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  • - Northern Indian Removal
    af John P. Bowes
    298,95 - 408,95 kr.

    In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after removal, Bowes paints a more accurate--and complicated--picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history.

  • - The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934
    af Laurence M. Hauptman
    330,95 kr.

    The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, Laurence Hauptman traces Seneca history to the New Deal.

  • - Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
    af Louellyn White
    347,95 - 349,95 kr.

    In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

  • - American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934
    af John W. Troutman
    312,95 kr.

  • - Metis Family, Mobility, and History
     
    377,95 kr.

  • - Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World
    af Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
    342,95 kr.

  • - Perceptions of the Anaasazi, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
    af Robert S. McPherson
    342,95 kr.

    Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.

  • - Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health
     
    353,95 kr.

    Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems. This volume explores the meaning and importance of food sovereignty for Native peoples in the United States, and asks whether and how it might be achieved and sustained.

  • - Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History
    af Loretta Fowler
    463,95 kr.

  • - The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College
     
    472,95 kr.

    The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh's diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book.

  • - Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
    af William J Campbell
    347,95 kr.

    In Speculators in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, land speculation, and empire building that led up to the 1768 treaty of Fort Stanwix. His detailed study overturns common assumptions about the roles of the Iroquois and British on the eve of the American Revolution.

  • - The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place
    af Ian W. Record
    315,95 kr.

    Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society.

  • - Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650-1900
     
    408,95 kr.

    From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history, but their later experiences remain largely missing from history. From Huronia to Wendakes seeks to fill this gap.

  • - Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
    af Christina Gish Hill
    428,95 kr.

    Focuses on the people who lived alongside notable Cheyennes such as Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Little Chief, and Two Moons to reveal the central role of kinship in the Cheyennes' navigation of US colonial policy during removal and the early reservation period.

  • - My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice
    af Ada Deer
    237,95 - 287,95 kr.

    This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, "I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived."

  • - Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907
    af Julie L. Reed
    312,95 - 426,95 kr.

    Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy. The ethic of gadugi was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of such traditions in shaping the alternative social welfare system of the Cherokee Nation.

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