Their intelligence and perception still rings true: Native American tribal leaders such as Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph share their wisdom from the ages.
Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670-1810
by Robert W. Patch
The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch's even-handed study of the repartimientode mercancIas - the commercial dealings between regional magistrates and the people under their jurisdiction - reveals the inner workings of colonialism in Central America. Indians were at the heart of the colonial economy. They made up...
Relation of the Troubles Which Have Happened in New England by Reason of the Indians There
by Increase Mather
Over the twentieth century, American Indians fought for their right to be both American and Indian. In an illuminating book, Paul C. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in both domestic and international contexts. Battles over the place of Indians in the fabric of American life took place on reservations, in wartime service, in cold war rhetoric, and in the courtroom. The Society of American Indians, founded in 1911, asserted that America needed Indian cultur...
Myths of Ancient Mexico (The Civilization of the American Indian, Vol 222)
by Michel Graulich
Most of our information on Mesoamerican religions comes from central Mexico, but the mythology of this area has been poorly understood. Myths of Ancient Mexico is the first comprehensive examination of these myths. In this innovative book, Michel Graulich summarizes the stories concerning the origin of the cosmos and the legendary histories of the Aztecs and their precursors, the Toltecs. The myths are compared with one another, then with similar material from other Mesoamerican cultures, partic...
Falls of the Ohio River (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen)
Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature: a series of low, cascading rapids along the Ohio River on the border of Kentucky and Indiana. Using the perspective of historical ecology and synthesizing data from recent excavations, contributors to this volume demonstrate how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years. These essays show how the Falls region was an attractive place to live due t...
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Historical Account of Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764
by Henry Bouquet
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada's contemporary "Indian" problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies, privatization, etc.) are woven through and shape contemporary racial inequality in Canadian society. Using recent controversies in drinking water contamination and solid waste and sewage pollution,...
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous students, and their interests are often left out of projects that otherwise purport to address diversity in higher education. Recently, Native scholars have started to reclaim research thro...
The Material Culture of the Klamath Lake and Modoc Indians of Northeastern California and Southern Oregon (1910)
by Samuel A Barrett
These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places: The Story Of The Stoney Indians
by Chief John Snow
The Ute tribes whose arts and culture are the focus of this handsome book are mountain people centred in Colorado with territory extending into New Mexico and Utah. The essays collected here are contributed by Ute cultural leaders and by other scholars. They reveal the richness of Ute material culture, heretofore almost unknown, in groundbreaking studies of Ute prehistory, history, world view, culture, and art. The book is illustrated with colour photographs of 139 historic artefacts and over 40...
This important book comprises two articles that appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. In ""Life of Apushimataha,"" Gideon Lincecum tells the story of Choctaw chief Pushmataha, who was born in Mississippi in 1764. A fearless warrior, his name literally means ""one whose tomahawk is fatal in war or hunting."" As a charismatic leader, his foresight in making an alliance with General Andrew Jackson brought the Choctaws into war with the Creek Na...
The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger
Tribes of the Southern Plains (American Indians (Time-Life))
by Burnett