Ethnic Orientation/Native American
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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 All + Flesh: Poems
$19.99 Read moreI am made of centuries & carbohydrates
the development of my molars
the hunger the teeth grew
has been with me since childhood
I can’t escape the mouths of othersBrandi Bird’s long-anticipate
- Author: Bird, Brandi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1487011822
- Language: English
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The Clay We Are Made of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
$31.95 Add to cartIf one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Ha
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #20
- Author: Hill, Susan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557171
- Language: English
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Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi
$27.95 Add to cartIn April 1863–after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history– some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a p… [more below]
- Author: Canku, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 087351873X
- 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.
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- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518438
- Language: English
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Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton
$19.95 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota, while living in the white world, quietly worked to preserve the customs… [more below]
- Author: Oneroad, Amos E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0873515307
- Language: English
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Another Country
$28.95 Add to cartThe southern Appalachians encompass one of the most beautiful, biologically diverse, and historically important regions of North America. In the widely acclaimed Another Country: Journeying toward the
- Author: Camuto, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0820322377
- Language: English
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95 Add to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
$21.95 Add to cartLike the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own
- Series: Indigenous Education
- Author: Trafzer, Clifford E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803294638
- Language: English
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Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs
$13.95 Add to cartStanding Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government … [more below]
- Author: Tibbles, Thomas Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: September 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0803294263
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Autumn
$21.95 Add to cartNot only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving, noble and dramatic as this one. The highest praise one could give any book about it would be to say that it was wo
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293410
- Language: English
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Washakie, Chief of the Shoshones
$19.95 Add to cartWashakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace Ra… [more below]
- Author: Hebard, Grace Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272782
- Language: English
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Maya-English/English-Maya Dictionary and Phrasebook
$16.95 Add to cartYucatec Maya, the most widely spoken Maya language, can be heard throughout Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, in Belize, and in parts of Guatemala. This unique guide is the perfect reference for visitors to… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0781808596
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$15.95 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie!
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.” — Saturday ReviewBorn a … [more below]- Series: African American
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411435
- Language: English
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Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico
$8.95 Add to cart300 bold, rhythmic circle designs, originally incorporated on small clay spindle weights, depicting man-like deities, animals both real and fantastic, reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archive
- Author: Enciso, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0486227944
- Language: English
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
$17.99 Read moreBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Her
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Highway, Tomson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1487011237
- Language: English
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Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land
$40.00 Read moreGold Winner of the 2023 IPPY Awards for Best Regional Book of Non-Fiction for New England
Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land is an art book that engages with history. Featuri… [more below]- Author: Matthews, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1938086899
- Language: English
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The Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People
$30.00 Add to cartThis compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated T
- Author: Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1771605219
- Language: English
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Dēmos: An American Multitude
$16.00 Add to cartAn Electric Literature “Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2021”
From the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjam? Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s newest collection arrives brim
- Author: Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, BenjamÃn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 157131525X
- Language: English
