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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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Joseph Epes Brown Publisher Comments Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Angie Debo Publisher Comments This book is the account of Geronimo the Apache war leader told in a most detailed, thorough, pleasantly written, stimulating text.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James R Walker Review "A work of prime importance . . . its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas' way of life"-Journal of American Folklore.(Journal of American Folklore)... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leroy H Appleton Publisher Comments Full text, plus more than 700 precise drawings of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more. 4 plates in color. Text gives lore and tradition behind the designs plus Indians' own songs and stories. "A smashingly handsome... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Theda Perdue Publisher Comments While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Herman Viola Publisher Comments On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the elite U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret M Wheat Publisher Comments "Margaret Marean Wheat is a native Nevadan, born in Fallon. She attended the University of Nevada, where her bent of interest was in geology. She served with the US Geological Survey in 1947, has been a field worker in archaeology for the Nevada State... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments 'Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments These thought-provoking teachings from respected Native American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Roberts Publisher Comments The Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo people, inhabited the Southwest for at least 5,000 years. David Roberts' extensive interviews and back country travels create a richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic people.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph III Marshall Publisher Comments As the peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse remains one of the most perennially fascinating figures of the American West. Now Joseph Marshalla masterful storyteller, historian, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Blaisdell Publisher Comments Remarkable for their eloquence and depth of feeling, these 82 speeches encompass 5 centuries of Indian encounters with non-indigenous peoples. Speakers include Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and many lesser-known... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M Utley Publisher Comments "His narrative is griping....Mr. Utley transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story....THE LANCE AND THE SHIELD clears the screen of the exaggerations and fantasies long... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark St Pierre Publisher Comments Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community. Based... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Darcy Mcnickle Publisher Comments This book reveals the story that captures the intense and varied conflicts that characterized reservation life in 1936.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Kept off the shelves for eight years by legal battles, this is the comprehensive history of the desperate Indian efforts to maintain their traditions and preserve the sacredness of the earth. Matthiessen reveals the Lakota Indians' long struggle with the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvin M Josephy Publisher Comments From the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age to the American Indian of the 20th century, this book encompasses the whole historical and cultural range of Indian life in Corth, Central, and South America. 32 pages... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gloria Jahoda Publisher Comments Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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