Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

Book SynopsisThe traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent - a 'virgin land' in which Native Americans were assigned the role of foil whose contribution was to stimulate the energy of European dispossessors. This book recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion.Trade Review"The Invasion of America launched the first major salvo against the provincialism of early American historiography, and the book's urgency, insights, and trenchant critiques endure. Jennings shook the foundations of American historical inquiry to its core, exposing the centrality of settler colonialism in the making of New England. Generations remain indebted to his bold and relentless claims." - Ned Blackhawk, Yale University"

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Book SynopsisThousands of schoolchildren have read the adventures of Dickon, the English boy who was rescued from a shipwreck by the Lenape Indians, told in The Indians of New Jersey by M.R. Harrington. Now they and others can follow Dickon's further adventures in The Iroquois Trail.Trade ReviewThis exciting adventure story incorporates [Harrington's] vast knowledge of Indian life, lore, and crafts. * New Jersey Education Association Review *Young readers are sure to enjoy the fascinating illustrations. * The Home News *Table of ContentsJamestown and Pocahontas Turtle-Town and White-Deer The Girl with Short Hair Many-Tongues and the Iroquois Trail I Play Doctor A Goblin Enemy A Messenger of Shame Gathering Clouds I Defy Tadoda'ho Masked Healers The Lost Is Found The Great Chief's Revenge Iroquois Language

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Book SynopsisUsing a combination of archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory, this book traces the rise of one Indian group, the Chicacoans. By presenting a case study of the Chicacoans from AD 200 to the early 17th century, Potter offers readers a window onto the development of Algonquian culture.

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the culture of the pre-colonial West African state of Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and European imperialism. Tracing 200 years of history up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in the monarchy and the palace.

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Book SynopsisLooking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.Trade ReviewHudson, calling herself a 'knowledgeable layman,' accompanied her anthropologist husband, Charles, on a six-week trip in 1984 to locate Hernando De Soto's route through the United States in 1540. This book is Hudson's daily journal of their travels: how they worked out De Soto's route using four contemporary yet conflicting chronicles and current archaeological research. Until more aboriginal sites are excavated, the exact De Soto trail remains hypothesis; theirs is a more credible route than John R. Swanton's Final Report of the U.S. De Soto Expedition Commission. The book was published as Hudson wrote it; updated segments of the route appear only in the epilog. This is a fine, nontechnical snapshot of an investigation-in-progress.|A warmly humane travel story about rural and small-town life from Florida to Texas. Descriptions of the region's ever changing terrain, vegetation, and climate fill the book, along with troubled musings about Americans' increasing disconnection from the land and lack of reverence for the past. Conveying the rewards and frustrations of lives spent in painstaking scholarly inquiry, Looking for De Soto also offers a firsthand glimpse into the daily work of anthropologists and archaeologists: the exchanges of ideas, the ventures through swamps and down deeply rutted farm roads, the endless poring over maps, charts, and notes. As if writing a detective story, Hudson suspensefully paces the narrative with the accrual of geographical, artifactual, and documentary evidence, punctuating it with false leads and other setbacks as mile after mile of the trail is redrawn.

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Book SynopsisA beleaguered indigenous population came to the attention of the world in 1997 by threatening mass suicide in a last-ditch attempt to protect their ancestral lands--overlying possible oil deposits. Osborn's pioneering study of the U'wa is now available in English for the first time.

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Book SynopsisBecause colonialism entailed controlling how history is told, native and non-native scholars have tended to write parallel histories without examining points of intersection. This book examines the intersection, overlapping, and conflict between the scholar's past and the native present in New England.Trade Review"Calloway, Salisbury, and the many other scholars that contributed to the creation of Reinterpreting New England Indians have provided an excellent collection of essays that address a variety of Native American topics, which any historian should find useful. American Indian scholars themselves will find the collection particularly intriguing, considering its breadth of analysis, exploration, objectivity, and willingness to approach a classic problem with new eyes." - American Indian Quarterly"

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Book SynopsisThe book the AIM leadership does not want you to read!For the first time, the true history of AIM is revealed through the eyes of an FBI Agent who was there. And for the first time, the AIM leadership''s dirty little secrets are exposed, unlike in any other history book. In fact, this book exposes the history books. It is time to set the record straight for the benefit of all Native Americans. Although much has been written about the tragic events at Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge, Joe Trimbach''s book appears to be the first definitive report of the courageous efforts of federal law enforcement (FBI, U.S. Marshals and BIA), often at great personal risk, to restore order to the Native Americans living in the midst of violence and intimidation. Mafia is well documented and presents an important contribution to our understanding of what actually happened. -Judge William H. Webster, former Director, FBI, former Director, CIA As a longtime journalist, author, and Oglala Lakota born, raised and educated on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, I have been appalled at the many books, movies, and documentaries about Wounded Knee II and about Leonard Peltier that are so filled with myths, misconceptions and outright lies. Trimbach takes apart Matthiessen''s In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, movies like Thunderheart, Lakota Woman, and A Tattoo on My Heart - The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973, and exposes them for the frauds that they are. It is refreshing to finally hear the other side of the story. -Tim Giago, former editor and publisher of Indian Country Today, author and nationally syndicated columnist A gripping, no-holds barred account of what really happened at Wounded Knee-one of the bloodiest and most controversial chapters in the long proud history of the FBI. Joe Trimbach is a myth-breaker; his carefully compiled chronology is a must-read for all Americans who seek truth behind the headlines. -Oliver North, Lt Col USMC (Ret.) It''s an ugly dark feeling realizing you were lied to. For many years I supported clemency for Leonard Peltier, and towed the line for leadership of the American Indian Movement. The facts, the anger, and the blame Mafia puts on AIM, on its sympathizers, and even on the institution Trimbach once worked for, is from a law-enforcement perspective, and is revealing. See clearly through the foggy AIM alibis, the false cry of civil rights. From a tiny element of Native America we once looked up to, the people''s Movement was hijacked by false warriors, murderers, and liars. Whether you support the FBI or thought of it as your enemy, Mafia is a must-read for understanding the other side of the DMZ, established at Wounded Knee ''73. -Paul DeMain (Oneida-Ojibwe), Editor, News From Indian Country

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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