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To Show Heart: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1960-1975 by George Pier Castile Publisher Comments Federal policy toward Native Americans has fluctuated wildly in the twentieth century. Washington long envisioned that Indians would be assimilated into American culture -- until FDR's New Deal introduced tribal self-government Then, during the Truman... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sun Tracks #55: Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva by Victor Jr Masayesva Publisher Comments Photographer and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr., was raised in the Hopi village of Hotevilla and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York, Princeton University, and the University of Arizona. His immersion in photographic experimentation... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph Marshall Publisher Comments Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man whowith valor, spirit, respect, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cherokees by Grace Steele Woodward Publisher Comments Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rank and warfare among the Plains Indians by Bernard Mishkin Publisher Comments The Plains Indians have entered into American mythology as fierce nomadic warriors who cared more about personal honor than about the outcome of any larger conflict. This representation of them, so attractive because it supports the idea of nobility in... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Native Tribes of North America by Michael Johnson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-248) and index.... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Algonquin by Theodore Kazimiroff Publisher Comments As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J Conley Review "Cherokee history and legend form the basis for this collection of short stories. Whether set in the present or in the last century, all the stories deal with the dilemma of having to adapt to the white world while trying to retain cultural traditions... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Rain Gods Reigned: From Curios to Art at Tesuque Pueblo by Duane Anderson Publisher Comments Despite at times being dismissed as tourist "kitsch, " Tesuque's popular rain god figurines have been continuously produced for more than 120 years, making them the longest-lasting figurative art tradition in the Southwest. What began in the 1880s as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Navaho Trading Days by Elizabeth Hegemann Publisher Comments A collection of photographs and first-hand observations of life among the Navaho and Hopi in the early 20th century. "A most valuable historical resource."-"American Indian Quarterly"... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Native North American on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Pawnee Mythology (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature) by George Dorsey Publisher Comments The Pawnee Mythology, originally published in 1906, preserves 148 tales of the Pawnee Indians, who farmed and hunted and lived in earth-covered lodges along the Platte River in Nebraska. The stories, collected from surviving members of four bands - Skidi,... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner by John Tanner Publisher Comments John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Native American Affairs by Donald Rub Mitchell Publisher Comments This book describes both the growing public awareness of Native American issues and the expanding ability of Native American leaders to influence public land-users policies affecting Native Americans.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.58 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees by John Sugden Publisher Comments Blue Jacket (ca. 1743–ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought a long and bloody war against white encroachments into the Shawnees’ homeland in the Ohio... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Indian Literature & Critical Studies #9: Faces in the Moon by Betty Louise Bell Publisher Comments "As my grandmother was dying, she told my mother, then nine years old, that she would always be watching her from the moon. And throughout her childhood, my mother sat on her back porch and waited for her mother's face to appear in the moon. Sometimes... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lakota Myth by James R Walker Publisher Comments James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list People of the Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission: A Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) by Robert Boyd Publisher Comments People of The Dalles is the story of the Chinookan (Wasco-Wishram) and Sahaptin peoples of The Dalles area of the Columbia River, who encountered the Lewis & Clark expedition in 1805–6. The early history and culture of these communities is... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $37.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dreamers: On the Trail of the Nez Perce by Martin Stadius Publisher Comments Stevens Pass always has had an aura of mystery about it. Even while Seattle boomed during the great gold rush of the 1800s, there was no way to cross the formidable North Cascade Mountains. Inspired by potential Orient trade, railroaders spent years... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times by William Wil Newcomb Publisher Comments "Newcomb's book is likely to remain the best general work on Texas Indians for a long time." -- American Antiquity "The Indians of Texas, by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., is an excellent and long-needed survey of the ethnography of the Indian tribes who resided... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Indian History Five Centuries by Robert W Venables Publisher Comments Volume I: Conquest of a Continent, 1492-1783 begins by comparing and contrasting the different worldviews held by Indian and European nations as reflected in their philosophies and religions. It progresses to comprehensively document the contact... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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