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  • The Log of a Cowboy

    A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

    by Andy Adams ...
    A true-to-life narrative of the escapades and challenges of the frontier’s legendary event: the cowboy cattle drive.The Log of a Cowboy brings to life an important, yet short-lived, piece of the American Old West. It’s here that the cowboy earned his reputation and admiration, and it’s through protagonist Tommy Moore that we learn of some of the challenges of the legendary cattle drive. Run-ins ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Voices of the Elders

    Huu-ay-aht Histories and Legends

    Series series Amazing Stories
    There is a special place on the southeastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rocky cliffs fronting onto the wild Pacific Ocean, sheltered beaches, lakes, mountains and forests. Since the beginning of time, it has been the ancestral home of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation.Drawing directly from oral history passed down by generations of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Manoomin

    The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan

    This is the first book of its kind to bring forward the rich tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek people who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan focuses on the history, culture, biology, economics, and spirituality surrounding this sacred plant. The story travels through time from the days before European colonization and winds its way ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • All Our Relations

    Native Struggles for Land and Life

    by Winona LaDuke ...
    How Native American history can guide us today: “Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.” —Whole EarthWritten by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among “America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty” by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rainy Lake House

    Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier

    “Focuses on three men from vastly different backgrounds and serves as a vehicle for exploring the rigors of the fur trade . . . lyrical and transcendent.” —American Historical ReviewIn September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives

    The wife of a minister in a small frontier town west of Boston, Mary Rowlandson was forced to leave her house in the late winter of 1676 after marauding Indians set the building on fire. "I had often before this said," she later wrote, "that if the Indians should come, I should chuse rather to be killed by them than taken alive but when it came to the tryal my mind changed; their glittering ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dammed

    The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory

    by Brittany Luby ...
    Series Book 21 - Critical Studies in Native History
    Dammed explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River.Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians

    by George Catlin ...
    Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North American Indians is a two-volume travel narrative by George Catlin, an American painter, author, and traveler.The book, published in 1842 in London, was written during eight years of travel from 1832 to 1839. The book is divided into letters written by Catlin, rather than chapters, with some letters containing information about the same ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riding With Cochise

    The Apache Story of America's Longest War

    by Steve Price ...
    Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes the reader deep ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Diario pellerossa

    L'eredità spirituale degli Indiani d'America

    La spiritualità dei Nativi Americani è una spiritualità in cui gli elementi e le forze della natura si rivelano preponderanti. Il vento e le nuvole non rappresentano semplicemente degli eventi atmosferici, bensì sono carichi di un significato che va oltre la materialità. La vita dei Nativi poggia su solide fondamenta spirituali, su una natura che induce a onorare, in maniera spontanea, la ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Women and French Men

    Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes

    Series series Native Americans of the Northeast
    A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the colonial period, the Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples. In this well-researched study, Susan Sleeper-Smith focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions—the role played by Indian women who married French traders.Drawing on a broad range of primary and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Que no te la cuenten

    Que no te la cuenten, #1

    Series Book 1 - Que no te la cuenten
    Por varias generaciones hemos sido educados en falsedades históricas, ya que siempre fue verdad aquella frase de Orwell que decía: “quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro”.Dichas falsificaciones, como la gota que horada la piedra, han ido poco a poco planteando interrogantes más allá del estudio pretérito, llegando incluso a hacernos dudar en cuestiones de Fe.“¿Cuestiones de Fe?” – dirá ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Land As God Made It

    Jamestown and the Birth of America

    by James Horn ...
    The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American historyAlthough it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous settlers have been overshadowed ever since by the pilgrims of Plymouth. But as historian James Horn ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Complexion of Empire in Natchez

    Race and Slavery in the Mississippi Borderlands

    Series Book 23 - Early American Places Ser.
    In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how bound labor contributed to the establishment and subsequent control of imperial outposts in colonial North America. He examines the dynamic and multifaceted development of slavery in the colonial South and reconstructs the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • 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 Dreadful River Cave: Chief Black Elk's Story (1920)

    This book is a thrilling Indian story written by a famous old-time frontiersman James Willard Schultz (1859 to 1947). Schultz was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the Blackfoot Indians. While operating a fur trading post at Carroll, Montana and living amongst the Pikuni tribe during the period 1880-82, he was given the name "Apikuni" by the Pikuni ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Seminoles

    History of a Freedom-Seeking People

    This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom.Beginning with the early 1800s, small groups of fugitive slaves living in Florida joined the Seminole Indians (an association that thrived for decades on reciprocal respect and affection). Kenneth Porter traces their fortunes and exploits as they ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ties That Bind

    The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

    by Tiya Miles ...
    Series series American Crossroads
    This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • No Useless Mouth

    Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution

    "Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American ... Read more

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  • All That We Say is Ours

    Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation

    by Ian Gill ...
    Haida Gwaii, the ancient territory of the Haida people, is a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty and rich species diversity. But that natural bounty, since European contact, has also been a magnet for industry. In the mid-1970s, the Haida rallied with environmentalists to end the rapacious logging of their monumental old-growth forests—and to reassert their title and rights to their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cahokia

    Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

    The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. LouisWhile Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)

    History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo

    "Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo. Contents: History: The North American Indian The Cherokee Nation of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

    WINNER • 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYFinalist • National Book Award for NonfictionBest Books of the Year • TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Kirkus ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America.In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Clay We Are Made Of

    Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River

    by Susan M. Hill ...
    Series Book 20 - Critical Studies in Native History
    If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity.In The Clay We Are Made Of, Susan M. Hill presents a revolutionary retelling of the history of the Grand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD