Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Woman (Carolyn Niethammer)

Price: $18.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster ()
Number of Pages: 281

Here, as it unfolded, is the chronology of the native American women's life. Far from the downtrodden, submissive 'squaw' of popular myth, the native American women emerges as a proud, sometimes stoic, always human individual from whom those who came after her can learn much. At a time when many contemporary American women are seeking alternatives to a life-style and role they have outgrown, Daughters of the Earth offers us an absorbing and illuminating legacy of diginity and purpose.

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (Jack Weatherford)

Price: $13.95
Publisher: Ballantine Publishing ()
Number of Pages: 272
ISBN: 0449904962

In a fascinating new look at the Indians of North and South America, Indian Givers proves these people were instrumental in shaping world culture--from the monetary system to our diets to political organizations and our beliefs.

Native American Portraits: 1862 to 1918 (Nancy Hathaway, Kurt Koegler)

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Publisher: Chronicle Books ()
Number of Pages: 115
ISBN: 0877017573

This title is currently out of printOver 100 photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits, taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I, feature images of Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and other defeated but proud warriors. Photographers include William Henry Jackson, Camillius Fly, Alexander Gardner, and scores of others.

Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000 (Peter Nabokov)

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Publisher: Penguin Books ()
Number of Pages: 506
ISBN: 0140281592

Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of the millennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony is a series of powerful and moving documents spanning five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America.

Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America (Jack Weatherford)

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Publisher: Random House ()
Number of Pages: 310
ISBN: 0449907139

Conversational American history holds that the white settlers of the New World re-created the society they had known in England, France, and Spain. But, as Weatherford so brilliantly shows, Europeans in fact grafted their civilization onto the deep and nourishing roots of Native American customs and beliefs. Beneath the glass-and-steel skyscrapers of contemporary Manhattan lies and Indian fur-trading post. Behind the tactics of modern guerilla warfare are the lightning-fast maneuvers of the Plains Indians. Our place names, our farming and hunting techniques, our crafts, and very blood that flows in our veins - all derive from American Indians in ways we consistently fail to see. In Weaterford's words, "Without understanding Native Americans, we will never know who we are today in America."