Native American Books

ISBN: 080328277X, 9780803282773
Authors: Bunny Mcbride,
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: dawn, women
Pages: 152
Published: 2001-09-01
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 12.95 USD
  • Rating: 80%


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 ......
ISBN: 0766197190, 9780766197190
Authors: Cyrus Townsend Brady,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, Llc
Keywords: fighters, fights, northwestern
Pages: 412
Published: 2005-06-23
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 34.95 USD
  • Rating: 60%


1923. Illustrated with original drawings, maps and photographs. From the Preface: In response to a request for contributions from participants in the Modoc and Nez Perce wars, numerous papers were submitted, all of such high value, not only from an h......
ISBN: 0806131322, 9780806131320
Authors: Francis La Flesche,
Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: civilization, american, indian, flesche, francis, invisible, world, works, osage
Pages: 344
Published: 1999-03-15
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 24.95 USD
  • Rating: 100%


Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the religion of the Osage Indians, all gathered from the most knowledgeable Osage religious leaders o......
ISBN: 091729842X, 9780917298424
Authors: Charles Rankin,
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
Keywords: little, bighorn, battle, perspectives, new, legacy
Pages: 334
Published: 1996
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 19.95 USD

In this collection of essays from the 1994 Little Bighorn Legacy Symposium, an astounding array of scholars discuss the battle's context, historical significance, and cultural impact from both white and Native American perspectives. Organized ......
ISBN: 0773530061, 9780773530065
Authors: Anthony J. Hall,
Publisher: Carleton University Press
Keywords: one, mcgill, queen, native, northern, part, spoon, fourth, world, bowl, american, empire
Pages: 736
Published: 2005-07
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 29.95 USD
  • Rating: 60%


In The American Empire and the Fourth World Anthony Hall presents a sweeping analysis of encounters between indigenous people and the European empires, national governments, and global corporations on the moving frontiers of globalization since Colum......
ISBN: 0803280270, 9780803280274
Authors: Robert H. Lowie, phenocia Bauerle,
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: second, indians, crow
Pages: 350
Published: 2004-05-01
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 18.95 USD
  • Rating: 60%


First published in 1935, The Crow Indians offers a concise and accessible introduction to the nineteenth-century world of the Crow Indians. Drawing on interviews with Crow elders in the early twentieth century, Robert H. Lowie showcases m......
ISBN: 0826320902, 9780826320902
Authors: Thomas A. Britten,
Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
Keywords: war, home, world, indians, american
Pages: 264
Published: 1998-12-01
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 22.95 USD
  • Rating: 60%


During World War I, about 10,000 Native Americans either enlisted or were drafted into the American Expeditionary Force. Three related questions are examined in depth for the first time in this book: What were the battlefield experiences of Native......
ISBN: 0892365870, 9780892365876
Authors: E. Tolles, edna Kimbro, frederick A. Webster, william
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
Keywords: seismic, adobe, reports, gci, scientific, project, program, report, stabilization, historic, structures, final, getty
Pages: 176
Published: 2000-11-30
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 45.00 USD
  • Rating: 100%


This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings used to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adobe structures. Part of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (GSAP),......
ISBN: 0295976403, 9780295976402
Authors: Walter Rochs Goldschmidt, theodore H. Haas, thomas F
Publisher: University Of Washington Press
Keywords: land, rights, haida, tlingit, haa, aani
Pages: 260
Published: 1999-03
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 60.00 USD

In the early 1940s, a boom in white migration to Southeast Alaska brought questions of land and resource rights to courts of law, where neither precedence nor evidence was sufficient to settle claims. In 1946, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs assig......
ISBN: 0803289812, 9780803289819
Authors: Mr. Robin Ridington Phd, dennis Hastings (in'aska),
Publisher: University Of Nebraska Press
Keywords: omaha, tribe, pole, sacred, time, blessing
Pages: 259
Published: 2000-04-01
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 18.00 USD
  • Rating: 80%


Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological texts (particularly Fletcher and La Flesche’s ......
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