Seonee or Camp Life on the Satpura Range
by Robert Armitage Sterndale
The Further Account of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England
by Edward Reynolds
THE 2766th PROVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS FLIGHT WWII
by Clyde Nathaniel Morgan Sr. M.D.
The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900 (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History)
by Thomas Hungerford Holdich
An English geographer of great distinction, Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1843-1929) is best remembered as Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in British India. He served on a number of boundary commissions including the one on Afghanistan that settled the country's border with British India in 1884-6. He was also invited by the governments of Argentina and Chile in 1892 to define their boundary along the Andes Mountains. Holdich wrote and lectured extensively on geographical issues in the later...
Xweliqwiya (Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters)
by Rena Point Bolton
Xweliqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Sto:lo (or, asthey are now called, Xwelmexw) matriarch, artist, and craftswoman.Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chaptersrecount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser Riverduring the Depression. While at the time the Sto:lo, or Xwelmexw, asthey call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoidpersecution by the Canadian government, Point Bolton's mother andgrandmother schooled her in the...
She Who Wears Mocassins and Carries A Big Stick
by Candace Dawn Hill-Trevena
Life Among the Piutes (Vintage West) (Shelf2life Native American Studies Collection)
by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792-1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted him among their numbers. Despite outstanding service as an officer in the War of 1812, Annance was too Indigenous to be allowed to succeed in the far west fur trade, and too schooled in outsiders' wa...
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (Enriched Classics)
by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world - rodeo clown, painter, prisoner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever - and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own an...
The Life of Mary Jemison, the White Woman of the Genessee
by James E Seaver
Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big...
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback))
by Neal Salisbury and Mary Rowlandson
Dictionary of Indians of North America
by Frank H Gille and Harry Waldman
Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures of Captain Samuel Brady (1891)
by Blairsville Record