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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: $8.98 Used - Trade Paper 
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Love Medicine (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families — the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 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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Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest by Kenneth A Brown Publisher Comments Book One Beginnings In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all that is all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Summer Moon (10 Edition) 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 $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story by Paul Zolbrod Publisher Comments Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Penguin's Library of American Indian History) by Brenda J Child Publisher Comments A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities. Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Last Standing Woman (History & Heritage) by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments A powerful and poignant novel tracing the lives of seven generations of Anishinaabe (O)bwe/Chippewa).'...an impressive fiction debut....skillfully intertwines social history. oral myth and character study...." Publishers Weekly.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Indian Autobiography by H Brumble Publisher Comments American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Rez by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country by Jarold Ramsey Publisher Comments The material cause of this book is a Central Oregon childhood spent around Indians and devoted to hunting for the artifacts of their ancestors, the efficient cause is in the works of the late Melville Jacobs.... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural by Mary Giraudo Beck Publisher Comments A powerful mix of history and legend dramatizes the values and traditions of Tlingit and Haida societies in Southeast Alaska.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Chiefs VII by Tony Hollihan Publisher Comments - Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader who tried to unite all tribes into a single alliance- Geronimo, who fought to keep his people's homeland in New Mexico- Crowfoot, the Blackfoot who made not war but treaty with the Canadian government- Crazy Horse, the... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale Publisher Comments A novel of urban Indian life.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Sout by Alex Patterson Publisher Comments This is the only specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over 100 archaeologists, researchers, and Native American informants. Covers the northern... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends by Margot Edmonds Publisher Comments This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends from across the country, offering a unique and engaging look at Indian culture and mythology. Prepared by two esteemed folklorists, Voices of the Winds is arranged... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth Medicine: Ancestor's Ways of Harmony for Many Moons (Healing Arts) by Jamie Sams Publisher Comments Jamie Sams created this Native American meditation book by using original prayers and life lessons organized by the cycle of the moon. She aims to help readers find peace, tranquillity and harmony with others and the Earth through her prose, steering... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments The riveting story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a compelling conflict that unfolded in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. When appointed Washingtons first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens,... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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