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by Wilcomb E. Washburn  Publisher Comments This is a history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans down to the present day. First published in 1971, this second edition contains a new preface and extensive afterword. "A... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jose Barreiro Publisher Comments The new book, America is Indian Country: Opinions and Perspectives from Indian Country Today, pulls together the best of the editorials and perspectives featured since 2000. Featuring a preface from former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the book... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward S Curtis Book News Annotation An extraordinary collection of 243 b&w images, including many newly-discovered prints from the Library of Congress, taken by Curtis (1868-1952), famed photographer of Native America. The book presents him as a cultural anthropologist rather than as a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Tanner Publisher Comments John Tanner was a small boy in the spring of 1789 when he was snatched from his father's farm in Kentucky by two Shawnee braves. Tanner was adopted by the wife of an Ojibbeway chief to replace her own dead son. They renamed him Grey Hawk, and he stayed... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nora Mar Dauenhauer Publisher Comments Re-creates the oral tradition of Alaska's Tlingit people.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Niels W Braroe Synopsis "A well-done and interesting study which focuses on a variety of questions that are usually ignored when white researchers attempt to describe Amerindians."--Gerd Schroeter, "The Journal of Ethnic Studies." (Anthropology)... (read more) List Price $8.50 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Time Life Synopsis History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Moffitt Publisher Comments O Brave New People explores the myths and preconceptions early European explorers brought with them to the New World and the ways in which such ideas have shaped misperceptions about American Indians to the present. Thinking he was in the Far East... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francis Paul Prucha Publisher Comments American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today--hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernestine Hayes Publisher Comments In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dave Walker Publisher Comments Myths and legends about the Native American Kokopelli... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Spicer Publisher Comments The monumental "Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups" is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. "Dimensions of Ethnicity" is designed to... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carolyn Dunn Publisher Comments By bringing together the voices of Native American women writers across time, regions, and tribes, this collection makes visible a dynamic tradition of women's wisdom and storytelling. From early legends to present-day fiction and poetry, this tradition... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Keller Publisher Comments From Yellowstone to the Everglades, many of America's national parks and monuments have been the scene of conflict between native peoples and park officials over issues such as hunting rights, craft sales, cultural interpretation, and sacred sites. This... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Reg Saner Book News Annotation A collection of travelogue essays recording the author's reflections on the ruins of the Anasazi civilization and his personal spiritual reactions to them. Saner (English, U. of Colorado) seeks to convey a sense of nature and art that can be gained by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregory Evans Dowd Publisher Comments In the early 1800s, when once-powerful North American Indian peoples were being driven west across the Mississippi, a Shawnee prophet collapsed into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he told friends and family of his ascension to Indian heaven, where his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Padget Publisher Comments "Indian Country analyzes the works of Anglo writers and artists who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in the Southwest during the one hundred-year period beginning in 1840.... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steph Dando Collins Publisher Comments In 1877, Standing Bear and his Indian people, the Ponca, were forcibly removed from their land in northern Nebraska. In defiance, Standing Bear sued in U.S. District Court for the right to return home. In a landmark case, the judge, for the first time in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dee Brown Publisher Comments This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American culture. Gathered from numerous tribes—Seneca, Hopi, Navaho, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sally Zanjani Publisher Comments This book is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844–91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native women in American history. Born into a legendary family of Paiute leaders in western Nevada, Sarah dedicated much of her... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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