Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Indigenous
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One Man’s Journey: The Mi’kmaw Revival in Ktaqmkuk
$31.45 Read moreWith a story spanning over seventy years of the life of respected Elder Calvin White, One Man’s Journey weaves personal history with White’s account of the Mi’kmaw movement and his role in the reclam
- Author: White, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 199044508X
- Language: English
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
$23.00 Read moreA Michelle Obama Reach Higher Fall 2022 reading list pick
A Library Journal “BEST BOOK OF 2022” “Aguon’s book is for everyone, but he challenges history by placing indigenous consciousness at the cent- Author: Aguon, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601638
- Language: English
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Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
$28.00 Add to cart“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”–David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray alway… [more below]
- Author: La Tray, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1571313982
- Language: English
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Squanto: A Native Odyssey
$28.00 Add to cartTaken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history
American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiv- Author: Lipman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300238770
- Language: English
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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
$18.99 Add to cartIn September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release h
- Author: Peltier, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0312263805
- Language: English
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Honor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
$17.95 Add to cart“The four oral histories presented in this attractive volume pay homage to elder women who quietly serve as community and political activists within the Lakota-Dakota Nation. . . Recommended.”–Librar… [more below]
- Author: Penman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0873513851
- Language: English
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Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator
$19.95 Add to cartIn the first modern biography of Red jacket, Christopher Densmore sheds light on the achievements of this formidable Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and n
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Densmore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 081560548X
- Language: English
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Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux
$18.95 Add to cartGovernment officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hu… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511964
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
$48.99 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393073467
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: A Life
$17.00 Add to cartLegends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034804
- Language: English
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Gall: Lakota War Chief
$21.95 Add to cartCalled the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0806140364
- Language: English
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Crazy Dave
$24.95 Add to cartThe unflinching and marvelously humane story of a man born with Down syndrome in an Ojibway community.
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514238
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95 Add to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey
$29.95 Add to cartA fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience.—Booklist
Joe Starita tells the tr
- Author: Starita, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803292945
- Language: English
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
$17.99 Add to cart“I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred
- Author: Dog, Leonard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0060926821
- Language: English
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The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir – New Edition
$14.95 Add to cartThe harrowing story of one Indigenous child’s experience in Canada’s residential schools
Named the fourth most important “Book of the Year” by the National Post and voted “One Book/One Province” in S- Series: Regina Collection #16
- Author: Merasty, Joseph Auguste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0889778825
- Language: English
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Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
$16.00 Read moreAs a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror–of
- Author: McLeod, Darrel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313877
- Language: English
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
$22.95 Add to cartExplores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders-and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe.
Author… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518438
- Language: English
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Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey
$21.95 Add to cartInspired partly by her own spirit of adventure, and partly by the stories of her native coastal ancestors, Irene Skyriver celebrated her fortieth year of life with a solo kayak voyage, paddling from A
- Author: Skyriver, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0998701246
- Language: English
