Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Cheyenne

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Arapaho

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 21 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By David Zarbock
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One of the most influential Native American tribes on the Great Plains was the Arapaho, a group so renowned among neighboring Native Americans that it's believed their name came from a Pawnee word for "trader. Like other notable Plains tribes, the Arapaho split off from other groups around the 16th-17th centuries and shifted from a sedentary agricultural society to the kind of nomadic group many envision when thinking of groups on the Plains.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Sioux

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Tracy Turner
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Among Native American tribes, the Sioux are one of the best known and most important. Participants in some of the most famous and notorious events in American history, the history of the Sioux is replete with constant reminders of the consequences of both their accommodation of and resistance to American incursions into their territory by pioneering white settlers pushing further westward during the 19th century.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Apache

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 22 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By David Zarbock
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Among all the Native American tribes, the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans learned the hard way that the warriors of the Apache were among the fiercest in North America. Based in the Southwest, the Apache fought all three in Mexico and the American Southwest, engaging in seasonal raids for so many centuries that the Apache struck fear into the hearts of all their neighbors. Given the group's reputation, it's fitting that they are inextricably associated with one of their most famous leaders, Geronimo.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Comanche

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 22 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Jim Wentland
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For centuries, the Comanche thrived in a territory called Comancheria, which comprised parts of eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado, northeastern Arizona, southern Kansas, Oklahoma, and some of northwest Texas. Before conflicts with white settlers began in earnest, it's been estimated that the tribe consisted of more than 40,000 members. While the Comanche are still a federally recognized nation today and live on a reservation in part of Oklahoma, they have remained a well-known tribe due to their 19th century notoriety.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Pawnee

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 7 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By James Weippert
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From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Shoshone

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 15 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Scott Clem
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From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Utes

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 15 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By James Weippert
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The Utes are a Native American people who live today in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, and they currently have the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States. However, these holdings are relatively small fragments of the original Ute land base. The Utes were a fierce warrior people who fought hard to defend their land against Spaniards and later the Americans, but they remain much less well-known among the American public than many other Native American nations.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Shawnee

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Stacy Hinkle

It's no surprise that the Shawnee continue to be closely associated with their most famous leader, Tecumseh, the most famous Native American of the early 19th century. While leading the Shawnee, he attempted to peacefully establish a Native American nation east of the Mississippi River in the wake of the American Revolution. Together with his brother Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh was in the process of forming a wide-ranging, Native American confederacy that they hoped would stem the westward flow of Anglo-American settlers.

Native American Tribes: The History of the Blackfeet and the Blackfoot Confederacy

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 26 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Jack Chekijian
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They call themselves "Niitsitapi" ("Original People"), but in the United States, they are known as the Blackfeet. In Canada, they are known by their more particular band names, one of which is Blackfoot, but regardless of the name, they are a tribe of Native American peoples ("First Nations" in Canada) who, until the modern time period, lived in small, decentralized bands and hunted the bison on the northern Great Plains.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Chippewa

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 10 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By David Zarbock
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Outside of the Midwest, the Chippewa are not as well known as other Native American tribes like the Sioux or Cherokee, but they have long been one of the biggest groups in all of North America. Not surprisingly their presence around the Great Lakes region made them especially important to early European explorers who sailed the St. Lawrence and came into contact with the natives as they continued searching for the Northwest Passage.

The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Dave Wright
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The "Five Civilized Tribes" are among the best known Native American groups in American history, and they were even celebrated by contemporary Americans for their abilities to adapt to white culture. But tragically, they are also well known tribes due to the trials and tribulations they suffered by being forcibly moved west along the "Trail of Tears".

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Chickasaw

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 6 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Robert Fox
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Though not as well known as the Cherokee, one of the Five Civilized Tribes was the Chickasaw. With roots that tie them to the Ancient Moundbuilders, the Chickasaw were one of the most established groups in the Southeastern United States, and they were among the first natives encountered by Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto's historic expedition in the mid-16th century.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Nez Percé

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Russell Stamets
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From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Mound Builders

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 20 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By James Weippert
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In the 18th century, when Europeans first came upon the giant mounds and earthworks dotting the North American landscape, they couldn't imagine that the Native Americans they came into contact with were capable of producing such advanced technology and masterful engineering. In fact, when President George Washington sent Rufus Putnam to survey land in southeastern Ohio, Putnam reported that he'd discovered an impressive walled earthwork complex, which was obviously the work of some long-forgotten ancient civilization.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Cherokee

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Scott Larson

From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Joseph M. Marshall III
• Narrated By Joseph M. Marshall III
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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. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership, fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy.

The Foundations of Western Civilization

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Daniel Sharfstein
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
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Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Creek (Muskogee)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 41 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Scott Larson
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Though they are not as well known as tribes like the Sioux or Cherokee, the Creek are one of the oldest and most important Native American tribes in North America. With roots that tie them to the Ancient Moundbuilders, the Creek were one of the most established groups in the Southeastern United States, and came to be known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. It's also believed that the Creek were the first natives encountered by Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto's historic expedition in the mid-16th century.

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
• Narrated By George Newbern
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The great Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him. At the peak of their chief’s powers, the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States. But unlike Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, or Geronimo, the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, his incredible story can finally be told.

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Inuit (Eskimos)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 15 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Bob Barton

North Americans have long been fascinated by the Inuit, but this level of interest has been matched by a general lack of knowledge about the group itself. For centuries, they have been called Eskimos, despite the fact there are distinct differences within the group and many of them find the use of the word Eskimo offensive.

American Legends: The Life of Black Hawk

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Tim Harwood
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Of all the Native American leaders who attempted to resist the westward expansion of the United States and further white settlement during the 19th century, few fought as long or as hard as Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk in the present-day Midwest. Though he is no longer as well known as his contemporary Tecumseh,or subsequent Native American leaders like Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo, his eventual surrender and trip east as a prisoner turned him into one of the first Native American celebrities in the country.

The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Paul Andrew Hutton
• Narrated By Jonathan Yen

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. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from its beginning in 1861 until its end in 1890 with his pursuit of the renegade scout Apache Kid.

American Legends: The Life of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 11 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Russell Stamets
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When he died in 1904, most Americans who knew his people's story considered Chief Joseph a military genius and an "Indian Napoleon". This assessment of the Native American leader was based on a 1,500-mile odyssey during which he and his people left their reservation in the hopes of escaping to Canada, where the Nez Percé intended to join Sitting Bull and his Hunkpapa Sioux band. The real Chief Joseph was a gifted speaker and more diplomat than war leader.