Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Indigenous

A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain expands our understanding of Victorio's role in the Apache wars and brings him into the center of events.

Although there is little documentation of Victorio's life outside military records, Chamberlain draws on ethnographic sources to surmise his childhood and adolescence and to depict...

Phyllis Demarecaux's story began during the Great Depression in rural Montana, where her parents struggled to raise five children in the years leading up to the Second World War. She lost touch with her mother's Cherokee culture when the family left Wolf Point and moved to Sidney.

The accidental death of their brother and fending for themselves while their parents partied caused Phyllis and her siblings to grow up quickly. After a failed marriage and the loss of her child, Phyllis enlisted in the Women's Army Corps and gained some notoriety as "Miss Subways" and as film host and...

Phyllis Demarecaux's story began during the Great Depression in rural Montana, where her parents struggled to raise five children in the years leading up to the Second World War. She lost touch with her mother's Cherokee culture when the family left Wolf Point and moved to Sidney.

The accidental death of their brother and fending for themselves while their parents partied caused Phyllis and her siblings to grow up quickly. After a failed marriage and the loss of her child, Phyllis enlisted in the Women's Army Corps and gained some notoriety as "Miss Subways" and as film host and...

• Tanya Talaga is an award-winning journalist. She won a National Newspaper Award as part of a year-long team project on the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and also was a part of the team nominated for a National Newspaper Award for their series of stories on murdered and missing indigenous women and girls.
• Tanya was the first journalist to cover the story of the seven missing Aboriginal kids in Thunder Bay.
• Recently, indigenous issues have come to the fore in the U.S. media, with the 2016 Native American protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
• Perfect...

Take a journey into the lives of people who vanished in the Wild West.

Explore true stories and eyewitness accounts of the kidnappings and experiences of Anglos, Hispanics, and Native Americans taken captive in New Mexico and the Southwest.

Each chapter takes the reader into a unique setting alongside new casts of characters--including lost settlers, greedy prospectors, elusive desert traders, vigilante lawmen, nomadic tribesmen, courageous women and resilient children. Stunning historical and modern photographs provide vivid glimpses into the life of each...

Unabridged value reproduction of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, including the six original images. He was born free, kidnapped into slavery, and made his way back to freedom. This is his story. This is his voice.

Northup describes with stark detail his process into slavery through Washington D.C., "The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave's chains, almost commingled. A slave pen within the very shadow of the Capitol "

This is his...

‘This day we were going to let the horses go. They’d been working for a while and it was their turn to have a spell. Old Alf Turner came down there watching the blokes tying their horses’ legs up. And he seen me get my horse and bring him up – just drop the reins on the ground and the horse waiting down there while I went and got the hammer and the chisel and the rasp to just pull the shoe off.

Then he seen me pick the horse’s leg up – pick it up and just hold it while the horse was standing there. And he was thinking, ‘Hey, what’s...

West Shawmut, Ala. 1954 a kinder, gentler, more peaceful time in life and society. (Gas was 22 cents a gallon). This is a community memoir chronicling, detailing, reflecting upon some of those memorable events, experiences, adventures of youthful yesterdays.
West Shawmut, Ala. A nondescript, smalltown, quaint, folksy community nestled in southeastern Sweet Home Alabama not even a dot on the Ala. Map but yet a village haven of genuine love, hope, dreams, and aspirations for its perhaps 1,000 inhabitants.
"It's not too far from the West Point, Ga. Kia automotive plant. A hoot,...

West Shawmut, Ala. 1954 a kinder, gentler, more peaceful time in life and society. (Gas was 22 cents a gallon). This is a community memoir chronicling, detailing, reflecting upon some of those memorable events, experiences, adventures of youthful yesterdays.
West Shawmut, Ala. A nondescript, smalltown, quaint, folksy community nestled in southeastern Sweet Home Alabama not even a dot on the Ala. Map but yet a village haven of genuine love, hope, dreams, and aspirations for its perhaps 1,000 inhabitants.
"It's not too far from the West Point, Ga. Kia automotive plant. A hoot,...

R.C. Nidever's novel is based on the true story of a California Indian woman left alone on a remote island in the year 1835 and the man, George Nidever, who finally found her. Based on the same story as the well-known book for young adults Island of the Blue Dolphins, but told much more completely and from a completely different perspective.

Magdelaine Marcotte La Framboise was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 1984. Two centuries after her birth, she was recognized for her achievements in business. She is a role model, an inspiration and a woman who earned her rightful place in history.

Born Magdelaine Marcotte in 1780, she was the daughter of a French fur trader and granddaughter of powerful Odawa Chief Kewanoquat. Haunted first by the murders of her father and husband, and then the untimely deaths of her daughter and infant grandson, the illiterate widow defied the expectations and customs...