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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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Marz Minor Publisher Comments "This is a book not only for reading, but for doing," the authors write in their foreword; "try making some of the things the Indians lived with, . . . and in so doing come to better understand these first Americans." Designed for creative... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Clifford E Trafzer Publisher Comments This story of western expansion and Indian-white conflict is sensitively retold from the perspective of Native Americans. Renegade Tribe examines written and oral sources left by both cultures.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (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 $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) 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 $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dee Brown Publisher Comments Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paula Gunn Allen Publisher Comments In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 add to wish list
by William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell Publisher Comments Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, this book "includes thirty-six...illustrated articles by American and Soviet... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 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 N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lewis Mehl Madrona Publisher Comments Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the use of stories for healing and personal transformation. By introducing new characters and plots in the stories we tell, we can perceive ourselves in new ways. The author draws upon indigenous cultures of North America... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sandy Johnson Book News Annotation A collection of photographs, stories, and oral traditions from a broad range of Native American experiences and tribal customs. Johnson spent three years collecting personal histories of 30 elders from 19 tribes, spanning 13 states in the US and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frank Waters Synopsis Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lionel Little Eagle Publisher Comments The saga of Crazy Horse's pipe bag, given to Dr. Henry Alexander Brown by the Lakotas, is recounted through amazing stories of its often uncanny power and the rich legacy behind it.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Humphr Miller Publisher Comments In 1935, David Miller began to gather the stories of 72 elderly Native American participants in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This work is the result of his exhaustive, 22-year research--a superb oral history told from the perspective of the the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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