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  • Indians in the Family

    Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

    by Dawn Peterson ...
    During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by an “unusual sympathy,” Jackson sent the child to be adopted into his Tennessee plantation household. Through the stories of nearly a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents, Dawn Peterson opens a window onto the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Unnecessary Pastor

    Rediscovering the Call

    Best-selling authors Marva Dawn and Eugene Peterson offer encouragement to pastors.Pastors are strategically placed to counter the culture. No other profession looks so inoffensive but is in fact so dangerous to the status quo. Their weapon? A gospel that is profoundly countercultural. But standing firm in today's world isn't easy. Powerful forces, both subtle and obvious, attempt to domesticate ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mabel Takes the Ferry

    Illustrated by Dawn Peterson ...
    Mabel Takes the Ferry, a true story, was first published in 1995. The book was honored and included in the Camden Maine Library's Children's Garden sculpture as one of Maine's most notable children's books. This book is there along with books such as Charlottes Web, and Make Way for Ducklings.Mabel, a canine summer resident of the island of Islesboro, took an unauthorized ferry trip off island to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • A Knock on the Door

    The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged

    Series Book 1 - Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation
    “It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the ... Read more

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  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    by Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Read more

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  • Painted Earth Temple

    Series series The White Buffalo Woman Trilogy
    In this second volume of the White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, Heyoka Merrifield transports us back to ancient Europe as a mythical tribe of hunter-gatherers is forced on an odyssey away from Gaia's land and into the New World. Painted Earth Temple reveals the rites and rituals of a culture of antiquity showing us that their traditions have never been more pertinent than in today's modern age. The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and ... Read more

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  • End-of-Earth People

    The Arctic Sahtu Dene

    A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene, the people referred to as the "Hareskin" in Alexander Mackenzie’s 1793 journal. Having lived among them for over sixty ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Life as an Indian

    The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

    by J. W. Schultz ...
    A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s depictions of Indian life in his paintings, Schultz journeyed to the American ... Read more

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  • Moose to Moccasins

    The Story of Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe

    Having been born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle. In this book, the late author proudly tells of her youth and coming of age by sharing her vivid memories and drawing on exceptional old family photographs. In her own words, she writes of a time long ago – a time that was difficult, ... Read more

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  • Walking With Spirits Native American Myths, Legends, And Folklore

    Series Book 1 - Walking With Spirits
    Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own way enriching their stories with their own experiences. By reliving these stories and songs, we have ... Read more

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