Ethnic Orientation/Native American
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A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario
$31.95 Add to cartFood insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada’s Indigenous people. A Land Not Forgotten examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cul
- Author: Robidoux, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557570
- Language: English
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Native Cultures in Alaska: Looking Forward, Looking Back
$18.99 Add to cartIn the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos….The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such m… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Geographic
- Author: Alaska Geographic Association
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0882407562
- Language: English
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Alaska’s Totem Poles
$14.99 Add to cartIn this newly revised edition of ALASKA’S TOTEM POLES, readers learn about the history and use of totems, clan crests, symbolism, and much more. A special section describes where to go to view totems…. [more below]
- Author: Kramer, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0882407317
- Language: English
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Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians–Art and Industries
$29.95 Read moreThis classic compendium of ancient Indian artifacts from the entire southeastern United States remains an indispensable reference source for professionals and enthusiasts alike.
From utilitarian arrowh
- Author: Fundaburk, Emma Lila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0817310770
- 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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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
$20.00 Add to cartEstablished in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children i… [more below]
- Series: North American Indian Prose Award
- Author: Lomawaima, K. Tsianina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279574
- Language: English
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Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
$19.95 Add to cartCherokee Americans combines . . . high-quality scholarship and eminent readability.―Choice
Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma
- Series: Indians of the Southeast (Paperback)
- Author: Finger, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0803268793
- 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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The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork
$14.95 Add to cartFascinating introduction to a unique form of needlecraft distinguished by bright horizontal patterns and created by sewing, cutting, and rearranging strips of multicolored bands. Simply written, profu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Quilting
- Author: Rush, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0486276171
- Language: English
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
$28.99 Add to cartRelying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, G
- Author: Silver, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334902
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
$33.00 Add to cartA collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career
“He gives us more than himself or ‘a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” Alon- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537577
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
$14.99 Add to cartThe most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, the
- Author: Francis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1841156779
- Language: English
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One Story, One Song
$16.95 Add to cartA new collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the best-selling One Native Life
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Nati- Author: Wagamese, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1771620803
- Language: English
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A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
$45.00 Add to cart(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world–ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and force
- Series: Plains Histories
- Author: Killsback, Leo K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1682830357
- Language: English
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Native American Survival Skills: How to Make Primitive Tools and Crafts from Natural Materials
$16.95 Add to cartW. Ben Hunt, whose Sioux name was Tasunka Witko, traveled throughout the Midwest, living with several Native American tribes, finally settling near the site of the last Sioux uprising. Here he provide… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, W. Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1629145971
- Language: English
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Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City
$23.99 Add to cartAbout one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the “American Bottom.” This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America’
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Iseminger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297344
- Language: English
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Mountain Maidu and Pioneers: A History of Indian Valley, Plumas County, California, 1850 – 1920
$16.95 Add to cartBEGINNING WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION of Indian Valley, Pat continues with descriptions of Mountain Maidu life upon the arrival of white men searching for gold in the northeastern Sierra. Initia
- Author: Kurtz, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 24 2010
- ISBN10: 1450261752
- Language: English
