Nonfiction - Indigenous Reads
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Volume 1: To the Massacre at Michillimackinac / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the st...
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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."--Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn North America's first major conflict, known today as...
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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the beginning, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust, according to Michael Kammen, is the dynamic interact...
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Colonial Pennsylvania Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"A stunning achievement. . . . A pathbreaking scholarly work by one of the nation's leading historians of the interaction between Native American...
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Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The story of Roanoke is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and enduring mystery. Now in its second edition, Roanok...
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A Description of New Netherland
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand ...
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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans—not cattle, or goats, or swin...
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Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and...
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challe...
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Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the es...
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Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /“A riveting, massively documented epic [that] overturns textbook clichés…. This impassioned study throws valuable light on our history.” —Publish...
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Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, Ne...
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An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century,...
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Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousan...
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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways—colorful and wild, righteous and...
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Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present
PaperbackOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /This volume describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Gre...
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Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Unconquered explores the complex world of Iroquois warfare, providing a narrative overview of nearly two hundred years of Iroquois conflict durin...
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North Amer...
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-Americ...
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold ri...
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Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom (1723-1792) was a prominent political and religious leader of the Indigenous peoples of present-day N...
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American histo...
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Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority "An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial cont...
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American Colonies
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsI...
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