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Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 357 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Anglo-American colonists along the Atlantic seaboard began to protest British rule in the 1760s, a new settlement was emerging many miles west. St. Louis, founded simply as a French trading post, was expanding into a diverse global village. Few communities in eighteenth-century North America had such a varied population: indigenous Americans, French traders and farmers, African and Indian slaves, British officials, and immigrant explorers interacted...
22) Paying the land
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape,...
Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nación Genízara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. The contributors to this volume cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics. Fray Angélico Chávez defined Genízaro as the ethnic term given to indigenous people of mixed tribal origins living among the Hispano population in Spanish fashion. They entered colonial society...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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 Slavery, it was practiced for...
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 Slavery, it was practiced for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
ix, 203 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did Native Americans suffer genocide? This controversial question lies at the heart of Native America and the Question of Genocide. After reviewing the various meanings of the word genocide, author Alex Alvarez examines a range of well-known examples, such as the Sand Creek Massacre and the Long Walk of the Navajo, to determine where genocide occurred and where it did not. The book explores the destructive beliefs of the European settlers, and then...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xiv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of a small band of Spanish explorers who became separated from their ships in Florida and began a trek across the continent during the early sixteenth century.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed...
Author
Publisher
Sweetgrass Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 697 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Author and cultural historian Larry Len Peterson details the collision of European and Native American civilizations and the bloody aftermath that doomed a once-thriving people. Wide-ranging and brimming with fresh in- sights, American Trinity focuses on how the West was shaped by three implacable forces: Christian imperialism, Thomas Jefferson's Doctrine of Discovery, and George Armstrong Custer's hubris. As Peterson says, 'History is important....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
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