Text: Radmilla Cody
Radmilla Cody, whose father was African American and mother was Navajo, became the first biracial Miss Navajo contest winner in 1997. She went on to become an award-winning singer, one of NPR's 50 Great Voices, and an anti-domestic violence activist.
First eBook Title: Reclaimers (2015)
Synopsis: For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park. Until people decided to reclaim them. In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip of West Coast mountain ranges--the Panamints, the Sierras, the Cascades--and alongside rivers to meet the people, many of them wise women, who persevered for decades with little hope of success to make changes happen. - click here to access eBook
Second eBook Title: I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (2017)
Synopsis: Presents the autobiographies of thirteen Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College, ten of them current and recent students. The autobiographies contained in I Am Where I Come From explore issues of native identity, adjustment to the college environment, cultural and familial influences, and academic and career aspirations. - click here to access eBook
First eBook Title: Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492 (2015)
Synopsis: he Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains.Horse Nations provides the first wide-ranging and up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the horse on the Indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia following its introduction as a result of European contact post-1492. - click here to access eBook
Second eBook Title: Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex (2018)
Synopsis: Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d'Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth. - click here to access eBook
Text: Maria Tallchief
Elizabeth Marie "Betty" Tall Chief (Osage family name - Ki He Kah Stah Tsa) is considered America's frist major prima ballerina and the first Native American to hold the rank. Her role as the Sugarplum Fairy brought The Nutcracker out of obscurity, making it one of the most popular ballets in America.
First eBook Title: Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory (2017)
Synopsis: The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. - click here to access eBook
Second eBook Title: Native American Almanac (2016)
Synopsis: From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples traces the rich heritage of indigenous people. It is a fascinating mix of biography, pre-contact and post-contact history, current events, Tribal Nations histories, enlightening insights on environmental and land issues, arts, treaties, languages, education, movements, and more. - click here to access eBook
First eBook Title: American Indians and National Forests (2016)
Synopsis: The story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed over how the nation's forests ought to be valued and cared for on matters ranging from huckleberry picking and vision quests to road building and recreation development. - click here to access eBook
Second eBook Title: Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star (2019)
Synopsis: Brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as “Princess Red Wing,” St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre-Hollywood and early studio-system era in the United States. - click here to access eBook
Text: Jim Thorpe
Jim Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox family name - Wa-Tho-Huk) became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association, better known today as the NFL.
First eBook Title: The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (2003)
Synopsis: After a career working and living with American Indians and studying their traditions, Barre Toelken has written this sweeping study of Native American folklore in the West. Within a framework of performance theory, cultural worldview, and collaborative research, he examines Native American visual arts, dance, oral tradition (story and song), humor, and patterns of thinking and discovery to demonstrate what can be gleaned from Indian traditions by Natives and non-Natives alike. - click here to access eBook
Second eBook Title: Identity Politics of Difference: The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience (2017)
Synopsis: In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how this status affects their educational success and social interactions. - click here to access eBook
Text: Statista is a database with access to 2.5 million statistics covering relevant business and communication topics like: International Trade; Emerging Markets; Global Economy; Venture Capital Investments; Private Equity; Trend Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Company Data; Forecasts and Surveys; Public Relations in the U.S.; Sports Broadcasting; Social Media Advertising; Digital Media Growth; Unemployment Rates; Mass Media Market Volume; Relevant News Topics; and Media/Digital Agencies. - click here to access database
First eBook title: Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England (2019)
Synopsis: Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told.In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. - click here to access eBook
Second eBook title: Kiowa Ethnogeography (2008)
Synopsis: An enlightening study of more than 300 place names and geographical features that reveal a rich trove of findings related to Kiowa culture and history. - click here to access eBook
