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  • White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

    The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

    by John R. Bockstoce ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: "The history is fascinating." — Anchorage Daily NewsIn the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Indian Givers

    How Native Americans Transformed the World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    An utterly compelling story of how the cultural, social, and political practices of Native Americans transformed the way life is lived throughout the world, with a new introduction by the author“As entertaining as it is thoughtful . . . Few contemporary writers have Weatherford’s talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate.”—The Washington PostAfter 500 years, the world’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Maya

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of Mayan buildings, art, hieroglyphics, numbers, and more. *Includes a Table of ContentsMany ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the worlds civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Revisiting Anne Marie

    How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine American Heritage.

    by Marie Rundquist ...
    Spanning two centuries, from the early 1600s to the mid-1700s, Revisiting Anne Marie engages the reader in the history of a Family cut from European and Amerindian (Mi'kmaq) cloth, from the family's brave beginnings in Nova Scotia to its exile in Snow Hill, Maryland, following the Grand Deportation of 1755.The story of Anne Marie's family comes to life with art, source citations and references, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • North American Indians

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Mesoamerica's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Maya and Aztec

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes over 25 pictures of both civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya and Aztecs, from language to religion. *Comprehensively covers the civilizations' most famous characteristics, including Mayan astronomy and the Aztecs' infamous human sacrifice rituals.*Includes a Table of Contents When the Spanish arrived in the New World, men like Columbus ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Smoke Signals

    The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry

    by Jim Poling, Sr. ...
    When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause cancer.Smoke Signals follows tobacco from its origins in ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Native American History

    A Chronology of a Culture's Vast Achievements and Their Links to World Events

    by Judith Nies ...
    A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY:A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.Native American History is a breakthrough reference guide, the first book of its kind to recognize and explore the rich, unfolding experiences of the indigenous American peoples as they evolved against a global backdrop. This fascinating historical narrative, presented in an illuminating and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Burnt-Out Fires

    California’s Modoc Indian War

    by Richard Dillon ...
    Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams.Everyone pointed to the Modocs as “model Indians.” Living on the Oregon-California border, they had assimilated the American culture more than any other Indian tribe. They had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Living with Animals

    Ojibwe Spirit Powers

    by Michael Pomedli ...
    Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • The Clay We Are Made Of

    Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River

    by Susan M. Hill ...
    Series Book 20 - Critical Studies in Native History
    If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity.In The Clay We Are Made Of, Susan M. Hill presents a revolutionary retelling of the history of the Grand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Five Ages of Canada

    A History From Our First Peoples to Confederation

    by Graham Gibbs ...
    Five Ages of Canada tells the comprehensive tale of the nation’s origins and formation. Graham’s First Age introduces Canada’s First Inhabitants: the Palaeo-Indians from Northern Asia, their descendants, and the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of today. The Second Age began in the early 1500s with fishing fleets from England, France, Portugal and the Basque region of Spain who spent their ... Read more

    $6.99 USD