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  • The Lipan Apaches

    People of Wind and Lightning

    by Thomas A. Britten ...
    Winner of the 2010 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book AwardDespite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considered by Spaniards of the eighteenth century to be the greatest threat to the development of New Spain's northern frontier ... Read more

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  • Voice of the Tribes

    A History of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association

    by Thomas A. Britten ...
    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    The 1960s and 1970s were a time of radical change in U.S. history. During these turbulent decades, Native Americans played a prominent role in the civil rights movement, fighting to achieve self-determination and tribal sovereignty. Yet they did not always agree on how to realize their goals. In 1971, a group of tribal leaders formed the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association (NTCA) to advocate on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela... ... Read more

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  • Native Nations

    A Millennium in North America

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history” (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue todayWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE**Long before the colonization of North America, ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Continent

    The Epic Contest for North America

    by Pekka Hämäläinen ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus ReviewsLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book at hand.” —David Treuer, The New Yorker“[T]he single best book I have ever read on ... Read more

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  • The Comanche Empire

    by Pekka Hamalainen ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Native American empire.In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military ... Read more

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  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

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  • New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

    The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

    Edited by John G. Douglass, William Graves ...
    Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ... Read more

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  • Shadows at Dawn

    An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

    by Karl Jacoby ...
    A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American historyIn April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral ... Read more

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  • We Are the Land

    A History of Native California

    by Damon B. Akins, William J. Bauer Jr. ...
    “A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White**’s California Exposures*.”—Kirkus Reviews*Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make ... Read more

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  • Recovering History, Constructing Race

    The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans

    by Martha Menchaca ...
    "An unprecedented tour de force . . . [A] sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans." —Antonia I. Castañeda, Associate Professor of History, St. Mary's UniversityWinner, A Choice Outstanding Academic BookThe history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history ... Read more

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  • The Native Ground

    Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being ... Read more

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