Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Indians of the Plains	Lowie, Robert Harry	Information concerning Indian tribes living in the plains area, including the Cree, Ojibwa, Kiowa, Wichita, Sioux (Dakota), Comanche and Ute.	OL1115992W
The Aztecs under Spanish rule	Charles Gibson	Outlines the influence that Spanish rule had upon all aspects of Aztec life during the three hundred years after their conquest.	OL1247032W
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples	Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP)	This five volume report summarizes the work and findings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples commissioned to investigate the relationship between indigenous and settler populations in Canad…	OL1638964W
The Native American sourcebook	J. E. Luebering,Kathleen Kuiper	Discusses the history and cultural and linguistic traditions of Native Americans, including information on housing, social stratification, child rearing, religion, art, belief systems, and music.	OL16932244W
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington,Debbie Reese,Jean Mendoza	Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once …	OL17640485W
Black Indians	William Loren Katz	Traces the history of relations between blacks and American Indians, and the existence of black Indians, from the earliest foreign landings through pioneer days. via Worldcat.org	OL1880553W
Through the Northern Looking Glass Breast Cancer Stories (NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING SERIES (ALL N…	Lorelei Lambert-Colomeda	Very supportive from patient's point of view - approved by C. O'Connor	OL19644626W
As Long as Grass Grows	Dina Gilio-Whitaker	The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism Through t…	OL20161108W
Alcohol problems in Native America	William L. White,Don L. Coyhis	Native American experiences are seen through the lens of the presence of alcohol in Indian communities, and more importantly, how communities resisted alcohol. The "Firewater Myths" told about Indian…	OL20650737W
Everyday Life of the North American Indian	Jon Ewbank Manchip White	The story of the Native American from his immigration from the Asian mainland to life on government-authorized reservations. A well-woven narrative follows the nomad, hunter, and farmer throughout th…	OL272107W
Wild Whispers	Cassie Edwards	SHE TAMED THE PANTHER Beautiful Kaylene Shelton's home had always been her father's carnival, traveling across the frontier. Filled with loneliness and unspoken longings, she had no one to talk to e…	OL3388560W
Navajo medicine bundles or jish	Charlotte Johnson Frisbie	Frisbie examines how jish are assembled, used, and protected, and how they are circulated among Navajos and others such as esoteric art dealers, gallery owners, an museums ... -- from inside cover.	OL3903819W
Navajo & Tibetan sacred wisdom	Gold, Peter	The similarity between the Navajo and Tibetan spiritual traditions has often been remarked upon by scholars chiefly because of the mandala sand paintings common to both cultures, their ideas about ma…	OL3951627W
Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy =	Alice Ahenakew,John Christoph Cooper	"Born in 1912, Mrs. Alice Ahenakew grew up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family,…	OL6009235W
The North American Indians	Roger C. Owen	General introduction to the study of the aboriginal populations of North America. College and university level.	OL7244104W
The education of Little Tree	Forrest Carter	Beautiful book, very moving. However, the start of some chapters are missing, makes for very disjointed reading.	OL806988W
Indian Healing	Wolfgang G. Jilek	Examines the therapeutic potential of shamanic ceremonialism with particular reference to Indian tribes within BC.	OL8611204W