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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Frontiersman	Meredith Mason Brown	Supported with copious maps, illustrations, endnotes, and a detailed chronology of Boone's life, Frontiersman provides a fresh and accurate rendering of a man most people know only as a folk hero--an…	OL11946329W
Entre la espada y el falo	Juan Durán Luzio	An excellent scholarly presentation of the deplorable policies and conduct of Spanish colonizers during the period 1492-1550 toward indigenous women in the New World. Durán is a prominent Chilean-bor…	OL13453839W
Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars	Robert Vincent Remini	"The expulsion of Native Americans from the eastern half of the continent to the Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi River remains one of the most notorious events in U.S. history, and the man mo…	OL14865053W
Fire the sky	Kathleen O'Neal Gear	An itinerant trader and outcast from his tribe, Black Shell was swept into the Spirit World and returned a transformed man. Now, carrying his white-feathered trader’s staff, he devotes his life to a …	OL15654528W
Great cruelties have been reported	Richard Flint	"This book details the investigation into cruelties that Coronado and his men reportedly inflicted upon the Native peoples of the Southwest, delving deeper into the known copies of the investigation …	OL16714824W
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation	Patrick Neal Minges	This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.	OL16952142W
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
Indian work	Daniel H. Usner	202 pages : 25 cm	OL1888712W
The red and the white	Andrew R. Graybill	Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill ... sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigene…	OL19972175W
The orenda	Joseph Boyden	"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically differ…	OL19977813W
Go south to freedom	Frye Gaillard	As Gaillard's narrative makes clear, the Seminole Wars of the 1830s, in which Indians fought side by side with former slaves, represents the largest slave uprising in American history. Gaillard also …	OL20039253W
The coming	David Osborne	A "novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark s…	OL20049001W
The holy road	Blake, Michael	"Eleven years have passed since Lieutenant John Dunbar became the Comanche warrior Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. Wit…	OL2566620W
My life as an Indian	James Willard Schultz	“Reads like a romance . . . not the least interesting part being the traditions and old stories, retold with simplicity and real charm.” — Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: History (H.W. Wilson…	OL2639897W
La Harpe's post	George H. Odell	"This contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma, 13 miles south of Tulsa along the Arkansas River, as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indi…	OL3234240W
Our Land Before We Die	Jeff Guinn	In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral his…	OL3253813W
The potlatch family	Evelyn Sibley Lampman	Looked down at by her classmates because of her darker skin and alcoholic father, a Chinook Indian girl gains a new outlook when her brother returns from Vietnam.	OL4480926W
Bridger	Bobby Bridger	"Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West Show," William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West and also helped create the "West of the…	OL5952760W
Lewis and Clark's bittersweet crossing	Carol Lynn MacGregor	Describes the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the American West in the early 1800s, focusing particularly on the time the group spent with the Shoshoni and Nez Perce Indians in Idaho.	OL6029902W
The Indian Removal Act	Mark Stewart	When the United States won its freedom from Great Britain, colonies became states, subjects became citizens, and the nation's leaders faced a complex question: How did the native people of the United…	OL8200107W