Selling Your Father's Bones: One Tribe's Flight through the Great American West

History

Schofield, Brian

Americas

HarperCollins, Publishers

Clean pages with no writing or marks. Minor wear on edges of corners of cover.

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

Carolyn Niethammer

Scribner Paper Fiction

This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern society, and details the often tragic history of their conquest by European invaders, their treatment—both historical and recent—under the US government, and the harsh reality of life on today's reservations.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History

Fleming, Walter

Reference

Alpha

The Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of the American Indians in the Old South

A history of the Indian tribes who inhabited the South chronicles the unrelenting pressure which ultimately led to the Indians' explusion from their homeland

J. Leitch Wright, Jr.

Free Press

An angry narrative of the forcible uprooting and often brutal removal of more than fifty Indian tribes and groups originally located east of the Mississippi and their forced resettlement in the alien West

The Trail of Tears : The Story of the American Indian Removals, 1813-1855

Jahoda, Gloria

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This tribe of South Dakota has met the challenge of living in the 20th century by expressing religion and beliefs in a cultural style that mixes tradition and Christian influence with western technology.

Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Grobsmith, Elizabeth S.

Harcourt Brace College Publishers

Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy—left London aboard a fleet of three ships to start a new life in America. They arrived in Virginia in the spring of 1607 and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James River. Despite their shortcomings, and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost that laid the foundations of the British Empire and the United States of America.
Drawing on new discoveries, neglected sources and manuscript collections scattered across the world, Savage Kingdom challenges the textbook image of Jamestown as a mere money-making venture. It reveals a reckless, daring enterprise led by outcasts of the Old World who found themselves interlopers in a new one. It charts their journey into a beautiful landscape and a sophisticated culture that they found both ravishing and alien, which they yearned to possess but threatened to destroy. They called their new home a "savage kingdom," but it was the savagery they had experienced in Europe that had driven them across the ocean and which they hoped to escape by building in America "one of the most glorious nations under the sun."
An intimate story in an epic setting, Woolley shows how the land of Pocahontas came to be drawn into a new global order, reaching from London to the Orinoco Delta, from the warring kingdoms of Angola to the slave markets of Mexico, from the gates of the Ottoman Empire to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

Woolley, Mr. Benjamin

Harper

Four centuries ago, and thirteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy—arrived in Virginia aboard a fleet of three ships and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James River. Despite their shortcomings, and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost that laid the foundations of the British Empire and the United States of America. Drawing on new discoveries, neglected sources, and manuscript collections scattered across the world, Savage Kingdom challenges the textbook image of Jamestown—revealing instead a reckless, daring enterprise led by outcasts of the Old World who found themselves interlopers in a new one.

Harper-perennial

A history of the heroic 1,700-mile journey of the Nez Perce across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana toward sanctuary in Canada describes Nez Perce culture, their battles with whites, and the tragic surrender of Chief Joseph. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy

Lavender, David

Harpercollins

In 1973, an old American Indian woman dies with nothing left of her tribe but a trailer and a two-hundred-acre reservation in the sleepy backyard of Ledyard, Connecticut. It seems to signal the end of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. But it is just the beginning. Over the course of the next three decades, the reservation grows to more than two thousand acres and becomes home to Foxwoods, the largest casino in the world, grossing more than $1 billion per year. The Pequots are reborn, immensely wealthy, and in possession of an enormous amount of political influence.
How did it happen?
In compelling detail, Without Reservation tells the stunning story of the rise of the richest tribe in American history.
It begins with the grand ambitions of two men. One, an unemployed navy brat and outsider, is a failed preacher with the uncanny ability to charm; the other is fresh out of law school and armed with a brilliant legal theory to help impoverished Indian tribes. Together they resurrect the Pequots and battle the local townspeople to aggressively expand their reservation, taking on the state government for the right to gamble on their land. Embracing their cause are misguided and misinformed government officials and a former mob prosecutor who brings Malaysian financiers to the table.
The Pequots must also contend with the price of power. Without Reservation reveals the mysterious roots of today's Pequot tribe, the racial tension that divides them, and the Machiavellian internal Power struggle over who will control the tribe's purse strings.
This is a story of the duality of the American dream, the good and the bad that come with enormous wealth. Author Jeff Benedict shines a light on the dreamers and the deal makers, the backroom politicking and courtroom machinations, the trusts and betrayals, and the world of high-powered attorneys, politicians, tribal leaders, and financiers who made the Pequots what they are today.
As compelling as a novel, Without Reservation is must reading for anyone interested in the way today's world really works.

Without Reservation: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods the World's Largest Casino

Humor & Entertainment

Benedict, Jeff

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Selling Your Father's Bones: One Tribe's Flight through the Great American West

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History

The Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of the American Indians in the Old South

The Trail of Tears : The Story of the American Indian Removals, 1813-1855

Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy

Without Reservation: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods the World's Largest Casino