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Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
by Robert Lake Thom  Publisher Comments Lake-Thom, who has studied with the elders of many tribes, explains the significance of animal figures as manifestations of good or evil, and shows how we can develop our own powers of awareness and intuition. The first book of its kind, this practical...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann 
Powells.com 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...
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Incas People of the Sun
by Carmen Bernard Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (08 Edition)
by Craig Childs
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for...
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
by Alan Taylor Publisher Comments With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American...
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In Search of the Old Ones
by David Roberts Publisher Comments The Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo people, inhabited the Southwest for at least 5,000 years. David Roberts' extensive interviews and back country travels create a richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic people....
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The Forest People (Touchstone Books)
by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments "The Forest People" -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life.<P...
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache....
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The Comanche Empire (Lamar Series in Western History)
by Pekka Hamalainen Publisher Comments In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This...
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Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes
by Margaret M Wheat Publisher Comments "Margaret Marean Wheat is a native Nevadan, born in Fallon. She attended the University of Nevada, where her bent of interest was in geology. She served with the US Geological Survey in 1947, has been a field worker in archaeology for the Nevada State...
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Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh
by Allan W Eckert Publisher Comments The epic tale of a towering Native American hero by the award-winning author of The Frontiersmen. Published to rave reviews, this extraordinary book tells the story of Shawnee leader Tecumseh, a military genius whose vision was to unite the North...
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Dancing with the Wheel
by Sun Bear Publisher Comments The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this...
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Discoveries: Aztecs (Discoveries)
by Serge Gruzinski Synopsis The Aztecs were noted for their impressive architecture, majestic sculpture, luxurious clothing, and fine goldworking--but they also practiced human sacrifice. The seemingly contradictory aspects of this fascinating culture are examined here, from its...
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Kept off the shelves for eight years by legal battles, this is the comprehensive history of the desperate Indian efforts to maintain their traditions and preserve the sacredness of the earth. Matthiessen reveals the Lakota Indians' long struggle with the...
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Brothers Among Nations
by Cynthia Van Zandt Publisher Comments During the first eighty years of permanent European colonization, webs of alliances shaped North America from northern New England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and entangled all peoples in one form or another. In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia...
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Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions : With a New Preface ((Rev)92 Edition)
by Paula Gunn Allen Publisher Comments This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American...
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Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
by Timothy J. Shannon Publisher Comments A vividly drawn portrait of the powerful Iroquois nation during colonial America In the fourth title in The Penguin Library of American Indian History, Timothy J. Shannon tells the story of the most influential Native American confederacy of the colonial...
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Popol Vuh : The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of Gods and Kings
by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a...
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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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Storyteller
by Leslie Marmon Silko Publisher Comments Storytelling is an integral part of Native American tradition. It goes back hundreds of years, and spans the continent from ocean to ocean. It was the means by which tribes and nations communicated from generation to generation their feats, legends, and...
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