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by Laine Thom Publisher Comments Vivid photographs and detailed descriptions of weapons, clothing, and hunting tools reveal the central events and myths around which Native American men shaped their lives. These important objects recount the intertribal warfare, adolescent rites of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Glenda Riley Publisher Comments The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by J R Miller Book News Annotation This companion volume to the editor's earlier work, Skyscrapers hide the heavens, is concerned with developments in the various regions of Canada from the days of New France to the present. Twenty-five articles (all previously published in such... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ed Mcgaa Publisher Comments An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arnold Krupat Publisher Comments Twenty-seven Native American writers describe their lives and art in this compelling collection. When the editors Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann asked twenty-seven Native American writers to describe their lives in relation to their art, they received an... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Scheuerman Publisher Comments The native people of the mid-Columbia nurture a deep spiritual connection to their surroundings. Oral histories and accounts taken from archival documents survey legendary regional geologic formations and weave a fascinating interpretive history of the... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jace Weaver Publisher Comments Loyalty to the community is the highest value in Native American cultures, argues Jace Weaver. In That the People Might Live, he explores a wide range of Native American literature from 1768 to the present, taking this sense of community as both a... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by J E 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) Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frederica De Laguna Book News Annotation A collection of 41 Alaskan Indian tales, transcribed in 1935 by Frederica de Laguna and Norman Reynolds during an archaeological survey of the middle and lower Yukon River valley, are beautifully illustrated with 71 original wood engravings by Dale... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $39.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Nabokov Publisher Comments Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of the millennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Peter Aleshire Publisher Comments TWO OF AMERICAN HISTORY’ S MOST BRILLIANT WARRIORS– AND FIERCEST ENEMIES– COME ALIVE <P>" An invaluable addition to western history." – Evan Connell, author of Son of the Morning Star <P>... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $2.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Annerino Book News Annotation A documentary paying homage to the sacred traditions and landscapes of six major Native American tribes in the Southwest. Annerino shares a brilliant travelogue of photos and interviews culled from 20 years of exploration, inviting readers to view the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Utley Publisher Comments On September 8, 1886, soldiers and Indians gathered on the parade ground of a frontier post nestled amid cactus-studded hills. A cordon of blueclad troopers formed around a train of open wagons loaded with Indian families. As a military band drawn up at... (read more) Your price $4.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Melanie McGrath Powells.com Staff Pick In her account of the forced relocation of the Inuit people, Melanie McGrath illuminates the Inuit's quiet grace, their respect for their surroundings, and their ability to live in the most unforgiving environments. Unlike the portrait painted by the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gregory E Smoak Publisher Comments "This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world."--Richard White, author of "The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alexander Lesser Publisher Comments The Ghost Dance religion that swept through the Plains Indian tribes in the early 1890s was embraced wholeheartedly by the Pawnees. It was a message of hope to a people devastated by the attacks of enemy tribes, the encroachment of white settlers, and... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gene Weltfish Publisher Comments This is an account of one year in the life of a six-hundred-year-old American Indian nation that continued its existence within the United States through the Civil War period, retaining its integrity as a nation until it was uprooted and dissolved in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marijo Moore Publisher Comments In this compelling collection of literary nonfiction, Native Americans describe their struggle to preserve their heritage in contemporary urban America.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jon E Lewis Publisher Comments The story of America's original inhabitants in all its beauty, magic, truth, and tragedy.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jesse Walter Fewkes Publisher Comments This reissue of three early essays on Mimbres archaeology and design fills a major gap in the literature on the Mimbres, whose pottery has long fascinated students of the prehistoric Southwest. Fewkes, one of the eminent archaeologists of the early... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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