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Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America
RAN657
$50.00  
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...
Transformations: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art
Transformations: The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art
UWP013
$50.00  
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...
Lushootseed Dictionary - Book
Lushootseed Dictionary - Book
UWP015
$45.00  
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...
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
UWP006
$39.95  
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...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
IPS259
$35.00  
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...
Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary
Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary
WPC077
$34.99  
In Native American Medicinal Plants, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes. Information -- adapted from the same research used to create the monumental Native American Ethnobotany -- includes 82 categories of medicinal...
We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms And The Revitalization Of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies - Book
We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms And The Revitalization Of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies - Book
UWP017
$30.00  
-"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...
The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well - Book
The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well - Book
HPC172
$29.99  
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
UWP005
$29.95  
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...
Art of the Northwest Coast, 2nd Edition
Art of the Northwest Coast, 2nd Edition
UWP008
$29.95  
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,...
Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
UWP009
$29.95  
From the giant cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the way of life, art and culture of the early First Nations people of the Northwest Coast. All parts of the cedar tree had many uses. From the wood, skilled men made ocean-going canoes, massive post-and- beam...
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, 10th Anniversary Edition
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, 10th Anniversary Edition
IPG104
$29.95  
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...
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
HPC168
$29.95  
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...
We Are The Land: A History Of Native California - Book
We Are The Land: A History Of Native California - Book
IPS297
$29.95  
 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...
Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound - Book
Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound - Book
UPW022
$29.95  
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...
The Berry Pickers: A Novel - Book
The Berry Pickers: A Novel - Book
PGN442
$27.00  
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...
Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
IPS226
$26.00  
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...
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Book
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Book
IPS330
$26.00  
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...
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
WWN850
$25.00  
National bestseller Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses,...
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
WWN860
$25.00  
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...
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
HMC342
$24.99  
“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...
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts, Third Edition: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts, Third Edition: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist
PER209
$24.99  
This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly. The author reveals invaluable tips on: where to look for...
Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
IPS230
$24.95  
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...
Oolichan Moon (Sisters Learn Foods of the Elders)
Oolichan Moon (Sisters Learn Foods of the Elders)
IPS242
$24.95  
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...
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies
PGN406
$24.00  
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...
American Indian Myths and Legends
American Indian Myths and Legends
PGN311
$23.00  
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...
Nisqually Indian Tribe
Nisqually Indian Tribe
ARC161
$21.99  
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...
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
PGN405
$21.95  
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 Secret Pocket
The Secret Pocket
OBP035
$21.95  
★ “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...
Otter Doesn't Know - Book
Otter Doesn't Know - Book
OBP039
$21.95  
Raven Gets Tricked - Book
Raven Gets Tricked - Book
OBP041
$21.95  
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...
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
PGN282
$21.00  
From the author of  How the World Moves --the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist  Peter Nabokov  presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through...
Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass
PGW269
$20.00  
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" ( Publishers Weekly ) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by  Library Journal ,  Braiding Sweetgrass  is poised to be a...
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
HCT061
$19.99  
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...
Rez Ball - Book
Rez Ball - Book
HRW225
$19.99  
Warrior Girl Unearthed - Book
Warrior Girl Unearthed - Book
MPS265
$19.99  
Orca Chief
Orca Chief
HPC146
$19.95  
Orca Chief  is the third in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaborations,  Raven Brings the Light  (2013) and  Cloudwalker  (2014), are award-winning national bestsellers. Thousands of years ago in the village of Kitkatla, four...
Raven Brings the Light
Raven Brings the Light
HPC147
$19.95  
In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who...
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
WWN853
$19.95  
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 Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo
The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo
IPS265
$19.95  
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...
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
PGN395
$19.50  
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 Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales
STL238
$18.99  
Welcome the second book in the  Folktales of the World  series! Engaging, inspirational, and above all entertaining, these legends come from Native American peoples across the U.S. Richly illustrated with original art, they capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee,...
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
HMC334
$18.99  
“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...
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
MPS259
$18.99  
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,...
My Powerful Hair - Book
My Powerful Hair - Book
HNA062
$18.99  
Hunting by Stars - Book
Hunting by Stars - Book
HNA073
$18.99  
Coyote Tales of the Northwest
Coyote Tales of the Northwest
LPP045
$18.95  
A creature of myth and magic emerging from the mist-shrouded forests of the Northwest, Coyote appears as a creator, messenger, hero, trickster, fool or shapeshifter. Always on the lookout for fun, mischief or the opportunity to help humans, Coyote's encounters with gods, demons and the...
Ben the Sea Lion
Ben the Sea Lion
HPC169
$18.95  
Tsimshian storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers shares an adventure from his childhood in the Indigenous Pacific Northwest village of Kitkatla. When Uncle Johnny accidentally catches an orphaned sea lion pup in his fishing net, young Roy and his cousin Bussy take responsibility for...
The Wolf at Twilight
The Wolf at Twilight
IPS267
$18.95  
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...
Neither Wolf nor Dog
Neither Wolf nor Dog
IPS266
$18.95  
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...
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