In American Indian Wars, 1830-1898, a Readex collection detailing decades of interactions between the U.S. Army, white settlers, and the Indigenous peoples who occupied what would become the Western...
Nearly two hundred years before Neo, the hero of the Matrix films, extended his consciousness to render bullets harmless in his ostensive reality, Comanche chief and medicine man Po-bish-e-quash-o...
The nearly 200-year Choctaw Irish bond was celebrated in County Cork, Ireland in July 2017 with the dedication of "Kindred Spirits". The sculpture's nine steel feathers "represent the Choctaw Nation's...
Zitkála-Šá (February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938) was an extraordinary woman of many things and many names. She was a Yankton Dakota adorned with the Indigenous name Zitkála-Šá which translates to...
Now available from Readex: American Indian Wars, 1830-1898 American Indian Wars is an essential resource for both Native American history and American social history. It contains the records of the U...
This is the sixth in a series of blog articles highlighting primary source content from the Readex Native American Tribal Histories collection. The articles in this series offer further insight and...
This is the fifth in a series of blog articles highlighting primary source content from the Readex Native American Tribal Histories collection. The articles in this series offer further insight and...
This is the fourth in a series of blog articles highlighting primary source content from the Readex Native American Tribal Histories collection. The articles in this series offer further insight and...
This is the third in a series of blog articles highlighting primary source content from the Readex Native American Tribal Histories collection. The articles in this series offer further insight and...
This is the second in a series of blog articles highlighting primary source content from the Readex Native American Tribal Histories collection. The articles in this series offer further insight and...
This is the first in a series of blog articles highlighting primary source content from the Readex Native American Tribal Histories collection. The articles in this series offer further insight and...
The title phrase is drawn from colloquial jurisprudence; to “throw the book” at someone is to charge them with every crime for which they might be culpable, the goal being to “convict” them on all...
A recent release of Native American Tribal Histories contains many documents about the Blackhawk War in 1832. Included among them are letters, a journal from the Rock River Subagency, and the report...
Allowing that the American Civil War pitted North against South, it’s fair to characterize America’s un-civil war as that which the “Great Father” in the eastern seat of government waged against...
In 1890 the Paiute shaman Wovoka gained a reputation among Western tribes as a visionary and teacher. Central to his teaching was the Ghost Dance which, properly practiced, would halt the expansion of...
This unique digital resource represents the most comprehensive record of Native America in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Featuring text analysis tools, author biographies, and suggested...
There’s an entry in Readex’s Native American Indians, 1645-1819 , from a book printed in Philadelphia in 1803 in which British topographical engineer Captain Thomas Hutchins described the “Kahokia...
Published accounts of the native peoples of North America in the late 18th and early 19 th centuries—as depicted in these wide-ranging early American imprints—were varied in accord with the beliefs of...
