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  • Great Lakes Creoles

    A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860

    by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy ...
    Series series Studies in North American Indian History
    A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and responded to the colonialism of United States expansion. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy examines Indian history with attention to the pluralistic nature of American communities ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien

    History and Folklore from Wisconsin's Frontier

    Edited by Mary Elise Antoine, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy ...
    Albert Coryer, the grandson of a fur trade voyageur-turned-farmer, had a gift for storytelling. Born in 1877, he grew up in Prairie du Chien hearing tales of days gone by from his parents, grandparents, and neighbors who lived in the Frenchtown area. Throughout his life, Albert soaked up the local oral traditions, including narratives about early residents, local landmarks, interesting and funny ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community

    by Brenda J. Child ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women's labor, the sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female ... Read more

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  • The Dawn of Detroit

    A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

    by Tiya Miles ...
    **Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History Prize**A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection**“If ... Read more

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  • They Stole our World: How Native Americans were Treated from Early Colonial Times Onward

    History and Historical Fiction, #22

    by Jason Wallace ...
    Series Book 22 - History and Historical Fiction
    From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions to society have been monumental and immeasurable, but their rewards have been few and almost ... Read more

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  • Songs Upon the Rivers

    The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific

    by Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette ...
    Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec. Foxcurran, Bouchard, and Malette ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Born of Lakes and Plains

    Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

    by Anne F. Hyde ...
    **Finalist for the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"Immersive and humane." —Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesA fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.**Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • Strangers in Blood

    Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country

    by Jennifer S. H. Brown ...
    The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring. ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Sisters in Spirit

    by Sally Roesch Wagner ...
    Intrepid historian Sally Roesch Wagner recounts the compelling struggle for freedom and equality waged by women in the United States with this fascinating account of how Iroquois women fired the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a model of freedom for women at a time when Euro American women experienced few rights. Women of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy possessed freedoms ... 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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  • This Indian Country

    American Indian Activists and the Place They Made

    by Frederick Hoxie ...
    Series series Penguin History American Life
    Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion is inescapable: Most Americans ... Read more

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  • The Assassination of Hole in the Day

    by Anton Treuer ...
    On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve Ojibwe men and fatally shot.Hole in the Day's death was national news, and rumors of its cause were ... Read more

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