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Vernon James Knight, Jr. (edt)
The Way to Rainy Mountain
by N Scott Momaday
Publisher Comments
First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has... ( read more)
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... ( read more)
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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
by Robert Bringhurst
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The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and... ( read more)
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by Craig Childs
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In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th... ( read more)
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Ishi, the Last of His Tribe (Bantam Starfire Books)
by Theodora Kroeber
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
by Leonard Crow Dog
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I am Crow Dog "Look at things not with the eyes in your face but with the eyes in your heart." --Leonard Crow Dog read more)
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Spider Woman (97 Edition)
by Gladys A. Reichard
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This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside.... ( read more)
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The Mythology of Native North America
by David Adams Leeming
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Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisingly few of us are familiar with Coyote, Spider Woman, Water Jar Boy, Falling Sky Woman, or the epic of the Blessingway -- to name just a few of the stories... ( read more)
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Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877
by Bruce Hampton
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Although the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Indians gave instrumental help to Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, they were rewarded by decades of invasive treaties and encroachment upon their homeland. In June 1877, the Nez Perce struck back and ... ( read more)
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Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon Silko
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In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the... ( read more)
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Guests | May 6, 2009
By Paul VanDevelder
"crowded auditoriums can be damn intimidating, especially when you've spent the last six years of your life living in semi-catatonic isolation"
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