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  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Indians of Texas

    From Prehistoric to Modern Times

    by W.W. Newcomb ...
    Series series Texas History Paperbacks
    An anthropological history of Native Americans in the Lone Star State.First published in 1961, this study explores the ethnography of the Indian tribes who lived in the region that is now the state of Texas since the beginning of the historic period.The tribes covered include:CoahuiltecansKarankawasLipan ApachesTonkawasComanches;Kiowas and Kiowa ApachesJumanosWichitas<... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tulalip, From My Heart

    An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community

    Series series Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
    In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved in moving from their villages to the reservation on Tulalip Bay: inadequate supplies of food and water, harsh economic conditions, and religious ... Read more

    $44.99 USD $26.99 USD

  • Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs

    An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824

    by Paul Kelton ...
    Series Book 11 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that’s precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,” or the widely held belief that Natives’ lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • New Worlds for All

    Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

    Series series The American Moment
    The interactions between Indians and Europeans changed America—and both cultures.Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Standing with Standing Rock

    Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement

    Edited by Nick Estes, Jaskiran Dhillon ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access PipelineIt is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the Black Snake, crossing the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The oil pipeline united communities along its path ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl Girls

    The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

    by Lydia Reeder ...
    **“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyThe Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.**In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Lakota Way

    Stories and Lessons for Living

    Series series Compass
    Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Modoc War

    A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age

    On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872–73, one of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North

    Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North

    Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that today’s climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The White Man's Indian

    Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present

    Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Lakota Woman

    The bestselling memoir of a Native American woman’s struggles and the life she found in activism: “courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational” (Publishers Weekly).Mary Brave Bird grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity. With her white father gone, she was left to endure “half-breed” status amid the violence, machismo ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rediscovery of America

    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    **A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Red Medicine

    Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Wolf at Twilight

    An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows

    by Kent Nerburn ...
    A note is left on a car windshield an old dog dies and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching funny and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries the dark confines of sweat lodges and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Noopiming

    The Cure for White Ladies

    Series series Indigenous Americas
    The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialismIn fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy.Mashkawaji (they/them) lies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ojibwe in Minnesota

    by Anton Treuer ...
    With insight and candor, noted Ojibwe scholar Anton Treuer traces thousands of years of the complicated history of the Ojibwe people—their economy, culture, and clan system and how these have changed throughout time, perhaps most dramatically with the arrival of Europeans into Minnesota territory.Ojibwe in Minnesota covers the fur trade, the Iroquois Wars, and Ojibwe-Dakota relations; the treaty ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • Neither Wolf nor Dog 25th Anniversary Edition

    On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

    by Kent Nerburn ...
    An Unforgettable Journey into the Native American ExperienceAgainst an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Indian, locked in their own understandings yet struggling to find a common voice. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Kent Nerburn draws us deep into the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The River That Made Seattle

    A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish

    by BJ Cummings ...
    With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river’s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Voice of Rolling Thunder

    A Medicine Man's Wisdom for Walking the Red Road

    Rolling Thunder’s life and wisdom in his own words and from interviews with those who knew him well• Contains never-before-released talks by Rolling Thunder preserved by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart as well as accounts of remarkable healings and weather magic from famous personalities who knew him• Explains that in order to heal Nature’s afflictions we must first restore balance and unity in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD