History). A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South. A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina in 1737 and quickly emerged as one of the most proficient deerskin traders in the South. This was due in...
Polar Horizons Inc., 2014. — 344 p. The story of Abraham Ulrikab is one of the saddest and most moving stories in Nunatsiavut (Labrador), Inuit and Canadian history. Hoping to improve his family’s living conditions, in August 1880, Abraham agreed to head to Europe to become the latest "exotic" attraction in the ethnographic shows organized by Carl Hagenbeck, a menagerie owner...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 536 p. By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century. Between 1770 and 1900 the...
Touchstone, 1994. — 368 p. During the westward settlement, for more than twenty years Apache tribes eluded both US and Mexican armies, and by 1886 an estimated 9,000 armed men were in pursuit. Roberts (Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative) presents a moving account of the end of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. He portrays the great Apache leaders — Cochise, Nana, Juh, Geronimo, the...
Simon and Schuster, 2005. — 288 p. The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for...
Abingdon Press, 2016. — 320 p. Sand Creek. At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the command that led to slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos - primarily women, children, and elderly-camped under the protection of the U. S. government along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory and flying both an American flag and a white flag. The...
Caxton Press, 2001. — 328 p. The smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838 forever changed the tribes of the Northern Plains. Before it ran out of human fuel, the disease claimed twenty thousand souls. R. G. Robertson tells the story of this deadly virus with modern implications. R.G. Robertson served as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam, then earned an MBA from the University of...
Random House, 1995. — 412 p. This is a provocative analysis of the Plains War of 1876 by an established scholar in the field. Making sophisticated use of Native American accounts, Robinson (Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie) demonstrates that the initial balance of forces was by no means unequal. The U.S. Army did not have the numbers, the doctrine or the...
Random House, 1995. — 412 p. In 1876, two years after gold was discovered in the Black Hills, the region became the last important battleground of a tragic war against the Cheyenne and Sioux nations. For the sake of American economic expansion, the United States Army, led by General Crook, General Terry, and Colonel Custer, aimed to trap the Indians -- led by Sitting Bull -- in a...
University of New Mexico Press, 2003. — 288 p. In the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army's campaigns against them in the last century. These oral histories offer new versions - from Warm Springs, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Lipan...
University of North Texas Press, 2013. — 528 p.
This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. — 434 p. — (The Civilization of the American Indian). One truly remarkable phenomena of history is the acquisition of the horse by American Indian tribes of North America. With horses stolen from the Spanish frontier settlements (not “strays” found on the prairies), the Indian tribes were transformed and revitalized. Horses made Indians more...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. — 240 p. Early Europeans settling in America would never have survived without the help of Native American groups. Though histories of early America acknowledge this today, that has not always been the case, and even today much work needs to be done to appreciate more fully the nature of the interactions between the settlers and the...
Walker & Company, 2005. — 246 p. The story of the last deaths in the American Indian wars and their far-reaching ramifications The massacre of at least 150 Indians by the U.S. Army along Wounded Knee Creek in the Lakota reservation on December 29, 1890 generally is considered the closing salvo in America's Indian Wars. But as Roger L. Di Silvestro reveals in startling detail,...
Walker & Company, 2005. — 246 p. The story of the last deaths in the American Indian wars and their far-reaching ramifications. The massacre of at least 150 Indians by the U.S. Army along Wounded Knee Creek in the Lakota reservation on December 29, 1890 generally is considered the closing salvo in America's Indian Wars. But as Roger L. Di Silvestro reveals in startling detail, the...
Dundurn Press, 1994. — 448 p. Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume review the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first...
Dundurn Press, 1994. — 448 p. Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume review the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 237 p. This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by demonstrating that the true tragedy of colonial relations was precisely the...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 328 p. The First Seminole War of 1816–1818 played a critical role in shaping how the United States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries during the early years of the republic. Rooted in notions of American exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and racism, the legal framework that emerged from the war laid the groundwork for the Monroe...
Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. — xii, 404 p. — (The Civilization of the American Indian Series; no. 196). — ISBN 0-8061-2280-3. In this history, Helen C. Rountree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. — 416 p. In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 190 p. Roanoke. Manteo. Wanchese. Chicamacomico. These place names along today's Outer Banks are a testament to the Indigenous communities that thrived for generations along the Carolina coast. Though most sources for understanding these communities were written by European settlers who began to arrive in the late sixteenth century,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 190 p. Roanoke. Manteo. Wanchese. Chicamacomico. These place names along today's Outer Banks are a testament to the Indigenous communities that thrived for generations along the Carolina coast. Though most sources for understanding these communities were written by European settlers who began to arrive in the late sixteenth century,...
University Press of Florida, 2005. — 272 p. Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown introduces the Powhatans - the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains, who played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements - in scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians to...
Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2017. — 152 p. The Seminole Wars were comprised of three separate clashes between the United States and the Seminole Indians of Florida between 1817 and 1858. The first touched off when the US Army invaded Seminole territory in order to capture fugitive slaves living among the native people. The Seminoles were pushed farther and farther south into...
Routledge, 2007. — 288 p. This volume, presents the succession of treaties between 1785 and 1868 that reduced the holdings of the Cherokee Nation east of the Mississippi and culminated in their removal to Indian territory. Each document is accompanied by a detailed description of its antecedent conditions, the negotiations that led up to it, and its consequences. The events...
University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 424 p. Tears of Repentance revisits and reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Protestant missionaries’ accounts of their ideals, purposes, and goals among the Native communities...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 276 p. In "Perishing Heathens" Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory. Rubin also recounts the lives of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. — 294 p. More than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite history of the region’s native inhabitants, covers the period roughly from 1750 to 1900, from the first white contacts to the aftermath of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. — 345 p. In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 182 p. This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project as ruthless and brutal extraction of a vulnerable indigenousness people; the...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 424 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In "Bonds of Alliance", Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this...
University Press of New England, 1980. — 296 p. In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular environment. He dispels once...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 190 p. This book is a rhetorical study of the writings of Republic of Texas presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar which analyzes the frames applied in the writings of the two leaders to define Native Americans. Presenting their individual writings as a dialogue and an argument, it considers the points at which Houston and Lamar’s rhetorical depictions...
Dundurn Group Ltd., 2020. — 352 p. Did Louis Riel have a fair trial? The trial and conviction of Louis Riel for treason in the summer of 1885 and his execution on November 16, 1885, have been the subjects of historical comment and criticism for over one hundred years. A Rush to Judgment challenges the view held by some historians that Riel received a fair trial. Roger Salhany...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 334 p. In Pueblos, Plains, and Province Joseph P. Sánchez offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers’, missionaries’, and Indigenous peoples’ struggle for economic and cultural control of the region. Sánchez explores the rich...
University of Nebraska Press, 1942. — 347 p.
Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange", fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered,...
Princeton University Press, 2025. — 354 p. A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West. In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government’s treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other tribes of the northern plains. Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of Abraham...
Enslow Publishers, 2013. — 48 p. When the territories of New Mexico and Arizona became part of the United States, settlers found themselves in the middle of a bloody war between the Apaches and the Mexicans. When the Apaches began to raid American settlements, the U.S. Government decided the Apaches must be confined to reservations. Geronimo and other Apaches continued to fight...
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1994. — 106 p. The Ute Campaign of 1879 is a study of link.ages. Major Russel D. Santala's work not only explores the threads of continuity between engagements and campaigns but also examines the relationship of government policy to one of the instruments of that policy-the Army. Ten years before the events of this study occurred,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 264 p. This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 264 p. This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the...
University of Arizona Press, 1998. — 220 p. "The quiet of the dawn was rent by the screams of war. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of Quechan and Mohave warriors leaped from concealment, rushing the plaza from all sides. Painted for battle and brandishing lances, bows, and war clubs, the Indians killed every Spaniard they could catch". The route from the Spanish presidial settlements...
Da Capo Press, 1999. — 304 p. The destruction of George Armstrong Custer's command at Little Bighorn by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne on 25 June, 1876 has been etched in the national memory and has remained one of America's longest lingering controversies. "The Little Bighorn Campaign" penetrates the mysteries of Custer's disaster as well as the broader context of the 1876...
Conshohocken: Combined Publishing, 1993. - 313 p. The destruction of George Armstrong Custer's command at Little Bighorn by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne on 25 June, 1876 has been etched in the national memory and has remained one of America's longest lingering controversies. The Little Bighorn Campaign penetrates the mysteries of Custer's disaster as well as the broader...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 314 p.
Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. As the Creeks amassed a fortune in cattle and slaves, new property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New...
University of Alberta Press, 2018. — 268 p. Émile Petitot lived and worked in the Athabasca-Mackenzie area from 1862 to 1883. Accompanied by native guides, he made several journeys from the Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean, along the Mackenzie River, to Fort Yukon in Alaska. He also made several excursions inland around Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake, and up the Anderson...
New York University Press, 2019. — 320 p. Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain’s empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights. As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting visions...
New York University Press, 2019. — 320 p. Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain’s empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights. As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting visions...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 456 p. In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the...
University of Arizona Press, 2010. — 352 p. Archaeological research is uniquely positioned to show how native history and native culture affected the course of colonial interaction, but to do so it must transcend colonialist ideas about Native American technological and social change. This book applies that insight to five hundred years of native history. Using data from a wide...
ABC-CLIO, 2014. — 288 p. There has not been an all-encompassing narrative of the Native American experience during the American Revolutionary War period—until now. Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World fills that gap in the literature, provides full coverage of the Revolution's effects on...
University of Alaska Press, 2018. — 160 p. At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communication. The Native groups who had hunted and fished on the land for more than a century...
Lyons Press, 2014. — 264 p. In the heart of Indian Country in the American west, clandestine criminals have profited greatly from the sale of sacred Native American artifacts stolen from tribal lands. These artifacts were so ancient they had been used since the migration of the first Americans into North America some 15,000 years ago. In 1998 the illegal trafficking of these...
Springer-Verlag, 2017. — 421 s. Harry Schüler erörtert in diesem Buch die Interdependenz von Landrückforderungen, Spielkasinos und Identität. Er zeigt auf, dass es überwiegend illegale Verträge waren, die zum Verlust irokesischen Landes führten. Die Land-Geschichte der Oneida ist voll von weißen Tricks, widersprüchlichen Gesetzen, gebrochenen Verträgen sowie einer...
St. Martin's Press, 1993. — 324 p. December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. This event stands today as the greatest mass execution in the history of the United States. In Over The Earth I Come, Duane Schultz brilliantly retells one of America's most violent and bloody events--the Great...
Revised Edition — Countryman Press, 2017. — 432 p. — (Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick). At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 264 p. Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially the eighteenth-century Susquehanna...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 264 p. Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially the eighteenth-century...
State University of New York Press, 2014. — 248 p. Explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them. How and why do American Indians appropriate images of Indians for their own purposes? How do these representatives promote and sometimes challenge sovereignty for indigenous people locally and nationally? American...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 328 p. Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen - survived the fight, but what of...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 144 p. For a period of about week in February 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian communities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat swept across the Nebraska panhandle, especially along the Platte River. The fighting that marked this event barely compares to the massive campaigns and terrible carnage that marked the...
Edited by R. Eli Paul. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 272 p. A graduate of West Point, General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) belonged to the same regiment as George Armstrong Custer. As a member of the Seventh Cavalry, Scott actually began his career at the Little Big Horn when in 1877 he helped rebury Custer’s fallen soldiers. Yet Scott was no Custer. His lifelong...
Introduction by John C. Ewers — University of Nebraska Press, 1992. — 128 p. As a historical study covering not only tribal changes, conflicts and movements, but also the effect of horse and gun on the balance of power and on the fur trade, this is both interesting and stimulating reading. Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early...
Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 512 p. Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. The two men’s mutual hatred, while little remembered today, shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew...
Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 512 p. Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. The two men’s mutual hatred, while little remembered today, shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 384 p. Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sugar cane fields to the unfamiliar diseases that afflicted Europeans in the Chesapeake and West Indies. According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10 0801898544; ISBN13 9780801898549.
"Two thousand Wendat (Huron) Indians stood on the edge of an enormous burial pit. they held in their arms the bones of roughly seven hundred deceased friends and family members. The Wendats had lovingly scraped and cleaned the bones of the corpses that had decomposed on the scaffolds....
Lexington Books, 2013. — 306. Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. "The Iroquois and the Athenians" is a philosophical exploration of the material traces left by that constitutional act in the political practices of the classical Iroquois and Athenians. Tempering Kant with Nietzsche this work offers an account of political action...
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2012. — xii, 443 p. : 32 b/w illus., 33 line drawings, 38 tables, 32 maps. Archaeology / Anthropology The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject of continuous debate in anthropological research. This book examines archaeological,...
Ipswich, MAS ; Armenia, NY : Salem Press and Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2017. — 256 p. ; illus. — (Defining Documents in American History series). This volume, Defining Documents in American History: Native Americans (1451-2017) , offers in-depth analysis of documents from the history Americans first inhabitants. This text closely studies thirty documents, beginning with the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 380 p. Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 640 p. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era’s most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country’s great struggles for...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 640 p. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era’s most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country’s great struggles for...
University of Georgia Press, 2016. — 184 p. The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virginia. Virginians were unique in their interaction with Native peoples in part because of their tributary system, a practice that became codified with the 1646 Treaty of Peace with the former...
Roaring Brook Press, 2017. — 288 p. Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story—and more. It’s an unflinching look at the U.S. government’s violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Expertly told by three-time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it’s...
Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — 272 p. During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power - a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian...
Duke University Press Books, 2014. — 312 p. Since the 1960s, the Native peoples of northeastern Canada, both Inuit and Innu, have experienced epidemics of substance abuse, domestic violence, and youth suicide. Seeking to understand these transformations in the capacities of Native communities to resist cultural, economic, and political domination, Gerald M. Sider offers an...
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2020. — 304 p. The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the history of trade and trapping while exploring under-researched stories of French-Ojibwe political, social, and economic relations. Multiple generations of Cadottes were involved in the...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 288 p. New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren , David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that Indians in early America were racial...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 288 p. New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren , David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that Indians in early America were racial...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 528 p. Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John...
The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2016. — 388 p. The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples - a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding...
Texas A&M University Press, 2004. — 270 p. In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge McComas and his wife Juniata and kidnapped their six-year-old son Charley as the family traveled on a desolate road in southwestern New Mexico Territory, all victims of revenge sought by the Apaches for Gen. George Crook's campaign. At the time, the entire circumstances concerning this...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 288 p. During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest - it took deliberate work to create and uphold....
Duke University Press, 2014. — 280 p. Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty...
Translated by Sheila Fischmann. — McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. — 160 p. A Huron born and raised near Quebec City, Georges Sioui is the first to present guidelines for the study of Native history from an Amerindian point of view. He argues that these guidelines must be respected if the self-image and social ethics of Native people are to be understood and preserved and...
McGill-Queen's Press, 2019. — 200 p. Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature. For many Native peoples and newcomers to North America, Canada is a motherland, an Eatenonha – a land in which all can and should feel included, valued, and celebrated. In Eatenonha Georges Sioui presents the history of a group of Wendat known as the Seawi...
McGill-Queen's Press, 2019. — 200 p. Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature. For many Native peoples and newcomers to North America, Canada is a motherland, an Eatenonha – a land in which all can and should feel included, valued, and celebrated. In Eatenonha Georges Sioui presents the history of a group of Wendat known as the Seawi Clan...
Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press, 1929. — 836 p. IT affords me much pleasure to write these few words of introduction to "The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania," of which I have read the manuscript. Mr. Sipe has wisely followed the same scientific method in the collection of his data for this work which he did in his "Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania." As a consequence the two books...
Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at The University of North Dakota, 2015. — 296 p., ills., maps. The Dakota War (1862-1864) stands among the most overlooked conflicts in American History. Contemporary with the American Civil War, the Dakota War featured significant fighting, tactical brilliance, and strategic savvy set in the open plains of Minnesota and North Dakota. Karl...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 348 p. A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 376 p. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 376 p. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth...
Foreword by Winona LaDuke — Duke University Press, 2015. — 263 p. In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large - and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native...
Northwestern University, 2014. — 114 p. The John Evans Study Committee reviewed and reported on the history of John Evans, one of the founders of Northwestern University. More specifically, it examined the nature of Evans’ involvement in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, which occurred in 1864 while he was governor of what was then the Colorado Territory,...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 496 p. The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 320 p. "From Dominance to Disappearance" is the first detailed history of the Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest from the late eighteenth to the middle nineteenth century, a period that began with Native peoples dominating the region and ended with their disappearance, after settlers forced the Indians in Texas to take refuge in Indian...
University of California Press, 2007. — 253 p. In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Their intimate, impassioned dialogues yield profound insights into one of the most...
AU Press, 2009. — 337 p. Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and 1927, government officials, police officers, church...
Counterpoint Press, 2015. — 420 p. Page Smith was one of America’s greatest historians. After studying with Samuel Eliot Morison at Harvard, Smith went on to a distinguished academic career that culminated with him being the founding Provost of Cowell College, the first college of the new campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. But he made his mark with a history...
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2015. — 420 p. Page Smith (1917-1995) was one of America’s greatest historians. After studying with Samuel Eliot Morison at Harvard, Smith went on to a distinguished academic career that culminated with him being the founding Provost of Cowell College, the first college of the new campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. But he made...
University of Nebraska Press, 1981. — 219 p. The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more...
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 275 p. Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 288 p. Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to...
University of Arizona Press, 2014. — 256 p. In 1844, on the heels of the final wave of the forced removal of thousands of Indians from the southern United States to what is now Oklahoma, the Southern Methodist Church created a separate organization known as the Indian Mission Conference to oversee its missionary efforts among the Native communities of Indian Territory....
Routledge, 2019. — 132 p. Native Southerners lived in vibrant societies, rich in tradition and cultural sophistication, for thousands of years before the arrival of European colonization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Over the ensuing centuries, Native Southerners adapted to the presence of Europeans, endeavouring to incorporate them into their social, cultural,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 270 p. Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithers brings this world to life in Native Southerners , a sweeping narrative of American...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 368 p. The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement,...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 368 p. The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 524 p. The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 336 p. In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram , author Dean Snow rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length of the North American continent only to be maligned as deceitful storyteller. In the autumn of 1569, a French ship rescued David Ingram and two other English sailors from the shore of the Gulf of Maine. The...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 344 p. Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and places...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 264 p. In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 264 p. In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the...
Rutgers University Press, 2022. — 200 p. Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey is the first cross-cultural study of European colonization in the region south of the Falls of the Delaware River (now Trenton). Lenape men and women welcomed their allies, the Swedes and Finns, to escape more rigid English regimes on the west bank of the Delaware, offering land to...
M.E. Sharpe, 2003. — 296 p. Traditional histories of North and South America often leave the impression that Native American peoples had little impact on the colonies and empires established by Europeans after 1492. This groundbreaking study, which spans more than 300 years, demonstrates the agency of indigenous peoples in forging their own history and that of the Western...
Perhaps no Indian of his time was so famous, so feared, or so influential in his quarter of the west. His name was Wakara. By both white and red men he was early recognized as a brilliant tactician, a ruthless trader in Indian slaves — especially captive women and children, and probably the most successful horse thief on the American continent. With vigorous leadership he had...
Revised Edition. — Facts on File, 2007. — 320 p. From the beginnings of European colonization of North America, the significance of American Indian women has often been ignored or misrepresented. Many historians have undermined the importance and achievements of women in American Indian societies, leaving the lives and contributions of many important American Indian women in...
Infobase Publishing, 2007. — 472 p. Язык английский. Хронология истории американских индейцев. According to oral tradition, the Navajo (Dineh) came into being by emerging through three worlds—the Black World, the Blue-Green World, and the Yellow World—before finally reaching the Glittering World, the one they still inhabit in the American Southwest. This story, told from...
University of Nebraska Press, 1990. — 140 p.
After prolonged resistance against tremendous odds, Geronimo, the Apache shaman and war leader, and Naiche, the hereditary Chiricahua chief, surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles near the Mexican border on September 4, 1886. It was the beginning of a new day for white settlers in the Southwest and of bitter exile for the Indians....
Seven Stories Press, 2020. — 240 p. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means’s Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 200 p.
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian...
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. — 159 p. Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the...
University of Arizona Press, 1967. — 622 p. After more than fifty years, Cycles of Conquest is still one of the best syntheses of more than four centuries of conquest, colonization, and resistance ever published. It explores how ten major Native groups in northern Mexico and what is now the United States responded to political incorporation, linguistic hegemony, community...
University of Arizona Press, 1991. — 216 p. Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche. Contributors: Timothy G. Baugh, Judith A. Habicht-Mauche,...
University of Arizona Press, 1991. — 216 p. Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche. Contributors: Timothy G. Baugh, Judith A. Habicht-Mauche,...
State University of New York Press, 2018. — 256 p. Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights. For the Anishinaabeg - the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes - literary writing has long been an important means of...
State University of New York Press, 2018. — 256 p. Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights. For the Anishinaabeg - the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes - literary writing has long been an important means of...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 332 p. In Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands , Stephen T. Staggs analyzes the impact of the Dutch Reformation upon the cross-cultural relations between those living in and around New Netherland. Staggs shows that Native Americans and New Netherlanders hunted, smoked, ate, and drank together, shared their faith while...
University of Manitoba Press, 2018. — 328 p. In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis - or the Kanehsatake Resistance - exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society had imagined was on the verge of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 320 p. People of the Wind River , the first book-length history of the Eastern Shoshones, tells the tribe's story through eight tumultuous decades -- from 1825, when they reached mutual accommodation with the first permanent white settlers in Wind River country, to 1900, when the death of Chief Washakie marked a final break with their...
Foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie — University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 553 p. Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice , readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people - much of it previously...
Foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie — University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 553 p. Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice , readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people - much of it previously...
2nd Revised edition — Yale University Press, 1998. — 368 p. This classic work is an oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years, a collaborative effort by the Cheyenne tribal historian, John Stands in Timber, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Published in 1967, the book now has an updated bibliography and a new preface by Liberty,...
2nd Revised edition — Yale University Press, 1998. — 368 p. This classic work is an oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years, a collaborative effort by the Cheyenne tribal historian, John Stands in Timber, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Published in 1967, the book now has an updated bibliography and a new preface by Liberty, in...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press Canada, 2020. — 328 p. — ISBN: 9780199033447 This thought-provoking, contributed collection by leading scholars is an indispensable resource for understanding contemporary issues involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada, such as modern treaty relationships, cultural resurgence, and critical examinations of gender and sexuality. Crises of...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 320 p. On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became...
2nd Edition. — Bison Books, 2002. — 392 p. Joe Starita tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne family. In 1878, the renowned Chief Dull Knife, who fought alongside Crazy Horse, escaped from forced relocation in Indian Territory and led followers on a desperate six-hundred-mile freedom flight back to their homeland. His son, George Dull Knife survived...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 256 p. This fascinating survey blends anthropology and military history to reexamine the European invasion of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing conflicts beginning with King Philip’s War in New England and ending with the conquest of Indians in the Old Northwest, Armstrong Strakey shows the evolution of both...
University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 320 p. This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to Wisconsin in the 1830s. Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 1376 p. — (The Iroquoians and Their World). Gideon’s People is the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians at a place called...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. — 286 p. Part detective story, part historical inquiry, this book explores the countless attempts to locate the chief's grave and raise a monument in his honour. The first substantial book on the subject based primarily on Canadian material and packed with vivid descriptions of regional life in the nineteenth century, "Tecumseh's Bones"...
Peter Lang Publ., 2016. — 196 p. — (Critical Indigenous and American Indian Studies, Book 3). Canadians are beginning to learn about the negative effects of residential schools on Aboriginal people in Canada. More hidden in the written record, but bearing a similar powerfully destructive role, are Indian Agents, who were with very few exceptions White men who ‘ruled the reserves’...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. — 316 p. The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century - the otherwise named Petun and Huron - and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories together, with a focus on the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. — 708 p. Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 304 p. In 1513, only a few years before Cortes conquered the Aztec empire, Juan Ponce de Leon and three shiploads of conquistadores landed just south of what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish adventurers, however, were quickly driven away by the Timucua people; further landings were similarly defeated by the extraordinary archers of the...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 268 p. In The Lives in Objects , Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native...
Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 1996. — xx, 428 p. : maps, ports. Theodore Stern's critically acclaimed 1993 book Chiefs and Chief Traders explored early encounters between the fur traders of Fort Nez Perces and the Indians of the eastern Columbia Plateau, principally the Cayuse, Nez Perces, Wallawalla, and Umatilla. Drawing on 25 years of research, Stern recreated...
Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 1993. — xii, 272 p. : ill., maps. A ground-breaking study of the relations between the fur traders of Fort Nez Perces and the Indians of the region, primarily Cayuse, Wallawalla, Umatilla, and Nez Perce. Existing literature on this region has focused on the white explorers, the fur traders, and the settlers. Chiefs and Chief Traders...
Lethbridge Historial Society, 1997. — 59 p. “The Last Great (Inter-Tribal) Indian Battle” is a compilation of primary and secondary sources regarding the 1870 Battle of Belly River, a battle between the Blackfoot and Iron Confederacies fought in what is now Lethbridge, Alberta. Dr. Alex Thompson, the former President of the Lethbridge Historical Society, did an excellent job...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. — 538 p. This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American history about which much has been written - the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. It presents in graphic detail and on a vast canvas the great events and the small which reached a...
University of California Press. — Berkeley, California, 1939. — 28 p. For all studies in history, ethnography, archaeology, or geography the accurate definition of "place' is fundamental. This paper is an attempt to locate accurately the Northern Paiute tribe and to ascertain correctly the subdivisions of this tribe at the time of white contact, about 1850.
Dundurn Press, 2008. — 208 p. Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it. He was a pioneer in the field of Aboriginal rights and land claims but was branded an outlaw in his own time. In 1885, he was executed for treason. In 1992, the House of Commons declared Riel a founder of Manitoba. November 16 is now...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 304 p. The little known story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West - Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull - told through their time in Cody’s Wild West show in the 1880s. It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody - known across the land as Buffalo Bill - conceived of his Wild West show, an “equestrian...
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. — 192 p. In her latest work, H. Henrietta Stockel examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. The new information provided in this study offers a sample of the total...
University of New Mexico Press, 2008. — 192 p. In her latest work, H. Henrietta Stockel examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. The new information provided in this study offers a sample of the total...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. — 272 p. In this first book devoted to the genesis, failure, and lasting legacy of Ulysses S. Grant’s comprehensive American Indian policy, Mary Stockwell shows Grant as an essential bridge between Andrew Jackson’s pushing Indians out of the American experience and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s welcoming them back in. Situating Grant at the...
Westholme Publishing, 2016. — 400 p. The Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States’ policy to force native populations to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The most well-known episode in the eviction of American Indians in the East was the notorious...
Oxford University Press, 1974. — 222 p. In the 1870s, the Ojo Caliente Apaches, led by the brilliant and charismatic warrior and chief, Victorio, took their long last stand against American manifest destiny. Apache Heritage A Clash of Cultures The Indian-Fighting Army The First Outbreak Civilians, Rangers, and Mexicans Army Attempts to Solution The Final Campaighn Notes...
Greenwood, 2012. — 240 p. Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans are estimated to have attended Native American boarding schools during the course of over a century. Today, many of the off-reservation Native American boarding schools have closed, and those that remain are in danger of losing critical federal funding. Ironically, some Native Americans want to preserve them....
The History Press, 2021. — 208 p. The Black Hawk War was the final conflict east of the Mississippi River between American Indian communities and the United States regular troops and militia. Exploring the museums, wayside markers and parks relating to that struggle is not just a journey of historic significance through beautiful natural scenery. It is also an amazing...
The History Press, 2021. — 208 p. The Black Hawk War was the final conflict east of the Mississippi River between American Indian communities and the United States regular troops and militia. Exploring the museums, wayside markers and parks relating to that struggle is not just a journey of historic significance through beautiful natural scenery. It is also an amazing...
University of Arizona Press, 2013. — 224 p. The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, published in 1682, is often considered the first “best seller” to be published in North America. Since then, it has long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian captivity. After an attack on the Puritan town of Lancaster,...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 336 p. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family , Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within...
Routledge, 2023. — 154 p. This book takes a new approach by synthesizing the work of scholars of military and Indigenous history to provide the first chronologically ordered, region-wide, and long-term narrative history of conflict in the Early American Northeast. War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast focuses on war and society, European colonization, and...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 248 p. The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harvested shellfish. To celebrate the deep-water spirits, they sacrificed the tail and fins of the most powerful and awesome denizen of their maritime world - the whale. These Native Americans were...
Routledge, 2000. — 280 p. This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the ?Indian captivity narrative? in the context of the complex historical practice of captivity across cultural borders in colonial North America. This detailed and nuanced study of the relationship between practice and representation on the one hand, and identity and alterity on the...
Greenwood, 2008. — 168 p. One of the most important Native American leaders in history, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh protested land cession, and was a major catalyst of the Battle of Tippecanoe. He harnessed the tradition of American Indian pan-tribal unity to become the most important symbol of multi-national Native American identity and resistance in North America. This in-depth,...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 192 p. In 1838, the U.S. Government began to forcibly relocate thousands of Cherokees from their homelands in Georgia to the Western territories. The event the Cherokees called The Trail Where They Cried meant their own loss of life, sovereignty, and property. Moreover, it allowed visions of Manifest Destiny to contradict the government's previous...
University of California Press, 2002. — 268 p. Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2003. — 362 p. Blue Jacket (ca. 1743 – ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into the Shawnees’ homeland in the Ohio River Valley. Blue Jacket was an astute strategist and diplomat who, though courted by American...
Henry Holt and Company, 1999. — 544 p. If Sitting Bull is the most famous American Indian, Tecumseh, the legendary Shawnee chieftain, is the most revered. In the early years of the nineteenth century he dreamed of welding the diverse North American tribes into a vast confederacy stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, strong enough to defend the cultures and lands of the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 258 p. Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indigenous practices to negotiate strategic alliances with both sides of generations-old conflicts. The rich history of the southwestern community of Casitas Viejas straddles multiple cultures...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 240 p. Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indigenous practices to negotiate strategic alliances with both sides of generations-old conflicts. The rich history of the southwestern community of Casitas Viejas straddles multiple cultures and...
6th Edition — Routledge, 2021. — 458 p. An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded and improved the existing text, adding to the case studies, updating the text with the...
6th Edition — Routledge, 2021. — 458 p. An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded and improved the existing text, adding to the case studies, updating the text with the...
5th Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 442 p. An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native Peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. A final chapter covers contemporary...
University Press of Colorado, 1997. — 197 p. Following the Sioux War of 1876, the Northern Cheyenne were moved from Montana and the western Dakotas to a reservation in Oklahoma. Those who returned to Montana settled 90 miles south of the military post near Rosebud Creek and the Tongue River, sparking years of bloodshed between the Northern Cheyenne and the cattlemen and...
University of Colorado, 1993. — 224 p. Following the Sioux War of 1876, the Northern Cheyenne were moved from Montana and the western Dakotas to a reservation in Oklahoma. Those who returned to Montana settled 90 miles south of the military post near Rosebud Creek and the Tongue River, sparking years of bloodshed between the Northern Cheyenne and the cattlemen and townspeople....
Borealis Books, 2004. — 112 p. The Plains Indian Wars of the nineteenth century garnered enduring fame for certain Indian leaders, their names echoing powerfully even today: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud. Just as significant but less often mentioned is Taoyateduta, known to whites as Little Crow, the reluctant leader of Dakota warriors during the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862,...
Douglas & McIntyre, 2010. — 250 p. On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors facing police across barricades shocked...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1992. — 492 p. Classification of the Southeastern tribes. The Cusabo. History. Ethnological information regarding the Cusabo. The Guale Indians and the Yamasee. The Apalachee. The Apalachicola. The Chatot. The Tawasa and Pawokti. The Sawokli. The Pensacola. The Molnle and Tohome. The Osochi. The Chiaha. The Hitchiti. The Okmulgee. The...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 179 p. "Cochise" was a name that struck terror into hearts across the Southwest. Yet in the autumn of 1872, Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard and his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizona's rocky Dragoon Mountains in search of the elusive Chiricahua Apache chief. Accompanied only by a guide and two Apache scouts,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 501 p. When it acquired New Mexico and Arizona, the United States inherited the territory of a people who had been a thorn in side of Mexico since 1821 and Spain before that. Known collectively as Apaches, these Indians lived in diverse, widely scattered groups with many names—Mescaleros, Chiricahuas, and Jicarillas, to name but three. Much...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 720 p. In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 720 p. In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 578 p. Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas’s life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apachería that made the two of them the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Edwin R....
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 288 p. For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops with the so-called fall of the Comanche empire in 1875, when Quanah Parker led Comanches onto the reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In Cinematic Comanches , the first tribal-specific history of Comanches in film and media,...
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 2014. — 244 p. 1492 En débarquant à San Salvador, Christophe Colomb inaugure la conquête du Nouveau Monde par l'Ancien. Un choc culturel que nous considérons trop souvent du seul point de vue des Conquistadors. Ce choc, pourtant, eut aussi lieu en Europe. Jusqu'à l'orée du XXe siècle, plusieurs milliers d'Amérindiens furent en effet...
Pearson Education, 2014. — 512 p. Native Nations of North America: An Indigenous Perspective , establishes a foundation of knowledge by examining the history of selected North American Natives from their perspective. By exploring the past, readers will better understand the struggles of modern-day indigenous peoples. Author Steven Talbot addresses many of the struggles and...
Sasquatch Books, 2020. — 304 p. A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in the history of the American West. This book examines the tangled legacy of that event. In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. — 353 p. In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously...
Smithsonian Books, 2009. — 256 p. Throughout American history, people of combined African and Native American descent have often struggled for acceptance, not only from dominant cultures but also from their own communities. In this collection of twenty-seven groundbreaking essays, authors from across the Americas explore the complex personal histories and contemporary lives of...
Arcadia Publishing, 2010. — 152 p. An in-depth account of the reasons, risks, and rewards that impacted the Navajos who enlisted in the American military in the late nineteenth century. In January 1873, Secretary of War William W. Belknap authorized the Military District of New Mexico to enlist fifty Indigenous scouts for campaigns against the Apaches and other tribes. In an...
Patrick Crean Editions, 2019. — 592 p. There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans. Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won...
Illinois State Museum, 1942. — 218 p. The Illinois State Museum is dedicated to the preservation of the past of our state and to making that past meaningful to its citizens. The present volume on "Indian Villages of the Illinois Country" by Dr. Wayne C. Temple, Curator of Ethnohistory, is an important contribution to this objective. He here brings together from a wide variety...
University of Arizona Press, 2015. — 368 p. Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge. Each...
Gibbs Smith, 2016. — 258 p. The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the...
Time-Life Books, 1993. — 192 p. — (American Indians). Looks at the impact of encounters with white settlers on the Indians in each region of North America.
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 288 p. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 288 p. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 227 p. — (Places in Time). — ISBN: 0-19-510887-6. From the 11,00-year-old Blackwater Draw in New Mexico to the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Wyoming, the archaeological evidence left by Native Americans forms a fascinating legacy. In the third volume in Oxford's acclaimed Places in Time series, David Hurst Thomas guides readers through twenty...
McFarland, 2022. — 278 p. The story of the Apsaalooke (Crow) men who scouted for the Seventh United States Cavalry in 1876 has been told by historians, with details sometimes distorted or fabricated. Biilaachia - better known as White Swan - survived the Battle of Little Bighorn despite severe wounds. One soldier recalled him standing beside his horse, firing at the Sioux: "He...
University of Washington Press, 2000. — 136 p. Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, "Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever", are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed...
University of Missouri Press, 1996. — 294 p. A study of kinship networks among French Creoles and Central Siouan tribes and the influence of those networks on social, political and economic development along the lower Missouri River from the late prehistoric period to the removal era in the 1870s.
University of Nebraska Press, 1992. — 239 p. The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. — 176 p. A carefully documented account of the events leading to the Apache entrenchment and the inevitable United States Army expedition against these Indians in the Sierra Madre
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 393 p. —(Civilization of the American Indian Series). Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches. Story of Victorio and the relationship of the Mimbrenos with other Apache bands. The Civilization of the American Indian Series no. 125
Yale University Press, 2016. — 328 p. An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries. London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London , historian Coll Thrush...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 328 p. An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries. London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London , historian Coll Thrush...
University of Nebraska Press, 1972. — 143 p.
Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government to move to Indian Territory. During the year they were driven out, 158 out of 730 died, including Standing Bear’s young son, who had...
Dundurn, 2015. — 182 p. In the summer of 1764, Sir William Johnson (Superintendent of Indian Affairs) and over two thousand chiefs representing twenty-four First Nations met on the shores of the Niagara River to negotiate the Treaty of Niagara ― an agreement between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples. This treaty, symbolized by the Covenant Chain Wampum, is seen by...
Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1992. — 183 p. — (The American Indians). — ISBN: 0-8094-9400-0. History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. — 246 p. Between 1765 and 1845, the Oneida Indian Nation weathered a trio of traumas: war, dispossession, and division. During the American War of Independence, the Oneidas became the revolutionaries' most important Indian allies. They undertook a difficult balancing act, helping the patriots while trying to avoid harming their Iroquois...
Edited by Benjamin R. Kracht and Lisa LaBrada. — University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 208 p. Stories from Saddle Mountain recounts family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century. Henrietta Apayyat (1912–93) grew up and married near Saddle Mountain, where she and her husband raised five sons and five...
Heritage House Publishing, 2010. — 336 p. This book captures the life and times of Jerry Potts, the one man who best represents the turmoil of the western frontier and the clash of two cultures. Born to a White fatherand Blood mother, Jerry earned the name Ky-yo-kosi (Bear Child) for his pluck and bravery. He had a reputation in two distinct worlds. To the Blood and other...
University of British Columbia Press, 1997. — 392 p. In conventional histories of the Canadian prairies, Native people disappear from view after the Riel Rebellions. In this groundbreaking study, Frank Tough examines the role of Native peoples, both Indian and Metis, in the economy of northern Manitoba from Treaty 1 to the Depression. He argues that they did not become...
University of Utah Press, 1996. — 322 p. Presents papers from a 1993 symposium, "Changing perceptions of Navajo Culture: The Archaeology of the Pre-Fort Sumner Period," held in St. Louis, Missouri. Papers incorporate historical and ethnographical information as well as archaeological data, and draw on Navajo opinions and culture. Contains sections on archaeological concepts of...
Hill and Wang, 2005. — 240 p. Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma , differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were - in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent,...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2018. — 698 p. First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining the agency and vitality of Native peoples and cultures in...
Yosemite Conservancy, 2021. — 292 p. Native people have lived in the area now known as Yosemite for thousands of years. From their unique vantage point, members of the Seven Associated Tribes of Yosemite National Park have much to say about themselves and their homeland. In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, the Tribes have partnered with the National Park Service to produce an...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 224 p. This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern...
Michigan State University Press, 1999. — 220 p. Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 274 p. Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making. Sometimes the monster swallowed them up. More often, though, the children fought the monster and grew stronger. This volume draws...
Washington State University, 1986. — 224 p. This story of western expansion and Indian-white conflict is sensitively retold from the perspective of Native Americans. Renegade Tribe examines written and oral sources left by both cultures.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 384 p. Around the Sacred Fire is a compelling cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era. Founded in 1969, the Conference began as an attempt at organizing grassroots spiritual leaders who were concerned about the...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015. — 465 p. 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. The people of Red Lake developed the first modern indigenous democratic governance system in the United States, decades...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012. — 330 p. Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life , his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist’s storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and...
Grove Press, 2013. — 330 p. Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life , his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist’s storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 528 p. The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 528 p. The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. — 448 p. According to convential nineteenth-century wisdom, societies of European origin were naturally progressive; native societies were static. One consequence of this attitutde was the almost universal separation of history and anthropology. Today, despite a growing interest in changes in Amerindian societies, this dichotomy continues to...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. — 960 p. "The Children of Aataentsic" is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649. Drawing upon the archaeological context, the ethnography presented by early explorers and missionaries, and the recorded history of...
Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1977. — 24 p. — (The Canadian Historical Association Booklets; No. 30). — ISBN: 0-88798-044-9. History is usually written with at least one eye to the future, historians are limited to those data which as a result of circumstances beyond their control manage to survive the ravages of time, and their interpretations may be influenced by...
Routledge, 2012. — 160 p. Oral history is a widespread and well-developed research method in many fields - but the conduct of oral histories of and by American Indian peoples has unique issues and concerns that are too rarely addressed. This essential guide begins by differentiating between the practice of oral history and the ancient oral traditions of Indian cultures,...
Routledge, 2012. — 160 p. Oral history is a widespread and well-developed research method in many fields - but the conduct of oral histories of and by American Indian peoples has unique issues and concerns that are too rarely addressed. This essential guide begins by differentiating between the practice of oral history and the ancient oral traditions of Indian cultures,...
University of California Press, 2010. — 160 p. The Europeans who first settled North America were endlessly intrigued by the indigenous people they found there; even before the colonials began to record the landscape, they drew and painted Indians. This study offers a new visual perspective on westward expansion through a survey of the major Indian images painted by...
Independently published, 2024. — 98 p. The causes of the unprecedented disaster at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or “Custer’s Last Stand”, on June 25, 1876 has been long argued and debated, including to this day. But the most forgotten factor that explained Custer’s defeat was the superior weaponry used by the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. New evidence has revealed that the...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 428 p. On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke. After dividing his famed 7th Cavalry, he ordered his senior officer, Major Marcus A. Reno, to strike the southern end of the vast Indian encampment along the Little Bighorn River, while Custer would launch a bold flank attack to...
University Press of Colorado, 1997. — 243 p. A significant but often forgotten chapter in U.S. government and Native American relations is the twenty-seven year period of captivity endured by the Chiricahua Apaches following Geronimo’s final surrender. Nearly four hundred Chiricahuas were uprooted and exiled from their San Carlos, Arizona, home, where they ended up being held...
Belin, 2019. — 285 p. En 1534, Jacques Cartier explore le "grand fleuve", le Saint-Laurent, en quête de nouvelles terres et de nouvelles richesses pour le royaume de France. Il y rencontre Micmacs et Iroquoiens avec lesquels il fait affaire : couteaux, tissus, perles de verre contre de précieuses peaux de castors. Bien avant de pratiquer l'échange linguistique, Français et...
ARP Books, 2020. — 216 p. Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere with resiliency, and share their life experiences, teaching us about...
TwoDot, 2009. — 240 p. The story of Pocahontas saving John Smith is justly famous, as is the cross-country journey of Sacajawea with the Corps of Discovery, and Sarah Winnemucca earned fame by being a champion of her people as the old ways of life were disappearing. But there are lesser known stories of the Native American women who shaped their cultures and changed the course...
Harry N. Abrams, 2021. — 112 p. A daring account of Black Seminole warrior, chief, and diplomat John Horse and the route he forged on the Underground Railroad to gain freedom for his people. John Horse (c. 1812–1882, also known as Juan Caballo) was a famed chief, warrior, tactician, and diplomat who played a dominant role in Black Seminole affairs for half a century. His story...
CDPR, Archaeology, History and Museums Division, 2013. — 194 p. — (Publications in Cultural Heritage, No. 30). This volume is about the Tolowa, their deep past, their more recent history, and their rich cultural heritage as viewed from a single locality within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park named Chvnsu'lh-dvn (TcuncuLtun), or Red Elderberry Place. Presented within is a unique...
University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 334 p. When the U.S. government ended its relationship with dozens of Native American tribes and bands between 1953 and 1966, it was engaging in a massive social experiment. Congress enacted the program, known as termination, in the name of "freeing" the Indians from government restrictions and improving their quality of life. However,...
Revised edition — University of Chicago Press, 1971. — 408 p. Red Man's America meets the great need for a comprehensive study of Indian societies from the first Stone Age hunters to the American citizens of today. Beginning with the first migrations of primitive man from Siberia in the Old World to Alaska in the New, probably during the latter part of the Pleistocene...
A Publication of the Education Division U. S. Office of Indian Affairs 1941. — 84 p. Where do the Paiute live? [In the western part of the United States, between the Sierras and the Rockies, is a stretch of dry, barren country which was one of the hardest possible areas for Indians to live in. It is called the Great Basin because the mountains wall it in, almost like the rim of...
University of Kansas Press, 2008. — 208 p. In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern New Mexico facilitated the diffusion of both spirits and habits of over-drinking...
University Press of the Pacific, 2005. — 92 p. On September 8, 1886, soldiers and Indians gathered on the parade ground of a frontier post nestled amid cactus-studded hills. A cordon of blueclad troopers formed around a train of open wagons loaded with Indian families. As a military band drawn up at the base of the flagstaff played "Auld Lang Syne," the procession moved out of...
Bison Books, 1984. — 426 p. In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General William Tecumseh...
Bison Books, 1984. — 435 p. In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General William Tecumseh...
Bison Books, 1984. — 427 p. In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General William Tecumseh...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 376 p. — (The Lamar Series in Western History). A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 376 p. — (The Lamar Series in Western History). A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured...
Henry Holt and Company, 2008. — 412 p. The definitive, New York Times Notable Book and Spur Award–winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion. Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating and...
Henry Holt and Company, 2008. — 412 p. The definitive, New York Times Notable Book and Spur Award–winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion. Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating and...
University of New Mexico Press, 1997. — 346 p.
The dramatic events of the final half-century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West are presented here as a history of two peoples seemingly destined never to understand each other. Utley interprets this conflict from a dual perspective: re-creating events from the Indian viewpoint while also providing an...
Ballantine Books, 1994. — 413 p. This book is about the great warrior and leader of his people, the Hunkpapa Sioux. At the end of his life he tried to defend his right to his own beliefs, and, as a result, was killed by idiots from his tribe.
Second Edition. — New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. — 370 p.
This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek. A classic work, it is now available with a new preface by the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 200 p. The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains - a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux’s historical territories that were sacred to him and his people. Robert...
New Word City, Inc., 2015. — 254 p. Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars - from the Native rebellion of 1492 to Crazy...
University of Manitoba Press, 2009. — 384 p. First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations women, causing a great gender...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. — 378 p. The creation story of the Sahniš, or Arikara, people begins with a terrible flood, sent by the Great Chief Above to renew the world. Many generations later, another devastating flood nearly destroyed the Arikaras when the newly built Garrison Dam swamped the fertile land of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Between the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 272 p. A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature: the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive with monsters. Whereas Western historical methods and interpretations relegate such beings to the realms of myth and fantasy, Mark van de Logt...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 368 p. Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American troops from disaster on the...
Edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna — University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 204 p. — (The Iroquoians and Their World). This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth...
BookBaby, 2022. — 212 p. The Native American Inhabitants of the Utah Territory have a long, eventful history and rich culture, from the ancient Fremont Indians to the historical tribes of Utes and Shoshones. This territory has been their homeland since before the 1100's. This book combines anthropological studies, federal records, and period newspapers to discuss the impact of...
Routledge, 2006. — 337 p. — (Warfare and History). — ISBN: 9-78-0-415-22471-0. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the ‘new military history’, Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812–1900 interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century. Fully...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 352 p. What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells America's story from a new perspective, chronicling the adventures of our forefathers and showing how...
Les éditions du Septentrion, 2002. — 296 p. He looks at the same events from three different perspectives - as empirical facts, in their legal interpretation, and as the subject of debates by historians. The result is an intriguing detective story with unexpected twists and surprising revelations. "The Last French and Indian War" sheds light on how, since the 1982 patriation of...
Pegasus Books, 2024. — 256 p. The first narrative history revealing the entire story of the development, operation, and harmful legacy of the Native American boarding schools—and how our nation still has much to resolve before we can fully heal. When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 282 p.
In "Indian Fights", J. W. Vaughn gives detailed accounts of the battles, careful descriptions of the battlefields, and interesting asides on the U.S. Army officers and soldiers serving in the West during and after the Civil War. Using a metal detector, Vaughn uncovered cartridge cases, bullets, and other debris marking battle...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1940. — xiv, 427 p. — (Occasional Contributions from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan; No 10). — ISBN: 978-1-949098-54-9. Here is the colorful story of the Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa tribes in the years before contact with the white man changed their centuries-old way of life. The book is based...
Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2015. — 262 p. De nos jours, on ne défend plus l’idée que les peuples autochtones conquis et colonisés étaient sans culture ou sans histoire, tout en reconnaissant néanmoins que leur histoire était obscure et leur univers culturel opaque pour les premiers voyageurs européens. Roland Viau écrit ici la rencontre entre l’Europe et l’Amerindia...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 378 p. — (Studies in North American Indian History). In the United States of America today, debates among, between, and within Indian nations continue to focus on how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. From the 1880s and into the 1930s, many Native people participated in similar debates as...
Crown Publishers, 1998. — 108 p. In a series of dramatic eyewitness vignettes, the story of the Battle of Little Bighorn is told from the Indian point of view. Assembled from the recollections of 12 Indian participants in the battle, the book is divided into 30 brief chapters that, together, create a compelling narrative of the battle and the events that preceded it. Dr. Herman...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. — 152 p. For decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos served as Code Talkers during World War II, but more often they learn that Native Americans were enemies of the United States, not allies or...
Introduction: David E. Wilkins — University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 112 p. The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth...
University of Ottawa Press, 2023. — 384 p. — (Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 182). In the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ontario. From east to west, these communities consisted of Ganneious, on Napanee or Hay Bay, on...
Portage & Main Press, 2017. — 240 p. In Indigenous Writes , Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. An advocate for Indigenous worldviews, the author discusses the fundamental issues - the terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law and treaties - along...
Pushkin Press, 2017. — 192 p. Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants. Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild West shows were performed to packed houses across the world, holding audiences spellbound with their grand re-enactments of tales from the American...
University of Texas Press, 2002. — 319 p. The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these key sources, Maria F. Wade has...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 504 p. The epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as "Princess Red Wing", St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre-Hollywood and early studio-system era in the...
2nd Edition — McFarland, 2015. — 352 p. The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In its second edition this biographical dictionary of all known participants - the 7th Cavalry, civilians and Indians--provides a brief description of the battle, as well as information on the various tribes, their customs and methods of...
McFarland & Co. Publishers, 2014. — 296 p. The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunning victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, it initiated a new and vigorous effort by the U.S. government to rid the west of marauding tribes and to realize the ideal of "Manifest Destiny"....
Caxton Printers, 1936. — 304 p. Life of Plenty Coups circa 1937 as seen through the eyes of white culture of that era. The book is based on the personal reminiscences of Ohio-born "Doc" Bill Allen, who came to Crow Indian country in Montana when these proud hunters and warriors were being forced into a restless and ambiguous life on a government run reservation.
ECW Press, 2023. — 352 p. The story of how Laurier Liberals took hold of the Department of Indian Affairs in 1896 and transformed it into a machine for expropriating Indigenous land. 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 70 square miles granted to them under...
Henry Holt and Co., 2019. — 300 p. In Deadly Aim, Sally M. Walker explores the extraordinary lives of Michigan’s Anishinaabe sharpshooters. These brave soldiers served with honor and heroism in the line of duty, despite enduring broken treaties, loss of tribal lands, and racism. Filled with fascinating archival photographs, maps, and diagrams, this book offers gripping firsthand...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. — 224 p. This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast -- Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. — 381 p. The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed...
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. — 214 p. Once called the "Fighting Colonel" of the Texas frontier, Ranald S. Mackenzie in the brief years of his career through the 1870s and early 1880s secured that land for the surging wave of settlers who turned the wilderness into a place of cattle ranches, productive farms, and prosperous towns. In this classic account of...
University of Arkansas Press, 2013. — 430 p. When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst of the American Civil War, squeezed between Union Kansas and Confederate Texas and Arkansas, they had no way to escape a conflict not of their choosing--and no alternative but to suffer its consequences. When the Wolf Came explores how the war in the Indian...
Madison and Adams Press, 2018. — 152 p. "The Indian War of 1864" describes events of the Colorado War, fought from 1863 to 1865 between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and white settlers and militia in the Colorado Territory and adjacent regions in Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The Kiowa and the Comanche played a minor role in actions that occurred in the southern part of the...
Scribner, 2018. — 304 p. The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: a fresh look at the aggressive expansionist Puritans in New England and the determined Narragansett Indians, who refused to back down and accept English authority over people and their land. A devout Puritan minister...
Basic Books, 2017. — 496 p. In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 384 p. Non-Indians have amassed extensive records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the era between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. But academia has largely ignored the stories of these leaders’ descendants - including accounts from the Shawnees’ own perspectives. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma focuses on the nineteenth-...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 315 p. In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier". Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754,...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 315 p. In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier". Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754,...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 315 p. In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier". Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754,...
Routledge, 2015. — 676 p. "The World of Indigenous North America" is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences, and gender studies, among...
University of Alabama Press, 2009. — 414 p. The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and destroying their culture horrified many and injured the young nation's...
University of Alabama Press, 2004. — 424 p. The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and destroying their culture horrified many and injured the young...
2nd edition — University of Alabama Press, 2017. — 304 p. "Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South", a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time - from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries - and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent the various...
Revised and Expanded Edition — University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 554 p. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan’s Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. In a series of provocative original essays, a dozen leading...
Fordham University Press, 2021. — 242 p. Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman...
Fordham University Press, 2021. — 242 p. Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman...
Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 2007. — 90 p.
"Payepot and His People" was first published serially by "The Western Producer". In 1957 it was published in book form by the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society. Abel Watetch was a nephew of Chief Payepot and a veteran of World War I. As noted in the introduction to the 1957 edition, Watetch had earlier...
Dundurn Press, 2017. — 400 p. Following a disastrous campaign in 1777, the alliance between the Six Nations and the British Crown became seriously strained. Relations were made even more difficult by the hands-off stance of Quebec’s governor, General Guy Carleton, which led to the Native leaders developing their own strategies and employing traditional tactics, leading to a...
Broadway Books, 2010. — 256 p. After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology,...
Broadway Books, 2010. — 256 p. After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and...
Ballantine Books, 1992. — 320 p. In Indian Givers , anthropologist Jack Weatherford revealed how the cultural, social, and political practices of the American Indians transformed the world. In Native Roots, Weatherford focuses on the vital role Indian civilizations have played in the making of the United States. Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the...
Routledge, 2014. — 256 p. Hilary Weaver has drawn together leading Native American social workers, researchers, and academics to provide current information on a variety of social issues related to Native American children, families, and reservations both in the USA and in Canada. Divided into four major sections, each containing an introduction, this book places the historical...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2001. — 330 p. A descendant of The American Indian Experience , this compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accessible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and original essays consider important topics: American Indian women;...
Westholme Publishing, 2016. — 564 p. In 1811, a portion of the Creek Indians who inhabited a vast area across Georgia, Alabama, and parts of Florida and Mississippi, interpreted an earth tremor as a sign that they had to return to their traditional way of life. What was an internal Indian dispute soon became engulfed in the greater War of 1812 to become perhaps the most...
University Alabama Press, 1989. — 216 p.
Florida's Seminole Indians are exerting an ever increasing influence on crucial issues in state politics, economy, and law. From a position of near obscurity less than a century ago, these Native Americans have staged a remarkable comeback to take an active hand in shaping Florida society, present and future. Anthropologists have long...
Pyramid Books, 1963. — 479 p. Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly,...
University of Regina Press, 2018. — 256 p. An essential contribution to Internet activism and a must read for Indigenous educators, A Digital Bundle frames digital technology as an important tool for self-determination and idea sharing, ultimately contributing to Indigenous resurgence and nation building. By defining Indigenous Knowledge online in terms of "digital bundles",...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. — 360 p.
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U. S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 232 p. C. A. Weslager's Delaware's Forgotten Folk chronicles the history of the Nanticoke Indians and the Cheswold Moors, from John Smith's first encounter with the Nanticokes along the Kuskakarawaok River in 1608, to the struggles faced by these uniquely multiracial communities amid the racial and social tensions of...
Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 232 p., illus. "By carefully searching old state records and antiquated sources, by utilizing all possible anthropological findings, and by making close ethnological investigation among the people themselves, [Weslager] has prepared a study of profound sociological significance. In a simple, straightforward style he...
University of Nebraska, 2008. — 228 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-8032-4795-6. The long-term significance of the household as a social and economic force—particularly in relation to authority positions or institutions—has remained relatively unexplored in North American archaeology. Households and Hegemony makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the role households played...
The Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 273 pp. — (The A to Z Guide Series, No. 40). — ISBN: 978-0-8108-6823-6. Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains. Although...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 397 p. This volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 397 p. This volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to...
The Kent State University Press, 2017. — 384 p. In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the border conflict called “Pontiac’s War.” Brokering a truce without violence and through negotiations, he ordered the Delawares and Shawnees to release all of their European and Colonial American...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. — 296 p. Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state's boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be understood without a closer examination of...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. — 296 p. Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state's boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be understood without a closer examination of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 260 p. Battles and massacres are intimate affairs for combatants and others involved, their physical and emotional violence often stemming from fervor and fear. Although mass killing characterizes both battles and massacres, the two are profoundly different. Battles take place between armed forces; massacres are one-sided events in which...
University of North Carolina Press, 2010. — 320 p. Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples--focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land--from initial...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 336 p. Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope , Rachel Wheeler explores the question of what...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 174 p. Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new edition is informed by best practices to show how oral history can be done in different contexts. The Indigenous Oral History Manual: Canada and the United States , the expanded second edition of The American Indian Oral...
Routledge, 2023. — 174 p. Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new edition is informed by best practices to show how oral history can be done in different contexts. The Indigenous Oral History Manual: Canada and the United States , the expanded second edition of The American Indian Oral History Manual...
Amazing Stories, 2005. — 128 p. The arrival of Europeans in the New World forever changed the fate of the Beothuk. As more settlers arrived, the Beothuk were forced inland. They were tracked, abducted, and even murdered. Their plight was epitomized by the tragic story of Shanawdithit - the last of the Beothuk. Barbara Whitby is a freelance writer living in Halifax. She...
With contributions by Jerry Keenan [and others] With a foreword by Merrill J. Mattes. — Boulder, Colo., Pruett Pub. Co., 1972. — xix, 231 p. Lonnie J. White From Bloodless to Bloody: The Third Colorado Cavalry and the Sand Creek Massacre Lonnie J. White The Battles of the Saline River and Prairie Dog Creek Lonnie J. White The Battle of Beecher Island Lonnie J. White Winter...
ABC-CLIO, 2006. — 184 p. The rich history of the Native American brims with agriculture, hunting, crafts, music, culinary arts, storytelling, religious culture, battle prowess, medicine, and mythology. It is also a history marked by bloodshed and battle, conquest, violence, religious conflict, disease, and starvation. American Indian Chronology guides the reader through the...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 576 p. — (Studies in North American Indian History). This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 576 p. — (Studies in North American Indian History). This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 370 p. Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture - especially dress - was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 370 p. Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture - especially dress - was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 370 p. Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture - especially dress - was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century...
The University of Alabama Press, 2008. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0817316159 Monacan Indians tell their own story in this title. The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large family. Records trace the Monacans of Virginia back to the late...
University of Iowa Press, 2009. — 266 p. At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. The earliest date to the 1680s, while the latest date to the Dakota uprising of 1862. Some were vast compounds housing hundreds of soldiers; others consisted of a few sheds built by a trader along a riverbank. Regardless of their size and...
University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 336 p. In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their people had signed with the British in...
Revised edition — Fire Ant Books, 2006. — 288 p. A bestselling, up-to-date evaluation of a legendary Indian leader. Named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. "Osceola's Legacy" is significant for its geneology and archaeological study of this Native American and his interaction with the federal government during the 1800s. The catalog of...
2nd Edition — University of Alabama Press, 1999. — 296 p. Patricia Riles Wickman offers a new paradigm for the interpretation of southeastern Native American and Spanish colonial history and a new way to view the development of the United States. In her compelling and controversial arguments, Wickman rejects the myths that erase Native Americans from Florida through the agency of...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xvi., 310 p., ills., maps. Snowshoe Country is an environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, closely examining indigenous and settler knowledge of snow, ice, and life in the cold. Indigenous communities in this region were more knowledgeable about the cold than European newcomers from temperate...
Michigan State University Press, 2013. — 360 p. On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan’s Fort Michilimackinac from the British. Ojibwe warriors from villages on Mackinac Island and along the Cheboygan River had surprised the unsuspecting garrison while playing a game of baggatiway. On the heels of the capture, Odawa from nearby L’Arbre Croche arrived to rescue British...
Penguin Canada, 2008. — 204 p. — (Extraordinary Canadians). Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear...
Penguin Canada, 2008. — 204 p. — (Extraordinary Canadians). Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear...
Coyote Texts, 2019. — 594 p. Tensions between white settlers and Native American tribes were at their height in the mid-nineteenth century. Frequently the two groups resorted to violence assert their rights to the lands. J. W. Wilbarger’s remarkable book Indian Depredations in Texas contains more than 250 separate narratives of attacks and counterattacks that occurred from the...
University of California Press, 2009. — 334 p. In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses the question, What if we attempted to explain their presence in contemporary...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 136 p. This study of the “Battle of the Rosebud” shows parallels between the army of 1876 and our army today. It briefly investigates the linkage of National Policy, political objectives, National Military Strategy, and the operational level of war. The army of 1876, like the army of today, experienced drastic downsizing. It had problems...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 544 p. Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural, religious, and economic changes....
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 560 p. The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn are taught far and wide, the...
Westholme Publishing, 2017. — 238 p. Known to history as "Dunmore’s War" the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty’s service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including...
Westholme Publishing, 2017. — 384 p. Known to history as “Dunmore’s War,” the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty’s service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 390 p.
During the American Revolution, the British enjoyed a unified alliance with their Native allies in the Great Lakes region of North America. By the War of 1812, however, that “chain of friendship” had devolved into smaller, more local alliances. To understand how and why this pivotal shift occurred, "Restoring the Chain of Friendship"...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 336 p. In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land. The eloquence of her letter was such that it made its way into Harper’s Weekly. Ten years later, as her people languished in confinement as a result of the Bannock War,...
Conestoga Books, 2018. — 134 p. First published in 1910, The White Indian Boy quickly became a western classic. Readers fascinated by real-life 'cowboys and Indians' thrilled to Nick Wilson’s frontier exploits, as he recounted running away to live with the Shoshone in his early teens, riding for the Pony Express, and helping settle Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This book are testament...
Grove Press, 1999. — 466 p. The Earth Shall Weep is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples. Combining traditional historical sources with new insights from ethnography, archaeology, Indian oral tradition, and years of his original research, James Wilson weaves a historical narrative that puts Native Americans at the center of their...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2021. — 350 p. Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader. Inspired by the example of her grandmother, who persevered throughout her life to keep alive the governing traditions of her people, and raised as the daughter of a hereditary chief and Indigenous leader, Wilson-Raybould always knew she would take on leadership roles and responsibilities....
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 280 p. In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 280 p. In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 210 p. In Producing Predators , Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their...
Revised ed. — Revisions prepared by Lucy Wales Kluckhohn. — Anchor books, 1966. — 416 p. A revision of Wissler's authoritative study, this volume traces the history of the American Indian from prehistoric times to the present. It gives a broad survey of the tribes and cultures of all the great Indian language families. Clark David Wissler (1870-1947) was noted American...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 372 p. Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove...
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 372 p. Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 456 p. An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. To be sure, Native North...
Brush Education, 2020. — 168 p. Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-government agreements with the federal government, Indigenous Nations still face many obstacles along the path to true self-determination. As a former Chief of...
Syracuse University Press, 2019. — 288 p. The League of the Iroquois, the most famous native government in North America, dominated intertribal diplomacy in the Northeast and influenced the course of American colonial history for nearly two centuries. The age and early development of the League, however, have long been in dispute. In this highly original book, two...
Paper delivered at the 61st Plains Conference, Fayetteville, October 23, 2003. — 5 p. The term “Shevitoon,” or some variant thereof, was applied to a group of Indians shown on maps of the Northern Plains in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Contemporary cartographic and narrative sources support the hypothesis that it alludes to the Suhtais, a once-independent...
Time-Life Books, 1994. — 192 p. History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.
University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 448 p. At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous...
University of Alabama Press, 2003. — 239 p. Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama. This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location,...
University of Nebraska Press, 1990. — 383 p. During Andrew Jackson's time the Creeks and Seminoles (Muscogulges) were the largest group of Indians living on the frontier. In Georgia, Alabama, and Florida they manifested a geographical and cultural, but not a political, cohesiveness. Ethnically and linguistically, they were highly diverse. This book is the first to locate them...
Mariner Books, 1992. — 424 p. When Columbus first landed in the New World there were about a hundred million Americans - a fifth of the human race. Most fell victim to imported epidemics, Christian fanaticism and sheer barbarity. Sophisticated worlds were sacked, great art destroyed, wealth stolen. But did all the New World people die, and so fast that they had nothing to say?...
Arcade, 2021. — 352 p. A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement - with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier! In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement - Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless - into a unique narrative to...
Arcade, 2021. — 352 p. A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement - with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier. In I Will , Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement - Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless - into a unique narrative to...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 336 p. On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of them women, children, and old men. The village was afflicted with smallpox. Worse, it was the wrong encampment. Intended as a retaliation...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 280 p. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people - the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 280 p. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people - the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. — 200 p. "We believe by blood only," said a Cherokee resident of Oklahoma, speaking to reporters in 2007 after voting in favor of the Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment limiting its membership. In an election that made headlines around the world, a majority of Cherokee voters chose to eject from their tribe the descendants of the...
Normanby Press, 2014. — 50 p. The American Indian policy, formulated at the turn of the 19th century, significantly impacted the national military strategy. President Jefferson’s plan for Indian removal became the cornerstone for federal policy. Congress would bear the responsibility for crafting the nation’s Indian policies, but the burden for execution was left to an...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 266 p. During the colonial period, thousands of North American native peoples traveled to Cuba independently as traders, diplomats, missionary candidates, immigrants, or refugees; others were forcibly transported as captives, slaves, indentured laborers, or prisoners of war. Over the half millennium after Spanish contact, Cuba also served as...
Annick Press, 2019. — 132 p. What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive....
University of British Columbia Press, 1986. — 189 p. Using the accounts of fur traders, explorers, officials, and missionaries, Colin Yerbury documents the profound changes that swept over the Athapaskan-speaking people of the Canadian subarctic following European contact. He challenges, with a rich variety of historical documents, the frequently articulated view that there is a...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 368 p. — (American Indian Lives). This book is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844 - 91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native women in American history. Born into a legendary family of Paiute leaders in western Nevada, Sarah dedicated much of her life to working for her people. She played an instrumental...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 256 p. The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century. But as Natale A. Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood first as home to a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. — 344 p. Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste - black people - and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin. This book tells how people of African heritage came to...
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2011. — 224 p. This new adaptation of Dee Brown's multi-million copy bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, is filled with photographs and maps to bring alive the tragic saga of Native Americans for middle grade readers. Focusing on the Sioux nation as representative of the entire Native American story, this meticulously researched account allows...
Foreword by Charles Wilkinson. — University of Washington Press, 2011. — 328 p. In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian...
Первые Американцы: Индейцы Америки — прошлое и настоящее. Альманах. — № 12. — СПб.: 2004. — 160 с. (часть материала "Апачи – спартанцы Нового Света", часть I-IV, Первые Американцы, № 11-12). Выходные данные неизвестны. "До десяти лет я думал, что люди умирают только насильственной смертью. Так было, потому что я - "апач". Это не строчка из приключенческого романа и не фраза...
Выходные данные неизвестны. Перевод Высоцкой Н. Из книги "Дайте мне стать свободным человеком", М.: 1984. — 208 с. Вождь Джозеф был одним из величайших военных лидеров североамериканских индейцев, несмотря на то, что призывал племена к миру с США. Книга рассказывает о событиях 1877 года, когда мирное племя индейцев неожиданно для белых поселенцев вышло на военную тропу и...
Хабаровск: Прогресс, 1984. — 388 с. Ди Браун, бывший библиотекарь и профессор библиотечного дела в Иллинойсском университете, создал поистине замечательную книгу, со страниц которой заговорила подлинная индейская история в ее самый трагический, жуткий момент, когда во второй половине XIX в. имел место так называемый "индиан ремувэл" — индейское перемещение — самая безжалостная...
Курск: историко-культурный центр «Индейцы Северной Америки», Курский государственный медицинский университет, 2002. — 419 с.
Предметом данной работы является история военного столкновения между промышленными людьми Российско-Американской компании (РАК) и индейцами, населявшими Северо-Западное побережье Северной Америки, которое представляет собой цепь событий, сыгравших в своей...
Курск: историко-культурный центр «Индейцы Северной Америки», Курский государственный медицинский университет, 2002. — 419 с.
Предметом данной работы является история военного столкновения между промышленными людьми Российско-Американской компании (РАК) и индейцами, населявшими Северо-Западное побережье Северной Америки, которое представляет собой цепь событий, сыгравших в своей...
М.: Прогресс, 1984. — 212 с илл. «Они любят ближних, как самих себя», — писал Христофор Колумб о туземцах, которых увидел в 1492 году на Карибских островах. «Они не владеют оружием,— продолжал он. — Их можно покорить с полсотней людей и заставить делать что угодно». У европейцев, отправившихся вслед за Колумбом в Новый Свет — сначала испанцев, а потом англичан,— сложилось такое...
М.: Прогресс, 1984. — 212 с илл. «Они любят ближних, как самих себя», — писал Христофор Колумб о туземцах, которых увидел в 1492 году на Карибских островах. «Они не владеют оружием,— продолжал он. — Их можно покорить с полсотней людей и заставить делать что угодно». У европейцев, отправившихся вслед за Колумбом в Новый Свет — сначала испанцев, а потом англичан,— сложилось такое...
Москва: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2022. Новая книга Питера Коззенса, автора бестселлеров о Гражданской войне в Америке, разворачивает перед читателями масштабную панораму Индейских войн на Великих равнинах и в Скалистых горах – череды самых долгих и ожесточенных битв в истории Америки. В результате яростных и кровопролитных сражений коренные жители страны были лишены своих земель....
СПб.: Крига, 2017. — 1034 с. — ISBN: 978-5-901805-71-8. Работа А. Кофмана "Под покровительством Сантьяго" - это первая книга на русском языке, воссоздающая историю испанского завоевания Америки. Эта книга пытается дать ответ на вопрос, как испанцы смогли в столь краткие сроки и столь малыми силами исследовать огромные территории двух материков и покорить высокоразвитые народы....
М.: Мысль, 1970. — 206 с. Иши - имя последнего представителя одного из исчезнувших индейских племен, живших на территории Калифорнии. Иши удалось уцелеть, и последние годы своей жизни он провел в мире цивилизации в тесном общении с крупными американскими учеными-этнографами А.Л. Кребером и Т.Т. Уотерменом. В этой книге рассказывается о жизни Иши в мире каменного века и в...
Перевод с английского Д.В. Розанова. Редакция перевода с английского, вступительная статья и комментарии Ю.П. Аверкиевой. — М.: Прогресс, 1974. — 96 с. В настоящей книге автор не ставит перед собой задачу рассказать обо всех важнейших проблемах, стоящих перед индейским народом, или дать исчерпывающий ответ на затронутые им вопросы. Он не рассматривает, например, борьбу туземной...
Перевод с английского Д.В. Розанова. Редакция перевода с английского, вступительная статья и комментарии Ю.П. Аверкиевой. — М.: Прогресс, 1974. — 96 с. В настоящей книге автор не ставит перед собой задачу рассказать обо всех важнейших проблемах, стоящих перед индейским народом, или дать исчерпывающий ответ на затронутые им вопросы. Он не рассматривает, например, борьбу туземной...
Выходные данные отсутствуют. Перевод с английского и примечания: В. Власов Великая война сиу стала возможно самым дорогим из всех конфликтов с индейцами. С февраля 1876 года по декабрь 1877 армия потеряла 283 человека убитыми (большая из которых погибла на Литтл Бигхорне) и 125 ранеными. Эти цифры касаются только солдат и офицеров и не включают в себя штатских служащих и...
М.: Эксмо, 2012. — 304 с. — (Военная история человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-699-58950-0. «Индеец превосходит нашего солдата во всех боевых качествах, за исключением дисциплины», – признавали многие американские офицеры, считая краснокожих лучшей кавалерией в мире. Чтобы победить их, регулярной армии США понадобилось более полувека. Почему боевые действия против «дикарей»...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2017. — 638 c. — ISBN: 978-5-699-94475-0. Эта книга – первая военная энциклопедия индейцев Дикого Запада, беспрецедентная по охвату материала, не имеющая аналогов не только в отечественной, но и в зарубежной литературе. Вооружение и тактика всех индейских племен, их представления о войне и подвиге, цели и мотивы боевых действий, военное искусство и воинские...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2017. — 638 c. — ISBN: 978-5-699-94475-0. Эта книга – первая военная энциклопедия индейцев Дикого Запада, беспрецедентная по охвату материала, не имеющая аналогов не только в отечественной, но и в зарубежной литературе. Вооружение и тактика всех индейских племен, их представления о войне и подвиге, цели и мотивы боевых действий, военное искусство и воинские...
Москва: Пятый Рим, 2018. — 223 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9500936-8-5. Исчерпывающий рассказ о жестоких и кровопролитных войнах армии США с индейцами Дикого Запада от ведущего российского специалиста по истории и культуре коренных американцев. Год за годом выпускники знаменитого Вест-Пойнта терпели поражения от «примитивных дикарей», изучавших искусство войны не за партами военной...
Выходные данные неизвестны. Черный Ястреб (1767-1838) или Макатемешекиакиак, вождь сауков, родился вблизи современного г. Рок-Айленд на северо-западе штата Иллинойс. С 15 лет прославился как воин. Когда в 1804 г. вожди сауков и фоксов продали США свои земли, лежавшие к востоку от Миссисипи, за вознаграждение в 1000 долларов ежегодно, Черный Ястреб оспорил этот договор на том...
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