Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhen 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, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0195307542
- Language: English
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
$18.99 Add to cartIn striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn
- Author: Gunn Allen, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060730609
- Language: English
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The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
$18.00 Add to cart“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
In his first work of narrative nonf
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062937804
- Language: English
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Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History
$45.00 Add to cartNo matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you have never before seen those and myriad other historic … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Susan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0896726991
- Language: English
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What the Elders Have Taught Us: Alaska Native Ways
$14.99 Add to cartAs Alaska’s Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words
- Author: Corral, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0882409093
- Language: English
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Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
$34.95 Add to cartBorn to T’siyiak, a champion horse racer and Com-mus-ni, the daughter of Chief Wiy?iikt, Kamiakin helped relatives tend his family’s rapidly expanding herds. He wintered in tule mat lodges in the Kitt
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0874222974
- Language: English
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Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes
$29.99 Add to cartSpanning the last 500 years, this exceptionally detailed and well-researched guide focuses primarily on the ways North American Indians have used plants, trees, and shrubs for medicine, food, clothing… [more below]
- Author: Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 01 1989
- ISBN10: 048625951X
- Language: English
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Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
$22.95 Read moreIn the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author’s own voice-Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth brings to life the childhood years of a Michigan woman of both Native American and whi… [more below]
- Author: Keewaydinoquay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0472069209
- Language: English
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story–from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of t… [more below]
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019005669X
- Language: English
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native Ind
$20.99 Add to cartDiscover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American Heritage
The mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too l
- Author: Alive, History Brought
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312252
- Language: English
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Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life
$18.95 Add to cartA woman’s remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.
Daybreak Woman, also known as Jane Anderson Robertson, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1812 a
- Author: Carroll, Jane Lamm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341662
- Language: English
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No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin
$25.00 Add to cartA descendant of the Algonquins explores a rapidly disappearing world in which there is no word for time and life moves with the rhythms of nature -the world of the Algonquin Indians. One of the larges
- Author: Pritchard, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1937462013
- Language: English
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The Gospel of the Red Man: An Indian Bible an Indian Bible
$28.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the best books on Native Americans ever written. The author and compiler reveals how Indians once lived and what they believed in relation to spiritual principles. As we move further
- Author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: September 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1585095400
- Language: English
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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
$14.95 Add to cartSix Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield’s survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more t… [more below]
- Author: Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023160
- Language: English
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Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
$19.99 Read moreAstounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escape… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Drimmer, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486249018
- Language: English
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Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind
$17.99 Add to cart“[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”–American Scholar
“Momaday’s poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic.” — Library Journal (
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063218119
- Language: English
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Cherokee Mythology: Captivating Myths and Legends of a Native American Tribe
$22.99 Add to cartExplore Captivating Cherokee Myths
In Cherokee myth-as in other Indigenous American traditions-the whole of creation is alive and able to communicate like humans and with the human beings who share the
- Author: Clayton, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: November 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1953934072
- Language: English
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Capturing Education: Envisioning and Building the First Tribal Colleges
$12.95 Add to cartCapturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows their subsequent growth and development, especially in… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 193459413X
- Language: English
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Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
$27.95 Add to cartIn Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not … [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Wise, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262383
- Language: English
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Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat
$18.00 Add to cart“With careful attention to his book’s subtitle, Michno presents the most important surviving testimony of Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux participants in the 1876 Little Bighorn battle. He follows the virtu… [more below]
- Author: Michno, Gregory F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423494
- Language: English
