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The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of S...
A novel
"I don’t go looking for it, but trouble seems to find me.” It’s the summer of 1977 in Medicine Hat, Alberta and twelve-year-old Will Widmann’s...
Voices of Indian America
This gorgeous volume draws from the vast archives of the National Museum of the American Indian, and features the voices and perspectives of some of t...
The Colorado Desert lands that became Riverside County in the 19th century were home to diverse bands of California Indian people, including the Cahui...
Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians
Native Americans long resisted Western medicine—but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian A...
Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–1950
In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians...
Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964
Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted amo...
This book explores the history, culture, and current status of the Nez Perce....
Death Records of the Yakama, 1888-1964
Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and diseas...
The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest
This story of western expansion and Indian-white conflict is sensitively retold from the perspective of Native Americans. Renegade Tribe examines writ...
Pacific Northwest Volga Germans
Hardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war a...
Pioneers of the Northwest
"This story deals with one of the largest migrations by a single ethnic group to the Pacific Northwest. It is the saga of the Volga Germans who settle...
Nez Perce Leader
Presents the life and times of the Nez Perce Indian chief who led his people on a great trek to escape the injustices of the American government....
Grandfather's Maidu Indian Tales
This children's book relates the story of Travis and Laura and how their grandfather, a Maidu Indian, teaches them about their history and culture thr...
"Tribal incest laws formed the basis of the murder and manhunt known as the Willie Boy Affair of 1909. Based on oral testimony by Nuwuvi elders, newsp...
A Photographic History of the Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
"Shadows of Sherman Institute is a photographic study of one of the most historically signficant sites of Native American history, the Sherman Indian ...
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When Andrew's brother and other members of his tribe are arrested for salmon fishing without a license, Andrew's knowledge of Indian treaties leads th...
The Palouse Indians and the Nez Perce War of 1877
An Historical Bibliography
The two major language families on the Columbia Plateau are Sahaptin and Salish. This bibliography concentrates primarily on the former, providing det...