Ethnic Studies
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
- Author: Fremon, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0826344852
- Language: English
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
$17.95 Add to cart“An interesting and effective overview. . . . It is to the author’s considerable credit that she is able to re-create the values and behavior of Cherokee women through court records, myths, and observ
- Series: Indians of the Southeast
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803287607
- Language: English
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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
$25.00 Add to cartThe astonishing personal and political autobiography of Stokely Carmichael, the legendary civil rights leader, Black Power architect, Pan-African activist, and revolutionary thinker and organizer know… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael, Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0684850044
- Language: English
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We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History
$32.00 Add to cartFrom a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voice
- Author: Suarez, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0316353760
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95 Read moreTwenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision prevails.
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868850
- Language: English
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Cherokee National Treasures: In Their Own Words
$29.95 Add to cart“The legend says that a long time ago we lived on land surrounded by water that we couldn’t drink . . .” –Traditional beginning to Cherokee stories
Cherokee origin stories have been handed down over- Author: Morton-Cain, Shawna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1934397180
- Language: English
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Black Panthers Speak
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.
- Author: Foner, Philip S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1608463281
- Language: English
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Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood
$19.95 Add to cartIn this newly revised biography, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood, Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Hor… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232674
- Language: English
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native Ind
$27.99 Add to cartDiscover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American Heritage
The mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too l
- Author: Alive, History Brought
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1914312856
- Language: English
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota’s Other Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War of 1862 draws on a wealth of written and visual materials by white and American Indian participants and observers showing both the sources of the Dakotas’ wrath and the terrible consequ… [more below]
- Author: Carley, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0873513924
- Language: English
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Diné Bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews’ Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod’s new translation renders the power and delicacy of the o
- Series: Navajo Creation Story
- Author: Zolbrod, Paul G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0826310435
- Language: English
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The Soul of the Indian
$6.95 Add to cartRaised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at … [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Eastman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0486430898
- Language: English
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
$18.99 Read moreIn this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352331
- Language: English
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The Women
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conc
- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525293
- Language: English
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
$29.95 Add to cartIn Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the I… [more below]
- Author: Shay, C. Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496223381
- Language: English
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Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist
In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land in O- Author: Wilson, David H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496230450
- Language: English
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The Sun God’s Children: The History of the Blackfeet Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThe Blackfeet were people of the buffalo. They originated on the plains of today’s southern Alberta, western Saskatchewan, and central Montana. In the 1830s famed artist and explorer George Catlin cal… [more below]
- Author: Schultz, James Willard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1606390228
- Language: English
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
$19.95 Add to cartStubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a mo… [more below]
- Series: Oregon Reads
- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0870714171
- Language: English
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Peyote Religion: A History Volume 181
$26.95 Add to cartOUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK CHOICE MAGAZINE
In this definitive work-a product of more than half a century of research and close observation-the noted anthropologist Omer C. Stewart provides a sweeping re
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #181
- Author: Stewart, Omer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0806124571
- Language: English
