The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Joshua L. Reid
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identi…
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1. Indians in Unexpected Places
By: Philip J. Deloria
3.88
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stere… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
3. War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History)
By: Brian DeLay
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
By: Laurie Arnold
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and… read more
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5. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
By: Marsha L. Weisiger
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country" offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Dine)… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
By: Coll Thrush
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Na… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
7. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Culture and Imperialism
By: None
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-ove… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
9. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History)
By: Richard White , Frederick E. Hoxie , Neal Salisbury
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
A mutually comprehensible world was established by Europeans and Indians in 1650 in the region arou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
By: Andrew C. Isenberg
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an es… read more
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11. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
By: Andrés Reséndez
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more
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12. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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13. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
By: None
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United Sta… read more
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14. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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15. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- indigenous
16. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more
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- indigenous
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
17. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
18. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
19. People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
By: Robert Michael Morrissey
4.38
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from th… read more
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20. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
By: Elizabeth N. Ellis
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smal… read more
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- history
- indigenous
21. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
22. The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Joshua L. Reid
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identi… read more
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- history
- academic
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
23. Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies)
By: Rosalyn R. LaPier
4.41
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award Rosalyn R… read more
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- nonfiction
- indigenous
24. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
25. Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
By: Megan Asaka
4.31
Format: 272 pages, ebook
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattl… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
26. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination
By: Julie Cruikshank
4.02
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling … read more
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- history
- academic
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- anthropology
27. Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day
By: Vine Deloria Jr.
4.44
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
Prior to the onslaught of the Europeans, the Puget Sound area was one of the most heavily populated… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- indigenous
28. Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
By: Brian McCammack
3.61
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environm… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560 - 1720
By: Dagomar deGroot
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
By: Theodore Binnema
3.87
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
In Common and Contested Ground, Theodore Binnema provides a sweeping and innovative interpretation … read more
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31. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
