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by William L Anderson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references. Includes index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Amy Hill Hearth Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years comes the inspiring true story of Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould, a Native American matriarch, and the Indian way of life that must never be forgotten. Amy Hill Hearth's... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments The story of Martiniano, the man who killed the deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Trud Griffin Pierce Publisher Comments In this comprehensive and lively look at the complex cultures and traditions of American-Indian groups across the continent, from the Seminole of southern Florida to the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Rim, we are drawn into their rich and exciting worlds.... (read more) List Price $14.98 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kerry A Trask Publisher Comments “Blending history with ethnography and a bit of sociology, Trask’s volume explains the war and its lingering impact extremely well . . . Fascinating.” —Chicago Sun-Times In the spring of 1832, Black Hawk and his Sauk followers... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Edward Malin Publisher Comments Examines the creation of totem poles from the Tlingit settlements of Alaska to the Kwakiutl villages of Vancouver Island.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane B Katz Publisher Comments "Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Victoria Freeman Publisher Comments In this fair-minded and highly readable book, Victoria Freeman traces her European ancestors? involvement in settling lands occupied by indigenous peoples in what would become New England and Ontario. It is a story of land fraud, broken treaties... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roberta Whiteman Publisher Comments In this, her second long-awaited collection of poetry, Oenida poet Roberta Hill Whiteman represents the essence of Native life today. Her new work celebrates, acknowledges, and grieves for the past, yet it is also intertwined with the compassion, keen... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cyrus Townsen Brady Publisher Comments Originally published in 1904, Indian Fights and Fighters regularly appears in bibliographies of significant works on the history of the American West. Embracing almost three decades of Plains history, it contains not only Brady's clear, fast-paced... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by James C Faris Publisher Comments HISTORICALLY, PHOTOGRAPHS have said less about the Navajo than about the photographers of Navajos. In Navajo and Photography James Faris calls attention to the inability of these photographs to communicate either the lived experiences of native people or... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Edward Ricciuti Publisher Comments A delightful, lighthearted handbook for bird lovers, chock-full of information on how to attract birds, identify them, understand their habits, and supply their basic needs. A user-friendly handbook for all bird lovers, "Backyards Are For The Birds" is... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alice C Fletcher Publisher Comments One day Alice C. Fletcher realized that "unlike my Indian friends, I was an alien, a stranger in my native land." But while living with the Indians and pursuing her ethnological studies she felt that "the plants, the trees, the clouds and all things had... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Thoma Hagan Publisher Comments Of all the aboriginal tribes of the Americas none had a more courageous or tragic destiny than the twin tribes of the Mississippi Valley, the Sacs and the Foxes. Occupying a parkland area midway between the powerful Iroquois and Sioux tribes in present... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments Combined here are two classics on the nature of native languages of North America: Boas' famous 1911 essay pointing to new methods of research and Powell's pioneering 1891 work on classification.-Scholarly Books in America Two cognate essays-the first by... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Campbell Grant Synopsis With the exception of the Grand Canyon itself, none of the great gorges of the American Southwest is more uniquely beautiful than Canyon de Chelly, with its sheer red cliffs and innumerable prehistoric Indian dwellings. Of all the important centers of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by R David Edmunds Publisher Comments Throughout history, Indian leaders and their methods of leadership have both perplexed and fascinated other Americans. Because war chiefs played leading roles in the confrontations with whites, it is they who most often emerge from the pages of history... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nancy Yaw Davis Book News Annotation The Zuni of the American Southwest are mysteriously unique among Native Americans in language, religion, and blood type. The author explains this by presenting evidence for a bold new theory: that around 1350 AD, ocean-crossing Japanese may have... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stith Thompson Publisher Comments Nearly 100 myths and legends of heroes, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, and even biblical subjects include "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" (Seneca), "The Star Husband" (Ojibwa), "Crossing the Red Sea" (Cheyenne), and scores more.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dale Cozort Publisher Comments In this volume, realistic alternative history scenarios are depicted where Indians fare better than they did historically. What if the Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru had exchanged technology before Columbus or if the ice age animals of the New... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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