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  • Eastern Cherokee Stories

    A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance

    “Throughout our Cherokee history,” writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, “our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are.”These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts of Gadugi, working together for the good of all, and Duyvkta, walking the right path, and teach listeners how to understand and live in the world with reverence for all ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Indian Givers

    How Native Americans Transformed the World

    An utterly compelling story of how the cultural, social, and political practices of Native Americans transformed the way life is lived throughout the world, with a new introduction by the author“As entertaining as it is thoughtful . . . Few contemporary writers have Weatherford’s talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate.”—The Washington PostAfter 500 years, the world’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Indian Givers

    How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

    An utterly compelling story of how the cultural, social, and political practices of Native Americans transformed the way life is lived throughout the world, with a new introduction by the author“As entertaining as it is thoughtful . . . Few contemporary writers have Weatherford’s talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate.”—The Washington PostAfter 500 years, the world’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sacred Hoop

    Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

    Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen’s celebrated study of women’s roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women’s studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyondThis groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays investigates and celebrates Native American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Last of the Mohicans (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary clazzics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Translated Nation

    Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte

    How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance stateTranslated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhóta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakhóta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Native American Fiction

    A User's Manual

    by David Treuer ...
    An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fictionThis book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Animal Tales Of The Native American Indians

    Series Book 1 - Tales Of The Native American Indians
    Native Americans use storytelling to get to know one another, as well as, passing history and messages on to newer generations. These stories are a heritage, but they will be known only as long as they are told. When someone ceases to tell a story, part of our cultural knowledge is gone.The stories of Native American Indians have always possessed some greater meaning. They are often based in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sister Nations

    Native American Women Writers on Community

    Edited by Heid E. Erdrich, Laura Tohe ...
    Series series Native Voices
    This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women's roles in community. The result is a rich tapestry that contains work by established writers along with emerging and first-time authors. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Blockade

    Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • What Is a Western?

    Region, Genre, Imagination

    There’s “western,” and then there’s “Western”—and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination. Part cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books, music, and other cultural texts brings a fresh perspective to long-studied topics. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Through an Indian's Looking-Glass

    A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot

    Series series Native Americans of the Northeast
    This biography of the Native American writer, activist, and minister “brings Apess nearly fully to life, which no one else, among many scholars, has.” (Barry O’Connell, editor of On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot)The life of William Apess (1798–1839), a Pequot Indian, Methodist preacher, and widely celebrated writer, provides a lens through which to comprehend the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sherman Alexie

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Jeff Berglund, Jan Roush ...
    Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ethnology and Empire

    Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

    Series Book 6 - America and the Long 19th Century
    Winner, The Early American Literature Book PrizeEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of ... Read more

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  • The Last Of The Mohicans ( Complete & Illustrated )(Free AudioBook Link)

    With Fifty Six Illustrations

    Series series Greenhouse Classics
    The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.The story takes place in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Catching the Light

    by Joy Harjo ...
    Series series Why I Write
    United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing“Her enduring message—that writing can be redemptive—resonates: ‘To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert “I am.”’ The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling.”—Publishers Weekly“Harjo ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Memory Serves

    by Lee Maracle ...
    Series Book 13 - Writer as Critic
    Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 2nd Grade US History: Native Americans to Early Settlers

    Second Grade Books

    Series series Children's American History Books
    Why is it important to know who the early settlers were? To trace our culture and traditions, of course! This educational book presents what would otherwise be a boring subject for young children. The use of pictures creates a definite scenario that would stick to the memory well. So if you're looking for a more effective method of teaching history, this book is what you need! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Finally

    by Marilyn Lee ...
    Series series Mature Men
    While on the rebound from her heated but disastrous fling with her first love, Thomas Darkwater, Sherlyn Drake meets and falls into instant lust with Shane Reddorn, the man who has also captured the interest of a close friend. Things are bound to get messy—soap opera style.Following two divorces, Shane Reddorn is weary of any woman wanting more than a casual relationship. However, Sherlyn's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Summary: Killers of the Flower Moon - Summarized for Busy People

    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI: Based on the Book by David Grann

    This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.During the 1920s, the world's wealthiest people per capita were the Osage Indians of Oklahoma. Upon the discovery of oil underneath ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Erotics of Sovereignty

    Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote “the Indian’s sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community.”In The Erotics of Sovereignty, Mark Rifkin offers a telling perspective on what such a policy ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Earthworks Rising

    Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts

    Series series Indigenous Americas
    A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voicesTypically represented as unsolved mysteries or ruins of a tragic past, Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood. In Earthworks Rising, Chadwick Allen issues a compelling corrective, revealing a countertradition based in Indigenous worldviews. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Voices of Fire

    Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi'iaka

    Series series First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous
    Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hi‘iaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism—first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry. But far from quaint tales for amusement, the Pele and Hi‘iaka literature published between the 1860s and 1930 carried coded political meaning for the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD