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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
$1695
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Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home - Book - Paracay
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home - Book
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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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
$2995
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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
$2995
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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
$2700
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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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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
$5000
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The Secret Pocket - Book
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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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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Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth - Book
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
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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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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
$3000
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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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We Are The Land: A History Of Native California - Book
IPS297
 A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures. - Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as  California, there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 1.4 x 9"
Author: Damon B. Akins
ISBN: 9780520280496
$2995
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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
$1800
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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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