Indians of North America - Great Plains
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
$27.99 Add to cartThe Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.
White settlers did learn a few pl
- Author: Kindscher, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 1992
- ISBN10: 0700605274
- Language: English
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Plains Indians
$9.95 Add to cartThis title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plains region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives to… [more below]
- Series: First Nations of North America
- Author: Santella, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1432949616
- Language: English
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The Raccoon and the Bee Tree
$14.95 Read moreillustrated, word list, bibliography, introduction
- Series: Prairie Tales
- Author: Eastman, Charles Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0979894085
- Language: English
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Cheyenne Again
$9.99 Read moreIn the late 1880s, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken from his parents and sent to a boarding school to learn the white man’s ways. “Young Bull’s struggle to hold on to his heritage will touch c
- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0618194657
- Language: English
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Muskrat & Skunk / Sinkpe Na Ma
$19.95 Read moreMuskrat hits a hollow log with a stick, Skunk likes the sound and joins in, and soon all of the birds and animals form a dance circle. Includes facts about drums and the Lakotas.
- Author: Montileaux, Donald F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 194181316X
- Language: English
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The Mud Pony: A Traditional Skidi Pawnee Tale
$6.99 Add to cartA Native American tale about a young boy and his magical pony that comes to life. “Splendidly illustrated…. [A] moving, multileveled hero tale.” – Kirkus Reviews
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Cohen, Caron Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0590415263
- Language: English
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The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend
$9.99 Add to cart“You will reach the far-off land if you keep hope alive within you.” The words of Magic Frog give courage to the young mouse on his long and perilous journey to reach the wonderful land of legend. He … [more below]
- Author: Steptoe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 26 1989
- ISBN10: 068808740X
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: Young War Chief
$7.99 Read moreChildhood of Famous Americans
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspir… [more below]- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Stanley, George E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0689857462
- Language: English
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Osage Life and Legends
$12.95 Add to cartThe Osage who were the principal native inhabitants of the Ozarks were often described as the most handsome of the Native Amerians, tall, proud and humble.They were once one of the most powerful and w… [more below]
- Author: Liebert, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0879611693
- Language: English
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Lakota Society
$24.95 Add to cartAs agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the p… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803297378
- Language: English
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My Indian Boyhood
$16.95 Add to cartAlthough the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293348
- Language: English
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On the Rez
$23.99 Add to cartOn the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlan
- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0312278594
- Language: English
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Porch Talk: A Conversation about Archaeology in the Texas Panhandle
$19.95 Add to cartWhen John Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog book series, saved up and purchased a tract of Panhandle property near Perryton, it set off a chain of discovery. Who lived in Texas over a thousand y… [more below]
- Author: Erickson, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831221
- 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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Great Plains Forts
$17.95 Add to cartGreat Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prai… [more below]
- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Buckley, Jay H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496207718
- Language: English
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The Boy & His Mud Horses: & Other Stories from the Tipi
$14.95 Read moreBeautifully illustrated by award-winning author Paul Goble, The Boy and His Mud Horses features a collection of 27 traditional stories from different Native American tribes, including the Pawnee, Chey… [more below]
- Author: Goble, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 1935493116
- 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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The Gift of the Sacred Dog
$8.99 Read moreA brave boy goes into the hills and prays for help for his people. A rider on a magnificent animal comes to him and says: “This animal is called the Sacred Dog. He can do many things your dogs can do … [more below]
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Goble, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0020432801
- Language: English
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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
$8.99 Add to cartIn spring, the hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this striking plant received its name is told in an old Indian legend… [more below]
- Author: dePaola, Tomie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0698113608
- Language: English
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Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
$40.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today–a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series “American Buffalo”
The American buffa- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593537343
- Language: English
