American Indian Lives
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My Side of the River: An Alaska Native Story
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing–forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be re… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Kelly, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235096
- Language: English
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Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
$14.95 Add to cartIt was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had be… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Kipp, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803216416
- Language: English
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I Tell You Now (Second Edition): Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
$19.95 Add to cartI Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and … [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Krupat, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293143
- Language: English
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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
$24.95 Add to cart2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories)
In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand
2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Harness, Susan Devan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496219570
- Language: English
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No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier
$19.95 Add to cartAs a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis’s… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Stabler, Hollis D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803220839
- Language: English
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Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing
$17.95 Add to cartFor most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singer… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Theisz, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803299125
- Language: English
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In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World
$39.95 Add to cartIn Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Having spent much of her life illuminating the tragic irony of being an Indi… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496208870
- 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
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The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
$21.95 Add to cart“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low writes, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by sno… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Low, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236890
- Language: English
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My Grandfather’s Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men
$24.95 Add to cartRichard Moves Camp’s My Grandfather’s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wtuȟ’a (“Chips”),… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Moves Camp, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 1, 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236912
- Language: English
