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"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened I i……続きを見る

Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History Association Winner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in t……続きを見る

Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for the……続きを見る

2011 Winner of the Hal K. Rothman Award for the Best Book on Western Environmental History 2010 Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize and the Caroline Bancroft Honor Prize 2009 Winner of the ……続きを見る

This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These ro……続きを見る

About one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the "American Bottom." This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, Americ……続きを見る

A tradition that dates back almost ten thousand years, basketry is an integral aspect of Cherokee culture. Cherokee Basketry describes the craft's forms, functions and methods and records the tradit……続きを見る

Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson. Both men have served as chiefs of their ……続きを見る

The Discovery of America tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States from the discovery of the New World to the first president of the united states. We have been taught that……続きを見る

The Discovery of America tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States from the discovery of the New World to the first president of the united states. We have been taught that……続きを見る

La vita e le imprese di Geronimo, l'ultimo grande guerriero Apache, vengono narrate da Richard J. Samuelson con straordinaria intensità. Quella di Geronimo è stata una parabola esistenziale leggenda……続きを見る

Montana from 1930 to 1960 was a very interesting time. The state had already been suffering economic depression for ten years when the Great Depression hit the nation. Montana suffered just as much ……続きを見る

Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape In Center Places and C……続きを見る

Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario through the experience of its inhabitants, especially those who took an active role in the preservation and wr……続きを見る

A stunningly vivid account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the Apaches’ decades-long struggle for their homelandーa vibrant saga of blood, power, family, and revenge from the renowned historian and ……続きを見る

The Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by th……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the gre……続きを見る

“This text reveals [Fontana’s] interaction with his [Tohono O’odham] neighbors and how geography and climate define life and culture in this piece of dry land. Fontana’s words introduce the reader t……続きを見る

Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache ……続きを見る

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million peo……続きを見る

A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee la……続きを見る

Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. A……続きを見る

“Gracefully written . . . thoroughly researched . . . America is a banquet prepared by the Indiansーwho were forgotten when it was time to give thanks at the table.”ーSt. Paul Pioneer-Express “Well ……続きを見る

Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives. Rich with storytelling, history, and folk……続きを見る

The Federalist Papers are a collection of eighty-five articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in favor of ratifying the United States Constitution. First appea……続きを見る

This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents and Index   CONTENTS     GENERAL INTRODUCTION     INTRODUCTION     T……続きを見る

"Chief Victorio of the Warm Springs Apache has recounted the turbulent life of his people between 1876 and 1886. This eyewitness account . . . recalls not only the hunger, pursuit, and strife of tho……続きを見る

For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoplesーand in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in……続きを見る

Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he……続きを見る

This book "H'aisla Legends" by Gordon Robinson of Kitamaat Village, B.C., was recorded into print for the first time in history from oral transmission through the ages. Gordon was a qualified school……続きを見る