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Kill the Indian, Save the Man
by Michelle Cliff  Publisher Comments For five consecutive generations, from roughly 18801980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill the...
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French Colonies in America (We the People: Exploration and Colonization)
by Mary Englar Synopsis - Maps - Timeline - Historic Sites - Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index - Relevant Web sites at www.FactHound.com - National Center for History in the Schools. National Standards for History. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the...
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Strangers in a Stolen Land
by Richard Carrico Publisher Comments The story of Indians in San Diego County from 1850 through the 1930s. This analysis provides a glimpse into the cultural history of the native peoples of the region, including the Kumeyaay (Ipai/Tipai), Luiseno, Cupeno, and Cahuilla....
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Cherokee Trail of Tears
by Duane King Synopsis In 1838, Federal troops imprisoned 13,000 Cherokees in preparation for their removal from their native lands in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). The removal of the Cherokees lasted two years and resulted in...
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Timeline of Native Americans
by Greg O'brien Publisher Comments - Presented chronologically, this volume presents a comprehensive history of Native Americans in a unique format featuring a running timeline linking key developments of the era at the bottom of each page. - Sioux. Cherokee. Mohawk. Navajo. Native...
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White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains
by Stan Hoig Publisher Comments White Man's Paper Trail presents a poignant history of the U.S. government's attempts to peacefully negotiate treaties with tribes in Missouri, Arkansas, the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Stan Hoig shows how treaty making, once...
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The Arapaho Language
by Andrew Cowell Publisher Comments The Arapaho Language is a comprehensive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language spoken primarily in Wyoming. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly interesting for the study of historical...
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Sacagawea: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)
by April R. Summitt Publisher Comments Sacagawea, kidnapped as an adolescent and sold as a slave to a French-Canadian fur trader, is best known for her role as interpreter and symbol of goodwill for Lewis and Clark on their journey west. Despite her pivotal role in this era of Manifest...
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Salish Myths and Legends: One People's Stories (Native Literatures of the Americas)
by M. Terry Thompson Publisher Comments The rich storytelling traditions of Salish-speaking peoples in the Pacific Northwest of North America are showcased in this anthology of story, legend, song, and oratory. From the Bitterroot Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, Salish-speaking communities...
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The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways, Edited and Illustrated
by George Bird Grinnell Synopsis This beautiful book takes George Bird Grinnell's classic work on the Cheyenne Indians and condenses it into 240 fully-illustrated pages of his most essential writings. Grinell was the long-time editor of Field & Stream magazine and helped to establish...
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Sovereign Acts
by Frances Negrn-muntaner Publisher Comments The tragicomedy of democracy bloodily imposed in Iraq and Afghanistan is a long-lived reality for Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Puerto Ricans, and ever-rising numbers of black and brown peoples recolonized through incarceration here. What hope for...
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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
by Colin G. Calloway Publisher Comments In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need...
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Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
by Kirstin C. Erickson Publisher Comments In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains howmembers of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines twointerconnected dimensions of...
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Spanish Colonies in America (We the People: Exploration and Colonization)
by Alexandra Synopsis - Maps - Timeline - Historic Sites - Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index - Relevant Web sites at www.FactHound.com - National Center for History in the Schools. National Standards for History. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the...
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Hopi
by Susanne Page Publisher Comments An exclusive insight into America's most traditional native tribe. For many centuries the Hopi people have preserved their traditional and very private way of life. But in 1974 Hopi elders, together with the Tribal Council, invited photographer Susanne...
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Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics
by Renate Eigenbrod Publisher Comments Selected from a conference on Aboriginal oral traditions, these essays cover three broad subject areas: oral traditions and knowledge of the environment, economy, education, and/or health of communities; oral traditions and the continuance of...
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Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
by Kirstin C. Erickson Publisher Comments In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains howmembers of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines twointerconnected dimensions of...
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Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence
by Gerald Vizenor Publisher Comments The concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articulated by the Anishinaabe critic and writer Gerald...
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Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie (Studies in the Anthropology of North AME)
by Thomas W. Kavanagh Publisher Comments In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter’s reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides...
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The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations
by Amy Lonetree Publisher Comments The first American national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC opened in 2004. It represents both the United States as a singular nation and the...
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