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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne Publisher Comments In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Spirit of a Native Place by Duane Blue Spruce Publisher Comments "Is there better proof of America's outrageous ability to change (and not change) than this new palace carved from indian rock and dedicated to the preposterous, wonderful, and breathtakingly ambitious task of telling the stories of native peoples?"<P&... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selling Your Fathers Bones by Brian Schofield Publisher Comments Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, Selling Your Father's Bones recounts one of the most astonishing journeys in the history of the American West. The year 1877 bore witness to a broken promise. Joseph, chief of the... (read more) Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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War Dances by Sherman Alexie Synopsis In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph Iii Marshall Publisher Comments The author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota The saga of ?Custer?s Last Stand? has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key players?Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and George... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems by Joy Harjo Publisher Comments She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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People of the Whale by Linda Hogan Publisher Comments Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie Staff Pick Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Indian Country Noir (Akashic Noir) by Sarah Cortez Publisher Comments Step into Indian Country. Enter the dark welter of troubled history throughout the Americas, where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent. Features brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by James Welch Publisher Comments This historic and personal work tells the Native American side of Custer's fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crafts and Skills of the Native Americans: Tipis, Canoes, Jewelry, Moccasins, and More by David R. Montgomery Publisher Comments Crafts and Skills of Native Americans is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made Native American famous worldwide as artisans and craftsmen. Readers can replicate traditional Native American living by trying a hand at brain tanning... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer Publisher Comments An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction. This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Algonquin by Theodore Kazimiroff Publisher Comments As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest by Alvin M Josephy Publisher Comments Is there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic - and not so heroic -characters abound: explorers, fur traders, miners, settlers... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Faces from the Land: Twenty Years of Powwow Tradition by Ben Marra Publisher Comments After the success of Powwow: Images Along the Red Road, this new book by the Marras presents more photographs and testimonies. Faces from the Land reveals the dancers, who, united by the ageless rhythms of the powwow drums, come from many tribes... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Bear's House by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments In these engaging writings Momaday shares his personal quest to understand the spirit of wilderness embodied in the image of Bear.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Oglala Sioux: Warriors in Transition by Robert H Ruby Publisher Comments Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) physician Robert H. Ruby arrived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to oversee the health needs of the Oglala Sioux tribe during a period of significant transformation and change in federal Indian policies. As... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy by Ernie Lapointe Publisher Comments The only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright by Anne Wright Publisher Comments The timeless exchange of advice and friendship between two of our greatest literary talents Dear Leslie: Of course I cant know whether or not the world looks strange to God. But sometimes it looks strange to me. Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright met... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Journey of Tai-Me by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments This precursor to The Way to Rainy Mountain was originally published in a handmade edition in 1967 and has never before been commercially available.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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