Books like American Indians by William Thomas Hagan

Roxanne Dunbar‑Ortiz presents a comprehensive account of United States history from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, exposing the long‑running colonial and genocidal policies that have silenced native voices.

Sir Walter Raleigh’s ill‑fated Roanoke colonists and their encounters with Native Americans unfold in Giles Milton’s well‑researched narrative that spans English exploration, the mysterious disappearance of early settlers, and Elizabeth I’s legendary title, "Big Chief."

This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called the "Pays d'en haut". Here the older worlds of the Algonquins and various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the recreation of the Indians as alien and exotic. The process of accommodation described in this book takes place in a middle ground, a place in between cultures and peoples, and in between empires and non-state villages. On the middle ground people try to persuade others who are different than themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. From the creative misunderstandings that result, there arise shared meanings and new practices.

A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Reséndez builds the case that it was mass slavery--more than epidemics--that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians--as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. The Other Slavery reveals nothing less than a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed to see truly.--Adapted from dust jacket.

The book analyzes how Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian political policies contributed to the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Aboriginal peoples during the era of Sir John A. Macdonald’s expansion.

A historical account of the near destruction of the Mi'kmaq and other North American First Nations by European colonization, concentrating on British actions and their lasting impact.

New England Frontier examines the first two decades of Puritan settlers’ generally peaceful and equitable relations with Native Americans, their intent to assimilate tribes, and the abrupt shift after the 1675 war.

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Explores how eight Native American communities across North America navigated the American Revolution, revealing their fight for freedom and the war’s impact on Indigenous sovereignty.