Category: American Indian

American Indian Quarterly Volume 2 No. 4 Winter 1975-76

Price: $12.00

Publisher: : 1975-76

Seller ID: mcna2040

ISBN: 0095182

Condition: Moderately used, some markings

427 pages, including index, free shipping media mail.
A Journal of Anthropology, History, and Literature
Moieties in Ancient Mesoamerica: Inference on Teotihuacan Social Structure, The Indian Matter of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, The Cherokee Struggle for Lovely's Purchase
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How To Research "A Little Bit Of Indian"

By: Afton E. Reintjes

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1989

Seller ID: mcna2031

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Like New

109 pages, free shipping media mail. Many materials are available describing the procedures for researching American Indian ancestry by using official sources, such as Indian rolls, Courts of claims, Indian Agency rolls, U.S. War Dept. records, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs records.
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The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game

By: Alexander Lesser

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press : 1978

Seller ID: mcna2117

ISBN-13: 9780299074807

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: new

This book tells about the Ghost Dance and the period of religious excitement for the Pawnee's. It involves doctrines and activities involved individuals, families, and traditional groups in efforts to remember and carry out traditional ways that were on the verge of extinction. The Ghost Dance was a nativistic revival. It was Pawnee values. @
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The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca

By: Anthony F. C. Wallace

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : 19

Seller ID: mcnz2016

ISBN: 039471699

Condition: Used, hole punch on cover page

384 pages, plus index, free shipping media mail. This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800.
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The Warren Wagontrain Raid

By: Benjamin Capps

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: mcr2065

ISBN-13: 9780870742958

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The Warren Wagontrain Raid--one of the most important and controversial events in nineteenth-century Texas history--took place in the spring of 1871, near the present town of Graham. A band of Kiowa attacked a wagontrain belonging to Captain Henry Warren, a government contractor, killing a wagonmaster and six teamsters. One man was tied to a wagon wheel and burned alive; all were scalped escept one who was bald. Forty-one mules were stolen. Only five men escaped. As a result of this brutal massacre General William Tecumseh Sherman began to take Indian activity on the frontier more seriously; u...
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How To Research American Indian Blood Lines

By: Cecelia Svinth Carpenter

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Bountiful, Utah, American Genealogical Lending Library : 1994

Seller ID: mcr1603

Binding: perfect

Condition: good

This American Indian research books contents include; REASONS FOR SEARCHING FOR YOUR INDIAN BACKGROUND, CREATING A BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM, PROBLEMS YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER, LIBRARY MATERIALS TO INVESTIGATE, FEDERAL MATERIALS TO INVESTIGATE, INDIAN MATERIALS TO INVESTIGATE, and more. 101 pages, no index.
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Indian Boyhood

By: Charles A. Eastman

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: mcna2006

ISBN-13: 9780783517544

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every young warrior in the 1870's and 1880's. The hunts, games, and ceremonies of his native tribe were all he knew of life until his father, who had spent time with the white man, came to find him.Indian Boyhood is Eastman's first-hand reminiscence of the life he led until he was fifteen with the nomadic Sioux. Left motherless at birth, he tells how his grandmother saved him from relatives who offered ...
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The History of Georgia, Volume 2

By: Charles Colcock Jones

Price: $45.00

Publisher: The Reprint Company : 1965

Seller ID: ga2304

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Used ex-library.

Covers the events of the "Revolutionary Epoch".

Index. 540 p. &
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The Southeastern Indians

By: Charles Hudson

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: mcna1969

ISBN-13: 9780870492488

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The "Southeastern Indians" brillianty recaptures the culture, society, prehistory, and history of the Native American people of the Southeastern United States. Drawing upon oral traditions, historical documents, and accounts by observers and scholars made over a four-hundred-year-period. Charles Hudson boldly and vividly brings to life the world of these Indians by presenting their culture in all its aspects. Here is social and cultural history at its best -- a masterful book with unprecedented authenticity and fullness. 573 pages, includes index.
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A Dose of Frontier Soldiering: The Memoirs of Corporal E.A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882

By: E.A. Bode

Price: $28.00

Seller ID: fhb2018a

ISBN-13: 9780803242326

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

Emil Adolph Bode, a German immigrant down on his luck, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1877 and served for five years. More literate than most of his fellow soldiers, Bode described western flora and fauna, commenting on the American Indians he encountered as well as the slaughter of the buffalo, the hard and lonely life of the cowboy, and towns and settlements he passed through. His observations, seasoned with wry wit and sympathy, offer a truer picture of the frontier military experience than all the dashing cavalry charges and thundering artillery in Western literature. 237 pages, indexed.
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Ocumulgee

By: G. D. Pope, Jr.

Price: $11.00

Publisher: : 1956

Seller ID: mcna2030

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Like New

58 pages, From the middle of the 18th century until 1934 the Indian mounds near the present city of Macon, GA., had been a subject for speculation to all who saw them.
In 1933, it was possible, with labor furnished by the Civil Works Administration, to begin a systematic exploration of the Ocmulgee mounds and adjoining sites.
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People

By: George Bird Grinnell

Price: $11.00

Seller ID: mcna2001

ISBN-13: 9780803250796

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

'These tales 'bring alive the world of the Northern Plains buffalo hunters and warriors"- "Western Folklore". First published in 1892, "Blackfoot Lodge Tales" is based on George Bird Grinnell's extensive personal knowledge of the three tribes of the Blackfoot nation. Grinnell, an ethnologist, writer, editor, explorer, creator of Glacier National Park, and protector of Yellowstone National Park, had great compassion for and understanding of Indians at a time when most men of the frontier were both uninterested in and unable to record the Indians' oral literature. The Blackfoot nation recognized...
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Searching for Your Ancestors

By: Gilbert H. Doane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: : 1937

Seller ID: mcr2108

ISBN-13: 9780816602131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Moderately Used, some markings

212 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. This book is intended be an introduction to the method of searching for elusive and forgotten ancestors. It ha been written primarily for the individual who has always thought that he would look up the family tree, but has never got around to it.
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The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals, 1813-1855

By: Gloria Jahoda

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: mcna2003

ISBN-13: 9780517146774

Binding: Library

Condition: New

Insightful, rarely told history of Native American courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the few white Americans who fought to help them. 356 pages, indexed.
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Conquest of the Prairies

By: Harry A. Stroud

Price: $28.00

Seller ID: mcr2046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used Library, Fair

Conquest of the Prairies tells in vivid detail the story of the Plains Indians from the days when they roamed the freely over our western prairies until they driven from their native hunting grounds to reservations in Western Oklahoma. 281 pages, indexed.

Names include: Bird, Carr, Hamby, Inman, LaSalle, Salcedo,
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Renewing The World

By: Howard L. Harrod

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1987

Seller ID: mcna2018

ISBN-13: 9780816509584

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

213 pages, including index. The central focus of this study is upon religious and moral traditions of tribes in historic times on the Northwestern Plains.
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Second Kent Land records of Kent County, Maryland 1694-1706

By: Irma S. Harper

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Irma S. Harper : 2002

Seller ID: mdk2103

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Used

Includes land records, tract names, treaties with indian tribes, cattle marks, birth records, originn of settlers, marriage and family references, names of rivers and stream.

Index. 1098 p. &
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Many Strange Characters: Montana Frontier Tales

By: James Willard Schultz, Eugene Lee Stillman

Price: $65.00

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press : 1982

Seller ID: mt2201

ISBN: 978-0806117942

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: New

This is an accurate description of some of the hard ass, real life characters
who made their lives in the wilds of Montana. It even uses the dialect that was used during those years.

Index. 143 p. &
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Cherokee Citizenship Commission Docket Books 1880-1884 and 1887-1889

By: Jeff Bowen

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Mountain Press : 1997

Seller ID: na2206

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This series contains documentation from the rulings of the Cherokee Citizenship Commission dockets. Besides the names of the applicant and the presiding commissioners and the date of the determination, the transcriptions mostly identify the names of family members and their relationship to the person(s) filing the application.

Index. 254 p. &
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Eastern Cherokee Census; Volume IV 1921-1922

By: Jeff Bowen

Price: $29.00

Seller ID: gp9844

ISBN-13: 9780806352909

Last volume of the Cherokee Census of those living on the Qualla Reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina. Those enumerated are descendants of Cherokees who were not removed to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears. Census information includes individual's name, family relationship, birth date, gender. Sometime death date and children names also included. 4,000 names, indexed.180 pages
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

By: John Ehle

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Anchor Books Doubleday : 1988

Seller ID: mcna2011

ISBN-13: 9780385239547

Binding: Soft cover

The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as th...
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The Indian Tribes Of North America

By: John R. Swanton

Price: $75.00

Publisher: : 2003

Seller ID: gp5682

ISBN-13: 9780806317304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

726 pages, including index. From the date of its first appearance in 1891 the Powell Mao of "Linguistic Families of American Indians North of Mexico" has proved of the widest utility. It has been reissued several tines and copied into numerous publications. There has however, been almost equal need of a map giving the location of the tribes under the several families. Includes maps
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NGS Research In The States Series: American Indians Of Oklahoma

By: Kathy Huber

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NGS

Seller ID: ngs1700

ISBN-13: 9781935815280

Binding: saddle stitch

Condition: like new

The American Indians of Oklahoma tells the story of the sixty-seven tribes that were removed or relocated to the area once known as Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Their stories, revealed through tribal records, historical documents, and federal legislation tells of heartache, challenges, and long-suffering. Tribes include American Indians from the Northeast, including the Delaware, Shawnee, the Sac and Fox; the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho from the Great Plains; the Prairie tribes Kaw, Ponca, and Ottawa as well as the five tribes known as “civilized,” the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choct...
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Morrison's Social History of the Choctaw Nation: 1865-1907

By: L. David Norris & James C. Milligan

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Oklahoma, Choctaw Nations of Oklahoma : 2005

Seller ID: mcna1804

ISBN: 097102507

Binding: Soft cover--red

Condition: new

Continuing effort by the Choctaw Nation to publish volumes related to the heritage of the Tribe. For their wisdom in deciding to pursue such an important Tribal policy to save and enhance the Nation's heritage, the authors think it proper that these leaders be recognized. Accordingly, in their honor, we dedicate the book but also include the following pages on the recent past of the Nation historically and these visionary people.@
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Indian Women

By: Lela and Rufus Waltrip

Price: $15.00

Publisher: : 1964

Seller ID: mcna2026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Used, library

169 pages, free shipping media mail. Like many other primitive peoples, a large number of American Indians gave women a higher position in their way of life the women enjoyed among white societies until recent times. The Indian woman has in instances, excelled in weaving, in pottery and basketry, in painting and music and in literature.
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Confederate Indian Forces Outside of Indian Territory

By: Leroy H. Fisher, Jerry Gill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oklahoma Historical Soc. : 1969

Seller ID: ok2100

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Provides the history and value of Indian forces in the border states.

36 p. &
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Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

By: Margaret Holmes Williamson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : 2003

Seller ID: va2111

ISBN-13: 9780803247987

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: New

A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For many years Powhatan skillfully staved off threats from other Native peoples and from European colonists. Despite the prominence of Powhatan during the early colonial years, our knowledge of him and life in his realm is filtered nearly completely through the eyewitness accounts of Europeans.

Index. 323 p. &
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Cheyenne Autumn

By: Mari Sandoz

Price: $30.00

Publisher: : 1953

Seller ID: mcna2024

ISBN-13: 9780380010943

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Like New

336 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. In quest of their homeland over 1500 miles distant, a band of Northern Cheyennes fled the Oklahoma reservation in September, 1878, on what would be one of the most harrowing and courageous treks in the history of the American West.
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Fathers & Children

By: Michael Paul Rogin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopoe : 1975

Seller ID: mcna2109

ISBN-13: 9780394482040

Binding: hard cover

Condition: hard book like new, jacket condition slightly worn.

Andrew Jackson and the subjugation of the American Indian. Andrew Jackson, defender of New Orleans against the British, stalwart spokesman for the Union against the nullification rumblings of John Calhoun, the common man's champion against special, entrenched interests has been considered both a great President and a symbol for his age. Now, in a provocative psychological stud, Michael Paul Rogin reveals the dark interior of Jackson's life and career, his complex, deep-seated hostility toward the American Indians and his central responsibility for their destruction. @
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Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache: Letters From the Field

By: Morris E. Opler

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: mc8001

ISBN-13: 9780816504176

Binding: Library

Condition: New

Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research—the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source material on Western Apache beliefs and customs. They also reveal the attitudes and methods which made him so effective in his work. A dedicated and thorough ethnographer, Goodwin became familiar with every aspect of Western Apache culture. 103 pages, indexed.
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Category: American Indian