Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Indigenous
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Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux
$18.95 Add to cartGovernment officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hu… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511964
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393073467
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: A Life
$17.00 Add to cartLegends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034804
- Language: English
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Gall: Lakota War Chief
$21.95 Add to cartCalled the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0806140364
- Language: English
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Crazy Dave
$24.95 Add to cartThe unflinching and marvelously humane story of a man born with Down syndrome in an Ojibway community.
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514238
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95 Add to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey
$29.95 Add to cartA fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience.—Booklist
Joe Starita tells the tr
- Author: Starita, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803292945
- Language: English
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
$17.99 Add to cart“I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred
- Author: Dog, Leonard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0060926821
- Language: English
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The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir – New Edition
$14.95 Add to cartThe harrowing story of one Indigenous child’s experience in Canada’s residential schools
Named the fourth most important “Book of the Year” by the National Post and voted “One Book/One Province” in S- Series: Regina Collection #16
- Author: Merasty, Joseph Auguste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0889778825
- Language: English
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Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
$16.00 Read moreAs a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror–of
- Author: McLeod, Darrel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313877
- Language: English
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
$22.95 Add to cartExplores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders-and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe.
Author… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518438
- Language: English
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Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey
$21.95 Add to cartInspired partly by her own spirit of adventure, and partly by the stories of her native coastal ancestors, Irene Skyriver celebrated her fortieth year of life with a solo kayak voyage, paddling from A
- Author: Skyriver, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0998701246
- Language: English
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My Indian Boyhood
$16.95 Add to cartAlthough the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293348
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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Wisdom Talks: We Must go Back to Our Roots to Walk Into Our Future
$19.99 Add to cartTHE POKANOKET TRIBE BELIEVE AND LIVE BY A FUNDAMENTAL RULE: THE STRONGER MUST CARE FOR THE WEAKER. THEY ARE TO TEACH BY EXAMPLE THE NEXT SEVEN GENERATIONS THE WAYS OF YESHUA THROUGH STORYTELLING. WHEN
- Author: Bruce-Spencer, Darlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890411846
- Language: English
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Yellow Wolf: His Own Story
$16.95 Add to cartThe Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. This titl… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0870043153
- Language: English
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Who Are These People Anyway?
$19.95 Add to cartIn the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indige
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Powless, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081561070X
- Language: English
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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows
$21.95 Add to cartDismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to
- Author: Wilson, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0806115556
- Language: English
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Grandmother’s Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life
$16.95 Add to cart“I became what the Crows call kç•lisbaapite–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 Hog… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Snell, Alma Hogan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803292910
- Language: English
