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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sixth Grandfather: Black Elks Teachings Given to John G Neihardt by Raymond J Demallie Publisher Comments In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the earth and of mankind. Raymond J... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture by Gene Weltfish Publisher Comments This is an account of one year in the life of a six-hundred-year-old American Indian nation that continued its existence within the United States through the Civil War period, retaining its integrity as a nation until it was uprooted and dissolved in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph Marshall Publisher Comments Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man whowith valor, spirit, respect, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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On the Rez by Ian Frazier From Powells.com Ian Frazier is a self-confessed "wannabe" Indian. This mild envy he traces to the "self possessed sense of freedom" he sees evident in his Oglala Sioux friends and their legendary ancestors like Black Elk and Crazy Horse. On... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History) by Jeffrey Ostler Publisher Comments Presents an overview of the relations between the Plains Sioux Indians and the United States.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Absaraka: Home of the Crows by Margaret Carrington Publisher Comments On July 17, 1866, two soldiers wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family by Es Black Elk Desera Publisher Comments The story and teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950), first recorded by John G. Neihardt in Black Elk Speaks, have played a critical role in shaping the way in which Native Americans and others view the past, present, and future of Native ... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Race and Culture in the American West #4: Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock Publisher Comments Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala by Michael Steltenkamp Book News Annotation In this biography of Black Elk (1863-1950), based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man's last surviving child, and others who knew him personally, Steltenkamp sheds new light on the life of one of the world's best-known... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers Publisher Comments With the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - 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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Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas: A Biography by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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