New @ the Library: Indigenous Peoples' Day
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This page features topical lists of items from our print books, ebooks, and DVD collections. Ebooks are accessible to all Central Penn students, faculty, and staff--any time, anywhere you have an internet connection. If you have questions/problems accessing the ebooks, please contact the Library.
Books on Display: Indigenous People's Day
The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities by Call Number: 973.315 CALISBN: 9780521471497Publication Date: 1995
Annals of the Susquehannocks and Other Indian Tribes of Pennsylvania 1500-1763 by Call Number: 974.845 ESHISBN: 9781889037240Publication Date: 2000
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Call Number: 970.1 BROISBN: 9780805017304Publication Date: 1991 [1970]
Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations by Call Number: 371.8299 FEA & Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803278912Publication Date: 2016Also available in Ebook Central
A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Call Number: 970.522 JACISBN: 9781566191678Publication Date: 1994 [1881]Now considered a classic, this book was a landmark in efforts to inform about and reform the treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government.
Death Song: The Last of the Indian Wars by Call Number: 973.8 WeemsISBN: 9780880296519Publication Date: 1991
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by Call Number: 978.004 GWYISBN: 9781416591061Publication Date: 2011
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Call Number: 909.0497 TREISBN: 9780873518611Publication Date: 2012
Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior by Call Number: 979.0049 LEAISBN: 9781476734934Publication Date: 2014
Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise by Call Number: 338.477 LIGHTISBN: 9780700614066Publication Date: 2005
Indian Paths of Pennsylvania by Call Number: 974.804 WallaceISBN: 0911124399Publication Date: 2005 [1965]
Indians (The American Heritage Library) by Call Number: 970.0049 BRANISBN: 9780828103015Publication Date: 1987 [1961]
Indian Wars of Pennsylvania: An Account of the Indian Events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian War... (2nd Ed.) by Call Number: 974.802 SIPEISBN: 9781889037103Publication Date: 2006 [1931]
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Call Number: 970.0049 DUNISBN: 9780807000403Publication Date: 2014
Indigenous Peoples, Racism and the United Nations by Call Number: 305.822 NAKISBN: 9781863350693Publication Date: 2001
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations by
"In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide."
Call Number: 970.004 MANISBN: 9780871565099Publication Date: 1992
Jacob My Friend: His 17th Century Account of the Susquehannock Indians by Call Number: 970.0049 KENTISBN: 9781413459869Publication Date: 2004
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by Call Number: 976.6004 GRAISBN: 9780385534246Publication Date: 2017
Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles in Oklahoma, 1865–1907 by Call Number: 970.004 PERISBN: 9780806125237Publication Date: 1993
The Native American Almanac: A Portrait of Native America Today by Call Number: 973.04 HIRISBN: 9780028630038Publication Date: 1998
Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary by Call Number: 615.321 MOEISBN: 9781604690354Publication Date: 2009
The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World by Call Number: 304.222 ANDISBN: 9780313381300Publication Date: 2010
Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing by Call Number: 615.88 GONISBN: 9780816529568Publication Date: 2012
The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows by Call Number: 978.004 NERISBN: 9781577315780Publication Date: 2009
Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos by Call Number: 979.1004 PASISBN: 9781416594826Publication Date: 2010"This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and government neglect."
Ebooks - Native American History & Storytelling
"Farewell, My Nation": American Indians and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, 3rd Edition by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781118976777Publication Date: 2016
"That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780801451386Publication Date: 2012
"The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell": The Power of Women in Native American Literature by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780415946971Publication Date: 2003
American Indians and the National Forests by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780816531998Publication Date: 2016
The Americas That Might Have Been: Native American Social Systems Through Time by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780817314576Publication Date: 2005
Battlespace 1865: Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781785703393Publication Date: 2016
Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780816500246Publication Date: 2015
Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803225435Publication Date: 2017
Brothers Born of One Mother: British–Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780813932415Publication Date: 2012- Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations by Call Number: 371.8299 FEA & Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803278912Publication Date: 2016Also available in Ebook Central
The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780195170832Publication Date: 2006
Colonized Through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803255449Publication Date: 2017
Documents of Native American Political Development: 1500s to 1933 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780195327397Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century by Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9780826355959Publication Date: 2015
European and Native American Warfare 1675-1815 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781857285543Publication Date: 1998
French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781611860740Publication Date: 2013
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794–1796 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803244276Publication Date: 2017"An unparalleled primary source for its descriptions of Native American tribal customs, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and physical appearances..."
George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803284395Publication Date: 2016
The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America: A Critical Edition by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781501713903Publication Date: 2016Originally published in 1727 and revised in 1747
Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803237858Publication Date: 2016
Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History, 2nd Edition by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781496204837Publication Date: 2018
Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780674033498Publication Date: 2009
In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781936218011Publication Date: 2010
Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781496201508Publication Date: 2017
A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780887557859Publication Date: 2015
Late Holocene Research on Foragers and Farmers in the Desert West by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781607814467Publication Date: 2016
Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780820330587Publication Date: 2008
A Listening Wind: Native Literature from the Southeast by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803262874Publication Date: 2016
Living Histories: Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780759119970Publication Date: 2010
Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780807830321Publication Date: 2006
The Memory of All Ancient Customs: Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780801449376Publication Date: 2012
Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803280977Publication Date: 2017
Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803269668Publication Date: 2015
Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples by Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9781578595075Publication Date: 2016
The Native American Experience: [Three Separate Books]: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781504049580Publication Date: 2017 [1970, 1962, 1980]
Native American Legends of the Southeast: Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780817356897Publication Date: 2011
Native American Power in the United States, 1783-1795 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780838644096Publication Date: 2003
Native American Voices: A Reader by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780205633944Publication Date: 2009
Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781438431673Publication Date: 2010
The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803296909Publication Date: 2017
Native Students at Work: American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780295998268Publication Date: 2016
Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780801890321Publication Date: 2009
The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780813937779Publication Date: 2016
Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781496202253Publication Date: 2018
Okanagan Grouse Woman: Upper Nicola Narratives by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803286849Publication Date: 2017
Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780813062686Publication Date: 2016
Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780199917303Publication Date: 2013
Reading Native American Literature by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780415579421Publication Date: 2011
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803276758Publication Date: 2017
Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803245846Publication Date: 2016
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780300218121Publication Date: 2019
Talking Rocks: Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780816644308Publication Date: 2003
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780520238565Publication Date: 2005
This Torrent of Indians: War on the Southern Frontier, 1715-1728 by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781611176056Publication Date: 2016
Trail of Tears: An Annotated Bibliography of Southeastern Indian Removal by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780810877399Publication Date: 2010
Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803280984Publication Date: 2016
The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780199387991Publication Date: 2014
World-Making Stories: Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780803285286Publication Date: 2017
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