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Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories by Greg Sarris Publisher Comments Set in a northern California landscape of tumbledown shacks and recycled barracks, this compelling sequence of interwoven stories about a Native American community is "one of the most important imaginative books of the year" (Michael Dorris, Los Angeles... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 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 some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Lori Arviso Alvord Review "If you're in the market for a captivating autobiography, look no further."—South Carolina Herald "Sheer pleasure to read from the very first page... Absorbing."—Booklist "Movingly details her quest to unify... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Elk Speaks (Rev 08 Edition) by John G. Neihardt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Anna Lee Waldo Publisher Comments Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexi Publisher Comments In this "compelling and impressive collection" (Washington Times), Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly paints a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These interlinked tales are... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle. While this so-called Indian Killer terrorizes the city, its Native American population is thrown into turmoil. John Smith, an Indian adopted as a newborn baby into a white family, is increasingly... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown Publisher Comments A true classic of American history, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Browns eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Whale by Linda Hogan Publisher Comments Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tracks by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments Set in North Dakota at a time in the past century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments How a lone mans epic obsession led to one of Americas greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history — and the driven, brilliant man... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Documents of United States Indian policy by Francis Paul Prucha Publisher Comments This expanded edition adds 38 new documents, dated 1972 to 1988 and covering a period of great activity and rapid movement toward Indian self-determination. Among the topics dealt with are fishing rights, economic development, the American Indian Policy... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ishi Last of His Tribe (Bantam Starfire Books) by Theodora Kroeber Publisher Comments The old Yahi World and the new world of the white man as seen by Ishi, last survivor of his people.... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 by Russell Thornton Publisher Comments This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest by Alvin M Josephy Publisher Comments Is there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic - and not so heroic -characters abound: explorers, fur traders, miners, settlers... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indians of California: The Changing Image by James Rawls Publisher Comments When the first Anglo-Americans visited California early in the nineteenth century, the future state was still a remote province of the Spanish empire. Early visitors, filled with a sense of American?s Manifest Destiny, described the missionary priests... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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