Ethnic Studies
-
The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota’s Other Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War of 1862 draws on a wealth of written and visual materials by white and American Indian participants and observers showing both the sources of the Dakotas’ wrath and the terrible consequ… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0873513924
- Language: English
-
Diné Bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews’ Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod’s new translation renders the power and delicacy of the o
- Series: Navajo Creation Story
- Author: Zolbrod, Paul G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0826310435
- Language: English
-
The Soul of the Indian
$6.95 Add to cartRaised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at … [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Eastman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0486430898
- Language: English
-
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
$18.99 Add to cartIn this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352331
- Language: English
-
The Women
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conc
- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525293
- Language: English
-
Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
$29.95 Add to cartIn Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the I… [more below]
- Author: Shay, C. Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496223381
- Language: English
-
Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist
In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land in O- Author: Wilson, David H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496230450
- Language: English
-
The Sun God’s Children: The History of the Blackfeet Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThe Blackfeet were people of the buffalo. They originated on the plains of today’s southern Alberta, western Saskatchewan, and central Montana. In the 1830s famed artist and explorer George Catlin cal… [more below]
- Author: Schultz, James Willard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1606390228
- Language: English
-
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
$19.95 Read moreStubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a mo… [more below]
- Series: Oregon Reads
- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0870714171
- Language: English
-
Peyote Religion: A History Volume 181
$26.95 Add to cartOUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK CHOICE MAGAZINE
In this definitive work-a product of more than half a century of research and close observation-the noted anthropologist Omer C. Stewart provides a sweeping re
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #181
- Author: Stewart, Omer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0806124571
- Language: English
-
Speaking of Indians
$14.95 Add to cartElla Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of la… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803266146
- Language: English
-
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
$21.99 Add to cartIn this extraordinary work of journalism, bestselling and award-winning author Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana’s Crow Indians and follows the struggles of a talented, moody, charismati… [more below]
- Author: Colton, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0446677558
- Language: English
-
The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O’Odham Country
$21.95 Add to cartPublished more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Deser… [more below]
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0816546894
- Language: English
-
Know Thy Self
$14.00 Add to cartHow wonderful it is to taught by a free teacher, a spiritual teacher, a member of our family who truly loves the family, an architect of tranforming processes, a defender of African people, a beacon, … [more below]
- Author: Akbar, Na’im
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 83
- Publish Date: December 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0935257063
- Language: English
-
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most lyrically gifted and socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force
Before Talib Kweli became a world-r- Author: Kweli, Talib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787386
- Language: English
-
Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide
$29.95 Add to cartDazzling, highly stylized, excessively violent and brimming with sex, blaxploitation films enjoyed a brief but memorable period in motion picture history. Never before – and never since – have so many… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 190325437X
- Language: English
-
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
$19.94 Add to cartThe history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study t
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0592438848
- Language: English
-
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
-
Dinéjà Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
$26.95 Add to cartTraditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the phy… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1607322161
- Language: English
-
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
$24.99 Add to cart“Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-… [more below]
- Author: Shih, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585551
- Language: English
