Indigenous Firsts

New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart. Whether to end African enslavement and Indigenous removal or eradicate capitalism and colonialism, Mays show how the fervor of Black and Indigenous peoples calls for justice have consistently sought to uproot white supremacy. Mays uses a wide-array of historical activists and pop culture icons, “sacred” texts, and foundational texts like the Declaration of Independence and Democracy in America. He covers the civil rights movement and freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, and explores current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture. Mays compels us to rethink both our history as well as contemporary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity. Includes an 8-page photo insert featuring Kwame Ture with Dennis Banks and Russell Means at the Wounded Knee Trials; Angela Davis walking with Oren Lyons after he leaves Wounded Knee, SD; former South African president Nelson Mandela with Clyde Bellecourt; and more.

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out."--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 "My favorite non-fiction book of this year."--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion "A briliant, bold, gripping history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 "All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness"--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.

DIVDIVMore than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering book is the first to provide a full account of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples, from the long-ago days of their arrival to the present day./divDIV /divDIVLucianne Lavin draws on exciting new archaeological and ethnographic discoveries, interviews with Native Americans, rare documents including periodicals, archaeological reports, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, conference papers, newspapers, and government records, as well as her own ongoing archaeological and documentary research. She creates a fascinating and remarkably detailed portrait of indigenous peoples in deep historic times before European contact and of their changing lives during the past 400 years of colonial and state history. She also includes a short study of Native Americans in Connecticut in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book brings to light the richness and diversity of Connecticut’s indigenous histories, corrects misinformation about the vanishing Connecticut Indian, and reveals the significant roles and contributions of Native Americans to modern-day Connecticut./divDIVDIV/div/div/div

2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book 2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People,selected by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council 2019 Best-Of Lists: Best YA Nonfiction of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · Best Nonfiction of 2019 (School Library Journal) · Best Books for Teens (New York Public Library) · Best Informational Books for Older Readers (Chicago Public Library) Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples’ resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country “discovered” by a few brave men in the “New World,” Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.

Awards: One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022. PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020. One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020. Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019. Shortlist, Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, 2019. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto. Now available in paperback on the fifth anniversary of its original publication, Our History Is the Future features a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising indigenous campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world. In this award-winning book, Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan “Mni Wiconi”—Water Is Life—was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even with the encampment gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue. While a historian by trade, Estes draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires) and his own family’s rich history of struggle.

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 years ago) but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years. Steeves discusses the political history of American anthropology to focus on why pre-Clovis sites have been dismissed by the field for nearly a century. She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations. Additionally, she highlights the work and struggles faced by a small yet vibrant group of American and European archaeologists who have excavated and reported on numerous pre-Clovis archaeology sites. In this first book on Paleolithic archaeology of the Americas written from an Indigenous perspective, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere includes Indigenous oral traditions, archaeological evidence, and a critical and decolonizing discussion of the development of archaeology in the Americas.

Acelebration of achievement, accomplishments, and courage! NativeAmerican Medal of Honor recipients, Heisman Trophy recipients, U.S.Olympians, a U.S. vice president, Congressional representatives, NASAastronauts, Pulitzer Prize recipients, U.S. poet laureates, Oscarwinners, and more. The first Native magician, all-Native comedy show,architects, attorneys, bloggers, chefs, cartoonists, psychologists,religious leaders, filmmakers, educators, physicians, code talkers,and inventors. Luminaries like Jim Thorpe, King Kamehameha, DebraHaaland, and Will Rogers, along with less familiar notables such asNative Hawaiian language professor and radio host Larry LindseyKimura and Cree/Mohawk forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams. Theirstories plus the stories of more than 900 other people and places arepresented in NativeAmerican Firsts: A History of Indigenous Achievement,including ... SuzanneVan Cooten, Ph.D., Chickasaw Nation, thefirst Native female meteorologist in the country CalebCheeshahteaumuck, Wampanoag from Martha''s Vineyard, graduate ofHarvard College in 1665 DebraHaaland, the Pueblo of Laguna, U.S. Congresswoman and Secretary ofthe Interior SamCampos, the Native Hawaiian who developed the Hawaiian superheroPineapple Man ThomasL. Sloan, Omaha, was the first Native American to argue a casebefore the U.S. Supreme Court WilliamR. Pogue, Choctaw, astronaut JohnstonMurray, Chickasaw, the first person of Native American descent to beelected governor in the United States, holding the office inOklahoma from 1951 to 1955 TheCherokee Phoenixpublished its first edition February 21, 1828, making it the firsttribal newspaper in North America and the first to be published inan Indigenous language KaneBrown, Cherokee descent, the first artist to have simultaneous hitson all five main Billboard country charts LouisSockalexis, Penobscot, became the first Native American in theNational Baseball League in 1897 as an outfielder with the ClevelandSpiders JockSoto, Navajo/Puerto Rican, the youngest-ever man to be the principaldancer with the New York City Ballet Pocahontas,Powhatan, honored on a U.S. postage stamp Warrior''sCircle of Honor,the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, onthe grounds of the Smithsonian''s National Museum of the AmericanIndian TheIolani Palace, constructed 1879-1882, the home of the Hawaiianroyal family in Honolulu LorieneRoy, Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation, professor at the University ofTexas at Austin''s School of Information, former president of theAmerican Library Association BenNighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne, U.S. representative and U.S.senator from Colorado HanayGeiogamah, Kiowa /Delaware, founded the American Indian TheatreEnsemble GeraldVizenor, White Earth Nation, writer, literary critic, and journalistfor the Minneapolis Tribune ElyS. Parker (Hasanoanda, later Donehogawa), Tonawanda Seneca,lieutenant colonel in the Union Army, serving as General Ulysses S.Grant''s military secretary FritzScholder, Luiseno, painter inducted into the California Hall of Fame TheNative American Women Warriors, the first all Native American femalecolor guard LoriArviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman to become a board-certifiedsurgeon Kay"Kaibah" C. Bennett, Navajo, teacher, author, and the firstwoman to run for the presidency of the Navajo Nation SandraSunrising Osawa, Makah Indian Nation, the first Native American tohave a series on commercial television TheChoctaw people''s 1847 donation to aid the Irish people sufferingfrom the great famine OtakuyeConroy-Ben, Oglala Lakota, first to get an environmental engineeringPh.D. at the University of Arizona DianeJ. Willis, Kiowa, former President of the Society of PediatricPsychology and founding editor of the Journalof Pediatric Psychology ShellyNiro, Mohawk, winner of Canada''s top photography prize, theScotiabank Photography Award LorenLeman, Alutiiq/Russian-Polish, was the first Alaska Native electedlieutenant governor KimTallBear, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, the first recipient of the CanadaResearch Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment CarissaMoore, Native Hawaiian, won the Gold Medal in Surfing at the 2020Tokyo Olympics WillRogers, Cherokee, actor, performer, humorist was named the firsthonorary mayor of Beverly Hills Foodsof the Southwest Indian Nationsby Lois Ellen Frank, Kiowa, was the first Native American cookbookto win the James Beard Award DianeHumetewa, Hopi, nominated by President Barack Obama, became thefirst Native American woman to serve as a federal judge SusieWalking Bear Yellowtail, Crow, the first Native American nurse to beinducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame NativeAmerican Firstshonors the ongoing and rich history of personal victories andtriumphs, and withmore than 200 photos and illustrations, this information-rich bookalso includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, addingto its usefulness. This vital collection will appeal to anyoneinterested in America''s amazing history and its resilient andskilled Indigenous peopl

"Timely and original, this volume looks at indigenous peoples from the perspective of cosmopolitan theory and at cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the indigenous world. In doing so, it not only sheds new light on both, but also has something important to say about the complexities of identification in this shrinking, overheated world. Analysing ethnoqraphy from around the world, the authors demonstrate the universality of the local-indigeneity-and the particularity of the universal--cosmopolitanism. Anthropology doesn't get much better than this." --Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo; Author of Globalisation --Book Jacket.

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