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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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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 - Book
WWN852
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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Thunder in the Mountains - Book - Paracay
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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I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience - Book - Paracay
I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience - Book
IPS361
For young readers, an inspiring story about a river, a successful Native-led movement for environmental justice, and the making of a scientist.Growing up in the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, Brook Thompson learned to care for the fish that nurtured her and her family. She knew that along the Klamath River in Northern California, salmon and lampreys are a needed part of life. But she also saw how these fish were in danger. People had built dams along the Klamath River, making it very hard for salmon and lampreys to live. Tribal people and their friends organized to have four of the dams removed, and they won. In I Love Salmon and Lampreys,...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9.4 x 9.4
Author: Brook M., Thompson
ISBN: 9781597146685
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry - Book
WWN853
Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize–winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Various
ISBN: 9780393356809
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The Berry Pickers: A Novel - Book - Paracay
The Berry Pickers: A Novel - Book
PGN442
2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years "A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." — People , A Best New Book July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Amanda Peters
ISBN: 9781646221950
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American Indian Myths and Legends - Book
PGN311
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. In addition to mining the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century, the editors have also included a broad selection of contemporary Native American voices.   With black-and-white illustrations throughout Selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Erodes, Ortiz
ISBN: 9780394740188
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Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, 10th Anniversary Edition - Book
IPG104
2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner—Children’s folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster—a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. The first graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales,  Trickster   brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. In  Trickster , 24 Native storytellers were...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 8
Author: Matt Dembicki
ISBN: 9781682752739
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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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Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition - Book
UWP005
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book.  The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world's artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 9
Author: Bill Holm
ISBN: 9780295994277
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Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast - Book
UWP003
Bold, inventive and highly graphic, the indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements, which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power. This indispensable and beautifully illustrated book is the first to introduce everyone, from the casual observer to the serious collector of Northwest Coast prints, to the forms, cultural background and structures of this highly imaginative art. The elements of style are introduced; the myths and legends which shape the motifs are interpreted; the stylistic differences between the major...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Hilary Stewart
ISBN: 9780295956459
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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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Gift Horse: A Lakota Story - Book - Paracay
Gift Horse: A Lakota Story - Book
HNA087
A Lakota boy comes of age and finds his courage in   Gift Horse , a picture book from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson.   When Flying Cloud’s father gives him a Gift Horse, marking the beginning of his journey to manhood, Flying Cloud names the horse Storm. The two become inseparable: They spend their days riding across the prairie, hunting deer, and roughhousing with the other boys and their horses. But as Flying Cloud becomes a man, his life takes a serious turn: He must now learn the ways of his people and what it means to be a Lakota warrior. So when enemies of the Lakota steal many of the tribe’s...
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.35 X 9.15
Author: S. D. Nelson
ISBN: 9781419720642
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As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock - Book
PGN404
The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle.  As Long As Grass Grows  gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
ISBN: 9780807028360
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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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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 Gift of the Great Buffalo - Book
MPS271
In this beautiful and dramatic story, bestselling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Aly McKnight show readers how life was lived by Indigenous communities, offering the true history of life on the prairie. Before there was a little house on the prairie, there was a tipi on the prairie. Rose is a young Métis-Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other Métis families. The ritual of the hunt has been practiced for generations, and each hunt must see the community through the next six months. But in recent years, the buffalo population has dwindled, and after days...
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.8 X 11.35
Author: Carole Lindstrom
ISBN: 9781547606887
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Survival Skills Of The Native Americans: Hunting, Trapping, Woodwork, And More - Book - Paracay
Survival Skills of the Native Americans: Hunting, Trapping, Woodwork, and More - Book
SKY186
Become a pro at living and thriving off the land. Survival Skills of the Native Americans  is a fascinating, practical guide to the techniques that have made the indigenous people of North America revered for their mastery of the wilderness. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes, constructing tools, and living off the land. Learn key skills like: Building a strong campfire Learning to hunt and butcher your meats Creating a safe and solid shelter And much more! Whether you’re an avid outdoorsman or a novice hiker,  Survival Skills of the Native Americans  is your handbook to not simply...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Stephen Brennan
ISBN: 9781632207173
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THUNDER SONG - Book - Paracay
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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Understanding Native America Myths
Understanding Native America Myths - Book
CBP012
This book allows the reader to explore the rich worldview of Native North American tribes through their myths and legends. Tales originating from various tribes functioned in a number of important ways: they explained the story of creation, described the relationship of humans to the rest of the universes, and preserved the sacred history of the tribe.
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Dimensions (IN): 7.8 x 0.2 x 9.8 inches
Author: Megan Kopp
ISBN: 9780778745310
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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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Makoy the Apache Boy - Book
RCC001
Through his sweet character and fun childhood experiences, Makoy learns how to transform his life and be a positive influence on his tribe.
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Dimensions (IN): 8 x 10
Author: Rafael Cohen
ISBN: 9781620863404
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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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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story - Book
MPS259
Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal A 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner “A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff.” ? The New York Times Book Review Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard,  Fry Bread   is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal. Fry bread is food . It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 10 x 10
Author: Kevin Noble Maillard
ISBN: 9781626727465
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Old Indian Legends - Book
IPS262
Old Indian Legends  (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist,  Old Indian Legends  collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Šá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generations to come. In “Iktomi and the Ducks,” spider-trickster spirit Iktomi befriends a group of ducks by playing them music to dance to. Gaining their trust, he sends them into a dancing frenzy causing them to...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Zitkala-Sa
ISBN: 9781513278292
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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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Spirit & Reason - Book
IPGSP09
Spirit & Reason is a collection of the works of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century-Vine Deloria, Jr. Author of such classics as Red Earth, White Lies, and God is Red, Deloria takes readers on a momentous journey through Indian country and beyond by exploring some of the most important issues of the past three decades. The essays gathered here are wide-ranging and essential and include representative pieces from some of Deloria's most influential books, some of his lesser-known articles, and ten new pieces written especially for Spirit & Reason.Tellingly, in the course of reviewing his body of work, Deloria...
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Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Deloria Vine Jr.
ISBN: 9781555914301
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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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Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies - Book
PGN406
An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath our feet, Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge. “There are ancient secrets and lessons hidden in nature. If you seek for guidance, you will discover truth.”—Bobby Lake-Thom Much of the ancient knowledge that has been passed down from Native American medicine men, or shamans is in danger of being lost. Bobby Lake-Thom, a Native American healer known as Medicine Grizzly Bear, has sought to preserve this powerful...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 9
Author: Bobby Lake-Thom
ISBN: 9780452276505
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux - Book
IPS263
Marie L. McLaughlin delivers a memorable selection of Native American stories infused with folklore and oral traditions passed on from one generation to the next.  This book features vivid stories with larger-than-life characters and unforgettable adventures. Myths and Legends of the Sioux  is a collection of vast stories rooted in indigenous culture. The tales are striking and memorable, featuring both human and animal protagonists. In one story, a small rabbit uses its wits to outsmart a large bear. In another tale, a crane saves a family from an unfortunate circumstance. Each legend delivers a powerful message that’s applicable...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Marie L. McLaughlin,
ISBN: 9781513277462
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area - Book
HEY011
Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” This land of “inexpressible fertility,” as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America. One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published,   The Ohlone Way   describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Area prior to the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 9780930588014
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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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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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Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One With Nature - Book
PGN286
A wonderful and inspiring collection of eloquent prose, beautiful poetry and ancestral wisdom from Chiefs, Medicine Men and ordinary members of many Native American tribes. Although there are major differences in the lifestyles of the numerous Native American nations, they share fundamental beliefs. The spiritual wisdom of these people is based on a love and reverence for Nature, a belief in a Supreme Being and a spirit world that interacts with human activity. Organized in alphabetical order and grouped around the main Native American Nations from Apache to Zuni, including the Sioux, Eskimo, Cherokee and many more, the evocative...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 4.5
Author: Alan Jacobs
ISBN: 9781786781390
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Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book - Paracay
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
HCT061
In Of All Tribes, Abenaki children's book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism. Alcatraz is not an island. It's an idea. - activist Richard Oakes (Akwesasne Mohawk) On the night of November 20, 1969 - the end of one of the most tumultuous decades in American history - eighty-nine young Native American activists crossed the San Francisco Bay under cover of darkness, calling themselves the Indians of All Tribes. Their objective? To claim the former prison island of Alcatraz, basing their actions on an 1868 treaty that said...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.0 x 8.3"
Author: Joseph Bruchac
ISBN: 9781419757198
$1999
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Transformations: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art - Book
UWP013
Since the 1980s, Oregon-based art collectors George and Colleen Hoyt have amassed one of the finest private collections of Northwest Coast art in the United States. Transformations traces the history of contemporary Northwest Coast Native art since the 1950s. Included are works by some of the region's foremost Native artists of the past half century, including Robert Davidson, Doug Cranmer, Beau Dick, and Susan Point. The collection of over six hundred prints and carvings by over one hundred artists is a promised gift from George and Colleen Hoyt to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Richly illustrated with color photographs, the book...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 12
Author: Rebecca J. Dobkins & Tasia D. Riley
ISBN: 9781930957855
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Minnow: The girl who became part fish - Book
IPS248
A young Indigenous water protector named Minnow goes on an underwater journey, learning from our ocean-living relatives.   When she returns to the surface, she gathers her community to help make a change.  This story is told in lyrical rhyme and helps children gain a better respect for Indigenous water and land protectors, and the environment around them and helps show children activism at an early age.  We all come from Mother Earth, we all learn from her, and we all live from her.  Mother Earth has many children, not just humans. These children are all our relatives, including animals. This book focuses on our relationship with our...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Willie Poll
ISBN: 9781778540097
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.3 x 0.6"
Author: Louise Mengelkoch (editor), Kent Nerburn (editor)
ISBN: 9780931432781
$1600
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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....
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25"
Author: Adam Garnet Jones
ISBN: 9781554519774
$995
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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
$5000
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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
$1695
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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
$1799
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We Are Water Protectors - Book
MPS258
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America,   We Are Water Protectors   issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption ― a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade. Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all . . . When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth And poison her people’s water, one young water protector Takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 10 x 10
Author: Carole Lindstrom
ISBN: 9781250203557
$1799
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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
$2500
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Four Faces of the Moon - Book
IPS188
On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land—creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel.   In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. On this path, Spotted Fawn knows she must travel through her own family history to confront the harsh realities of the past and reignite her connection to her people and the land. Her darkroom becomes...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Amanda Strong
ISBN: 9781773214535
$1795
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We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms And The Revitalization Of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies - Book
UWP017
-"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.48 x 9"
Author: Cutcha Risling Baldy
ISBN: 9780295743448
$3000
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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
$3995
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition - Book
PGN395
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.   Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
ISBN: 9781039000612
$1950
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Reservation Blues - Book
PGWSP06
Sherman Alexie has been hailed as “one of the best writers we have” (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his “irresistibly stunning debut novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire—storyteller, misfit, and musician—a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power,tragedy, and redemption among...
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ISBN: 9780802141903
$1800
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Book
IPS259
A   New York Times   Bestseller A   Washington Post   Bestseller A   Los Angeles Times   Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of   Braiding Sweetgrass , reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages.  Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN: 9781571311771
$4000
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