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1	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus more books like this by Charles C Mann add to wishlist In this groundbreaking study, Mann shows how a new generation of anthropologists and archaeologists, using new research techniques, have come to the persuasive conclusion that more people lived in the Americas in 1491 than in Europe. see all copies from £6.60! new only from £9.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux more books like this by John Gneisenau Neihardt add to wishlist This is the autobiography of Black Elk, a Lakota Indian fighting for freedom at the end of the 19th century, as told to author John G. Neihardt. While his tale glows with eyewitness accounts of historic events and Lakota Sioux customs, the heart of the book is Black Elk's soulful visions of a better future for his people and, by extension, for all ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.22! \| first editions
3	From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans more books like this by John Hope Franklin add to wishlist This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ... see all copies from £6.15! new only from £28.75!
4	Atlas of the North American Indian more books like this by Carl Waldman add to wishlist "Atlas of the North American Indian, Third Edition" chronicles the travel and experiences of Native Americans from the first voyage to North America to the present day. This new edition now features a bold full-color format and is bolstered by more than 120 full-color, detailed maps that cover important locations for American Indians, as well as ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £5.60! \| first editions
5	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West more books like this by Dee Brown add to wishlist Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. When it was first published in 1971, both reviewers and the reading public responded first with shock, then a deep sense of shame, calling it "shattering" (Washington Post) ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.11! \| first editions
6	The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War more books like this by Fred Anderson add to wishlist In this companion book to the PBS series of the same name, Fred Anderson presents a fascinating and accessible history of the French and Indian War, fought between Britain and France on North American soil between 1754 and 1763. This somewhat little-known war is important on several levels. First, it was a set-up to the Revolution, as it ended the ... see all copies from £7.47! new only from £9.07! \| first editions
7	First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History more books like this by Professor Colin G Calloway add to wishlist "First Peoples" distinctive approach to American Indian history has earned praise and admiration from its users. Created to fill the significant need for a survey text that acknowledges the diversity of Native peoples, respected scholar Colin G. Calloway provides a solid course foundation that still allows instructors to emphasize selected topics ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £19.62!
8	A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West more books like this by Jim Donovan add to wishlist In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility. Custer, who was conveniently dead, ... see all copies from £7.16! new only from £9.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents more books like this by Professor Theda Perdue (Editor), Michael D Green (Editor) add to wishlist The Cherokee Removal of 1838-1839 unfolded against a complex backdrop of competing ideologies, self-interest, party politics, altruism, and ambition. Using documents that convey Cherokee voices, government policy, and white citizens' views, Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green present a multifaceted account of this complicated moment in American ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £11.52! \| first editions
10	The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America more books like this by John Demos add to wishlist An account of the Puritan minister John Williams and his family, who were taken prisoner in a raid by a party of French and Indians on a Massachusetts village in 1704, during Queen Anne's War. Williams was eventually released by the French; however his wife and several of his children died while in captivity. The unredeemed captive of the title ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest more books like this by Craig Childs add to wishlist The greatest 'unsolved mystery' of the American Southwest relates to the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico) and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments - in agriculture, in ... see all copies from £3.12! new only from £3.12! \| first editions
12 view cover	Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation more books like this by John Ehle add to wishlist In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the author of the highly acclaimed The Winter People tells the moving, searing story of the betrayal and brutal dispossession of the Cherokee Nation. "(A) beautifully written and emotionally mature book . . . a must".--New York Newsday. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.96! \| first editions
13 view cover	The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America more books like this by Walter R Borneman add to wishlist This narrative history of epic 18th-century wilderness battles and pre-Revolutionary rumblings of independence presents the triumphs and tragedies of this frontier struggle. 8-page B&W insert. 15 maps. see all copies from £6.68! new only from £8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America more books like this by Dr. Daniel K Richter add to wishlist In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its ... see all copies from £7.29! new only from £13.81!
15 view cover	Navajo Code Talkers more books like this by Nathan Aaseng add to wishlist Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language. see all copies from £3.05! new only from £6.82! \| first editions
16 view cover	Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars more books like this by David Roberts add to wishlist Of the many tales of conflict and warfare between the US government and the Indian tribes, perhaps none is more dramatic or revealing than the story of the Apache wars. They were the final episode in the subjugation of the indigenous peoples: the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 effectively ended the Indian wars. Featuring not only Gerinimo, but ... see all copies from £4.11! new only from £12.73! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico more books like this by Miguel Leon-Portillo add to wishlist A new expanded version of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as told by Aztec voices--with a new Postscript by the editor For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel Leon-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding ... see all copies from £9.45! new only from £9.45!
18 view cover	Ecological Indian: Myth and History more books like this by Shepard Krech, III add to wishlist This scholarly book studies the reality behind the "ecological Indian" myth, and warns that revisionist historians who perpetuate this false history oversimplify both the positive and negative aspects of the Native American legacy. see all copies from £7.66! new only from £9.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Coyote medicine : lessons from Native American healing more books like this by Lewis Mehl-Madrona add to wishlist This is a philosophical and practical guide to North American Indian medicine and its focus on the "world" of the patient, including his or her personality, family or community problems. The healing process involves meeting and facing the "spirit" of the illness, ceremonies to communicate with the spirit world and exorcise evil, and manipulative ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage more books like this by Plimoth Plantation, Sisse Brimberg (Photographer), Cotton Coulson (Photographer) add to wishlist Plimoth Plantation and National Geographic now tell the true story behind the voyage of the "Mayflower," offering kids a compelling account that is quite different from the story that's traditionally told. Features vibrant photos of historical reenactments. see all copies from £4.54! new only from £4.54!
21 view cover	The Comanche Empire more books like this by Pekka Hamalainen add to wishlist In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in ... see all copies from £8.96! new only from £11.26!
22 view cover	The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 more books like this by Richard White, Frederick Hoxie (Editor), Neal Salisbury (Editor) add to wishlist This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they ... see all copies from £7.47! new only from £16.81!
23 view cover	In the Spirit of Crazy Horse more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist After eight years in the American courts, this book examines the shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indian activists which erupted on a reservation in South Dakota. The confrontation ended with the death of three men, two of them FBI officers. Eventually, four Indians were indicted on murder charges. One of them, Leonard Peltier, is still ... see all copies from £1.69! new only from £6.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Native American testimony : a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992 more books like this by Peter Nabokov add to wishlist From their first encounters with traders, explorers, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers, to the heyday of "Red Power" during the 1960s and '70s, the relations of Native Americans with white men are explored in a powerful series of documents--seen through Indian eyes and told in Indian voices. Photographs. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £8.70! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears more books like this by Professor Theda Perdue, Michael Green add to wishlist In the 1830s, the U.S. government proceeded to drive the Cherokee people west of the Mississippi. Recounting this moment in American history, the authors consider its impact on the Cherokee, on U.S.-Indian relations, and on contemporary society. see all copies from £6.85! new only from £7.37! \| first editions

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