Length225h 55m

About this audiobook

Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies gathers twenty-two foundational, if historically uneven, texts on Indigenous nations, languages, ceremonial life, oral traditions, and colonial encounter. Moving among ethnography, linguistic inquiry, memoir, regional history, folklore, archaeology, and documentary narrative, the volume reveals both the richness of Native intellectual and cultural traditions and the changing scholarly vocabularies through which they were recorded. Studies of mythic cycles, sign systems, Pueblo and Plains lifeways, and Indigenous resistance stand beside historical accounts whose assumptions require critical reading. Its contributors include prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ethnologists, historians, collectors, and public intellectuals, alongside Indigenous witnesses whose writings complicate purely outsider perspectives. Associated with the formative institutions and debates of American anthropology, salvage ethnography, philology, and western historiography, these authors preserved valuable records while often framing Native peoples through colonial categories. Read together, their varied methods expose the entanglement of knowledge production, empire, translation, and cultural survival. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad archival introduction to Native American studies and to the discipline's own history. It invites comparison across genres and regions, encourages attention to source, voice, and representation, and fosters a productive dialogue between documentary evidence, Indigenous testimony, and modern critical interpretation.

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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length225 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Blackfeet Indian Stories (Annotated)
2General History
3The North American Indian
4Foreword
5General Introduction
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6Historical Sketch
7Homeland and Life
8Mythology - Creation Myth
9Medicine and Medicine-Men
10The Messiah Craze
11Puberty Rite
12Dance of the Gods
13The Jicarillas
14Home and General Customs
15Mythology - Creation Myth
16Miracle Performers
17Origin of Fire
18The Navaho
19Home Life, Arts, and Beliefs
20History
21Mythology - Creation Myth
22Miracle Performers
23Legend of the Happiness Chant
24Legend of the Night Chant
25Ceremonies—The Night Chant
26Maturity Ceremony
27Marriage
28Appendix
29Tribal Summary - The Apache
30The Jicarillas
31The Navaho
32Southern Athapascan Comparative Vocabulary
33The Cherokee Nation of Indians
34Introductory
35Material Provisions
36Fernando de Soto's Expedition
37Early Traditions
38Early Contact with Virginia Colonists
39Early Relations with Carolina Colonists
40Mention by Various Early Authors
41Territory of Cherokees at Period of English Settlement
42Population
43Old Cherokee Towns
44Expulsion of Shawnees by Cherokees and Chickasaws
45Treaty Relations with the Colonies
46Treaty Relations with the United States
47Proceedings at Treaty of Hopewell
48Material Provisions
49Causes of Dissatisfaction with the Boundary of 1785
50Tennessee Company's Purchase

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