Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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The Great Vanishing ACT: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
$21.95 Add to cartThe Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government’s attempt to define who “Indians” were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that “Indians” were “all other pe… [more below]
- Author: Hill Jr, Norbert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1682750655
- Language: English
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
$19.95 Read moreFintan O’Toole, columnist and drama critic for the Irish Times, is the author of many other books, including A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His work frequently appears in Ame… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1438427581
- Language: English
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Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes: The True Indigenous Origins of Geographic Place Names
$25.95 Add to cartNo less than 27 out of the 50 states’ names in the USA are based in American Indian languages. Additionally, six out of 13 of Canada’s provinces and territories have names with indigenous origins, and
- Author: Bellfy, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997423
- Language: English
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West
$22.99 Read moreA rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate h- Author: Donovan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316067474
- Language: English
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Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos
$18.99 Add to cartThis investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker ch… [more below]
- Author: Pasternak, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416594833
- Language: English
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Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNorth American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By settin… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Teuton, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0199944520
- Language: English
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Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors
$25.00 Add to cartA gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland.
For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris–whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdric… [more below]
- Author: Sarris, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 159714567X
- Language: English
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In the Bear’s House
$26.60 Add to cart“Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less in
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826348408
- Language: English
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Walking the Rez Road: Stories, 20th Anniversary Edition
$17.95 Add to cartCelebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war b… [more below]
- Author: Northrup, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1555919774
- Language: English
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Guard the Mysteries
$20.00 Add to cartGuard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo pl
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Sigo, Cedar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1950268292
- Language: English
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3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers
$14.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Anthology from Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
While much attention focuses on the southern border of the United States, 3 Nations Anthology: Native,
- Author: Lawson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0998819514
- Language: English
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Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
$19.95 Add to cartThis anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the natio… [more below]
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Erdrich, Heid E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514289
- Language: English
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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories
$29.95 Read moreCentral to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Dra
- Author: Beavert, Virginia R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0295748249
- Language: English
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Kuhkomossonuk Akonutomuwinokot: Stories Our Grandmothers Told Us
$24.95 Add to cartThe traditional stories collected in this volume link the memories of Passamaquoddy elders to the world of today’s younger generations. The stories help us understand how Passamaquoddy community and c
- Author: Newell, Wayne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0998819573
- Language: English
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Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera
$15.95 Add to cart“Hafen has done a great service to the study of American Indian literature by collecting in one book several published and unpublished pieces. . . . A wonderful and enlightening collection.”—Choice
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- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803299192
- 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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Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America
$34.99 Add to cartThis long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive antho
- Author: Bird, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318281
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day
$21.95 Add to cartPrior to the onslaught of the Europeans, the Puget Sound area was one of the most heavily populated regions north of Mexico City. The Native Americans who lived there enjoyed a bounty of seafood, wate… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1555916880
- Language: English
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How a Mountain Was Made: Stories
$25.00 Add to cartNow available in paperback In the tradition of Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mounta… [more below]
- Author: Sarris, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1597144738
- Language: English
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
$22.00 Add to cartA multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Unite- Series: Penguin History of the United States
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002100
- Language: English
