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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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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Native American Food Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary by Daniel E. Moerman Publisher Comments Based on 25 years of research that combed every historical and anthropological record of Native American ways, this unprecedented culinary dictionary documents the food uses of 1500 plants by 220 Native American tribes from early times to the present... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Lakota Woman Tie in by Mary Crow Dog Publisher Comments Chapter 1 A Woman from He-Dog A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons. "-- Cheyenne proverb" List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower, has written a gripping history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Cinematic in scope and deft in characterization, The Last Stand captures a defining moment in our nation's past. It's history at its finest.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G Neihardt Publisher Comments The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wisdom Sits in Places : Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (96 Edition) by Keith H. Basso Publisher Comments Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C Mann Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E Stannard Publisher Comments For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 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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Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life by Diane Wilson Publisher Comments “Far greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U.S.–... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Winona Laduke Reader : Collection of Essential Writings (02 Edition) by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments The first collection of LaDuke's speeches, articles, and more. "This collection will resonate with people interested in issues critical to Native Americans and indigenous peoples worldwide." Library Journal.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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365 Days of Walking the Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day (Religion and Spirituality) by Terri Jean Publisher Comments The voices of Native American elders and tribal leaders come to life, offering insights to help readers follow the spiritual path that transcends religion. The words of Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Geronimo, Chief Joseph, and many others remind, inspire, and... (read more) Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mysteries of the Hopewell : Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (03 Edition) by William F. Romaine Publisher Comments Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated debris of two thousand years, are the clues to an ancient mystery. A Native American people, now known as the Hopewell, lived and worked these lands, building... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer Synopsis Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelists storytelling skill and an eye for... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The First Oregonians (Second Edition) by Laura Berg Publisher Comments In 1991, the Oregon Council for the Humanities published The First Oregonians, the only single-volume, comprehensive history of Oregon's Native Americans. A regional bestseller, this collaborative project between the council, Oregon tribes, and scholars... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Voices of Ancestors by Dhyani Ywahoo Publisher Comments Dhyani Ywahoo is a member of the traditional Etowah Band of the Eastern Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation. Trained by her grandparents, she is the twenty-seventh generation to carry the ancestral wisdom of the Ywahoo lineage. Charged with the duty to rekindle... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Separate Reality : Further Conversations With Don Juan (71 Edition) by Carlos Castaneda Publisher Comments "A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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