For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous

The name 'opossum' was first adopted in western culture by Captain John Smith (of 'Pocahontas' fame) in

Many people have heard of the wendigo, the cannibal monster found in American Indian folklore across much of the northern US and Canada. Wendigos have been featured in movies, comic books and TV

Diane E. Benson (born 1954) is an Alaskan politician, inspirational speaker, video production consultant, published writer and

Indigenous peoples lived in the New England area for thousands of years. Gradually the Narragansett and other historic tribes arose as descendants of earlier

In a lawsuit for the return of Indian lands, neither party can afford to lose: Native American plaintiffs risk termination of all claims to the land, while non-Indian defendants stand to lose homes

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed

This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes

Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New

King Philip's War--one of America's first and costliest wars--began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a full-scale war engulfing all of

"The Red King's Rebellion," fought more than three hundred years ago between the Algonquian peoples and New England settlers, was in per-capita terms the bloodiest war in our nation's

The Agawam tribe was a Native American tribe in New England at the arrival of the English colonists in the early 17th

The Mohegan tribe is an Algonquian-speaking tribe living in the eastern upper Thames River valley of