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  • The Course of Empire

    by Bernard DeVoto, Erwin Raisz ...
    A history of three centuries in which a new race engulfed a continent.For twenty years or more, whenever he was able, Bernard DeVoto has been visiting and revisiting the pioneer trails, the Missouri River in particular. He has studied its volume and seasonal flow, its weather and geological history, and has traced its bends on the minutely detailed sectional maps of the United States Geological ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 382 - Mammoth Books
    Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride, to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)

    Exploring Culture, Myths, and History of Tribes

    by Charles C. Royce, Clay MacCauley, Franz Boas, William John McGee, James Mooney, Garrick Mallery, John Wesley Powell, Lewis Spence, Erminnie A. Smith, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Cyrus Thomas, John G. Bourke, Elias Johnson, John Heckewelder, William C. Reichel, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Alexander Scott Withers, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Edward S. Curtis, Washington Matthews, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan ...
    "Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo. Contents: History: The North American Indian The Cherokee Nation of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths of the Cherokee

    Illustrated Edition

    by James Mooney ...
    In "Myths of the Cherokee," James Mooney intricately weaves a tapestry of rich narratives that delve into the spiritual and cultural heritage of the Cherokee people. Drawing from extensive fieldwork and oral histories, Mooney presents a collection of myths that encapsulate the tribe's beliefs, worldviews, and societal norms. His keen eye for detail and empathetic literary style not only preserves ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies

    History of the Great Tribes, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi…

    by Charles C. Royce, Clay MacCauley, Franz Boas, William John McGee, James Mooney, Garrick Mallery, John Wesley Powell, Lewis Spence, Erminnie A. Smith, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Cyrus Thomas, John G. Bourke, Elias Johnson, John Heckewelder, William C. Reichel, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Alexander Scott Withers, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Edward S. Curtis, Washington Matthews, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan ...
    Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies' emerges as a profound anthology encapsulating an array of perspectives on the rich tapestry of Native American life. Spanning scholarly works on history, culture, and linguistics, to intimate explorations of mythology, this collection masterfully melds rigorous academic study with the visceral narratives of Native ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voyageur's Highway

    Minnesota's Border Lake Land

    by Grace Lee Nute ...
    The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people—explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists—were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians,Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857

    by Edwin E. Rich ...
    Series Book 11 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume XI of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.The Great Shield of Canada, composed of Precambrian rock overlaid ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians

    With Original Photos & Maps

    by James Mooney ...
    The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct, as witness the clay tablets of old Chaldea, the hieroglyphs of the obelisks, our countless thousands of manuscripts and printed volumes, and the gossiping old story-teller of the village or the backwoods cabin. The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

    Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

    by Susan Sleeper-Smith ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A History of the Indians of the United States

    by Angie Debo ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Beaver Men

    Spearheads of Empire

    by Mari Sandoz ...
    Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham’s Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz’s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD