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American Indian: Celebrating the Traditions and Arts of Native Americans by Various Authors Publisher Comments The Native American story is a vibrant and living one, not a closed chapter of history as too many books make it seem. American Indian explores the rich history and cultural traditions of tribes and nations, while celebrating today’s vibrant and... (read more) Available September 4, 2012 Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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Grand Manan: A Large History of a Small Island (Art of Living) by Marc Shell Publisher Comments In a narrative that recalls Thoreau, Marc Shell starts from the cultural and natural history of the spectacularly beautiful island. Like a classical geographer, he explores how geology and biology blend with aesthetics and politics. Grand Manan has the... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $27.25 New - Hardcover
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Land and Spirit in Native America (Native America: Yesterday and Today) by Joy Porter Publisher Comments Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit have interlinked... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $59.50 New - Hardcover
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Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom by Thom Hatch Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Available July 17, 2012 Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The First Jews in North America: The Extraordinary Story of the Hart Family (1760-1860) by Denis Vaugeois Publisher Comments Filled with original documents and vintage illustrations, this history chronicles the lives of the Hart family—a Jewish family who settled in predominantly Catholic Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1761. Following Aaron Hart and his... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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Indigenous Nations and Modern States: The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power (Indigenous Peoples and Politics) by Rudolph C. R. Ser Publisher Comments Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $141.50 New - Hardcover
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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715 1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Jean-fran Ois-benjam Dumont De Montigny Publisher Comments In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials,... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe by Roger L. Welsch Publisher Comments When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welschs enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight Over Federal Indian Policy After the Civil War by C. Joseph Genetin-pilawa Publisher Comments Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $45.50 New - Hardcover
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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story by Tiya Miles Publisher Comments At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination by Laurie Arnold Publisher Comments Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized... (read more) Available September 1, 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire: Knowledge and Stewardship Among the Tlicho Dene (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) by Allice Legat Publisher Comments In the Dene worldview, relationships form the foundation of a distinct way of knowing. For the Tlicho Dene, indigenous peoples of Canada's Northwest Territories, as stories from the past unfold as experiences in the present, so unfolds a philosophy for... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Seekers and Travellers: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt Publisher Comments Featuring new works from 36 of the most acclaimed artists on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border--among them Susan Point, Robert Davidson, Isabel Rorick, Jay Simeon, Preston Singletary, and Dempsey Bob--Seekers and Travellers covers a range of media... (read more) Available September 1, 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made (Penguin History American Life) by Frederick Hoxie Publisher Comments A history of Indian political activism told through the inspiring stories of the men and women who defined and defended American Indian political identity In the newest volume of the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, Frederick E... (read more) Available October 25, 2012 Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day by Vine Deloria Jr Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization by Robert A. A. Williams Publisher Comments From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our... (read more) Available August 21, 2012 Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Buying America from the Indians: Johnson V. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights by Blake A. Watson Publisher Comments The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In the case, more than one Anglo-American purchaser claimed title to the same land in what is now southern... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians (Culture and Customs of Native Peoples in America) by Donna L. Akers Publisher Comments Endeavoring to replace stereotypical images with a more accurate understanding of Native Americans, Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians explores the traditional lives of the Choctaw people, their history and oppression by the dominant society, and... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $62.75 New - Hardcover
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Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree Publisher Comments Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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