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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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The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864-1868
by Gregory Michno Publisher Comments The Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American West during the 19th century. People have long relished tales of the underdog and celebrated lost causes. We appreciate and praise those who have fought...
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Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country
by John W W Mann Publisher Comments On October 20, 2001, a crowd gathered just east of Salmon, Idaho, to dedicate the site of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. In a bitter instance of irony, the American Indian...
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The Northern Shoshoni
by Brigham D. Madsen Synopsis Brigham Madsen examines four distinct groups which comprise the Northern Shoshoni. The book focuses on the Shoshoni since the arrival of the first white settlers. It describes the early days on the reservation and the struggle of these proud people to...
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The Utes Must Go!
by Peter R Decker Publisher Comments When historian Peter Decker began searching for the full story of how Colorado Ute Indians were displaced from their lands, friends asked, "Why investigate the Utes? We know the outcome." Fortunately for readers of ""The Utes Must Go!," Decker continued...
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Ute Tales
by Anne M Smith Publisher Comments These distinctive animal and human tales offer a rich source of Ute culture for anyone interested in the peoples of the Great Basin. The 102 stories are ribald, sometimes violent, yet delicately balanced and full of humor....
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Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone
by Lawrence L. And Nancy Medaris Stone Loendorf Book News Annotation Among the native peoples who formerly lived in what is now Yellowstone National Park was a Shoshone group called the Tukudika, or Sheep Eaters. Aimed at general readers, this text describes the way of life of these hunter-gatherers. Archaeologist...
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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (Vintage West)
by Sarah Winne Hopkins Publisher Comments "Life Among the Piutes" was originally published in 1883. Sarah Winnemucca was inducted into the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame in 1993....
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The Way It is: One Water...One Air...One Mother Earth...
by Corbin Harney Publisher Comments A Western Shoshone medicine man from Nevada, Corbin Harney carries an urgent message for all people to return to a natural way of life. "The Native way", Corbin explains, "is to pray for everything, to take care of everything. Our Mother Earth is very...
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Indians of Idaho
by Deward E Walker Synopsis A classic study of the social organization, customs, environmental orientation, and physical ways of life of Idaho Indian tribes....
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Sarah Winnemucca (American Indian Lives)
by Sally Zanjani Publisher Comments This book is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844–91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native women in American history. Born into a legendary family of Paiute leaders in western Nevada, Sarah dedicated much of her...
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Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860
by Ferol Egan Publisher Comments Sand in a Whirlwind is a dramatic account of the events surrounding hostilities between white settlers and Indians in the spring of 1860. Thirty years after its publication, Ferol Egan's now classic tale continues to enlighten and engage readers....
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Ouray-Chief of the Utes
by David Smith Publisher Comments The fascinating story of Colorado's most famous and controversial Indian chief. This book explores Ouray's life and people but makes no judgments....
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Indian tribes of the Northern Rockies
by Hungry Wolf Publisher Comments Here is given a wealth of cultural information and historical facts about tribes living in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Includes many old photographs and reprints of original treaties....
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The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend
by Donna J Kessler Publisher Comments Sacagawea is one of the most renowned figures of the American West. A member of the Shoshone tribe, she was captured by the Hidatsas as a child and eventually became one of the wives of a French fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau. In 1805 Charbonneau...
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The Lemhi: Sacajawea's People
by Brigham D Madsen Publisher Comments Indian expert and historian, Brigham Madsen, tells the story of the Mountain Shoshoni culture -- from the fateful day in 1805 when Chief Ca-me-ah-wait met Lewis and Clark, to 1907 when the Lemhi moved to the Fort Hall reservation. Madsen explains, step...
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Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Ella E. Clark and Margot Edmonds
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The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
by Virginia Simmons
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People of the Shining Mountains: The Utes of Colorado
by Charles Marsh
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Civilization of the American Indian #82: Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies
by Ella E Clark
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