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"This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America," an epoch that supposedly laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hamalainen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century. From the Iroquois and...
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Prior to the onslaught of the Europeans, the Puget Sound Native Americans who lived there enjoyed a bounty of seafood, waterfowl, and berries, which they expertly collected and preserved. Detailing the associated culture, technologies, and techniques, Vine Deloria Jr. explains in depth this veritable paradise and its ultimate demise.
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1999]
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In Let Me Be Free, David Lavender tells the tragic story of the Nez Perce struggle against annihilation. Encroaching settlers and violent disputes resulted in the Nez Perce War of 1877, a desperate attempt by Chief Joseph and his small band of Nez Perce Indians from the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon to elude strong forces of U.S. Cavalry and civilian volunteers and escape to Canada.
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Ex. doc volume 35th Congress, 1st session, no. 39
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Ye Galleon Press
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1977
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In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly escalated into a series of skirmishes, and at last involved Chief Joseph and the ablest Nez Perce warriors in a prolonged chase by the army for over a thousand miles through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming....
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If you want to know why American Indians, have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are, two and a half times more, likely to be raped than the national average and why gang, violence affects American Indian youth more, than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt, that white settlers, devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th...
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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Roberts Rinehart
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2013.
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In this expansive one-volume account of the native peoples of North America, eminent historian William Brandon - who devoted much of his life to examining this subject - presents this revelatory history of the development and culture of the native peoples of North America, from their incipience through the late nineteenth century. Among those from Central America were the art-obsessed Mayans and Olmecs; from North American came the Ojibwa, Powhatan,...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 80
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1965]
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"Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Regional Award" -- Chief Moses (Sulktalthscosum or Half-Sun) was chief of the Columbias, a Salish-speaking people of the mid Columbia River area in what is now the state of Washington. This award-winning biography by Robert Ruby and John Brown situates Moses in the opening of the Northwest and subsequent Indian-white relations, between 1850 and 1898. Early in life Moses had won a name for himself...
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William Morrow
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1966.
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In 1830, the government of the United States passed a law which exiled all eastern Indians to the plains of the Far West. These people were deprived of lands they had known and loved for centuries. Indian removal was often characterized by racial arguments and prejudice. The author feels that a strong parallel can be drawn with our current racial problems.
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"The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Last Free Lakotas is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo--sacred to him and to his people"--
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"The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties--the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure...
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Stackpole Books
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©2004
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When Jefferson Davis Riddle was only ten years old and known by the Modoc name "Charka," he experienced the Modoc War firsthand. After the war, his parents renamed him for the Army colonel who ended the war and toured the East Coast, lecturing on the conflict. Written "to give both sides of the troubles of the Modoc Indians and the whites," Riddle's book vividly chronicles this episode of Western history.
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