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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
by Robert Bringhurst
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The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and... (read more)

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Flight: A Novel
Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie
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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... (read more)

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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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 some... (read more)

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Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story
Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story
by John G Neihardt
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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)

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Book of the Hopi
Book of the Hopi
by Frank Waters
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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.... (read more)

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Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota (Religion and Spirituality)
Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota (Religion and Spirituality)
by Wallace H Black Elk
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In a first-person narrative, a Lakota shaman blends an explanation of the mystery and ritual of the sacred pipe with a lively account of growing up Native American.... (read more)

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American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
by Richard Erdoes
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Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panarama of the Native American mythic heritage. 100 drawings.... (read more)

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Black Hawk: An Autobiography (Prairie State Books)
Black Hawk: An Autobiography (Prairie State Books)
by Donald Jackson
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An American classic since its appearance in 1883, Black Hawk's autobiography is the story of an old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people.... (read more)

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Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (Religion and Spirituality)
Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (Religion and Spirituality)
by Ed Mcgaa
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An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.... (read more)

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Meditations with the Hopi
Meditations with the Hopi
by Robert Boissiere
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A heartfelt and reverential view of the Hopi Way as seen by one of the few white men to have lived within this ancient culture, "Meditations with the Hopi" imparts to us the essence of the Hopi experience--from child's first cry to soul's departure, each... (read more)

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Navaho Symbols of Healing: A Jungian Exploration of Ritual, Image, and Medicine
Navaho Symbols of Healing: A Jungian Exploration of Ritual, Image, and Medicine
by Donald Sandner
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In this original and superbly researched work, a Jungian-trained psychiatristexplores ancient Navaho methods of healing--methods that use ritual andvibrant imagery to bring the psyche into harmony with the natural forcesthat surround it. Through his... (read more)

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The Nature Way
The Nature Way
by Corbin Harney
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To his own people, the Newe, the Western Shoshone Tribe of Duck Valley, Nevada, Harney (1920-2007) was a healer and leader; to others he was known as a defender of Native American culture, and an anti-nuclear activist. Elaborating on his 1995 The Way... (read more)

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The Woman at Otowi Crossing
The Woman at Otowi Crossing
by Frank Waters
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Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and... (read more)

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From the Heart: Voices of the American Indian
From the Heart: Voices of the American Indian
by Lee Miller
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In From the Heart, Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first... (read more)

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Guide To Navajo Sandpainting (00 Edition)
Guide To Navajo Sandpainting (00 Edition)
by Bahti
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A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings provides the best introduction to the religious images depicting ancient Navajo gods and heroes, designs created by Navajo medicine men as part of traditional curing ceremonies to help restore their patients to harmony.... (read more)

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On the Rez
On the Rez
by Ian Frazier
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On the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the... (read more)

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Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS
Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS
by Irene Vernon
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Through a series of personal narratives, the author minutely examines the AIDS epidemic and its social and cultural consequences among three Native American groups in three geographical areas. 5 charts.... (read more)

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Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
by Robert Lake Thom
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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... (read more)

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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John Neihardt
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Black Elk Speaks is widely hailed as a religious classic, one of the best spiritual books of the modern era and the bestselling book of all time about an American Indian. This inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of... (read more)

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Civilization of the American Indian #72: The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society
Civilization of the American Indian #72: The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society
by Royal B Hassrick
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"Hassrick writes with authority and with a clarity of style; his Sioux live for the reader, and many of the conflicts and contradictions described for Sioux culture become understandable when Hassrick applies sociological interpretations." American West... (read more)

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