Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travelers, traders, and missionaries who encountered the Cherokees from the 16th century to the present. Among the stories told by these "voices" are those of Rebecca Neugin being carried as a child on the Trail of Tears; Mary Stapler Ross seeing her beautiful Rose Cottage burned to the ground during the C...
Indian Sketches (American Exploration & Travel S.)
by John Treat Irving
Remarks on the Practicability of Indian Reform, Embracing Their Colonization (1829)
by Isaac McCoy
Short-listed for the 2011 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing Josephine Mildred Curl Penny grew up in Labrador during the 1940s and 1950s. Like many Metis, she and her family lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving inside to the primitive settlement of Roaches Brook each fall to hunt and trap, and outside to Spotted Islands in the spring to harvest the rich fishing grounds. Sent away to hospital at age four, to boarding school when she was seven, and forced out to work at a...
Wisconsin's Carlisle Indian School Immortals (Native American Sports Heroes, #2)
by Tom Benjey
History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863 - Scholar's Choice Edition
by Isaac V D Heard
A Cheyenne Voice (The Civilization of the American Indian)
by John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty
Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people - much of it previously unavailable. A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882-1967). Recorded by Liberty...
Relation of the Troubles Which Have Happened in New England by Reason of the Indians There
by Increase Mather
Historical Account of Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764
by Henry Bouquet