Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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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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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today
From the
- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063031620
- Language: English
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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
$34.95 Add to cartBack in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago’s South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, “Off the Hook,” was
- Author: Besonen, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997490
- Language: English
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Love is Love: Real True Love is Color Blind
$19.95 Add to cartThis book shares the true story of two grown men; one white, the other black whose paths crossed under unpleasant circumstances. It gives the reader a glimpse into the life of an ordinary man who is b… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Audrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988676027
- 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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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$28.95 Read moreA young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming
In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer–the daughter of a forbidden marriage b- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807045306
- 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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Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
$16.95 Add to cartBorn in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attaché, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death… [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293151
- 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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Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family
$18.99 Add to cartMarriage is hard work. Two independent lives are merging. Two different mindsets are colliding. Two different people are learning. But marriage can also be one of life’s greatest gifts–just take it f
- Author: Mann, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0785220151
- Language: English
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Never Met Man Didn’t Lik
$17.99 Add to cartWill Rogers was America. Part Cherokee Indian and former cowboy, he captivated audiences around the world with sparkling gems of wisdom cloaked in gentle and uproarious country wit and astonishing rop
- Author: Rogers, W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0380768089
- Language: English
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Growing Up Native Americ
$17.99 Add to cartStories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed — twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.
- Author: Adler, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0380724170
- Language: English
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Dream Boogie
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Last Train to Memphis, this is the definitive biography of Sam Cooke, one of most influential singers and songwriters of all time.
Sam Cooke was among the first to blend- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316013293
- Language: English
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We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
$21.99 Add to cartWhy couldn’t the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can’t shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.
What does a Southern woman consider g- Author: Rivenbark, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 031231244X
- Language: English
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Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story
$19.99 Add to cartThere he is, drumming on “Tutti Frutti,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palme… [more below]
- Author: Scherman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 07 2005
- ISBN10: 030680980X
- Language: English
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Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
$24.99 Add to cart“The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806797
- Language: English
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Chimes From The Wind of Time
$27.95 Add to cartThis is not only the story of one family but of many people from the Southern states, as well as states throughout the United States. In the late 1950s, there were forty million people in the United S
- Author: Pulley, Maxine Lindsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798892212861
- Language: English
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
$14.95 Add to cartThousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love… [more below]
- Series: Blacks in the American West
- Author: Love, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279558
- Language: English
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$18.00 Add to cart“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”–Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Lanier, Carlotta Walls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0345511018
- Language: English
