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The Wrath of Cochise: The BASCOM Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
The Wrath of Cochise: The BASCOM Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
by Terry Mort
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In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. Though... (read more)

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A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends
A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends
by Lewis Spence
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Jon E. Lewis provides new material and commentary alongside Lewis Spences work from 1914. The chapters cover the history of Native Americans, their language and lifestyle, their culture and religion, and more.... (read more)

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A Gathering of Statesmen: Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826-1828
A Gathering of Statesmen: Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826-1828
by Peter Perkins Pitchlynn
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The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This book... (read more)

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American Indian Tribes of the Southwest (Men-At-Arms)
American Indian Tribes of the Southwest (Men-At-Arms)
by Michael G. Johnson
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This book continues Osprey's series of Men-at-Arms titles on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America, which is organized into geographical regions, language groups, and tribes. It was in the Southwest - modern... (read more)

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Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by Mishuana Goeman
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Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its... (read more)

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Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
by Edward E. Andrews
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As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert... (read more)

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Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe
Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe
by William E. Unrau
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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... (read more)

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The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi
The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi
by Clifford Canku
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In April 1863—after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history— some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a prison at Camp... (read more)

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Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialogues
Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialogues
by Lavonna L. Lovern
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This volume examines concepts of disability and wellness in Native American communities, prominently featuring the life's work of Dr. Carol Locust. Authors Locust and Lovern confront the difficulties of translating not only words but also entire concepts... (read more)

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McGill-Queen's Native and Northern #69: Women's Work, Women's Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern #69: Women's Work, Women's Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing
by Judy Thompson
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Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional culture of the Indigenous peoples of North... (read more)

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The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by Noelani Goodyear-ka'opua
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In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds... (read more)

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French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815
French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815
by Robert Englebert
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Robert Englebert is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Saskatch­ewan, Canada. Guillaume Teasdale teaches history at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.... (read more)

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Native American Placenames of the Southwest: A Handbook for Travelers
Native American Placenames of the Southwest: A Handbook for Travelers
by William Bright
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Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such well-known placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa originated? Native American placenames like these occur... (read more)

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Potlatch: Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast
Potlatch: Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast
by Mary Giraudo Beck
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Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages. In celebrations that often last many days, sumptuous meals are served... (read more)

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Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature (Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature (Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
by Beth H. Piatote
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Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home... (read more)

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The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by Noelani Goodyear-ka'opua
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In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds... (read more)

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The Story of the Blackfoot People: Nitsitapiisinni
The Story of the Blackfoot People: Nitsitapiisinni
by Blackfoot Gallery Committee
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Hopi Kachinas: History, Legends, and Art
Hopi Kachinas: History, Legends, and Art
by Ron Pecina
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