Discusses the history, daily lives, culture, religion, and conflicts of the Indians that lived in the northeastern part of what is now the United States, including the Algonquian, Abenaki, and Wampanoag tribes.

Discusses the background, cultural practices, interaction with Spanish settlers, and current lives of some of the native peoples living in the American Southwest.

Discusses the Cheyenne Native Americans including their nomadic life, social and religious customs, peace chiefs and war leaders, wars, early days on the reservation, and current situation.

Discusses the identity, survival, religion, culture, social development, and modern world of the Blackfeet.

Profiles the culture, customs, religious practices and life style of several native American tribes of the Northwest plateau. Discusses the history, culture, religious beliefs, and daily life of the Indians that lived in the Northwest plateau.

"Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous...

"Amid the Standing Rock movement to protect the land and the water that millions depend on for life, the Oceti Sakowin (the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people) reunited. Through poetry and prose, essays, photography, interviews, and polemical interventions, the contributors reflect on Indigenous history and politics and on the movement's significance. Their work challenges our understanding of colonial history not simply as "lessons learned" but as...

"Decolonizing "Prehistory" critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past. "--