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  • Moonflower, Medicine Woman

    A.D. 1490

    by Jerry D. Sisson ...
    Have you ever wondered what the American Continent was like before the Native Americans discovered that Columbus was lost? A time before alcohol, guns and other mechanized New World inventions. The horse came onto the scene with the arrival of the Spanish Explorers in the Sixteenth Century. Before the Natives were introduced to the horse, all travel was by walking.Though many Native tribes were ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Code Talker

    The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

    by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila ...
    The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his ... Read more

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  • Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher

    The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

    by Timothy Egan ...
    **A New York Times Notable BookA Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.**“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    by Michael F. Steltenkamp ...
    Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Living Our Language

    Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories

    by Anton Treuer ...
    Series series Native Voices
    A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.>As fluent speakers of Ojibwe grow older, the community questions whether younger speakers know the language ... Read more

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  • Dancing with the Wheel

    by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Crysalis Mulligan ...
    The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises and ceremonies. These exercises will help you gain energy from the spirits, which can heal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes

    Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition

    by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. ...
    At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who offers a haunting essay evoking the voices of the past; to Debra Magpie ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • God and the Indian

    by Drew Hayden Taylor ...
    While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a First Nations residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children at the school, Johnny follows Anglican bishop George King to his office to confront him. Inside King’s office, ... Read more

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  • Waking Nanabijou

    Uncovering a Secret Past

    by Jim Poling, Sr. ...
    A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her earthly papers reveal a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother? Why did she take a lifelong secret to her grave?In his search for clues throughout his childhood years in Northern Ontario, the author goes to Chapleau, the railway town where the people he believed were ... Read more

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  • Native Peoples and Water Rights

    by Kenichi Matsui ...
    Economic developments in irrigation agriculture and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial and federal power as well as private industries Native peoples saw opportunities to protect their self-governing rights and explore reserve ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Creatures of Empire

    How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

    by Virginia DeJohn Anderson ...
    When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A History of the Enduring Washoe People

    And Their Neighbors Including the Si Te Cah (Sasquatch)

    by Guy Nixon ...
    The original inhabitants of the Lake Tahoe Basin the Washoe are a fascinating people. With a history in the Sierra Nevada stretching back 9000 years they are the oldest tribe in California. They have a fascinating history before and after the coming of the Americans. In American history the Washoe guided Kit Carson and Charles Fremont through the Sierra Nevada, later they were the first to bring ... Read more

    $3.99 USD