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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation....
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Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie Powells.com 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...
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The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments This acclaimed collection of stories presents the kind of native American rarely seen in literature--one portrayed without stereotypes--who pays his bills, holds down jobs, and falls in and out of love....
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Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural...
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Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments In the 111-year life of the Spokane Indian reservation, not one person has arrived by accident until the day the black stranger appears with nothing more than the suit he wears and the guitar slung over his back. The man happens to be the...
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko Powells.com Staff Pick Ceremony cast a spell on me; I read it over the course of a day, reluctantly putting it down only to eat and walk with the dog. It is the story of Tayo, whose soul has been horribly broken, and of his perilous journey back to wholeness. How rare it is...
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Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story Of
by Nicholas Black Elk Publisher Comments Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during the momentous...
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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments Chapter One Hunger and cold take their toll The air stretched tight, quiet and cold over the vast land Tall spruce branches bung heavily laden with snow, awaiting distant spring winds. The frosted willows seemed to tremble in the freezing temperatures...
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Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story
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...
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Crazy Horse: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies)
by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a...
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American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
by Richard Erdoes Publisher Comments Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panarama of the Native American mythic heritage. 100 drawings....
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Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon Silko Publisher Comments In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the...
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Two Old Women an Alaska Legend of Betray
by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River area in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a...
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Book of the Hopi
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments A revelation of the Hopi's historical and religious world view of life. Frank Waters combines Hopi art, history, tradition, myth, folklore and ceremonialism with dignity and authority....
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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...
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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"
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
by Jack Weatherford Publisher Comments "As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."<BR>THE WASHINGTON POST<BR>After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the...
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Daughters of Copper Woman
by Anne Cameron Publisher Comments Cameron's retelling of Northwest Coast Native myths: fiction that weaves together lives of legendary and imaginary characters....
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Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People (American Heroes)
by Candy Moulton Publisher Comments The Nez Percé people lived in peace with white intruders in their homelands from the time of Lewis & Clark until 1863 when a treaty called for the tribe’s removal to a reservation in Idaho. Chief Joseph (1840-1904), headman of the Nez Perc&...
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Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments When she invites us to "recover the sacred," well-known Native American organizer Winona LaDuke is requesting far more than the rescue of ancient bones and beaded headbands from museums. For LaDuke, only the power to define what is sacred-and access it...
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