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A Whale Hunt Signed Edition by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments For centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but when commercial whaling drove the gray whale to near extinction in the 1920s, the Makah voluntarily discontinued their tradition and hung up their... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country by Jarold Ramsey Publisher Comments The material cause of this book is a Central Oregon childhood spent around Indians and devoted to hunting for the artifacts of their ancestors, the efficient cause is in the works of the late Melville Jacobs.... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - 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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Lelooska : the Life of a Northwest Coast Artist (03 Edition) by Chris Friday Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-274) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Discovering Totem Poles: A Traveler's Guide by Aldona Jonaitis Publisher Comments Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of visitors to Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska. Discovering Totem Poles is the first guidebook to... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wolf and the Raven by Viola E Garfield Publisher Comments The spectacular totem poles of British Columbia and Alaska, on which appear birds, animals, and unrecognizable creatures, are found nowhere else in the world. To save specimens of this new-abandoned American Indian craft and make them accessible to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast by National Museum Of The American Indian Publisher Comments Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Trade Paper
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Native Peoples of Olympic Peninsula (02 Edition) by Jacilee Wray Publisher Comments This guidebook introduces readers to the nine Native tribes of the Olympic Peninsula. A collaborative work, each section on a tribe is written by members of that tribe itself.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition (Vintage) by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Publisher Comments For the first time in the two hundred years since Lewis and Clark led their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, we hear the other side of the story — as we listen to nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed. Among... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries by Stephen Dow Beckham Publisher Comments From "first encounters" in the late eighteenth century to modern tribal economies, this rich documentary history charts the major trends shaping the lives of Oregon Indians and how those Indians perceived their changing world.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments The riveting story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a compelling conflict that unfolded in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. When appointed Washingtons first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens,... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Do Them No Harm!: Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Zoa Swayne Publisher Comments Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In autumn 1805, a group of ragged strangers staggered into a camp of Nez Perce Indians on the Kooskooskee River in what is now northern Idaho. The natives discussed killing the starving... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) by Mary Dodds Schlick Book News Annotation Based on more than 40 years association with Native American weavers, including 16 years in residence on Northwest Indian reservations, Schlick presents the artistic but also utilitarian baskets made by the people of the mid-Columbia River in the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural by Mary Giraudo Beck Publisher Comments A powerful mix of history and legend dramatizes the values and traditions of Tlingit and Haida societies in Southeast Alaska.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 by Andrew Garcia Publisher Comments Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press This book grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia on his death in 1942. Ben Stein acquired the manuscript and edited it to tell Garcia's story of the 1877 war... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers #2: Nine Visits to the Mythworld by Ghandl Publisher Comments The nine stories contained in this volume are the finest offerings from one of the last of the traditional Haida storytellers, Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas. Ghandl was born in 1851 in a small Haida island community off the coast of British Columbia. His... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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To an Unknown God Religious Freedom on T by Garrett Epps Publisher Comments Told with the grace of a novel, To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial is a modern legal epic chronicling the six-year duel between two remarkable men with very different visions of religious freedom and of America. Neither man sought the conflict... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lewis and Clark Among the Indians by James P Ronda Review "Conceptually . . . a brilliant book, extremely well written, superbly re-searched, masterfully organized. By blending traditional historical scholarship with anthropological and archaeological research, Ronda gives us the first ethnohistory of the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America by Theodora Kroeber Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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