| Author | : Khushwant Singh |
| Publisher | : Juggernaut Books |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : National characteristics, East Indian |
| ISBN | : 8193284135 |
A sharp and funny dissection of different aspects of the Indian character, from our attitude to sex, religion and women to our views on corruption and the English language. Irreverent and full of witty observations, this is a Khushwant Singh classic!
| Author | : Anton Treuer |
| Publisher | : Borealis Books |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0873518624 |
Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a frank, funny, and personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
| Author | : Sandra F. Waugaman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
At last! Virginia Indians provide readers with a candid account of their living history, insight to cultural traditions, and vision for the future. Topics Include: archeological digs; traditional regalia; pow wows; Indian life today; The Virginia Council on Indians; local reservations; Virginia-recognized tribes; museums; other resources including Web sites and educational programs. Book jacket.
| Author | : Tisa Joy Wenger |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0807832626 |
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act
| Author | : Peter Iverson |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
A history of American Indians, discussing events that characterized the struggles of Native Americans to survive and maintain their homes and traditions in each of six distinct time periods, from 1890 to 1997.
| Author | : Malcolm Margolin |
| Publisher | : Heyday |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
A collection of reminiscences, stories, and songs that reflect the diversity of the people native to California.
| Author | : Cecile Elkins Carter |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2001-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806133188 |
This narrative history of the Caddo Indians creates a vivid picture of daily life in the Caddo Nation. Using archaeological data, oral histories, and descriptions by explorers and settlers, Cecile Carter introduces impressive Caddo leaders past and present. The book provides observations, stories, and vignettes on twentieth-century Caddos and invites the reader to recognize the strengths, rooted in ancient culture, that have enabled the Caddos to survive epidemics, enemy attacks, and displacement from their original homelands in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
| Author | : Thomas Constantine Maroukis |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2021-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0816542260 |
The early twentieth-century roots of modern American Indian protest and activism are examined in We Are Not a Vanishing People. It tells the history of Native intellectuals and activists joining together to establish the Society of American Indians, a group of Indigenous men and women united in the struggle for Indian self-determination.
