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  • Education at the Edge of Empire

    Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools

    by John R. Gram ...
    Series series Indigenous Confluences
    For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means of acculturating them to white society. However, as historian John Gram reveals, some Indian ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Comanches

    Lords of the South Plains

    by Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel ...
    Series Book 34 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains.For more than a century and a half, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Mesa of Sorrows

    A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre

    by James F. Brooks ...
    A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750

    by William B. Carter ...
    When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William B. Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sustaining the Cherokee Family

    Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation

    by Rose Stremlau ...
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • I Fought a Good Fight

    A History of the Lipan Apaches

    by Sherry Robinson ...
    This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila, coming into conflict with the Comanches. With a knack for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Survival Schools

    The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities

    by Julie L. Davis ...
    In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, “We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up.” In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, American ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Power Lines

    Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

    by Todd Andrew Needham ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • An Oral History of Tahlequah and The Cherokee Nation

    by Deborah L. Duvall ...
    Series series Voices of America
    These pages are filled with memories and favorite tales that capture the essence of life in the Cherokee Nation. Ms. Duvall invites the reader to follow the tribe from its pre-historic days in the southeast, to early 20th century life in the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma. Learn about Pretty Woman, who had the power over life and death, or the mystical healing springs of Tahlequah. Spend some time with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education beyond the Mesas

    Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929

    by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert ...
    Series series Indigenous Education
    Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona “turned the power” by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest off-reservation boarding schools in the United States, followed other federally funded boarding schools ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What We Learned

    Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools

    by Helen Raptis ...
    Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the actual experiences of the students themselves.In What We ... Read more

    $23.79 USD