Ethnic Studies - American - Native American Studies
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The Four Hills of Life: Ojibwe Wisdom
$19.95 Add to cartThe Four Hills of Life tells the wise and beautiful Ojibwe story about the path we walk through the seasons of life, from the springtime of youth through the winter of old age. The hills we climb alon
- Author: Peacock, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518284
- Language: English
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Agnes Oshanee Kenmille: Salish Indian Elder and Craftswoman
$17.95 Add to cartAgnes Oshanee Kenmille (1916-2009) was a Salish Indian elder and master craftswoman from the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. She was a hard worker who struggled to raise her children a… [more below]
- Author: Kenmille, Agnes Oshanee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1934594350
- Language: English
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Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
$22.00 Read moreOnly the power to define what is sacred–and access it–will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.
- Author: LaDuke, Winona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1608466272
- Language: English
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In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation
$17.95 Add to cartA never-before-published book by famed Native American author Charles Eastman recounts the stories of the Dakota creation cycle as they were told a century and a half ago.
In the 1860s and 1870s, the- Author: Eastman, Charles Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342332
- Language: English
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Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Tales Retold
$17.95 Add to cart“Charles Eastman, in collaboration with his wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, has assembled in this collection a composite, condensed sampling of his tribe’s values, and presents them in a language that i… [more below]
- Author: Eastman, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 253
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803267177
- Language: English
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American Indian Stories
$14.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala… [more below]
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803299176
- Language: English
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Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
$31.45 Add to cartBeginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth.
- Series: Keepers of the Earth
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1555913857
- Language: English
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Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations
$36.99 Add to cartFor generations, Indian people suffered a grinding poverty and political and cultural suppression on the reservations. But tenacious and visionary tribal leaders refused to give in. They knew their ri
- Author: Wilkinson, Charles F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328503
- Language: English
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A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
$29.95 Add to cartIn the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaB
- Series: Indigenous Confluences
- Author: Cot?, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749520
- Language: English
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Ojibway Heritage
$19.95 Add to cart“A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America’s native peoples.”—Vancouver Sun
Rarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as ric
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803275722
- Language: English
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Coyote Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA powerful force and yet the butt of humor, the coyote figure runs through the folklore of many American Indian tribes. He can be held up as a “terrible example” of conduct, a model of what not to do,… [more below]
- Author: Mourning Dove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281692
- Language: English
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Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America
$34.95 Read moreA Native foster youth brings a completed Pfizer Corporation’s “PTSD Self-Quiz” she found in a U.S. Indian Health Service clinic waiting room to her psychologist, hoping a new diagnosis will allow her
- Author: Walker, David Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: February 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0874224209
- Language: English
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Native American Ethnobotany
$80.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to th… [more below]
- Author: Moerman, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 927
- Publish Date: August 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0881924539
- Language: English
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The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?
$17.95 Add to cartThe Thanksgiving Play
“Satire doesn’t get much richer… A takedown of white American mythology… The familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicio
- Author: Fasthorse, Larissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1559369612
- Language: English
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Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging
$21.95 Add to cartUnpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor alwa… [more below]
- Author: Glancy, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235002
- Language: English
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Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers
$18.95 Add to cartA rich trove of stories told by five generations of a Dakota family.
Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi (the place where they dig the yellow medicine), Teresa Peterson’s family members have list- Author: Peterson, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1681341840
- Language: English
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Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, Especially of Washington and Oregon
$18.95 Add to cartThese collected myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest–the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes–were first published in 1910. … [more below]
- Author: Judson, Katharine Berry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0803275951
- Language: English
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The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society
$26.95 Add to cartFor many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of t
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Hassrick, Royal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: January 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0806121408
- Language: English
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A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return
$18.95 Add to cartAn adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into–and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same.
In the 1950s, when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler, she was- Author: White Hawk, Sandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1681342413
- Language: English
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The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs and Reminiscences
$20.00 Add to cart35th anniversary edition! Here, in their own words, Indigenous voices reclaim the narrative of California Indians.
“Their stories, here brilliantly illuminated by Margolin’s comments, contain beauty, h
- Author: Margolin, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1597143936
- Language: English
