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by Nasdijj Publisher Comments THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS transports readers to the majestic landscapes and hard Native American lives of the desert Southwest and into the embrace of a way of looking at the world that seems almost like revelation. Born to a... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Larry Zimmerman Publisher Comments This wide-ranging examination of the spiritual traditions of the Native peoples of North America combines an extensive historical perspective with a fascinating exploration of present-day life, covering all aspects of the sacred and the everyday... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $1.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John G Neihardt Publisher Comments Originally published at the beginning of the twentieth century, the short stories of John G. Neihardt deserve to be better known. Their flesh-and-blood Indians were practically unprecedented in an era when the fiends of dime novels and idealizations of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $1.78 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sarah F Wakefield Publisher Comments Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive by the Sioux in frontier Minnesota in 1862. Sarah is a doctor's wife and a well-known friend of the Sioux. As desperate Sioux warriors attack, Sarah... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Corbin Harney Publisher Comments A Western Shoshone medicine man from Nevada, Corbin Harney carries an urgent message for all people to return to a natural way of life. "The Native way", Corbin explains, "is to pray for everything, to take care of everything. Our Mother Earth is very... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Brian Moore Synopsis To Father Paul, the Algonkian Indians are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father Paul on his mission to relieve a priest in danger of his life, Daniel is torn between the need to serve... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gerald Vizenor Book News Annotation Vizenor writes about his experiences as a tribal mixedblood in these autobiographical stories. He writes of his fosterage, ambitions, contentions with institutions and imposed histories; his encounters as a community advocate, journalist for the... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Boissiere Publisher Comments From a Nazi prison camp to the rocky mesas of Hopi, Arizona, Robert boissiere takes the reader on a literary and spiritual vogage of the first magnitude. A Frenchman, dispossessed of his land in the Second World War, the author arrives in America... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Virginia Driv Sneve Publisher Comments Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve tells her own story and the story of her family. An expert quilter, she recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together. "I... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Lee Maracle Publisher Comments A revised edition of Lee Maracle's visionary book which links teaching of her First Nations heritage with feminism.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ann Marshall Publisher Comments Exploring the relationship between rain -- the desert's oldest miracle -- and indigenous people of the arid and semi-arid Southwest, this lavishly illustrated book highlights pieces from the exemplary collection at The Heard Museum in Phoenix.... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Carey Cremony Publisher Comments John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett' s boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Basil Johnston Publisher Comments The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, they had dispersed... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joe Starita Publisher Comments Joe Starita tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne family. In 1878, the renowned Chief Dull Knife, who fought alongside Crazy Horse, escaped from forced relocation in Indian Territory and led followers on a desperate six... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cynthia D Stowell Publisher Comments Through her words and photographs, Cyntia D. Stowell shares her experience of the people and the land of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, located in central Oregon. A seven-year resident of the reservation, Ms. Stowell worked as a reporter of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Colin G Calloway Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 569-596) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Carolyn Davis Publisher Comments The true story of a special cross-cultural friendship. In 1927 Maud Melville, a wealthy New Englander, and Ethel Muchvo, a Hopi potter, struck up a remarkable friendship. Using diaries, letters, and photographs of Ethel and Maud, biographer and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Hunter Publisher Comments Robert Hunter, winner of a Governor General’s Award for co-authoring Occupied Canada, has crossed trails with Natives of all sorts in many circumstances. His adventures as the founder of the Greenpeace movement in Vancouver brought him in frequent... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William C Wicken Publisher Comments From 1994 to 1996, the author was a witness for the defence at the Marshall trial, during which the Supreme Court of Canada integrated aboriginal perspectives on treaty-making into current interpretations. Dr Wicken was one of the historians who gathered... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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