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by Sherman Alexie  Publisher Comments In the 111-year life of the Spokane Indian reservation, not one person has arrived by accident — until the day the black stranger appears with nothing more than the suit he wears and the guitar slung over his back. The man happens to be the... (read more)  List Price $13.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leslie Marmon Silko
Powells.com 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 $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, which also includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace, Love Medicine tells the story of two families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.Now resequenced by the author with the addition of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Publisher Comments For the first time in the two hundred years since Lewis and Clark led their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, we hear the other side of the story — as we listen to nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed. Among... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ghandl And Bringhurst Publisher Comments The nine stories contained in this volume are the finest offerings from one of the last of the traditional Haida storytellers, Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas. Ghandl was born in 1851 in a small Haida island community off the coast of British Columbia. His... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dee Brown
Publisher Comments Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John G Neihardt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sherman Alexie
Powells.com 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 $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward S Curtis Publisher Comments This in-depth selection of Curtis portraits includes several litle-known gems.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louise Erdrich
Publisher Comments Chapter OneNaked Woman Playing Chopin1910-1912 Eighty-some years previous, through a town that was to flourish and past a farm that would disappear, the river slid -- all that happened began with that flow of water. The town on its banks was very new and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark St Pierre Publisher Comments Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community. Based... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise". Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the Word, which... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jake Page Publisher Comments Today, some 2 million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than 1 percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective -- from the point of view of the Europeans who "discovered" the New... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Crow Dog Publisher Comments Chapter 1 A Woman from He-Dog A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons. "-- Cheyenne proverb" List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vine Deloria Publisher Comments In his new preface to this quality paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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