Bison Books
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Bang the Drum Slowly
$19.95 Add to cartHenry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball “with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 080327338X
- Language: English
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Ojibway Ceremonies
$24.95 Add to cartThe Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized the
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803275730
- Language: English
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Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His World
$39.95 Add to cartRebecca Valette’s Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876-1953), one of the most important but overlooked Diné (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was… [more below]
- Author: Valette, Rebecca M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235819
- Language: English
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Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartWILLA Literary Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction
In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an
Finalist, Evans Handcart Award- Author: Hendrickson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496227921
- Language: English
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Standing Bear’s Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing B- Author: Dwyer, Lawrence A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232461
- Language: English
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Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story
$16.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Picture Book Winner
“[A] beautifully illustrated retelling of a story of the Montana Salish People. . . . Beaver Steals Fire makes both a fine children’s tale a- Author: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803216408
- Language: English
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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, t
- Author: Arnold, Mary Ellicott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236379
- Language: English
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Time to Stand
$21.95 Add to cartOn the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the g
- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: August 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0803279027
- Language: English
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Teton Sioux Music and Culture
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Densmore, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 589
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803266316
- Language: English
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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark
$60.00 Add to cartThis magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conf… [more below]
- Series: History of the American West
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 631
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803264658
- Language: English
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Great Plains Forts
$17.95 Add to cartGreat Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prai… [more below]
- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Buckley, Jay H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496207718
- Language: English
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
$29.95 Add to cartBefore he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as “bitter Bierce” and “the devil’s lexicographer.” He left behind a nasty reputa… [more below]
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0803260717
- 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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The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State
$24.95 Add to cartBoard of Directors Award for special merit, 2021 Oklahoma Book Awards
Far from being a placid place in the heart of Flyover Country, Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political,- Author: Cobb, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149623040X
- 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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Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$21.95 Add to cartThis inspirational memoir chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horse… [more below]
- Author: Elser, Arnold Smoke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496231007
- Language: English
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Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
$22.95 Add to cartWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature
It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adven- Series: Outdoor Lives
- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236920
- Language: English
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Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
$24.95 Add to cartIn June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Me… [more below]
- Series: American Tribal Religions #3
- Author: Magoffin, Susan Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803281161
- Language: English
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Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among the Lako… [more below]
- Author: Eastman, Elaine Goodale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803267525
- Language: English
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux
$15.95 Add to cartThe timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief’s daughter, the pet crane who saves a family–these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths… [more below]
- Author: McLaughlin, Marie L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281714
- Language: English
