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by Clyde Kluckhohn Publisher Comments What are the Navaho today? How do they live together and with other races? What is their philosophy of life? Both the general reader and the student will look to this authoritative study for the answers to such questions. The authors review Navaho... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane Holden Kelley Publisher Comments The four life histories collected here—personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with the Mexican Revolutionary army, emigration to Arizona to escape persecution, the rebuilding of the Yaqui... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Lame Deer Fire Publisher Comments "Lame Deer" Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles Wesle Allen Publisher Comments The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942) took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally turbulent era in its history. He was at the Red Cloud Agency when Red Cloud attempted to prevent the raising of the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $21.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Andrew L Knaut Publisher Comments In August 1680 the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico arose in fury to slay their Spanish colonial overlords and drive any survivors from the land. Andrew L. Knaut explores eight decades of New Mexican history leading up to the revolt, explaining how... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Emory Dean Keoke Publisher Comments "Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World</i> is a unique A-to-Z reference to the vast offerings made by American Indians throughout history. More than 450 entries provide a panorama of little-known information about the rich... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Donald Bahr Synopsis Using the Ant and Oriole songs performed by specialist singers during Pima social dances as examples, Bahr, practicing a method of translation and criticism with implications for other poetries, inquires into the expressive qualities of individual songs... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Left Handed Publisher Comments With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring "when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of my thumbnail," of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Devon A Mihesuah Publisher Comments In the past decade the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. In this... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Camilla Townsend Publisher Comments Camilla Townsend's stunning new book differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Alan Velie Book News Annotation Introduces teachers and students to the genres and major authors of Native American (mostly US) oral and written literature and to scholarship in the field. Velie, in selecting the works for this anthology, gave the revised edition (first edition... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Virginia Driv Sneve Publisher Comments The friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the familiar character from Norse mythology, are the subject of this imaginative, marvelously spun tale. While searching for his Norwegian immigrant family, the... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Clyde Holler Publisher Comments New critical readings of Black Elk, which show his profound influence on mainstream American thought and culture.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeff Benedict Synopsis The author of "Public Heroes" and "Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL" gives an eye-opening account of an Indian tribe's rise to power and its battle to operate the world's largest casino in the backyard of a sleepy New England town.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul H Carlson Publisher Comments Carlson charts the evolution and growth of the Plains Indians from 1750 to 1890, relying heavily on Indian voices and stressing an Indian viewpoint. 18 photos. 5 maps. Index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Clyde Ellis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alma Hogan Snell Publisher Comments “I became what the Crows call káalisbaapite—a ‘grandmother’s grandchild.’ That means that I was always with my Grandma, and I learned from her. I learned how to do things in the old ways.”—Alma Hogan Snell... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mckay Jenkins Publisher Comments In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged,... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Garter Snake Publisher Comments Provides real insight into the religion of the nineteenth-century GRos Ventre (Atsina) Indians. Known to themselves as the White Clay People, this little-known tribe now shares the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana with the Assiniboines.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bunny Mcbride Publisher Comments "Women of the Dawn" tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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