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by Washington Matthews  Publisher Comments One of the earliest collections of Navajo oral traditions in English, this still remains among the most complete sources of Navajo cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information.... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Allan A. Macfarlan Publisher Comments 90 stories from tribes throughout the U.S. and Canada cover a wide range of subjects: tales of creation, heroes, witchcraft, monsters, romance, enchantment, tricksters, and more. Includes, among others, "The Origin of Daylight" (Tsimshian), "The Flying... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcia Simpson Publisher Comments What's not to like? Wrangell, Alaska, rich in scenery, laden with native lore. A child who's not cute but sturdily self reliant. No victim, although needing shelter, James has been prepared by his grandfather for the weight of tribal responsibility. He... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments From the author of the bestselling Two Old Women comes the story of two Native Americans who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure in the unknown. For a headstrong young woman, it means defying her... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Bahti Publisher Comments A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings provides the best introduction to the religious images depicting ancient Navajo gods and heroes, designs created by Navajo medicine men as part of traditional curing ceremonies to help restore their patients to harmony.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Randolph Lewis Publisher Comments In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television. In this book, the first devoted to any Native... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $18.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Hampton Publisher Comments Although the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Indians gave instrumental help to Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, they were rewarded by decades of invasive treaties and encroachment upon their homeland. In June 1877, the Nez Perce struck back and ... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leonard Peltier Publisher Comments Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever since&... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments A powerful and poignant novel tracing the lives of seven generations of Anishinaabe (O)bwe/Chippewa).'...an impressive fiction debut....skillfully intertwines social history. oral myth and character study...." Publishers Weekly.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Walters Synopsis Art and religion are two words that have no equivalents in languages spoken by Native Americans. Yet these intensely spiritual people created objects for everyday use that are unsurpassed for sheer beauty, originality, and craftsmanship. "The Spirit of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald Mcmaster Publisher Comments The Smithsonian's new National Museum of the American Indian will be the last museum to be built on the National Mall and its opening will be a major, national media event. To commemorate the opening, the National Geographic Society has collaborated with... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Connell Szasz Book News Annotation During centuries of contact between native peoples and others in America, numerous intermediaries--artists, students, traders, interpreters, political figures, authors, et al.--have bridged the divide between cultures. To convey the many roles of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ray Young Bear Publisher Comments A classic of Native American literature, Black Eagle Child uses a rich mix of verse, prose narrative, and letters to tell Edgar Bearchild's journey to adulthood. Although the backdrop of much of Young Bear's novel may be familiar -- the conflicts over... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Drimmer Publisher Comments Astounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. 15 true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escapes, and adoption into Indian tribes. Fascinating historical... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Tanner Publisher Comments John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Dale Publisher Comments Tales of the Tepee grew out of Edward Everett Dale’s close association with Indian tribes living in Oklahoma. During territorial days young Dale rode, hunted, and visited with the Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas. Later he taught many Cherokees,... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Ross Evans Synopsis Lucullus V. McWhorter (1860-1944) will long be remembered as the stirring spokesman for the non-treaty bands that fought in the 1877 Nez Perce War. Historian Steven Ross Evans offers the first book-length presentation of the life of the author who wrote... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Farella Publisher Comments In this book, Farella combines the classic studies of Gladys Reichard and Berard Haile with recent interviews with tribal elders, in order to develop an understanding of the Navajo paradoxical, non-dualistic, and realistic concept of the wholeness of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Delaney Publisher Comments A visual pleasure and a unique insight into American history For the first time ever, here is renowned photographer Gertrude Käsebier's haunting collection of photographs of Native American performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the turn... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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