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  • Haisla Legends

    by Gordon Robinson ...
    This book "H'aisla Legends" by Gordon Robinson of Kitamaat Village, B.C., was recorded into print for the first time in history from oral transmission through the ages. Gordon was a qualified school teacher graduating from Surpass College in Vancouver, and was a H'aisla historian. The true authors of the legends belong to the past. Published by Mark and Dale Robinson. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of a Surgeon

    The Story of the First Heart and Lung Transplants and the Murder of Medgar Evers

    by O. Gordon Robinson Jr. M.D. ...
    Segregation was a way of life in the 1960s, especially in the South when O. Gordon Robinson Jr. was completing his surgical residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. The Ku Klux Klan was a force to be reckoned with at the time, and Robinson chronicles the events he witnessed as well as the civil rights movement of the time against the backdrop of completing his medical ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    The Untold Story of an American Tragedy

    by Kent Nerburn ...
    A biography and history of the Native American chief, his people, and their forced exodus at the hands of the US government."Nerburn deftly records a dark chapter of forced diaspora and forgotten promises—as engrossing as a novel." — People"A remarkable job of research in telling the thus far untold story of Chief Joseph—the mythical hero, the real man. It is a poignant, touching tale." —Howard ... Read more

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  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    by Paulette Regan ...
    In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system.Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of ... Read more

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  • Primary Accounts: The Sand Creek Massacre

    by John Chivington & John S. Smith ...
    The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and ... Read more

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  • The Last Indian War:The Nez Perce Story

    The Nez Perce Story

    by Elliott West ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom.To tell the story, West begins with the early ... Read more

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  • History of the Ojibway People, Second Edition

    by William W. Warren ...
    William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway People has long been recognized as a classic source on Ojibwe history and culture. Warren, the son of an Ojibwe woman, wrote his history in the hope of saving traditional stories for posterity even as he presented to the American public a sympathetic view of a people he believed were fast disappearing under the onslaught of a corrupt frontier population. ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Spirits

    The Windigo in Myth and History

    by Shawn Smallman ...
    In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west—believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger ... Read more

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  • The New Buffalo

    The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education

    by Blair Stonechild ...
    Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education is an Aboriginal and Treaty right, the Canadian government insists that post-secondary education is a social program for which they have limited ... Read more

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  • Xwelíqwiya

    The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

    by Rena Point Bolton, Richard Daly ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō, or Xwélmexw, as they call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoid persecution by the Canadian ... Read more

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  • Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux

    Warriors and Wars: A Detailed Account of the US Army's Conflicts with the Sioux

    by Cyrus Townsend Brady ...
    In "Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux," Cyrus Townsend Brady presents a compelling narrative that delves into the tumultuous interactions between U.S. soldiers and Sioux warriors during a pivotal era in American history. Employing a vivid literary style, Brady blends meticulous historical research with gripping storytelling, capturing the complexities of warfare, cultural ... Read more

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  • A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest

    by Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many ... Read more

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