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by Richard Erdoes Publisher Comments Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panarama of the Native American mythic heritage. 100 drawings.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by F. David Peat Publisher Comments One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to the Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony in Alberta, Canada. Having spent all his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Laurence M Hauptman Review "In the preface, editors Laurence Hauptman and James Wherry promise a presentation devoid of jargon, to provide a work as educational to high school and college students as to scholars of Native American history. The book is highly successful at both... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alan Velie Book News Annotation Introduces teachers and students to the genres and major authors of Native American (mostly US) oral and written literature and to scholarship in the field. Velie, in selecting the works for this anthology, gave the revised edition (first edition... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marion Tinling Publisher Comments When the explorers Lewis and Clark asked the Shoshone woman Sacagawea and her husband, French trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, to act as interpreters for their expedition, the couple brought along their two-month-old son, Jean Baptiste. Over the course of... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Linda Hogan Publisher Comments Letters sent to Washington, D.C., from Oklahoma Indians begging for help go unanswered--until Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, travels west to investigate. "I wish everyone would read Mean Spirit".--Tony Hillerman. Winner of the 1990... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Boissiere Publisher Comments A heartfelt and reverential view of the Hopi Way as seen by one of the few white men to have lived within this ancient culture, "Meditations with the Hopi" imparts to us the essence of the Hopi experience--from child's first cry to soul's departure, each... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeff Benedict Publisher Comments Chapter OneOaths and VowsTown Hall June 13, 1969 Groton, Connecticut "The first thing you need to do is fill out this worksheet," Said town clerk Sally Sawyer, handing a blank form across the counter "After completing it, you give it back to me and I'll... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Luthe Standing Bear Publisher Comments Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments "A fascinating and important book". -- The New York... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River area in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Tomkins Publisher Comments Learn to communicate without words with these authentic signs! Learn over 525 signs developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe and other tribes. Written instructions and diagrams show you how to make the words, construct sentences. Book also... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments Chapter One Hunger and cold take their toll The air stretched tight, quiet and cold over the vast land Tall spruce branches bung heavily laden with snow, awaiting distant spring winds. The frosted willows seemed to tremble in the freezing temperatures... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Greg Sarris Publisher Comments A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Holm Publisher Comments "NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN ART is a very beautiful book and it is also an important contribution to the fields of art and anthropology, Its most distinguished feature is the author's sensitive yet scientific approach in coming firmly to grips with elements... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pekka Hamalainen Publisher Comments In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Helen Jackson Publisher Comments First published in 1881 and reprinted in numerous editions since, Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a classic account of the U.S. government's flawed Indian policy and the unfair and cruel treatment afforded North American Indians by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard White Publisher Comments This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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