Indigenous Peoples

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine ...

From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation The epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape the identity of a new...

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering...

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America....

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power....

Dee Brown's account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions....

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....

A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of...

The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811, and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior Chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region....

For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves....

It was a moment unique in human history: the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart....

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery...

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today “A feat of both scholarship and storytelling.”—Claudio...

As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story....

This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning....

In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of...

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn....

Embark on a journey through the rich tapestry of Native American legends with this extensive collection of Native American Myths. This meticulously curated collection brings together seven revered texts, each offering a unique window into the vibrant storytelling traditions....

Widely hailed as a spiritual classic, this inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk....

The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as “the most diabolical town on earth” and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock. "In these pungent pages, you can smell the whiskey, the...

They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides - the Apaches and the white invaders - blamed him for it....

With The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda chronicled a journey toward enlightenment under the tutelage ofYaqui Indian guru don Juan....

William Clyde Thompson: A Champion for the Yowani Choctaw chronicles the life and legacy of a man whose quiet strength and unwavering dedication helped preserve the cultural identity of the Yowani Choctaw people. Through meticulous research and heartfelt storytelling, Leaford Leven Blevins Jr. traces Thompson’s journey from rural Texas to the halls of tribal advocacy, illuminating his role in reclaiming recognition for a community long overlooked.

The Mythology and Folk-Tales of the Australian Aborigines is a scholarly academic paper—originally written in 1985 for a graduate-level Library Science course at the University of Washington. In this meticulously researched manuscript, Leeanna Ruth (Benedict) Mickelson examines the cosmology, oral traditions, and mythic structures of Australia’s First Nations peoples, presenting a clear and respectful survey of their cultural beliefs. Written before online archives or digital research tools existed, this paper reflects the scholarly standards of its time: primary-source analysis, ...

Before Columbus Got Lost rewrites the opening chapter of the Americas with humor, heart, and honesty. Jordan Blake Carter invites listeners to step into a continent that was never empty and never primitive. From the astronomers of Chaco Canyon to the philosophers of the Haudenosaunee, from the engineers who carved irrigation canals through desert sand to the artists who painted prayers onto clay, this is a history that refuses to whisper.

Plongez dans un voyage fascinant à travers le temps et l'espace avec "A la découverte des Francos de Terre-Neuve" de Sylvain Rivière. Ce récit captivant explore les traces historiques et poétiques des Francophones sur cette île mystérieuse. De l'ombre des caravelles à l'évocation du légendaire Vinland, chaque chapitre dévoile des figures emblématiques et des paysages saisissants. Découvrez comment la langue et la culture francophone ont façonné l'âme de Terre-Neuve, tout en naviguant à travers des esquisses de cartes anciennes et des panoramas atlantiques à couper le souffle.

For over 5,000 years, the story of the Chaldean people has endured, with roots reaching back more than seven millennia to the cradle of civilization. In modern times, some assumptions about how the Chaldean name survived have occasionally blurred the distinction between Chaldean and Assyrian identities. Chaldean Chronicles brings clarity to this history. Weam Namou draws upon rare manuscripts and archival sources to trace the unbroken lineage of a people whose name is among the oldest still in use. This enduring ethnicity did not arise by coincidence or through a sixteenth-century ...