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IPS330
Winner of the Montana Book Award From the award-winning author of   Perma Red   comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. “In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.” Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.75 x 8.5
Author: Debra Magpie Earling
ISBN: 9781571311450
$2600
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IPS264
These thought-provoking teachings from respected Native American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning.
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577310792
$1895
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PGWSP06
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802141903
$1700
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9
Author: Vi Hilbert, Thom Hess
ISBN: 9780295746968
$2995
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IPS267
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 ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood. In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577315780
$1895
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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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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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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
$1899
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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
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
ISBN: 9781039000612
$1950
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PGWSP05
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802121752
$1700
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RANSP45
#1   NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of   The Wager   and   The Lost City of Z,   “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."— New York Magazine •   NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST   •   NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”— USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” — The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9780307742483
$1700
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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...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9781324036487
$2500
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.5 x 0.5"
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608683901
$1800
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Zitkala-Sa
ISBN: 9781513278292
$599
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Marie L. McLaughlin,
ISBN: 9781513277462
$799
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PGWSP07
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802144898
$1600
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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
$1099
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PGWSP03
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802121998
$1600
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PGWSP04
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802141170
$1800
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IPS266
Against 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 world of a Native American elder named Dan, who leads Kent through Indian towns and down forgotten roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Along the way we meet a vivid cast of characters — ranging from Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, to Annie, an eighty-year-old Lakota woman...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608686384
$1895
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PGWSP09
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802143570
$1700
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PGWSP08
Product Type : Book
ISBN: 9780802138002
$1600
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HNA062
From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identity Our ancestors say our hair is our memories,our source of strength and power,a celebration of our lives. Mom never had long hair - she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn't have long hair - hers was taken from her. But one young girl can't wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her. From Carole Lindstrom, author of the New York Times...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 0.65 x 11"
Author: Carole Lindstrom
ISBN: 9781419759437
$1899
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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 -...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.65 x 8.6"
Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN: 9781419753473
$1999
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6.6 x 1.5 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250866035
$1499
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OBP040
Winner of 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text)Winner of 2017 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award Winner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Winner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Metis Young Adult Literature Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 8.0 x 0.6 x 5.4"
Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN: 9781770864863
$1995
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HPC172
In this revolutionary self-help guide, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge. When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous wellness initiative, Well for Culture, they extended an invitation to all to honor their whole self through Native wellness philosophies and practices. In reclaiming this ancient wisdom for health and wellbeing - drawing from traditions spanning multiple tribes - they developed the Seven Circles, a holistic model for modern living rooted in...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 1.02 x 9"
Author: Chelsey Luger
ISBN: 9780063119208
$2999
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 1.08 x 8.25"
Author: Byron Graves
ISBN: 9780063160378
$1999
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PGN443
NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thrilling cross-genre follow-up to the acclaimed Hearts Unbroken. Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show - until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an Indian maiden, a ghost inspired by local legend, will headline....
Product Type : Book
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN: 9781536236187
$999
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 8.75 x 0.25 x 10.75"
Author: Andrea Fritz
ISBN: 9781459836211
$2195
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3"
Author: Angeline Boulley
ISBN: 9781250766588
$1999
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ROS002
Approximately 8,000 years ago, American Indian groups settled in the Monterey Bay area of California. Some groups, including the Esselen, have disappeared entirely. The arrival of the Sebastian Vizcaano and his fellow Spanish explorers brought about the end of the Esselen. These people contracted diseases to which the Europeans were immune, had their customs and traditions stripped from them, and eventually intermarried with other American Indian groups from the area. What was life like before the Europeans arrived? This book provides readers with evidence of the Esselen lifestyle and illustrates the importance of respecting the cultures...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 7.2 x 0.4 x 8.7"
Author: Miranda Rathjen
ISBN: 9781538324592
$1295
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