著者:Jean M. O’Brien
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2010年05月10日
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivo……続きを見る
This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.
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出版社: The Kent State University Press
発売日: 2012年06月02日
New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest
Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by examining ……続きを見る
Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of India……続きを見る
著者:John W. Troutman
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2013年06月14日
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers……続きを見る
Here is a treasury of charming tales brimming with the humor, whimsy and imagination characteristic of Native American folklore. Specially chosen from children, the stories include an Algonquin tale……続きを見る
著者:Ronald Niezen
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2009年05月18日
In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence t……続きを見る
Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his……続きを見る
The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematicall……続きを見る
著者:Jane Katz
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年06月24日
"Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encourag……続きを見る
著者:Nick Jans
出版社: Turner Publishing Company
発売日: 2012年02月29日
From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare pe……続きを見る
著者:Harold P. Howard
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2012年11月15日
In the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 180……続きを見る
In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such……続きを見る
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For a long time the Indians had been disaffected, but no one was energetic enough among them to combine them in taking measures for their rights. Every time they had petitioned the Legislatu……続きを見る
On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across t……続きを見る
This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.
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Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education a……続きを見る
著者:Robert S. Grumet
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2011年12月03日
A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled s……続きを見る
Compassionate Woman is the biography of a woman of Lakota and Chippewa heritage who was the winner of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1991 for her work to save tribal languages that were becomi……続きを見る
著者:Robert F. Berkhofer
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年08月03日
Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true i……続きを見る
In 1867 Alaska was the newest part of the United States. This is a first look for the American people of the territory they purchased from Russia. A good description of the new land and peoples that……続きを見る
著者:Karl Jacoby
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年11月24日
A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history
In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and……続きを見る
"Tales of the Tom-Tom from the Land of the Sleeping Giant" by Hubert M. Limbrick (Wendigo) contains a set of Canadian native aboriginal Indian stories and legends from the Lakehead area (Thunderbay,……続きを見る
The inclusion of Mohawks and the Nile River in the same sentence seems a bit incongruous. American Indians in general and Mohawks in particular have remained relatively anonymous throughout contempo……続きを見る
著者:Ari Kelman
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2013年02月11日
On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines ……続きを見る
Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet
With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
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HISTORY OF THE SHAWANOE IND……続きを見る
Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past te……続きを見る
Ohiyesa, a Dakota Indian also known as Charles Alexander Eastman, is one of America's most fascinating and overlooked individuals. Born in Minnesota in 1858, he obtained postgraduate degrees and adv……続きを見る
The author spent four summers (1930–33) living and working among the Navajo, during which time she learned the principles of weaving. In this book she takes readers through the same process, introdu……続きを見る
著者:Royal B. Hassrick
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2012年11月28日
For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of……続きを見る