Black Indians

Reducere. Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experienc...

Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known a...

Reducere. Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Bla...

Reducere. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison River is one of the deepest, narrowest, and most inaccessible canyons in the United States. Very few explorers hav...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people,...

A Jesuit priest and his aid are guided through the wilds of New France by Algonkian Indians.

Reducere. Harsh "racial" segregation during the Jim Crow era prevented South Carolina's Indian groups from assimilating. Due to their three-fold genetic admi...

Reducere. Countering the prevailing, traditional story of the first Thanksgiving, with its black-hatted, silver-buckled Pilgrims; blanket-clad, be-feathered ...

Dominiek Dendooven's fascinating study reveals how the First World War turned west Flanders and north-eastern France into a global crossroads.Publi...

Reducere. They Say the Wind Is Red is the moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830s. Through...

The Senate decides to settle the fertile land of Wyoming. Before sending in the settlers, they send a committee of scientists, led by Lucky Luke, t...

Reducere. This heartwarming story of a buffalo soldier's service to his country during the Indian Wars and Spanish-American War reveals the many hardships th...

Reducere. Roundups, Trail drives, a lynching, mail-order romances, black-smithing, Indians, the blizzard of 1885-86, bunkhouse humor, Calamity Jane, cattle b...

Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of...

Reducere. The decorative art of the Indians of the American Southwest has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful art traditions in the primitive w...

Reducere. DescriptionGrinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug f...

Reducere. An amazing account of the survival of an American lady among hostile Indians This is a remarkable story of one woman's ordeal and a testament of ex...

Reducere. Midwest Book Award (MIPA)The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that gr...

Reducere. Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"--the lost promise of Black reparations fo...

A daring account of Black Seminole warrior, chief, and diplomat John Horse and the route he forged on the Underground Railroad to gain freedom for ...

Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramp...

A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the six...

Reducere. (Faber Piano Adventures ). Well-loved folk songs arranged in middle C position with no eighth notes or dotted rhythms, providing the earliest level...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the vantage point of her own personal history--a fourth-generation Indian South African of mixed lineage--indentured as well as tra...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the massacre by survivors and soldiers *Summarizes the official investigations and their findings *Include...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Reducere. Ancient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-t...

Reducere. From the intro: "Andrew J. Blackbird, the author of this little book, is an educated Indian, son of the Ottawa Chief. His Indian name is Mack-aw-de...

An examination of the concept and practice of contemporary tribal sovereignty which proposes that tribal self-determination might be better pursued...

Reducere. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary col...

Reducere. In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo sol...

"...a fascinating and well-told story of the American Revolution in South Carolina-and of its ramifications across racial and national boundaries."...

Reducere. The Timpanogos were first discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Revera in 1765, and later Dominguez and Escalante in 1776. They describe in their jou...

The Timpanogos were first discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Revera in 1765, and later Dominguez and Escalante in 1776. They describe in their jou...

Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne ...

Reducere. The story begins in South America, where people who spoke Arawak-an Amerindian language fashioned a culture based on yuca or cassava farming, hunti...

Reducere. Peter Cook has a good life as a bound boy by a master who treats him like a son. Everything changes the day that Peter discovers that his master ha...

Reducere. Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the ...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

Reducere. A powerful and stirring story. San Antonio Express-News An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would without exaggeration defeat armed ...

Reducere. A concise and engrossing account of the Lakota and the battle to regain their homeland. The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hi...

Reducere. DescriptionLegendary mountain man James P. Beckwourth was an icon of his time, and an inspiration to generations of wilderness explorers and advent...

Reducere. ON A HUMID MORNING in 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches helplessly from behind a tree as a b...

Reducere. Legendary mountain man James P. Beckwourth was an icon of his time, and an inspiration to generations of wilderness explorers and adventurers. A ch...

Reducere. The remarkable story of Larry Doby, the first Black baseball player in the American League. In 1947, Larry Doby signed with the Cleveland Indians, ...

Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

Reducere. Mooweesuk the Coon is called the bear's little brother by both Indians and naturalists, because of the many ways in which he resembles the "big pro...

Reducere. In April, 1866, at the height of the Black Hawk Wars, Mormon settlers in the village of Circleville, Utah, took a band of Paiute Indians hostage an...

This book is published to accompany "Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle" at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, one of the ...

Reducere. Since prehistory, the bluffs of Natchez have called to the bold, the cruel and the quietly determined. The diverse opportunists who heeded that cal...

Reducere. The Treasure Coast is such a popular destination that some choose to never leave. From the spirits of ancient Indians who once inhabited the beache...

Reducere. Few places provided a more storied backdrop for key events related to the high plains Indian wars than had Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Established in ...

Reducere. This catalog of Plains Indian material culture is a wonderful reference source for anyone interested in learning about the Plains Indian lifestyle....

Reducere. Bartolom De Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on o...

Reducere. Bartolom de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on o...

Reducere. Bartolom De Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. Thi...

DescriptionA dog's-eye view of the "Mayflower" voyage and the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony English springer spaniel Dash and his furry fri...

Reducere. This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthro...

Reducere. This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photog...

Reducere. Award NameMinnesota Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionAmerican Indian cultural objects, like most objects, deteriorate over time. Precious and irre...

Reducere. "It is offered not as a textbook nor as a scientific discussion, but merely as reading entertainment founded on the life history, social struggle, ...

Reducere. They had beaten the harsh odds of the frontier. But for the two powerful ranchers, the most formidable trail lay ahead. There had never been a trai...

Imagine my surprise when I discovered my home sits on an ancient Indian mound. Imagine my surprise when I found that 100, 000 Indians were living i...

Reducere. DescriptionShortly after Ponce de Leon discovered La Florida in 1513, early Spanish settlers found a large and sheltered bay on the Gulf of Mexico....

Reducere. From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone--the explosive adventures of Perley Gates, who's carving out his own legacy in the violent A...

Reducere. "Bitter Creek is likely the top of the Du Pr series . . . Lively and absolutely fascinating" (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall). Lt. Joh...

Reducere. Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slave...