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by Peter Mancall Publisher Comments Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Susanne Page Publisher Comments An exclusive insight into America's most traditional native tribe. For many centuries the Hopi people have preserved their traditional and very private way of life. But in 1974 Hopi elders, together with the Tribal Council, invited photographer Susanne... (read more) Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Janet Campbell Hale Publisher Comments A collection of essays--on writing, American Indian reservation life, being a woman, and family--by a distinguished writer and member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe. In haunting prose, Hale interweaves her own experiences with striking portraits of relatives... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William S Simmons Publisher Comments Legends, folktales, and traditions of New England Indians reflect historical events and a changing Indian identity over a 365-year period.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frank Pommersheim Publisher Comments In this ambitious and moving book, Frank Pommersheim, who lived and worked on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation for ten years, challenges the dominant legal history of American Indians and their tribes--a history that concedes far too much power to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Iverson Peter Publisher Comments Peter Iverson traces the rise and fall of individual and tribal Indian cattle industries on the northern plains and in the Southwest during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For the Indian rancher, raising cattle was both an economically viable way... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jerome A Greene Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter J Powell Publisher Comments "Sweet Medicine is the most comprehensive record ever made of the ceremonies of the Northern Cheyennes.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $33.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alvin M Josephy Synopsis From the celebrated historian, noted for his writings about the American West and the American Indian, comes a wonderfully engaging account of his journey across the 20th century. 25 photos.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gilbert L Wilson Publisher Comments "I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe. In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Irene Vernon Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Radin Publisher Comments In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gerald Robe Vizenor Publisher Comments This satirical tour de force teases readers out of a complacent acceptance of romantic stereotypes.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles L Woodard Review "No critic-however fortified metacritically-who writes hereafter on Momaday can get away with ignoring this book."-American Literature(American Literature)... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lawney L Reyes Book News Annotation Drawing heavily on information his mother had collected over many years for a memoir early death prevented her from writing, Seattle- based artist Reyes explores his Native American heritage. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jake Page Publisher Comments From rock art in New Mexico used for spiritual purposes for 3,000 years to a recently rediscovered shaman's cave in the Mojave Desert, Sacred Lands of Indian America celebrates in words and vivid photographs some of the most beautiful and spiritually... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diana Bahr Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steltenkamp Michael Publisher Comments This biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man's last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the figure portrayed in Black Elk Speaks as a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Margaret Carrington Publisher Comments On July 17, 1866, two soldiers wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marsha Bol Publisher Comments Vibrant photographs and cultural lore are woven into a beautifully presented portrayal of the tribes of four Native American groups and their relationship with nature. Each chapter includes sidebars on related objects from other tribes and a section... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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