American Indians
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Pen & Ink Witchcraft
Colin G. Calloway
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties seem like well-ordered steps on the path of dispossession and empire. The reality was far more complicated. In Pen and Ink Witchcraft, eminent Native American historian Colin G. Calloway narrates the history of diplomacy between North American Indians and their imperial adversaries, particularly the United States. Treaties were cultural encounters and human dramas, each with its cast of characters and conflicting agendas. Many treaties, he notes, involved not land, but trade, friendship, and the resolution of disputes. Far from all being one-sided, they were negotiated on the Indians' cultural and geographical terrain. When the Mohawks welcomed Dutch traders in the early 1600s, they sealed a treaty of friendship with a wampum belt with parallel rows of purple beads, representing the parties traveling side-by-side, as equals, on the same river. But the American republic increasingly turned treaty-making into a tool of encroachment on Indian territory.
cloth 377pp / 2013 / 9780199986866 / $34.95
Order no. 3000
Gods of Prophetstown
Adam Jortner 
It began with a total eclipse of the sun. In 1806, a Shawnee known as Lalawauthika (roughly meaning "Loudmouth"), proclaimed himself Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door"), a spiritual leader in direct contact with the Master of Life. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, "would see darkness come over the sun." Not long after, the sun went black. Ironically, Tenskwatawa's resulting prestige was greatly enhanced by his mortal enemy, governor of the Indiana Territory and future American president William Henry Harrison. If he truly is a prophet, Harrison publicly taunted, then let him produce a miracle. And Tenskwatawa did just that. In The Gods of Prophetstown, Adam Jortner provides a gripping account of the conflict between Tenskwatawa and Harrison, who finally collided in 1811 at a place called Tippecanoe. Though largely forgotten today, he writes, it determined the future of westward expansion and influenced the impending War of 1812.
cloth 310pp / 2012 / 9780199765294 / $27.95
Order no. 3001
Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership
R. David Edmunds
R. David Edmunds’ Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership recounts a history of the United States’ westward expansion from the perspective of Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader of the Native American opposition to this movement. The book is divided into nine chapters, the bulk of which are factual narratives of publicly recorded events. Following a chapter of Shawnee tribal biography, seven chapters record Tecumseh’s failed attempt at a Native American coalition opposing the United States’ usurpation of western lands.
paper 229 pp. / 2007 / ISBN 0-321-04371-5 / $23.20
Order No. 949
Murder in Their Hearts - The Fall Creek Massacre
David Thomas Murpy
In March, 1824, a group of angry and intoxicated settlers brutally murdered nine Indians camped along a tributary of Fall Creek. The carnage was recounted in lurid detail in the contemporary press, and the events that followed sparked a national sensation.
paper 142 pp. / 2010 / ISBN 978-0-87195-285-0 / $13.95
Order No. 935
The Native Americans
Elizabeth Glenn & Stewart Rafert
Native American ancestors inhabited the land of Indiana from around 9,500 BC. European contact with Indiana's Miami, Wea, Mascouten, and Shawnee tribes began in 1679. The history of Native Americans in the state is examined in the new Indiana Historical Society Press book The Native Americans.
paper 130 pp. / 2009 / ISBN 978-0-87195-280-6 / $13.95
Order No. 928
The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994
Stewart Rafert
The book explores the history and culture of the Miami Indians, who have fought for many years to gain tribal status from the U.S. government. This volume will appeal to a general audience as well as serious students of tribal history interested in the experience of a North American Indian tribal community over three and a half centuries.
paper 358 pp. 1996/ISBN 0-87195-132-0/$19.95
Order No. 2334
Long Journey Home
James W. Brown and Rita T. Kohn, eds.
Through first-person accounts, Long Journey Home presents the stories of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Tribe. These oral histories, which span the post-Civil War era to the present, are gathered into four sections and tell of personal and tribal events as they unfold over time and place. The history of the Lenape is one of forced displacement, from their original tribal home along the eastern seaboard into Pennsylvania, continuing with a series of displacements in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. For the group of Lenape interviewed for this book, home is now the area around Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The stories of their long journey have been handed down and remain part of the tribe's collective memory and bring an unforgettable immediacy to the tale of the Lenape. Above all they make clear that the history of seven generations remains very much alive.
cloth 448 pp. 2008*/ISBN 978-0-253-34968-2/$34.95
Order No. 2668
*Limited number of signed copies available
Indians and a Changing Frontier: The Art of George Winter
Sarah E. Cook and Rachel B. Ramadhyani, comps.
Illustrated volume of watercolors and drawings of Potawatomi Indians in northern Indiana by the artist (b.1809). Also contains two essays on Winter's life and work.
cloth 269 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-87195-097-9/$24.95
Order No. 2011
Home Before The Raven Caws: The Mystery of Indiana's Alaskan Totem Pole
Richard Feldman
The story of totem poles and the stories they tell and includes the history of a totem pole that stood in the Golden Hills neighborhood of Indianapolis from 1905 until 1939.
paper 78 pp. 2003/ISBN 1-57860-126-6/$15.95
Order No. 2463
Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians
Rita Kohn and W. Lynwood Montell, eds.
Honors the 20th-century Native American Woodland People and their distinctive, related, cohesive cultures.
cloth 297 pp. 1997/ISBN 0-253-33298-2/$35.00
Order No. 2201
paper 297 pp. 1997/ ISBN 978-0-253-22001-1/ $24.95
Order No. 2689
The Woodland Adventures series
This series is dedicated to all The Woodland People who persevere despite hardships, inhumanity, and hostility. Their spirit, like the Eagle, soars. Their integrity, like the Turtle, persists.
Rita Kohn and Kevin Warren Smith
The Woodland Indian traditional powwow is the mechanism used to teach preschool and primary grades to identify and count numbers 1 through 10 in this beautiful picture book.
cloth 32 pp. 1995/ISBN 0-516-05201-2/$15.00
Order No. 2366
Rita Kohn and Winifred Barnum-Newman
The Woodland Indian tradition of gathering to share in and give thanks for a plentiful harvest is the mechanism used to teach preschool and primary grades the concept of quantity in this beautiful picture book.
cloth 32 pp. 1995/ISBN 0-516-05202-0/$15.00
Order No. 2363
Rita Kohn and Dorothy Sullivan
The retelling of the Lenape or Delaware Indian tale of how the first "kokolesh" (rabbit-tail) game was made is the mechanism used to teach preschool and primary grades the concept of sequence in this beautiful picture book.
cloth 32 pp. ISBN 0-546-05204-7/$15.00
Order No. 2365
Rita Kohn and Robin McBride Scott
A family of the Miami of Indiana indians and the traditional custom of planting gourds for the fall gathering give-away is the mechanism used to teach preschool and primary grades number concepts in this beautiful picture book.
cloth 32 pp. ISBN 0-516-05203-9/$15.00
Order No. 2364
Native American Place Names of Indiana
Michael McCafferty
In tracing the roots of Indiana place-names, Michael McCafferty focuses on those created and used by local Native Americans. Drawing from exciting new sources that include three Illinois dictionaries from the eighteenth century, the author documents the language used to describe landmarks essential to fur traders in Les Pays d'en Haut and settlers of the Old Northwest territory. Impeccably researched, this study details who created each name, as well as when, where, how and why they were used. The result is a detailed linguistic history of lakes, streams, cities, counties, and other Indiana names. Each entry includes native language forms, translations, and pronunciation guides, offering fresh historical insight into the state of Indiana.
Cloth 336 pp. 2008 / ISBN 978-0-252-03268-4 / $50.00
Order No. 2708
Issues of The Indiana Historian - American Indians
paper/ISSN 1071-3301/$1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies)
The Gentle Invasion
Interaction of American Indian tribes with Europeans who claimed the land that is now Indiana. Focuses on French; includes a timeline 1492 to 1763.
12 pp. 1992/Order No. 7010
The Conflict Continues
British interactions with Native Americans; includes timeline.
12 pp. revised 1995 (1992)/Order No. 7011
Past Meets Present for Native Americans
Past Meets Present for Native Americans
Focuses on statehood; Indian lands; Trail of Death; 1992 events and population.
12 pp. 1992/Order No. 7012
The Man in the Middle--Chief J. B. Richardville
The Man in the Middle--Chief J. B. Richardville
Principal chief of Miami tribe in mid-1800s; negotiated with U.S. at Forks of the Wabash in 1832. Contains journal of the meetings.
16 pp. 1993/Order No. 7021
Finding Our Way Home: The Great Lakes Woodland People
Finding Our Way Home: The Great Laks Woodland People
Stories of Woodland People based on a 2001 original play.
16 pp. 2001/Order No. 7052
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