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American Indian

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc: December 1975

Seller ID: 72523

ISBN: 0471003964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The American Indian and the Problem of History

By: N/A

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1987

Seller ID: 72579

ISBN: 0195038568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles with the phenomenon that in writing about Indians and whites in concert scholars are perforce trying to mesh two very different structures and systems o...
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Children of Bondage: The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South

By: Allison Davis John Dollard

Price: $19.95

Publisher: American Council on Education: 1947

Seller ID: 81304

ISBN: 281BUI1001503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Otoes and Missourias: A Study of Indian Removal and the Legal Aftermath

By: Berlin Basil Chapman

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Times Journal Publishing: 1965

Seller ID: 72580

ISBN: 281BUI1000816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

signed by author on title page, couple of very minor scratches front cover, light edge wear else clean & tight
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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community

By: Carol B. Stack

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1975

Seller ID: 65548

ISBN: 281BUI1000023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

top 1/3 of rear cover torn away, rubbed
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Red men and hat-wearers: Viewpoints in Indian history : papers from the Colorado State University conference on Indian history, August 1974

By: Daniel (editor) Tyler

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Pruett Pub. Co: January 1976

Seller ID: 72578

ISBN: 0871085011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

By: Ethan Michaeli

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: January 2016

Seller ID: 74068

ISBN: 0547560699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"An extraordinary history...Deeply researched, elegantly written...a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." --Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - Amazon

Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the ...
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Indian-White Relations in the United States: A Bibliography of Works Published 1975-1980

By: Francis Paul Prucha

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr: March 1982

Seller ID: 72511

ISBN: 0803287054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A tool for scholars working in the field of Indian studies. This title covers the topic of Indian-white relations with breadth and depth.
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The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon

By: Irving Goldman

Price: $17.95

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2372

ISBN: B00130LM8A

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

cover rubbed & edge worn, else clean & tight
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The Enduring Indians of Kansas: A Century and a Half of Acculturation

By: Joseph B. Herring

Price: $11.95

Publisher: University Press of Kansas: July 1990

Seller ID: 72512

ISBN: 0700605886

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Cherokees' "Trail of Tears" and the forced migration of other Southern tribes during the 1830s and 1840s were the most notorious consequences of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. Less well known is the fact that many tribes of the Old Northwest territory were also forced to surrender their lands and move west of the Mississippi River.

By 1850, upwards of 10,000 displaced Indians had been settled "permanently" along the wooded streams and rivers of eastern Kansas. Twenty years later only a few hundred--mostly Kickapoos, Potawatomis, Chippewas, Munsees, Iowas, Foxes, and Sacs--rema...
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Myths and Legends of the North American Indians

By: Lewis Spence

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Collectors Library of Myth and Legend: 2004

Seller ID: 31956

ISBN: 1904919081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination Since 1928

By: Margaret Szasz

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr: February 1978

Seller ID: 74110

ISBN: 0826304680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Big Cypress

By: Merwyn S. Garbarino

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.: January 1972

Seller ID: 72582

ISBN: 0030866723

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

American Indians and the Law (The Penguin Library of American Indian History)

By: N. Bruce Duthu

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Viking: 2008

Seller ID: 15769

ISBN: 0670018570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The history and politics of American Indians? unique constitutional status from a renowned scholar
Few Americans know that Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's distinct racial and ethnic groups: They are also sovereign governments that engage in governmental relations with Congress. The self-rule of Native tribes long predates the founding of the United States, and that peculiar status has led to legal and political disputes?with vast sums of money hanging in the balance. From cigarette taxes to control of environmental resources to gambling law, the history of America...
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Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives

By: Norman E. Whitten, Jr. & John F. Szwed, Editors

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Free Press: 1970

Seller ID: 7053

ISBN: 0029352606

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Used - Very Good

lightly rubbed, else clean & tight
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Travels in North America, 1822-1824

By: Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Wurttemberg; Translated by W. Robert Nitske; Edited by Savoie Lottinville

Price: $24.95

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1973

Seller ID: 72584

ISBN: 0806115017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

rubbed with minor edge wear, else clean & tight
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Common Sense About Race

By: Philip Mason

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Macmillan: 1961

Seller ID: 16855

ISBN: B0000CL1OP

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Used - Good

Type: Ex-Library lightly rubbed, minor foxing to end papers, typical library stampings & pastings, else clean & tight
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Moon of Popping Trees

By: Rex Alan Smith

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Press : distributed by Crowell: January 1975

Seller ID: 72524

ISBN: 0883490765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Deer Dancer

By: Richard J. Gonzales

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Sleeping Panther Press: June 2017

Seller ID: 68833

ISBN: 0998066125

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In 1800s Sonora, Mexico, the Yaquis are in constant struggle to keep their homelands from first the Spaniards and later the Mexicans. The battle between Yaquis and the Mexicans is personal for the Falcon family of Mateo, Petra, Luz, Angel and Cheve, as they fight to survive in the dangerous and violent world they live in. Deer Dancer blends both the mystical culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and historical events from this dark period in Mexico's history to fascinate and educate older young adults and adults alike.
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Omaha Tribal Myths and Trickster Tales

By: Roger L. Welsch

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Swallow Press: June 1981

Seller ID: 72581

ISBN: 0804007004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

clean & tight - dust jacket has very slight chipping @ spine, rubbed
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American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era

By: Ronald N. Satz

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: August 1976

Seller ID: 72576

ISBN: 0803258488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

La Raza: The Mexican-Americans

By: Stan Steiner

Price: $4.95

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1970

Seller ID: 74857

ISBN: 0060902035

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

underlining
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Navahos Have Five Fingers

By: T.D. Allen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1965

Seller ID: 16265

ISBN: 0806105755

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Used - Good

Type: Ex-Library bottom edge rubbed tio boards, old tape stains on covers. typical library stampings & pastings, dj rubbed w/ minor edge wear
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