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  • The Last Cherokee Warriors

    by Philip Steele ...
    A history of two Cherokee men and the personal hardships they faced against the US government in the nineteenth century.The expanding American frontier in the late 1800s created a battleground on which white and Indian cultures inevitably clashed. Slowly and inexorably the Native Americans were pushed from their land and stripped of their birthright.This engrossing volume documents the lives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Indians of Quetico

    Series series Heritage
    A fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game, trees, and plants for their food, their clothing, and their dwellings, and they realized that it was in their best interest to protect these things, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

    Series series Heritage
    This book describes in word and illustration the results of an exciting quest on the part of its authors to discover and record Indian rock paintings of Northern Ontario and Minnesota. Numerous drawings were made from these pictographs at a hundred different sites; the originals range in age from four to five hundred years to a thousand, and were done with the simplest materials: fingers for ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian Cultures, 1504-1700

    A Study in Canadian Civilization, Second Edition

    Series series Heritage
    The movement of one cultural group into the territory of another has always produced conflict: a conflict which is resolved at times by the obliteration of one group, but more often by a gradual fusion of elements drawn from both. This study examines the conflict between the Europeans and the Indians precipitated by the arrival of the French in the New World. The Indians were necessarily affected ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Image of the Indian

    The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national magazines, and to suggest attitudes and changes in attitudes during these seven decades.It is hoped that this endeavor will not only ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Indians of Canada

    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political organization, social life, religion, folklore and traditions, and drama, music, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Ohlone Way

    Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

    Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” This land of “inexpressible fertility,” as one early explorer described it, supported one of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ohlone Way

    Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

    A look at what Native American life was like in the Bay Area before the arrival of Europeans.Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strangers in Blood

    Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country

    The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Economic Analysis of Provincial Land Use Policies in Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply and Price of Serviced Residential Land and the province's Green Paper on Planning for ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Daily Life of Indians of the Americas

    Edited by Frank Gille ...
    DICTIONARY OF DAILY LIFE OF INDIAN OF THE AMERICAS contains information on the customs, ways, ceremonies, tribal languages, cultural characteristics, weapons, food, drink, clothing, myths, legends, and many, many more articles. From the Aleuts of the Arctic region to Onas in southern Argentina and Chile, this is a contemporary work and its intention is to bring modern day insights to the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The European and the Indian

    Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

    by James Axtell ...
    Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The New Peoples

    Being and Becoming Métis

    Series Book 1 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    Leading Canadian and American scholars explore the dimension and meaning of the intermingling of European and Native American peoples. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Quest for Justice

    Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights

    Edited by Menno Boldt, J. Anthony Long ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors’ earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination. It contains some twenty-three papers from representatives of the aboriginal people’s organizations, of governments, and of a variety of academic disciplines, along with introductions and an epilogue by the editors and appendices of the key ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Navajo Trader

    Gladwell "Toney" Richardson came from a long line of Indian traders and published nearly three hundred western novels under pseudonyms like "Maurice Kildare." His forty years of managing trading posts on the Navajo Reservation are now recalled in this colorful memoir. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The View from Officers' Row

    Army Perceptions of Western Indians

    A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCapturing military men in contemplation rather than combat, Sherry L. Smith reveals American army officers' views about the Indians against whom they fought in the last half of the nineteenth century. She demonstrates that these officers—and their wives—did not share a monolithic, negative view of their enemies, but instead often developed a great respect for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Plains Cree

    Trade, Diplomacy, and War, 1790 to 1870

    Series Book 4 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between 1790 and 1870.Milloy describes three distinct eras, each characterized by a paramount motive for war—the wars of migration and territory, the horse wars during the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Betrayals

    Fort William Henry and the "Massacre"

    by Ian K. Steele ...
    On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward some miles south, they were set upon by the Indian allies of the French. The resulting "massacre," ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Hudson Bay Watershed

    A Photographic Memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree

    by John Macfie ...
    At the midpoint of the twentieth century, the First Nations people of Ontario’s underdeveloped hinterland lived primarily from the land. They congregated in summer in defined communities but in early autumn dispersed to winter camps to hunt, fish, and trap. Increasingly, however, they found they had to adapt to a different way of life, one closer to the Canadian mainstream. While lifestyles and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World

    The Conquest of the New World

    For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Geronimo Campaign

    by Odie B. Faulk ...
    The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil War. The words addressed by Gatewood to Geronimo as they met along the banks of Mexico's Bavispe River echoed those spoken in many such a meeting ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Voices From the Odeyak

    On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across the Manhattan seascape, was a strange small vessel build in the dark Arctic winter to carry a message from two First Nations of the northern wilderness to a reclaiming of Times Square for Mother Earth ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aboriginal Ontario

    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Frontier in American Culture

    Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American ... Read more

    $27.99 USD