This illustrated collection of essays examines early Native American contact with European explorers, fishermen, and traders in "Norumbega," the sixteenth-century name of the Atlantic coast of New England near the Penobscot River in Maine. This coast was the focus of several French and English voyagers seeking a northwest passage and other avenues to riches and treasure. A tacit division gradually emerged: the French concentrated on the region north of the Penobscot and the English on the lands to the south. The 100 illustrations in this book come largely from the Osher Map Library at the Univ...
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American Indian History: Five Centuries of Conflict & Coexistence, Vol. 2

By: Robert W. Venables

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Clear Light Pub: April 2004

Seller ID: 257482

ISBN: 1574160761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Volume II: Confrontation, Adaptation & Assimilation, 1783?Present continues the saga of Indian?U.S. government relations, beginning after the Revolutionary War, when the United States turned on both its former Indian enemies and allies. The Policy of Removal forced most Indian peoples to lands west of the Mississippi. New policies such as the Dawes Act of 1887 succeeded in breaking up the communal land holdings of many Indian nations. The tragic end of the era's struggles occurred at Wounded Knee. U.S. policies such as the relocation of thousands of Indians to urban areas and the attempted ?te...
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American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

By: Zitkala-Sa

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: February 2003

Seller ID: 133405

ISBN: 0142437093

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and...
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American Indians (The Chicago History of American Civilization)

By: William T. Hagan

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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: March 1993

Seller ID: 267588

ISBN: 0226312372

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

William Hagan's concise account of Indian-white relations has become one of the standard histories of the subject. For this third edition, Hagan has updated information throughout the book and added a new chapter, "Domestic, Dependent Nations," in which he discusses developments in Native American life in the 1970s and 1980s. In his new bibliographic essay, Hagan surveys recent research and offers suggestions for further reading. "The author has reduced the long story--often as tangled as a five-year-old's fishing line--into a brief, clear, and highly interesting book. . . . A remarkable a...
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Beacon Press: August 2015

Seller ID: 259074

ISBN: 0807057835

Binding: Trade Paperback

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Publisher: Beacon Press: August 2015

Seller ID: 264412

ISBN: 0807057835

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

By: John G. Neihardt

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Bison Books: February 2014

Seller ID: 220985

ISBN: 0803283911

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: May 2007

Seller ID: 152320

ISBN: 0805086846

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the ...
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Holt Rinehart Winston: January 1971

Seller ID: 255068

ISBN: 0030862108

Binding: Hardcover

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: May 2007

Seller ID: 262293

ISBN: 0805086846

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Civil, Religious and Mourning Councils and Ceremonies of Adoption of the New York Indians (Bulletin 113)

By: William Martin Beauchamp

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Publisher: New York State Museum/University of the State of New York: January 1981

Seller ID: 224272

ISBN: B002EGQC6Y

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian

By: Bruce Grant

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Gramercy: February 1990

Seller ID: 139702

ISBN: 0517693100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"By Bruce Grant. 200 B&W Line drawings." With over 800 entries this copiously illustrated reference work is a fascinating history of the American Indian from the discovery of America to the present. Covers legends, lore, weapons and wars, beliefs, tools, more of every known Indian tribe. Alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed. 352 pages.
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Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian

By: Bruce Grant

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Gramercy: February 1990

Seller ID: 168153

ISBN: 0517693100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual

By: Francesca Mason Boring

Price: $17.95

Publisher: North Atlantic Books: June 2012

Seller ID: 23483

ISBN: 1583944478

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Connecting to Our Ancestral Past" is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cultures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for millennia. In Constellations work there is an orga...
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Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State (Iroquois & Their Neighbors)

By: Laurence M. Hauptman

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: March 2001

Seller ID: 197762

ISBN: 0815607121

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Coyote's Council Fire : Contemporary Shamans on Race, Gender and Community

By: Loren Cruden

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Destiny Books: October 1995

Seller ID: 244307

ISBN: 0892815663

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Shamanism is a spiritual path that emphasizes close connections with the immediate environment. As environments change, so too must shamanism change, but how can one distinguish between healthy innovation and corruptions of tradition? "Coyote's Council Fire" focuses on these and other controversial issues that have ignited the shamanic community. Drawing on her decades of involvement in that community, Loren Cruden brings calm wisdom and common sense to these subjects. Along with her perspective are the words of contributors such as Brooke Medicine Eagle, Grey Wolf, Jamie Sams, and Ed "Eagle M...
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Crazy Horse Hoka Hey! (It Is a Good Time to Die!) The Story of Crazy Horse, Legendary Mystic and Warrior

By: Vinson Brown

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Naturegraph Pub: February 1991

Seller ID: 257897

ISBN: 0879611731

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas

By: Mari Sandoz

Price: $2.95

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: January 1961

Seller ID: 264338

ISBN: 0803251718

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Creation and Confederation: The Living History of the Iroquois

By: Darren Bonaparte

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Wampum Chronicles: December 2008

Seller ID: 155311

ISBN: 0973932201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico & Arizona

By: Erna Fergusson

Price: $5.98

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press: January 1977

Seller ID: 242176

ISBN: 0826300332

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Daughters of Copper Woman

By: Anne Cameron

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Press Gang Publishers: December 1988

Seller ID: 263392

ISBN: 0889740224

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pencil and ink marks.
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Dream Tracks

By: T.C. McLuhan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: August 1985

Seller ID: 186965

ISBN: 0810908352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts

By: David Murray

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Indiana University Press: March 1991

Seller ID: 252280

ISBN: 0253206502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

..." creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations from colonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." --Raymond J. DeMallie..." very suggestive, provocative, engaging... --Studies in American Indian Literatures..." Murray's book establishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making in parti...
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Go Seek the Pow Wow on the Mountain: And Other Indian Stories of the Sacandaga Valley

By: Don Bowman

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Bowman/Greenfield: December 1992

Seller ID: 140063

ISBN: 0912678879

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment: A Study in Indian and White Ingenuity

By: J. C. Ewers

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Iroqrafts Ltd.: January 1985

Seller ID: 268762

ISBN: 0919645119

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians (American Women Writers Series)

By: Lydia Maria Child

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: May 1986

Seller ID: 258772

ISBN: 081351164X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have highlighting, light reading wear to cover and page edges.
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How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts

By: Frances Densmore

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1974

Seller ID: 241361

ISBN: 0486230198

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A renowned ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a fascinating wealth of material on nearly 200 plants that were used by the Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The volume provides an emphasis on wild plants and their lesser-known uses. "A fascinating, well-illustrated study." -- "Grand Rapids Gazette." 33 plates.
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Indian Blankets and Their Makers (Dover Fashion and Costumes)

By: George Wharton James

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1974

Seller ID: 186648

ISBN: 0486229963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

History, old-style wool blankets, changes brought about by traders, symbolism of design and color, a Navajo weaver at work, more. Emphasis on Navajo. Includes information on the Bayeta blanket, squaw dresses, dyeing, belts, garters, hair braids, imitation blankets, the Chimayo blanket, and reliable dealers. 254 illustrations, 32 in color.
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Indian Country

By: Gwendolyn Cates

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Grove Press: October 2001

Seller ID: 209009

ISBN: 0802116965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Indian Country is a major work of photojournalism: a beautiful, affecting, and candid portrait of Native American life today. Cates traveled around the country photographing many different tribes and nations, from the Tlingit of Alaska to the Navajo of the Southwest, from the Seneca in New York State to the Miccosukee in Florida -- all the time portraying the range of the Indian experience today. A project of enormous ambition, Indian Country is destined to become a classic and essential book.
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

By: Jack Weatherford

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.: December 1988

Seller ID: 261207

ISBN: 0517569698

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Indian Handcrafts, rev.: How to Craft Dozens of Practical Objects Using Traditional Indian Techniques (Illustrated Living History Series)

By: C. Keith Wilbur

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Globe Pequot: January 2001

Seller ID: 172336

ISBN: 0762706619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Instructions for scores of ancient handcrafts -- nearly lost to time -- are presented in this easy-to-follow book. Written and hand lettered by the author -- a physician, artist, and historian -- this intriguing volume not only preserves Indian handcraft methods but also serves as an enduring tribute to Native American ingenuity and craftsmanship. Like all titles in the illustrated Living History series, this book -- especially created for grades 5 to 10 -- exposes readers to little-known aspects of American history and culture. Indian Handcrafts is carefully researched for authentic detail an...
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Indians

By: robin may

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Bison: December 1982

Seller ID: 126245

ISBN: 0861240928

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Iroquois Land Claims (Iroquois Book.)

By: William A. Starna, Christopher Vecsey

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: May 1988

Seller ID: 164129

ISBN: 0815602227

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Iroquois Stories: Heroes and Heroines Monsters and Magic

By: Bruchac, Joseph

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Crossing Pr: June 1985

Seller ID: 269797

ISBN: 0895941678

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Iroquois Struggle for Survival: World War II to Red Power (Iroquois & Their Neighbors)

By: Laurence Hauptman

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd): February 1986

Seller ID: 155317

ISBN: 081562350X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Iroquois Struggle for Survival: World War II to Red Power (Iroquois & Their Neighbors)

By: Laurence Hauptman

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd): February 1986

Seller ID: 253738

ISBN: 081562350X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Iroquois Voices, Iroquois Visions: A Celebration of Contemporary Six Nations Arts (Native American Arts Series)

By: Bertha Rogers

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Bright Hill Press: December 1995

Seller ID: 155309

ISBN: 0964684438

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Native American anthology, a survey of the poetry, fiction, essays and visual art of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples. Edited by Bertha Rogers with Robert Bensen, Tom Huff and Maurice Kenny, Iroquois Voices, Iroquois Visions features works by a number of poets, fiction writers, and essayists, with performance works by The Ankle Deep Singers, The Akwesasne Mohawk Singer, The Onondaga Nation Dancers, Set of Nines, and others, along with reproductions of visual art by literally dozens of artists and craftspersons.
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Keepers of the Animals: Native American Stories and Wildlife Activities for Children

By: Michael J. Caduto, Joseph Bruchac

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing: July 1997

Seller ID: 268793

ISBN: 1555913865

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

These traditional Native American stories along with related activities show parents and teachers how to teach children the importance of wildlife in Native American traditions. As the stories unfold and the activities come to life, the importance of our connections to animals became apparent. Features traditional Native American stories. Includes field-tested activities appropriate for all ages. Connects wildlife ecology and environmental issues. Fosters creative thinking and the synthesis of knowledge and experience. The stories in this book present some of the basic per...
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