Tag search:BIOGRAPHY

Artists of the dawn : Christine Nicholas and Senabeh

by Lee-Ann Konrad
Paper Book, 1987
Tags
Christine Nicholas (1912-), Senabeh (Roland Francis; 1914-; Penobscot), Penobscot Indians--Biography, Penobscot baskets, Penobscot wood-carving, Indigenous people--North America--Maine--Biography, Penobscot baskets--Exhibitions, American Indian baskets--Exhibitions, Indian sculpture--Maine--Exhibitions, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 P5 N534 1987

Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women

by Patricia Janis Broder
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
Indian painting--North America, Indian women painters—North America—Biography, Indian women artists--Biography, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E98 P23 B76 1999

Long Lance: The True Story of an Impostor

by Donald B. Smith
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Buffalo Child Long Lance (1890-1932), Métis--Biography, Indigenous people--North America--Mixed descent--Biography, Siksika Indians--Biography, Impostors and imposture--Biography, African American actors—20th century—Biography, African American men--Biography, Impostors and imposture--Canada--Biography, United States--Race relations--History, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E90 B9 S64 1982

Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject

by Kirsten Pai Buick
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), African American sculptors, American art--Social aspects--History, Art and society, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
NB237 L487 B85 2010

T.C. Cannon: He Stood in the Sun

by Joan Frederick
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
T. C. Cannon (1946-1978; Kiowa/Caddo), Artists--United States--Biography, Kiowa Indians--Biography, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
N6537 C3442 F74 1995

Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds

by Diana Meyers Bahr
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Viola M. Martinez (Viola Meroney; Owens Valley Paiute), Paiute Indians--Biography, Indian women--United States, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99.P2 M383

Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream

by Greg Sarris (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria)
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Mabel McKay (1907-1993; Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo), Pomo women weavers--Biography, Pomo baskets, Pomo mythology, Series: Portraits of American Genius, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 P65 S29 1994

American Indian Intellectuals of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

by Margot Liberty
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Indigenous people--North America--Biography, Anthropologists--United States--Biography, Intellectuals--United States--Biography, Indians of North America--Intellectual life, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E89 A47 2002

Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing

by Anna Lee Walters (Pawnee/Otoe–Missouria)
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Anna Lee Walters (1946–; Pawnee/Otoe–Missouria), Oto Indians--Biography, Pawnee Indians--Biography, Indian authors--Biography, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 O87 W34

The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

by Paul Andrew Hutton
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Geronimo (1829-1909), Apache Kid (approx. 1860-), Mickey Free (1847-1914), Apache Indians--Wars, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 A6 H88 2016

Sequoyah: Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet

by Jane Shumate
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Sequoyah (1770?-1843)--Juvenile literature, Cherokee Nation--Biography--Juvenile literature, Cherokee language--Writing--Juvenile literature, Cherokee language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature, Indigenous peoples of North America--Alphabet--Juvenile literature, Indigenous peoples of North America--Writing--Juvenile literature, Indigenous peoples of North America--Biography--Juvenile literature, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Series
North American Indians of Achievement
Call number
Juv E99 C5 S389 1994

Chief Joseph's Own Story

by Joseph (Nez Percé Chief) As told by
Paper Book, 1983
Tags
Joseph (Nez Percé Chief; 1840-1904), Nez Percé Indians--Wars (1877), Nez Percé Indians--Leaders--Biography, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 N5 J585 1983

Looking for Lost Bird : A Jewish Woman's Discovery of Her Navajo Roots

by Yvette D. Melanson
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Yvette D. Melanson, Navajo women--Arizona--Tolani Lakes Region--Biography, Jewish women--New York State)--New York--Biography, Adoptees--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Navajo Indians--Arizona--Tolani Lakes Region--Social life and customs, Neponsit (New York, N.Y.)--Biography, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 N3 M5174 1999

The Story of Geronimo

by Jim Kjelgaard
Hardcover, 1958
Tags
Geronimo (1829-1909)--Juvenile literature, Apache Indians--Leaders--Biography--Juvenile literature, Series: Signature books 44, Special Access--Juvenile literature, BIOGRAPHY
Collections
Juvenile, Special Access
Series
Signature Books (44)
Call number
SA Juv PZ7 K675 St 1958

Jim Whitewolf: The Life of a Kiowa Apache Indian

by Jim Whitewolf
Hardcover, 1969
Tags
Jim Whitewolf, Kiowa Apache Indians--Biography, Kiowa Apache Indians--History, Kiowa Apache Indians--Social conditions, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E90 W55 A3 1969

The Turquoise Ledge: [A Memoir]

by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Leslie Marmon Silk (1948-), Women authors--20th century--Biography, American Authors--20th century--Biography, Sonoran Desert, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
PS3569 I44 Z46 2010

Charles Albert Bender: National Hall of Fame Pitcher

by Kade Ferris (Turtle Mountain Chippewa/Métis)
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Charles Albert Bender (1884-1954), [American] Indian baseball players--United States--Juvenile biography, Series: Minnesota Native American Lives, Reading age: 8-12, Grade 3-6, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv GV865 B36 F47 2020

Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story 2018

by Joseph Bruchac
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Chester Nez (Diné)--Biography, United States--Marine Corps--Biography, Navajo code talkers--Biography, World War (1939-1945)--Cryptography--Juvenile literature, World War (1939-1945)--Personal narratives-American, World War (1939-1945)--Participation--American Indian, Navajo (Diné) Indians--Biography, Reading age: 7-10, Grades 2-5, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv D810 C88 B77 2018

Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender

by S. D. Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux)
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Red Cloud (1822-1909), Oglala leaders--Biography--Juvenile literature, Lakota Nation--History--Juvenile literature, Red Cloud's War (1866-1867)--Juvenile literature, Reading age: 8-12, Grades 3-7, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
Juv E99 O3 N47 2017

They Called Me Number One

by Bev Sellars
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Autobiographies, Biography, First Nations Hospitals British Columbia Coqualeetza, First Nations--Residential schools--British Columbia--Williams Lake, First Nations Residential schools--Impact, Indians of North America--British Columbia Residential schools, Off-reservation boarding schools--British Columbia, Shuswap Indians--Education--British Columbia--Williams Lake History, St. Joseph's Mission--Williams Lake, B.C.--History
Call number
E96.6 S154 S44 2013

The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe

by Joseph Bruchac
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Jim Thorpe (1887-1953; Sauk and Fox)--Juvenile literature, United States Indian School (Carlisle; Penn.)--Football--History--Juvenile literature, Sauk Nation (Algonquian)--Biography--Juvenile literature, Fox Nation--Biography--Juvenile literature, United States Military Academy--Football--History--Juvenile literature, American Indian athletes--Biography--Juvenile literature, Football players--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature, Football coaches--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature, Reading age 8-11, Grades 3-5, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv GV697 T5 B775 2019

Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist

by Gina Capaldi Adapted by
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Zitkala-S̈a (1876-1938)--Juvenile literature, Yankton women--Biography--Juvenile literature, Indigenous women authors--Biography--Juvenile literature, Indigenous women activists--Biography--Juvenile literature, Political activists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature, Indigenous musicians--Biography--Juvenile literature, Women musicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature, Reading age: 8-12, Grades 3-6, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv E99 Y25 Z53 2011

The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman

by Bear Heart,
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Bear Heart, Creek Indians--Biography, Shamans--Oklahoma--Biography, Creek Indians--Religion, Creek Indians--Rites and ceremonies, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 C9 B43 1998

The Last Warrior: Peter MacDonald and the Navajo Nation

by Peter MacDonald
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
Peter MacDonald (1928-), Navajo Indians--Biography, Navajo Indians--Politics and government, Navajo Indians--Government relations, Series: The Library of the American Indian, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E99 N3 M27 1993

Buffalo Hearts: A Native American's View of His Culture, Religion and History

by Sun Bear
Paperback, 1986
Tags
Indigenous peoples of North America--Biography, Chief Joseph (1840-1904; Nez Percé)--Indigenous leaders--Nez Percé, Red Cloud (1822-1909; Oglala Lakota)--Indigenous leaders--Lakota, Pontiac (ca. 1720-1769; Odawa)--Indigenous leaders--Ottawa, Mangas Coloradas (ca. 1795-1863; Mimbreño)--Indigenous leaders--Apache, Quanah Parker (ca. 1845-1911; Comanche)--Indigenous leaders--Comanche, Cochise (ca. 1805-1874; Chiricahua Apache)--Indigenous leaders--Apache, Osceola (1834-1838; Seminole)--Indigenous leaders--Seminole, Crazy Horse (ca.1842-1877; Oglala Lakota)—Indigenous leaders--Lakota, Indigenous peoples of North America--Leaders, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E98 C9 S87 1970

The North American Indian 1997

by Edward S. Curtis
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
American Indian Photography, Edward Curtis, Photograph Collections, Pictorial Collections, Biography
Series
Taschen Bibliotheca Universalis, Taschen Icons
Call number
E77.5 C8413 1997 c.2

Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars 1993

by David Roberts
Paper Book, 1993
Tags
Cochise, Apache Chief -- 1805?-1874, Geronimo -- 1829-1909, Apache Indians, Kings and Rulers, Biography
Call number
E99 C68 C638 1993

Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars 1993

by David Roberts
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
Cochise, Apache Chief--1805?-1874, Geronimo--1829-1909, Apache Indians, Kings and Rulers, Biography
Call number
E99 C68 C638 1993

Helen Cordero and the Storytellers of Cochiti Pueblo 1995

by Nancy Shroyer Howard
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
Children, Helen Cordero (1915-1994), Biography, Pueblo Women Potters, Cochiti, Artisans
Collection
Children
Call number
Chi E99 C84 C635 1995

Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Múmkidag) 1974

by Donald M. Bahr
Paper Book, 1974
Tags
Piman Indians, Translations, Piman Culture and History, Overview, Biography
Call number
E99 P25 P54 1974

Sitting Bull : Champion of the Sioux : A Biography (1957)

by Stanley Vestal
Paper Book, 1957
Tags
Sioux Indians--Biography, Sitting Bull, Biography, 19th Century History, Buffalo Bill, Crazy Horse, Crow Indians, George Armstrong Custer, Indian Bureau, Lame Deer, Hunkpapa Indians — 2 more, Oglala Indians, Ghost Dance
Call number
E99 D1 S627 1957

With One Sky Above Us: Life on an Indian Reservation at the Turn of the Century (1985)

by M. Gidley
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
Colville Indian Reservation (WA), Biography, Spokane River, Physicians, Nez Percé Indians--Social Life and Customs, Washington (State)--Social life and Customs, Edward H. Latham, Photographers, Canada, Columbia River, Idaho — 8 more, Chief Joseph, Chief Moses, Nespelem (WA), Nez Percé War, San Poils Indians, Spokane Indian Reservation, Washington D.C., Yakima Indians
Call number
E78 W3 G52 1985

Crazy Horse and Chief Red Cloud (2005)

by Ed McGaa
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Oglala Indians, Biography, Black Elk, Ghost Dance, History of Religion, Sioux Indians--Biography, Battle of Little Big Horn, George Catlin, Teton Oglalas
Call number
E89 M25 2005

They Called It Prairie Light : The Story of Chilocco Indian School (1994)

by K. Tsianina Lomawaima
Paper Book, 1995
Tags
Chilocco Indian School--History, Indians of North America--Education, Cultural Assimilation, Biography, Indian boarding schools, Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, Interviews, Memoirs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Carlisle Indian School, Personal Histories & Narratives — 6 more, 20th Century History, Discipline, Matrons, School Administration, Religion, Vocational Training
Call number
E97.6 C4 L65 1994

Indeh, An Apache Odyssey (1988)

by Eve Ball
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Apache Indians -- History, Biography, Indians of North America--Southwest--Biography, Asa Daklugie--d. 1955, Genocide, Geronimo, Mescalero Apache, Prisoners of War, Chihuahua, Missionaries, Chiricahua Apache — 17 more, U.S. Army, Bedonkohe Apache, Carlisle Indian School, Chihuahua (Mexico : State), Comanche Indians, Florida, Forts, Jicarilla Apache, Kaytennae, Mangas Coloradas, Medicine Man, Mexican Army, Naiche, Pecos River, San Carlos Reservation, Ussen, Warm Springs Apache
Call number
E99 A6 B16 1988

The Ways of My Grandmothers (1982)

by Beverly Hungry Wolf
Paper Book, 1980
Tags
Siksika Indians--Women, Biography, Family History, Babies, Blackfoot Indians, Bread, Children, Clothing, Cooking, Crafts, Dances — 10 more, Food, Gros Ventres, Social Life and Customs, Medicine Pipe Bundles, Myths, Religion, Powwows, Food Recipes, Sun Dance, tipis
Call number
E99 S54 H864 1982

Katie Henio, Navajo Sheepherder

by Peggy Thomson
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
Katie Henio, Navajo Indians--Biography, Indians of North America--Biography, Women--Biography, Navajo Indians--Social life and customs, Indigenous people--North America--Social life and customs, Reading age: 9-12, Grades 4-6, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv E99 N3 H457 1995

Micmac by Choice : Elsie Sark, an Island Legend (1990)

by Mary Olga McKenna
Paper Book, 1990
Tags
Elsie Sark, Lennox Island (P.E.I.)--Biography, Micmac Indians--Biography, Indians of North America--Prince Edward Island, Canada, Biography, 20th Century History, Micmac Indian Chiefs, France, Elsie Maud Houghton, Department of Indian Affairs — 5 more, Indian-White Relations, Lennox Island Band, Montreal, Sark Family, tuberculosis
Call number
FC2649 L56 Z49 1990

During My Time : Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman (1992)

by Margaret B. Blackman
Paper Book, 1992
Tags
Haida Indians, Biography, Florence Edenshaw Davidson (Haida), Art, History, Family Tree, Dances, Feasting, Fishing, Hunting, Indian Act — 6 more, Life History of Natives, Marriage, Social Life and Customs, Potlatch, Sex and Gender Roles, Taboos
Call number
E99 H2 D383 1992

Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes (1983)

by Gae Whitney Canfield
Paper Book, 1983
Tags
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins--1844?-1891, Paiute Indians--History, Biography, Bannock Indians, Missionaries, Oregon, Columbia River Indians, The Dalles, Egan (Malheur band leader), Ghost Dance, Malheur Reservation — 10 more, Nez Percé Indians, Northern Paiute, Old Winnemucca, Natchez Overton, Peabody Indian School, Indian Schools, Shoshoni Indians, Umatilla Indians, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Yakima Reservation
Call number
E99 P2 H722 1983

Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids (2018)

by Deborah Ellis
Paperback, 2018
Tags
North America, Biography, Native Children, Interviews, Canada
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv E98 C5 E555 2018

#Not Your Princess: Voices of Native American Women (2017)

by Mary Beth Leatherdale
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Native Women, Canada, Ethnic identity, Biography, Poetry, Essays, Indigenous, Letters, Artwork, North America, USA — 47 more, First Nations, Authors, Artists, Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), Maria Campbell (Metis), Rosanna Deerchild (Cree), Madelaine McCallum (Cree/Métis), Lianne Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän), Nahanni Fontaine (Anishinaabe), Winona Linn (Maliseet), Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg), Saige Mukash (Cree), Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe), Jen VanStrander (Western Band of Cherokee), Natanya Ann Pulley (Navajo), Imajyn Cardinal (Cree/Dene), Joanne Arnott (Métis), Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota), Helen Knott (Dane Zaa/Cree), Zoey Roy (Cree/Dene/Métis), Patty Stonefish (Lakota), Gwen Benaway (Anishinaabe/Métis), Gloria Larocque Campbell Moses (Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Northern Alberta) & Nathalie Bertin (Métis), Francine Cunningham (Cree/Métis), Jessica Deer (Mohawk), Shelby Lisk (Mohawk), Tiffany Midge (Hunkpapa Lakota), DeLanna Studi (Cherokee), Melanie Fey (Diné), Pamela J. Peters (Navajo), Cecilia Rose LaPointe (Ojibway/Métis), Hazel Hedgecoke (Sioux/Hunkpapa/Wendat/Métis/Cherokee/Creek), Tanaya Winder (Duckwater Shoshone), Ntawnis Piapot (Piapot Cree Nation), AnnaLee Rain Yellowhammer (Hunkpapa/Standing Rock Sioux), Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla), Ashton Locklear (Lumbee), Brigitte Lacquette (Ojibwe), Janet Smylie (Cree/Métis), Kelly Edzerza-Bapty (Tahltan), Claire Anderson (Tlingit), Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota, Isabella Fillspipe (Oglala Lakota), Adrianne Chalepah (Kiowa/Apache), Lee Maracle (Stó:lō Nation), Tasha Spillett (Cree)
Collection
Juvenile
Call number
Juv E98 W8 N68 2017

Chief Joseph: Nez Perce Leader

by Marian Taylor
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
Chief Joseph (1840-1904)-- Nez Percé--Juvenile literature, Nez Percé leaders--Juvenile literature, Indigenous people of North America--Biography--Juvenile literature, Series: North American Indians of Achievement, Reading age: 14+, BIOGRAPHY
Collection
Juvenile
Series
North American Indians of Achievement
Call number
Juv E99 N5 J677 1993

Tecumseh (1992)

by Zachary Kent
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
Biography, Tecumseh, Shawnee, white contact
Collection
Juvenile
Series
Cornerstones of Freedom (1992)
Call number
Juv E99 S35 T162 1992

Native North American Voices

by Deborah Gillan Straub Editor
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Speeches addresses etc.--American Indian--North America, Indigenous peoples of North America--Biography, Indians of North America--History, BIOGRAPHY
Call number
E98 O7 S77 1997

Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity (2016)

by Laura E. Smith
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Biography, Documentary Photography, Great Plains Indian, Horace Poolaw, Kiowa, Photographers, Social Life and Customs
Call number
E99 K5 S58 2016

Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn (2014)

by Philip Burnham
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Dakota Indians, Battle of Little Bighorn, biography, Wounded Knee Massacre, Black Hills War, massacre survivor
Call number
E99 D1 B93 2014

Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories (1991)

by Jane Holden Kelley
Paper Book, 1991
Tags
Yaqui, women, social life and customs, biography, Dominga Tava, Chepa Moreno, Dominga Ramirez, Antonia Valenzuela
Call number
E99 Y3 K44 1991

The New Warriors: Native American Leaders since 1900 (2004)

by R. David Edmunds
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
biography, civic leaders, activists, politics, governmental relations, Charles Curtis, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Robert Yellowtail, Vine V. Deloria Sr., D'Arcy McNickle, LaDonna Harris — 21 more, Russell Means, Howard Tommie, Phillip Martin, Wilma Mankiller, Ada Deer, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Janine Pease Pretty-on-Top, Walter Echo-Hawk, Kaw, Dakota, Crow, Metis, Flathead, Comanche, Lakota, Seminole, Choctaw, Cherokee, Menominee, Northern Cheyenne, Pawnee
Call number
E89 N48 2001

City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934

by Rosalyn R. LaPier
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Chicago (IL), urban Indians, activism, politics, governmental relations, identity, biography, race relations, exhibitions, professional life, entertainment — 4 more, organizations, self-determination, census, civil rights
Call number
E78.13 L36 2015
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