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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance by Leonard Peltier Publisher Comments "A deeply moving and very disturbing story of a gross miscarriage of justice and an eloquent cri de coeur of Native Americans for redress, and to be regarded as human beings with inalienable rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution, like... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Summer Moon (10 Edition) 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 $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan--a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Peggy Brock Publisher Comments First-hand accounts of indigenous peoples encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily diary that extends over fifty years and two thousand pages is unparalleled. Drawing on a painstaking transcription of Arthur Wellington Clahs diaries, Peggy Brock... (read more) Your price: $34.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive by Martin Prechtel Publisher Comments Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Ishi in Two Worlds, 50TH Anniversary Edition (11 Edition) by Theodora Kroeber Publisher Comments OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions : the Life of a Sioux Medicine Man (72 Edition) by John Lame Deer Publisher Comments Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice by Steph Dando Collins Publisher Comments In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Ishi's Brain : in Search of Americas Last ""Wild"" Indian (04 Edition) by Orin Starn Publisher Comments After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred... (read more) Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Navajos Wear Nikes by Jim Kristofic Publisher Comments With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author's own experience of sincere friendships that lead to ho?zho? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up on... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph Iii Marshall Publisher Comments As the peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse remains one of the most perennially fascinating figures of the American West. Now Joseph Marshallandmdash;a masterful storyteller, historian, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.... (read more) List Price $34.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hidden Heritage: The Story of Paul Laroche by Barbara Marshak Publisher Comments A spiritual legacy of one man's ordinary Minnesota lifestyle, suddenly fused with a rich, Lakota heritage that enabled him to cross boundaries far beyond his own expectations. Imagine waking up one day to discover you belong to a completely different... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent--Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man by David Fridtjof Halaas and Andrew E. Masich Publisher Comments The soldiers were so close George could hear their orders, even their conversations. God, he hated them. Laughing as if they were on a hunting party and had cornered the game. All his life he had felt white arrogance, that smug superiority. But these... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800 (Iroquois & Their Neighbors) by Laurence M. Hauptman Book News Annotation Hauptman (history, State U. of New York-New Paltz) offers a supplementary textbook for a course on the history of New York State, or on Native American studies. He does not attempt a comprehensive history of the Iroquois peoples over the past two... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows (Bison Book) by Frank B. Linderman Publisher Comments Recognized as a classic account of the Plains Indians' vanished way of life, as told by the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians to Linderman. Includes a new introduction and a glossary of Crow words and concepts as well as photos of Plenty-coups at... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Life Among the Piutes : Their Wrongs and Claims (94 Edition) by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Publisher Comments This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca. She was a Paiute princess and a major figure in the history of Nevada; her tribe still resides primarily in the state. Life Among the... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Men : Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America (11 Edition) by Douglas Cazaux Sackman Publisher Comments When Ishi, the last wild Indian, came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov Review "This is the story of Two Leggings desire for fame, his rise as a warrior, and his efforts to achieve a spiritual vision. He takes us along on buffalo hunts, war parties against the Piegans, and horse stealing raids against the Piegans and Sioux. His... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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