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Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts, Third Edition: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist - Book
PER209
This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly. The author reveals invaluable tips on: where to look for artifacts; how to identify artifacts; where surface collecting is permissible; starting and caring for your own collection. With more than fifty new photographs and illustrations of common and rare artifacts, this book is the perfect addition to libraries of amateur archaeologists thirsty for knowledge about preserving and interpreting the remains of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: C.G. Yeager
ISBN: 9780871083319
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Where The Language Lives: Vi Hilbert And The Gift Of Lushootseed - Book
IPS284
The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her native language—Lushootseed—and shared it and the culture it expresses with the world. In 1978, Seattle writer Janet Yoder took a Lushootseed class at the University of Washington. She was expecting to learn a little about this Salish language, and while Yoder did begin her Lushootseed lessons, what followed was lifelong learning and lots of adventures with Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert. Drawn from thirty years of friendship and interviews,  Where the Language Lives  is a tribute to Vi Hilbert’s life, work, and her quest to...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5"
Author: Janet Yoder
ISBN: 9781954854260
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Spirit Animals Coloring Collection
Spirit Animals Coloring Collection - Book
FCP044
This exciting new coloring book offers dozens of heavy detailed, highly decorative pen and ink illustrations of exotic spirit animals. Each mystic creature is embellished with exquisite patterns and striking line work. Beautifully colored finished examples are provided, along with a handy guide to basic art techniques, from patterning and combinations to shading and color theory. Perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolours, each design is printed on one side only of archival-grade, acid-free, 200-year paper. Each perforated page detaches easily for gifting or display.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Filippo Cardu
ISBN: 9781497202153
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Powwow Day - Book
PGN402
In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again? River wants so badly to dance at powwow day as she does every year. In this uplifting and contemporary picture book perfect for beginning readers, follow River's journey from feeling isolated after an illness to learning the healing power of community. Additional information explains the history and functions of powwows, which are commonplace across the United States and Canada and are open to both Native Americans and non-Native visitors. Author Traci Sorell is a member of the...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 9
Author: Traci Sorell
ISBN: 9781580899482
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir - Book
WWN846
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love,   Crazy Brave   is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice. 12...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393345438
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Raven Gets Tricked - Book - Paracay
Raven Gets Tricked - Book
OBP041
Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a greedy raven and the little deer who makes sure they both have enough food for the winter. Smuy the little deer is almost out of food and wishes Spaal' the raven would share with him. But even though Smuy always offers to share with Spaal', Spaal' only ever tricks Smuy in return. So Smuy decides to try something new. He mashes the last of his stored berries and mixes them into the snow outside. Spaal' notices the delicious-looking red snow and asks to taste some. Smuy agrees, but this time he is prepared for Spaal's tricks and is ready with a little trick of his...
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Author: Andrea Fritz
ISBN: 9781459836273
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Raven Brings the Light
Raven Brings the Light - Book
HPC147
In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and escapes with the daylight back down to Earth. Vividly portrayed through the art of Roy Henry Vickers, Weget's story has been passed down for generations. The tale has been traced back at least 3,000 years by archeologists who have found images of...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 12 x 0.2 x 8.2
Author: Roy Henry Vickers
ISBN: 9781550175936
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Indian-Legends-Of-The-Pacific-Northwest-Book
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest - Book
IPS359
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.25 x 5.5
Author: Ella E., Clark
ISBN: 9780520239265
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Sukaq And The Raven - Book
IPS271
Sukaq loves to drift off to sleep listening to his mother tell him stories. His favourite story is the tale of how a raven created the world. But this time, as his mother begins to tell the story and his eyelids become heavy, he is suddenly whisked away on the wings of the raven to ride along as the entire world is formed! This traditional legend from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose is brought to life through co-author Kerry McCluskey's jubilant retelling.
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Dimensions (IN): 9.25 x 0.3 x 9.25"
Author: Roy Goose
ISBN: 9781772274349
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America - Book
HMC342
“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”— San Francisco Chronicle “A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR “One of the most profound contributions to North American history.”— Los Angeles Times Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering  The Other Slavery,  it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Andrés Reséndez
ISBN: Andrés Reséndez
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A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
WWN845
"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."―Wilma Mankiller In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole.
Product Type : Map
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393320961
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Hearts Unbroken - Book - Paracay
Hearts Unbroken - Book
PGN444
Winner of an American Indian Youth Literature Award New York Times   best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school — and first love. When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper’s staff...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN: 9781536213133
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The Button Blanket - Book
EPP020
An activity book for kids ages 9-12, includes teaching guide. It tells the story of a Kwakiutl girl making her first ceremonial button blanket. Introduces activities that provide information about the crafts and way of life of the indians living along the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. Anne, a young contemporary Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) girl, is going to dance in the ceremonial house for the first time. But who will help make her button blanket robe to dance in? Who will design the special family crest for her robe? As she asks each member of her family, traditions and history behind the button blanket unfold....
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 11 x 8.5
Author: Nan McNutt
ISBN: 9781941890325
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Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America - Book
RAN657
NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER • A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes. “This book is too important to miss. It is a vast, sprawling look at who we are as Indigenous people in these United States.”—Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho), author of   There There In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 10 x 10
Author: Matika Wilbur
ISBN: 9781984859525
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Native American Ghost Stories - Book
LPP034
Embark on a journey into the spirit world of the Native American with some of the most intriguing stories of ghost spirits in nature and the underworld. These stories have been passed on orally through countless generations and are drawn from across the continent.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Darren Zenko
ISBN: 9781894877756
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems - Book
WWN848
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" ( San Francisco Chronicle ),...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393353631
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis - Book
HMC334
“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.” —  Washington Post  Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.3 x 1 x 8
Author: Timothy Egan
ISBN: 9780544102767
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Art of the Northwest Coast, 2nd Edition - Book
UWP008
Originally published in 2006,  Art of the Northwest Coast   offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although non-Natives often claimed that First Nations cultures were disappearing, Northwest Coast Native people continued to make art during the painful era of colonization, often subtly expressing resistance to their oppressors and demonstrating the resilience of their heritage. Integrating the art’s development with historical events following contact with Euro-Americans sheds light on the creativity of artists as they appropriated...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.75 x 9.75
Author: Aldona Jonaitis
ISBN: 9780295748559
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Rez Ball - Book - Paracay
Rez Ball - Book
HRW225
This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team - even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his dream of...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 1.08 x 8.25"
Author: Byron Graves
ISBN: 9780063160378
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Thunder in the Mountains - Book
HRW153
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”―Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 5.6
Author: Daniel J., Sharfstein
ISBN: 9780393355659
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THUNDER SONG - Book
RAN671
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence"Blending beautiful family history with her own personal memories, LaPointe's writing is a ballad against amnesia, and a call to action for healing, for decolonization, for hope." --ElleThe author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States todayDrawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 5.6
Author: Sasha, Lapointe
ISBN: 9781640096356
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Nisqually Indian Tribe
Nisqually Indian Tribe - Book
ARC161
The Nisqually are the original stewards of prairie lands, mountains, and rivers in Thurston and Pierce Counties. They welcomed British and American newcomers and tightly bound the outsiders to the Native American world. This volume visually explores the traditional time, when Nisqually political and economic control of the South Sound was supreme. As Nisqually men and women married and worked with outsiders, the Native American world was transformed. In 1854, Nisqually leaders signed a treaty with the United States and officially ceded most of their country, but the land and rights they reserved set the stage for a cultural revival in the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Maria Victoria Pascualy, Trisha Hunter
ISBN: 9780738556116
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Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines - Book
HPC168
An invaluable compendium of Hul′q′umi′num′ traditional knowledge. Respected Cowichan Tribe Elder and botanical expert, Luschiim Arvid Charlie, began his education in early childhood, learning from his great grandparents and others of their generation.  Luschiim’s Plants  represents his dedication to the survival of the Hul′q′umi′num′ language and traditional knowledge of plants for future generations. From the healing properties of  qaanlhp   (arbutus) to the many practical applications of  q’am  (bull kelp), the information presented in this remarkable guide shares knowledge of plants that Luschiim is familiar with through...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie
ISBN: 9781550179453
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There There - Book
PGN379
NATIONAL   BESTSELLER   •   PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER   •   One of  The New York Times  10 Best Books of the Year   •   A wondrous and shattering novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Tommy Orange
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Indian Basket Weaving - Book
PGW179
This work covers all of the basic techniques: preparation of the reed, splicing, introduction of color, shaping, finishing, and more. It also includes descriptions of a great variety of weaves—Lazy Squaw, Mariposa, Taos, Shilo, and others—each accompanied by specific instructions. With over 100 illustrations, this book is an excellent resource for crafters and those interested in Native American Culture.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6 x 0.6
Author: The Navajo School of Indian Basketry
ISBN: 9781629145952
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Oolichan Moon (Sisters Learn Foods of the Elders) - Book
IPS242
Oolichan Moon   is a beautifully illustrated children’s book about passing down traditional knowledge from Nisga'a Elders and the sacredness of traditional foods, particularly the oolichan fish. Together, author Samantha Beynon and illustrator Lucy Trimble have created a children’s book rich with cultural knowledge and tradition that relates to their Nisga'a ancestry surrounding the oolichan fish. With playful text and vibrant illustrations, young readers can learn alongside the two Nisga'a sisters as they are gifted with sacred knowledge from their Elders, passed down for many generations in the oral tradition. A...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 11 x 8.5
Author: Samantha Beynon
ISBN: 9781550179927
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The Displacement of Native Peoples
The Displacement of Native Peoples - Book
CBP003
This revealing book examines how First Nations and Native Peoples have been displaced in the United States and Canada through treaties, empty promises, and military force. Through close examination of primary source images, documents, and first-hand accounts, readers will gain an understanding of how thousands were displaced and cultures threatened. Topics covered include government relations and policies, such as the Potlatch Law and the Dawes Act, as well as the creation of residential schools and other acts of forced assimilation. Native and non-Native viewpoints are addressed to help readers develop critical thinking skills and get a...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.1 x 0.2 x 9.1 inches
Author: Lynn Peppas
ISBN: 9780778725732
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Makoy the Apache Boy - Book
RCC001
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 10
Author: Rafael Cohen
ISBN: 9781620863404
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Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture
Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture - Book
IPS057
" Tracks Along the Left Coast  more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy." ― Rain Taxi "Schelling’s biography of Jaime de Angulo―'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things―presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California’s Native history. De Angulo’s isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." ―Stephen Sparks,  Literary Hub   California, with its scores of native...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Andrew Schelling
ISBN: 9781640090415
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks - Book
UWP006
Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 10
Author: Emily L. Moore
ISBN: 9780295743936
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She Had Some Horses: Poems - Book
WWN847
A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic,  She Had Some Horses  is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393334210
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Firekeeper's Daughter - Book - Paracay
Firekeeper's Daughter - Book
MPS264
Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.6 x 1.5 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250866035
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Otter Doesn't Know - Book - Paracay
Otter Doesn't Know - Book
OBP039
Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a salmon and a sea otter who learn it's ok to say "I don't know" and to ask for help. Thuqi' the sockeye salmon knows it's time to spawn, but she is lost in the Salish Sea and doesn't know the way to Sta'lo', the river. When she asks Tumus the sea otter for help, he doesn't exactly know either, and he dismisses her questions. But when Tumus becomes lost in some weeds, Thuqi' shows him that it's okay not to know something - you can still find a way to help a friend in need. In this original story set in Coast Salish Traditional Territory, author and artist Andrea Fritz uses...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.75 x 0.25 x 10.75"
Author: Andrea Fritz
ISBN: 9781459836211
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Haboo - Book - Paracay
Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound - Book
UWP022
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language. Haboo , Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9
Author: Vi Hilbert, Thom Hess
ISBN: 9780295746968
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The Cedar Plank Mask - Book
EPP021
The Cedar Plank Maskis the third book in a four part series, preceded by The Bentwood Box and The Buttion Blanket. This book is designed for students of 3rd through 6th greade. The art style represented in this book is called Westcoast style by the people who live on the western most tip of Washington and west coast of Vancouver Isalnd. Because Westcoast style is an art form unto its own, there are differences between it and the northern styles This book will help you see those differences in two dimensional or flat art.
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Book Type: Activity Book
Dimensions (IN): 11 x 8.5
Author: Nan McNutt
ISBN: 9781941890165
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The Bentwood Box - Book
EPP019
The Bentwood Book is an activity book for kids from ages 9-12, including teaching guides. It tells the story of how indians from the Nortwest Coast made boxes out of bent wooden planks. Introduces activities that provide information about the crafts and ways of life of these people
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Book Type: Activity Book
Dimensions (IN): 11 x 8.5
Author: Nan McNutt
ISBN: 9781941890349
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Hunting by Stars - Book - Paracay
Hunting by Stars - Book
HNA073
From the acclaimed author of The Marrow Thieves comes a thrilling new story about hope and survival that New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley called a revelatory must-read. A 2022 American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up -...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.65 x 8.6"
Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN: 9781419753473
$1999
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Lushootseed Dictionary - Book
UWP015
A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hess's Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Editor Dawn Bates integrates the field notes of Vi Hilbert, Upper. Skagit elder and native speaker of Lushootseed, with Hess's analyses, mining information gathered by Hilbert and Hess from Skagit, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, Swinomish, Puyallup, and other Native consultants over a period of thirty years. The dictionary includes numerous example sentences taken from Lushootseed's rich tradition of storytelling. The introduction to the Lushootseed-English...
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Dimensions (IN): 10.03 x 7.04 x 1.19"
Author: Dawn Bates
ISBN: 9780295973234
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Fire Song - Book
PGW290
How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves - his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone....
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25"
Author: Adam Garnet Jones
ISBN: 9781554519774
$995
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Go West: First Contact with Native Nations
Go West: First Contact with Native Nations - Book
CBP007
As settlers came west, they discovered there were already people living on this "new" land. Discover how this mass invasion of settlers impacted the indigenous peoples of the West: their first contacts with explorers such as Lewis and Clark; the gradual encroachment of white settlers on their traditional lands; the enforced removal of native peoples to the West; the clashes with native peoples after the Civil War; resistance by native leaders such as Sitting Bull; and the end of Native American resistance in the 1890s.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.5 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
Author: Cynthia O'Brien
ISBN: 9780778723486
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Ten Little Indians - Book
PGWSP04
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ISBN: 9780802141170
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years - Book
WWN860
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman,  Boston Globe ) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9781324036487
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Native American Wisdom - Book - Paracay
Native American Wisdom - Book
IPS261
We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection with our land and ourselves. This beautiful collection of the best of Native American wisdom features the thoughts of Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Elk, Ohiyesa, and many others on Native American ways of living, learning, and dying. Taken from orations, recorded observations of life and social affairs, and other first-person testimonies, this book selects a wide range of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.3 x 0.6"
Author: Louise Mengelkoch (editor), Kent Nerburn (editor)
ISBN: 9780931432781
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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 - Book
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Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music.  How We Became Human  explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393325348
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Warrior Girl Unearthed - Book - Paracay
Warrior Girl Unearthed - Book
MPS265
Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry begins to question everything. In order to reclaim...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250766588
$1999
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Red-Paint-Book
RED PAINT - Book
RAN670
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent homeSasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha.With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her...
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Dimensions (IN): 7.97 x 5
Author: Sasha, Lapointe
ISBN: 9781640095885
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir - Book
WWN850
National bestseller Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to   Crazy Brave ,   Poet Warrior   reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393248524
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Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest - Book
IPS230
Reconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose.  In her debut work, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to review the events that have challenged Pacific Northwest wildlife in an effort to provide a deeper sense of place. Only then can we imagine how these imperious effects might be overcome. Join Woolington as she sheds light on the diverse species whose populations are slowly declining from the lands, seas, and skies of the Pacific Northwest. Only by acknowledging this truth can we understand that our impact on the Earth is deeper and far more significant than we ever imagined. Through...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Josephine Woolington
ISBN: 9781947845367
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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo - Book
IPS265
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex, unforgettable characters we have come to know from  Neither Wolf nor Dog  and  The Wolf at Twilight . Part history, part mystery, part spiritual journey and teaching story,  The Girl...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608680153
$1995
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Voices in the Stones - Life Lessons from the Native Way - Book - Paracay
Voices in the Stones - Life Lessons from the Native Way - Book
IPS260
The genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades, author Kent Nerburn has lived and worked among the Native American people. Voices in the Stones is a unique collection of his encounters, experiences, and reflections during that time. He takes us inside a traditional Native feast to show us how the children are taught to respect the elders. He brings us to an isolated prairie rock outcropping where a young Native man and his father show us how the power of ceremony connects the present with the ancient voices of the past. At a dusty...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.5 x 0.5"
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608683901
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