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Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation by George E. Tinker Publisher Comments Writing from a Native American perspective, theologian George Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the tradition-historic Christianity-that colonized and converted it. After five... (read more) List Price $13.60 Your price: $12.07 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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By the Dawn's Early Light by Daniel Kevin O' Brien Publisher Comments In the year of 1492, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the soil of "THE NEW WORLD," there were an approximated, though unconfirmed, six million Native Indians, of differing tribal cultures, and systems, spread all across what is now America... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child Publisher Comments Looks at the experiences of children at three off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the early years of the twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Last Algonquin by Theodore Kazimiroff Publisher Comments A document of the life of an extraordinary man, the last of his tribe, who lived in an untouched corner of New York City, as his ancestors had lived before him.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $15.40 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Looking at Totem Poles by Hilary Stewart Publisher Comments Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast. The powerful carvings of the vital and extraordinary beings such as Sea Bear, Thunderbird and Cedar Man... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Demography of the Dobe !Kung by Nancy Howell Publisher Comments First published in 1979, this is a classic study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Deselt of Botswana. Using methods that are simple and fully illustrated, the author presents empirical descriptions of the fertility, mortality, and... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Texas Indians by David La Vere Publisher Comments "Author David La Vere offers a complete chronological and cultural history of Texas Indians from twelve thousand years ago to the present day. He presents a unique view of their cultural history before and after European arrival, examining Indian... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Legends of American Indian Resistance by Edward J. Rielly Publisher Comments "This book describes the plight of Native Americans from the 17th through the 20th century as they struggled to maintain their land, culture, and lives, and the major Indian leaders who resisted the inevitable result"--... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $75.44 Google eBooks - Electronic
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White Man's Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community by Erica Prussing Publisher Comments In recent years, efforts to recognize and accommodate cultural diversity have gained some traction in the politics of US health care. But to date, anthropological perspectives have figured unevenly in efforts to define and address mental health problems.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $44.33 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal by Amy H. Sturgis Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Native American Issues by Paul C. Rosier Publisher Comments Discusses a variety of issues relevant to Native Americans, including treaty rights, land claims, gaming, sports mascots and images, and economics.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $48.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The First Americans Were Africans: Documented Evidence by David Imhotep Ph. D. Publisher Comments Cowboys and Indians?Not hardly. The Cowboys, actually, came on the scene very late. The First Americans, as seen on the cover of this book, will be thoroughly covered. The picture was taken by the crew of The HMS Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876 A.D. at... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $13.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas by Nicholas A. Robins Publisher Comments This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780--82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $28.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice by David Eugene Wilkins Publisher Comments "Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith," wrote... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Chemawa Indian Boarding School: The First One Hundred Years 1880 to 1980 by Sonciray Bonnell Publisher Comments This study presents interviews with American Indian/ Alaska Native alumni who received some or all of their elementary and high school education at the Chemawa Indian Boarding School in Salem, Oregon between 1917 and 1985. A brief summary of Indian... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $16.86 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Maasai of Matapato: A Study of Rituals of Rebellion by Paul Spencer Publisher Comments This study is the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organization to tensions within the family. The analysis is illustrated with extensive case material from the Matapato, selected for this study as a typical Maasai group.... (read more) Your price: $44.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Indians in American Society by Francis Paul Prucha Publisher Comments Describes the history of the policies of the American government toward the Indians and discusses how paternalism caused the Indians to become dependent on the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mystic Fiasco How the Indians Won the Pequot War by David R. Wagner Publisher Comments American histories have long held that in May 1637---"Connecticut's Birthday"---a small force of English colonists guided by Mohegan Native allies set out to break the back of Pequot dominion in New England. According to Alfred E. Cave's The Pequot War... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Words of the Huron by John Steckley Publisher Comments Words of the Huronis an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price: $39.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition by David J. Weber Publisher Comments This compact synthesis of David J. Weber’s prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America vividly tells the story of Spain’s three-hundred-year tenure on the continent. From the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain’s gradual retreat,... (read more) Your price: $20.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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