500 Nations
Title | 500 Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Alvin M. Josephy |
Publisher | Pimlico |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2005-02 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 9781844138265 |
This is the stirring, epic story of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited North America for more than 15,000 years and of their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans. It is a story of friendship, treachery, courage and war, beginning when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola among the Arawaks in 1492, and comes to a climax when the last groups of Sioux were moved onto a reservation following the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.We meet men and women, heroes and villains through their own words, their lives recreated from memory, memoir, and ancient documents: Massasoit, whose greeting to the Mayflower pilgrims - 'Welcome, Englishmen' - was given in their own language; Pocahontas, whose father's intervention on behalf of John Smith ironically changed the course of her life; Deganawida, known as the Peace Maker, whose Great Law laid the foundation for the confederacy among the five nations of the Iroquois, which in turn may have influenced the colonists' fledging efforts at confederation; Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet; Tecumseh, the charismatic Shawnee leader; Satanta, who led the Kiowa resistance; Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce; Cochise and Geronimo of the Apaches; Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse of the Sioux...Written by the celebrated historian Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., lavishly illustrated with nearly 500 paintings, woodcuts, drawings, photographs, and Indian artifacts, this thrilling and beautiful book shows us the many worlds of North America's Indians, as we have never seen them before.
100 Questions, 500 Nations
Title | 100 Questions, 500 Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Native American Journalists Assn |
Publisher | Read the Spirit Books |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781939880383 |
"This cultural competence guide answers 100 questions of American Indians. Stereotypes, biases and muths about Native Americans are widespread. This guide explains tribes and tribal sovereignty, Indian culture, reservations, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Native American history. [It] is published by the Native American Journalists Association as a Michigan State University School of Journalism guide to cultural competence." --P. [4] of cover.
Indian Nations of North America
Title | Indian Nations of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Anton Treuer |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 142620664X |
Categorized into eight geographical regions, this encyclopedic reference examines the history, beliefs, traditions, languages, and lifestyles of indigenous peoples of North America.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition)
Title | An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2023-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807013145 |
New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Algonquians of the East Coast
Title | Algonquians of the East Coast PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN |
In memory of Steven M. Claborn given by Tamela Claborn.
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Title | Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393867927 |
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
Native Americans
Title | Native Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dorris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
A collection of photographs that portray American Indians and Eskimos as they live today.