Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
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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
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Mysterious Stone Sites
$15.00 Add to cartThere are mysteries in the woods of the Hudson Valley of New York and northern New Jersey. There are stone sites that are assumed to be the work of colonial farmers, but author and researcher Linda Zi… [more below]
- Author: Zimmermann, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: April 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1937174344
- Language: English
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The Apprentice Tourist
$17.00 Read moreA Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon
A Penguin Classic “My life’s done a somersault,” wrote- Author: de Andrade, M?rio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137352
- Language: English
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
$17.99 Add to cartCuster’s ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military’s most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how di… [more below]
- Author: Welch, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329399
- Language: English
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Invaded on All Sides: The War of 1812 and Michigan’s greatest battlefield engagements at Frenchtown and the River Raisin
$19.95 Add to cartFrom January 18 to January 23, 1813, Frenchtown, on the banks of the River Raisin, became a battleground where the military forces of the United States and Great Britain fought each other for control
- Author: Naveaux, Ralph James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1958363235
- Language: English
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Stories of the Sioux
$9.95 Add to cartLuther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293356
- Language: English
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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
$21.95 Add to cartA renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable m
- Author: Fortunate Eagle, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 19 2010
- ISBN10: 080614114X
- Language: English
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100 Native Americans: Who Shaped American History
$7.99 Add to cartLearn all about the fascinating lives and tremendous impact of 100 extraordinary Native Americans with this fact-filled biography collection for kids.
Educational and engaging, 100 Native Americans Wh
- Series: Bluewood’s Popular 100
- Author: Juettner, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0912517514
- Language: English
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the Fbi’s War on the American Indian Movement
$23.00 Add to cartAn “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent” (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Pe… [more below]
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140144560
- Language: English
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The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
$49.95 Add to cartWinter counts–pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past–marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Candace S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222114
- Language: English
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Ojibway Heritage
$19.95 Add to cart“A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America’s native peoples.”—Vancouver Sun
Rarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as ric
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803275722
- Language: English
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The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil
$24.95 Read moreThe little-studied witchcraft trial that took place at Abiquiu, New Mexico, between 1756 and 1766 is the centerpiece of this book. The witchcraft outbreak took place less than a century after the Pueb
- Author: Ebright, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0826320325
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$29.95 Add to cart“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White‘s California Exposures.“–Kirkus Reviews
Before there was such a thing as “Cal
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.- Author: Akins, Damon B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0520280490
- Language: English
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West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
$16.95 Add to cartIn this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful y
- Author: Saunt, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351157
- Language: English
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Native American History of Washington, DC
$24.99 Add to cartRead the missing stories of DC’s precolonial history.
Native Americans lived on the land that is now Washington, DC for several thousand years before English settlers arrived in the early 1600s. The Na
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Lione Phd, Armand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154210
- Language: English
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
$19.99 Add to cartAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century–a “riveting…engrossing…’American Epic'” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the … [more below]
- Author: Sedgwick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1501128698
- Language: English
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Where the Language Lives: VI Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed
$16.95 Add to cartThe life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who revitalized her native language-Lushootseed-and the culture it expresses.
- Author: Yoder, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1954854269
- Language: English
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Attu Boy: A Young Alaskan’s WWII Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Al… [more below]
- Author: Golodoff, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1602232490
- Language: English
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Dakota Texts
$24.95 Add to cartElla Deloria (1889-1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by… [more below]
- Author: Demallie, Raymond J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 080326660X
- Language: English
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Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe
$21.95 Read moreThe story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village–and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore
“We do this because telling where you are from is just as important as … [more below]
- Author: Drouillard, Staci Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1517903408
- Language: English
