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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.0 x 0.6 x 5.4"
Author: Cherie Dimaline
ISBN: 9781770864863
$1695
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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
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
ISBN: 9781039000612
$1950
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WWNSP03
A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal.―San Francisco Chronicle This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from Native American women. Over eighty writers are represented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationally known writers as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lee Maracle, Janet...
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Dimensions (IN): 9.2 x 5.7
Author: Gloria, Bird
ISBN: 9780393318289
$3250
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PGWSP06
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ISBN: 9780802141903
$1700
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OBP035
★ “Captures the sympathy of readers and holds their attention...An age-appropriate telling by an Indigenous creative team of a tragic historical period.”― School Library Journal , starred review The true story of how Indigenous girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 10.5
Author: Peggy Janicki
ISBN: 9781459833722
$2195
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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...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9780307742483
$1700
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IPS226
An essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original publication in 1994,  Flutes of Fire  has become one of the classic books about California’s many Native languages. It is written to be approachable, entertaining, and informative—useful for people doing language revitalization work in their own communities, for linguists, and for a general readership interested in California’s rich cultural heritage. With significant updates by the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Leanne Hinton
ISBN: 9781597145664
$2600
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PGWSP08
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ISBN: 9780802138002
$1600
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PGN405
Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future. Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors’ own analyses, each chapter reflects the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Wahinkpe Topa & Darcia Narvaez PhD
ISBN: 9781623176426
$2195
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Marie L. McLaughlin,
ISBN: 9781513277462
$799
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PGWSP07
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ISBN: 9780802144898
$1600
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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
$5000
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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
$1295
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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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PGWSP09
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ISBN: 9780802143570
$1700
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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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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
$1600
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577315780
$1895
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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.
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577310792
$1895
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PGW306
A   People Magazine   "Best New Book of the Month" Finalist for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award “I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling.   Becoming Little Shell   creates a multilayered narrative from threads of personal, family, community, tribal, and national histories.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of   Braiding Sweetgrass Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother’s consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage. When La Tray attended his...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.8 x 9.2
Author: Chris La Tray
ISBN: 9781571313980
$2800
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PGWSP05
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ISBN: 9780802121752
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608686384
$1895
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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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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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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....
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Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN: 9781536236187
$999
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PGWSP03
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ISBN: 9780802121998
$1600
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Zitkala-Sa
ISBN: 9781513278292
$599
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 7.2 x 0.4 x 8.7"
Author: Miranda Rathjen
ISBN: 9781538324592
$1295
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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...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.75 x 8.5
Author: Debra Magpie Earling
ISBN: 9781571311450
$2600
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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...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Deloria Vine Jr.
ISBN: 9781555914301
$3000
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