American Indian concerns
591453
This book has come to my attention as a Tribal Education Department administrator.  The efforts to portray accurate information particularly to our youth is never ending.  This book has some glaring flaws that overshadow the value of the story.  The State of Montana has passed legislation to ban the use of the word "squaw" in all place names at the request of the Montana Indian tribes.  This is a derogatory term and is inaccurately portrayed.  The spiritual content of the story does not accurately portray any tribe I am aware of.  I do not recommend this book for children.
1006001
This is a good reading on North American Indian Spirituality.
I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in this topic.
1285730
I found this book to be filled with little known, or often ignored, information concerning the Native American outlook on the westward expansion.
 If one is interested in viewing American history this would be a good place to begin to look. It is not necessarily a condemnation of the expansion to the West simply a view of it from another perspective.
1054008
This is only one story of how Native Americans are treated. Not very many people have heard this book. Hard to believe not much as changed, Native Americans still endure this type of injustice even in today's time.
3443273
Karen Cooper's: Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices give the reader a look at the path the Native Americans have had to travel to achieve a voice in practicing their beliefs and how their culture would be displayed in museums.

In Part 1 Cooper discusses exhibitions of Native American culture and objects.  She describes that the Native culture is being displayed to the public as it is in the past and no longer a living, contemporary culture that is still thriving today.  Cooper addresses that sacred objects are being displayed out of context and in a way that is offensive to which it really belongs to and that human remains of Native individuals are put on show as if they were an object to exhibit.  Through policies and acts during the twentieth century many museums have stopped displaying the human remains as an object and have been taken out of exhibits.

Repatriation is addressed in Part II.  Cooper talks about the frenzy during the nineteenth century when it was believed that Native cultures were disappearing and museums and collectors started to buy up huge amounts of Native objects.  She goes on to discuss the protests by Native Americans and the repatriation acts on the twentieth century.

Part III in Spirited Encounters talks about how celebrated American holidays such as Columbus Day and Thanksgiving.  Cooper discusses as many Americans celebrate a man for discovering the new land many Native Americans remember that is when suffering for the ancestors began.

Part IV in the book discusses cultural and sacred sites of Native tribes such as Blue Lake.  Through protests and sixty years of fighting with the government they finally restored the sacred land to the Taos Pueblo people.  She describes Native run cultural centers as a way for tribes to exhibit their voices.
4735182
As my partner n I are Native American..........he Lepan Apatche.......of the Panteleon Clan..........n I Tewa n Mescalero Apatche ..........it was a decent dictionary.........yet the title Is somewhat misleading bcuz there r several Apatche tribes n Clans........dialects.........tongues.........in all a decent book
1548572
As both a strong warrior and chief of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux), Red Cloud certainly took on the "mighty white man". Red Cloud was highly successful against the invaders and fended them off from 1866-1868 for control over The Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana.

It is of great interest that this book illustrates the unity of the various Indian nations at places like Belle Fourche River; especially in August 1857. This gathering with the help of "the gun that fires six times" helped keep back the invaders; for a time.

Unfortunately, with the constant barrage of immigrants invading North America -- atrocities such as having to be forced on reservations was a result of The Treaty of Fort Laramie in which the agreed upon territories were intended to be off limits to non-native populations. Of course such "savages" as non-Europeans were basically indoctrinated with western ideals (or at least that was the intent on Indian youth).

Later with the discovery of gold and other natural resources ... slowly treaties were broken and as North America became more militarized the red man was taken down; as the buffalo also were. Measles filled blankets, treaties worth nothing ... it is only in passing that many contemplate the approximate 300 year war(s) with indigenous populations.

There are people round here that are right
There are people round here that like to sleep at night
There are people round here that go slow
There are people round here that don't kindly to the killing of the buffalo

Along with other books such as&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Native-American-History-For-Dummies/dp/0470148411/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Native American History For Dummies</a>&nbsp;- a better more widened scope of American history can be formed.

"Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows . . . What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country. . . . When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him. . . I have two mountains in that country - The Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the great father to make no roads through them. I have told these things three times; now I have come here to tell them the fourth time."

(Red Cloud), Oglala Lakota Makhpiya-Luta (1822-1909)
3700258
There are few
 books written showing the ways of the native American.  I feel certain this book is one which we can believe.  The English misunderstood what they witnessed as Hethanistic...and were eager to claim the land....as their own.  The native American believed th a land was only theirs to use.
393414
The shipping was good as was the packaging.  This is  an interesting topic for this writer, however, I would have preferred if it had been written by an American Indian, actually a Lakota.
367914
This book puts you in the mind of a young adult Native American.  His uncle is a shaman from another tribe and he has been coming periodically to teach his nephew to be an adult.  Uncle has not allowed him to take the classes to be initiated into adulthood because he wants him to be truly ready to be a responsible member of the tribe.  The author lets you feel the frustration and confusion of this young man, but you also feel the love and respect he feels for his family.  You get to experience some of the lessons he goes through.  The book is relatively short, but packed with information.  When I got to the end, I was disappointed because I wanted more.
3063100
Michael Lerma's research explores important and current topics in Indian Country. Foundational to his research is highlighting the relationships Tribal Nations have with states, the federal government and as international actors. He provides a detailed analysis of the U.S. nation building project that sought to domesticate Tribal Nations and the effects and pitfalls of Western conceptions of sovereignty in Indigenous nation governments today that have most often moved away from Peoplehood; in which governance and the the ways in which traditional sovereignty functioned was through human relationships to land, water, ceremony, sacred history and specific languages. This book is useful for both those who have little knowledge of Indian Country and for those entrenched within the politics of Indigenous communities, nation building and federal Indian law and policy.
309344
Slow going.  I wanted to know more about the American Indian tribes and their differences.  Loads of descriptions of scenery.  Not as much of historical references as I would have thought.
4601974
Insightfulness on the topic. Let the reader understand a comparisons of health issues among  Indian (from India) and American cultures. At the end we are inter-connected as Human being.
4117714
Sad history, as Americans we did the Indians very wrong. They are now getting even with white people in the casinos!
18207
This is an excellent book that places Indian Gaming smack dab in the middle of American Indian law and policy.  The vast majority of exposes on the topic are written by muckrakers, who don't understand the first thing about tribal sovereignty and its many implications.  Further this book covers socioeconomic issues in relation to Indian Gaming, and what it means for the many impoverished Indians that live across America today.  American Indians are still the most impoverished ethnic group in the U.S.; and it's nice to see a book that tries to dispel the myth that all American Indians have grown vastly wealthy from gaming.  Gaming is certainly not the sole solution to Native American economic issues, but it is certainly a start.
3600007
Having always been interested in the Native people. They are such interesting people. We should have such a respect of our mother earth. we have almost  killed her . What courage to take a stand as they did many times
403108
What we have done to the American Indian is heartbreaking.  I feel like I understand so much better from their point of view after reading this book. It's detail drove me crazy but it was so much better because of it.