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This unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Protestant mission and house of worship in the upper Midwest took ……続きを見る

Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Tex……続きを見る

In the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882–1966). With Jacobson’s ……続きを見る

For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cradles are both practical and symbolic, and many of ……続きを見る

"Half a dozen Indians sprung upon me, some holding down my arms, others my legs, another astride my body with his hand upon my throat." Only Nelson Lee and three of his cowboy companions survived th……続きを見る

Born into slavery in 1798, James P. Beckwourth would go on to become one of the most remarkable mountain men to have ever lived. In 1824 Beckwourth left Missouri to head to the Rocky Mountains to wo……続きを見る

A glimpse into the decline of one of Oregon's now forgotten tribes. This book takes a look specifically at the period between 1845-1857 in the lives of the Takelma Tribe of the Rogue River Valley, O……続きを見る

Joseph Alexander Altsheler's 'The Young Trailers Series' is a collection of historical fiction novels set during the early days of the American frontier. Known for his meticulous research and vivid ……続きを見る

In 'The Wars of Chief Sitting Bull' by James P. Boyd, readers are offered a meticulously researched account of the conflicts Chief Sitting Bull faced during his leadership. Boyd expertly intertwines……続きを見る

Klee Wyck is Canadian artist Emily Carr's memoir. Through short sketches, the artist tells of her experiences among First Nations people and cultures on British Columbia's west coast. The book won t……続きを見る

The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interio……続きを見る

Big Medicine from Six Nations is a series of reminiscences and essays by the late Ted Williams, on the themes of "Medicine" (physical/spiritual/psychic healing). Williams intertwines the lore and li……続きを見る

L'epopea della conquista del Nuovo Mondo nel racconto dell'unico conquistador che non conquistò mai nulla, ma che visse quasi dieci anni in balia degli Indios, attraversando a piedi da costa a costa……続きを見る

This "meticulous and finely researched" biography tracks the Apache raider's life from infamous renegade to permanent prisoner of war ( Publishers Weekly). Notorious for his ferocity in battle and u……続きを見る

**Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book Prize Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers……続きを見る

For too many years, the academic discipline of history has ignored American Indians or lacked the kind of open-minded thinking necessary to truly understand them. Most historians remain oriented tow……続きを見る

The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created wild theories about who the mysterious "mound buil……続きを見る

“Throughout our Cherokee history,” writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, “our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are.” These traditional st……続きを見る

In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This include……続きを見る

In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Natio……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius……続きを見る

“All those interested in Indigenous food systems, sovereignty issues, or environment, and their path toward recovery should read this powerful book.” ーKathie L. Beebe, American Indian Quarterly Cen……続きを見る

Between the English Civil War of 1642 and the American Revolution, countless British missionaries announced their intention to "spread the gospel" among the native North American population. Despite……続きを見る

This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of ……続きを見る

This eagerly anticipated follow-up to the breakout memoir How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century delves more deeply into the themes of family, community, grief, and the struggle to make a place in ……続きを見る

A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina i……続きを見る

American Indians have been at the center of Mormon doctrine from its very beginnings, recast as among the Children of Israel and thereby destined to play a central role in the earthly triumph of the……続きを見る

Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shann……続きを見る

The peaceable Pueblo Indians seemed an unlikely people to rise emphatically and successfully against the Spanish Empire--the only time Native Americans overthrew colonialization for any length of ti……続きを見る

Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arri……続きを見る