 | The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence
Publication Date: July 19, 1990| ISBN-10: 0195065751 | ISBN-13: 978-0195065756| Edition: Fourth Impression An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians were able to maintain their nationhood by playing off the competing European powers; and how the American Revolution and westward expansion eventually caused Native Americans to lose their land...
 |  | The Names (Sun Tracks)
Publication Date: November 1, 1987| Series: Sun Tracks (Book 16) Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal.A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination.When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold."Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life. ...
|  | The Old American: A Novel (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity.Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars, The Old American is driven by its complex, vividly imagined title character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, ...
|  | Young Bass Reeves: The Life of the First Black Marshal west of the Mississippi (Revised Copy) (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 9, 2012Bass Reeves was born a slave, escaped captivity during the Civil War and became the first Black Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi. His years of service to the lawless Indian Territory helped write the history of Oklahoma.His honor and courage makes him eligible to be called the greatest lawman of his times. Bass Reeves story, based on true historical facts, will make any lover of the old west wonder why he is not more famous. ...
|  | The Last of the Mohicans (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: October 31, 1986| ISBN-10: 0684187116 | ISBN-13: 978-0684187112During the French and Indian War, adventure and tragedy befall two sisters as they travel through the wilderness near Lake Champlain trying to join their father, the British commander of Fort William Henry. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies)
Publication Date: February 15, 2000| Series: American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Book 22) The Din...
|  | The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets
Publication Date: October 4, 1999| Series: Mysteries & Horror Are you a full-blooded Indian? No, I'm a pint low today, just came from the blood bank. Do you speak your language? Yup, and yours too.With wry humor, gentle candor, and an eye for the telling detail, Jim Northrup invites readers to explore the world of today's Anishinaabe, or Ojibway, people. In disarmingly simple and direct language, he recalls key events of his own life: enduring childhood at a bleak government boarding school, facing enemy fire in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, becoming a grandfather and an almost-wise...
|  | A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate myth...
|  | Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology
Publication Date: July 27, 2000This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section on dogmas and icons, for instance, Leeming and Page discuss the American melting pot, the notion of manifest desti...
|  | Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Publication Date: September 17, 1998"A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal."—San Francisco ChronicleThis long-awaited anthology celebrates theexperience of Native American women and is atonce an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the mostcomprehensive anthology of its kind to collectpoetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from NativeAmerican women. Over eighty writers arerepresented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationall...
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